TL DR Comparing Divinity: Original Sin 2's difficulty to Dark Souls is intellectually lazy whataboutism. if you do all of the side quests, you can end the game at level 22 and if. There are enough experience points to get to level 20 by just doing quests without murdering everything for experience points. The max level is not 20, but rather a 'soft cap'. The free respec option does alleviate this, but you don't gain access to it until act 2, which can be a good 20+ hours into the game. At the Soft Cap of Level 20 each character will have: + 15 attribute points, + 49 ability points (68 for Lone Wolf talent) and + 7 talent points. In Divinity: Original Sin 2, however, it is entirely possible, as a result of poor stat distribution, skill choices and lack of synergy, to end up in a state where a fight becomes practically impossible, without any means of making it easier or grinding for more xp, at which point your only option is to restart the game. The game never stops you from progressing.

Even if you don't resort to summoning, you can always increase your stats by grinding more souls/blood echoes, which are for all intents and purposes an infinite resource.

There are usually NPCs that you can summon to help you, or you can summon other players, which makes boss fights considerably easier. Souls games always give you options if you can't beat a particular boss. Dark Souls is not difficult in the same way as D:OS2. Get all the latest divinity: original sin news, reviews, tips and much more from Kotaku Australia, where our team of experts is committed to bringing you stories to See Games Differently.

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