SC people that tried HC for the first time.

GGG has made a good move. Cosmetic rewards are a nice way to lure people that usually play SC to try HC for the first time.
Given the fact that many people believed that HC is more about AltF4ing like crazy and less about skill and game knowledge in these forums, I would like to know if the experience changed some peoples minds.
I'm not trying to start the usual SC vs HC war ( I play and enjoy both modes). I actually want to see what people actually think after experiencing HC for the first time.

I'll be tentatively stepping back into HC for the next leagues. I will admit that after all my skepticism, I ended up enjoying my time in DeathCore - even if I didn't get to play as loosey goosey as I am used to.

I am one of those persons that like to play casual and kind of reckless with high DPS builds, which leads me to play SC. I did try the HC one month and I am still alive in Act 3 normal.

I found it an exciting expenrience but the one thing I would hate if I put the time in this character that I normally do on SC and rip I would hate it so much.

As said you can make a small misstake and lose all your progress in one blow, which is ofcourse the thrill of HC.

It's still not my play style and will just keep playing the SC leagues instead :).

I love it, I will only play HC from now on ( leagues )

Trading atleast is working like a train wc, getting pm's so much it's hard to remember replying to everyone sometimes.

Not playing sc for the reason it's possible to make some suicidal builds, so knowledge of mechanics has made hc extremely easy so far.

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Juhazzz wrote:

Trading atleast is working like a train wc, getting pm's so much it's hard to remember replying to everyone sometimes.

Trading is one of HC biggest advantages imo too. People always need gear for all levels and trading is always a pleasant experience (well almost always at least).

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Iluvatar_gr wrote:

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Juhazzz wrote:

Trading atleast is working like a train wc, getting pm's so much it's hard to remember replying to everyone sometimes.

Trading is one of HC biggest advantages imo too. People always need gear for all levels and trading is always a pleasant experience (well almost always at least).

True true, as i wrote that message, during that time 3 pm's had arrived ingame. Think it's time to permanently move in temp-hc.

This 3 weeks that's been going now, from my standard items 5 have been asked and 3 have been sold. Not that i'd been actively selling anything there, but yeah..

that was my first time play in SC and first attemp going to CI (ES is so awful >.<)

Im trying to like the HC setting every time there is a new league.

Characters on HC so far

Searing bond templar in invasion got to fellshrine on merciless but i got bored to it and deleted the character

Poison arrow without trap ranger to merciless ledge in bloodlines and died to non maxed fireresistance goatman with molten shell one shot (i know my own fault)

Second poison arrow with the same spec got to merciless submerged and died to openin a box in too tight corridor and coundt run away. (had like 5 sec time stuck in the monster pack, but im not used to logging off so didnt even think about that option at the point)

Dual shockwave totem templar got to merciless city of sarn but i got bored to it and deleted it.

Played (incinerate) templar on the current 1month HC but incinerate didnt seem to work while leveling so switched to searing bond to level faster and got bored on cruel fellshrine and deleted the toon.

Normal HC has seen few of my character before the leagues even started but those didnt even make it to cruel before boredom.


To sum this up.

In HC i feel like i need to play REALLY REALLY safe and tanky which leads me to totems most of the time which leads to faster leveling but seems to also lead to boredom and deletion of the character. This leads me to the next problem which is that most of the skills i do like to play with doesnt work as well as i would like while leveling or they arent tanky enough to level with or need tons more links than the stupid searing bond which lets you snooze through the normal/cruel/merciless without much thinking or investment to anything exept life.

I have nothing against HC but i would prefer a way to play each and every build from the lvl 1 to begin with so i woulndt need to use something superior to my real skill to level with. In SC i can just play with the skill i want to play from the level i can start to use it and if needed brute force my way through the game, but in HC thats not the case at least for me.

If i were to play melee in HC it still would lead to the fact that its safer and easier to level with totems so i would go with them.

Most spells i have used so far could be used to level with, but the fact that most of them are inferioir to totems (if the spell is without 20quality with quality they could surpass totems) which leads me againt to level with totems.

I really hate archer type of playing and the only bow skill i like is poison arrow, but it starts to suffer in damage in cruel untill you get the +2bow in merciless and it felt likeit could use some dmg adjustment on mid levels of the gem. (nothing too major but like gem levels 10-15 could use like 20 more dot dmg each)

Trappers are great and all but after i have played like 20 different kinda trappers it feels like you are forced to go with firetrap and burnprolif which im also kinda bored off after playing like 10 characters with burn prolif.

Sorry for the rant and all.

I used to play HC in D2 and D3, and enjoyed it a lot more than SC. In PoE, on the other hand, I refuse to play a game mode designed around being able to log out fast enough.

Some people think that HC automatically brings more tension, more planning and more tactics to the table. And by all means, on some level it does - but there are hundreds of players playing like this on soft core, reaching far beyond level 80 without dying (or logging out), as there are in HC.

Wow, I just totally went SC vs HV mode right of the bat.