Difficulty broken depending on what quest(s) you finish first

[ffrotty]

Main realm: sunk effort into levelling up the town, did the Servant of God quest first, sewer for Of Rats and Raiders is "Dangerous" and the boss absolutely destroys me.

Start a new realm: rush through sewers, Of Rats and Raiders AND Servant of God areas all green to me, trivially beat it and unlock Crucible. I'm only level 18 so everything in Crucible destroys me and can't get through the first room.

The only other difference between the two games is I did not do the side quests to get the potion guy + cook guy, and hadn't levelled up anything in the town / bought a house.

Something is seriously broken if you do things in a different order.

[Cahalith]

Originally posted by ffrotty:

Main realm: sunk effort into levelling up the town, did the Servant of God quest first, sewer for Of Rats and Raiders is "Dangerous" and the boss absolutely destroys me.

So you did manage to get through the high-level sewers, it's just the boss that's giving you trouble?

While I never tried doing the sewer area after Servant of God, I do believe it's possible the game's scaling system might create difficulty spikes under certain circumstances. You should post your experience to the feedback forum on the NRftW website to make the devs aware of this.