first impression: a bit too much?.

This mode really keeps you on your toes. Quite impressive, and horribly terrifying. I crawled my way through most of act 1, and can't bring myself to do more. This is the scariest game since Amnesia.

first impression was this:

http://www.twitch.tv/zyroxa/c/3838189

hexakill party wipe

So far it has been great fun, but I am probably gonna have a heart attack at later levels.

I play extremely cautiously, full clearing every map and staying several levels above the maps`s level.

It still has been close a few times, like when the flesh golem summoning guy blocked me in on a bridge in the submerged passages... Lucky me my portal scroll reflex kicked in :p

I think I'm going to have to play invasion! This sounds hard!

One of the most terrifying, intense, resuscitative, fun and truly hardcore experience i've had in 14 years of gaming. This sweet and agonizing feeling that the impeding and inescapable death is lurking around in every corner, making you keep your eyes wide open all the time but when you manage to succesfully confront the enemy makes you feel so capable and worthy (and deserving of some loot too :P). Especially in the early stages, when you really dont know what the unique bosses do, and when you find out you are either dead or running like a madman to save your precious life, the experience was utterly satisfying. For me GGG has made the best HC league i could ever imagine playing in PoE (though, my belief is that they will surpass this in their future efforts to improve the game). Well done GGG, well fucking done.

Pfff it's just the usual faceroll until you get randomly death touched. I really don't know if I wanna play the hardcore league this time. Too much randomness, I can't plan or predict much, I can't have all max resist when I'm just starting out, it will lead to extremely overpowered combinations. There was so many RIPs in the top of the ladder in nemesis, the game was hard enough. My tolerance level for random RIPs that aren't my fault is getting very low.

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patlefort3 wrote:

Pfff it's just the usual faceroll until you get randomly death touched. I really don't know if I wanna play the hardcore league this time. Too much randomness, I can't plan or predict much, I can't have all max resist when I'm just starting out, it will lead to extremely overpowered combinations. There was so many RIPs in the top of the ladder in nemesis, the game was hard enough. My tolerance level for random RIPs that aren't my fault is getting very low.

Enjoy the game in SC leagues and faceroll til your eyes bleed.

Just ripped to Cintiq in scepter of god. Some of these invasion bosses are deadly than any act boss in the game. Which is refreshing, the game was becoming "roll a stupid map to increase difficulty" instead of actually using different skill combinations.

Admittingly, some combinations like the one bolt juggler uses with ice nova traps, lightning traps, fire traps, with mult-trap and seemingly limitless trap drop limit is a bit much for certain builds.

I believe GGG wants players to either break out from primary skill focused builds if you are solo or form well rounded groups. Some bosses you want to get in their face and melee and other you want to kite with ranged. There is no 1 skill wins all. Yes. You still die solo with searing bonds.

I'm pretty sure HC is for the masochists and those with excessive amounts of time to kill. Random RIP's seem fine for that purpose.

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Pliney wrote:

I'm pretty sure HC is for the masochists and those with excessive amounts of time to kill. Random RIP's seem fine for that purpose.

Its well suited for those like me who dont have tons of time to burn but do want to have the biggest challenge.

There is no rush. Its a 4 month league.