Getting levels: When can I actually start out of town quests?

[frdnwsm]

I can't find any more easy, in/near town side quests, and I keep getting overwhelmed whenever I try to go too far from the town gates. I managed to get everyone to almost level 4, at which point I then resorted to guerrilla forays; heading out from a gate, triggering an attack, then leading the enemy back to the gates so that the Legionnaires there would run out and aid me in combat. This got everybody to level 4. But then I ran out of fights near the gates.

Even at level 4, we still suck in combat. I have a ton of side quests that are going to involve fighting higher level mobs, and have no idea how I am going to do them. The only thing I can see to do is to use the teleport pyramids. Trigger a melee, focus down and kill one opponent for the experience, then teleport away, heal up, and head back. It works, but advancement is slow as molasses. There has to be something better that I am missing.

[🎮 PalkoVvodets 🔑]

There a lot of low level skeletons on the west of Cyseal which shouldn't be hard to kill at your 4 level. The place where always rainy. Start there.
Here[i.imgur.com] you can see adviced hero level for for your everything annihilation approaching. Its not a order as you can anyway beat more leveled mobs using mage power, summons and control.

[Raze_Larian]

There should be more things to do in town, and digging the largest pile of dirt in the Cyseal graveyard will lead to combat with opponents suitable for about level 3, as well as other places to explore (if you have not already found them yet).

[frdnwsm]

I have dug up and killed all the undead in the graveyard, and explored the tunnel where Wolgartt was hiding. West of town are a bunch of higher level undead; those undead archers really do a job on us. Their freeze arrows are especially torublesome. And the constant rain sort of reduces the damage from my fire attacks.

I haven't seen any skeletons. The only "easy" undead I have seen to the west were the half-eaten zombies, which, being legless, are quite slow.

I have tried using hit and run tactics, but aside from the zombies, all these undead are actually faster than we are. Again, we can escape using the pyramids, but it's hardly heroic.

"When danger reared it's ugly head, they bravely turned away and fled" is about the size of what I'm doing.

[frdnwsm]

Hah! OK, found some skellies that weren't too hard. More to the South and West rather than directly West. I'll scout that area again.

[FrauBlake]

If you know the game really well, you can get to above level 4 even without leaving Cyseal and with maybe only killing the one single skeleton bomber on the graveyard, not Dave, not Helen, and without even going underground in the graveyard.

But you have to know the game really well ... ;-)

[frdnwsm]

Well, clearly I don't know it that well. Just fumbling around. I had to play hit and run with the orcs around the cave to the west; took me 9 raids until I finally killed the last of them. The cave itself looks even worse; I'm putting that on hold for a bit. There's a few early quests I haven't cleared up yet, mainly because I'm sort of stumped. Like Victoria, for example. I suspect if I actually kill the Mayor's adopted daughter, things would get hot for me in town. But when I try to have Englander arrested for soliciting assassination, I'm told I don't have enough evidence. Huh.

The economy is unfriendly also. I am trying to get better gear for my folks, but it's expensive, and I get totally crap prices when I sell stuff I have looted. With luck, I might get 10% of the price I would have to pay for it.

[HugsAndSnuggles]

Orcs are level 6, IIRC. You're not supposed to be fighting them until after the lighthouse and, at least, clearing path to SparkMaster's cave (ideally, after finding Jakes's body). Basically: if you're fighting something that has higher level - you're supposed to be elsewhere.

Run around Cyseal, talk to people, do their quests, break into some property, 'borrow' stuff...

[Qiox]

Originally posted by frdnwsm:

Well, clearly I don't know it that well. Just fumbling around. I had to play hit and run with the orcs around the cave to the west; took me 9 raids until I finally killed the last of them. The cave itself looks even worse; I'm putting that on hold for a bit. There's a few early quests I haven't cleared up yet, mainly because I'm sort of stumped. Like Victoria, for example. I suspect if I actually kill the Mayor's adopted daughter, things would get hot for me in town. But when I try to have Englander arrested for soliciting assassination, I'm told I don't have enough evidence. Huh.

The economy is unfriendly also. I am trying to get better gear for my folks, but it's expensive, and I get totally crap prices when I sell stuff I have looted. With luck, I might get 10% of the price I would have to pay for it.

The main easy way to get money early on is stealing. Clean out every room you can in town. Paintings on the walls sell for good amounts.

Although it is profitable, you don't have to steal.

Don't let your quest log dictate what you do. Just keep exporing the map anywhere that you have not been. If the mobs are higher level than you, go somewhere else instead. There's always stuff same level as you to fight.

If you are thorough in your exploration, you will in a natural way solve almost every quest.

Many of the quests you pickup early on get wrapped up in areas that are level 6 to 9 or so.