Where do you like to tradeskill?

[Lithien]

1. PoK - Habit. I know where "everything" is, it is close to everything, mules are all parked there etc. The bad thing would be the buff-requests and people not knowing where the tradeskillcontainers I am referring to are, so I often end up running to them instead of the opposite.

2. Abysmal Sea - when I have to because of availability of components. Good thing I can gate out though.

3. Qeynos - for cultural.

4. GH - only when people ask me to combine something when we are waiting for a raid to start, and they have the components needed.

5. Bazaar - only if I have to buy components of PCs and am ending the tradeskill run anyway.

6. Everywhere else - can't think of another zone I would use. Could hardly find my way around old Freeport and the new one is just so depressing that I avoid it like a plague. Only been to CR to fish once and I don't intend to spend anymore time there. I simply cannot be bothered learning where everything is again for all those silly recipes I often do.

[Bobaten]

Abysmal is still my favorite. But being bound in the lobby goes a long way toward making that my choice. NPC spam never really bothers me, since it all goes to my spam window anyhow. And it is certainly less annoying than the constant buff tells I get in PoK if I forget to /role. Crescent Reach certainly has more stuff and I can do an entire AAAA there, including finding the unrefined ore sold to a few vendors. I can also do all the combines needed for research, which is a nice change from Corathus. But, the lag is bad there, it takes a bit more work to get there (I wish I had given Bobaten the port clicky), and while I am getting used to the layout, it's almost too symmetrical, and much of it looks the same, which can be disorienting. Abysmal was disorienting at first of course, but two and a half years later it feels like home.

[Scuzz Zilla]

PoK is my favorite place to TS. AA horse plus Bobbing corpse lets me cruise the zone in no time.

I like to stay parked in guild hall for superfast login for bankable combines.

Cresent reach. I will use the gate staff only If an item isnt available in PoK, and only if Its the end of my gaming session so i can camp out there and return home. (blightfire moors kills me with poor load time as much as CR does)

I have a bard with drums equipped in AS just for shopping for weird stuff like gnomish heat source and limestone.

[Orelli Virbonus]

I'm also a big fan of Thurgadin. Usually pretty quiet, easy to get around, and not far from a PoK port. It's also the one zone I can "gate" to without spending a lot of money (velium vapors bring me great joy.)

Kelethin is my adopted hometown, I do a lot of tradeskills there, including all my cultural smithing. Surefall Glade just is not equipped for crafting. Also, most of my best vendordiving moments have been here (which is most likely a result of me already spending the most time there.)

One place I don't use often but enjoy greatly is Shadeweaver's thicket. I've used that forge and brew barrel a time or two, just for the fun of being surrounded by little alien guys who scowl at me for all the times I've killed their brethren in the name of fletching skillups.

[Amun Rhah]

I must say i LOVE Abysmal Sea. Every time im there there's barely 5-10 people in the zone. Plus, i've memorized the spots i "require" in the zone so its basically just running back and forth for me. Mainly, i love abysmal sea because of there Alchemy vendors. They are so convenient for all ranges of unfarmed alchemy ingredients. Only problem i've been having so far, is having to travel to PoK's potion vendors for small vials. Im at 242 alchemy not including my journeymans trophy mod of 5%. But for baking i have to say Shadowhaven! Just my fav spots.

[Eggborn]

I love Cabilis the most. No lag, and mostly everything I need and close.

PoK I tolerate because it has a lot of stuff, the same with Shadowhaven.

Guild hall is nice because I often donate things to my guild bank like stat food and drink.

Abysmal Sea and Cresent Reach are so laggy and annoying, Abysmal sea is far worse, but they have the same problems. At least I don't get lost in Cresent reach.

I like the bazaar kind of, but liked the old one 100 times better. It looked like a real place and I didn't have to run in circles looking for holes in the wall to find a portal. I tend to zone into the new bazaar when I haven't gotten a success for a while, or I origin to Cabilis.

When I did my early smithing I prefered Neriak. I could tap rats for strength and everything I needed was very close to the forge.

[Aldier]

I loved Abysmal Sea when it first came out because I was just catching onto the tradeskill bug and was able to find everything I needed there. At the time I did not have the aa to raise more than 2 skills to 300 so I only went to 200 in pottery, smithing, and fletching there and took brewing to 300. Now I do combines wherever I can find a good place.

PoK is my main facility out of shear convience. As a druid I can port there, most of my supplies are there. Enchanters are around there or in the guild lobby/hall to help with any enchanting I need, etc.

Abysmal Sea is still one of my favorite places to tradeskill except I have grown annoyed by the NPC bard spam. Also the location is not the best being 2 zones away while other places with the same supplies are closer.

Crescent Reach is looking real nice. It has all the supplies I could need and its not overly confusing when you take a little time to run around and you can use the find command.

Hometown would be my 4th pick simply for cultural reasons.

Shadowhaven is my 5th. It was the first city I ever hated to have to run around in. I did baking here to 300. Halas Meat Pies and then Misty Thicket Picnic's and also maxed out my baking trophy here on MTPs. The running around to collect supplies was so repetative that I could do it while looking stuff up on the web on the 2nd machine while I ran around. The fact that SoE doesn't work there is what kept me away.