Great tipps, thanks a lot! I'ver never thought about XP debt as being beneficial that way!
Also, I never knew about the option of opposing Richard - because it just feels counter-intuitive to waste a quest there. I guess there isn't any way to complete the Goblin heart quest, anyway? Meaning either you kill Richard while siding with Lomax, or he is captured (and probably killed) later on when Damian pillages Broken Valley?
With regard to David running away... yeah, I think I did that one time, and met him again by accident... don't remember whether I mindread him, though
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With all that in mind, I'm going to start working my way through the larger Broken Valley again now... probably headed for the bandit camp first. I'll have to figure out the ideal time to face the Killer Bunny. And when all is said and done, I always run into the Orobas Fjords as a "pedestrian" and try to go as far as possible. Usually that journey ends down at the beach, but theoretically it's possible to go into the cave of the Patriarch, too.
Of course, in DC one could also switch to dragon form ahead of time and do the entire rest of the Fjords... but I'm talking about regular, non-cheating ways here
. Since the Patriarch cave is difficult enough after Sentinel Island already, I doubt that attempt will be successful, least of all on the Nightmare rank... but on the other hand, should it work on Nightmare, then it should work on all difficulties.
It would be worth a try to level high enough to face the two dudes in the mine tower already before becoming a dragon... don't know if that's even possible or if anyone has ever done that before. But as I said, if the story itself doesn't offer new possible outcomes, one needs some goals for replaying, right?
