Yup, took me a while to figure that one out as well
I'm used to MMO gaming and mobs that outlevel you, c'mon... easy pie.
Not in this game though and actually it's quite logical... If they outlevel you, they SHOULD kill you or at least put up a hard fight. If you're equal then it's fair (actually easy, but meh...)
Nonetheless, if you don't do every sidequest, yet you still use mindread a lot then you're bound to be outleveled by everything :p
I still haven't finished the game yet, I'm not really into 2nd tries so I'm just gonna do everything I can in this first playthrough. So if you don't rush things, then there aren't much issues imo...
