Uh, so I unlocked the area behind the cave. And I didn't know the fighting was going to get so insane hard for me. I have the best armor I could have for my pets. And now my pets can't beat the things I'm fighting. All I unlocked in the grove is the temple of light. I am pretty upset tbh. Because I don't think I am able to finish this event fighting wise. because everything is too strong now.. What do I do? Can I reverse what I did??? lol

And I can't fight the mobs that I need to unlock the other things for the Barracks. I can't fight the ENTs or any of the named. They basically one shot me. It's like truly impossible?

I don't think it's reversible, but someone correct me if I'm wrong please. You can still fight outside of the LG and have it count toward to the event. If your pets aren't max level then you can work on leveling them too before returning to the LG. Which pets are you using?

https://www.sylestia.com/view/pets/?petid=5754118
https://www.sylestia.com/view/pets/?petid=7050386
https://www.sylestia.com/view/pets/?petid=7050368

But even after the event is over, I wouldn't be able to build up the barracks. Because everything is stronger than me. I haven't unlocked the blacksmith so I can't armor up. Thank you for your reply I really appreciate it.

By the 'area behind the cave', do you mean the Temple? or do you mean the Caverns themselves (which isn't what I'd call an area 'behind' the caves since they are the caves)?

Because finishing the cavern stages and gaining access to the Temple stages doesn't change any of the Forest/Cavern stuff, they're all the same levels as before. I THINK you mean you unlocked the caves though? which just jumps the forest enemies from 65 to 70 (and the elites/bosses from 68 to 73)?
(I will note that people typically recommend getting the barracks all unlocked before beating grove behemoth for this level jump reason exactly)

Looking at the pets in your party at the time of me writing this, they
a) have unupgraded Vinethorn equipment- so long as you have the gold, you can get Stoneweave off of the broker now-days somewhat easily,
b) are lv70 themselves (so should be able to fight the non-elite/boss enemies without too much issue, and elites/bosses so long as you know the strategies to use),
c) their moves are unranked aside from r2 moves 1 and 2? So you'd want to be grinding to get those ranks on them to make life easier against elites/bosses
d) are all statted more like tank pets than what you'd expect; Shadow, which I expect is the actual tank, probably a fine setup? (I do not use shadow tanks- you could try giving her some HP profs if you think you need more of a cushion for big blows), but the Light with full lightbringer (light tank gear, rather than the more typical light healer pyromancer), and both the light and air with agi profs (raises defence and evasion) rather than dexterity (raises accuracy and crit chances) are unusual (especially on the air pet)

e) you can actually get all items needed to do the barracks from chests if you're lucky, so if you just run around the forest and caves collecting all the chests and fighting the regular enemies you can get both gold, lg items, and rank exp.
Doing the Daily and Weekly tasks from the barracks buildings also gets you lg items


So the main question is: do you know the strategies for the assorted enemy types?

Scath covered it pretty well! If you need help with enemy strats, this guide is great: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=99803

Whatever I unlocked with the big cat dog thing? There was that like little gate or something. I unlocked I think the entrance to the cave? Its blocked off like the rock in Attack On Titan. No I don't know about strategy. But I can look at your guide that Everlost linked below your reply. Thank you for your reply you're always so helpful.

Yeah, that's the Caverns- the 'big cat dog thing' is the grove behemoth.

Also remember that you can also trade lg items in the barracks for the tokens that you can then use to buy other lg items, so if you get, say, an excess of sylesti bits like lupora mane tufts you can trade them for tokens and eventually manage to get the epic-tier items you need (the tracker is the least-useful of the buildings for progression since it's for finding pets, where the trading post, training grounds, and blacksmith can provide material benefits to battling, so you can afford to use the items used for constructing it for tokens until you have the other buildings done.)

Uns's guide will hopefully prove handy to you


And another thing to remember is that the top strip of the grove, and where the druids are, will only give you one-enemy mobs, which might help also

Thank you again for your help, I'll look into it! :D