Yeah nightmare is good as a caster at least, i buildt a glass cannon on purpose. My base health is about 350 at 30 something, about 600 with gear. Two rush attacks or a rush attack and a strong magic/ranged attack will kill me outright. So it's all about constantly moving about and finding cover, i can't stand in the open fighting. Need to pull mobs around corners and stuff. Some boss fights in small rooms are extremely hard and takes a lot of reloads, even normal fights go wrong if i don't have cover to go behind.
It would be a lot easier if i buildt my health high though. I have only played my warrior while testing the balance of styles, and that still seemed pretty easy, but yeah you will find yourself with low health quite often even with a 100 vitality at end game. However i think melee will be extremely tough in lower levels on nightmare.
I started out on nightmare with my mage, but i turned it down until i got to about level 12 or so. The fight's themselves are a lot of fun those levels, but you always end up with low health and with no regen it's was just too much downtime for me. I actually ran out of food and drink is why i had to to turn down the difficulty on those levels. If they had a way to regen to full health/mana out of combat it would be prefectly viable as long as you dont mind picking up a bow. Melee is impossible on low levels on nightmare.
I am sure some people will claim they do it all melee, but i can't see how it's viable. Unless you like using potions. I only use potions for boss fight or out of combat regen myself.
Also it seems like nightmare does not just affect damage/hitpoints it seems enemies use there good abilities a lot more often. They spam heals and special attacks a lot more it seems. Could just be my imagination but yeah..
Last edited by Chillwill; 11/12/10 07:08 PM.
