How do different difficulties work on story missions?
When selecting a story mission, I can choose between "Easy" and "Hard". Next to the difficulty, the game displays some kind of level. However, when you start the mission, you still end up in the common map area with other players.
What exactly changes when you select a higher difficulty? Is it possible to see other players playing on "Easy" when you select "Hard" before entering the mission zone where respawning is restricted?
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Sorry this is in answer form and not a comment to @Eben's answer, I dont have enough rep to add a comment. But to add to what he said you also get bonus xp for completing the mission if you do it on the harder difficulty.
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The harder difficulty level makes the enemies higher level. This means they'll give you more experience points and slightly better loot drops.
If no one on your team is more than one level lower than the hard level, you should do the hard level. You'll get better gear and level up faster. One exception to this is the Strike missions. If you're not familiar with them they can be really hard first time through and you probably want to do them on normal at least once.
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