What is the hardest difficulty to pug?

[Burba]

Well we all know Auric Damnation is supposed to be the hardest. However there are good players up there. At what difficulty do you get the worst mix of bad,new or underleveled players and hard and numerous enemies?

[Lord Farquad]

You get lvl 30's on malice that rage quit. so id reckon malice lmao. But for the most enemies, heresy is a decent place to start, with also bad players that ragequit

[Lain]

damnation it feels like to me is

heresy is easy enough that even with a pretty meh team its very doable

auric damnation pretty much everyone knows what they are doing and do it well

malice is easy modez

[Crukih]

Definitely regular damnation. Will have my whole team die on me whilst I’m desperately trying to kill 20 elites and specials solo and keep the run going.

[Zef]

Regular Damnation.

You have malicebro's, noobs, pro's , and just casuals all thrown together.

[LAstHongKOnger]

game is easy even on auric damnation maestorm after skill tree update , u can win by spamming if u have the right build

[Horror]

Malice , on weekends, with a new character.

[Bug Guy]

Heresy in my experience has tended to have people who are high enough level to scrape by on Malice but dont have enough fundamental skill yet to deal with the sharper increase in damage on heresy. Also people who are trying to powerlevel but know they cant handle damnation and hope they can get carried through.
Lots of mixed bag of skill. Damnation has had some stinkers but people seem to be pretty solid players in there

[[AJSA]MeloDeath]

High intenisty Heresy and normal damnation its a 20% chance to get an awful team lol

[suboptimal]

Originally posted by Zef:

Regular Damnation.

You have malicebro's, noobs, pro's , and just casuals all thrown together.

This is the alchemy for a properly chaotic and fun experience.

[Arani]

Originally posted by Burba:

Well we all know Auric Damnation is supposed to be the hardest. However there are good players up there. At what difficulty do you get the worst mix of bad,new or underleveled players and hard and numerous enemies?

I mean there's really no other option than heresy. Besides its reputation and the issue being logically sound (stepping stone for new players, lower level requirement, penances, etc), malice is easily soloable to any experienced players.

Sure some bad builds could still fall victim to a soundless dog etc, but the whole sound issue comes from the ultra aggressive spawns in T5 HISTG for example so it's not likely to happen at all. Besides, malice has a fraction of as many enemies as T5 each with half the hp, so you could easily go with some weird CC-heavy build that would still do more than enough dmg to wipe the whole screen solo.

So yeah. Imma go with heresy here.

[Crystal meth enthusiast]

Try more Malice. Than you will relax on Damnation....

[Draetor]

Standard Damnation has a good chance to get awful players who think they are good enough for it.

Auric Damnation has the best chance of getting decent players; however, you will get the few who can't even handle the first battle/horde, or you'll get the very good player who thinks they are so good, they can run away from the team with their Zealot knife build and either die themselves, or spawn in enough enemies they just run past, so their team get sandwiched and die. Then they will leave the game.