Rate the game’s difficulty on a scale of 1 to 10

akl77

In general, in your opinion.
If you’re to recommend the game to others, would you rate the game as easy or difficult.

JD2013

Depends what you are doing.

Overland PVE? Easy peasy.
Dungeons? Mostly very easy.
Vet Dungeons? Mostly very easy.
Trials? Little more difficult.
Vet Trials? Little more difficult than that.
PvP? Depends on how many in your zergs

Making a general sweeping statement about the difficulty of the game is disingenuous. Different things in the game have different levels of difficulty.

ArchMikem

6

Generalizing the difficulty of the entire game is very, er, difficult. You have to take into account what gear you're wearing, how much game time you've experienced, how many Champion Points you have, if any.

For a new player with 0CP and basic gear sets, I'd rate the base game an 8.

For post-Level 50 character earning CP and wearing gear such as Hundings and Julianos, and they've spent the time going through their Alliance questline and the main story or any of the DLC/Chapters, I'd drop it down to a 4.

Point is, for the uninitiated casual, the game can be a giant struggle. For the experienced with hundreds of Champion Points, it can be a cake walk.

VaranisArano

PVP - steepest learning curve in the game

PVE - difficulty is inversely proportional to your DPS and knowledge of mechanics (or the DPS of your group, for tanks and healers)

zaria

Poll does not make sense: is this about overland content or vet trials?

redspecter23

This is highly dependent on the content you're doing.

Overland - 1
Normal Non DLC Dungeons - 3
Normal DLC Dungeons - 4
Veteran Non DLC Dungeons - 5
Veteran DLC Dungeons - 8
Normal Trials - 4
Veteran Trials - 8 to 10

Of course that's just my opinion and there would be some variation within those categories as well. I would find it hard to rate pvp formats on difficulty as that's more based on factors outside of your control including the skill level and population of your opponents.

akl77

7

redspecter23 wrote: »

This is highly dependent on the content you're doing.

Overland - 1
Normal Non DLC Dungeons - 3
Normal DLC Dungeons - 4
Veteran Non DLC Dungeons - 5
Veteran DLC Dungeons - 8
Normal Trials - 4
Veteran Trials - 8 to 10

Of course that's just my opinion and there would be some variation within those categories as well. I would find it hard to rate pvp formats on difficulty as that's more based on factors outside of your control including the skill level and population of your opponents.

Exactly, isn’t this extremely unbalanced? The game can vary from 1 to 10 just by different contents, shouldn’t the developers balance the games difficulty instead of the classes.
For example dark souls is a difficult game, if you suck you can’t progress to the end.
But eso, the normal is farrrrr tooooo easy, and hard contents are wayyy more difficult, we need balance.

redspecter23

akl77 wrote: »

redspecter23 wrote: »

This is highly dependent on the content you're doing.

Overland - 1
Normal Non DLC Dungeons - 3
Normal DLC Dungeons - 4
Veteran Non DLC Dungeons - 5
Veteran DLC Dungeons - 8
Normal Trials - 4
Veteran Trials - 8 to 10

Of course that's just my opinion and there would be some variation within those categories as well. I would find it hard to rate pvp formats on difficulty as that's more based on factors outside of your control including the skill level and population of your opponents.

Exactly, isn’t this extremely unbalanced? The game can vary from 1 to 10 just by different contents, shouldn’t the developers balance the games difficulty instead of the classes.
For example dark souls is a difficult game, if you suck you can’t progress to the end.
But eso, the normal is farrrrr tooooo easy, and hard contents are wayyy more difficult, we need balance.

I suppose it depends on how you look at it. From your point of view, you are exactly right. However, I prefer to look at it as having different types of content that you progress though. You start with easy overland content and move to normal dungeons and normal trials. As you gain more skill, you move up to vet content then if you want to, you can move on to harder progression content like vet DLC dungeons, vet arenas and vet trials.

You could have normal, medium, hard and elite overland content as well as normal, medium, hard and elite dungeons and so on, but this is not the way they've chosen to approach progression in this game.

Sylvermynx

Well, it's pretty darn hard all around for me. This is directly attributable to satellite ping of 2+ seconds....

MooseKnuckles88

Depends

acw37162

8

Overwhelming at first.

PVE overland loosens up relatively quickly.

A couple of world bosses and public dungeons will cause you issues well into medium CP.

Dungeons relatively easy until you get into hard mode even a few of the original dungeons are problematic PUGING through midling CP

Trials and hard mode DLC are not friendly especially in PUG groups or low to mid CP.

The learning for PVP is super steep and unles you Zerg surf neither rewarding or enjoyable.

The barrier to entry into PVP is not high but the barrier to anything approaching fun play and not getting randomly stomped into the ground repeatedly is very high.

Jaraal

Dying because of lag: 1

Soloing Halls of Fabrication: 10

CompM4s

10 - difficult

The game is balanced in the sense of targeting a wide variety of players experience and skill. Something for everyone.

Reistr_the_Unbroken

9

9 because Ice-heart. Dropped the dlc bc I couldn’t beat him

logarifmik

3

It covers the whole range from 1 to 10, comrade. But if you are asking about "average temperature in the hospital", I'd say it's close to 3.

Hoolielulu

5

I gave a nice 5 average because depending on what I'm doing or trying to do it's either hard or easy.

PVP is a unique setting, though. Killing another player is hard, but dying by another player's hands is easy.

Androconium

I misread your opening post.

