Giving some kind of indication as to how hard the league is going to be

Giving some kind of indication as to how hard the league is going to be is probably a good idea,

a league difficulty rating of 1-5 for example.

going in blind is rough.

I'm just going into .3 with the expectation it will feel like .2, and if it's better I'll take it as a win.

Realistically they should all be on par with each other, but seeing as each EA league comes with sweeping balance changes I imagine it's hard to accurately gauge exactly how it will feel.

I kind of like going in blind though. .2 was a huge wake-up call from .1, and after about 30 min of .2 it was like "oh sh!t this got harder" so I geared/played appropriately.

Difficulty like overall out of all games, or within sub-genre Soulslike difficulty range or internal Poe2 difficulty, whatever the baseline is, and whoever knows what that means?

Feels like this league is going to be easier for freestyle builds because general all around buff, but harder for tryhards with premade guides because of nerfs to overplayed archetypes that could feel like "the only correct choice".

At the end of the day, it's just a game, but definitely harder than other casual titles and I believe it's advertised as such.

I predict that it's going to be league of character power creep this time. For a homemade builds it's one of those once in lifetime opportunity to have wild fun and make something original that you haven't seen before, with the unlocked support gems etc.

1 to 5 from easy to very hard?

Then 1 for rangers
Other classes between 2 and 5