Game is too easy to me and others.
" I'm not putting you down, it's just that the "difficulty" has various definitions. You say you died multiple times for instance, if dying isn't an evidence of failure, what is? Personally, I have only been playing hardcore recently, so a death means I failed and I need to start over since I'm uninterested in playing in normal league. In this case dying quite a few times isn't even an option, and fully avoiding death is challenging. I've been in some pretty dangerous situations recently, and I've felt some pretty scary situations where I get frozen and I don't have charges on my remove freeze flask, and there's a lot of damage coming my way. I end up grinding a fair bit as well, to make sure my gear is up to date because I don't want to die, but again, that's a hardcore restriction. In normal, well, you die, but you just keep going. I'm not sure what to do to make it "harder" if surviving multiple deaths doesn't impact you. You can't make a monster really hard to kill since you can just die and do it again. You can't take great steps to prevent someone from doing that either, because some of those things (like changing portal mechanics) would have a pretty drastic impact on hardcore players as well. You have access to a harder difficulty, and that's hardcore, and as well as being a separate league, there's also things like the hardcore race which rewards you for your ability to survive in hardcore. I've always felt normal is more like a training grounds, where you can test things out and maybe fail but it's no big deal. But that the real game where there's real risk, and occasionally rewards, comes from playing in hardcore, and more specifically the tournament leagues. Last edited by zeidrich on Aug 1, 2012, 3:48:19 PM
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also I am not the only one noticing this,
take for example this thread: http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/32488 |
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How many times have you played through normal? If you did it again would you die as many times?
If not, what you are really saying is more this: Learning curve for new players makes Normal difficulty significantly harder than later difficulties, so you are surprised at their lack of challenge when you play the later difficulties for the first time. If you have played through normal several times, and always find it much harder than later acts, on all characters, what you are saying is "Normal difficulty is harder due to lack of gear/skill ability/health compared to later levels, so a rebalancing of health boosts or monster damage in the later difficulties should be considered in addition to the experience cost of dying". The difficulty with redressing difficulty at later levels is that if death is all but assured without extreme caution, HC servers would become no fun. Also with random gear drops on top of differing character builds it's almost impossible to ensure linear difficulty progression - some builds will have an easier time not dying and moving through the content, especially if random gear drops at a level that makes them more survivable in the following sections. Given you have options for making the game more difficult (Hardcore mode) my questions is probably more whether you are expecting significantly different level content on the harder difficulties. As most of the challenging content comes from randomly assigned magic/rare mob attributes whether or not you get that 'Holy crap this is tougher' feeling is going to be in part be random as well depending on what mobs you face. Given you've already had the learning curve of how the areas play on Normal, there are greater limits to what the higher difficulties can do to penalize you, the greatest of this is experience loss. | |
" I play dungeon crawl stone soup from time to time. It's a roguelike, which as a genre showcases permanent death. One of the defining characteristics of that genre is that the game is typically far more likely to kill you early on than late. Late game you die because you make critical mistakes due to inattention, or have made a bunch of poor decisions over a long period of time. Early on however, the game is "allowed" to be more swingy because players are less averse to risk when they've invested less than an hour into their character. The fact that PoE doesn't get considerably harder is a somewhat necessary to those who play hardcore, because when playing hardcore, the stakes get higher the longer you play, and so the pressure stays high. Even if normal is easier, by merciless the stakes are so much higher that even a potential near miss can be scary. Just getting frozen when you know that you forgot to be prepared for it, even if nothing follows up and leads to you don't end up dropping to low health, it can be nerve wracking because there's the potential for loss. In hardcore, just getting hit for 30% of your health is a bit of a scary experience, even if there's a cooldown on the attack or it's a lucky string of hits that isn't likely going to kill you, it's going to make you think twice about getting hit. In normal, you might as well just ride it through, and if you die you die. Maybe statistically you are less likely to actually die in merciless as normal because those spikes are rare. You find that out easily enough, but as a hardcore player you get scared just taking that risk. | |
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It can be a bit easy depending on your gear + build. It also depends heavily on which zones you are playing. If you are level 44 in a level 40 zone, it should be easy.
The difficulty ramps up when you get to maps. Yellow maps of your level are going to be difficult. Post a video ofyou in a yellow map equal to your level with you dominating and I will concede "too easy". " ... to let them know the game isn’t going to be very fair from here on out."
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I believe I heard Kripp say at one point that he thought normal was harder than cruel.
I'm pretty sure it's because in normal, first starting out, you have nothing, and by the time you hit cruel you have many resources at your disposal and the difficulty doesn't ramp higher than the average resources you got throughout normal. If you have account problems please [url="http://www.pathofexile.com/support"]Email Support[/url]
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I've said it a few times in this thread, but I'm not necessarily saying the difficulty is too easy.
I'm specifically addressing that normal feels harder than later difficulties. I admit there's a learning curve at play here. But I've played numerous characters through normal to test builds and the main thing that affected how hard it seemed, was how much twink gear I had for the build I was trying. I'm not demanding change, or even suggesting really, I'm just supporting the OP and saying, "yeah, normal does seem more difficult than merciless, as a whole". Last edited by Bones40 on Aug 1, 2012, 5:21:04 PM
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Stop advicing OP to play in HC. HC offers nothing any different mechanics in terms of difficulty than Default League, and you know this !
What it only gives you not to die at all costs, and play very carefully. You could continue playing on default league if you die, i wouldn't even call it as "hardcore" as it must had been, but that's different story. Most importantly when "Nerf this ! Nerf that !" whinny threads are created no one gets surprised but very few persons only. On the other hand some people could even think that OP may be a troll or a worse one, as happened in this topic. Why is that big difference ? Why one could not state his/her opinion regarding game was easy, just because some could not manage to overcome ? It is a known fact that difficulty levels are not true and are totally out of place and don't imply their names as they should be. For these reasons i concur with OP. "This is too good for you, very powerful ! You want - You take" Last edited by BrecMadak on Aug 1, 2012, 5:36:06 PM
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I sort of agree on this
I didn't get the "omg the difficulty just JUMPED" feeling when i go to a new mode that I hoped for when I mode up I want to get my ass kicked until I learn my fucking lesson i mean come on its a whole MODE When I heard about cutthroat league I had a vision of a place, and in that place I saw a man, and in that man I saw my sword, and in my inventory I saw his loot
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