How difficult/fun is the increased landscape difficulty?

[Strider5548]

I didn't see anyone asking for Deadly (whatever) to be made easier. There are some of us who don't like the explosions for reasons that have nothing to do with the challenge they add to the experience. I and others explain our reasons above.

I don't think anyone actually likes the 'laser beam' animation for a variety of reasons...but that's just the problem, the animation. Having a puddle mechanic in landscape is perfectly fine, they should just work on a better way to display the attack that happens if you don't get out in time.

As for difficulty, TBH the landscape difficulty slider can make things very hard if you are leveling 1-50, but once you get your LIs landscape becomes incredibly easy again. It would be cool if they added more mechanics than just a puddle, but I don't expect any more work will be put into this feature.

One thing to consider though is that the difficulty slider persists in skirmishes (up to 3 people I believe), which can make T3 skirmishes actually very challenging.