Questions about level caps and transition to DLC

level cap is 12

You will feel unrewarded.

You can start Palace at level 12, I read it. But I didn't play this campaign yet. I guess you will carry everything from your last saved game.

Hello fellow community,

I played this game (Main campaign) I think in September 2021. One Issue I had was that I bumped into the level cap (I think it was 10 back in the day) with still hours of gameplay and fights/encounters ahead of me. So I had to mod it back in the day to not feel unrewarded. Now I came back with all the new content compared to 2 years ago.

I'm playing the main campaign now and want to play the Palace of Ice DLC after that. Now my three questions:
1. What is the level cap within the main campaign I'm playing right now? What happens if I bump into it again? Same problem like 2 years ago?
2. Let's say the level cap is 12 (I don't know) - does this then seemlessly transition to the DLC starting at 12 and not 10? Or does it get rolled back?
3. Do I have to to something then? Are all my items and stuff "carried over"?

Thanks ahead friends and stay in the light!
Dezzert

Technically, you could say you start 12+, because you can have XP above level 12.  I was about 12.6 and started Palace of Ice with all that XP and my gear.  I lost a crown though :P 

Hi again,

thanks for the responses! Now 2 weeks later I played through the main campaign and also tried to do every side-quest. What happened in the end was that I reached Level 12 kind of before the last main quest. So good timing. Only thing I did in the last third of the game was hiding/avoiding travel encounters to not overlevel further more. Otherwise all played out perfectly.

I arrived within the dlc and had an instant level up to 13 so the gathered exp within last quest carried over. Maybe I missed some quests or a lof of travel encounters - or - it's actually way better paced and balanced then two years ago where I hit level 10 (max level back in the day) way, way before the last chapters.

So - good experience playing again overall :)

Technically, you could say you start 12+, because you can have XP above level 12.  I was about 12.6 and started Palace of Ice with all that XP and my gear.  I lost a crown though :P 

By the way, today's patch changed that so that imported characters that are level 12 do not have more experience than just enough to be level 12.

Haha, oh wow. Then I literally did that some hours before I guess.