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FakeDouble
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Australia676 Posts
November 13 2012 10:52 GMT
#381
Okay, cool, I'll try out your suggestions tomorrow. I presume you mean 2h crossbow + quiver, instead of another 1h xbow as an offhand. I definitely want to stick with a shield for now, the extra armor and block chance are too good to give up atm.
Formerly known as carbonaceous
3nickma
Profile Joined November 2007
Denmark1510 Posts
November 13 2012 11:45 GMT
#382
Okay here's a dumb softcore question

In the Hardcore Auction House there's just Gold and no Real-Money option?
L E E J A E D O N G ! <3
Pokebunny
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States10654 Posts
November 13 2012 12:03 GMT
#383
On November 13 2012 20:45 3nickma wrote:
Okay here's a dumb softcore question

In the Hardcore Auction House there's just Gold and no Real-Money option?

yup
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Douillos
Profile Joined May 2010
France3195 Posts
November 15 2012 14:07 GMT
#384
Just lost my para 9 DH... 20 M+ in stufff... Definitily taking a break!
Look a giraffe! Look a fist!!
unkkz
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Norway2196 Posts
November 15 2012 23:40 GMT
#385
Bah so depressing knowing i'm gonna get killed by my ISP. Avoided massive lag DC death today by like three minutes and it's not the first time either. Some cheapass router that handles virtually all foreign traffic out of my country keeps acting up and has been doing so for months now and trying to talk to anyone is like talking to a wall.

Went to play Dota 2 and think i DCd about 15 times during one game and now four hours later it's still random as hell while they claim on facebook that it is fixed. Fuck moving my old internet was pretty much rock solid vs this garbage.

300+mil DH gonna die to a DC, love it.
Probe1
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States17920 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-16 00:07:29
November 16 2012 00:07 GMT
#386
If it makes you feel any better your post bumped this thread and made me notice it. Otherwise I would have never read your really good guide. Thank you for all the work!

.. but sorry for your ISP problems
I'm going to reinstall D3 and do a HC run after being motivated by your guide.
우정호 KT_VIOLET 1988 - 2012 While we are postponing, life speeds by
unkkz
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Norway2196 Posts
November 16 2012 00:14 GMT
#387
On November 16 2012 09:07 Probe1 wrote:
If it makes you feel any better your post bumped this thread and made me notice it. Otherwise I would have never read your really good guide. Thank you for all the work!

.. but sorry for your ISP problems
I'm going to reinstall D3 and do a HC run after being motivated by your guide.


It's a bit outdated since things are massively nerfed since i wrote it and builds have changed a lot but if u need any help just PM me.
Probe1
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States17920 Posts
November 16 2012 00:16 GMT
#388
The mentality it was written for is still solid. Really, it's motivated me to try a HC run most of all. I probably won't get to the point that I need inferno advice. Thank you for that I will ask if I have trouble and need a guide.
우정호 KT_VIOLET 1988 - 2012 While we are postponing, life speeds by
FaCE_1
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
Canada6178 Posts
November 16 2012 11:25 GMT
#389
QQ
lost my monk with lvl60-2 in act2

now working on a DH.
n_n
dartoo
Profile Joined May 2010
India2889 Posts
November 16 2012 11:38 GMT
#390
I just started a barbarian on eu, first time barbarian too. Lets see how long this guy is going to live for :D

But damn...I'm only around skeleton king, and was on the phone,but even on normal it kinda got scary at times. quite fun. Cant imgine hwo it would be to lose a full levelled paragon level char o.0

Plus the auction house seems a bit more sensible here..and also a lot less stuff. I'm guessing people save a lot of their things in mules to race back up fast if they lose a char, alos there just isnt as much stuff coming though because not that many people play hardcore.
Ticcie
Profile Joined June 2010
Netherlands43 Posts
November 16 2012 12:49 GMT
#391
On November 16 2012 20:38 dartoo wrote:
I just started a barbarian on eu, first time barbarian too. Lets see how long this guy is going to live for :D

But damn...I'm only around skeleton king, and was on the phone,but even on normal it kinda got scary at times. quite fun. Cant imgine hwo it would be to lose a full levelled paragon level char o.0

Plus the auction house seems a bit more sensible here..and also a lot less stuff. I'm guessing people save a lot of their things in mules to race back up fast if they lose a char, alos there just isnt as much stuff coming though because not that many people play hardcore.


That, and in HC there is a pretty big item sink, which softcore lacks.

Losing characters is... interesting. I have only experienced about 8 deaths since switching to HC in D2, and still go through five stages of grief, albeit a lot faster.

Character death defines the playing mode, it is the inevitable result of all the hours you put into the character. There are people who say "hardcore is about the journey"... it is not, it is about the end. That is something which will stay with you for years. I still remember the death of every character.

