Suddenly getting curbstomped

[John W Smokes Jr.]

So I've been cruising through the game with little difficulty. Doing every side quest I see... If anything I am worried I am outleveling the content.

I get to junktown, rescue the boob lady and suddenly all the mobs are level 13/14 (my characters are 11ish) and I am getting my teeth kicked in by trash mobs. What did I do wrong?

[Zaptruder]

Got to this point to. I don't think I can go any further... suddenly half the trash mobs are miniboss+ difficulty, and they're spamming area of effect attacks like there's no tomorrow. I can't do anything to defend against that ♥♥♥♥, I can't taunt it away, I can't heal through it... it's basically like someone set the difficulty on 'legendary' and forgot to turn it off.

[lordanthrax]

Spend a little time powering up. Re-run some dungeons, run some Arena matches, try and get some more Perk Points with Tomes bought via Shadow Coins/Gold (you can find vendors for Tomes randomly in a couple dungeons).

[Zaptruder]

Originally posted by lordanthrax:

Spend a little time powering up. Re-run some dungeons, run some Arena matches, try and get some more Perk Points with Tomes bought via Shadow Coins/Gold (you can find vendors for Tomes randomly in a couple dungeons).

Thx for the tips. Still leaves a sour taste in the mouth - the difficulty spike is just extreme. You go from cruising along, then you get Red Monika, and the game suddenly expects you to exploit every single system in the game to the extent that it can be.

It's so bad it feels like a glitch... like maybe they stuffed up a patch somewhere. You don't even get the chance to try out a buff new friend properly... she immediately becomes equal level to the content, and everyone else becomes underleveled, making her gameplay introduction underwhelming to say the least.

[peddroelm]

What tends to happen is there is a bit of enemy level autoleveling involved (up to a particular's area enemy level cap). Many encounters will 'scale' up the difficulty to the highest level in your Rooster (not necesarrily currently in your party.)

So if you level up team A and then switch out to try the underleveled team B guys the game won't care. It'll deal difficulty relevant for the team A guys...

Keeping all 6 characters similarly leveled (go back a few areas if needed) reduces the impact of this ..


Some difficulty spikes here and there should be expected least you fall asleep in front of the computer with the button E pressed down :) ..

[John W Smokes Jr.]

Ahh, so the leveling uses your roster, not your team. Odd choice, but it won't matter once my team passes Miss Boobs.

[lordanthrax]

One other thing to keep an eye on is your gear. Items of a higher level and similar stat spread will always be better than higher quality items of a lower level. Even a Legendary lvl 9 weapon will do less damage than a common lvl 13 one. So if your gear is dragging behind, don't be afraid to snag a common item off the vendor to give it a little boost.

And if you encounter an airship, be warned: they don't mess around. Don't be surprised if you lose to the sky pirates early on, it takes good gear, lots of abilities/perks and a solid team comp to beat them reliably.

[steelcoresoviet]

Periodically challenge the arena, too. The rewards aren't too special, but you can get a lot of xp just by keeping in the fight.

[John W Smokes Jr.]

Yep, my gear was lagging too. I had assumed that the higher tier of redoing dungeons was for the levels after you finish the game. I rolled through them and got some levels and gear.

[February]

One thing that's easily missable might be incorrect Perk distribution.

Be advised, in case you didn't know, that early it's better to focus on Attack Power-related Persk, as not only do they boost the damage your party does, but also the values of literally everything else, including Heals, Bleeds, Ignites and so on.