I used a different technique the first time I played the game. I can't remember in detail – too long ago – but I do remember that after completing Dagger Wound and getting to the mainland, I found the Alliance Quest and pretty well followed that. That did involve a LOT of walking (I think I visited all the different areas fairly quickly) and doing a fair number of quests concurrently as well as in a strange order. I remember doing the Dire Wolf quest very early and the Smugglers' Cove and Dark Dwarf Compound quests very late. But I don't remember having too much trouble with anything except, like you, the gogs in Ironsand Desert.
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