Hardcore - a guide & why you should play it - Page 7

On June 14 2012 22:11 Najda wrote:
Just beat hell on my HC barb.. So scared to start inferno though, I might just wait til 1.0.3

On June 14 2012 22:33 Cosmos wrote:
While it's true, it is sad that you can't play PvP with hardcore characters.

On June 14 2012 22:24 Greem wrote:
I also bought D3 only for HC experience, there is no point progressing with possibility of death, items just loose value for me, and since its a game about items, well it doesn't make sense to me. Softcore should be tuned and death should be punished in way harsher way tthen just lose of durability. Anyway with 3 second smokescreen i started HC with Demon Hunter, i was thinking its the best class for soloing , since i do prefer play solo whenever i feel to play, so i started, i died from lag at level 55 in hell difficulty in Spider Queen boss, i got huge lag when adds come out , survived that, but when lag was gone, queen apeared and i couldn't move, in my screen i clicking to move away, but ingame after the click i still was standing still and wasnt moving, so eventually i ran out of discipline of spaming smoescreen and not running away from her front attack , and vuala first RIP. The second RIP was at my second DH, already quick FIX to smokescreen came along, and so in act 3 hell dificulty i got a pack of Phase Beast, nasty creatures for Ranged class, i remember it was Ilusionist , jailer and teleporter, so ye , just couldnt escape, even that when i saw the pack coming i was runing for my life, i knew 2x teleport and ilusionist is just going to kill me with the state of survavility after Smoke Screen fix. I couldn't! 2nd RIP! I was already preparing for Inferno, and resistances to all were bothering me, DH doesn't have any real skill that improve you resistance to all , or skills like near death experience , example would be witch doctor. I did kill stuff quickly and mostly from 45 yards, problems were with packs with teleport, fast, and those nasty Phase Beasts monsters. My third , and for now Final character was Wizard, i did choose it simply because of armor spell, and because i was used to kiting, and playing right away with melee character wasn't easy swtich. So i rushed up to Hell like no problem, cleared hell with some help of weapon from AH, and then started farming bit by bit Inferno, i did a lot of runs getting tomes,not entering the cathedral, because of the fact that you cant get out if pack is watining for you in some generated maps,i only proseed if i see couple zombies eating corpse and wooden door ahead, even then im ready to use teleport with wormhole glyph to safely reset situation (For those who dont know it alows you to blink 3-4 times in a row). I cleared my first pack in cathedral going to rescue Cain , was so excited, drop was meh, but hey, no nephalem stacks yet, I started doing my Leoric Runs, got some nice items on the way, discovered that packs got enrage, but it reseteable if you flee, so after few decent Leoric runs, i got up too 400 resistance all, i decided to move on and killed Spider Queen, but didn't move on, decided to farm that a bit, after a while with some drops, some sells and some bought items, i managed to get 600 resistance all while wearing a nice shield i got dropped, i usually equiped that when i sad Fast o teleporter packs, because i knew i will take damage. But with shield and 600 resistance all, i was able to tank stuff pretty no problem, so i got overconfident and started shout stuff from almost melee range, and then on last pack while clearing prison sells to get to Jailor Boss, i got killed by pretty nasty pack of Jailer, molten, vortex, fire chains....the end for now =)

On June 14 2012 22:33 Cosmos wrote:
While it's true, it is sad that you can't play PvP with hardcore characters.

On June 14 2012 23:16 ibreakurface wrote:
People have been telling me Barbarian get to be almost unplayable in inferno, is this true? I've been wanting to make a HC barbarian but I don't want to insta die. How well can a barb tank?

On June 14 2012 23:07 N3rV[Green] wrote:



What the fuck?

Why wouldn't hardcore be able to PvP?

I highly doubt they wouldn't let people use the PvP arena thingy just cause you "die" in PvP, can't they just make that zone special and it doesn't matter?

On June 14 2012 23:16 ibreakurface wrote:
People have been telling me Barbarian get to be almost unplayable in inferno, is this true? I've been wanting to make a HC barbarian but I don't want to insta die. How well can a barb tank?

On June 14 2012 21:44 dmfg wrote:


I think you should try playing HC before commenting on what builds are viable. It's a completely different game, because things before super late game actually matter in HC.

One with Everything is almost mandatory on any build, because you will want to stack your resists as high as possible starting pretty much from A2 NM onwards, and the auction house doesn't have the same level of insanely good dex/vit/resist all items that are available in SC.

On June 14 2012 23:22 Artrey wrote:


It is totally the other way around. Barb is THE hc inferno class. You just build your character very different from softcore and it is far more about controlling the mobs instead of tanking them.

Still, Barbs can simply stand there and tank Belial with decent gear (string + 900 res [that is 600 items plus warcry] + 10k armor) while clothies get one or two shot with equal gear so there is almost no room for mistakes. ;-)

On June 15 2012 01:23 blackone wrote:

So there's going to be PvP for hardcore but if you die it's no prob and you get rezzed? How's that still hardcore?