oh, I totally understood that, was just pointing out that you might want to remind people of the trade-off. The pro to speed leveling that way is that there is no need to regear that soon, or hit up your next spell scroll or whatnot (granted, if you pack it in advance you can just use it in the field). the con is that it will take you longer to skill-up later.

oh, warning #2 one of the primary rules, "don't get cocky", i.e. you've gotten whatever down to EP, congratulations, that doesn't mean you can necessarily survive 6 of those beating on you simultaneously, and if you die you get to redo that XP.