EVERY single streamers out there so far has suggested anyone that want to have any kind of efficiency in lvling and comfort to just pick Normal until lvl 60.
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Huge bulk of your experience gain are from campaign quest turn in and that does not scale with higher difficulty. So, higher difficulty level only awards higher XP per monster kill.
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Apparently from normal ->hard → Expert monster HP jumps significantly, while a skilled player might be able to get by in higher difficulty but due to severe lack of gear and dps you will take 5 min to kill 1 monster (boss) where ppl on Normal will kill it in 5 seconds…
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Tackling a group of monsters and potentially aggro more on the move in higher difficulty is a death sentence during lvling, especially when you are under geared and not much skills to use to survive or escape.
Can someone please enlighten me, the people that asked for penitent to unlock at level 1, what is your rationale ? are you really going to pick that difficulty to lvl or you are just crying for the sake of crying because blizz decided originally to gate penitent behind level cap ?
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Better to have more options, then no options at all. That’s really the gist of it. Not to mention it used to be unlocked at level 60. So now with it being unlocked pretty much anytime you’re feeling feisty, you can go right in and have fun. I see it better for any alts you make, slap on a Mythic at 35 and just go have fun in Penitent.
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doesn’t it unlock anyway when you have a main at 60 ? Alt shouldn’t be an issue though ?
Not sure if it only unlocked for that character, or your entire account. I didn’t actually check that in the PTR.
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Pfft… I’m a masochist so I am most assuredly going to give it a go lol.
Fun is more important to me than efficiency.
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hahaha, ok, let us know when you decide to turn it down to Normal. I am guessing fairly quickly
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I mean, if it’s fun who cares about efficiency ya know?
I mean this game is not a race.
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I can tell you from personal experience, Expert was definitely not worth it at level 1. I could kill things, but my survivability was low, and my damage was even lower, just took too long. 
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They are planning to wait a few days and then beg for powerlevels using that difficulty most likely.
But a season only last 3 months, I think there is a time limit in my perspective no ?
If I want to fully deck out a character and more, I don’t know if that will be enough time.
To pretend they have mad skills on the forums.
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True but I’ve so far never needed the whole season to max out a toon. I’ve maxed out a handful and still had a lot of time left in the season.
Of course, haven’t tried it yet so atm, I’m really talking out of my tushy lol.
But we’ll see tomorrow!
You know… I’ve actually never not started in expert so far in D4.
Btw, this is not a flex.
ye I never had issue before too. But seems like they’ve added so much stuff for VoH to do and gear is relatively harder to obtain now, especially Mythics. So I am a bit worried actually.
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Lets all agree to switch penitent for the first world boss kill. It will be like killing Ashava in the Beta. Who’s in?
Oh I just meant in the PTR. Currently I always start in WT2. With the changes though, I may just end up staying in Normal, not even Hard. I’ll be leveling with the wife though, she’s going Spiritborn, so maybe she can carry me through it at lower levels.
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LOL, you for real or just… sayin it for the laugh.
You could reach enrage timer and still not down the boss you know, or if get enjoyment seeing your tombstone pop up and others over and over, I don’t know why you would but…
Ahhhh… I did not touchy the PTR since I wanted that new car smell when it launches.
I guess I’ll see tomorrow if I’m talking out my tushy lol.
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Same , on live now I’ve always started in WT2, the extra skill pts from renown carry over really helps.
But coming VoH the difficulty environment has been significantly revamped. The difficulty in live game with World tiers was a lot more manageable it seems.
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I’m for real. I’m not playing hardcore. If enough show up, we could do it. Might be fun.