A question about progression and levelling after chapter 1.

So for chapter 1 a lot of the focus was on exploration, the entire map was purely for chapter 1, I felt like I could explore anywhere and had to do everything for the experience.



At the end of chapter 1 I felt like I had completed that whole map and explored every nook and cranny.

I was level 15.



Did NOTR, now I'm like level 25 I think?

94 percent one handed weapons, 70 strength.

So really I'm not going to get much stronger?

Is that it, I'm as strong as I'll get?

My wep does 100 damage so I'm doing 170 with the strength, and really I'm only going to add very small numbers onto that from now on.





So I started chapter 2 and started exploring, got ♥♥♥♥ed on, all these ice monsters, MASSIVE groups of dragon snappers and ♥♥♥♥, I feel like I'm not even meant to explore?



I mean there's no possible way to take on 5+ dragon snappers or orcs at once (without scrolls of course, I aggro'd every single orc in the pass and then used fire rain on them all, laughed when the character said something to Diego along the lines of finding a secret pass to get around all the orcs, I didn't even know that exists.)



So I went and did the missions, and it was over in under an hour, after chapter 1 taking like 30 and NOTR taking like 10-15 I'm confused.



Am I still meant to be levelling hardcore and exploring?

I can't even play right now because I don't want to start chapter 3 without the opportunity to kill everything to level and then have stuff respawn for the next chapter.



So yeah basically my question is, do I need to level any higher?



Also, is there a new map for each chapter?

I thought maybe this new map would be for multiple, so I'd go to some areas of it later.