I'm not sure why you even bother complaining about how easy Alex NM is then OP, if you think it's "fine". Sounds like backpedaling to me.


In any case, your "worry" that Alex Savage will be very hard is well founded. It IS going to be very hard, and there's nothing wrong with that. They gave the easy mode for the story-lovers, and they're giving the "really hard" mode for the hardcore progress lovers.

No, there's not going to be a middle difficulty, and there shouldn't be. If they don't make it uber hard, then they are neglecting the progression players. Are they neglecting the "I don't want easy, but I don't want super hard either" group? Absolutely. But you're just going to have to get over that, especially since your group is the minority compared to the other two.

They aren't going to make an entirely new middle set of ilvl gear just so that you can have your "kinda hard but not really" difficulty setting. And it would be a lot more development work which could be better spent elsewhere.