The problem with making a fresh fatty character (ogre or troll) is armor, especially banded to get started with. Sure, you can make the heroic run from either Innothule or Feerrott to Nektulos and bash skellies and bears to save bone chips and HQ bear pelts to sell, but converting that starting money into the good armor... oi.
The only vendors you'll have easy access to getting Large Molds are back in the troll and ogre homelands, as well as the barbarian fishing village in West Karana. But that is the trick - if you're willing to do the footwork ahead of time to procure the molds and/or additional materials (water flasks, metal sheets), then you usually have some decent luck finding someone in EC to make the armor for a fee or for free.
Tons of the players have smithing on their characters for the Coldain Prayer Shawl questline. None of them want to make the run to get those stupid molds.
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