Crucible Difficulty

[The_Jackel]

I love the Darksider's series and have over 98 hours into DS3. I have played and (beaten) every difficulty setting and am currently working my way through NG+. I enjoyed the Crucible but, I can only beat the entire thing playing on story mode. Can anyone tell me if my high level (80+) is affecting the Crucible causing it to be harder? What difficulty did you guys beat it on and do you have any tips for me. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[dragoon264]

Enemy scaled on your power, so I assume level ha nothing to do. I finished it easily on normal, but for farming evil adamantine, difficulty is completely optionnal. But you can try harder if you want.
Advices :
- if you play on low difficulty, eqip fortuna optimisation and reaper armor to collect more souls
- on high difficulty, equip the red armor for more HP & reduction damage.
- don't hesitate to transform to replenish your life, but when you approach a boss wave (25, 50, 75 and 100) try to not unleash it and keep it for the boss.
- boss wave + champions armor + chaos trasformation = easy win
- use and abuse of the nephilim rest. If you begin to run out of green souls, equip marauder optimisation

[The_Jackel]

Thanks for the advice!

[WOODZILLA]

its a cake walk with panopoly of chaos armour upgraded to max lvl, and havoc form gain and bonus time enhancements equipped. trust me. You rarely leave havoc form.

[The_Jackel]

Thanks! I'll make sure to keep playing NG+ to max upgrade all my passive enchantment stats and than farm wicked adamantite.

[nekov4ego]

I've made this (has times in the description) maybe you will find it useful https://youtu.be/Ftt-QGYJMGc

[The_Jackel]

Excellent! I'll be sure to check it out. Thanks!

[karasielvenlied]

Crucible difficulty is based on overall game difficulty plus your character level.
I've cleared the game on Reckoning and Apocalyptic modes with lvl 1 character and in this case
average amount of hits you need to take down enemy (with upgraded weapons, obviously).
Apocalyptic - 1 or 2 hits;
Reckoning - 2 or 3 hits.
Average time to finish Crucible from 1 to 100:
Apocalyptic - 20 min, 120 coins;
Reckoning - 30 min, 130 coins.

Points you get for waves are based on difficulty and are not affected by NG+. Which means that enemies will become harder, but you'll still get the amount of points corresponded to you difficulty, so the best option is to farm Wicked K on your first playthrough.

[The_Jackel]

Hmmm I'll have to try using an Echo Mark and than playing through the Crucible. If nothing else being able to add by fives should make it easier to re-add the points back. Thanks for the info!

[umod.47]

Crucible is not very difficult.
It's just frustrating, when some boss insta-kills you with a combo.
I've lost 3 times in a row to Gor because he starts to swing his axe, hits me at full health, throws me away and hits me again while I'm stunlocked!
The same happens with the same fire golem at level 48. No matter what I wear and what I have upgraeded, he needs exactly 2 hits to kill me, and he does this suddenly: swing, you're thrown back, another swing hits you, whop, you're dead with 5 nephilim respites in your pocket. (Armageddon difficulty)
Maybe autolevel should not be so obvious?
Crucible is not difficult at all at difficulty level 2. I was able to win Killington at the first ful run.

[The_Jackel]

Indeed. I enjoy the concept but farming Wicked Adamantine such a pain. I am currently on balanced mode and hope to farm enough so, I can use everything when it carries over in Armagedon mode.