Sword, dagger lvling

[Dr. Zeppers]

I found that wasps were good 'dagger' fodder, they seemed to have reasonable reputation rewards, and if you start with the lower level wasps not hard to deal with. Starting at someplace like Driftwood Island where they are limited in numbers and mostly lower levels... and working towards hanging in Queens Nest (Isla Perdida). I hung out in there one afternoon and leveled my dagger several levels. Using hexshot as mentioned previously to render voodoo/spellcasting mobs harmless, and then hacking them to bits works pretty well to, although higher level mobs ie (gypsies, molusks, brinescum) can be difficult for a low level pirate to drain even with hexshot.

Zeppers lvl40
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