To get the the Woods of Despare, you need to be level 36, if I remember correctly. To get to the spot where the Hell church is (where Apozen and the Skeleton Crypt are both located), you need to be level 25. To get to the Cyclops Cave, it's level 20. I can get into the swamps, but the Death Cave requires level 33. To get to the spot where the Crypt, Puppets, Wingos, and the Haunted House are, you need to be level 22.
So if I'm getting this straight, that means you'd need to be at least level 33 to get any spells now. Through the Death Cave is the only way to get to Anundo, where all the assault spells are located. You can't go and get a Scroll Of Ancient to teleport to Ancient City and go into the portal that brings you there either, since the Barbarians and the Barbarian Captain are no longer at Estaq Stronghold. Again, I tried going to the Bird Fortress to see if the Barbarians remained there, but I remembered the level 36 blockade to the Woods of Despare. I doubt they would be there anyway, though. I guess all those scrolls are simply no longer in the game, period.
So... let me see... being at this level, the only places I could possibly train and get almost-moderately-decent-experience are still at the Sheep... and that's about it. The Nutvipers' experience has been dropped, I know you need to be an extremely high level to get into the basement of the Aeven potion shop, I can't go to the Haunted House, nor the Butterflies, the Cyclops Cave, the desert... woah. This is going to be very tough.
C'mon. What was the point of these blocks? This is overkill. I can't get anywhere.
-Cruside