Fellwood: Unique and exciting, or painfully boring?

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I think it was sort of a mix of both. It was fun and all good for a while. But after roaming around for nearly four hours, making notes on my area map and trying different directions untill I found new areas, I began to think somewhat differently...

 

no kidding

 

"wilderness Lore"... that's da way man...

 

The first part was fun but I'll have to go with painfully boreing.

 

Once you know where in theHell you are going.. It's not so bad.. I thought the final map, and the place with the dead thief was cool..

The treants were funny too.. hehe..

 

Two options: Wilderness Lore or SP Walkthrough

I would never go through the lengths of marking my maps and whatnot.

Overall, I enjoy FellWood. It's not that long, especially if you have Wilderness Lore. And all you need is a few points in it for one character. I do it just to see what it says about each area.

 

I had a character with wilderness lore. Worked pretty good.

I made an excel sheet:

FROM N NE E SE S SW W NW

Where I marked possible directions. When done with quests (finding directions using wilderness lore) then mapped the entire wood in this sheet.

For me this was fun. I like exploring. An more - my cleric could use his turn undead here and later in Kuldahar. Why should I stop him in enjoying it?

 

what, so wilderness lore helps, does it?
damn it! i could have saved sooo much time.

 

It had to have some purpose in the game, coz I sure didn't find it much good anywhere else...

 

At first, i was playing nice, imagine myself wondering in the wilderness with the aid of wilderness lore from my druid. i used her to understand a new area better, anticipating what kind of enemies i will face. But that was just chapter 1. As i play the game more and more, wtf, just charge in and fight, i can always reload.

 

To Urghazi:

Yes, wilderness lore helps in Fellwood. But sometimes a character needs to try more then once. Sometime it says something like: 'Your tracking skills reveal nothing about this location'. When tried several times it works.

Hey - it's just like throwing a dice, only it is a generated random number + your skill compared to a constant for location. Therefore you need to have some points in this skill to achieve a goal of learning something about locations.

"Just like all another skills it works."

 

It's unique and exciting, then painfully boring. Fortunatly, I downloaded the SP Walkthough (thank god!!)

 

I have put 15 points into wilderness lore for my dwarven barbarian. I have never gotten one bit of good out of it so it could be considered a complete, useless, waste. The only skills my dwarf has are wilderness lore and intimidate, both at 15.

 

IMHO, wilderness lore is useless. Nobody should ever waste skill points on it. It's useless. Period.

 

From a role-playing standpoint it's not useless. In a party of six characters, surely you have room to give someone a few points in wilderness lore, like a ranger, druid, or barbarian.
But if you don't want to, that's an option as well. But having it is not a burden. There's plenty of skill points to go around.

 

It would have been painfully boring if i hadn't known about the wilderness skill or SP.

 

I dont think there is a word to describe this F***ING GODDAMN place. Especially when you don't have wilderness lore or when you use it it says always the same thing.