Kiralyn2000

akl77 wrote: »

redspecter23 wrote: »

This is highly dependent on the content you're doing.

Overland - 1
Normal Non DLC Dungeons - 3
Normal DLC Dungeons - 4
Veteran Non DLC Dungeons - 5
Veteran DLC Dungeons - 8
Normal Trials - 4
Veteran Trials - 8 to 10

Of course that's just my opinion and there would be some variation within those categories as well. I would find it hard to rate pvp formats on difficulty as that's more based on factors outside of your control including the skill level and population of your opponents.

Exactly, isn’t this extremely unbalanced? The game can vary from 1 to 10 just by different contents, shouldn’t the developers balance the games difficulty instead of the classes.
For example dark souls is a difficult game, if you suck you can’t progress to the end.
But eso, the normal is farrrrr tooooo easy, and hard contents are wayyy more difficult, we need balance.

No, that seems kind of normal for an MMO. There's a progression of difficulty through a progression of content. Not everyone is expected to do everything.
(heck, even single-player games have things like that. Normal playthrough, NewGame+ playthrough, optional "post-game" uber bosses & dungeons, etc.)

Androconium

Sylvermynx wrote: »

Well, it's pretty darn hard all around for me. This is directly attributable to satellite ping of 2+ seconds....

That has more impact when described as 2000ms

At what point does it turn from ping to pong?

VaranisArano

akl77 wrote: »

redspecter23 wrote: »

This is highly dependent on the content you're doing.

Overland - 1
Normal Non DLC Dungeons - 3
Normal DLC Dungeons - 4
Veteran Non DLC Dungeons - 5
Veteran DLC Dungeons - 8
Normal Trials - 4
Veteran Trials - 8 to 10

Of course that's just my opinion and there would be some variation within those categories as well. I would find it hard to rate pvp formats on difficulty as that's more based on factors outside of your control including the skill level and population of your opponents.

Exactly, isn’t this extremely unbalanced? The game can vary from 1 to 10 just by different contents, shouldn’t the developers balance the games difficulty instead of the classes.
For example dark souls is a difficult game, if you suck you can’t progress to the end.
But eso, the normal is farrrrr tooooo easy, and hard contents are wayyy more difficult, we need balance.

It largely depends on your DPS (or your group's DPS for healers and tanks whose progression is largely gear+mechanics knowledge).

At 8-10k DPS, I could quest decently and do low DPS in most normal dungeons.

At 15k DPS, I started to rip through quest content like tissue paper and became good at normal dungeons, and capable of some vet dungeons. Trials were still out of reach.

At 25k DPS, normal dungeons are easy, vet dungeons are pretty good, and trials are within reach.

Progression is getting better gear and better at DPS rotation. If you suck (or dont practice or have bad lag or whatever) you arent going to reach a level of DPS that lets you do well at harder content.

Rain_Greyraven

5

Not going to be able to get accurate numbers mainly because most forum goers are chest thumpers and everything is always too easy.

generalmyrick

5

pve overland = 2
dungeons norm = 3
dungeons vet = 6
trials norm = 4
trials vet = 7
pvp = 9

Sylvermynx

Androconium wrote: »

Sylvermynx wrote: »

Well, it's pretty darn hard all around for me. This is directly attributable to satellite ping of 2+ seconds....

That has more impact when described as 2000ms

At what point does it turn from ping to pong?

Heh. At the point at which I actually started playing of course. Sure, I have fun, but it's not probably the sort of fun most people think of as "FUN".

Kram8ion

I think we get to choose how difficult we want it to be

kylewwefan

1 - easy

If you’re looking at this game to be the next Skyrim. Overland questing and stuff is perfectly easy enough you can be quite successful wearing heavy armor touting a S/B and Resto backbar. If you use the backbar even.

Then if you decide to get DLC stuff and do group dungeons and things the difficulty goes up significantly.

If you choose to go PvP, well that’s a completely different beast. Open world, Dueling, Group Play, Battlegrounds, etc.

Then there’s Trials. Another big learning curve and their tied into questing if you follow the quests.

Eventually you may feel bold enough to try Vet dungeons and trials. Major big learning

srfrogg23

*shrug*

It depends.

MrGarlic

5

I'm gonna say 5 because that's the mid-way point.

dem0n1k

Overland, Delves, Normal dungeons, nMA = 1/10
Craglorn group delves = 2/10
Vet Dungeons = 4/10
Type 2 Vet Dungeons, Normal trials = 5/10
DLC Vet Dungeons = 6/10
Vet Trials = 7/10
DLC Vet Trials = 9/10
PVP = x/10 coz it's variable.

idk

JD2013 wrote: »

Depends what you are doing.

Overland PVE? Easy peasy.
Dungeons? Mostly very easy.
Vet Dungeons? Mostly very easy.
Trials? Little more difficult.
Vet Trials? Little more difficult than that.
PvP? Depends on how many in your zergs

Making a general sweeping statement about the difficulty of the game is disingenuous. Different things in the game have different levels of difficulty.

This, OP left out any sense of context. Heck, without that the poll does not even offer entertainment value.

Zelos

1 - easy

Honestly I can't find a hard part if this game over 5, it's very casual with no endgame. Someone could grind to cp160 in a single day and get a set of gold armor within 2 days, and then it's just grind all the way up to cp810 or whatever it is. Or just run the same vet trials over and over.

ccfeeling

5

I rated 5 because I have 200+ ping at all time