It depends on content and player. If you are a bow-auto-attack-dungeon-pug everything is 10+ but if you have some knowledge about the game there is no hard content bedside RNG or Lag oneshots

Overland 1
Normal Dungeons/Trials 1
Vet non-DLC Dungeons 1
Vet DLC Dungeons without RNG oneshot mechanics 1-3
Vet DLC Dungoens with RNG oneshot mechanics 4-6
Vet old Trials 1-3
Vet new Trials 4-6

4-6 because it require class/gameplay awareness and group play - no content for bow-auto-attack-dungeon-pugs...

Difficulty is subjective, it depends on your level, gear, play style, difficulty selected for dungeons, experience of playing rpgs and understanding of the games mechanics.

The more you play, progress and get to grips with the mechanics the easier the game becomes.

Overland: 1
Normal Dungeons: 1
Vet (non DLC) Dungeons: 3
Vet DLC Dungeons: 6
VMA: 5
Normal Trials: 1
Vet Trials: 6


Nothing in this game is anywhere near a 10 and if you just expose yourself to the content it becomes easy quickly as there is rarely a dynamic element to the content you are playing with one exception VMA stage 7 mushrooms.

The game is pretty easy, but reading the patch notes can be very difficult sometimes

Give an 11 for vMA

No but seriously, as many others have stated, there is always a piece of very difficult content for everyone. When you start at lvl 3 with white gear (if you found all your gear...), facing 2 mobs at the same time in overland will be difficult, even more for stam toons without heal on dps skills.

Then you try normal dungeons. Now this is biased, because 99% of the time the group will be carried by a high lvl player. But if you grouped with other lvl 20 friends, you would find it pretty difficult.

Then normal trials, and even if you get carried by a good guild, you will die a couple of times.

Then vet dungeons, which have an ok difficulty spike, but can still be carried by good players

Then vet DLC dungeons, which have one of the biggest spike. Everyone must pull it's weight. If you only have 1-2 ppl carrying this, you gonna wipe time after time.

Then vMA. HUUUUGE spike. Believe me, you gonna die. And, for the first time since you were lvl 3 with white gear, you can't rely on other ppl to carry you, even to help you. You need to be 3 roles at once, a little bit of tank, a little bit of heal and a little bit of dps.

Then vet trials. I didn't even tried those yet, so I can't speak, but it seems violent.

Then, finally, vet trials HM, leaderboards, achievements and all that. Even pros have a hard time completing this. I think that only very recently the first xbox group managed to get gryphon heart achievement.

So, wherever your progression is on your character, there is always difficult content for you to face. My only regret is that as you progress, overland and questing becomes trivial. Questing is genuinely one of the best content this game proposes, but when you kill the last boss of every expansion with a couple of light attacks, imersion is difficult.

Zelos wrote: »

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.

So you say that you got flawless conqueror on you first vMA clear? Or that you got gryphon heart 1 week after summerset was out? Come on, if you find the game too easy, it's because you chose to do easy content.

idk wrote: »

Zelos wrote: »

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.

@Zelos

You found vAS+2 and vCR+3 that easy? Granted, many thing vMA is pretty easy these days.

Those are not the majority of the game.

It’s a good balance of content. Overland is fairly easy going - though not when you just start. Dungeons are a good challenge and trials are hard hard hard.

I wouldn’t change it much, definitely not overland, I like it to be about story not spending hours battling mudcrabs. I would make trials more accessible though.

Its difficult in the way studying law is difficult; easy in the way that engineering is difficult.

There is alot of information to assimilate and put to use, but nothing individually difficult; besides VMA on a stam toon.

10!!!!! Only because I like big numbers

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.

Exactly. Maybe try making another poll that accounts for the type of content people like to do? Otherwise, the results could be thrown off.

I picked 7 because the hardest content seems impossible for me to be able to do with the time that I have, but the normal questlines seem almost too easy. I remember struggling a lot without cp with the normal questline though.

it's an mmo, not rocket surgery

There is a really hard openworld quest somewhere i forget where, but basically its a mage daedra that spawns boss daedra over and over and you must kill them all then the mage.. I died so much to that..

Wish i could remember where that was in the world, i know i had to climb up cliffs to get to it.