Difficulty - DLCs

[Veny]

Is it just me or every DLC has broken difficulty? I cant really do anything in the game except Ukaizo (that is like endgame) having level 17 and i am unable to beat NONE of three DLCs enemies at the very beginning (forest ambush, Messenger nor the madman under Island of Unknown or whatever is its name).
Am i doing something wrong? Oh yea, i am playing and highest difficulty. So far it was perfectly doable but DLC content seems to have ridiculous difficulty ffs.

[Kurosu]

You are quite qualifited as far as levels are concerned , those are the suggested levels if I recall them correctly :

Lvl 14 - Beast of Winter

Lvl 16 - Seeker, Slayer, Survivor

Lvl 18 - The Forgotten Sanctum

And I doubt you lack good gear that point either . What builds/setup are you using?

The DLC are harder than the Main game due to levels but I wouldnt call them broken, then again I played on Hard not the max diff.

[psychotron666]

Then turn it down from path of the damned? I dunno I never found the dlc that difficult, but I stopped playing path of the damned early because I didn't like the approach of putting way too high level enemies you can't touch in regular encounters. I'm not a masochist, I wanna enjoy my game so I keep it on veteran.

[Veny]

My char is... geez, that build that infuse weapons with power and refil his resource pool with attacks... also Edér Warrior, Xoti Priest (healer), Aloth Wizard + that Ranger with bird.
No mission has skull anymore, yet enemies are either tough or they use some nasty heals (f.e. Messenger can heal himself faster than i damage him).
I propably suck in this game cuz all my attacks are inefficient and "No pen" is flying everywhere... but geez, i am using soulbound and legendary items, i cant be better.

[Veny]

Originally posted by psychotron666:

Then turn it down from path of the damned? I dunno I never found the dlc that difficult, but I stopped playing path of the damned early because I didn't like the approach of putting way too high level enemies you can't touch in regular encounters. I'm not a masochist, I wanna enjoy my game so I keep it on veteran.

Game was easy up to this point. I had no problem with enemies on my level... until now.
Or maybe i build my characters wrong way cuz i cant really do any damage due to their fkin resistances to everything, spells, basic attacks... everything.

[psychotron666]

Originally posted by Veny:

My char is... geez, that build that infuse weapons with power and refil his resource pool with attacks... also Edér Warrior, Xoti Priest (healer), Aloth Wizard + that Ranger with bird.
No mission has skull anymore, yet enemies are either tough or they use some nasty heals (f.e. Messenger can heal himself faster than i damage him).
I propably suck in this game cuz all my attacks are inefficient and "No pen" is flying everywhere... but geez, i am using soulbound and legendary items, i cant be better.

If you're not penetrating, you need to use different attacks or weapons. Look at their armours. Whichever has the lowest number for armour rating is what you want to hit them with. Also use weapons with more penetration if you can.

[Veny]

Switched to veteran, didnt really help.
Fighting the Messenger... again, drain my team super fast. Spells are his weakness but my team uses all spells before hes down lol...
Ffs i was not playing Path of the Damned difficulty just to end up lowering it to fkin story mod for kids just for DLCs...

[Kurosu]

Originally posted by Veny:

Switched to veteran, didnt really help.
Fighting the Messenger... again, drain my team super fast. Spells are his weakness but my team uses all spells before hes down lol...
Ffs i was not playing Path of the Damned difficulty just to end up lowering it to fkin story mod for kids just for DLCs...

I wouldnt be to quick to critise the game when you cant even tell your character's class.....High difficulties require knowledge and good usage of the game mechanics

No offense but from the looks of it you were just beating content by outleveling it and now that its no longer that big of an advantage, you have hit a wall.

And FYI there are far harder fights in That DLC than the Messenger to say nothing of the other 2 DLC that are harder overall ( breath is by far the easier DLC ).

I am not trying to be rude here but without describing your builds / gear and just calling the expansion hard , doesnt leave a lot of room for help from our side.

[Veny]

Not sure how i am not overleveling DLC content that is for level 14 but trust me, i was able to defeat enemies with one skull no prob.
About gear, again, not sure how to get anything better than legendary gear but somehow all i have available seems to have same penetration stats.
Oh and i saw people having troubles with Messenger with level 19 team so yea...

[ZirzoR]

Originally posted by Veny:

Not sure how i am not overleveling DLC content that is for level 14 but trust me, i was able to defeat enemies with one skull no prob.
About gear, again, not sure how to get anything better than legendary gear but somehow all i have available seems to have same penetration stats.
Oh and i saw people having troubles with Messenger with level 19 team so yea...

