NR is getting too easy imo.
Even the everdarks are getting easy. There's little point to them if there going to usually be mostly the same thing with a similar amount of challenge.
Everdark caligo wasn't that hard and was a joke if she had the glitch. Caligo wasn't hard. Agur wasn't hard. Everdark agur wasn't hard and slower to fight. Darkdrift knight isn't particularly hard once you understand him. ED dark drift wasn't particularly hard. Sentient pest wasn't hard. ED pest wasn't hard and was drawn out. Heolostor didn't take all too long for me to overcome.
Adel is an exception to this.
You can't die in the open world no matter what you do and dying to day1/2 bosses is rarer than teleporting into the sky and getting struck by lighting 152 times then getting hit by a sentient cloak with the ability to control people who attack paper. You can only really die in NL fights and even those are getting really easy.
I main guardian as well.
And don't hit me with "play a diffrent game" or "just stay at low level". Because there isn't a game like NR and staying at low level won't go well with randoms, and it's extremely boring and lame to not get stronger when you do anything. You'll feel like killing enemies is mostly purposeless.
What I think they should do:
They could add a new difficulty of NL called a Night king. They have all the phases of their normal and everdark counterparts whilst having 1 or more of their own.
Night king caligo for example would start in phase one and have a HP bar for each phase so you can't melt her easily. After her everdark phase is over she gets dark ice lightning and she has ice dragons that will strike on command. After that phase is over she'll conjure a massive ice mountain and you'll have to climb on it while dealing with frost based enemies. They'll be plenty of hazards to deal with and when you reach the top you'll fight her while she grows the ice mountain taller so you'll have to move quickly. But she doesn't have much HP in this phase so getting to her is the hard part. In her finale phase the massive eye in the back steps in and everything goes to hell.
Frost dragons can repair her armour.
Caligo will have a frostbite stack mechanic that gets stronger and has more levels throughout the fight. She can apply frost bite to you once and again after it's gone. She can apply frost bite a second time even if you've already got it which further debuffs you like your speed for example in second phase. This will keep increasing until she can freeze you.
When you approach a Night king you'll have to survive more days than usual. About 5 of them. 1 and second day is like it is. after the second day you fight a normal night lord. They drop a guaranteed legendary and more when you kill it.
After that you drop from the sky again and the map is diffrent. The map takes place in the sky. You have to jump from rock to rock to move out of the night's grasp or to a diffrent POI. The night bosses are much harder in the second half of a night king hunt. After the 3rd day the map will take place in space and will become MUCH more perilous. Events are more common on the third day and FAR more common on the 4th day. You'll effectively be bombarded with random shit every dozen seconds. The 4th days is far more about surviving than looting.
You will face a stronger ED NL before a night king.
What do you guys think about this? Criticise freely and leave your ideas and opinions in the comments.
Posted Aug 10, 2025, 1:17 AM UTC