PSO2: Anyone else disappointed with "Hard Mode?"

[Porkmaster]

I know I am. It's not hard mode in the traditional sense. It's called hard mode, but it's just normal progression scaling. The first Forest mission on hard mode scales directly after the last Desert mission on normal.

What they need to do is get rid of the level requirements. It annoys me to no end that I can't kill bosses on "hard" mode until I'm level 30. I'm 3/4ths of the way through level 20 and have completed every mission that my level will allow on both normal and hard mode with S-ranks. To do the next hard mode mission on the list, I have to be level 25. That means I have to farm 4 1/4ths levels in the extremely small amount of hard mode missions available to me. Not only is that tedious, but it's starting to push me away from the game as a whole.

I know this game is free to play and everything, but grinding the same missions over and over for hours on end is not fun to me, especially when individual enemies don't drop individual rares. The rare drops you get are based on the mission you take, they aren't even based on your class. Yeah, I realize that the original PSO was a grind fest too, but at least if I was skilled enough, I could go straight from Forest, to Caves, to Mines, to Ruins. There was no level requirement for individual zones, only for Hard, Very Hard, and Ultimate. That's understandable, this is not.

[DoubleCannon]

well.. i think the difficulty is fair, in pso after ruins u go back to forest and its a notch above normal ruins. however this game has many difficulty spikes randomly, something pso never had as it was always the same. You may suddenly run into a 3 stage boosted boss level 35 lol. plus monsters have alot of hp, anyone remember the dragon boss from pso? BAM 2nd stage, 1dmg later, hes dead. lol I love pso2 much more.

But they HAVE TO remove the dam weak spot on boosted! thats just defeats the point of boosted. make it happen sega! infact it should serve as a defensive spot if anything! lol

[Porkmaster]

well, I think the difficulty is fair ..... plus monsters have alot of hp

I disagree. As a ranger, with a 2 star launcher at +5, I can kill a group of 5 or more hard mode enemies in 1 combo in the air before I hit the ground. The game is piss easy, and I was hoping that would change with the addition of "hard mode". Unfortunately, that's not the case.

[Garnet_Moon]

I disagree. As a ranger, with a 2 star launcher at +5, I can kill a group of 5 or more hard mode enemies in 1 combo in the air before I hit the ground. The game is piss easy, and I was hoping that would change with the addition of "hard mode". Unfortunately, that's not the case.

You're using the easiest class to solo with. Try it as a Force. Or, if you want a challenge, try to get in the melee fray as a Hunter.

You can kill entire groups of mobs with the rocket launcher as a Ranger before you're even close enough to aggro them. That's what makes it "piss easy".

Go back and try to do the same thing as a Hunter. Don't use the Gunblade. Use a Halberd or Greatsword or to a very lesser extent the wired katars. Or, be a real man and use your fists.

[thablinksta]

You're using the easiest class to solo with. Try it as a Force. Or, if you want a challenge, try to get in the melee fray as a Hunter.

You can kill entire groups of mobs with the rocket launcher as a Ranger before you're even close enough to aggro them. That's what makes it "piss easy".

Go back and try to do the same thing as a Hunter. Don't use the Gunblade. Use a Halberd or Greatsword or to a very lesser extent the wired katars. Or, be a real man and use your fists.

Agreed. Ranger is the easiest class, and I keep hearing about how the launcher is OP. I play a hunter and I used the gunblade for the first few levels and then I realized that the game was WAY too easy, so I switched up to the sweet melee weapons and the game instantly became harder/more fun.

[TelleT]

I disagree. As a ranger, with a 2 star launcher at +5, I can kill a group of 5 or more hard mode enemies in 1 combo in the air before I hit the ground. The game is piss easy, and I was hoping that would change with the addition of "hard mode". Unfortunately, that's not the case.

NERF!

[Ce'Nedra]

Haven't been in Hard yet but from what I read from your post I agree with you on every part for it while keeping PSO in mind. Doesn't sound like fun to grind these levels...and monsters don't really hand out alot of EXP either...

Then again maybe we should compare it to PSO

[Malevolent215]

Haven't been in Hard yet but from what I read from your post I agree with you on every part for it while keeping PSO in mind. Doesn't sound like fun to grind these levels...and monsters don't really hand out alot of EXP either...

Then again maybe we should compare it to PSO

I haven't made it to Hard mode either, but I can already notice what both of you are talking about.

Honestly it's the only complaint I really have about the game so far. In PSO you just leveled by playing and killing. PSO2 is so encredibly focused on Client Orders that without an english translation I am already starting to become bored. Will i stop playing? Hell no... I love PSO games, but it does become tedious after awhile.

I miss when the whole objective was to just kill things to get to a boss, kill the boss, then progress into the next area/difficulty. I hate backtracking to gain extra exp. and mission prequisites.

[mhjc]

Very disappointed. It is more like PSU-esque games hard mode. I was hoping for something like PSO hard mode, but that would mean less areas overall... I'll have some vain hope that SEGA will have enough variety to make things more interesting for Very hard mode.

[Priest]

It's not just hard mode, this game is pretty easy in general IMO. And hard desert is sort of a challenge. I just know that on PSO hard mode wasn't anything special either, so I have faith when they add ultimate or w/e.