People don't play on advanced difficulty. I tried to find party with advanced difficulty and found only 3 from 100.
P.s. party finder is still broken, i can't find low ranked missions. Fix it, please.
Third difficulty is not necessary
"P.s. party finder is still broken, i can't find low ranked missions. Fix it, please."
http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Release_Notes_2012-06-19
"and wait as it attempts to find parties for you near your current Rank."
As for the advanced difficulty, even if people don't use it, let it be.
It's already there, it doesn't cause any problems.
Weird, in this way it should offer me T3 depths. I want to help with missions but i can't cause i can find nothing but KoA.
I play advanced. Elite just gives rarities a greater chance to drop (i think).
Normal 80% of crowns and heat, advanced 100% of crowns and heat, elite 125% of crowns and heat. Difficulties increase orb drop rates the harder they are. Advanced is essentially what the game was before difficulties were implemented.
Oh that clears things up. So would elite be considered to be the difficlty when this game was first released?
I have to agree, almost always I'll see Normal and Expert in the party finder. I'm sure they can just check their internal logs and see what is played the most. I'm not sure it does any harm to leave it, I also wouldn't be sad if Advanced disappeared one day.
Sorry for double post.