Difficulty - Need To Plan Levels? Just How Tough Can It Get?

Keeping at defualt difficulty, does the game get overly difficult if
one should play more of a role-style then planned leveling (near maxing
attribute modifiers/skill levels) style? Should one be okay if they at
least understand how the leveling works and keep an overall eye and
general plan in place, where the numbres aren't really important to
them but 2-3x modifiers are faily constant?

Considering it being played intelligently and not just running around
blindly, how much does difficulty factor in to character design and
leveling?

Not sure I hit what just I'm trying to say, but I think I've gotten the
right 'feel'. Basically can someone go for a genre of character based
on look and idea rather then number crunching and statistics (getting
three 5x modifiers upon levels, placing most used skills as minor
skills so as to not count towards character leveling, etc.) and still
have an enjoyable game played their way, without too much panic and
difficulty in the later stages?

General thoughts welcome, I know its a bit broad and tough to judge,
personally I don't want to be spending too much time worrying over it,
won't be spending that much time a week playing the game so I would
rather enjoy the look and feel of a character and its use then some far
off goal or item usage hours and hours into the distant future while at
the same time I don't want it in the back of my mind that I'll be
needing to re-create it at some point as well.

Thanks.


peace,

i3lueHorneT wrote:
> Keeping at defualt difficulty, does the game get overly difficult if
> one should play more of a role-style then planned leveling (near maxing
> attribute modifiers/skill levels) style? Should one be okay if they at
> least understand how the leveling works and keep an overall eye and
> general plan in place, where the numbres aren't really important to
> them but 2-3x modifiers are faily constant?
>
> Considering it being played intelligently and not just running around
> blindly, how much does difficulty factor in to character design and
> leveling?
>
> Not sure I hit what just I'm trying to say, but I think I've gotten the
> right 'feel'. Basically can someone go for a genre of character based
> on look and idea rather then number crunching and statistics (getting
> three 5x modifiers upon levels, placing most used skills as minor
> skills so as to not count towards character leveling, etc.) and still
> have an enjoyable game played their way, without too much panic and
> difficulty in the later stages?
>
> General thoughts welcome, I know its a bit broad and tough to judge,
> personally I don't want to be spending too much time worrying over it,
> won't be spending that much time a week playing the game so I would
> rather enjoy the look and feel of a character and its use then some far
> off goal or item usage hours and hours into the distant future while at
> the same time I don't want it in the back of my mind that I'll be
> needing to re-create it at some point as well.
>
You don't have to worry about levelling or using or not using this or
that skill AT ALL. It's only the min-maxers that are obsessed with
having max stats that are posting about it. I'm playing the game
through for the second time. In both times I haven't cared about stats
or skills I should or should not use. Every time I levelled I was
indeed more powerful. No matter what, at almost every level my main
stats would go +2, sometimes +3. In the few times not all my main
stats went +2 or +3 I went ahead and increased something else like
strength (to carry more things mainly). I haven't had any problems at
all.