Indinera wrote:No, being Master gives you items from more plants, and same for Guru.
If you are "only" expert, "complicated" plants wont give you anything.
Well, that's good to know, because I was worried that I was taking an Expert-level potion from plants that later I would have been able to get something better from.
As for the maze itself, was there some particular thing I was looking for? I might have found it, but after a while I was simply worried that I would never ever leave! Did you ever hear that the way to always exit a maze is to always keep in contact with one wall and follow it from beginning to end? You may have to do a lot of backtracking and you may make mistakes but eventually you will reach the end. (Altogether I think I spent, like, over 10 hours in the Frozen Woods, and it's contents. And I didn't even make a REALLY thorough search of some places. Waaah, do I really have to go back there?

. ) I wish there was some way to reduce the encounter rate like in Millennium, at least under certain circumstances (like I've already got the main treasure). I realize there has to be some difficulty to the game, but sometimes, all you're doing is trying to do is retrace your steps (for example).