Originally Posted by xSamhainx 
Put in a couple hours of DDO tonight w/ my little elven ranger. Seems cool for an MMO. To see all the d&d skills/feats/spells etx etx in an mmo experience I'll have to say is kinda nice, I'm having fun so far. Everytime you go into a dungeon youre given the choice of solo, normal, hard. Being in noobville, I'm doing all the dungeons on "normal" so far since I'm by myself, i wonder if doing it on a harder difficulty like that nets me more xp and loot?? Maybe I missed a tooltip
AFAIK - the harder, the more rewarding.
You can click on "XP" when in an instance, to see the XP rewards for each attempt in detail.
The loot is also dependant on difficulty, and it's been my experience that "hard" mode always yields some kind of chest with slightly better loot (maybe it changes later).
Elite I haven't been able to solo yet