Is Expert Combat Difficulty Easier?

[Watereaters]

I get that you get stronger enemies in bigger numbers earlier, but that just means better loot earlier on (such as 100 armor/helms, Tier 2 Weaponry and more)

[Uncle Khai]

Just play! Enjoy your experience

[turtle225]

Beginner combat gives you +5 hit and avoid on all bros. That's like two free perks. The way this is implemented also means your 95% will never miss and you will never get hit at 5%.

Expert combat may let you scale faster, but Beginner combat will always be easiest.

[Watereaters]

Originally posted by Ngo Khai HD:

Just play! Enjoy your experience

Yeah I'm loving Expert/Expert/Low, tons of loot early means I can build my company more quickly

[Heron]

For competent players Expert has its advantages over Veteran past the first few days. To me they feel more or less interchangeable.

The quality of your map seed is worth at least one more difficulty level.

[Watereaters]

Originally posted by Heron:

For competent players Expert has its advantages over Veteran past the first few days. To me they feel more or less interchangeable.

The quality of your map seed is worth at least one more difficulty level.

I guess they would feel interchangeable at Day 20 or so, when the enemies are pretty much the same

[turtle225]

Originally posted by Watereaters:

Originally posted by Heron:

For competent players Expert has its advantages over Veteran past the first few days. To me they feel more or less interchangeable.

The quality of your map seed is worth at least one more difficulty level.

I guess they would feel interchangeable at Day 20 or so, when the enemies are pretty much the same

Expert applies a 1.15 multiplier on enemy "resources."

Enemy party compositions a generated based on the resource count of the contract or camp and some other scaling factors and random variation.

Loosely, we can say that Expert fights will have 15% more and/or harder enemies than Veteran. Beginner has a .85x multiplier.

Difference between Veteran and Expert is probably not that noticeable, I wouldn't really know. If you mod the difficulty to something absurd like 1.7x multiplier it is very noticeable and you see nonsense like 6 Direwolves against a 6 man party on day 5 beast contracts.

[Hasefrexx]

To loot better weapons, you firstly need to beat people wearing better weapons which are the spicy battles. I'm not sure how it's supposed to make things easier.

[Benny]

No.

[Salep]

people cheat in expert. just watch any youtube walkthrough. in early game all they do is bait enemy to city guards etc. get free strong gear early. then snowball. and for some reason they feel good feel accomplished about it.

[Benny]

Originally posted by Salep:

people cheat in expert. just watch any youtube walkthrough. in early game all they do is bait enemy to city guards etc. get free strong gear early. then snowball. and for some reason they feel good feel accomplished about it.

Expert necromancer.

[turtle225]

Locking this for irrelevant necro and bait.