February 27, 2014 2:15 PM EST
Jasper, like I said I welcome comments but I am puzzled by your disagreement. Did you read my post? Before you disagree with me and be dismissive of my experience can you comment on your use of followers. Like I said in the post I have played several builds successfully on master (especially Masons) but any builds that I have played with a follower or summon tend to be much more powerful. Of course I realize as you power up turning up the difficulty has an importance but that was not the point of the discussion. I look at playing on master as a challenge but I feel using a follower or summon is a cheat around the increased difficulty and how alot of these videos of playthroughs on higher difficulties abuse the follower/summon.
Especially at low levels when a hit from a 2-hander can take you out in 1 blow, whereas a follower can take 10 of those hits and be fine.
So I guess your disagreeing with me at higher levels when you are all pimped out and maybe its at those points that the difficulty should be turned up, but when you first start out and go toe to toe with a bandit with similar gear to you and your hits do so much less than his, it is at these times where your hits seem like water pistol hits.
My recent attempt at master in the quest for the dragonstone (damn its been so long I cant remember the crypt name) I tried to take out that frostbite spider with simple flames and it was not fun, i had to use all my mana pots and still the spider was barely hurt. After fast traveling back to town and getting sven with no gear I ran back in and sven beat the spider with his dagger. This is all to illustrate how waterdowned your character can feel and how much the game shifts with followers and summons.
I could have also found myself an enchanted sword and meleed the spider but I was trying to play a destruction mage. And on that playthough I had not found one yet (the first you find is usually from the draug at the end of the dungeon). And why should sven in his regular clothes wielding his dagger be more powerful than me?