Honestly I play on a specifically tweaked difficulty that's a bit above easy, and it's just right for me. Just difficult enough to make me put in effort and feel like I have to pull out my cool abilities and spells, but even then I still die sometimes. And sometimes I turn the difficulty as low as possible, switch to real time, and steamroll everything to get to the story. Being able to do that is probably why I've bee able to out in so much time on the game.
