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[mickey111]

Last time I found a Bioware game teeth grindingly hard was baldurs gate 2. Since that game, I've had heaps of time to get good at the RPG genre, and 10 years later I was able to walk through DA:O on nightmare, hardly ever finding myself stuck and wondering how to beat or go around my enemies. Basically in RPGs, I've picked up this habit where I play just a small part of the game (I reached Lothering first play through) to figure it out, ditch that play through, and then restart with a much clearer idea of how to progress from beginning to end DA:O.

 

Found out that dw rogues incredibly fast attacks combined with weapon enhancments and runes had more potential than any other weapon class ever could, so  Ibuilt one of them. I scripted alistair to just run at the nearest mobs to attack them, and periodically use stuff like taunt, shield wall and drink health at half health. Gave morrigan some healing and buffs for me and zevran, had her heal Alistair at 3/4 health because resources aren't an issue at all, so why not...

 

The things that made DA:O trivial, even on nightmare, was that weapons weren't balanced very well mostly because daggers are the most deadly weapons by far. Crafting was available BEFORE lothering, and the game had enough ingredients to fill an entire walk in refridgerator with lyrium and health potions.

 

The enemy AI was actually half decent, but they didn't do much damage to a properly equipped Alistair, and Alistair could manipulate them like a puppet master with his crowd control abilities as the enemies just bash and/or chase him around, ignoring the person healing him and both the dw rogues stabbing them.

[Nathair Nimheil]

I find playing a DD Rogue on NM with FF turned on is fairly challenging, occasionally.

 

ymmv.

[DemGeth]

If you max min not that hard.

And da:o pre patch was brutal, post not so much.

[Fiery Phoenix]

I personally don't think it's an easy game at all. Not even on Casual.

 

Manageable? Yes. But not 'easy'.

[Eelectrica]

I'm finding it extremely easy on normal mode. My inquisitor is a mage though.
one wipe so far when my level 5 party wandered into a fade tear unleashing lvl12 demons. Even then we came close. Now we're level 13 and rolling things a couple of levels higher than us.

[XDamienDaKillaX]

I find it easy. Never game overed on normal. Never overlevelled. I have a tank, two hander, mage and rogue, typical setup.

[escapePlan]

Nm ranged rogue, fights are fairly challenging but I'm not far in. Most trouble I've had is due to health pot limitation and respawning groups of mobs in hinterlands.

[GamerGeek87]

Id say its similar to the previous games, meaning easy if you min max/know what your'e doing, Im currently level 12 and its starting to become quite easy for me on nightmare and while I have a fair bit of experience with this genre Im by no means an expert.

[AllThatJazz]

I'm playing on hard with FF on and am level 9 at the moment - largely not too difficult, though I'm not exactly stomping on everything either. Unless I engage with mobs above my level, when it becomes pretty tricky. I tend to only use the tac cam for boss battles, and not always then. I usually let the party AI do its own thing, which seems sufficient for the most part, I only occasionally have to micromanage. Neither my Inquisitor nor companions are min-maxed, for whatever that's worth.

 

Respawning hasn't been much of an issue for me, except in Hafter's Wood area of the Hinterlands. Respawn rates there seem crazily fast and literally on top of my party a few times, I'm wondering if that's a bit of a bug.

Modifié par AllThatJazz, 28 novembre 2014 - 11:10 .

[Moondoggie]

Depends what you are fighting and what difficulty you are on. I find some of the Dragon fights have been tough along with fighting enemy rogues and their OP backstab which targets mages but most fights are pretty standard take down ranged first then melee mobs then gang up on the most powerful enemy last.

[Manki]

It depends somewhat on how hard you make it.

 

Example, my games on Nightmare are probably a bit harder since I don't use Tac Mode ever. Using Tac Mode I'm sure I could breeze through areas.

 

FF is broken, but all it does is restrict the abilities you use, so, that being said turning it on will provide more challenge for you, with the same difficulty of enemies and them not being affected by FF.

 

You could also make it a habit of trying to kill enemies beyond your level, this also would provide a harder challenge.

 

All in all, you can make the game hard via self restrictions quite easily. However it sounds like you arent a player to do this, so what I can say is this.

 

DA:O (post Mods)  > DA:I > DA:2 > DA:O (pre Mods) imho.

[mickey111]

It depends somewhat on how hard you make it.

 

 

That is true for most things. Try tying your shoes with one hand behind your back.

