I went through the screenshots tab awhile back and noticed something really disturbing—people doing hard content with garbage food.

I saw one screenshot of a guy who still had bronze gear in the Swamp and was using Cooked Boar/Deer meat and a Yellow Mushroom when he could have been using Deer Stew/Minced Meats/Carrot Soup.

I saw another screenshot of someone new to the Mistlands running around with Sausages/Wolf Jerky/Cloudberries.

The more and more I saw, the more I've come to believe that people who whine and moan about difficulty have no idea how to properly prepare for harder content and just go running in expecting everything to fall over with minimal effort.