Difficulty Indicators

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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
See Creatures by Type for all different types.

See also

Level