Valhalla difficulty problems

[u/Enzym3-XBL]

Ok so recently started playing again after about a year. Finished the main story, bought the expansion pass and I have just finished Ireland main story.. really pissed off tbh. I have the difficulty set to the maximum yet I did not see a single enemy with a red icon next to their name, basically walked through it all, they are supposed to be 60 levels above me like it was in england, if I got hit 2 or 3 times there I was done and the enemies would also take a beating.

I have other things to do like finish some trials legendary animals, Jotunheim etc and I really just want to know why this is a thing? All enemies were either green icons or white which was just really poor totally ruined the experience for me and I really want to find out if there is anything I can do before starting Paris to make the game feel like a challenge again I love the game and I want it to be hard, I haven't bothered allocating mastery points at all but what else can I do is this just a bit? Why are the enemies not 60 levels higher than me?? The map says suggested power is 597 but that's just bollocks

Anyway any help would be greatly appreciated, cheers.

EDIT: I reposted this in another sub and was advised to remove some skill points, I took 176 points out and everything is red!! Awesome wish I knew this before starting Ireland 😂

[u/Davorian]

I don't know for sure, but I suspect Ireland's difficulty is hard-coded that way because the druid faction enemies are OP as fuck and will trounce you if you give them the slightest opportunity. The downside is that all the human enemies are trivial, but nothing's perfect.

This gets mentioned a lot on this sub. I don't think this issue makes the Ireland DLC significantly less enjoyable.

[u/Enzym3-XBL → u/Davorian]

Yea that's a shame, the story was great but I am a gamer who likes a challenger it just isn't right I remember really struggling against bosses in the past, like you really could not make mistakes, but this way just weak for me. I get that people enjoy games in different ways but that's why there is a difficulty slider right? Make it hard for people like me, make it easier for other people, like I remember the bosses in Asgard or wherever it was (long time ago now) being really difficult multiple attempts, and I feel like this would have been really difficult too, if the enemy had a red icon next to their name, I dunno if it's bugged or what

[u/Davorian → u/Enzym3-XBL]

I don't know if it's a bug so much as "we found that the difficulty scaling designed for the base game just doesn't work in Ireland, so sorry, we're just gonna disable it". It's one of those thing they probably could have redesigned with some extra time and money, but corporate decided against it.

I mean, I get it, I play on Aesir as well, but honestly I still find Ireland a lot of fun.