Hard locked at the mage academy?!

[kbeatz]

Guys, I have done every mission and side mission available to me up until the mage academy. Apparently, I am under leveled and have been for quite some time. I could not tell. I am stuck, which wouldn't be a big deal if I could farm for XP and archetype levels. I can't travel anywhere, can't do anything. I am locked, and I don't have enough firepower or archetype combinations available to me to beat the ice dragon. So I'm supposed to start a completely new game, is that it? Completely unacceptable. I wish I could get a refund for this. If I get stuck at a boss, LET ME GRIND, FARM, AND GET WHAT I NEED. This game just went from an 8 or 9 out of 10 to a garbage can out of 10. I wanted to love this game so bad SMH.

[Doc]

I mean...you could always turn the difficulty down?

[Hanabi]

Originally posted by Doc:

I mean...you could always turn the difficulty down?

That's not a great solution. The fact he can't travel or do anything to fix it means he is hard locked and having to ditch your difficulty level and resort your game in the settings is a major, game breaking error.

[Zeus]

Same thing happened to me, I had to turn the difficulty down from Hard. Figured I would just speedrun the rest of the game on the lowest difficulty

[Doc]

Originally posted by Hanabi:

That's not a great solution. The fact he can't travel or do anything to fix it means he is hard locked and having to ditch your difficulty level and resort your game in the settings is a major, game breaking error.

I mean, if it's a choice between 'restart' and 'turn the difficulty down', I think the latter would be the obvious choice for me.
Like, is there a deficit in the game design there? Sure! But you can try to figure out a workaround...or you can just give up and stop playing the game. And my experience has been positive enough that I'd encourage the 'workaround' angle over the 'stop playing the game' angle.

[H3nt4ik4m3n]

if u didnt grind enough for hard... its your fault as easy as it is..... turn down the difficulty and be happy to see the ending.

[kbeatz]

Originally posted by H3nt4ik4m3n:

if u didnt grind enough for hard... its your fault as easy as it is..... turn down the difficulty and be happy to see the ending.

I like the game a lot, and this is the first game I've played by this developer. So I did not know that I had to go into dungeons and farm ads to grind out levels. I was killing bosses just fine not doing that. So thanks, but no thanks to your point. I was highly skilled enough to get through the game 10-15 levels under for the entire game. It's poor game design to not allow me to go back and grind out that XP once I discovered that's what I needed to do. In addition, it's a single player game. So, when I'm going through the game with zero issues then hit a wall, I assume I should be fine when I had literally completed everything. Every mission, every side quest up until that point. Meaning that the game wants you to go into dungeons and just clear ads for levels outside of the main story, which I have done since then. BUT my point is that I had no way of knowing that that's what the game wanted from me at that exact point in time, especially when the main challenge of the game up until that point is conserving and saving MP while managing calendar days. So why would I think I need to clear ads for XP when clearly there is an emphasis on managing MP? Makes zero sense. Have a good day.

[GrOCam]

I feel you had to lower the game diff for that terror from the sea, I was not doing enough damage. switched up to hard, until the very last fight of the game. games punishes you the hard way. you're warned hard is actually HARD.

[BlueDragon634]

Same here the game definitely takes a leap in some boss fights