First map

[Slayer62]

Hi , i have 17h in game and im still in the first map xd, is this normal? Is like my first RPG game and i wont lie, every fight costs me like 5-10 tries so that is few hours. Is normal to be like lost? I have few quests but i do one and they give me 5 more and often the enemys are way so hard for me.

[Chaoslink]

The average run time for the whole campaign is an average 80 hours, the first act being about 20-25% of it. Some players can take as much as 120-150 hours to finish though and if you’re struggling that hard, you’re aiming for that mark. So yes, that’s an expected amount of time to still be there given what you’ve provided.

For further help however, I need a bit more information. For starters, what difficulty are you in? After that, what classes are you running? The builds you pick and how your team is set up makes a huge part of the difficulty. You might have very poor synergy mixed with ineffective builds and too many points invested into places you don’t want them. All of this will make your game harder and without knowing that stuff it’ll be hard for me to help you.

[Yojo0o]

Taking a while on the first map is normal, losing every fight 5-10 times isn't.

[korac]

It sounds like you may often be wandering into areas you've no business being in just yet (quests there or not). The following link has so far proven very useful to us as an overall, rough guide for our own first run, so it may help you too:

https://divinityoriginalsin2.vidyawiki.com/Areas+By+Level

That said, if every fight is proving very difficult, even against enemies around your own group level, then I suspect the main problem is probably your gear. In particular, you should try to get new weapons as soon after you achieve a new level as possible, and then upgrade other gear as well as you can afford. Ideally, no item should be more than two levels below your own unless it has very useful skills and other bonuses attached, which may keep it useful for a little longer than that.

Focus on constantly improving your gear (especially weapons) as you go and I think you'll start having a much easier time of it, and so begin to settle down and learn how to fight better. It's all a learning experience, but a very enjoyable one if you stick with it. :)

[Keijo]

Make sure you have all the best skillbooks for your classes, in combat you should rarely use normal attacks, all damage and cc comes from skills.

I think I personally missed alot of really good skills early game because you don't have money to buy all of em and it's easy to miss them, because theres like 10 skills for all and you have no idea how good they are.

[The.Spaz.]

For me its very typical. RPGs tend to have bulk of their challenges at the forefront when you are still getting your bearings and gearing up. I would strongly suggest you stop looking at the gameplay hour stat as I can tell you it took me lot more hours before I left fort Joy for good. So don't be discouraged, take your time and try different strategy. Check your inventory prior to battle, check for scrolls and consumables you can use in battle. If you played the first game then you should have enough items to re-discover basic recepies without needing to read it in a book.

The hardest challenge will be getting skill books. The economy is not forgiving and you will have to rely on certain tactics to obtain items otherwise locked off this early in the game. Eg: Warriors generally get the worst deal as you wont get access to their better skills till much later. In my case I had to borrow a few skills from the scoundrel class to compensate for the lack of range and mobility. NOTE: never try to split your skill points between two classes equally. Always specialize in one, the other is minor to round out your weaknesses and should be invested in sparingly and instead be rebuffed by gear bonuses. I have not sacrificed beyond a single talent point in scoundrel for my lead warrior but the benefits definitely outweigh the potential loss.

[Chaoslink]

Another thing to keep close attention to is the level of your enemies. You should always be fighting enemies that are your level. If you’re lower than your enemy, there’s something else you missed. Don’t just slog through fights you have no business being in.