Do lower difficulties leave you nerfed due to lower exp from fewer enemies?

[DavidHansen]

So I started on Normal, but might restart on Easy just to spend less time caring about stats and more on the story.

 

But I read that difficulty affects number of enemies as well. Does this place you behind on experience? How to recover?

[trashmyego]

You only indirectly receive experience from enemies through unlocking information about them in your bestiary. You wont fall behind. There's an excess of side-quest experience anyway, your biggest problem will be over leveling.

[Ganrich]

You gain XP by completing quests, entering new maps, picking locks I believe, and filling out the bestiary. Someone can fill in if I missed something. You only get Xp from combat when you kill enough of a specific enemy to finish the bestiary. It is a small amount. So, it won't have a grand effect on leveling speed.

[DavidHansen]

Oh wow, that's a big difference from BG2   Thanks

[pstone]

You gain XP by completing quests, entering new maps, picking locks I believe, and filling out the bestiary. Someone can fill in if I missed something. You only get Xp from combat when you kill enough of a specific enemy to finish the bestiary. It is a small amount. So, it won't have a grand effect on leveling speed.

Disarming traps will also net some XP. The biggest chunk is from quests however, so you might have a harder time if you skip too many sidequests...

[Sam-R]

Yeah I don't really think it's an issue when the XP from killing things is its own little mechanic, Bestiary XP, and doesn't affect proper XP for leveling up and whatnot that we get from quests. Unless you're primarily concerned with Bestiary XP?