LAST EDITED ON Apr-13-02 AT 03:31 PM (Pacific)Typically in CRPG's, we go out of our way to seek battles to build experience, but sometimes the roads get so filled with stuff like poison plants (dunno why, but I dislike all of Wiz8's assorted offensive vegetation in particular). You need to get the X-Ray spell and keep it going, so you can see enemies at a distance in the map mode.
Step off the road, don't run light spells at night on the roads, and be still when you are near a group. They may miss you. If you have the Chameleon Spell active, standing still does help. When I suggest stepping off the road, it's because the various monsters look for you there, not necessarily that travelling overland is a great deal better about missing monster groups.
Meanwhile, I think that the general consensus has been that the Trynton area is somewhat easier to take on than the area in between Arnika and the Umpani Base.
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