Try dueling on hardcore, and consistently winning, MEANWHILE maintaining your high lvl and xping on a regular basis... that'll wet your taste buds.
I did, but everyone just town hugs or sits by their tp. The second they even might take damage they run in, tp, or just leave; it's absolutely pointless.
I refuse to listen to people saying that HC is the only way to play Diablo, it's the only true Diablo that sorts boys from men etc. - that's a pile of bullshit really.
Agreed. I remember the funnest times I had in Diablo was joining random pk games with my buddies and trying to 2v6 or 3v5 the rest of the guys in there. We'd literally pk for hours on end, and in the beginning, most of that was getting our asses handed to us. Anytime we hung out we would be thinking of new class combinations, discussing which items were better, etc. etc. It really got us motivated to MF/trade hard for the gear that we needed to dominate in PvP and soon we were just ripping apart pub pk games.
I honestly feel bad for the 'HC purists' that never had a taste for what the rest of the game had to offer. Killing hell baal without dying really isn't much of a challenge.
Hardcore was not all about Cookie Cutter builds, it was about having that extra stress in gameplay making it gripping to play, even more so when you played experimental build making it even greater to have victory.
Yea uh huh. Tell me how many pure Bone Necros you saw, or how many melee sorcs, or charged strike amazons. At least for me, there was nothing gripping to the game play. You die, you lose your levels but your buddy would salvage all your gear and you can easily remake your character in a few hours.
Like others mentioned once you seriously played Hardcore it was impossible to go back to softcore it felt so pointless
I couldn't wait to go back to SC. HC felt so pointless; what else is there to do when you can kill Hell Baal? You can't go PvP; you can't go farm keys for Pandemonium event; you can't do anything that you haven't already done a million times in SC.
You just contradicted yourself talking about only "3 things" would kill you on HC between your 2nd and 3rd paragraph. And what about the fact that HC requires a somewhat flawless playstyle... I take it you don't duel much, or did, when you played hc for about 20 minutes that it took to hit 94 on xpac lol
Only an idiot would try HC Nil; I assumed the readers here were not idiots. What you don't do can't kill you (I realize the double negative but I felt it was necessary here). The rest of your paragraph doesn't even make sense.
HC D2 is boring as shit. It was fun to begin with due to the fact it was a change from SC, but after a while you realize HC is just SC but with less choices.
You have to play a PvM build with a high focus on survivability; that means ES build for every sorc, summons for every necro, etc. etc. You can't really fool around with other builds because it's too risky; you can't even go kill Hell Nihlathak because the risk is absolutely retarded. You're also completely missing the PvP aspect of the game.
Probably my biggest gripe about HC is how the HC-elitists feel superior to SC players. The game's not that hard. There are only 3 things that will really kill you in HC: 1) On death abilities like fire enchanted ancients/stygian dolls 2) Burning Souls and 3)Iron Maiden from Oblivion Knights if you're melee (but blizzard removed iron maiden from oblivion knights so now there's only 2 things that will really kill you).
EDIT: I also felt less attached to my characters because death is inevitable; eventually you're gonna lose that character to some fire enchanted mob/burning souls + bad lag spike. However, as long as your buddy collects the gear from your body, then all you've really lost are levels... and we all know you can easily hit 80+ in a day of Diablo if you really wanted to remake that character back.
Now, if HC D3 is some how different and not just a stripped down version of SC D3 (eg. HC D3 has added content, HC specific gear, etc. etc.) then I'll be excited but at the moment it doesn't seem that way.
NOTE: This is from an experienced hardcore player that had a 94 wind druid/89 blizz sorc.
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I did, but everyone just town hugs or sits by their tp. The second they even might take damage they run in, tp, or just leave; it's absolutely pointless.
Agreed. I remember the funnest times I had in Diablo was joining random pk games with my buddies and trying to 2v6 or 3v5 the rest of the guys in there. We'd literally pk for hours on end, and in the beginning, most of that was getting our asses handed to us. Anytime we hung out we would be thinking of new class combinations, discussing which items were better, etc. etc. It really got us motivated to MF/trade hard for the gear that we needed to dominate in PvP and soon we were just ripping apart pub pk games.
I honestly feel bad for the 'HC purists' that never had a taste for what the rest of the game had to offer. Killing hell baal without dying really isn't much of a challenge.
Yea uh huh. Tell me how many pure Bone Necros you saw, or how many melee sorcs, or charged strike amazons. At least for me, there was nothing gripping to the game play. You die, you lose your levels but your buddy would salvage all your gear and you can easily remake your character in a few hours.
I couldn't wait to go back to SC. HC felt so pointless; what else is there to do when you can kill Hell Baal? You can't go PvP; you can't go farm keys for Pandemonium event; you can't do anything that you haven't already done a million times in SC.
Only an idiot would try HC Nil; I assumed the readers here were not idiots. What you don't do can't kill you (I realize the double negative but I felt it was necessary here). The rest of your paragraph doesn't even make sense.
You have to play a PvM build with a high focus on survivability; that means ES build for every sorc, summons for every necro, etc. etc. You can't really fool around with other builds because it's too risky; you can't even go kill Hell Nihlathak because the risk is absolutely retarded. You're also completely missing the PvP aspect of the game.
Probably my biggest gripe about HC is how the HC-elitists feel superior to SC players. The game's not that hard. There are only 3 things that will really kill you in HC: 1) On death abilities like fire enchanted ancients/stygian dolls 2) Burning Souls and 3)Iron Maiden from Oblivion Knights if you're melee (but blizzard removed iron maiden from oblivion knights so now there's only 2 things that will really kill you).
EDIT: I also felt less attached to my characters because death is inevitable; eventually you're gonna lose that character to some fire enchanted mob/burning souls + bad lag spike. However, as long as your buddy collects the gear from your body, then all you've really lost are levels... and we all know you can easily hit 80+ in a day of Diablo if you really wanted to remake that character back.
Now, if HC D3 is some how different and not just a stripped down version of SC D3 (eg. HC D3 has added content, HC specific gear, etc. etc.) then I'll be excited but at the moment it doesn't seem that way.
NOTE: This is from an experienced hardcore player that had a 94 wind druid/89 blizz sorc.