I managed to get around to finishing Two Worlds today, though it took a pretty long play session to do so.
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Back to Two Worlds again, and I last left off in a cave mowing down skeletons, but after loading the save today, it kept crashing after fighting a couple more rooms of them. I proceeded a bit more slowly, quicksaving more often, and managed to finish them off without any more crashes. Only to discover that there wasn’t anything interesting in that part of the cave anyway. Oh well.

I explored a bit more of the map, finding the eastern army camp and doing a handful of side quests there, including one where I had to steal the camp commander’s underpants. After that and a couple more side quests I had left over, the only other ones left were ones that seemed to be bugged or were impossible to finish for other reasons.

So, needing new things to do, I crossed the river via the bridge south of Qudinar and started exploring the southern part of the map. I made it to the town of Ashos on the western side of the map, where there were yet more side quests to do. This time they were necessary though, in order to get the key that would let me into their temple. In there, I found the water stone I needed for the relic. Two down, two more to go.

Upon leaving the temple though, the entire town had been slaughtered by orcs, which I had to fight through to make it back to my horse. At that point there was only one thing I could do — break into all of the houses and loot all of their containers. Hey, they don’t need it anymore, and it’ll help me wreak, uh, vengeance, or something.

I’ve got a ton of alchemy components on me now, especially after clearing out the town, so the first thing I’m going to have to do next time is whip up some more permanent stat potions.

I’m also level 52 now, so there obviously isn’t a level cap at 50. Item level requirements are capped at 50 according to the patch notes though, so I might now be at the limit of how powerful equipment will get. I’ve also started trying to collect matching suits of armour, since apparently wearing an entire set of the same set number gives you a *huge* defense boost, and there are still monsters that can kill me in only one or two hits.

It was yet another day of screwing around in Two Worlds. I first finished off the duplicate mage quest, though the solution didn’t really please either of them. I popped up to the Karga camp and easily got the relic frame for the main quest since they’re now pleased with me after wiping out their enemies. I also stopped by the nearby Karga cave and found “The Cure” there. No, not the band, but a barrel-like container. Unless they’re inside it… In any case, I don’t even know what it’s for yet.

I went to the city of Qudinar for the first time to turn in a couple quests that needed me to go there, explored the city a bit, and picked up more side quests. I then spent some time running back and forth and around in Cathalon to complete some of the side quests there, too. None of which were really all that remarkable, and most just required finding and talking to the right people.

I then wandered around the map, exploring more roads and smaller areas that I’d skipped before. In one cave I discovered dead knights, an annoying new enemy that constantly kicks dirt in your face (this is not the beach!) which keeps you from attacking or defending yourself for a few seconds. I also revisited the old boar cave and the tower I had discovered early in the game, easily dispatching the monsters that I couldn’t scratch before. The cyclops at the tower had a couple of decent rings on him, at least.

Since I was wandering down that road anyway, I stopped at the second Thalmont Node and had another telepathic conversation with my sister, who went on and on about the relic and how it’s not just a myth and blah blah blah… Nothing all that important in the end, really. Just point at whoever needs their head lopped off.

I also found a cave on the western side of the map with even more new enemies, tuloks and demons, and they completely kicked my ass, usually killing me in one hit. Apparently I’ve still got some growing to do.

And I was finally let into the village of Gorelin, though there wasn’t really much there aside from a few shady merchants and one NPC for a quest I’d started at the excavation but have essentially abandoned anyway, since it was for the opposing faction. Oh well.

I’m level 47 now, so I should probably be focusing on wrapping up these side quests and getting back to the main quest again. There’s still a big chunk of the map to the south that hasn’t been explored yet, too.

Not as much progress in Two Worlds tonight, though after reading up a bit more on some forums I learned how to make the horse more useful than I thought it was — it has its own inventory I can transfer loot to, and I forgot that I can hit ‘h’ to call it back to me, getting it unstuck as well.

I also learned about how to use alchemy to make permanent stat increase potions, and spent the first chunk of time just making and drinking a bunch of them. Mostly for the elemental resists and willpower and dexterity stats for now; I have to save up more ingredients for strength and vitality potions.

After that I completed a couple more minor sidequests and wandered around a bit, eventually ending up at the excavations. After talking to a few people and being able to free an imprisoned woman there, I found that this was where I was essentially forced to choose sides between the clans. Karga seems like the less evil of the two, so I helped the woman and became kill-on-sight to the other and had to fight my way out of the excavation.

Now I should be able to get into that camp that refused me entry earlier, at least.

I continued on with Two Worlds today, though after picking up all the quests in the city I left and decided to work on stuff elsewhere instead.

I started out at Four Stones village, where I cleared out a nearby dark tower of necromancers. There was a teleporter to a balcony high up on the tower, but there didn’t seem to be any point to it. I did pick up a new horse there though, and this one’s a skeletal, undead one, kind of like the undead in WoW have.

After that I headed south to Windbreak village, and along the way I ran across orcs for the first time. They’re not all that tough; I’ve actually had more trouble with random bandits that I run across (which seem to be the only enemy type that the game matches to your level). Upon arriving there I did a handful of otherwise unremarkable side quests, including clearing out a couple orc camps, which were a bit tougher just because of a large number of archers, which are still a pain.

Then it was off to a fishing village on the west coast for another handful of side quests, including a rather pointless one that involved a huge amount of running back and forth. Oh well, it got me some xp and gold at least. After finishing up there, I then headed straight south to find the cave where an orc called White Head was hiding, for one of the earlier side quests. I also ran across one of the relic stones I need for the main quest in that same cave, conveniently enough.

Today it was back to Two Worlds again, and I got quite a bit of questing and leveling done, putting me at level 26 (of 50, I think) with pretty good equipment. I’ve still barely touched the main quest, but at this rate it should be pretty easy by the time I get around to it.

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