Originally Posted by RagnarokCzD
Originally Posted by CMK
because if they do I can tell you right now there will be certain side quests I skip entirely
Quite honestly ... i believe that might be the point. laugh

I mean look at what do we know by now ...
If you side with Halsin, he urges you to approach Moonrise Towers from Underdark ...
If you side with Minthara, she tells you about Mountain Path ...
And if you decide to side with Lae'zel, she urges you to screw them both and go to Githyanki ... wich leads to yet another "portal" out of the zone, straight to the Shadowlands ...

Now we dont know if those three enter points (Lift from Grymforge, Shadowlands next to Githyanki Patrol and Mountain Pass next to the Goblin camp) are leading to three separate maps ... just as Grymforge is ... or if they are separate enterpoints for the same place ... just as Underdark is ...
Personaly i bet for second option.

But as it seems right now, if you will follow one of the abowe mentioned routes (Halsin / Minthara / Lae'zel) you would most likely be led to skip the other two.
I mean, sure there is nothing stoping you to explore it all (as far as we know right now) but if Halsin urges you to go through the Underdark, why would you travel to Mountain pass? laugh

So there is (and i would say quite fair) possibility that they actualy DO want us to follow certain path, wich would mean skipping the rest.
(Aka leave it for another playthrough)

But ofc, there is other way we can understand it ... and that would be that any and every path will be deadend, forcing us effectively to travel through them all. laugh

yes but even if I ONLY follow one path there is plenty of side junk that you might skip if they cap you at lvl 4... for instance screw exploring the underdark at all... IF lvl 4 were the cap you litterally could go straight from the fort in the under dark to the beach and to the forge never even bother with True Soul Nere and just take the elevator (missing out on some nice gear in the process) which would make the underdark severely less dangerous, but then the player is missing out a heavy chunk of story (both side story and main). However IF I am a new player who knows nothing about Act 1 (IE the gear you can get and where to get it) and ONLY know that I have been lvl capped for the rest of the Act a few things are likely to happen:

1) I am going to be less likely to explore save for finding the current goal to advance to the next Act

2) Bail on quests that are "just too hard" (Example:
the fight against Nere is damn near impossible at lvl 4 unless you KNOW to recruit Brithvar or just happen to talk to him and choose the right dialog options
)

3) the second may lead to you quitting the game altogether IF its a main story quest that HAS to be completed to advance (so far there haven't been any of those that I can tell
as you can simply side with nere, let him die in the gas fill room, get help to kill him or as I mentioned just skip him all together
and
if you follow Lae'zel's advice so long as she isn't in the party you can talk your way out of fighting the Gith patrol... not that the fight against them is IMPOSSIBLE, just very difficult
)


Look I love that game encourages creative solutions to advancing past a problem in a quest/ fight... I even applaud the fact that there are some fights that you literally cannot win (at least at lvl4) without a creative solution/ discovering the special mechanic
(IE the fight against Grym)
, but "Impossible" fights should be largely saved for discoverable side quests/ optional bosses and MAYBE the occasional BBEG (Big Bad Evil Guy/Gal for those that don't know the acronym) and should be able to be made easier by simply coming back to them once you have leveled up a little.

I don't mind admitting that there was a fight in this game that I could not pass while locked at lvl 4 no matter how creative I got with the fight its self and I could only get past by doing something before the fight it's self and ONLY found out about that by accident here on the forums because some one didn't black out there spoiler correctly (I prefer not to use guides and try to avoid spoilers of any type) AND I would probably STILL be stuck not being able to defeat that particular fight at lvl4 if I hadn't (btw I am not upset with that person... I am reasonable and realize we are in EA and people are posting things to get bugs fixed and make suggestions to improve the game which may lead the occasional spoiler). My point here is the ONLY other solution to defeating THAT fight (AND not making a choice that was out of alignment with the I was playing my character) would have been to gain a lvl or two thus giving me access to abilities that you just don't have lvl 4 (Never underestimate what that extra D6 on sneak attack or that Extra attack that fighters get at lvl 5 can do)