New Difficulty Levels

Would be awesome if you could build in difficulty levels with increasing loot and XP. I know that was a request some time ago but seems like with all the great additions this could be something on the wish list.

For a casual person this helps. I find I get to maps and die pretty fast. Tried the guides but usually my witches are done for right away.
Easy
Standard
Hard
Harder
Very Hard

Or
L1
L2
L3
L4
L5
L6

Some great things that I love with all of the updates.
Respec
Identify
Seems to be more Uniques but that may just be me as a casual

Thanks for all the great POE1 mods you still keep making. Alot of fun!

I think /players command would be good enough.

while i do think is a good idea to add varying difficulty to keep all players interested lets not forget that the higher the difficulty the narrower the build options and players capable of doing it.

and why is that a problem? because the moment it becomes the best farming strat then everyone will aim for it throwing build diversity and economy out of the window.

may be the solution could be to make currency drop inverce to dropped item quality, lower difficulty will drop a lot of currency but very little in the way of good items but as difficulty increases the quality of items dropped will improve at the cost of currency drops.

i am pulling numbers out of nowhere but for the sake of an example think of something along this lines:

starting with easy difficulty: 100% more currency drop, 50% less item drop, cant drop t2 or higher uniques and mods on droped items will be capped at "x" item level.

and at the other extreme the hardest difficulty: 90% less currency drop, dropped items cant roll mods below "x" tier, has a chance for dropped item to come with a crucible tree.


since players from easier difficulty will need the items from harder difficulty players and players from harder difficulty will need the currency from players in easier difficulty to finish their items then both can coexist and none will feel mandatory.

It already exists in spirit through the map tier system. The campaign is the entry level difficulty, and challenges naturally rise as you progress through higher map tiers and map juice.

So... Torment levels?

We already have a way better version of this through the map tier system and the ability to roll the map modifiers.


If you are dying in plain T1 white maps (scoured), you need to work on your build. If thats not the content thats killing you, then you have the flexibility you seek.

The " LX" system you're asking for already exists, there are 17 tiers of maps, they scale with difficulty, if you can't do tier 5 maps, you keep working on your character until you can, and so on.

No sense changing a core system and scaling it down in numerical value just for aesthetics.