 

 

are there a lot of higher level areas? I think I'll try it that way.

[Lord Bolton]

It's easy if you play as knight enchanter. I've just killed lvl 19 dragon on lvl 16. Alone. On hard. I think I could do that even on nightmare difficulty.

[Maverick827]

The list of Nightmare difficulty for Dragon Age games, from hardest to easist:

 

1.  DA2

2.  DAO

3.  DAI

 

DAI could surpass DAO if you take into account combating the controls and party AI.

[Keithian]

Everybody is going to have a different opinion. This is my first console game in 10 years. I'm playing right now on Normal. At first I found the game hard as I adjusted to learning the combat and the control..and the game in general. Now for the normal wandering NPCs I find it easy so far..but everyone once in a while I have ran into a few dangerous areas that overpowered me. I like that. I could see myself playing through to the end and trying the next harder level because by then I would have mastered normal :-). Just play on whatever feels comfortable. Normal to me for now feels just right :-).

[Munktor]

Game is mickey mouse on anything below hard.

[escapePlan]

Not a massive fan of the soft - enemy scaling though...

[Degs29]

Playing on hard, and finding it a decent challenge.

[Majestic Jazz]

The game is too easy for me on Normal. I am about to put it on Hard. 

[Jester]

Nightmare can be brutal, especially when it comes to major encounters and bosses.

Once you have some Masterwork gear and more abilities it gets easier, but it'll still be challanging (it's harder than DA:O was in general, possibly harder, but more fair, than DA2). 

 

The list of Nightmare difficulty for Dragon Age games, from hardest to easist:

 

1.  DA2

2.  DAO

3.  DAI

 

DAI could surpass DAO if you take into account combating the controls and party AI.

Oh c'mon... DA:O is a cakewalk compared to DA:I. There is barely any really difficult battle - everything goes down accoriding to the same scheme - Tank in - Taunt - Force Field - attack/AOE spam. 

DA2 is actually difficult, but 95% of the difficulty comes from sheer number of enemies and mid-combat spawning (as well as completely broken FF). 

 

You didn't have problems with major fights in Inquisition? 

[StingingVelvet]

I'm playing on hard and it offers a moderate challenge if you're fighting mobs the same level as you or very close to it. Dragons I need to be a couple levels above or so to defeat. Most of the time I am over-leveled for who I am fighting though, which makes the game seem very easy.

[hexaligned]

The game gets much easier as you progress, I'm level 13 playing on hard and I'm just obliterating enemies at this point.  I have a feeling I'm going to have to go back to my DAO play style, and just not use a tank (or at least not use the taunts), as enemies are seemingly incapable of doing even a little bit of health damage to Blackwall at this point.  

 

I'd turn it up to NIghtmare if there wasn't that achievement for completing the game without changing the difficulty setting, but oh well, there is always the next playthrough.

[RamonNZ]

I started the game on hard setting, and messed around until level 6 or so. It was really easy unless you wondered into a level 12 area. I did the typical thing at that point and restarted on nightmare.

 

On nightmare it was a different ball game. Your tank would get chopped down in a few hits, and guard suddenly was nearly useless. So it was taunt and kite for a while there.

 

Then suddenly at about level 7 or so (with better armor) the tank is able to take the hits, and you can speed up the barrier spell cooldown, and have static cage, and 12 potions, and it's almost easy again. Also having good strategies (not just random skill spamming like on easier difficulties) and knowing your strengths and weaknesses at that point.

 

Punching outside of your weight class makes the game fun though and is good for exp. Periodically get raped, but that's partly the AI needing micromanaging, and partly fighting inappropriate monsters

 

You have to make a deliberate choice sometimes not to exploit the weakness of enemy AI that might just stand there because of some invisible wall in their programming and let you range them to death.

[Rasande]

Not very hard, depends on class. Say if you spec your Knight-Enchanter mage properly you can solo everything on Nightmare without even trying but if you play with combinations that aren't completely borked and FF on it can be fairly challangeing. It's easier than the previous games though.

[Fantazm1978]

I've been playing on bog-standard easiest of the easy and I've only come close to dying once, and that was when I got attacked by 2 giants. A couple of one-**** KO's within about 3 seconds of each other left me running away as quickly as possible. I'm level 19, just been to see Imshael who wasn't difficult himself, but getting there was a bit of a slog.

 

Other than that I've pretty much ripped my way through people. So on easy, it is easy.