EfU: Unfair for New PC's?

[Saturnalia]

Playing a Druid Steward I can say that it is not particularly difficult to get to lvl 6 as long as you figure out early and quickly how to keep yourself alive alone in the big bad Dark.

But re-leveling after that initial boost is nigh improbable alone due to caps on the solo quests, and unfortunately as a druid nowadays you are almost always alone.

There are some useful ways to gain XP (Fishing, animal herding) but that is a time consuming trickle compared to what I have experienced as a Sanctuary based character that can get on a quest train.

[Big Orc Man]

To me, the toughest part of the level-up experience is 6-7.

At least when you're at 8, you're not really in a hurry because you can compete in combat with other PCs well enough.

But 6-7, especially on rogues, clerics, bards, etc. is a nightmare, just waiting for that second attack per round...

Just a piece of advice for getting over that hump for players who have trouble - don't try to inch across with low level quests.  It'll take forever.

Get a strong group together and crush a really hard, high-level quest.  Your XP reward will be substantial.  I generally make it a rule on my PCs to try to slingshot with XP from quests that are over my head, and buckle down and try to survive them, rather than spending days sprinting around getting 300 xp per mid-level quest.