DemonKing
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NWN> BG2 > DA > DA2 > ME > ME2 > JE > BG1 > ME3 > KOTOR
I hate to bait magical Volo but how did NWN end up at the top of this list? At least in most of the other Bio titles you have some degree of control over party members other than your own character, whereas in NWN the AI takes charge of NPCS as far as I recall.
If you're talking about combat in a multiplayer game I guess there might be some argument for NWN as each individual character would be controlled by a human player but for my money it is far and away the worst Bio game in terms of combat if taken purely from a single-player perspective.
Back to the original question though I would put BG and BG2 above DAO in terms of difficulty - because you can spam powers in DAO and there are a smaller variety of enemies it's much easier to rinse and repeat the same tactics over and over again. In BG and BG2 utilising spells/magic items is much more a question of resource management and given that creatures have a number of different immunities/attacks/special powers you need to be a lot more adaptable than in DAO. Saying that, DAO did have a handful of quite challenging encounters but there was an awful lot of filler combat in between.