Items that only drop in Hardcore league but can be carried over to softcore

I think it would be nice to have some unique items that only drop in hardcore that you cannot PICK UP in softcore, but can be traded for in softcore due to players dying and carrying items over to softcore from hardcore. I think items that only drop in the hardcore league would be a nice addition. Here are my reasons why:

1.) Items that only drop in hardcore would give more incentive to play hardcore, since you can only get the items in there.

2.) Items dropping only in hardcore would add to the economy of Softcore because when a player dies with hardcore only items, he simply gets moved to softcore and the items get put into the softcore circulation. Much like ladder only items getting switched to nonladder on Diablo 2. This is a nice addition to trading because the items that are hardcore drop only would have their rarity value, and would be even more rare on softcore.

What do you guys think?

I like this, it would give me incentive to try out HC. I'm not normally an HC kind of player, but getting better/HC Unique stuff in HC might change that.

Not a good idea? What's wrong with it?

I like the idea of having highly potent uniques in HC. Maybe even unique uniques, that only drop once per league.

That's an interesting thought, but I think it would be too limiting... maybe with like only 100 of a unique drop per league. Having only 1 drop would be ridiculous for trading and such I think.

The idea about HC is that it is exactly the same in every way to SC except that if you die, you are moved to SC.

That in itself has created its different subset community, and an entirely different play style. Having its own unique seems pointless to me.

Items unique to hardcore makes the items more scarce in softcore because they can only be obtained in hardcore. People playing hardcore would want to keep them on hardcore to use and people would play hardcore just to get the items from hardcore. There is economical value and replay value in this.

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ciknay wrote:

The idea about HC is that it is exactly the same in every way to SC except that if you die, you are moved to SC.

Yes. HC is about bragging rights. You would lose them if you could get better items in HC.

they dont have to be better, or even different stats. maybe different graphics or something

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Daziel wrote:

they dont have to be better, or even different stats. maybe different graphics or something

Agreed