To anyone thinking the game is too easy wait until you "cross the border"

[Mike]

So like many people I have been enjoying the game but at the same time I felt the game was too easy for many reasons like monsters having too little health, the huge damage you can get on weak points, and overall nothing really punishing bad play. Well that was until I finally got to Battahl and boy do enemies FINALLY put up a challenge.

Goblins are much tankier, wolves now actually hurt, and don't get me started on the surians that for the first time in 40 hours enemies finally about wiped me an my entire party.

So to any who say the game is too easy progress to the other half of the map to really put your skills to the test lol. While I see this as a good thing, for a game that touts "adaptive difficulty" early game rarely gets hard unless you go out of your way to fight a drake or something. So maybe everyone has just be playing overleveled characters with out progressing the main story much.

[Purple Chronic]

I hope so!

Level 25 right now about to head to Battahl but deciding to finish exploring the northern portion of the map above the Capitol. Breezing through everything RN because I scour every corner and thus get hella XP.

Was thinking of swapping to Archer vocation while finishing up the northern part to maybe make it more challenging.

[Shield]

Honestly every zone in every DD, even DA, starts off challenging and pretty rapidly tapers off. Battahl is no exception. It's pretty hard when you get in there, but eases up after you buy some gear, then everything becomes a speedbump once you outlevel it.

Then you NG and realize everything is still a speedbump and the game has a handful of challenging encounters left.

[Trip]

I'd just picked that time to swap to spearhand so was running in there with vocation lvl 1 and was going "Dang, mystic spearhand suck!" (they don't) by how bad I was suddenly getting beat up.

[Mike]

Originally posted by owlBear:

Honestly every zone in every DD, even DA, starts off challenging and pretty rapidly tapers off. Battahl is no exception. It's pretty hard when you get in there, but eases up after you buy some gear, then everything becomes a speedbump once you outlevel it.

Then you NG and realize everything is still a speedbump and the game has a handful of challenging encounters left.

Yeah as I get stronger I'm having less issues, but still they take more of a beating in that zone so it makes combat funner imo.

I can't speak on NG+ as I have not got there yet so please no spoilers ;)

[Izlude]

Early game is the hardest part if you are a mage because you keep encountering so many golems that take almost 0 damage from anything a mage can do. regular attack on medals does almost nothing and magic wont do damage either really. So its basically just waiting on pawns to kill them for you which takes like 20 minutes. Meawhile basically every other enemy in the game is very easily killed by mages which is why lategame is easier for mages.