What's up with the suggested levels?

[Varpushaukka]

Maybe this is too early for me to question, but I just reached the Griffin contract in the main story, and the quest suggests me to be level 3. I'm barely level 2, and that's after doing several side quests with suggested levels of 2 or below, so if I skipped even one of them, I'd still be level 1. Is this normal? Am I supposed to be underleveled for the main story quest even if I do some side questing first? Or have I missed on doing something obvious that gives an extra 1k exp just like that?

I'm playing on the second-highest difficulty if that matters, but even with that I don't think it should've made such a difference this early on.

[lehipi]

You're good, just go ahead.

The quests are marked by colour in your quest log. That colouring comes in 4 shades: red, orange, white and grey.

Red are quests more than 10 levels higher than your current level. In short, quests you'll most likely die again and again and again trying and not being able to complete right now.

Orange are levels are 5 to 10 levels higher than your current level. You might be able to complete at your current level, but it will be hard and take a long time.

White are quests leveled +5 to -5 levels to your current level, and are considered prime for the best game experience and challenge.

Grey are quests more than 5 levels below your current level.


Red, orange and white quests net you the normal amount of xp.
There is no reward for doing high level quests, just wait until they turn white.

Grey quests yield only a pittance xp: 5 xp instead og 500, 15 instead of 1500 and so on.

No need to panic over "lost" xp in grey quests, you'll end up overleveled by the end of the main quest on B&BB, heck that happens even on DM, so no worries. There is a single mail quest, that on B&BB yield enough xp for 2 full levels...

[Furiey]

Complete the other quests and fully explore that area before you complete the Griffin contract. Once you complete that contract the story will take you out of that region and some of the quests will no longer be available.

White Orchard is an extension of the tutorial so take the opportunity to explore and learn the mechanics of the game. A quest a few levels above you shouldn't be a problem. You should be about level 4 when you leave White Orchard and will end up overleveled no matter what you do. Just progress as you wish.

[Decidis]

What I've found the best thing to do in White Orchard, to avoid having the main story quests out-leveling you, is to simply run around exploring the "?" marks, and completing every side quest you come across.

I think the dev's intended people to genuinely run around the game world, soaking in the lore and atmosphere (and consequentially leveling up by coming across " ? " marks and side quests). If you try to stick to the main quest line, and only do side quests sparingly, the main line will quickly out level you.

[Varpushaukka]

Originally posted by lehipi:

You're good, just go ahead.

The quests are marked by colour in your quest log. That colouring comes in 4 shades: red, orange, white and grey.

Red are quests more than 10 levels higher than your current level. In short, quests you'll most likely die again and again and again trying and not being able to complete right now.

Orange are levels are 5 to 10 levels higher than your current level. You might be able to complete at your current level, but it will be hard and take a long time.

White are quests leveled +5 to -5 levels to your current level, and are considered prime for the best game experience and challenge.

Grey are quests more than 5 levels below your current level.


Red, orange and white quests net you the normal amount of xp.
There is no reward for doing high level quests, just wait until they turn white.

Grey quests yield only a pittance xp: 5 xp instead og 500, 15 instead of 1500 and so on.

No need to panic over "lost" xp in grey quests, you'll end up overleveled by the end of the main quest on B&BB, heck that happens even on DM, so no worries. There is a single mail quest, that on B&BB yield enough xp for 2 full levels...

Thanks for the detailed explanation, but what do you mean by there being no reward for doing high level quests? Just above it you say that even the red quests give the normal amount of exp, so are you talking about some reward other than exp?

[Varpushaukka]

Originally posted by Furiey:

Complete the other quests and fully explore that area before you complete the Griffin contract. Once you complete that contract the story will take you out of that region and some of the quests will no longer be available.

White Orchard is an extension of the tutorial so take the opportunity to explore and learn the mechanics of the game. A quest a few levels above you shouldn't be a problem. You should be about level 4 when you leave White Orchard and will end up overleveled no matter what you do. Just progress as you wish.

Thanks for the warning! I had a couple level 6-7 side quests from exploration, so I thought to leave them for a bit later, but it seems I'll be doing them first now.

[Varpushaukka]

Originally posted by Decidis:

What I've found the best thing to do in White Orchard, to avoid having the main story quests out-leveling you, is to simply run around exploring the "?" marks, and completing every side quest you come across.

I think the dev's intended people to genuinely run around the game world, soaking in the lore and atmosphere (and consequentially leveling up by coming across " ? " marks and side quests). If you try to stick to the main quest line, and only do side quests sparingly, the main line will quickly out level you.

Yeah, I kinda did that, I mean I've discovered like 18 of the 28 or so "?" marks, and have a few quests received from searching said places to do, but since it took this long for me to reach even level 2, I started to doubt if I could reach the level 3 even if I literally explored all the "?" marks and did all the side quests. :p

[Vellari]

Originally posted by Ashstep:

Just above it you say that even the red quests give the normal amount of exp, so are you talking about some reward other than exp?

Meaning doing them while they are still in the "red" does not reward anything extra (compared to normal/white), so there really is no point in banging your head at said mission trying to accomplish before you are supposed to.