first impression: a bit too much?.

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Zanixx wrote:

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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.

Exactly. No rushing this time. Going Invasion league selffound all the way as RoA Ranger, taking my time needed, going slowly. Lvl 15 atm.

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saftal1ty wrote:

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Zanixx wrote:

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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.

Exactly. No rushing this time. Going Invasion league selffound all the way as RoA Ranger, taking my time needed, going slowly. Lvl 15 atm.

Yep.

I'm solo Selffound...

1. Died @ 21 to some crazy rock golem with 25billion adds lol

2. Currently level 31 @ Normal Act 3. Ready to pick up when I get in this evening.

Oh I do wonder how many deaths I shall suffer in this league. I'm guessing atleast 3 until I get to level 70+ !!

It is not "a bit to much", this is how the hardcore league's should always be and should remain.

I've been having so much fun, and the rip announcements every 30 min in top 40 are hilarious.
Specially considering there was no real difficulty in the last 2 league's.

GGG stepped up there game, and i am thankful for that.

May we all rip for Atziri's beauty.

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Zanixx wrote:

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.

Exactly this. It can be played in a hardcore way, but with 'casual' time investment per day. You just play it over a longer period.

Yes the first couple of nights have been carnage, I've enjoyed the RIPfeed ticking over too. I wish there was more detail in the death messages, "Player was killed by Shiversting's Detonate Dead/Dominus's Touch of God/Thena's Viper Strike" etc. Would add some flavour and entertainment! That corpse detonate TPK was fantastic, seriously learning the hard way which bosses have dangerous attacks but moments like this will be amazing memories for the people involved.

I rerolled last night following losing my guy and his shit gear and skills during the Dominus fight. I'm loving the added challenge in Invasion league, it's great the GGG tuned the new league to how good people got at previous leagues. (I mostly exclude myself from that category though!) With Nemesis mods and rogue exiles it was clear in the past that GGG didn't want people completely dozing off and levelling/farming on autopilot, you needed to keep your eyes open for unexpected dangers and damage type that wouldn't normally be in your current map. I feel that with Invasion in particular they've pushed that concept further and you've got to keep your concentration up all the time!

Too much shit in hardcore.

Not balanced.

I'm not sure what i think about this "expansion" it feels like it has been hurried somehow. Maybe not the expansion but the hardcore league feels dumb and everything is random, i usually like random things but this is rediculous.

I might skip this league actually, I don't want to go searing bond or flameblast.

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LanPirot wrote:

despite the hype and just for rounding up the existing opinions: I will quit this for a while, at least hardcore / invasion..

Played hardcore from closed beta on, died a lot because of playing a most of the time solo, trade not very often and dont like to follow "your overpowered flavour build of the day". It was fine mostly.. :-) But this..its randomizes your dying and narrowing your builds further, not to mention the risk / reward ratio.

Well I planned to play hardcore this season, but seeing how insane it is and less time I'd go chill in Ambush for another season I think :p If so many good people rip, I'd probably never even get in merciless :p
Also I think they ruined the marauder tree (at first glance it looks great but like ranger zone has more life to be picked from than marauder, like they forgot some nodes), so that limits what I wanted to do as well. And in this invasion league you can't just play a build you like you will be forced to do so many things you actually don't want. So yeah softcore for me for now. Not saying invasion is not cool, but it's only for a very small audience imho, smaller than the normal group of people playing hardcore, they might have overdone it this time around.

The only Invasion bosses I have yet to see and defeat are:
Jikeji
The Book Burner
The Firestarter
The Raging Mask
Wonderwalker

The only unique monster that might be impossible for melee builds is The Bolt Juggler because his ice nova traps just hit way too hard and spammed way too often. That being said, any melee can socket a ST and slowly work him down at range til he is dead has he has no regen or annoying defensive mods.

I was extremely disappointed at how easy Bladeback Guardian died.... given how many people complained about how tough he was. This leads me to believe players really are just rusty or these people are trying to use old unmodified builds that don't account for the major changes to the passive tree.

"The patch broke my build" is in reality more like "I didn't update my build and it isn't working anymore"

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Boem wrote:

It is not "a bit to much", this is how the hardcore league's should always be and should remain.

I've been having so much fun, and the rip announcements every 30 min in top 40 are hilarious.
Specially considering there was no real difficulty in the last 2 league's.

GGG stepped up there game, and i am thankful for that.

May we all rip for Atziri's beauty.

How was there no real difficulty? Did you see the amount of deaths in the ladder in nemesis?