Talk:Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen/@comment-138.162.128.53-20130402193902/@comment-213.143.77.106-20130423114248

DF Carnation? @.@'... like... what is the point of hard if you start it maxed out? you do realize that anyone playing it from scratch would face nothig but online UR-Dragon likes if you felt chllenge on that goblin with DF gear.

i know post is old, but if someone reads this bull

some of us went hard mode from scratch. and let me tell you this... stamina use is killer, my level 30 on normal can climb enemies longer than my level 180 on hard. enemies have boosted resists, not hp (you need good enough weapons to pass trough that, that's why carnation worked so well). you gain 3x more EXP so you kinda end game at level 100. you get more money too. but, what you also get is the fact that your equipment at level 60-80 is same as someones who played normal at 25. you finis game at level 80-100 since you can't avoid exp. running stamina use is the same. hard mode adds struggling penalty on stamina. if you hang on beast that is jumping around it cuts trough your stamina like crazy. poison, sleep and such require much more resistance and work way faster. you can't really focus making def and no res, magic will kill you asap.

and it goes like this. bat or rat can one shot you till level 20-25. at level 20 it took me 1 game day and 1 game night to beat thief with shield at top of the hill to witchwood. he touches you, you die. when you hit him, it is the same as online UD, no visible chnge of hp on one hit. no way to stagger him. till level 30 you still more or less die in 1 hit on everything. at level 80 drake, hydra one shot you if you ake mistake. at level 140, hydra slamming me on the ground is one shot kill. damage you receive is more than tripple.

you can't afford to spam skills. at level 180, mystic knight transe takes almost 2/5th of stamina bar. cannon another almost 2/5th. so... no, no multiple balls with element.

at def 650 level 160 and no def augments, gargoyle sucks almost 3000hp on hit. grimgoblins hit you twice as much as online UD (UD is a complete disappointment if you played hard mode only).

so... yes, if yougo with finish gear to games start. hard mode is disaappointing