Originally posted by Leftcoast:

For sure should be an option.

Normal difficulty should be mostly as is. The mistlands was a bit over nerfed, and needs some tweaks here tho. For what the mistlands started as.... that was extreme difficulty. I can't even get my friends who didn't play it to understand and a couple are pretty hard core old gamers. I am all for that being on the high difficulty tho cause there a lot of us that want/need that. It was not so bad after I geared up (of course I learned a lot too), however, the grind to gear up was also a big part of the difficulty frustration with the pre-nerf mistlands. Now, I think POIs tend to have more cores, so that would have helped me a lot.

I actually just barely didn't play the pre nerfed mistlands, was in the mountains and early plains when the nerf hit. Then reddit blowed up about it. My only encounter with the pre nerf mistlands was a swamp age body retrieval, because it went from a safe buffer zone(used it as an empty safezone close to a swamp) to a very hostile environment, and that was obviously not fun lol. I was kind of disappointed I couldn't take revenge on the level it was at during that time later on.

If some of the nerf is preserved I would prefer it to be done with spawn frequencies instead of retaining some of the lame AI(particularly for seekers). How bad was the pre nerf night time ML? Even worse than what you describe? Maybe make the night time ML as bad as pre nerf daytime ML, and daytime still a tad busier than it is now?

It's not that I am even that good at the game, I died often in my playthrough. It's just that in my experience you develop muscle memory pretty fast after some persistence, so I know from previous gaming experiences that things can go from impossibly hard to trivially easy eerily smoothly. And if it is really hard I can always bring a ton of tamed wolves with me, beats lowering the difficulty haha.