u/coalchester

I'm confused about how I'm supposed to be engaging with this game!

I'm going through the main story, not going out of my way to explore or grind, just doing what I found in my way, and I've done 5 out of 6 of the Jianghu Legacy things (seemed like they were tutorial things to do, since they unlocked basic functions like meridian touch and lightness), tried some random stuff from the menus (so many menus!) that caught my eye: the mode where you clear outposts with another player, the mode where you kill 2 bosses MMO style... and I think I found myself vastly overlevelled. I'm level 60, and last breakthrough, I've gone immediately from 55 to 60 with the stored XP. In the story, I've only just finished chapter 1 and gone to Kaifeng.

At the same time, I think my martial arts and weapons might be very underlevelled. I've been stingy with upgrades, because what if I find myself preferring something else, and lacking the upgrade materials.

I'm not clear at all if bosses scale with your level, or if levelling up is actually a way to overpower them. I cleared Qianye at level 60, I'm not sure if that made it too easy for how it's meant to be, or if she's scaled up to match.

I've never played MMOs. The most similar thing to this I've played is GTA Online, with it's many minigames and different grinding mechanisms, but it pales in comparison.

I hope all this doesn't really matter, that there's no really wrong way, and I expect many people will say "just play however you want", but is there any expected or intended or recommended order of engaging with all this? Do I focus on the story strictly and ignore the side quests? Do I just keep wander around and do whatever quest is nearest? Level at every opportunity, or hold off? Do I grind for a fun thing I like, like a sect hairstyle or whatever, or will that find me outlevelling the story and diminishing that experience?

I remember reading a graphic novel adaptation of the Odyssey as a very young child in the '80s and I've never been able to identify it.

The way I remember it is colour, realistic, hatched, similar to, say, Blueberry, so I'm thinking French, but no concrete memory that it was.

There's a full page panel of Circe with her tits out, similar to Wright Barker's painting ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Circe_by_Wright_Barker_(1889).jpg ), positively scandalous when you're 4!

It was accompanied by an Alexander the Great graphic novel in at an least generally similar art style, but possibly that's red herring since I don't have any recollection of them actually being by the same authors, possibly they were just under the same imprint.

https://2e.aonprd.com/Rules.aspx?ID=2405

"You can usually detect a creature automatically with a precise sense unless that creature is hiding or obscured by the environment, in which case you can use the Seek basic action to better detect the creature." suggests you don't just detect them automatically, but instead need to beat their Stealth with Perception.

But... can't anyone detect a hiding creature if they beat their Stealth with Perception?