For everyone posting build guides:

Could you people add in the title if it's HC viable or not
and how much the gear costs that you suggest?

I'm sick of starting to read a guide and seeing the gear costs of 10-50 ex
and it's not even HC viable, but sc glass cannon.

So add these tags in your title for all the next guides you want to post:

HC/SC and the estimated cost in chaos orbs (10c/50c/200c).

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Quantume wrote:

Could you people add in the title if it's HC viable or not
and how much the gear costs that you suggest?

I'm sick of starting to read a guide and seeing the gear costs of 10-50 ex
and it's not even HC viable, but sc glass cannon.

So add these tags in your title for all the next guides you want to post:

HC/SC and the estimated cost in chaos orbs (10c/50c/200c).

Or you could just read the guide and figure it out for yourself? Most of the SC people probably don't even realize their glass cannons would be insta-dead in HC.

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Why not just make the necessary adjustments to make it "HC viable" yourself?

This.

Also, most builds that really are cheap will already say 'budget' somewhere in the title. If you really want to know how expensive it is then just skip to the gear section. You also have to keep in mind that the gear the build creator is using may not always be necessary to make the build work. You don't need Loath Bane or even Bino's to do a crit dagger build, for example.

I enter most "budget" threads, and see a Shavronne or some crazy 6-linked rare.
Wouldn't trust those.
Different people have different ideas of what "budget" means.

As for HC viability well, unless a build is defined and intended as a "glass cannon", you can usually tweak the tree a bit to make it playable in HC.
That, and you won't believe what people in HC play :)
No matter how much math you have working for you, you'll RIP eventually to something (and PoE is full of "somethings"), so may as well enjoy the ride.

I'm pretty sure that budget builds don't use shavs, John. However, any build requiring a 6l to function can never be budget, nor can any build requiring over 10 exalts to function.

As for HC viability, just get rid of dps nodes and get life nodes brah. Why some people can't put in the minimal effort to optimize a certain build for their own playstyle is beyond me. And you know what, even SC builds have plenty of defense, since no one likes dying lvl 90+.