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Wereboar · 08-05-2002, 01:09 PM

There are 2 major differences between the difficulty levels.
One is that you have more troubles to hit monsters, but they are better in hitting you. The second one is that your skills improve slower with practice. In addition, there may be slightly more respawning monsters. But that number seems to be very random anyway.

If you have trouble hitting the monsters, it looks like you didn't develop your characters properly. But in your case, the main reason is probably your bad equipement. Level 10 in lower monastary, thats way too high.

And thats IMO your real problem (judging from a similar experience yesterday). If you play too slowly, the monsters get meaner. And without the chance to buy spellbooks and better stuff in arnika, you're in for trouble.

All these encounters seem to be very random. I started 2 similar parties yesterday (4 chars, expert + ironman). The first encountered many many mosters, and was ambushed and killed by two large groups of level 6 stalkers when i was level 5. The second run had very few monsters; i was level 3 when i was at Gregor (but avoided him at first).

If this is your first game, i think better play normal.

08-05-2002, 01:09 PM	#2
Wereboar Baaz Draconian Join Date: June 6, 2002 Location: Germany Posts: 795	There are 2 major differences between the difficulty levels. One is that you have more troubles to hit monsters, but they are better in hitting you. The second one is that your skills improve slower with practice. In addition, there may be slightly more respawning monsters. But that number seems to be very random anyway. If you have trouble hitting the monsters, it looks like you didn't develop your characters properly. But in your case, the main reason is probably your bad equipement. Level 10 in lower monastary, thats way too high. And thats IMO your real problem (judging from a similar experience yesterday). If you play too slowly, the monsters get meaner. And without the chance to buy spellbooks and better stuff in arnika, you're in for trouble. All these encounters seem to be very random. I started 2 similar parties yesterday (4 chars, expert + ironman). The first encountered many many mosters, and was ambushed and killed by two large groups of level 6 stalkers when i was level 5. The second run had very few monsters; i was level 3 when i was at Gregor (but avoided him at first). If this is your first game, i think better play normal.