You could play Tactician if you don't enjoy having to restart so much. It's the same settings as Honor mode except without the save restrictions.
That wasn't my issue or complain, I was only setting skill expectation and to demonstrate a different style of play since save/reloading is mostly out of the question. My question is how is someone hitting level 15 by the time they reach Boreas. I'm clearing the game somewhat thoroughly and I am still level 12 and I just got the forcefield scroll (which I believe disables boreas' castle wall and leads to him or close to him). The crux of this thread is it is too easy to over level on tactician. I'm clearing the game in honor and there is no overleveling going on yet.
So I'm curious what I'm missing. It seems like someone is jumping ahead to fight some other mobs to power level up. I could be wrong though. Maybe people are min-maxing the charisma/rock paper scissor game but there is no way that is going to account for that big of a gap. I didn't take the most XP path for the prisoners but again, that can't possibly account for a 3 level difference.
I'm intentionally avoiding the tunnels with traps despite having high perception. I had one character try to take some item and she got permanently petrified with no cooldowns. I wasn't going to go out of my way to get the 'cure' spells to it since she'd probably just get re-petrified (honestly this is another problem, where you are re-checked multiple times for a saving throw but I'll leave that for another day). This part is where I re-loaded since I only have one game and can't risk losing a character permanently or sacrificing points and money for a skill I won't use later.
I'm playing most of the game off of memory but re-checking this link to help guide me.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/672174-divinity-original-sin/faqs/70607?page=2Do you see any steps where the guide misses a big chunk of XP? I'm playing the game off of memory and where the game is telling me to go (it's done a MUCH better job telling you where to go now).
