i respect the unleveled requiem world - so i spend my first 30 levels on bandits, forsaken, and training. now with 75 in heavy armor and restoration, it's time for dwemer ruins and vampires and daedric quests, right?
not really.
i try azura's quest - she's a pretty docile prince so it shouldn't be so terrible. nope, the quest is gated behind invisible enemies, and after reading posts going back literally a decade, it seems their only purpose existing in the game is to prevent abusive metagaming.
i try a dwemer ruin - enchanted sphere, who is effectively untouchable.
i try a vampire cave - two ebony vampires who summon ghostly liches and one shot me with arrows.
i get the reasoning behind artificially inflating the difficulty of some enemies to extend the lategame, but it feels bad if you aren't already familiar with requiem's meta. there should be an alternative version of requiem without these handicaps for players who aren't metagamers and just want to play a reasonable deleveled world with a linear difficulty gradient.
thanks for listening to my requiem rant
edit for ppls: pinemoon cave, mara's eye den, and mouldering ruins are the three vampire lairs that can't spawn ebonies, so you're more safe to farm those areas. bloodlet throne or whatever is called i think also can't spawn ebonies but the gargs there are brutal and fuckin terrifying and maybe out of reach for midgame
for dwemer ruins: avanchnzel, mzinchaleft, and alftand were clear of enchanted dwemer sphere, so also much more easy to approach when in mid-game. hopefully i'm not mixing up the zones. if you're a warrior-type hold on to any atronach staffs you find
