Yeah what I was trying to say earlier is that I hope the difficulty is not akin to taking off armor or not eating food - that is just lazy and frankly does not really make the game any harder - at least not in any meaningful way. I mean if the enemy AI can't score a hit on you in the first place since it just walks circles around you does armor or food matter? I really hope the slider isn't just scaling damage and HP etc... it would be nice to see the aggressive AI back as one of the difficulty options - make the AI smarter and much more aggressive. It would be nice if the battle tactics themselves were harder (they were before the nerf) and not simply a game of trading blows or letting gear alone define barriers to entry. This would promote an avenue for players to get better at the game or at least make combat more interesting.

The goal is accessibility. Telling players that think the game is too easy to take off armor is like telling players who think it too hard to just enable god mode. Neither of these are good solutions. I don't want to see any player alienated - reducing difficulty to a state of boredom eliminates some players just as making it too hard does. I believe the difficulty slider is the answer - I just hope they put some real thought into it.