You get observation experience almost entirely for looking at named or unique monsters, obvious objects in the room like fountains and chests, and hidden objects that contain things like preps or keys or quest items. There are also a handful of spots where you look in a direction to see a certain exit, or look at item, but it's rare enough that you can ignore both of those. You get explorati
You use that list to write a script to run through safe areas looking at each thing on a list. You don't manually walk through every area looking at everything. That would be terrible.
If you use most druid communes, Outlander powers and some ranger abilities in a room like that, they turn back and hit you. Interestingly, if you're fighting a Scion with volley you can intentionally use abilities that they will volley back in that kind of room and have it then backfire and hit them anyway.
The thing is, both characters used basically the same rules for who to attack. Outlander enemies, anyone grouped with them, and anyone seeking shelter in a protected city. That meant attacking any conjurer, including killing Fortress conjurers and never grouping with anyone I ever even saw in a group with a conjurer, paladin, dwarf, etc. For my Sunwarden, this was praised and rewarded by differen