Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - General Unable too progress, at houndmaster done it all

You can try to reach level 4 first by doing the easier fight.

Tutorial + Void woken
Accept the "Finding Migo" quest from the magister in town
Grab a yarrow flower
Go to the guy near the healer that is dying -> Use restoration scroll on him (Do not give potion). This gives EXP
Go to Migo, give him the yarrow flower for the ring.
Equip the Migo ring and heal the dying guy again. Repeat this with everyone for around 1.25k EXP
Teleporter glove
Petpal -> Houndmaster
Elven cave -> Withermoore
go back and Kill Migo.
Tell her daughter to come for his corpse
Kill her too.
Elven cave -> Kill the frog -> Talk to the elf girl in the camp that hate the kids who will reward you with exp for killing the frogs
Kill the two magister in front of the gate
Discover the ancient sword, the room in the prison with 2 skeleton and the kid hideout in the Elven cave

you should be level 4 by now with some good gears from all the chest and the unique weapon.

And it's Tactical mode. Don't expect to play it without min-maxing especially with multi-mages comp. Their early game is so horrible it takes awhile for them to scale that it's easier to just play 1 mage 2 ranger 1 fighter until Act 2 where you can get a free respec into 2 mage 1 fighter 1 ranger. Range attacker with high damage are always crucial in any turn-based game on higher difficulty.

And considering how you messed up with the companion build (always quick save before picking a choice and quick reload if they're bad), it's probably better if you just restart and build them better with pure damage for best CCing because in this game, health is kinda worthless.