I'm stuck at level 12

[Gunfreak]

I'm on reapers coast, I'm slightly over half way to 13, But all the enemies I find are 13, 14 or 15.
And the only ones that are 13 seem to have way to many for me to handle. (The magistres in the black pit)
I've gotten my self to bloodmoon island, were they are all 15, in the downs they sneaky elves are 14.

[zacharyb]

Go to the bottom left corner, then the top right corner, then do the Blackpits area, and then BloodMoon Island. That seems to be kinda the way you're supposed to do it, since the levels of enemies seems to follow that pattern.

[Zunnoab #931]

Worst comes to worst explore you get tons of exp that way. Also you can fight dirty I cleared the cave next to the black pits entering it at level 11 or 12 (and without playing dirty for the first two of four encounters).

[Gunfreak]

Only place I havn't propely explored is bloodmoon.

[Seether]

Agree with zacharyb for progression...(1) the area right around your starting point (just south and east of Driftwood) first, (2) Driftwood (there are a lot of little quests here for exp), (3) the Wrecker's Cave area to the W and SW of Driftwood (you may not be able to handle a troll yet), and then I'd work around (4) the area immediately north of Driftwood (and I mean immediately...you can't handle the Sawmill yet...a good measuring stick is whether you can handle a voidwoken deer) and (5) Stone Garden (the order doesn't really matter between (4) and (5)). I did Stone Garden before the area north of Driftwood. You can't finish some Stone Garden quests without going to the Blackpits, but there's still a fair amount of experience you can pick up in the meantime. You can't really finish Cloisterwood without going to the Blackpits either but same answer. Cloisterwood is tougher than Stone Garden. Fewer encounters in Cloisterwood (maybe just 4), but two of them are no joke. Alice may be one of the two toughest encounters in all of Reaper's Coast, but she's optional.

Next are the Cloisterwood, Paladin's Bridgehead, Blackpits, Sawmill, far NE corner of the map (Paradise Downs), and BloodMoon Island and probably in that order. You definitely want to have begun quests in Stone Garden and/or Cloisterwood and Paladin's Bridgehead before the Blackpits, because the quests take you to the Blackpits. You could do the Sawmill before the Blackpits. The key for me in the Blackpits (above ground) and Sawmill areas was to split the enemy encounters up into smaller groups. I did the Blackpits first and found the Sawmill easy, but I separated the Sawmill enemies into smaller groups using teleport, etc. Mummie Dearest at the Sawmill is no joke. I had to go back to fight Aetera a little later. I wasn't capable of taking her down immediately and needed to level up and pick up some additional abilities/spells first.

I also completed BloodMoon before Paradise Downs. I had gone to the NE corner but hadn't done a good enough job exploring the area and didn't realize I could actually reach areas I thought were unexplorable. Since I'd already gotten through all of BloodMoon, Paradise Downs was pretty easy. If I'd done them in reverse, it would have made BloodMoon easier.

[raubrey]

[quote=Seether;1499000547471431963
I also completed BloodMoon before Paradise Downs. I had gone to the NE corner but hadn't done a good enough job exploring the area and didn't realize I could actually reach areas I thought were unexplorable. Since I'd already gotten through all of BloodMoon, Paradise Downs was pretty easy. If I'd done them in reverse, it would have made BloodMoon easier. [/quote]

Same thing happened to me on the first playthrough.

I hope you find your way through it @OP. The leveling is a bit tight at that point but well worth the needle in the haystack approach it may take to eck out another level. Plus Seether gave some good advice.

[Gunfreak]

I managed to kill Johan or what ever the guy is called, the one interoganting the sourcer.
But then a a crap load of tar viod things showed up.

[raubrey]

Originally posted by Gunfreak:

I managed to kill Johan or what ever the guy is called, the one interoganting the sourcer.
But then a a crap load of tar viod things showed up.

I think that fight is scaled for LV 13-15. I know that I save it for last, before heading to Bloodmoon Isle.

[Slim Sic]

There's some quests and fights to do in the driftwood fields. The fields is a little area that you are supposed to explore sort of before moving to the blackpits. There's a couple quests there, cloisterwood is the next area to explore after reapers bluffs and the cave. You can then go through paladin bridgehead to the blackpits. I mean stonegarden is an option to help you out, but you really don't even have to touch it. You can level without it and do it for extra exp till later. Driftwood has A LOT of things to do so search out driftwood carefully early level like yours then move on later

[Gunfreak]

Thanks for the help, I'm, now half way to 14 and seem to have gotton past the dead spot.