Been a hot minute since I played THIS game. Was super rusty, so I trained a bit in the Haligtree Brace (near Melania's boss room), killing "Pests" and knights. Quickly came to terms of how the game works once again.

Did a little dueling for a bit.

Summoned a buddy to help me fight Maliketh the Death Eater, and trounced him quickly.

Switched over to my lower level account in "the Lakes", and got about halfway through before hitting a significant bump.

Switched back to help friend fight Mogwyn. Took three tries (cause his build was a glass cannon), but spamming Bloodflame Blade seemed to have done the trick.