WOW, this game is unfair hard

[Desmond]

is it normal that you die all the time on normal difficulty? this is no fun when you have to fight most time 10 or more mobs at the sime time that kill you and your ghost in a few seconds.

[8-Bit Ostfriese]

yes, its normal.

[kuroishi_x]

It's a reason why you don't play it on hardcore difficulty. If you get better at game the game becamo more fair and this is the way the games should be. But on the harder difficulties game can throw some pretty unfair things at you, but at the normal you shouldn't have too much problem if you have some basic idea about crowd control and easy strategies like that.

[datguy13]

That would be why you only lose a percentage of your total gold upon respawn as a penalty for dying. What would have been unfair is if they had forced you to do a corpse-run to reclaim your equipment or docked you XP for each death. ;)

[mikeydsc]

Also, be careful going into new areas that you dont agro the whole area. Have to be careful to pull a few at a time so you dont get overwhelmed.

[Lv 20 Bolting Bot]

I played on Heroic the first time and didn't feel it was unfair or even that hard at any point. I'm assuming you're playing melee if you're dying a lot. 10 or more enemies are also not that many in this genre, you practically reach those numbers in the tutorials. Katarina is, especially before the Blue Blood DLC, a horrible tank, I found that putting her in non-fighting mode and kiting with guns/magic was optimal. Melee builds are trickier in the beginning but get easier when you build up your tankiness. I don't know how much easier normal is, but as long as you're careful and not just running around and building your character randomly you shouldn't have too much trouble.

[Zephkiel]

Depend of your class.

Melee = easy
Mechanic = easiest with pets
Thaumaturge = average - hard
Hunter with guns = impossible at low level and on a difficulty level higher than hard

[datguy13]

Originally posted by Zephkiel:

Hunter with guns = impossible at low level and on a difficulty level higher than hard

lol... I do almost all of my environmental and quest bug testing while on a ranged Hunter build. I currently have nine characters of various levels using this type of build.

[Geotarrr]

I agree that ranged Dexterity-based Hunter is very difficult on Hardcore / Heroic.

It took me 230+ hours to make through the game, with my self-imposed rules that is (without respeccing, without rage / power-ups, without using items and skills that contradict my rules).

But it's not impossible, it just require patience and careful (complementing, i.e. not random) character-development.

[Zephkiel]

Originally posted by datguy13:

Originally posted by Zephkiel:

Hunter with guns = impossible at low level and on a difficulty level higher than hard

lol... I do almost all of my environmental and quest bug testing while on a ranged Hunter build. I currently have nine characters of various levels using this type of build. :igor:

I have all classes.
It was for the OP, aka newbie at the game point of view.

Pumping all the point into body and bashing, or walling behind an army of pet is much easier at the beginning. Even the Thaum have just to draw a line, and everything burn in the flames.
Early game, the Ranged hunter is poor in gameplay and tacticality (we can even argue late game, too. Scattershot is godly, but is a I-win button that great?). It lack tool, a single target slow is not enough, and kiting forever is tedious and unfun.

No need to be condescending..."lol...".

[datguy13]

Originally posted by Zephkiel:

No need to be condescending..."lol...".

Oh, when I choose to be condescensing, there'll be no mistaking it. The belligerence is unnecessary. I just found it amusing that players think it's a difficult build, while I use the build for bug testing-- where everything that can go wrong, does go wrong every single time.

The reality is that none of the builds are harder than one another. It all comes down to experience and practice. Start small and work your way up.

[Velamont]

Depend of your class.
START
Melee = easy
Mechanic = easiest with pets
Thaumaturge = average - hard
Hunter with guns = impossible at low level and on a difficulty level higher than hard
END
Melee = why everything kills me with two hits =(
Mechanic = ♥♥♥♥ summons
Thaumaturge = Eh eh you can kill me (if you can come through this poison lake and that nice sun bim... Oh wait - you cant move cause i STOPPED TIME. Hahahaha!)
Hunter with guns = COME ON! Why you die with one shot?! I thought you was elite monster!

[Zephkiel]

Originally posted by Ve1amont:

Depend of your class.
START
Melee = easy
Mechanic = easiest with pets
Thaumaturge = average - hard
Hunter with guns = impossible at low level and on a difficulty level higher than hard
END
Melee = why everything kills me with two hits =(
Mechanic = ♥♥♥♥ summons
Thaumaturge = Eh eh you can kill me (if you can come through this poison lake and that nice sun bim... Oh wait - you cant move cause i STOPPED TIME. Hahahaha!)
Hunter with guns = COME ON! Why you die with one shot?! I thought you was elite monster!:Doviculus:

The quote button is the little arrow on top of a post fyi.
Also, stop playing on easy, or with ultra leveled char.

On higher difficulty level, with no CC or big damage, ranged hunter is the weakest of the bunch. You just have to do a bit of forum digging to see that i(s more than an opinion.

Sure, my hunter ranged is ez mode even on highest difficulty, so much DPS through scatter shot and poison shot, insane healin and maan per hit, i just spend my time button pushed.

unfortunately, that's not the case when you start.

At the date of post, The OP had 4H gameplay. You all seems to forget that, and, also, that you have experience of the game, and you know what to do, how to do, how to distribute points / persk / skill. Wich help.

[datguy13]

Originally posted by Zephkiel:

On higher difficulty level, with no CC or big damage, ranged hunter is the weakest of the bunch. You just have to do a bit of forum digging to see that i(s more than an opinion.

Ray of destruction + Arcane damage bonuses = Faceroll build.

[Velamont]

Never started with low difficult...