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The following post was made by ChrisW of ArenaNet and posted over at the GW2 Reddit forums and I thought I'd post it for those of you who are not Reddit readers. You can find the original post here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/xij3o/bwe3_difficulty/
BWE3 Difficulty (self.Guildwars2)
submitted 4 hoursago*by ArenaNetTeam
So it was a bug...? There's a lot of things I expected, but not that, heh.
Cant say i'm too surprised. Things were going down way too easily for groups. Does mean we'll (my wife and I) have to be more careful in the Asura starting area since all I've seen of it is this easy mode.
bwe3 was actually really rough for me to play in my late teens. If bwe3 was too easy, then game at release is gonna be painful for me >_>
I hope they hone in on a balance. To me the problem in BWE3 was you could win against most level-appropriate mobs just by autofire. And then there were some that used abilities that would flatten you if you weren't strategic, which felt like a shock. BWE2, you had to dodge and use abilities. BWE3, literally Drakhor started a fight against some mobs and ran to the bathroom, came back and picked up the loot. AND he washed his hands, too! a bit too easy, at least using a great sword on a Ranger. It would actually please me a lot if they made it so you really do want to group up to go fast thru PvE.
Agreed, Mulch. They should motivate people to stick together more. @Avengel Was that the Minotaur? Because a lot of Norn mobs have an invulnerability buff on them.
What was difficult?
I'll admit I didn't get past 20, but I found the difficulty level to be perfect.
» Edited on: 2012-08-04 10:57:27
In beta weekend 1 and 2 veterans were hard to kill. In Beta Weekend 3 I was able to solo some champions with my ranger and pet, veterans were just a matter of time and I only died once. It was quite a bit easier. That being said, all my friends who first experienced GW 2 this beta weekend thought the difficulty was perfect. I think a lot of people who worry about difficulty are mainly worried that it will become trivial in time like what happened with WOW.
From what I've seen the difficulty scales with level. If you are finding your one-on-ones attacks are easy on autoattack at level 5, don't expect the same from level 30. I guess it makes sense... let folks learn the game a bit (and how to dodge!) before turning up the difficulty.
Gotcha. I do have an issue with veterans being easy to kill...shouldn't be able to solo them IMO.
Veterans were borderline soloable in BWE2, and I think that's intended. Definitely easier with a group, but you can manage to solo them. Similar to certain types of elites in some MMORPG's.
