History YMMV / KingdomsOfAmalurReckoning

** "Long Overdue" isn't hard as much as it is ''really annoying.'' You get it in the first town in the game, but it can't actually be completed until almost the end of the game. And the reward is a measly (and especially measly for the point of the game that you'll be able to complete the quest) amount of coin.

** Niskaru Bloodhunters. These things are very fast, can cause bleeding (which decreases defense and saps HP like poison) and can hit pretty hard too. To make things worse they never come alone and sometimes they serve as backup for ''bosses''.

** Trolls. Hulking and very strong enemies that are also quite fast when they decide to chase you if you are pelting them with arrows and spells. Trolls can withstand a lot of punishment and their attacks hurts ''a lot'', especially in Finesse and Sorcery characters. Prismere Trolls are buffed up Trolls and take their most deadly qualities up to a notch.

** Crudoks are met fairly early in the game and can be quite a challenge for the poorly equipped. They have a ''very'' annoying ranged attack that can homes and an strong poison attack on melee range.

** Crudoks are met fairly early in the game and can be quite a challenge for the poorly equipped. They have a ''very'' annoying ranged attack that can hit multiple times and an above average poison attack on melee range.

* GoddamnedBats: Wolves especially early in the game. They come in packs and tend to coordinate their attacks to flank you, they also stay out of your melee weapons reach and can cause the Bleeding effect which slowly drains your health and decreases your Physical Defense.

** As with most newer {{Western RPG}}s, liberal use of crafting, namely blacksmithing, takes any semblance of difficulty and pounds it into oblivion. Maxing out Black Smiting can be done hilariously early, especially if one chooses a race that gets a bonus to it. Load up on health and mana regenerating components/gems, grab the crappiest weapon and armor of the highest type you have access too, save scum a little to make sure you get the base crafting item out of them, mix it all together and you are wearing clothes and wielding swords that are twice as potent as even the strongest items you could possibly have access too, at less than a tenth of the cost of actually buying a piece of gear that would laughably be called comparable, and allowing you to sell the immensely valuable gear you'd normally want to wear. Enjoy virtually unlimited gold, health and mana.

** Boggarts are at most a nuisance even at the very beginning, however they can distract or stun you enough for a '''Thresh''' to land its dangerous attacks on you.

* BossInMookClothing: Crudoks. Their attacks are ''extremely'' damaging (and all of them poisonous) and one of them homes in, and they have a tendency to leap around a lot (making it difficult to deal with them in melee). They're also almost always encountered alongside a group of weaker minions, which leaves the player the option of fighting those off first and opening themselves up to the Crudok's attack, or fighting the Crudok first and potentially getting stunlocked.

** "Long Overdue" isn't hard as much as it is ''really annoying.'' You get it in the first town in the game, but it can't actually be completed until almost the end of the game. Okay, so it takes the length of the game, big deal - did I mention it involves collecting items that will take up up to ten inventory slots for effectively the entire game?

** There's the scattershot ability, which when combined with other longbow abilities, all bleeding related abilities and the right armor can deal thousands of damage total, is more or less guaranteed to cause bleeding and potentially poisons the target too. ( Also, you can make poison propagate to other enemies and bleeding can randomly deal a lot of bonus damage. With this setup even the normally weak shadow weave ability ( which is supposed to enhance your attacks rather than actually being one ) can oneshot a prismere troll.
** You can kill a Jottun with basic stealth. Or an entire army of them. Or kobolds, or anything else for that matter if it isn't a troll or niskaru. In fact, with the [[SmokeOut smokebomb]] ability you can backstab most humanoid bosses, killing them in a single hit.

** "The Killing Ground". You need to escort a [[LeeroyJenkins suicidal]] warrior with pitiful health and defenses through hordes of Tuatha and ''[[BossInMookClothing Prismere Trolls]]''.

