An Introduction to Cut-throat Mode
Cut-throat is an optional fun mode where players can invade each other's instances. Full hostility is always on (friendly fire even when cooperating with friends), and players drop their equipped items (but not gems or flasks) when they die. There's constant combat with other players, so you're rarely safe for long. It's really worthwhile to build up spare sets of gear in the stash so that you have items to fall back on when your current ones are taken.
I should stress that this mode doesn't use your normal characters and is completely optional. If you aren't interested, then you don't have to make a character in one of these events. For some videos of Cut-throat mode in action, check out this one from Kripparrian during the Closed Beta and this even older one that I made in August 2012. Here's a summary of general Cut-throat rules:
Remember to approach these optional events with the expectation you're going to get griefed repeatedly. They're very different than normal Path of Exile play but feel so rewarding if you're the guy with everyone's items standing in a pile of dead foes. We generally find that the players who have the most fun are the ones who know they're going to lose their items and keep spare stashed sets of gear so that they can still kill other players after dying. Players who rage and quit are those who only kept one set of gear and then have nothing to fall back on. You will die and you will need spare items. Stash everything - even arbitrary normal and magic items are far better than nothing. We welcome feedback on these events. There's a lot of tweaking to do before they're going to be fun at the longer durations, so we need your help with that. Thanks! Lead Developer. Follow us on: [url url="http://www.twitter.com/pathofexile"]Twitter[/url] | [url url="http://www.youtube.com/grindinggear"]YouTube[/url] | [url url="http://www.facebook.com/pathofexile"]Facebook[/url] | Contact [url url="http://www.pathofexile.com/support"]Support[/url] if you need help! Last edited by Chris#0000 on Mar 18, 2014, 1:29:32 PM
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