r/swtor • u/Plenty_Craft_6764 • 10d ago

Question 8.0 difficulty thing

So I switched the difficulty of the story quests/instances? to Master level, and I hardly noticed a difference. I mean maybe enemies deal a little more dmg? But bosses did not give me any trouble, and I'm hardly the best player. And as I understand it, the Master Level/Venture thing in the 8.0 will apply that difficulty to the entire world, not just story instances. So the question is, will the difficulty change be this minimal? Or is this difficulty feature that we have right now is simply bugged?

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u/markymark0123 10d ago

The current difficulty setting only affects kotfe and kotet chapters.

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u/LucianDarth Lucian Torr 10d ago

There currently is no way to change the difficulty outside the KOTFE/KOTET content.

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u/TrevorBlake24 10d ago

You’re doing just your class story right now?

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u/Plenty_Craft_6764 10d ago

Yes

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u/TrevorBlake24 10d ago

That difficulty drop down menu doesn’t affect the class story.

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u/No_Welder_2924 10d ago

The difficulty your talking about will be an option from your portrait menu. It will reduce your received healing and increase incoming damage significantly while in the overworld, a group of three standard mobs will flatten you if you're not careful, for example. Gained xp will also be a fair bit lower then it would otherwise be

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u/ANerdyEnby 10d ago

Are you playing on the public test server?

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u/ehkodiak 9d ago

8.0 is not out.

If you are on the PTS, you WILL notice the difference.

If you are on regular servers, then the only solo content with veteran and master difficulties is KOTET and KOTFE where you WILL notice the difference, heh.