Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - General Which difficulty do you recommend me?

Hello, I bought the game on gog, I am really excited to play dos2 but I am already struggling at chosing the right difficulty for me.. I am not a newbie in this kind of genre, played several turn based games but I don't want to start with the wrong difficulty I want the best experience.. I don't want it easy, I want it hard but it could be to hard u know? I would like to hear some opinions from you guys about the difficulties which you have played :)

thank you!

If you're a newbie, but want a challenge, you should probably play on Classic difficulty. If you play any higher, you won't be able to turn it down, even if you decide that it is too hard. If you play on Classic and find it too hard, you can switch down to Explorer.

I see I will start with classic then! Thank you.

I would agree that it's a good starting point. Even though I'm going to continue hiding in Explorer territory. :p

Hehe, as long as you enjoy the game it doesn't matter if you play on explorer or classic difficulty :P

I have had to jump back and forth between the classic and explorer. It really feels like there is a missing difficulty level between the two for me. Explorer is stupid easy and really no fun, classic is not classic in that it does not play the like original in terms of difficulty, which is what I was hoping for.

The game for me on classic is feeling like a chore at times (lvl 11), armor is so annoying as a mechanic in a mixed party, level are so huge now. I loved DOS1, but this game seems to be over-complicated in mechanics for no good reason compared to the original which I loved and was hoping for more of.

I read the forums for tips and explanations of what is going on with the new mechanics, it seems like people are enjoying the game, I am just a fan of how the original played and it is frustrating having to redo so many fights, read forums instead of just playing when I have time.