Originally Posted by Stabbey
Originally Posted by TcheQ
Hi, Thanks for the advice.

Yes I do mean Iona's dungeon aka the quest I got after poisoning the orc water supply. I just did the quests in order as they came, avoided fights I couldn't win, and suddenly i'm in a dungeon with no way out.

I play my RPGs with the intention of avoiding conflict and bloodshed. Maybe this was a little too ambitious for a ten year old game : p

I have two saves, each for levelling up, so just before stormfist when i got to level 3... but i abhor grinding, it's boring

Maybe I'll just let my character die here lol :P


Some games simply are not built for low-level runs. Don't complain about a "design flaw" if you're purposefully making the game difficult on yourself. I mean, come on, you MUST have been skipping both combat AND quests to only be level 3 by there. What did you expect?

Divine Divinity is a good RPG, but it's closer to Diablo than Planescape: Torment.

In Divine Divinity, a difference in levels affects your ability to physically hit enemies, and there are mandatory fights in the game. Playing as a magic user would help with that, but being a low level is still dangerous. It was easier for a magic user back before version 1.4, because you could use spellbooks found on bookshelves to max out a lot of your magic spells without needing to reach the appropriate level.

The scorpion in the dungeon is not a mandatory fight, but you would soon reach a point where you'd have to fight an enemy that is roughly level 30 to advance the main plot.


Yes, that's fine, but placing it in an area where there is no way out, allowing the player to advance without some limiting device. A simple stall device like a level 25 ogre blocking the way to stormfist castle that you have to kill before they will open the gates.... that would have been so simple.

It's not terrible, if I decide to start from my save point i barely lose any time (convenient that my teleporter stones were thieved before i get into stormfist, with no optin to tell the ugly flikflak NO) ...reminds me a lot of how bad Dragon Age 2 was, but with that one I had fought for an hour to get to an impossible boss, and not 10min of faffing about ;p

for the record, i didn't purposly skip quests, i've never played a divinity game before, I just went with the quest on my map that seemed the most urgent.