Difficulty Indicators

Visual indicators within the UI reveal certain information about the difficulty of creatures. The color of a creature's name is relative to a character's level and the portrait frame indicates the difficulty type of a creature.

Relative name color

The color of creature names give a quick indication of the difference between a creature's level compared to the character examining it. Creatures much higher than a player's skill level are prone to deflect or nullify attacks making it more difficult and sometimes impossible to defeat them while aggressive creatures will ignore a character nine or more levels above his own level.

Grey - 9 or more levels below the character's level (yields no XP)
Green - 6-8 levels below	Turquoise - 3-5 levels below	Blue - 1-2 levels below
White - Same level as yourself
Yellow - 1-2 level above	Orange - 3-4 levels above	Red - 5-7 levels above
Purple - 8 or more levels above (yields no XP) Most attacks deflected

Difficulty types

Together with a creature's level, difficulty type determines certain attributes such as morale, power, resistances and mitigations. Normal creatures are easily defeated while Arch-nemesis creatures require planning and cooperation to defeat. The prefix Rare on a difficulty level when hovering the mouse determines if it's a normal enemy or one that spawns at different areas and can be found prowling about. Types range from Swarm and Normal to Arch-nemesis. Combat NPCs aligned with the Free Peoples have an similar difficulty type scale ranging from Swarm to Hero. The difficulty type is revealed by hovering the mouse cursor over a creature or looking at its portrait frame.

Swarm	Swarm		Scion Swarm
Normal	Normal	Rare Normal	Scion Normal
Good Signature	Signature	Rare Signature	Scion Signature and above
Defender	Elite	Rare Elite
Master Defender	Elite Master	Rare Elite Master
Avenger	Nemesis	Rare Nemesis
Hero	Arch-nemesis	Rare Arch-nemesis