A Smarter Hardcore Mode: Death with Consequences - Not just Moving out

Proposing a new hardcore style mode where dying drops your entire gear and the backpack inventory, applies XP/Level penalities(could be dynamic or interacted with passive trees or new Omens), but does not permanently move out the character to standard(which means kill the entire character cuz players who plays hardcore is to play hardcore, if being moved out, then they will delete it and continue hardcore new character with similar name or be afk)

in this way, in hardcore mode and on death:
1. you drop all gear and inventory items
2. you suffer a significant XP or level penalty(dynamic or interacted with passive trees or new Omens)
3. keep your character and passive tree

Why it works:
1.keeps tension still high - you fear death still, respect enemies, every zone matters again. - you have died, your body lies broken, your gear scattered, your spirit shaken, but you are not finished!
2.most players quit after losing HC characters.
3.gives players a reason to rebuild and keep playing, avoiding afk and quit.
4.Fuels the game economy - losing gear = trading, crafting, grinding again, which drives demand for backup sets, insurance items and others.
5.creates the most dynamic mode, players enjoy rebuilding, not rage-deleting.

6.brand new mode, could be a competitive force and lead the innovation of ARPG!

Only thing need to take care by GGG:
1. avoid RMT as much as possible and with this hardcode mode, players will never get tired - farming always make sense.

can work for both POE1 and POE2, especially POE2.

make POE great again!

BR
Sinisea

No. That's mediumcore and it's a different thing entirely. They're not gonna change HC into this ever. I also doubt they'll ever make it at all personally.

I'm always amazed how many suggestions are essentially "I chose to play the harder way and I'm upset that it's harder."

So a means for HC-only characters/gear to not be rolled over to Standard.


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