Why am I playing Hc in SC?

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Darkduprey wrote:

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Aim_Deep wrote:

Grind doesnt even start until 94ish. You can literally never repeat a map and make 93. So don't act like it's hours of grind you lost. You lost like 2-5 red maps exp at 91.

Except this is only true for players already experienced with the game who actually know how to XP properly.

For me 88-89 already represent hours of grinding (that I haven't finished yet, i'm at ~80%), so I'm sure 93-94 will be far more time.

And guess what?

I love it.

Yes. I don't want the leveling to became quicker, and I love to face difficult content.

I just believe that an XP penalty on death is a super lazy way to create fake difficulty. Instead of providing a challenging content in itself, you punish the player if he make a little mistake in a content that, in fact, is super easy 95% of the time with some ridiculous damage spikes 5% of the time.

But yeah, I already explained while the so called skilled players probably don't want any true difficulty and you didn't bother to read the post properly last time so I have no reason to waste my time repeating it.

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Peterlerock wrote:

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vmt80 wrote:

Sure you can die. The thing is -as frostzor27 pointed out- some players are not playing PoE for that extra stress about dying and regressing your character to the amount equal of a week playing time for a casual player.

When I die at a higher level (and I die a lot, don't you worry), after a quick curse, I usually have thoughts like this:

"Ouch, why did I do this stupid thing?"
"looks like I need a bit more chaos resist for this encounter"
"looks like I shouldn't roll minus max resists and multi projectiles in this map"
"maybe plan ahead a bit next time and move here before he does that"
"what can I change in my tree to get a bit more life and avoidance? Do I really need that +50% crit chance?"
("maybe get a better internet connection")

This keeps me motivated.

If there was no penalty for deaths, I could play braindead. What exactly would there be left to worry about? Where would you find interesting gear choices, or how would you work on a build to balance defense and offense?
What meaning would a high level have?

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MasterTBC wrote:

Actually Softcore is the real hardcore

You don't even lose XP when you die in Hardcore

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Aynix wrote:

Exp loss for death is ok. What is NOT ok is that after change to Zana missions in 3.4 90% of the times you have only one portal. I lost Tiger boss beast because I crashed in zana mission with one portal.

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nooooodles wrote:

Taking away the xp penantly would ruin the game and the ladder.