I'm stuck at work today so I thought I would post what I ended up doing all day yesterday lol, may continue to update this later on.
I redid the character, maintained her hair black and i think it was either red or blond highlights, since she is usually wearing a helmet most of the time I thought the character would cut her hair shorter.
changed her face a bit, added a few scars and changed one of her eye colors to a lighter color, I'm thinking story line in my head such as "five years ago she lost vision in one of her eyes during the battle of Carteneau" stuff. really liking her new look, to me its more fitting starting new with a new look for her.
First day I spend running throught the main storyline, spend about 4 hours to get to the first dungeon sastasha, after that I spend the next few hours finishing up the Gladiator quest.
Then I headed to LL to do the Culinary quest. there seems to be alot more people in the culinary guild than i thought, went through a few quest then i got stuck cause i needed a new item "Princess Trout" never really used it before so I figured it was new to the world, npc in the guild used to sell rainbow trout so i thought it was maybe sold in there. Well that was a big nope, so I ended up having to take up fishing.
Fishing seems to be way better than v1.0, I was able to catch fish fairly easily, ended up catching a Princess trout in about 15 minutes after leveling up to level 3 right outside of LL.
returned, cooked the trout and handed it in. the funny part about culinary quest is the little critic that NPCs give you when you turn in the quest. its like you are in a reality cooking show "this meat is charred but not burned, you sealed in the juices and you knew to cook the vegetables differently." its hilarious reading their reactions.
the level 20 quest for Culinary was interesting, they wanted me to get some pixie plums and make dried plums. ok I guess thats not tough, oh wait none for sale, so i guess i have to level up botany.
I had to fly to Grid, and buy a hatchet followed by a scythe. did the first quest for the guild master and then headed back to LL, looked for lvl 1 nodes but found none, realized i was a level 12 botanist already. headed to the closest node, hmm only tomatos and wheat. well i guess its not that bad but no plums. ended up finding out plums are a level 21 node
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Basically it looks like I will be leveling up both fishing and botany. which i guess it could be worst, i could be leveling those up in v1.0.