Whats the point of playing hardcore?

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Sayyid wrote:
Hardcore in a nutshell:

(0) Choose a fast computer. You have no room for machine-generated error.
(1) Choose a starting class.
(2) Choose a ranged build.
(3) Path of life nodes.
(4) Avoid anything remotely risky and panic at the slightest danger. The more you can convince yourself to overreact to any situation, the more adrenaline you will have pumping. Live for the adrenaline.
(5) Anyone who doesn't play hardcore is a n00b. Mock scrubcore. Live for the superiority complex.


Softcore in a nutshell:

(1) Choose a starting class.
(2) Choose any build you please. Feel free to experiment; Regrets are just a few Chaos away.
(3) If you die too much, pick more life. If you kill too slowly, swap life for damage. If you need more of both, either your gear or build is the problem. Experiment with something else.
(4) Tone down your danger alarms and feel free to take risks every once in a while. Losing a few hours worth of experience sucks, and you'll probably still curse and swear when it happens. But it's not so terrible that you must avoid even a slim chance of death in a barely-challenging situation. Live on the margin with no regrets.
(5) Path of life nodes players are paranoid and lack build diversity. They bind logout to F8 and don't play the most meaningful parts of the game. Live for the superiority complex.


There, have I insulted everyone enough?

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look the blind man tells me how lovely the sunset is awesome lets believe him sc or anarchy player should never be entitled to post in a hc related topic if they dont have any hc chars at all the same reason why i never post in melee threads i have no fucking clue about melee

btt i think etup knows EXACTLY why he aborted the map that boss killed a lot of hc and onslaught chars and he knows at which rate he leeches and how much dmg he can take so why should he take a known risk ?
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Last edited by ventiman#1405 on Sep 12, 2013, 2:32:45 PM
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ventiman wrote:
btt i think etup knows EXACTLY why he aborted the map that boss killed a lot of hc and onslaught chars and he knows at which rate he leeches and how much dmg he can take so why should he take a known risk ?


why play hardcore if you are going to pussy out? Especially to a crem boss with NO damage related mods
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jsn006 wrote:
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ventiman wrote:
btt i think etup knows EXACTLY why he aborted the map that boss killed a lot of hc and onslaught chars and he knows at which rate he leeches and how much dmg he can take so why should he take a known risk ?


why play hardcore if you are going to pussy out? Especially to a crem boss with NO damage related mods


graveyard zerking is soo much fun1!1!!
I die from DC / lag / rubber banding several times a week in this game.

A hardcore & Online game with always connected internet required is a retarded mechanic.
(b) Personal abuse, foul language, inappropriate subject matter, obscene, harassing, threatening, hateful, or discriminatory or defamatory remarks of any nature ... are not permitted.

- PoE TOS.
I played a little Onslaught, (Marauder 57, Witch, 48, Shadow, 20 something) i found it to be the most boring shit. Highest life mod on every piece of gear, highest life and damage mods on jewelry, highest DPS available on weapon. In the end it just wasn't fun for me. (None of my toons died btw) To me was nothing more than grinding content 7 levels under you.

For me personally, i prefer seeing real breaking points in gear/damage/life etc. You can do that with a HC toon, but you can't just pick up where you left off. You can, but it's not the same.

I guess i like to experiment too much to play HC. And we all know there's no room for experimentation in HC.
There comes a time thief when jewels cease to sparkle, gold loses it's luster, throne room becomes a prison, and all that's left is a father's love for his child. - King Osric
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ventiman wrote:

Sayyid's characters

character league class rank lvl exp on
SariyyAa Anarchy Ranger 8630 76 618,426,358

look the blind man tells me how lovely the sunset is awesome lets believe him sc or anarchy player should never be entitled to post in a hc related topic if they dont have any hc chars at all


Omigosh, someone noticed that my highest level account is currently playing SC, and I am more prone to leveling a character to about 30-40 and then deleting it out of boredom! Quick, act superior to me because I enjoy a different playing style than you!

Search my post history (normally I would assume this would be too much of a waste of time for anyone to bother with, but you bothered to look at my characters for no apparent reason, so...) and you'll discover that I stopped playing hardcore because I fail step zero of hardcore. My computer can't handle some of the needlessly graphics-intensive effects for me not to die due to client-side lag and crappy framerates.

I probably would be living for the adrenaline right now in HC if not for the fact that my last five HC characters died to things like "a (pre-patch) multi-projectile voidbearer pack locked my client" or "I ended up in a party of six and was only catching about one out of forty frames."
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bhavv wrote:
I die from DC / lag / rubber banding several times a week in this game.

A hardcore & Online game with always connected internet required is a retarded mechanic.


interesting that some reach such high levels then.. its like they don't have problem with any of these things... hmm
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Sayyid wrote:
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ventiman wrote:

Sayyid's characters

character league class rank lvl exp on
SariyyAa Anarchy Ranger 8630 76 618,426,358

look the blind man tells me how lovely the sunset is awesome lets believe him sc or anarchy player should never be entitled to post in a hc related topic if they dont have any hc chars at all



I probably would be living for the adrenaline right now in HC if not for the fact that my last five HC characters died to things like "a (pre-patch) multi-projectile voidbearer pack locked my client" or "I ended up in a party of six and was only catching about one out of forty frames."


get a computer? I can;t believe people that have nerve to complain about games cuz they don't have a decent computer...
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Sayyid wrote:


I probably would be living for the adrenaline right now in HC if not for the fact that my last five HC characters died to things like "a (pre-patch) multi-projectile voidbearer pack locked my client" or "I ended up in a party of six and was only catching about one out of forty frames."


ohh look i bunch of excuses why i cant play hc how suprising

ever thought...maybe its you and not the game ?
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arbait_333 wrote:
get a computer? I can;t believe people that have nerve to complain about games cuz they don't have a decent computer...


I'm not complaining about anything. He brought up why I don't play HC. I explained. Obviously my computer not handling the game isn't the game's fault. Except for a few "why are patches of burning/chilled ground GPU-hogs, anyway?" questions.

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