User blog:LadyAzur/Difficulties

Sometimes I have a bit trouble with my tasks. Ok, I have a lot of Dailies (so many that I usually find the most items for the collection quests - although I am a Healer ^^), so it's no wonder I come into trouble easily.

But it's not only a matter of numbers. Some Dailies are much harder than others. Or I procrastinate the whole day and an hour before Cron I need to do my unloved tasks to avoid boss damage for my party. Do you have such tasks, too? Or do you have this one Daily that's repeatedly left uncompleted? Perhaps it's time to adjust your task's Difficulty!

You can set the task difficulty under Advanced Options when editing a task. The default difficulty for a task is "Easy".

So if you have such a neglected Daily that's hard for you to complete, you can change the difficulty to "Hard" to reflect your attitude towards the task. If you complete a hard task, you'll get higher rewards - but you'll lose more HP, too if you don't complete the Daily.

One of my main goals in Habitica is to avoid Death, so I will avoid to skip a hard Daily. I recently recognized that I was constantly procrastinating on my "Mini Workout" task, so it's time to increase the difficulty of this one. As long as we (my party) are fighting Quest Bosses, it might help, but to be honest: As soon as we start a collection quest, I will skip my workout again.

Hey, I am a Healer, and my CON is good enough to cope with some damage! But... if you know (like me) that you don't want to do the task, try to figure out why. If making the task harder does not help, you should re-think it. Try to find out, why you are procrastinating. For me, I chose to switch from daily to 4 times per week and added another exercise. Now I need a bit more time to complete the task, but I have allowed free days, too.

You see, adjusting the task diffculty can help - but not for every task, personality or situation. If you need some more ideas or Remedies, have a look at Obstacles. You'll find a bunch of really helpful tips in this article!