Difficulty recommendation

[(💕) Pink Lily]

I am an achievement hunter and was wondering which is the best setting to make your 1st run of the game and still get a lot of achievements?

What are people picking and how many achievements do you have so far?
Also equally important how skilled are you for this difficulty... because am a noob and even if the recommended 1st run is hard i cant do it.

Also for your 2nd run what are you picking for more achievements?

Thanks for advice!

[PFC Demigo [29th ID]]

Go straight HARD!!

[PFC Demigo [29th ID]]

Just kidding XD just go Moderate :P

[RegalStar]

You can change difficulty at any time in between battles.

[Marksteele]

Moderate is easy through most of the game but gets difficult at around the half-way point. I ended up turning it to normal at that point.

[Zelxios]

i started on hard and there were only battle i had to bump down to moderate

[PFC Demigo [29th ID]]

Originally posted by Zelxios:

i started on hard and there were only battle i had to bump down to moderate

XD I still on hard. i think you need to grind a little

[Zelxios]

i really wanted to start on chaotic but guess you have to beat the game on hard first

[Zelxios]

Originally posted by LunarCainEX:

Originally posted by Zelxios:

i started on hard and there were only battle i had to bump down to moderate

XD I still on hard. i think you need to grind a little

im still on hard too it was the fight with the super bad ass seriph where i had to go down to moderate then back up

[PFC Demigo [29th ID]]

Originally posted by Zelxios:

Originally posted by LunarCainEX:

XD I still on hard. i think you need to grind a little

im still on hard too it was the fight with the super bad ass seriph where i had to go down to moderate then back up

hahahaha XD

[karl-emil]

Hard is literally just mashing until way later into the game, most cheevos won't unlock unless you're doing it on hard/evil/chaos or ng+

[aquapendulum]

Moderate for a sufficient EXP rate with an increased loot quality.

[pwister]

I always played every other game on the hardest difficulty, as that usually gives you better drops and more experience in Tales games.
However
Tales of Zestiria for some reason gives you LESS experience for playing on hard, so I've been playing one level below until I can get some exp bonuses from NG+. I got all of the achievements in Tales of Graces and Tales of Xillia by just sticking to the hardest difficulty, and boosting it up every time a harder one opened up until Chaos, but I honestly don't think achievements are worth aiming for until NG+ here.

[Yuen]

Go Hard mode. Everything else is too easy. And if thee's a Manic mode in NG+, go there too. I ain't trolling either.

[Steel]

Even Hard is too easy up to where I am.

Go Hard! You get better drops too.