Arnika Road FAQback to FAQ Index |
Q: How does anyone survive out here?!?! |
| Early in the game many players find it less difficult to travel the
road if their party remains at or below level 5. Monsters are spawned based
on party level and let's face it your party just doesn't have the equipment
or the skills to deal with the tougher monsters this early.
If you're out there at level 6 or above and finding it next to impossible to get past the monsters you can always rest a bit and the groups will move to different points in the map or be replaced by other creatures eventually. Once they move on you can sprint through areas or perhaps tackle one group at a time. The most difficult time I had my first time on the road was that every monster in the map seemed to hit the crossroads at the same time the party did. Dealing with one group was bad enough but 5 or 6 groups of enemies was way over the party's head. There are safe spots to rest along the road where you can be fairly sure you will be unmolested by the local wildlife and hooligans. Next to the outer wall of the Monastery itself, the area by the Bandit chest once you defeat the original group guarding it, near the abandoned house by the crossroads, and some of the deeper niches in the map boundaries. You can also combat run away from the enemies but here you may get into a real jam if your group gets tuckered out and runs from one group right into another. Many monsters will back off and retreat once the party gets far enough away from them. One exception would be the Bats. They can easily over take the party and usually come in enough numbers to surround the party which is definitely not something you want happening. |