Let's make HC great again

HC should probably delete characters on death, not this faux HC PoE has. Only time I play HC or League is to RIP League stuff I want over to Standard... :D

I guess you dont reach even lvl 10 on the leagues then, considereing you dont even have 1 challenge.

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Clownkrieger wrote:

I know someone on this forum that is a real sucker for partyplay, also he would probably prefer the HC playstyle a lot more cause its not zoom zoom like in standard, maybe you should ask him? Can DM you the name if you are interested! :P :D

LOL

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Aynix wrote:

I guess you dont reach even lvl 10 on the leagues then, considereing you dont even have 1 challenge.

Or maybe I don't even have 1 challenge because I didn't do it at all this league.

There's nothing wrong with HC / properly playing the game at the moment?

If anything softcore should be removed. Worst still is trade softcore, at that point you may as well just allow players to enable god-mode and an item importer.

It's up to the developers to try and revitalize hc. They somewhat buffed defenses the last few patches so the game is more survivable now but you still need to find dps somewhere and only a handful of skills offer that without much investment.

I made a really tanky build after the Def buffs so I am waiting for a good league to play it on hc. It would be a shame not to play it in a hardcore setting and see exactly how much it can tank. I also like to enjoy the league mechanic though and Sentinel was meh, this one seems slightly better, but only slightly.

I'll probably play if I find myself extremely bored with nothing else to do.

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AmpegV4 wrote:

There's nothing wrong with HC / properly playing the game at the moment?

If anything softcore should be removed. Worst still is trade softcore, at that point you may as well just allow players to enable god-mode and an item importer.

You show a totally lack of understanding for what genre this game is.

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shadowthedead wrote:

Let's all just play HC, come on
I miss those days where there would be a lot of parties and activities :(

Well I do!

For now.

Last league reached lv 90 in ssfhc and t13 maps after pumping 5 characters (my best score in this game mode, no trading, no macroing and fair play), with Im reasonably satisfied.

But,

Being raped/nuked by random RNG monsters with abnormal non-normalized damage patterns for the zone you are (main problem: mob affix stacking, plus map stacking with multiplicative effects) is a bit frustrating.

Currently, you dont have any way to PREVENT or anticipate an incomming nuke, despite you play maps very conservative, no delve, no heist, no blighted maps, skip ground shit, stack defences, healing, read the affixes, dont overpull, never roll extra dmg mods, extra projectiles, cap(and over) resists etc.

My mean value between failures is aproximately 90 played hours (lv 85-90), arround this, I find something (usually a rare) that kills my character instantly.

To be fully enjoyable, HC here needs a normalization of damage spikes, but since this involves SC balancement as well, I dont thit it to happen.

Or bring back the old "IMMORTAL CALL" refurbished, any skill that with a fair calldown, prevents some of these ovedamaging spikes and insta deaths.

Also, as others stated, first balance to make HC great again is to strictly prevent that 3rd party HACKS (its their name, despite some peple call them "macros" euphemisticaly) to work that allow that log-out shit .

Easy fix: put a 10s logout delay while not in town/hideout. That hack source code is open, so its easy for a programmer to find a fix.

I think nothing will be done, they prefer streamers playing HC-zoom mode and publicly using hacks and encouraging other to do.

Make HC dead character DELETED but LOOTABLE by friends like D2 (or "heritage" gear sent to stash) , could be a good aproach. You lose all the exp, but dont lose the crafting.

Old poe was playable in HC because content isnt that deep and complex like its now. I remember when endgame was Dominus, then Malachai and the Shaper as pinnacle boss. Crafing was magic-augment-regal.exalt and nothing else.

Now we have a lot of clutter content scattered arround, most of this extra content is DEADLY (read how vaal side areas stack mods now, its mostly a suicide enter some of them; or syndicate ambushes in beefed maps) and not safely playable in HC.

And, league challenges most of them related to that deadly uber content planed for standard-sc game mode. ¿Do you remember when SC and HC have separate league contents?

They main fun in HC is preparation and playing with strategy. If preparation is worth nothing--...

guys this post turns up every league its just bear bait :p don't engage with it.

Would love more people in HC trade though if anyone wants to try it out!

Just the softcore posters talking like they understand HC in ARPG. If my character dies, it is a complete and utter failure - it disgusts me to even look at it in softcore and I just insta-delete.