This fight is heavily unbalanced. The first time I was at karador's place I was level 13. The previous main quest the enemy was 'Slightly weaker'. Beteween this main quest, and beating karador.. you need to gain at least 10 levels in order to beat it. This is why it's unbalanced =). At least 2 other main quests should have been in beteween, because meanwhile I stopped playing because it's so incredibly boring to be fighting armies with NO purpose at all. Just the TINY exp.... I need quests to keep me busy, and quests that pay 130 exp aint worth it. Another little comment, doesn't seem that helping the tree of life and change the tree of death changes anything in the fight with karador. I at least expected it to weaken his forces or the crystal.
The randomness completely massacred my character. My stats are puny, the only thing that keeps me going are some good items. I'm a level 22 knight with 7 atk, 14 def and 9 int. This is with mostly stat boosting items equipped.
There is so much wrong with this game when I start to think about it.. all minor things, but so many things. The fact that you get about 100 leadership when leveling up when a low level, OR +1 stat.. But once you're level 20 you gain 1000 leadership... OR +1 stat... Catch my drift? Not saying it should give +10 stat.. but it should at least scale along.
Most things are pretty obvious, such as overpowered keepers, by the time you can defeat them, the upgrade is often insignificant.
The randomness is too random. Even though at some points some stuff isn't random, all this stuff is useless anyway... Such as the miners lantern.
The skills.. Don't even get me started. Am I the only one who thinks pretty much EACH skill tree is rather useless? Only in combination you can build a somewhat effective char. Nighttime tactics completely useless, night time takes 1/10 as long as daytime. Frenzy.. The hardest to get knight skill.. And the most useless one as well. Healing skill.. useless. Diplomacy... pure waste of runes. Skills such as iron fist quickly become obsolete. The exp skill is ok.. but way too expensive to be useful. Hell, the best skills are the ones available from the start.
My biggest problem with this game is that leveling up changes nothing. If you couldn't defeat an enemy at level 15, you still won't be able to at level 16, nor level 17. Only by exploring and looting you become stronger... Leveling does nearly nothing in comparison.
Then of course some bugs that ruin it even more. Mostly having to do with wifes. Mirabella crashes your game... Elven chick can't have kids.. Ugh.. Kids.. Yep, kids also pretty much ruin the game. All due to randomness.
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