Sounds like to me you should've played on a lower difficulty first, then make a proper custom team for PoTD after you've used all the companions that you like.

Regular companions are pretty bad for trying out PoTD with when its your first few runs, also having "Legendary gear" doesn't really do anything if its not the correct ones, you can upgrade any weapons or armor to legendary+ so them being legendary from the get-go doesn't really mean much and doesn't make them better then other weapons and armor that can be upgraded just the same.

And complaining that the game is hard on the highest difficulty in the game is pretty laughable honestly, I'm sure you will hate the super bosses then or playing with Magran's Curses on (Let alone all of them)

I've not had any problems with any of the DLC with my custom party on PotD when I was playing this game back in the day, I stopped a long time ago though because of the memory leaks and overall lag after just a few hours of gameplay, I hate restarting my game when I'm in the "groove" just breaks it for me.

Also enemies having skulls or not doesn't really matter, what matters is the enemy itself, a regular kobold with triple red skull isn't all that dangerous, but if its a boss or main guy, then yeah you're in trouble.

Just sayin' maybe knock it off with the hubris and we could teach you properly, I refuse to teach people that cannot see that they're just outmatched, No offense meant whatsoever.

Have a nice day.

[Kurosu]

Actually I just realised something . You said you switched and tried it again on veteran ? POTD locks you into that difficulty. You cannot change to a lower one.

Is the entire post story even true?

[Veny]

Originally posted by Kurosu:

Actually I just realised something . You said you switched and tried it again on veteran ? POTD locks you into that difficulty. You cannot change to a lower one.

Is the entire post story even true?

I could have switched to lower difficulty (even managed to defeat that forest people before Arena only to find that i will suck in it anyway with level 17 lol). I think you mean hardcore mode, that cant be turned on/off i think. Or maybe they changed how difficulty works, anyway, i can change it mid game no prob.

[psychotron666]

Yeah the switching from potd used to not be possible but one of the updates changed that. I think the tooltip still says you can't change mid game, but that's incorrect

[Kurosu]

Originally posted by Veny:

Am i doing something wrong? Oh yea, i am playing and highest difficulty.

Originally posted by Veny:

I could have switched to lower difficulty (even managed to defeat that forest people before Arena only to find that i will suck in it anyway with level 17 lol). I think you mean hardcore mode, that cant be turned on/off i think.

First you claimed you play on the highest difficulty, now you call the highest difficulty
" hardcore mode than cant be turned on /off"

Pick a story and stick to it. You are contradicting yourself.

And you still havent mentioned your own class or specifics regarding your builds and gear in order for people to help you. You just keep going on and on about the game's difficulty claiming you had no issues whatsoever and thats it. No further details in all your replies.

This smells like a troll / complain post.

Cant help those that dont want to be helped . Cheers

[Veny]

Originally posted by Kurosu:

Originally posted by Veny:

Am i doing something wrong? Oh yea, i am playing and highest difficulty.

Originally posted by Veny:

I could have switched to lower difficulty (even managed to defeat that forest people before Arena only to find that i will suck in it anyway with level 17 lol). I think you mean hardcore mode, that cant be turned on/off i think.

First you claimed you play on the highest difficulty, not you call the highest difficulty
" hardcore mode than cant be turned on /off"

Pick a story and stick to it. You are contradicting yourself.

And you still havent mentioned your own class or specifics regarding your builds and gear in order for people to help you. You just keep going and on about the game's difficulty.

This smells like a troll / complain post.

Cant help those that dont want to be helped . Cheers

Are you mental? I didnt say i play on expert mode, i said hardest difficulty that is called "Path of the Damned" and it can be changed to any other difficulty mid game...
And no, i wont be naming equipement of all my characters (most of them have same stats anyway, except for some petty bonuses and no, i am not using heavy armor on my mages or crossbow on my melee tank)... it is obvious that DLCs difficulty work different way cuz i never had any problem with PoE2 difficulty but now, after 50 hours, i suddenly have? With all 3 DLCs?

[Kurosu]

Well looks like you got it all figured out then. The DLC's are impossible on high difficulty. It cannot be done. After all , there is absolutely no chance that you are having wrong builds, gear or just playing the combat wrong , right ? You dont even need to go over details regarding them. Its just a fact and we will roll with it.

Case closed I guess?