PvE difficulty or a lack thereof

I expect a range of opinions on this.

I personally stopped playing quite a few MMOs because of how brain-dead and risk free their PvE experience was. In multiple of those titles you can literally auto-attack mobs to victory with no risk of dying.

One of the reasons why I recently tried The Lord of the Rings Online, and enjoyed for quite a bit, was their attempt to address this issue with the optional Landscape Difficulty. In case you aren't familiar that system basically allows you to set personal difficulty for the open world PvE experience. Mobs are tougher this way, and you are encouraged to use your skill rotations properly.

Mind I'm not asking for a Landscape Difficulty system, I just hope the PvE experience won't be mindless and devoid of any "challenge" outside the group content. As our characters progress and receive more skill points, the general combat should set the expectation that you learn how to play your class properly. When fighting groups of enemies, champion/elite style mobs you should not only be expected to know appropriate ability rotations, but also exploit ability synergies and mob weaknesses to your advantage.

Otherwise, what's the point of the character progression, and all those abilities on your toolbar, if you dont have to use them?

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Noaani

Mag7spy wrote: »

Ludullu_(NiKr) wrote: »

I hope PvE is harder than what we've seen. And any arguments of "this was only lvl25" don't matter. Raids should all be difficult, especially when they're 40-man ones.

I know we're in testing and all that, but my main feedback is "make it harder, while making it even more pvx".

Agreed reducing healing output by 60-70% so things will be super hard.

That isn't how you make raids hard. Altering healing output effects *everything*, and so you only do thst if you want to effect *everything*.

If all you want to do is make the raids harder, you make them hard via the content.

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