Wow, great to know, Raze!
Now you've made me ambitious to try this!
Overall though, it's debatable whether this approach is useful when it comes to getting the highest amount of experience possible across the whole game. After all, the entirety of Sentinel Island must have been a cakewalk for you then, so you will barely get any experience from the Dragon Elves, not even from fighting Laiken, I guess.
But I stopped my "walkthrough" at the beginning of the larger part of Broken Valley, so let me continue there first:
Generally, there are four types of enemies you encounter here:
- black goblins (level 7)
- skeletons (level 8)
- bandits (levels 9-10)
- members of the Black Ring (levels 10-11)
The "heroic" black goblins are a special case, you only meet them in two places really, one of which is only accessible once you've cleared the entirety of Broken Valley anyway - they are levels 11-13.
So ideally, you'll want to take care of all the black goblins first, then of all the skeletons, then the bandits, and then the Black Ring.
The problem however is that these types of enemies aren't really spread across the valley in that convenient order. For example, you'll have to get past a couple of skeletons to get on the West side of Lovis's tower, where you'll meet further black goblins.
There's a similar issue with Bellegar's shrines, because some of them are surrounded by bandits and Black Ring members, but depending on in which order you find them, the enemies you'll face within the shrine are going to be much weaker.
Finally, certain foes are quite easy to handle despite their high levels. Trolls for example are a complete joke if you only use range attacks (magic / bows). Demons can at least shoot some magical projectiles, but if they are the only enemy you are facing, it's easy to evade them. There are also some human enemies - like bandits, or the merchants at the south road - who are around level 10, but easy to handle at a distance.
So theoretically, you'd have to run past the higher level enemies without engaging in combat with them to make sure you take care of the weaker ones first
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I'll have to make up my mind about this again, I'm just pretty sure you should start with the goblins at the waterfall and clear a path up to the shrine of the goblin tribe next to Lovis's tower. But then, I went on to clear the road to the bandit camp, despite the bandits being level 9 and 10, rather than going into Lovis's tower with the level 8 skeletons first. The problem with skeletons is that they usually appear in higher quantities, making them harder to fight than bandits despite their lower levels.