* PlayerPunch: Arguably the House of Sorrows storyline. [[spoiler:The person that originally inducts you into the House of Sorrows uses you as a means to destroy it from within. Basically everyone is dead and the SecondComing of the House's founder has to sacrifice themselves to save the world]]. Especially punch-worthy as the Fateless One would of recently [[Awesome/KingdomsOfAmalurReckoning broken the Mel Senshir siege]] and that was one of the reasons the player is approached to join.

** The mage's Meteor spell can instant kill everything in a large area that isn't highly resistant to fire. That pretty much means everything but trolls and Niskaru Lords become laughably easy.
*** The game has a potential equipment effect that reduces casting cost, but the internal calculation is wonky. Not only does the effect reduce the cost by a flat percentage rate, not a proportion -at one hundred percent reduction, spells are free- but it stacks multiplicatively, so you really only need about 85%, or so. This isn't hard to get,[[note]]You can get 40% reduction from two rings you'll earn as part of the Scholia Arcana questline, another 20% from the higher-level Sorcery destiny perks, another 20% with but ten points invested in Sorcery, and a final necessary 10% from a purple helmet you can find in the first area after the tutorial.[[/note]] and since high-level magic is balanced by casting cost, not recharge time, (all of which are relatively negligible.) you can use all of your gear to upgrade your health and armor, instead. It's almost impossible to lose at this point.

* GoddamnedBats: Wolves especially early in the game. They come in packs and tend to coordinate their attacks to flank you, they also stay out of your melee weapons and can cause the Bleeding effect which slowly drains your health and decreases your Physical Defense.

** Also extends to BossInMookClothing like bog threshes or crudoks. Groups of sprite champions can also be a real handful if you're not prepared to instantly take them out. Sprites can use the same atacks as any nearby sprite champion, champions can use other champion's attacks as well. For mages this is particularly hard as sprites get elemental resistance from their champions, and most of a mages' weapons and offensive abilities deal elemental damage. For the same reason trolls are tough fights for mages, they have very high elemental resistances.

** Also extends to BossInMookClothing like bog threshes or crudoks. Groups of sprite champions can also be a real handful if you're not prepared to instantly take them out. ( Sprites can use the same atacks as any nearby sprite champion, champions can use other champion's attacks as well. )

*** The game has a potential equipment effect that reduces casting cost, but the internal calculation is wonky. Not only does the effect reduce the cost by a flat percentage rate, not a proportion -at one hundred percent reduction, spells are free- but it stacks multiplicatively, so you really only need about 85%, or so. This isn't hard to get,[[hottip:*: You can get 40% reduction from two rings you'll earn as part of the Scholia Arcana questline, another 20% from the higher-level Sorcery destiny perks, another 20% with but ten points invested in Sorcery, and a final necessary 10% from a purple helmet you can find in the first area after the tutorial.]] and since high-level magic is balanced by casting cost, not recharge time, (all of which are relatively negligible.) you can use all of your gear to upgrade your health and armor, instead. It's almost impossible to lose at this point.

* {{Antivillain}}: Arguably Maid of Windamere, at least in the telling with Fateless One as Sir Saggrel.

* FakeDifficulty: Like most action games, getting hit just once in a MultiMookMelee can lead to being stagger-locked for half your lifebar or more. Your only saving grace is the fact that you can use healing potions no matter what else is going on.
** The game's auto-targeting system also leads to InterfaceScrew sometimes. The algorithm works by a combination of range ("What's nearest me?") and aggro ("What most recently hit me?") and has no option for locking in a target in case you want to pursue it.

* ThatOneSideQuest: "The Guiding Hands" can become this if you haven't been leveling your Stealth skill up to that point.

** Also extends to BossInMookClothing like bog threshes or crudoks. Groups of sprite champions can also be a real handful if you're not prepared to instantly take them out. ( Sprites can use the same atacks as any nearby sprite champion, champions can use other champion's attacks as well. )

* {{Gamebreaker}}: The mage's Meteor spell can instant kill everything in a large area that isn't highly resistant to fire. That pretty much means everything but trolls and Niskaru Lords become laughably easy.