new player, questions on difficulty?
finally coming back to this series, been waiting for turn based mode to come out on 1 as im more into it than i am rtwp.
starting my first playthrough now and am torn between hard and potd. i will probably only do one playthrough of the game, and i read that potd is kind of like the intention so i think im leaning more towards that one? i plan to continue on into deadfire at the same difficulty
a lot of the comments ive seen about potd dont reference turn based mode, which other people seem to say increases lethality/reduces difficulty. not a lot of info on how these two things interact. I'm someone who is relatively experienced with CRPGS (dragon age, divinity series, kingmaker, bg3. for reference I thought bg3 tactician was laughably easy, but im admittedly very familiar with the system)
my main question is for someone who is okay with dying and having to come back to areas later, but doesnt know much about the game or want to wiki every quest/fight to get through it, would hard or potd be better? I'm set against using expert mode.
For class/race, I am pretty sure I'm going pale elf cipher. Is this lorefitting? From what I understand it should give me a good amount of reactivity. what starting stats should i go?