Game Mechanics: Nek forest is tough on newbs

[mylz17]

I never played a dark elf on live so correct
me if I am wrong here

1) snakes are social? All moss snakes and tree snakes appear to assist each other.

2) spiders are social too? Large spiders assist spiderlings and vice versa. Makes it hard to fight just 1.

3) everything appears to be running instead of walking. This only adds
to the chaos. With spiders and snakes assisting eachother you spend a lot of time on CRs as a dark elf newb.

So far everything else looks OK cept maybe the piranhas in the river. Are these
suppose to be KOS? If so they were conning indifferent when I swam through.

4) swimming skill... Does this go up?