How to level up ? lol

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Level 3 With the main missions saying level 5 or 6 suggested along with the side missions.. what do i do ?

[katzenkrimis]

Side quests and killing things is the only way to get XP.

[sucky_mcworthless]

Clear out the "?" on your map I hit level 5 in White Orchard before I started tooling around Velen. Also found an entire schematic set of Enhanced Ursine Armor in a cave right around the Hanging Tree waypoint.... too bad its level 33 craftable gear.

The only time you need to worry about mob levels is when there's a skull next to the name or quest you're doing. And if you do come across one of those, just ditch out of combat and pick another "?" to hit. If you're super-duper sneaky you can loot Guarded Chest markers without going into combat at all. (Ie, I snagged Honor of the North from a chest that a level 14 basilisk was supposed to be guarding.)

Of course, I'm not playing on the highest difficulty level, so your mileage my vary.

[Belgarion]

Mileage may vary! Haha!

[baeus6]

I could go back. Don't know if there's some other choices that lock you out.

[deezus]

Hmm, I'm glad I haven't left White Orchard yet.

[sucky_mcworthless]

Nah, you can fast travel right back to it. The only thing you can't use is the innkeeper to offload goods at, but the merchant that was attacked by the griffon, the dwarven smith and the Nilfgaardian Outpost are all the shops you need. I mean, I was still fast travelling back to White Orchard because I hadn't gotten access to a smith in Velen to repair/ offload all my extra weapons and armor.

[MrFrengLitch]

You should have no problem fighting lvl 5-6 when you're lvl 3. Hell, I'm playing on Death March and I fought a bear lvl 6 when i was lvl 2 and I killed it lol. Just depends on your "skills" tho. Take your time.