Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Help Tips & Tricks *Spoiler* Need help with progressing

Hi guys.

I've played about 3-4 hours of this game and am greatly enjoying myself. However, the game is now starting to get a little frustrating as I struggle with how to progress from here.


**spoilers for the first hours of the game**



I've gotten to the point where I am to find the First Druid/Healer who went west in goblin territory. I can also choose to either escort the refugees or kill Kharga. So I have several quests to do. The problem is that I am underlevelled for all of them. My party is still only lvl 1 and most are a lot of xp away from lvl 2. And all quests I try to do, no matter in which direction, main or sidequest, are at least lvl 3. I don't stand a chance in a battle against any of them.
It's difficult to explore because there are cliffs and rivers closing my off in every direction, and there are very few random encounters/enemies so I can't even just explore and grind to gain lvls.The few things I've found (harpies by the beach, overgrown ruins) I can't survive the fights.

What do I do from here?

Do the Ruins that Shadowheart is lookin at in the beginning. That's where you gonna get most xp

Yes, I tried that several times. But it was quite disheartening when the enemies could one-shot my party and I mostly missed. And then spent most of my turn helping my party members, so I couldn't really fight.

But I manged it finally, after many tries. But none of my chars lvled. I'm now in the crypt and about to fight some skeletons. Not sure how that will go.

Sorry if I sound a bit negative, I love this game. It's awesome and I want nothing else than sink a ton of hours into it, but it's hard to be motivated to do that when the battles feel out of my league with very little ways of lvling my party.