Magic: Legends Details Difficulty Modifiers And Settings In Their Latest Dev Video

Cryptic Studios gives Magic: Legends fans a brief overview of the upcoming ARPG’s difficulty and difficulty modifier system in a new dev video from Design Lead Adam Hetenyi.

“During your adventures across the multiverse, you will encounter countless enemies both small and large, all with individual powers and ability sets,” explains Hetenyi. “Depending on your experience with action RPGs, these encounters will offer a varying degree of challenge to you. Because of that, we designed the difficulty system in Magic: Legends to allow you to make sure your time in the game is as difficult or as straightforward as you prefer.”

Magic: Legends will feature four difficulty settings: Normal, Hard, Expert, and Master. Enemy damage and health, as well as the quality and chance to drop loot will scale depending on the chosen difficulty setting. Players will start at Normal difficulty by default but will be able to unlock succeeding difficulty levels by reaching certain level milestones in the game.

Weekly rotating modifiers called Regional Enchantments will also offer additional challenges and a certain degree of unpredictability to the game. Enchantments will alter various rules of the game, such as applying a universal buff or debuff to a certain region, to force players to adapt by building a different loadout, trying a different approach or playstyle, or a combination of both. These modifiers are absent in Normal difficulty, optional in Hard, and automatically applied in Expert and Master difficulties.

World Enchantments can also be crafted an attached to mission maps to further increase the mission’s difficulty on top of existing Regional Enchantments. These can be crafted or traded with other players and are consumed upon use.

Why would you purposely make things more difficult, you ask? Well, increased difficulty translates to higher quality loot and rewards and a higher chance of acquiring them. And we all know that you can’t resist shiny new trinkets, right?

Magic: Legends kicks off open beta on March 23 with exclusive reward packages awaiting participating players.

Check out the video below to learn more about difficulty settings and modifiers in Magic: Legends.