I just beat that part with newest game and it was fine for me. Also Im hoping recruiting mr crazy zul goes ok this time. So far I have 3 neutral karma, and accidentally 2 good Im guessing because of the note quests. Im gonna start saving all my money now that I bought all the new gear in chapter 2 for my house. Yay!

Yeah I find the encounters fun, by no means easy, but Im not running constantly. I think I usually grind to gain a level or so verse the zulwhern each fight. Other then that I never really have to much trouble in boss fights. So Id say its going good. Plus learning from my first time through chapter 2, I now bought tons of potions and antidotes so I dont waste mana. I noticed a new area, with that STARS guy. LOL, him those two sisters dueling, and that boat to the south all raise questions for me. What is their purpose. Hmmmmm.

Awesome, wheres the hunting board? Also Ive still only gotten 1 riddle. The hints dont seem to help me much lol. Trin and Seran dont get teleport scrolls?

Lol ok cool Ill get to try all that soon.
EDIT: Made it to that swamp dead land before the haunted manor. Guys hit for like 300-600 and you go up agaisnt 3 to like 6 at a time. My problem is some of these you cant run from. To grind comfortably I have to walk back through that dumb cave. So ill probably wait a while to go grind before I face the hard boss in the manor place. Also Ive seen two chests, one is top left corner, the other is near the entrance, and I cant get either. The top left you cant walk to. Im not sure if I need to find secret teleport locations or not.

Yeah I made it past there today fine. The manor boss was insanely hard. I beat him but zul and robot were dead. Now the two sisters are killing me fast. The one heals more then I can damage. The other can kill everyone in 1 to 2 hits lol. Back to the drawing board....I need to figure something out.

Well now im trying to decide if I want to take out those sisters with 3 level 20 characters or leveling the new classes and trying them again. The job system is cool by the way. Its a lot of fun so far.

I have suan using Omni blade and windslasher. Also Juliets job auradion, I leveled it to 4 and cant use any skills for it. I leveled her with that priest book that gives white magic, I dont know if that messed it up. For now Ill use her as a negator, but just wanted you to know.

I actually just bought both books, that way I have access to both her spellfencer moves. But yeah I cant use any skills for auradion. No skill menu appears for it at all.