# Unable to change difficulty **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [June 22, 2021, 10:36pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/unable-to-change-difficulty/70640 "2021-06-22T22:36:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chicktastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@Chicktastic](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Chicktastic)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 10:36pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/unable-to-change-difficulty/70640/1 "2021-06-22T22:36:44Z")
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**Author:** ![Graeme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@Graeme](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Graeme)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 10:42pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/unable-to-change-difficulty/70640/2 "2021-06-22T22:42:29Z")
> **[Difficulty settings and their benefits](https://gemsofwar.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000335846-Difficulty-settings-and-their-benefits)** > > Certain game modes allow you to select the difficulty settings. Setting them high will not only make the opposing team more difficult to defeat but it will also apply reward bonuses. > The following ... ---
**Author:** ![Chicktastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@Chicktastic](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Chicktastic)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 11:00pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/unable-to-change-difficulty/70640/3 "2021-06-22T23:00:40Z")
I have seen this article already. If you look at my image you can see that the option isn’t there to change difficulty. ---
**Author:** ![Graeme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@Graeme](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Graeme)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 11:19pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/unable-to-change-difficulty/70640/4 "2021-06-22T23:19:45Z")
What game mode is that? The option to change difficulty levels in certain game modes was removed quite a while back. ---
**Author:** ![Chicktastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@Chicktastic](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Chicktastic)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 12:47am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/unable-to-change-difficulty/70640/5 "2021-06-23T00:47:09Z")
It’s the kingdom quests. As I’m coming back to the game after some time, I was wondering if it was removed. The link explaining difficultly them needs to be updated? ---
**Author:** ![Graeme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@Graeme](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Graeme)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 12:52am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/unable-to-change-difficulty/70640/6 "2021-06-23T00:52:46Z")
The link I posted doesn’t mention kingdom quests as one of the game modes that has a difficulty level setting. Only Explore, Casual PvP and Vault. ---
**Author:** ![Chicktastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@Chicktastic](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Chicktastic)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 1:03am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/unable-to-change-difficulty/70640/7 "2021-06-23T01:03:53Z")
Ok thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Jeto](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jeto/32/101682_2.png) [@Jeto](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jeto)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 3:46am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/unable-to-change-difficulty/70640/8 "2021-06-23T03:46:16Z")
@Chicktastic , @Graeme is correct. You can not change the Difficulty on Kingdom Quests. The article is up to date, listing; - Explore - Casual PVP - The Vault As Game modes with the option to change difficulty. Difficulty options in Kingdom Quests was removed I believe at least 2 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Sytro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sytro](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sytro)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 7:02am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/unable-to-change-difficulty/70640/9 "2021-06-23T07:02:28Z")
Just to clarify a bit → difficulty setting can still be set for Explore and Vault, but it’s not from battle screen anymore: - you pick difficulty on which you want to play Vault on screen where you pick Vault Key to use - you pick difficulty(from 1 to 12) on Explore for whole run (5-6 next battles in selected Kingdom) But other than that, there’s no difficulty setting that gems used to had.