Game difficulty in general is way off.
First, Id like to say that I understand all the different changes that were implemented in Warlords, total gear reset, we lost a bunch of OP talents, lost damage to elites, developers warning us that the game is going to feel more difficult until you get the proper gear, ETC.
I would also not classify myself as a hardcore player, but I do play a decent amount. I play a couple hours each weekday and do about 20 hours plus over the weekend. I played much more than that during launch of division 2 for a few months after. I got geared and was able to do challenging. Then decided to take a break.
I come back for the Warlords update and I see a bunch of new AI abilities, AE trash mobs are sometimes equipped with grenade launchers, cleaners are throwing those gas bombs that explode in fire, drones dropping multiple fire grenades, etc. Which is nice because because it got tiresome fighting the same thing over and over again. I was playing through the story and I was getting smacked hard while the mobs felt like they were on hard mode and I was playing with absolute garbage gear. I didn't think anything of it, I thought I just needed to get more gear, work on set bonuses, get god rolls, etc. I ended up getting those god rolled weapons and armor from the vendors before they changed it where vendors couldn't sell you items with very high rolls.
I completed the story with decent gear and started to run bounties, targeted loot areas to try to get gear I needed, but the game still felt like it is off. It feels like all the difficulties were upgraded 1 rank. Normal is actually hard, hard is challenging, and so on. I just play solo with the healing chem launcher and reviver hive and I'm getting chewed up. I tried changing my build, I started with mostly crit/ crit hit, headshot, but even then I still feel like the damage is nothing and because I don't have defensive, I get clapped. I then try a mix between crit/crit hit, headshot with some armor, and I'm doing even less damage, but I'm not getting shredded right away, I'm just getting shredded over a longer period of time because it's taking me much longer to kill enemies which in turn gives the enemies more time to shoot me. I remember back a month or 2 after launch, there was complaints of bullet spongeyness which the devs did tune down a bit which was nice, but here we are back in the same situation but even worse now because we don't have those OP talents and traits that offset the spongeyness. So it's even worse now than before. I feel more like it's a chore to play and grind out normal for mostly purples and garbage yellows in the hopes that I get a perfectly rolled piece with max stats, because that's whats needed to make any difference. I've quit playing most nights because I play for 1.5 hours and accomplish nothing. Just more credits and recal library fodder. I play on normal for the stuff I haven't played yet and I can get away with playing hard on the missions I've ran hundreds of times because I know what's expected, but even then it takes a long time to complete. I understand that we are no longer able to run through content and 1 shot everything, I'm not asking for that, but there is something clearly off.
Again, I just want to emphasize that I understand there's a lot of people that are enjoying this type of combat, but I'm also seeing a lot of people that aren't enjoying it. So I'm simply putting in my 2 cents. Some people enjoy the Dark Souls feel with punishing consequences and other people enjoy the god mode rolling in and slaughtering everything. I believe there should be a happy medium. What is currently going on right now is nowhere near medium.
Before I get blasted as a noob for posting this, we get it. You are amazing. If only all of us possessed your godly skills of gaming, the world would be better. You piss many liters of excellence. I am just a simpleton that needs to get good. Blah blah blah. I would just ask that you look at this situation as a community rather than just you yourself. They implemented legendary difficulty and those modifiers for those hardcore players so you guys have that option. What do the people that aren't as good as you and play less than you have? Not much, just a harder overall game. If the other part of the community isn't happy to play the game, then that community is going to be lost which will in turn make the game worse, and you elite players won't have a fun game anymore because it's bringing in less money, and the game will fall.
I bet there's a lot more of us that have a problem with the current difficulty than there are people that think it's completely fine. Just because people aren't coming in the forums and voicing their opinions doesn't mean there isn't an issue here.
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