Hello all, I'm new to this game having just gotten in. I did play Divine Divinity a long time ago, but I was much younger and don't remember much of it, so this is a new experience for me. Firstly, I gotta say I like the game so far. Graphics are beautiful, the world is well-realized, surprisingly good voice acting for a European import, so no complaints there.
What I'm wondering is whether I'm doing something wrong because the game just seems very hard. I'm playing a straight mage character, relying on magic missile, fireball and the like. I've gotten as far as Lord Lovis' tower, but now it seems that wherever I go, there are hordes of skeletons shooting at me (is it me, or does it seem like everything in this game has a ranged attack?) - I take a few down but then run out of mana when there's more than half of them left. And just 20 feet further there's the next group waiting to attack me. So now I'm out of mana, low on health, and I barely made a dent in the monsters. Was the mage a bad idea? I'm thinking of starting over with a warrior-type.
A second, unrelated question is this: I didn't choose lockpicking my first time through because I kept wanting to upgrade my spells. However I'm running into a lot of locked chests. Am I missing anything good by not having the skill, or is it just random loot? Thanks.
