An unexpected surprise. The game runs fine on Steam/Linux through proton, but it is a bit of a hassle to set up the first time.

Maybe now i will finally finish “Legendary Defender of Ascalon”, since death leveling is no longer the only method.

For anyone not familiar: this was a title given to players who got to max level (20) in the tutorial area of the first game. All quest XP combined would would get you from 1-8, or if you save up all the quests it’s almost enough to get from 19-20. The only other way to get XP was by killing monsters, and for every level above the monster you get, it gives less XP. once you are more than 5 levels over you’d get none.

“Death leveling” was a technique where you’d let the highest level monsters (level 13 iirc) kill you repeatedly until they level up, then you kill them for XP once they are high enough to give you some. This would mean you’d have to die potentially over 100 times to get a tiny amount of XP, then you exit and enter the zone to respawn the monster and do it all again.

In the years since they’ve added a small few level 17 monsters and a low xp daily quest, so it’s still a huge grind but not as insane as before