Did They Make Veteran Harder?

Hello all,

I played the absolute crap out of Grim Dawn back in late December and January. I ran three characters (a summoner, a DEE lock, and a 2h Warden) up to 85 and through Ultimate. As I leveled all three, I always played on Veteran for the extra challenge. Of course, it was noticeably more difficult than normal, but I still plowed through it pretty quick and didn’t find it particularly tough.

I just came back to the game and decided I wanted to make a character with either Nightblade or Demolitionist as the main class. I’ve worked up three characters to 30 or so, but man, it seems so much tougher than I remember. Don’t get me wrong… I’m happy about it, I love a good challenge. I’m just wondering, am I super rusty, or did they seriously ramp up the difficulty of the game. I haven’t played since mid February, so I’m sure there have been a number of changes over the past 3 months. Are these classes just much weaker in the beginning than the ones I already tried? I’m purposefully not twinking any gear… basically pretending I’ve never played before (although I do have all the formulas… can’t change that).

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced something similar that took a multi-month break and are giving it another go.

Thanks in advance,

Sep

Last few times I ran through I barely noticed it was on veteran tbh… I feel like it was tuned down if anything.

The first three toons you did were very powerful and easy to level.

Nightblades are heavily gear dependant before they become gods, and the demolitionist… depends on what skills your maxing first depends on whether you find the beginning easy or hard :slight_smile:

I can’t remember any increases in difficulty in the patch notes since feb regarding vet difficulty.

For me veteran is harder than elite and ultimate by far. If you bump into multiple champions on vet you can die. I had a warder with high res and an insane hp pool and as soon as I entered act 2 I was insta killed by the rock creature things, 2 rocks hit me and did over 8k dmg…

I have died a total of 3 times on vet with about 10 chars and never died on elite or ultimate.