Difference between normal league and hardcore.

You literally trade your currency with other players. Some give up on hardcore, so they trade their currency to softcore to start there. Some want to try out hardcore so they trade their softcore currency to hardcore. There's many posts on the trading section of people trading their currencies.

Better economy in HC.

But also more elitist kids who think they are good but really they are shit and will never have anything to show for anything.

Ok. I see. So no real change for gameplay for a person who seek a game to play with friends for a while, and who have real life. Thank all who helped to make things clear.

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Deux wrote:

Better economy in HC.

Real man play with own drops/crafts for ultimate challenge. Trading is easy mode gearing and doesn't feel rewarding at all :P

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Deux wrote:

Better economy in HC.

But also more elitist kids who think they are good but really they are shit and will never have anything to show for anything.

look who is still butthurt cause he couldnt stay in hc arent all your chars former hc chars ?

if you dont want a downhill economy 20:1 is just a start play hc

at some point you will need exalts its a fact

HC player see default as training mode, you can still play with a dead char, but it doesn't count, it's not the real thing.

For most HC players, having their character go to the default league is as good as peramdeath.

Their stash / back-up items are in HC, chances are their circle of friends that play are also in HC. They are part of the community on that server, many of them don't want to just carry on playing on Default if they die - they want to go back to the HC league, and will start fresh.

Some people enjoy things for the challenge of it, not because they also get a shiny reward for doing it.

I play both leagues depending on my mood at the time.

HC - just to see how high I can get a character, I have only one HC character at a time.

SC - I have lots of characters to try out different weird builds. Always hoping for skill resets for more experimentation.

I don't trade right now because the tools we have to do so are annoying.

I would be thinking that for 95% of all HC players death isnt a real permadeath because they just sell all their stuff in softcore and get hc currency for a decent rate.

Friend of mine died with a 30 exalt chest --> not the biggest problem, you can just get 12-15 exalt back in hardcore.
Players who actually delete their character once in softcore w/o giving away their gear should be pretty rare :E



The cool thing about this game: even in hardcore you can very much determine the grade of difficulty you want to play in.
From masochist solo selffound with a not-so-tanky build to getting a character pulled through by your friends and buying 20 exalt worth of twink gear.
You can still play scrubcore in hardcore if you want :D

There are not that many differences. The economy is more stable in HC. And there is less build diversity. Also the players are on average more skilled than in SC (inb4 some SC player rages about this even though I said on average). That's about it.