What differences are between difficulties of Easy, Normal, Hard and Very Hard ?

[Rogerio]

What differences are between difficulties of Easy, Normal, Hard and Very Hard ?

Do harder difficulties increase drops? Gold? XP?

[chris.ferrantegerard]

Higher difficulties just make monsters stronger to my knowledge.

Easy difficulty is really easy. If you're experienced in these type of games then you'll probably want to start a softcore run on at least hard difficulty.

Difficulty scaling is really more like this:
Easy = Casual
Normal = Easy
Hard = Normal
Very Hard = Hard

[Rogerio]

Originally posted by chris.ferrantegerard:

Higher difficulties just make monsters stronger to my knowledge.

Easy difficulty is really easy. If you're experienced in these type of games then you'll probably want to start a softcore run on at least hard difficulty.

Difficulty scaling is really more like this:
Easy = Casual
Normal = Easy
Hard = Normal
Very Hard = Hard

Thanks, but I have seen people say that higher difficulties DO affect drop rates of items and gold, or else what incentive you have to run on Very Hard?

[HiFive]

Originally posted by Rogerio:

Thanks, but I have seen people say that higher difficulties DO affect drop rates of items and gold, or else what incentive you have to run on Very Hard?

I know that works on some other ARPG's, but I haven't noticed it on Torchlight 1.

[HiFive]

Originally posted by chris.ferrantegerard:

Higher difficulties just make monsters stronger to my knowledge.

Easy difficulty is really easy. If you're experienced in these type of games then you'll probably want to start a softcore run on at least hard difficulty.

Difficulty scaling is really more like this:
Easy = Casual
Normal = Easy
Hard = Normal
Very Hard = Hard

I agree with this assessment, when comparing TL1 with more modern games.

[chris.ferrantegerard]

Originally posted by Rogerio:

what incentive you have to run on Very Hard?

Challenge mostly and achievements.

[HiFive]

Originally posted by chris.ferrantegerard:

Originally posted by Rogerio:

what incentive you have to run on Very Hard?

Challenge mostly and achievements.

+1 For the challenge and satisfaction of doing it.

[Hawthorne]

I remember (back when I had never played an ARPG before) trying the demo out on the default difficulty and being bored to tears to the point that I couldn't even make it to the end of the demo (and that was only a couple floors!). Just click on enemy, it dies, repeat.

Then I tried putting it on the hardest difficulty and, lo and behold, if I just clicked on enemies now they would kill me! I actually had to pay attention to the game and my enjoyment went way, way up.*

In summary, Very Hard seems to have been put in for people like me, who don't play to get loot, but rather to have a game that's more engaging.

*though the irony of this is that I never actually got around to playing the full game until just recently 8-}