What difficulty do you play on? Options

[Renee]

I started out playing with the Adept (default) setting for my first 6 or 7 characters. With Lord Haaf-Mersey and Mycharonna I switched to Apprentice, rationalizing that I wanted to see both of these characters grow and thrive, so I could continue their stories to completion.

At some point (somewhere around Level 30 or so) I switched both of these games up to Adept. Apprentice had become too easy; I get bored if I pwn everything all the time. But with my two latest games (Uber Kness and Master Baytor) I bumped it up to Adept from the very start. Uber died at about Level 12, but MB is still going strong, even after killing three dragons so far.

What about you?



This post has been edited by Renee Gade IV: Jan 3 2014, 04:20 PM

[ghastley]

I'm with Acadian on not touching the difficulty slider. It's just not the right way to adjust the game balance.

Our choices of how to do it are similar, too. Impose a limitation on the character that compensates for the advantage the game gives you. No armour, no archery / archery only, no use of potions, whatever makes sense for the personality of the subject character. I note that the difficulty slider is often used by people who've exploited every glitch in the game to make their character overpowered, and need to get some challenge back. A "quirky build" is more entertaining than that, as it can change your strategy, not just make the fights last longer.