Maybe it's just me though.
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unkkz
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Norway2196 Posts
November 16 2012 14:21 GMT
#392
On November 16 2012 21:49 Ticcie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 16 2012 20:38 dartoo wrote:
I just started a barbarian on eu, first time barbarian too. Lets see how long this guy is going to live for :D

But damn...I'm only around skeleton king, and was on the phone,but even on normal it kinda got scary at times. quite fun. Cant imgine hwo it would be to lose a full levelled paragon level char o.0

Plus the auction house seems a bit more sensible here..and also a lot less stuff. I'm guessing people save a lot of their things in mules to race back up fast if they lose a char, alos there just isnt as much stuff coming though because not that many people play hardcore.


That, and in HC there is a pretty big item sink, which softcore lacks.

Losing characters is... interesting. I have only experienced about 8 deaths since switching to HC in D2, and still go through five stages of grief, albeit a lot faster.

Character death defines the playing mode, it is the inevitable result of all the hours you put into the character. There are people who say "hardcore is about the journey"... it is not, it is about the end. That is something which will stay with you for years. I still remember the death of every character.

Maybe it's just me though.


Yeah i remember every death since D2 pretty much, albeit all have been DC's in D3 except for one. There are also memorable close calls for me and my buddies, especially when someone is not on their main character and comes really close to dying everyone just laughs on voice and chants for them to die, i like that a lot lol. Like WW barb friend telling us to man up in act 3 as he spins straight into molten, firechains, plagued + something and he just drops like a stone in the ocean and manages to leap out at pretty much 0,5% HP while screaming like a little girl all the while two more of us are just laughing ourself to tears. Good times. Or boosting someone in keeps lvl 2 and dodge the fireballs from just landed birds only to realise that they are going straight for the guy im boosting, and he dodges them by like half a cm.
unkkz
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Norway2196 Posts
November 16 2012 15:23 GMT
#393
Oh lord here we go again, massive packet loss and spikes to foreign IP's and servers, can't even connect to b.net atm. Same problem as last night, same server somewhere in the country that my ISP owns that is acting up. This will eventually kill me.
riotjune
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States3394 Posts
November 16 2012 17:36 GMT
#394
It's a given that when you're playing hardcore, you're really playing against lag. Party with a friend if you're paranoid about dc's (which you should be lol)
mythandier
Profile Joined January 2011
United States828 Posts
November 21 2012 15:27 GMT
#395
My favorite thing about HC is hands-down the economy. The fact that I can go spend all my gold at an in-game merchant by buying blue, level 13, shoulder pieces @ 2500 each and then resell those on the AH for 15k each (sold out within an hour) is great.

Trying to get that amount of gold with a new level 15 character and no help in SC is pretty much impossible.

Not to mention, the SC market is so saturated that even the majority of iLvl63 items are just trash.
wooozy
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
3813 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-11-25 05:56:51
November 25 2012 05:46 GMT
#396
roughly how much gold does it take to gear a barb for inferno mp0? i never touched my hc barb ever since i hit 60 and am sort of interested in going back to it

edit: NA region
FakeDouble
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Australia676 Posts
November 25 2012 07:00 GMT
#397
On November 25 2012 14:46 wooozy wrote:
roughly how much gold does it take to gear a barb for inferno mp0? i never touched my hc barb ever since i hit 60 and am sort of interested in going back to it

edit: NA region


It should be possible with 1 mil if you bid on some auctions, 2 mil easy. 100k-200k per slot is sufficient.

My gear is horrendous by softcore standards but I was able to clear HC mp0 a week ago with this gear. Weapon and shield were self-found, , helm, belt and the ring without weapon damage was bought on AH in patch 1.0.3 (can't remember prices), everything else was less than 200k each. Had a star amethyst in weapon socket.
Formerly known as carbonaceous
wooozy
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
3813 Posts
November 25 2012 07:50 GMT
#398
welp, i only had 400k to work with and managed this:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/wooozy-1907/hero/22553128
bought the wep/shield/armor/belt/bracer then ran out of gold =D

i've forgotten how slow this game was with 0% move speed lol
FakeDouble
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Australia676 Posts
November 25 2012 09:18 GMT
#399
On November 25 2012 16:50 wooozy wrote:
welp, i only had 400k to work with and managed this:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/wooozy-1907/hero/22553128
bought the wep/shield/armor/belt/bracer then ran out of gold =D

i've forgotten how slow this game was with 0% move speed lol


Nice finds, act 1 should be cake now. Farm some gold for a few days and you should have more than enough to clear mp0. Just remember to avoid fighting bad packs XD
Formerly known as carbonaceous
AimlessAmoeba
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada704 Posts
November 27 2012 16:17 GMT
#400
Lost my 51 HC Barb last night in Act4 NM to a Keywarden... Those darn things hit harder than act-end bosses do -_-

The worst part is sometimes you can't even run from them, This one was jailer/mortar/extra fast or something (you don't get to see the suffixes on these guys)

Ah well. Time to try a monk!
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