In SC, I may see a cave that has nothing to do with the objective and I’ll think “eh, I’m dealing enough damage and the difficulty is high enough, anything I might find in there will be paltry at best” and avoid it. In HC mode however, not losing health means you’re doing what you need to do- which is surviving, and what makes you the Nephalem. SC mode gets boring if you don’t lose health and aren’t being challenged. On another note, not losing health in SC mode means you’re not being challenged enough, and you should raise the difficulty so you can get better rewards and xp. In hardcore mode, those new yellow shoulders can be all that save you from dying to the next elite you run into. In SC mode, every bit of gear simply means “yay I can turn the difficulty up, and now I do more damage to get more lewtz”. In hardcore mode, every piece of gear is the difference between life and perma-death. I’ll leave you with a nice post by Jaemeson I found on the HC forums (warning a little long): Every death has a story, and a lesson learned for the next time. All worthy of the time to fix them right.įinally the ultimate reason I’ll never leave is the same reason I write this column: because Hardcore is my favorite experience in a game. All legitimate issues, all worthy of fixes. We still have bots, and a paragon creep, and issues with sets being the endgame. Think of all the missteps Diablo has taken in the past few years, and how many strides it has made since that bad beginning. Something as simple as the new zone added the last patch has me more excited for what is to come.
That passion is still there, the fun is still there. Not out of desperation to soak up every last ounce of playtime, but out of pure enjoyment. Right before my daughter was born I threw myself heavily into Season Four, playing as much as I could. That time can be draining but the biggest danger with speculation is allowing it to erode your passion. Diablo fandom isn’t easy, we had a long drought from D2 to D3 a long beta, and now the wait for the next reveal. It’s too early to allow that to alter our perspective. Like a child expecting a Transformer for their birthday only to see a Go-Bot, we feel let down. It’s hard not to be disappointed with what we see coming up at Blizzcon. With speculation comes the connecting of dots and the lowering of expectations. I came on to the site in the midst of speculation, and while we always want answers it’s always fun to kick around ideas about what is on the horizon. A rebirth in speculation, and a rebirth in passion. A rebirth not just in print but in the game itself.
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