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[howard6039]

I just want to say the difference in difficulty from hard to normal is ridiculous. I was in the room in the abandoned thaig trying to get the last evil tome, and finally gave in to lowering the difficulty (had been playing on hard) and I wooped it in one try this room felt impossible. In origins it was less notible, I'm not sure what this really means. Nightmare has to be next to impossible (have't tried) thats all thanx

[Apathy1989]

True and true. Difference in difficulty on DAO was too slow tbh. Nightmare was pretty easy.

Is there an official chart of changes between settings? The descriptions are vague, you kind of just figure it out as you go along.

[Lumikki]

I haven't notice any huge difference, except maybe more knock backs and little bit more health in enemies.

[CLime]

It's easy to see some of the differences if you just start a new game, level up, and toggle the difficulty while experimenting with stat increases. Nightmare obviously has a bunch of mechanical changes, but Casual, Normal, and Hard I'm pretty sure differ only in enemy stats and few other minor areas like potion availability and injury caps.

[Loc'n'lol]

So it gives a broader range of difficulty options ? Isn't that a good thing ?

[howard6039]

The bad guys seem to pick on your weaker characters much more so and HP is way higher. I went back to that room and beat it on hard I had to pull the guys into that hall way though or else i don't think i coulda done it. The high dragon took me quite a few tries as well. That resurrection glitch is quite annoying if you don't want to feel like a cheater

[Jubez187]

Normal is an action RPG. Hard-Nightmare are much more strategy based. I'm assuming that casual would be a button masher haha.

I think normal was a comfortable difficulty. This was my first time ever playing a DA game so it wasn't too hard, wasn't too easy though.

[Icy Magebane]

Hard is fun, although it feels easier the more you play the game. Just a matter of familiarity with the system, I guess. Plus, I tend to stick with the same builds every time... so it's not like I have a bunch of new powers to learn when I play.

Personally, I have no interest in Nightmare... the friendly fire just seems like it would ruin my fun, especially since Fenris one-shotted me in the Fade on Hard. I don't even want to think about what it's like on Nightmare...

[Andronic0s]

Hard is challenging enough through most of the game, but the last 2 bosses where a cakewalk for me on hard, Neither of them ever dropped me or a teammate below 75% health, maybe it was my party setup (SnS Hawke, Bethany, Anders, Merrill) but it was quite anti-climatic

[Fruit of the Doom]

I didn't notice a significant difference between Normal and Hard, at least on the PS3 version.

Casual, however, was absurdly easy.

[Roxlimn]

Fruit of the Doom:

Use the Staff of Parthalan. Get additional +fire damage items. Set the game difficulty on Normal. If you use Fireball on that setting, you will notice that it obliterates most Critters in one hit that it targets through most of Act 1. It will not behave that way consistently on Hard.

[Choyrt]

I honestly haven't played it on normal, only hard so far (oh GOD the Arishok). I suspect it would have better if they renamed the difficulty settings to:

beginner
novice
veteran
expert

because that way we'd have less predetermination when selecting difficulty. If Bioware had done that, I bet a majority of these threads would never exist.

[Fruit of the Doom]

Roxlimn wrote...

Fruit of the Doom:

Use the Staff of Parthalan. Get additional +fire damage items. Set the game difficulty on Normal. If you use Fireball on that setting, you will notice that it obliterates most Critters in one hit that it targets through most of Act 1. It will not behave that way consistently on Hard.

Why are you telling me this in this topic?

Regardless, DUH.  Of course, Fireball is stronger if you turn down the difficulty level.  Everything is stronger on lower difficulty levels...

And seriously... the Staff of Parthalan?  It's only useful in Act 1, and Bonny Lem sells a better staff with a higher fire AND cold damage bonus during Act 1.

[Roxlimn]

Fruit of the Doom:

The same thing applies to Chain Lightning, but I thought you might have been interested in Fireball more. You said you didn't notice the difference. I found both settings easy, but Normal is substantially easier because you obliterate enemies with virtually every activated ability.

This means that you either didn't actually play Normal, so you shouldn't really be making that comparison, or you're just that unobservant, so I pointed out a specific instance that you can replicate and execute in your own game.

Or you could just be participating in showing off your epeen, which I'm not interested in discussing.

You can purchase the Staff of Primal Order at Bonny Lenn, but it's not a cost-effective purchase.  You can always switch to Apostate's Courage at any time (even in battle) and the damage bonus is large enough to totally dominate on Normal.

Modifié par Roxlimn, 04 avril 2011 - 03:22 .

[Fruit of the Doom]

Roxlimn wrote...

Fruit of the Doom:

The same thing applies to Chain Lightning, but I thought you might have been interested in Fireball more. You said you didn't notice the difference. I found both settings easy, but Normal is substantially easier because you obliterate enemies with virtually every activated ability.

This means that you either didn't actually play Normal, so you shouldn't really be making that comparison, or you're just that unobservant, so I pointed out a specific instance that you can replicate and execute in your own game.

Or you could just be participating in showing off your epeen, which I'm not interested in discussing.

You can purchase the Staff of Primal Order at Bonny Lenn, but it's not a cost-effective purchase.  You can always switch to Apostate's Courage at any time (even in battle) and the damage bonus is large enough to totally dominate on Normal.

At this point I don't know what you are even talking about any more.  The thread was about Fireball being underpowered.

Turn down the difficulty setting to Casual and twirl your Staff of Parthalan about Act I all you want.  I don't give a ****.