Etrian Odyssey II - Heroes of Lagaard

[JKTrix]

I'm getting pwn'd on floor 1 unlike the first game

I made it to the sixth floor finally. I don't know what I did, but my Traubadour hits harder than my Protector. Even still, this game is hard. The F.O.E.s don't show up on the map anymore!

I hear that the game pretty much assumes you've beaten the first game, so this one basically starts as 'hard mode' compared to Etrian 1.