why is casual difficulty so hard?

I'm having this same issue! It took me 5 minutes to kill a single enemy who got stuck in a tree and couldn't move. 5 minutes of continuous attacking! This can't be right.

Keep in mind that enemies don't scale to your character's level. There are some enemies in the Hinterlands whose level may be twice as high as your character's. Even on casual that should be a challenging encounter.

Fred

Where did they find wolves at? I've yet to find wolves in the game. Of course I've only gotten to the Pride demon which teas my whole party apart. I'm fine up until then.  He must have 15k in hp and my party with the cheesy weapons for which we start out with and their 500 hp  we might get him down to 1/2 his hp even on casual. Now to me thats just a plain over kill there. Also where in the heck do you find the pre-order items for which we're suppose to have gotten. I use the pc and have yet to find them.

Because you wqant to rush through and skip finding all of the side quests and, are hitting areas aboove your level. That or you played DAO or II with god mods or in god mode and expect DAI casual to be that w/o mods or god mode.

I'm playing on normal and I don't think it's that hard. You have to make sure you have decent protection and weapons, and you invest in decent abilities. Also, you need to make sure you are actually attacking something, and not just hitting air. This game has a slight problem when you are not using the tactical view when attacking. Your character can hit at nothing. Make sure you are locking onto targets to help prevent this. 

Flanking is always good as well as having some ranged attacks from your party. Use your fighters/dual weapon rogues to attack the strong people (two on 1 strategy) and then use the others as ranged (arrow and/or mage) support. Winter's Grasp is good at holding an enemy back and you can shatter them once frozen. 

As someone pointed out remember the enemies don't scale to your level.

In the Hinterlands I ran in to templars and apostates which were level 3-4 who were easy to deal with

only to find myself being shredded by level 8 Mabari hounds that just happened to walk by. 

guess you just gotta pick your battles better in this game.

Game sucks

@teganleblanc ;  Running away from enemies who are much more powerful is a viable (pun intended) strategy in this game.  There are many possible encounters, especially early in the game, that the Party is just not ready to handle.  My advice?  Learn the better part of valor!  😇

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Game sucks

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