Thanks very much for writing out your strategy for the mill battle. I teleported out then attacked from the outside, which seemed to work reasonaly well.
ROFL!!! The magister killer quest is level 9-10. That should be a pretty easy ROFL stomp. Good call on the Paladin quest. It can be done at level 15, but to be honest, it is typically the last thing I do in act 2.
I decided not to do that one because I was sympathetic to the killer and there was no option for "I'll keep your sectret." I think you can kill the magister in charge of the investigation but I didn't want to do that either so I just left it. No xp for closing it though.