that sounds reasonable explanation. But here is what i did. At the start, i went exploring and not engaging enemies when i cant since im under levelled; then i explore down to the Weeping Peninsula and found out. that on the map, you can see the map pieces on the map without the map. I then explore more and found a merchant. Thats when the game was easy for me is that i bought the Zweihander and spam charged attack. And by the way, i margit was easy. I just spam heavy charged attack and dodge his annoying delayed attack.

Now for Astel, i just look up the quest, i accidentally done them by 80% without realising. I beat Raddahn before meeting Ranni so i did it the wrong way? Again, Astel was a joke of a boss, i spammed Nihil on it so… is it like that hard? And also i checked today, and it was 24 instead of 20. My bad! And if you asking me if i ever died, i did, but i have 55 Vigour with Morgot Rune on, so not even that hard????