Talk:Fathom Deep/@comment-9324622-20130904090540/@comment-202.188.45.98-20130909131538

^ What he said. In this game there's not too much point of doing a NG+, except for doing quests you didn't take in your original playthrough (one of the achievements requires completing a whole bunch of quests), getting a different NPC as your Love Interest and seeing what they have to say - and, most importantly, in the Dark Arisen version of the game, beefing up before heading for Bitterblack Isle.

Not that you can't do that during post-game (or at anytime else, for that matter), but you may have rushed through the game during your first playthrough for whatever reason, so it's another chance of pacing yourself through relatively easy quests before hitting up BI (post game monsters can be a tad annoying if you just beelined the storyline quests without taking time to explore and level up).

I found NG+ largely a breeze except for this very quest - I hadn't bothered with the Everfall much, consequently I'm short on wakestones. Oh well, time to grind...