Should I start with cartography and archeology early?

[Herr Gutentauben]

I was checking around the wiki to try to learn stuff and I notice the existence of a bronze arrow upgrade, the shatter arrows. But they require a stone that comes from Atlas of Discovery content which I thought would be better to play after I get done with the base game content but now I'm unsure.

Is it recommended to play the AoD content together with the base game? Abyss and throne are clearly late game but...

[Truth_X_ile]

Auto Survey is your best friend, literally just idle, you could prepare some farm stuff prior if you want to train another skill as Farming is a passive skill you can train whenever, as well as Township which is also a costly skill, or you could try the Golbin Raid, which its Golbin kills actually count towards the unique pet unlock

Pet Unlock in One Run: I Takes 574 Waves & partially into wave 575 killing 23 Golbins for 42,069 Golbin kills, it won't award you the pet in the main game until you kill 1 Golbin after reaching 42,069 from the Golbin Raid Minigame

Cartography is a costly skill, to travel around, you need money, so you'll need a money source to be able to get around the map to discover tiles, but wholly worth it to do it as early as you can

Worth noting that you do get some items from locations, so having a considerable amount of bank slots is suggested

There are some passives & when you complete milestones, of course just aiming to 100% the Cartography map will be the best

After you complete Cartography, you can decide what to do with Archaeology

Last tip is that some areas, the named ones have unique passives when you are actively on them, which will state their bonuses

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Good Luck & Have Fun

[RaptorSolutions]

https://wiki.melvoridle.com/w/Golden_Wreath
I recently discovered this and for my new char I went and get it early. Not even that hard, just check the wiki for which direction it is in and then idle surveying overnight. Then fish a bit for some cash to travel there, not too hard.