There seem to be a great deal of requests for the game to be easier. Personally, I love the challenge. What if both groups could be satisfied? What if there was a toggle switch on our paperdoll that allowed us to set ourselves to easy or normal? Normal would leave things how the developers design it. Setting the switch to "easy" would drop the hp of the opponents by some percentage. Perhaps make this setting only applicable in dungeons? Setting opponents to easy would not allow the acquisition of badges, but would allow the quest chain to progress. Another deterrent to setting to easy would be decreased gold/exp and maybe a lesser loot table. This would mean a person playing on easy would not be able to get the best treasure and would level more slowly. If you want to good stuff, play it as intended... Playing with someone else would set enemies to easy if anyone in the fight is set to easy.
Just a thought, would love others' thoughts