EP 2 battling, out of practice! Options

[unitself]

Man! I took Terran, my lvl 36 FOmar, onto the Seaside, the Mountain and the Forest this morning. OUCH!!! First off, the huge plant killed me once, but I came back and sprayed it with weed-b-gone and fixed his smart mouth. That plant did something I had never seen before also. He zapped me with something and I lost all of my TP points. Very weird! Then, in the mountains, that giant, fist smashing, goat bearded gorrila/devil thing killed me three times! THREE TIMES! One fist pound does like 150 damage and for a weak little FO like Terran, that's 3/4 closer to death. But, I came back and kicked his butt. The only one I didn't have trouble with was the big ass mosquito boss. I got lucky and was able to shoot him from afar without giving him a real chance to fight back. Fair? BAH! Screw fair!
Then, after the wall came down I set my sights towards the Gal De Val. Countless Sinows later... the big griffon bastard killed me with one swipe.

Why, oh why did ST make the EXP less in EP2? You work so much harder for less! Annoying!