For upgrades, couldn't you be reeeeeally lazy and shear a sheep with a gathering knife until it gets to 5 prof then do the 1 prof upgrades, lol.
Or does it have to be a legitimate weapon.
But anyways, what is a good place to do the 1000 Animal enemies.
[S]depends on the animal really.[/S]
unless you mean 1000 animal in general... eastern plains of Tir Chonail for red/grey foxes and Black Wolves.
Alternatively for Ogres you can hunt the one that appears in Gairech. It will usually respawn at least once after you kill it and then you can cc and repeat. It beats running the entire dungeon a couple times in my opinion.
You know, 1st Saga Snowfield Slayers are Ogres too so... 1st Saga ep 3, 2nd mission, battle of Hillwen mine, you can kill all slayers before entering the mine lobby, exit and repeat OR if you know exactly how many waves are there (wiki, DUUUH), you can kill all slayers until the last wave's slayers and then quit and repeat.