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 === Skinning ===
-Skinning is a skill you can only use on animals that you've killed, but the Serbule area is full of mostly animal enemies, so this is where you want to start. The earlier you can start using this skill the better as it will get harder to skin in other zones if you haven't done a decent amount of it here in Serbule. You may have gotten a skinning knife from newbie island. If not, I've seen skinning knives on Marna in Serbule, but you might want to head to Eltibule (if you have purchased the game) to buy one from Kleave. The "Buy Used" tab on either may even have Master-level skinning knives or Amazing skinning knives based on whether or not a tool-crafter has been levelling in the area. Demo players may not have easy access to higher level Skinning Knives due to trade restrictions so you may need to go back to Anagoge to do a quest for Lawara to get one.
+Skinning is a skill you can only use on animals that you've killed, but the Serbule area is full of mostly animal enemies, so this is where you want to start. The earlier you can start using this skill the better as it will get harder to skin in other zones if you haven't done a decent amount of it here in Serbule. You may have gotten a simple skinning knife from Lawara on [[anagogeisland|Anagoge Island]]. If not, I've sometimes seen skinning knives on Marna in Serbule, but you might want to head to Eltibule (if you have purchased the game) to buy one from Kleave. The "Buy Used" tab on either may even have Master-level skinning knives or Amazing skinning knives based on whether or not a tool-crafter has been leveling in the area. Demo players may not have easy access to higher level Skinning Knives due to trade restrictions so you may need to go back to Anagoge to do both quests for Lawara to get one.
 Lastly on Skinning, it is worth noting that sometimes you'll get rare items from animals, too, like Pig Snouts from Pigs or Magic Tooth from higher level animals (wolves and panthers) in Eltibule. These sell for a significant amount higher than normal loot. While they are also used for some crafting skills, they may be better items to gift for favor or sell for getting money early on. Joeh, for example, has one Favor quest for a Pig Snout that is worth quite a bit of early Favor.
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 Aside from just picking up fish from the bodies of water around Serbule, you can also do angling to find semi-important items and different types of fish. Roshun the Traitor in North Serbule will sell you the pole and bait to do this. As this is a very new skill added to the game, I don't know much of what it is useful for. I think this was added mostly to satiate those players that think an MMO needs some sort of a traditional fishing skill.
-Right now this is mostly just a simple rock-paper-scissors side game, but for new players it CAN be very handy for building up an inventory of empty bottles without having to outright purchase them, so it is probably worth your time to get this skill to level 15 relatively early. After that, I'm not sure its usefulness every really ramps up so consult with veteran players or others in your guild to find out if newer updates have made this skill worthwhile.
+Right now this is mostly just a simple rock-paper-scissors side game, but for new players it CAN be very handy for building up an inventory of empty bottles without having to outright purchase them, so it is probably worth your time to get this skill to level 15 relatively early. Unfortunately, a bunch of high level foods also require specific fish from Angling, so you will need to grind this skill up at least a bit if you are a solo player that doesn't do the group-based content at level 80+.
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 One of the easiest ways to replace gear is to collect Brains and Brain Lobes in Serbule and to take them to [[https://wiki.projectgorgon.com/wiki/Zeratak|Zeratak]], a large speaking mantis NPC in a building at the very north side of Serbule.
-For those of you thinking "Basic <Piece of Armor>" gear isn't better than your current gear because it doesn't have writing saying it improves X or Y or whatnot, please note that Bartered gear randomly rolls buffs on it and you have a chance of getting something not just better than what you are currently wearing, but significantly better than what you are currently wearing. So it's not just an armor upgrade, it's going to be De Facto better than newbie island gear.
+For those of you thinking "Basic <Piece of Armor>" gear isn't better than your current gear because it doesn't have writing saying it improves X or Y or whatnot, please note that Bartered gear randomly rolls buffs on it and you have a chance of getting something not just better than what you are currently wearing, but significantly better than what you are currently wearing. So it's not just an armor upgrade, it's de facto better than newbie island gear, regardless of color. If you can get a usable Red, Purple, or Gold gear piece from Bartering, it's absolutely better than the Gold gear pieces on the newbie island, IMHO.
 Also, yellow and purple newbie island gear is very common to see. It is not better than a Cyan level Barter trade with Zeratak. Please do Barters for early game gear, especially if you are killing lots of Brain Bugs.