Why the hell did they increase the difficulty of Normal to pre-expansion Hard? I never died on Normal as a Barb doing campaign till this season/expansion and I died like 4 times in a row to the first mini boss thing i ran into… i had to spam potions till i almost ran out the fight was harder than my first go at Lilith and it wasn’t even a real boss. This is not enjoyable usually I rush to wt4 and enjoy the game for a few weeks before i get annoyed and bored, i haven’t even hit lv 50 and the trash mobs alone already make feel like putting the game down barb has never felt more like trash.
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Seriously. I don’t understand the levels at all. My chain lightning sorceror is 40-something now; I tried switching from Normal to Hard and the difference is HUGE. Are you supposed to be max level before you can raise difficulty? I mean, it’s not IMPOSSIBLE to play on Hard, but it is unpleasant. Trash mobs that you should be able to blow through fairly quickly instead take several minutes, potions, and cooldowns. It makes an already slow grind feel even slower. And supposedly when you go from Normal to Hard your xp and gold etc. is supposed to increase 75% or something? I’m not seeing it. If it weren’t for those opal things from the realmwalker events, I’d be broke and even lower level.
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I just don’t understand how people are playing barbarian this season. Do people just spam Rank 1 Basic attack since all their cooldowns are 20 seconds long while having no Fury for Core skills?
How are you guys struggling this hard… on normal? 
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Yeah confused as well. I started on Hard only to unlock Extreme, then move to Penitent as soon as I got a few decent legendaries lol. Think I’ve been on Penitent for about 75% of my playthrough on the campaign.
They’re not playing spiritborn duh lol I’ve blasted to torment 1 with garbage gear on Spiritborn but it’s literally the most broken character in any blizzard game I think I’ve seen
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I mean, to clarify, I’m OK on Normal, no problems. But when I try to move up it’s not impossible, just tiresome and not fun. I’m following a build guide and geared respectably for leveling. It just doesn’t seem like it should be this hard.
So spiritborn is the secret? I really wanted to finish the expansion with my favorite class (sorceror) before trying spiritborn.
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Seems people are just spoiled with Season 5 leveling. I got to level 100 in Season 5 in five hours. Completed the entire Season Journal in 10 hours. It looks like the average playerbase is going to hit paragon 100 in 50 hours.
basic then core and might throw then ultimate, no resource issue unless you spam core, i started on Hard and had to turn it to normal bc the trash mobs were way too tanky and taking forever to kill without ultimate and xp seemed to be faster on normal because it was easy to kill everything till it started scaling and the gear drops couldn’t keep up. im never on normal but something is wack this season when it comes to the difficulty and scaling.
Barb isn’t a barb anymore, our defenses are mostly gone, our damage is non existent, they’ve given the ability to berserk to some of the other classes, Druid is a shouty boi too now, there is no identity left.
My thorns damage isn’t from people attacking me, it’s mostly an AoE thing from the new capstone.
I throw out ghost hammers for more damage.
I have ghost bros charging with me.
I even have a rain of meteorites fall down from the sky every ten seconds.
I actually hit somebody with a weapon occasionally to trigger might and belligerence.
I’m a caster, not a barbarian.
Its not so much the difficulty itself, like monster hp/dmg but the lack of items and materials. You barely get any aspects to start a build and barely any materials to imprint and temper.
Imo they should unlock the codex, meaning all aspects at base lvl and increase the material drop rate and reduce cost at early lvls.
If you make it pass through the 1-60 slog then the progression becomes smoother and more similar to previus seasons.
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You need a build guide 
Even with Barbarians being weaker this season, it’s still an easy game.
I started level 1 at hard lol. Idk how anyone can play normal and not be bored out of their minds with the game this easy
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i refuse to play spiritborn, its like owning a cheat having a spiritborn build. We all know it’s already op compared to All classes and does not make any sense for all this difficulty options when it will dominate every content. i’m also playing barb this season like every season and end with barb. starting with basic bash or DD and eventually go might throw or thornes or stick to bash.
Wow, I skipped season 5, but that sounds like it was actually fun. Why would they step back from that?
Season 5 was only 2 months long. Blizzard wanted to fast track players so they can complete the Seasonal Journal.
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Normal should be easy I am 47 I I keep have drink potions like it’s water.
My gear sucks but in normal shouldn’t matter. They should nerf mobs by 50% and nerf drops and xp by 50%.
I felt I was going to die fighting the mini boss. On normal it’s stupid. Why they buffed because someone like it’s to easy. That’s why it’s called normal.
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No. Normal should come with game mechanics that require you to use your brain and engage with all such mechanics to do well. What you want is “Easy” and sure perhaps Blizzard will add a story mode or easy mode difficulty that’s easier than Normal but until they do… play the game as intended and you will succeed.
i started on hard too but had to drop to normal around lev 30-40 bc everything was taking forever to kill and i started dying, it’s not a skill issue either which im surprised i haven’t seen a “get gud” comment yet… it’s a drops are rarer and i out leveled the gear drops and hit a brick wall of lack of dmg and survival while unlocking aspects in the dungeons, im also use to not following a maxroll ect guide (use them for endgame builds only except when on hc toons)… i hit 60 last night and went to max roll copy pasted the might throw starter build and went back to hard and the game crashed trying to open the kurast timed dungeon thing lol