I enjoy the harder quests myself, even though I know it is sometimes risky. My problem lately has been that after being gone for several months, I recently made a new nature PC. After logging on a handful of times and doing one quest, I am almost to level 6 with no allies, and basically starting gear thanks to the game spitting out 40 xp more often than I light up a smoke. This makes it nearly impossible to go out and try something more difficult, knowing full well I don't have the supplies to take care of myself, nor the allies to aid me along the way.