Which Region how hard?

[Sheldon666]

I play region locked.
How do the regions After the first compare in terms of difficulty?

[RetAF]

similiar--I usually do the vineyards east of your start and then the war zone east of your start next. The jump is a bit more after that. Your about 6 by then but the area is 8 which is tougher because its mostly a city.

[Cat]

East on the map is best first as it's the next one in terms of scaling, then go north of the starting region after that, then go west, after that you can go north west and then finally north east. The region scaling option has a map in the background that kind of shows you the region layout, but it may be easy to miss, each zone name lights up red if you are too low level and you can check an enemy group for their level in an area to get an idea for the average level there.

[Gregorovitch]

I'm playing Region Locked, finished Tilten, and have started exploring both Verstruse and Arthes at the same time. Level 5 curently

I would say the regions are of similar difficulty. Vertruse seems to have slightly easier low end battles than Arthes but both have frightened me bit with higher end battles.

What I can say is:

a) once level 4 you can quite easily get to both these region's town to do some trading.
b) the easy rated contracts in both areas are indeed easy at level 5
c) some of the main "blue circle" plot encounters may give you pause for thought.
d) as with all regions, including Tiltren, the further off the beaten track you venture the harder stuff is

So either one o f them or both after Tiltren I would say.

[Khalunka]

Originally posted by Gregorovitch:

b) the easy rated contracts in both areas are indeed easy at level 5

Not here though. Unless you are playing in a easier difficulty ?
Wanted to create a new save for region-locked after 1.0 . Finished Tiltren. Went to Arthes, even the easy missions are minimum of lvl 7 enemies. So my band of lvl 5, now are facing easy missions of lvl 7 band, quite strong ones. I even thought the progression changed because It was quite a jump, since in Tiltren they were about lvl 3 and 4. Not even 5.

[Lightning]

Went from Tiltren to Arthes and now in Vertruse I usually stay till I 100% a zone and build the tradepost at the main hub

[Grandork]

Difficulty only goes downhill, unfortunately.

I'm almost finished with the second to last region (level 9 to 11), with my whole group level 8. Simply put, you just have too many buffs. Food buffs are very strong, some weapons are just beyond busted, Bears are too big of an advantage, etc.

By now battles are just chores with no difficulty what-so-ever.

[Gregorovitch]

Originally posted by Khalun:

Originally posted by Gregorovitch:

b) the easy rated contracts in both areas are indeed easy at level 5

Not here though. Unless you are playing in a easier difficulty ?
Wanted to create a new save for region-locked after 1.0 . Finished Tiltren. Went to Arthes, even the easy missions are minimum of lvl 7 enemies. So my band of lvl 5, now are facing easy missions of lvl 7 band, quite strong ones. I even thought the progression changed because It was quite a jump, since in Tiltren they were about lvl 3 and 4. Not even 5.

I'm playing middle difficulty.

My party is eight mercs. If you got five I can see why it's more difficult. I've not seen any level 7 bandits in either Arthes or Vertruse - my understanding is both regions are in the range 4 to 6 or so I've read - so I am assuming you mean your opponents have seven members. That's what I've seen too. But I've got eight, so......

[Khalunka]

Yep... Went to Vertruse now. Bands are lvl 4 to 6, missions difficulty makes more sense.

So Region-Locked right progression is Tiltren > Vertruse > Arthes.
I was sure It was Arthes before Vertruse. Weird..

[Khalunka]

Originally posted by Gregorovitch:

so I am assuming you mean your opponents have seven members.

No. Level 7 enemies.

I am playing expert difficulty with this save after 1.0, recently created (yesterday). Finished Tiltren with all my 10 men band fully with Ghost. Went to Arthes first, but even easy missions are with Level 7 Enemies. Now went to Vertruse, Easy missions are level 4 to 5 enemies. Vertruse so far Is making more sense, to be after Tiltren.
Edit: Also Tavern recipes combo, from both Tiltren and Vertruse. Apple Pancacke and Eel Soup, to create a feast.
Edit 2: The very champion of Vertruse was only level 7. The same level as easy missions on Arthes. Case closed I guess.

[Culhwch1976]

Took a wrong turn after finishing the vineyards at about lvl5 ended up in Gosenberg or what the big city is named on my way back ran into a pack of 3 lvl9 bears, that i bearly managed to get to 49% with massive injuries to my party, two members got knocked out aswell but not the medic, but know running with 5 lvl6 mercs and 3 lvl9 bears... They wreck everything atm in the Arthes. And found out goin to the tomb in the vineyards, with the bears as fishers, you get plenty of fish just entering the tomb and exiting.. :D