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Mar 18, 2017 @ 12:15pm

The best difficulty option [DISCUSSION]

It seems that this game is similar to Skyrim, with exception of better loot possiblity. So higher difficulty basically turns enemies into complete bullet sponges, while making you much more fragile.
What difficulty do you like most gameplay-wise? Smashing 1 mob for 30 sec does not seem that fun to me.

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SmilingBerserker has Shadow Warrior 2

Mar 18, 2017 @ 12:25pm

I would go for hard difficulty. You get a lot of loot drops and weapon drops from enemies. It's worth it, belive me.

Mar 18, 2017 @ 12:43pm

Originally posted by bsgkj:
I would go for hard difficulty. You get a lot of loot drops and weapon drops from enemies. It's worth it, belive me.

Do you mean the hardest one?

Jork

Mar 18, 2017 @ 1:13pm

Insanity 2 is what I play on for Orbs of Masamune farming.

Mar 18, 2017 @ 1:17pm

Originally posted by Jorkfriend:
Insanity 2 is what I play on for Orbs of Masamune farming.

I've not yet encountered them. What do they do?

Jork

Mar 18, 2017 @ 1:30pm

Originally posted by Cookie:
Originally posted by Jorkfriend:
Insanity 2 is what I play on for Orbs of Masamune farming.
I've not yet encountered them. What do they do?

They were added in a free DLC. After a certain point in the story, you gain access to an elevated area above Larry's shop. You'll find statues you can interact with that open new crafting abilities at the anvil as well as grant you Orbs of Masamune, which are used as a form of "currency" to customize your weapons.

You can do things from infusing a fourth gem onto a weapon, upgrading some of the weapon's base stats, and even purify gems which will remove a negative effect on it.

After awhile, things get expensive and from my playtesting Insanity 2 is the most efficent difficulty for farming them since you barely get any extra for doing them past that which makes the extra difficulty not worth the headache.

You can get orbs from boss enemies in the main campaign as well, but I'm not sure if you need to complete all the trial shrines before that starts happening or not.

Last edited by Jork; Mar 18, 2017 @ 1:30pm