Duriel as a hardcore player gave you nightmares, one of the most deadly bosses... you keep asking yourself am I strong enough yet? Maybe I should go grind some more.
Hardcore players kill everything, every little bit of experience is another level that might just keep you alive. With the changes to the TP and game quitting I think Hardcore has just taken a long look at itself, and decided to man the fuck up even more than it had already.
lol @ this - I was level 20 before killing Andariel most of the time, and 30+ before Duriel. Yeah, I was a hardcore player through and through.... I watched people go down into Duriels room at 14 and get insta-killed by load lag (fun times) and laugh as I went down and my merc tanked for me.
It was this kind of leveling that hardcore players (early on) did to be safe. My barbarian that died in normal Chaos Sanc was 20+ after act 1, and 30+ after act 2, because of how attached I was to him. When he died, I decided to go frenzy barb 2h axe wielding instead. Yeah, no exploration et.al. WW barbs were risky (because of what happened to me), but so much fun - ESPECIALLY in hardcore.
Catreina from Twitch.tv/Justin.tv? Its boiling if it is
I'm a bit of a sissy HC player, in the sense that I will start with by playing softcore until I have a general idea of what to expect from Inferno difficulty. As soon as I'm done with that, it's hardcore all the way.
One thing to remember is that once you experience the adrenaline rush of almost dying in hardcore mode, it's very (if not impossible) to enjoy softcore after that. Atleast it was for me.
Hardcore is more fun, and in my opinion you learn more about the game that way...
I can remember when Diablo 2 LoD first came out I was on my WW Barb(lance at the time was best) and I WW straight into baals minnions and died lol cause Life leech had been nerfed and I didn't know it
Yes dieing sucked and losing my gear sucked, but I was determined to make another character that was even better...HC is just more fun atleast to me.
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Catreina from Twitch.tv/Justin.tv? Its boiling if it is
The adrenaline rush is addcitive :).
Bad Idea I'm glad they still didn't do it with D3 and kept it the same as D2.
I can remember when Diablo 2 LoD first came out I was on my WW Barb(lance at the time was best) and I WW straight into baals minnions and died lol cause Life leech had been nerfed and I didn't know it
Yes dieing sucked and losing my gear sucked, but I was determined to make another character that was even better...HC is just more fun atleast to me.