Yup, as of last night, I finally reached Varant, the barren desert south of Trelis! It’s day 26 in game time, and my character is now level 43. Amazing huh, he’s higher level now, but much poorer – only about 136,000 gold to his name compared to my previous one which is level 41, but has about 243,000 gold when I last saved him.
It’s probably because I spend less money on the first guy “levelling up”. I still have some skill points left unused on the first one, but on my current one, he’s left with like 14 points or something. In other words, I have been training him up pretty much regularly. Hence, I spend more on him. Also, since I no longer liberate towns and cities after the first 2, less income available from looting all the homes and weapons and items from dead orcs this time around, so money is slightly harder to come by, although 136,000 gold coins isn’t really a small amount.
Also my current character is better equipped because of his better skills too… now he is able to use both a crossbow as well as a regular bow. I am currently leaning towards going with just the bow and drop the crossbow altogether although number-wise, the crossbow does more damage.
Actually, if I really wanted to, I could technically lure orc out of town singly, and kill ’em, without them ever going KOS on me now that I know the trick to say “BITE ME” when they accuse me of murder.
So here I am out in Varant desert, re-doing the quests for Braga again. I think I might chance it and liberate Braga if given the quest to do so again.
