Hi, I'm currently playing Divine Divinity, planning to start Beyond Divinity next. I'd like some advice about the difficulty/tuning for Beyond Divinity.
For context: I finished Original Sin 2 in the highest difficulty, and enjoyed it. I play most games in the highest difficulty. I'm playing Divine Divinity in Hard difficulty as a melee warrior, and it's... not fun. The one-shotting boss type enemies are not interesting. I have seen post after post after post talking about how "you should just use the scorpion traps", or "just use a bow", or "just use magic", but being that this is a single character RPG, I expect a melee build to be minimally viable in hard difficulty.
Now, that said, I am almost finished with the game playing only melee (no bows/ranged attacks used or built for). It's not impossible. It's taken a lot of avoiding boss enemies and coming back for them later, and using some amount of "cheese" like polymorph (which frankly is OP). It's just not enjoyable; the majority of the game is really good and balanced, and I love that I have to play tactically, but when an unremarkable zombie one shots me in an area where all enemies were doing maybe 1/10th to 1/8th of my health per hit, that is not my idea of fun.
With that said: what is the difficulty in Beyond Divinity like? Likewise for Divinity 2 if that's okay to ask here. I'm wondering whether there are certain builds I should just flat-out avoid, or if the difficulty tuning is more in line with what Larian achieved in Original Sin 2.
