Difficulty Level

[Hagbard Celine]

Other than play experience, is there any game benefit to ramping up the difficulty? Better loot/xp etc?

[Elveone]

Nope, it is the same loot and XP on all difficulty levels.

[virpyre]

Story
Enemies deal 25% less damage.
Enemies receive 25% bonus damage.
Health Regenerate's Overtime
You don't need to worry about gear.
No requirement for Mechanics.

Normal
Enemies deal normal damage.
Enemies receive no bonus damage.
You need a basic understanding of gear.
Basic Understanding of Mechanic's

Challenging
Enemies deal +25% more damage.
Enemies have increased resistance to damage.
Gear & Stat Focused Combat
In-depth Understanding of Mechanic's

Heroic
Enemies deal +50% more damage.
Enemies have a +25% increased resistance to damage.
Builds are Required
Heavy Gear & Stat Focused Combat
Dodge, Parry, and Block Mechanic's required.

[Greumch]

Originally posted by Hagbard Celine:

Other than play experience, is there any game benefit to ramping up the difficulty? Better loot/xp etc?

Honnestly, I dont know about loot/xp.

But even Heroic is far too easy to really enjoy the game in the first half dozen hours.
Worst thing is : if you play Coop and bring that tankhealing character, you just have to roll your head on the keyboard to win everything, even in Heroic.

For now, this game has a balance problem, at least in early game.
I have lost my mate on this game. The gameplay was OK but whatever we did, it would always end to be an easy win.

[AltraWolf]

Originally posted by Greumch:

Originally posted by Hagbard Celine:

Other than play experience, is there any game benefit to ramping up the difficulty? Better loot/xp etc?

Honnestly, I dont know about loot/xp.

But even Heroic is far too easy to really enjoy the game in the first half dozen hours.
Worst thing is : if you play Coop and bring that tankhealing character, you just have to roll your head on the keyboard to win everything, even in Heroic.

For now, this game has a balance problem, at least in early game.
I have lost my mate on this game. The gameplay was OK but whatever we did, it would always end to be an easy win.

Well to be honest any game in the very beginning is super easy. The devs know and see this too at least from what I gathered in their last ama they had. Like if you look at the list of things they are considering and potentially will add since people want it is a new harder difficulty, and have the enemies scale with you so that every zone becomes viable. That's not including balance fixes or other things they might have planned to help that out.

But to answer OP question, just like what the first two answers above are. You only play on the harder difficulty if that's what you prefer. There is no change to the loot or exp.

[Johnnie Walker]

higher difficulty having now rewards sucks. just scrap it all together and make some endgame difficulty stuff

[Cpaw]

Amazing :) Story mode it is then Thanks for asking and replys.

[SOLIDAge]

We'll be introducing a new difficulty in the future that will indeed give additional rewards, but for now it's not in place due to how we wanted people to experience the game.