Yet again, these things coming to player knowledge with time, but game just overwhelms player from the start without explaining much. BTW I do tried to hire dog, first time it been defeated in seconds, next times dog did not even showed up. It just eated meat soup, but for some reason did not followed MC, dunno if I done something wrong or it just bugged, because I could not even find party menu.
Question, did you find those goblins in the sewer first time you see them in the sewer ? If you did fight them, you should have found out by then how stamina consuming fighting is and how rewardless it is. If you did not fight them then you did play the game the right way, why didn't you keep playing that way ? If you didn't play the sewer tutorial to begin with then it's on yor, not the game's faults.
You hired the dog, he took the companion front slot, then you tried to hire either goblin slayer or the criminal shield guy in the bar (both of whom also take front slot) so the dog didn't follower you.
The dog is cheap and is permanent companion, he's not so good at combat but he can take care of certain smaller and weak enemies (some animals, bugs, weaker goblins...) and he can sense and destroy traps. It's the way you use him. If you expect him to carry you then you're in for a lot of trouble, no one can carry you in this game save for yourself.
I advised you to take the dog with you because, you want to let him agro and draw enemy focus on him why you take your sweet time to run and escape the encounter, not to let him fight your battle.
1. What's the deal with the dancer job? I get 2-3k trade points during the process, and they all got removed after the job is completed. Is it a bug or the game just hates me?
2. Does sleep recover hunger points? So you don't really need any food, you just need to sleep a lot?
3. I don't really understand what i'm supposed to do, like, overall. I've completed a quest with the dragon herbs in the forest, the next one with the mines seems rather impossible to do (or at least really hard). I'm lacking some kind of directions, are you supposed to just choose 1 of the dozen options of becoming a slave, or is there something else i can do?
4. Its really hard NOT to hit an ally in a fight, and allies seems to turn on aggro mod after 2-3 accidental friendly hits. Can i do something about it?
5. Any suggestions on trait points distribution?
1. The house take 2/3 your earning. My BOSS do the same.
2.No. Only when sleeping at inn's room
3.Fight and survive.
4.Learn to order your allies to stay our of harm's way, in general, you want to order them to stand still while you scout ahead.
5. 3 points in SCU for stealth, 5 points in WIS for begging, 10 point in SUR for dark cauldron, rest you figure it out yourself.