I know this is anathema to say on these forums, but I'd go the other way. Massive have said that Legendary and Heroic are aimed at a small percentage of their audience. I would personally deliberately under-reward those difficulty settings in order to ensure that the ONLY people who run them are those specifically looking for a challenge. Over-rewarding niche difficulty settings has the effect of turning them into Status Quo and pushing players who fundamentally do not enjoy them into playing these difficulty settings anyway. That leads to a lot of bad blood and a lot of complaints about balance and difficulty. I'd say balance the game around Challenging, let reward/time peak around there, then deliberately under-reward higher and lower difficulty settings in comparison.Originally Posted by mike_cauxmall Go to original post
Nobody should feel pressured to play on a higher-than-median difficulty stetting, as far as I'm concerned.
I disagree. No one's pressuring you to go Heroic. That's at your discretion. The harder the difficulty, the better the rewards. All I see from the devs is the higher the difficulty, the better apparel you get. And that's it? The several wipes, the tanky npcs, and the difficulty all for apparel? That's very unrewarding. In fact, increasing the roll quality encourages players to go up in difficulty since they'll be able to handle the more difficult content. I'm min max builds and doing stuff on challenging is boring. The whole point of going to a higher difficulty is the rewards you get at the end. They can complain all they want but they have to be realistic before the players can complain. Do they have the required builds to go up higher? If not, farm on lower difficulty unless you're a masochist and you want to go to higher difficulties with bad builds.Originally Posted by Malidictus Go to original post
I've run a lot of Heroic and Challenging and in my experience the overall loot quality is consistently better in Heroic. There are still very few 'god rolls' which I'm fine with. Heroic is not hard once you have a good (not perfect) build going. Now that I run exclusively Heroic I'm glad there aren't more god rolls or I would be maxed out and bored. Then again I enjoy a grind, and that's probably where the difference of opinion comes in. Legendary is where the higher chance of god rolls should be but that's just a mess in general right now (different topic altogether.)
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Ye heroic loot is realy great :/ Best joke this year
That purple one most likely was scavenged not looted. I never saw a purple drop in Heroic missions.Originally Posted by Panadoll324 Go to original post
Chest loot is always the same quality no matter the difficulty. You've showcased a purple there which 100% came from a chest. That's a worthwhile criticism in itself but not related to the quality of loot per difficulty.Originally Posted by Panadoll324 Go to original post