These skills let you see nodes on your mini-map from a distance away
Tracking Nodes - In some gathering trades (Foresting Prospecting), there are abilities that you can use cabal online alz to help find the nodes you need. Foresters get 'Track Wood' and Prospectors get 'Track Mines'. These skills let you see nodes on your mini-map from a distance away.
How to Start: Crafting---Equipment
To get you started: A short overview of LoRO items.
A short-cut: Buying LotRO gold. (Well, maybe even better: buy LotrRO gold from trusted sellers)
What you need to know about armor in Lord of the Rrings Online
Tools and Ingredients: Some of the tools and ingredients that are not able to be crafted or gathered from a nodeare bought off the vender from a provisioner. Provisioners are usually near crafting stations and the 'Master/Mistress of Apprentices.
Such as the Boiled Light Leather, it is a component crafted by a Forester from two 'light hides', common loot of animals.
Crafting Stations: Crafting stations include; Oven (Cook), Forge (Metalsmithing/Prospection), Workbench (Woods-man, Tailor, Forester, Jeweler), Fields (Farmer).
These stations are usually close by provisionary and Master/Mistress of Apprentices. But farms are dotted about some places you can find them are, Staddle (east of Bree-Town) and Delving Fields (South-East of Michael Delving).