Changing Difficulty mid game

[Raminbat]

hello there.
im on my first playthrough and just finished lost chapel ( and the two kinda side bosses i suppose before the cave ) , it all seems very easy to me, im fairly familiar with crpg ( but not dnd ) and i use everything in my arsenal from buffs and potions and study the enemies i come across to use what i have accordingly, and i find myself one shoting every major encounter, i havent lost any fight yet so i was thinking should i change to CORE mid game or just start a new playthrough ?

[Razer]

You can change mid playthrough just fine, unless you want the achievement for completing the game on difficulty XYZ. What difficulty are you playing on?

[Drake]

You can try core and see for yourself. If it gets out of hand either go back to normal or daring or you could always restart on core.

Core, while not that much difficult once you get the hang of it, requires certain habits, like having a good party synergy, counters ready (like dispel magic, CCs like grease, phantasmal web etc.), and speccing your chars. The order and type of feats is important at level up, most build are fine, but you still need a build that makes sense, like you want to build an enchantment DC caster, it's very viable, but you need to spec everything for it.

[Deo]

Core is basically "normal" difficulty - how the game designed and should be played by most new players, generally speaking. Enemy stats and spells by core rules.

I'd say - try Hard first, see how it goes. Then you can reduce to Core.

[Raminbat]

Originally posted by Razer:

You can change mid playthrough just fine, unless you want the achievement for completing the game on difficulty XYZ. What difficulty are you playing on?

i see, im playing on Normal atm, so if i want to get teh achievement for core i have to restart.

[Razer]

Originally posted by Raminbat:

Originally posted by Razer:

You can change mid playthrough just fine, unless you want the achievement for completing the game on difficulty XYZ. What difficulty are you playing on?

i see, im playing on Normal atm, so if i want to get teh achievement for core i have to restart.

Yes. But honestly who cares about achievements. A virtual pat on the back you did something digital?

[Raminbat]

Originally posted by Drake:

You can try core and see for yourself. If it gets out of hand either go back to normal or daring or you could always restart on core.

Core, while not that much difficult once you get the hang of it, requires certain habits, like having a good party synergy, counters ready (like dispel magic, CCs like grease, phantasmal web etc.), and speccing your chars. The order and type of feats is important at level up, most build are fine, but you still need a build that makes sense, like you want to build an enchantment DC caster, it's very viable, but you need to spec everything for it.

thanks for the detailed reply, thats mostly the reason i want to change to core, i see alot of spells and feats, especially CC's that i dont use at all and when i use i feel like i didnt NEED it to win the fight, i do let the game spec my companions and i after seeing how easy stuff is i feel like i want to get involved more on my team composition. i might check CORE out with drezen and see how it goes,

[Raminbat]

Originally posted by Deo:

Core is basically "normal" difficulty - how the game designed and should be played by most new players, generally speaking. Enemy stats and spells by core rules.

I'd say - try Hard first, see how it goes. Then you can reduce to Core.

i kinda got the idea about it when first choosing difficulties, but thought the game would be super hard on it since i had similar experiences with pillars. ill look into hard as well.

[Raminbat]

Originally posted by Razer:

Originally posted by Raminbat:

i see, im playing on Normal atm, so if i want to get teh achievement for core i have to restart.

Yes. But honestly who cares about achievements. A virtual pat on the back you did something digital?

yeah i agree, especially that i dont want to do the whole kenabres all of over again since i just did it recently.

[Razer]

Originally posted by Raminbat:

Originally posted by Deo:

Core is basically "normal" difficulty - how the game designed and should be played by most new players, generally speaking. Enemy stats and spells by core rules.

I'd say - try Hard first, see how it goes. Then you can reduce to Core.

i kinda got the idea about it when first choosing difficulties, but thought the game would be super hard on it since i had similar experiences with pillars. ill look into hard as well.

Core can be pretty brutal to newer players. It does require having good game knowledge. Do note there are some optional encounters with huge difficulty spikes along the way. So don't get disheartened when you meet a CR 27 enemy with your level 9 party. You can leave those for later or cheese your way through if you know what to do.

Once you leave Kenabres you have freedom of doing quests until the end of Act 3. Do take note of specifically quests that will cancel at end of an Act (with the hourglass icon) Point of no return for Act 2 is going to Drezen. Point of no return for Act 3 is (I won't spoil it, but it's super obvious! :) )

[Drake]

Also, starting from core, there is no more respec available ingame. So you need to know what feats and abilities you're going to get in advance, so that you can account for the prerequisites.
Default buids won't be very effective on core, so you'll have to actually plan your party (meaning having backup saves at different points of the game in case you need to go back and redo a chapter becasue of a screw up, until you're able to predict how your party will work against most types of monsters).

Core definitely is not for fresh players. you need to figure out the ruleset first and read the feats and abilities to understand what they do.

[Razer]

Originally posted by Drake:

Also, starting from core, there is no more respec available ingame. So you need to know what feats and abilities you're going to get in advance, so that you can account for the prerequisites.
Default buids won't be very effective on core, so you'll have to actually plan your party (meaning having backup saves at different points of the game in case you need to go back and redo a chapter becasue of a screw up, until you're able to predict how your party will work against most types of monsters).

Core definitely is not for fresh players. you need to figure out the ruleset first and read the feats and abilities to understand what they do.

Good point on the respec!

[Raminbat]

Originally posted by Razer:

Originally posted by Raminbat:

i kinda got the idea about it when first choosing difficulties, but thought the game would be super hard on it since i had similar experiences with pillars. ill look into hard as well.

Core can be pretty brutal to newer players. It does require having good game knowledge. Do note there are some optional encounters with huge difficulty spikes along the way. So don't get disheartened when you meet a CR 27 enemy with your level 9 party. You can leave those for later or cheese your way through if you know what to do.

Once you leave Kenabres you have freedom of doing quests until the end of Act 3. Do take note of specifically quests that will cancel at end of an Act (with the hourglass icon) Point of no return for Act 2 is going to Drezen. Point of no return for Act 3 is (I won't spoil it, but it's super obvious! :) )

yeah i sort of figured i need to do tese time sensitive quests first, im into doing everything before going to the next main quest. regarding hard encounters ill keep that in mind that i can come back to them if they prove to difficult.

[Raminbat]

Originally posted by Drake:

Also, starting from core, there is no more respec available ingame. So you need to know what feats and abilities you're going to get in advance, so that you can account for the prerequisites.
Default buids won't be very effective on core, so you'll have to actually plan your party (meaning having backup saves at different points of the game in case you need to go back and redo a chapter becasue of a screw up, until you're able to predict how your party will work against most types of monsters).

Core definitely is not for fresh players. you need to figure out the ruleset first and read the feats and abilities to understand what they do.

i see what you mean, ill keep that in mind. thanks for the Info!