Sold most of those meteorite platebodies for township.
I have 1b fletching xp banked (from smithing, still need headless arrows, logs, etc) now too.
I debated whether to do wc, fishing, or cart/archeology next. And this is what I figured:
If I do fishing -> wc -> cart/arch the draw is the xp ring and cartography upgrades. All in all fishing would take about 54 days, wc would take about 156 days, and cart/arch would take 108 days for a total of 318.
This was not my decided path, but I ran the numbers for s&g, if I do wc -> cart/arch -> fishing it shakes out to 167 days for wc, 113 days for cart/arch, and 39 days for fishing for a total of 319. This was surprisingly close to fishing first.
The most surprising was that cart/arch first broke down like this 123 days cart/arch -> 39 days fishing -> 132 days woodcutting for a grand total of 294 days.
By doing cart/arch first I’d save 7.5-7.8% of time, which shakes out to 24/25 days. So cart/arch here we go.
Since I’m doing another doubled up skill, I’ll breakdown what the trade off is. With mining/smithing, I had to level them equally, hitting each tier 100% mastery in each and 100k worth of each ore (except rune, which was 400k). Then at the end I topped off with whatever was fastest and set me up for future grinds.
So for this one, I’m going to auto survey the whole map. Once the full map is unlocked, I’m not going to proceed to mastery, I’m going to 100% complete the museum one digsite at a time. I can’t advance until completing that digsite, once I do I unlock 27.2 hexes to master. After completing the museum, except Melantis, I will go back and master each digsite in order. Each additional mastery unlocks 27.2 hexes. I will master the map and shipwreck cove in tandem as a result. After that, I can get 1B xp however I see fit. I probably will be doing a LOT of cathedral for candelabras, but a few other items sprinkled in there.
My only exception, I can, if need be go to glacia city ruins early for wood only to make paper. 35k from the POI and the wood from various other POIs should get me to there without needing the make the exception, but if I do have to make the exception, the forfeit is I cannot get the ship upgrade from opening Old Carriage until after the 1b grind is complete.
Alright then, let’s go!