Re: Stuck on Winter's Hill
4 January 2014 at 9:14am
Hi Alziel - welcome to the forums and thanks for sharing your experiences. Yes, Legion is pitched on the challenging side. I did want to tweak a few things in Act 3 for the latest edition but my publisher wouldn't let me sadly! Ran out of time.
Vood is correct that you don't have to complete Winter's Hill to progress (or indeed, Against all odds and Battle of the Bone Fields) - although, obviously you want to progress as far as you can through them.
As an alchemist you are at a disadvantage because you are losing two offensive abilities. The bonus for alchemists is that they can have a speed talisman (whereas the other mage careers don't). Therefore, technically you can have much higher speed. A speed of 13 or 14, as Vood states, is where you want to be aiming for in those early quests.
Itemisation is much improved (in my opinion!) in HoF and EoWF. Legion was very much a learning curve!
Hope your mage goes on to triumph. Sounds like you are back in the fight!