This game is way too easy

[Kotose]

Don't get me wrong, it was a lot of fun! But I bought the game and DLC just a few days ago, and by run #14 I'm already winning on Doom, with 2 revives to spare. I don't even have the last Ember Tree tier unlocked.

Freeze is broken. It's a very powerful status effect that probably lasts way too long. In particular, the Brittle Scepter (Perfect skills also freeze) makes most non-boss rooms basically free regardless of your loadout.

Honorable mention to the Rejuvenation Glove (Heal on crit), which will keep you at full health with most weapons and a reasonable amount of crit.

Are there any options for making the game harder aside from pumping the enemy damage and attack speed modifiers?

[DoomTurtleGreg]

What modifiers are you enabling to reach Doom difficulty? Some are definitely easier than others.

Ember Knights is a very beginner friendly game, for those who want to play with new players to the genre, significant others, and kids.

Enabling modifiers like Challenger, Fragile, Sealed, Doused, etc should give you a harder experience :)

[Kotose]

5 Incompetence
3 Chaos
3 Blind
1 Inflation
1 Horde
1 Hulking
1 Haste

I think I'm aiming for the 25 Difficulty weapon skins next since 25 definitely forces me to choose some harder stuff.

[Pickle Bath]

Ah classic, the pro Ember Knights player with a hidden profile

[Kotose]

Originally posted by Light Snack:

Ah classic, the pro Ember Knights player with a hidden profile

I know you're just here to scrutinize, but my profile was already public. General info and game info are both public, it was only game details that were set to friends only. Now I've made that public too, so feel free to critique whatever you were going to.

[Mahoroa]

At the risk of sounding like an elitist, the amount of difficulty modifiers you're using is low and barely an inconvenience. And looking at your achievements, you don't even have a 25 difficulty modifier clear. The game is challenging; you're just choosing not to activate the challenging modifiers.

[Denominator]

Doused (I believe this is the no rez one) makes the game a lot more challenging

[Orzeker]

Just completed a +15 run after 12 hours of gameplay and I think the difficulty is fair, used the ballista with spread shot and 2hp on hit (looks like 6hp if all arrows hit) with the relic that boost healing, I could just outheal pretty much anything.

It looks like there's a bunch of build diversity which I like, i'll look into buying the dlc and +25 run now, game is a ton of fun, glad I saved it for a moment where I had time to enjoy it.

[Mystic]

Originally posted by Kotose:

5 Incompetence
3 Chaos
3 Blind
1 Inflation
1 Horde
1 Hulking
1 Haste

I think I'm aiming for the 25 Difficulty weapon skins next since 25 definitely forces me to choose some harder stuff.

Not to sound like that guy, but you're playing on pretty weak modifiers, tbh. This is too easy. Up hulking, haste and horde to max & see if you can win, then.

[iamtheblight]

Thank you for making this game beginner friendly. I'm an old man and it's plenty difficult on Doom

[Miseducation]

yea, and it's more fun that way, personally. some people don't enjoy being stomped just for the sake of it and dealing with 'git gud', specially when you got a job and you wanna do a run or two every night and, most important, have fun.
difficult modifiers are there for people who desire a harder experience, I activated some of them myself, even.

[pagmails]

So, you had a lot of fun... so, it wasn't enough just having a lot of fun?