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not true.
You can do additional challenges yes, but the plain HC experience involves quests
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You can do additional challenges yes, but the plain HC experience involves quests
Lambourne
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No, you can do quests and tradeskills. There's optional extra achievements you can do (like not doing quests or sticking to one continent) but those are entirely optional. You can flag yourself for them in the HC addon if you want to do those extra ones.
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Needless
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Korzax Stonehammer
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Smoked a joint, felt like playing, tried to sub, in a queue, give up 20 mins later, go play GW2. Save $20.
They really didn't want my money no matter how hard I tried.
They really didn't want my money no matter how hard I tried.
Dalien
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I did this on SoM and it was really fucking fun and also almost gave me a heart attack a few times. Here's the TL;DR for anyone considering this.
Get the addon, you have to have it before you create your character for it to count.
Addon | Classic Hardcore
Rules and tips:
-you cannot group*
-you cannot trade (not even conjured items)
-no mail or AH
-tradeskills allowed, you can wear whatever you craft but you have to farm the mats yourself
-your only cash income is from what you loot or from quests, so skinning is a solid trade to get. pair with tailoring early on to make yourself some starter bags
-questing is allowed and encouraged for both the exp and gear rewards. you may want to grind mobs at some points for exp. generally, you want to overlevel the quests.
-if there's any doubt in your mind that a quest may be too hard, skip it and move on (or wait a few levels). skip the elite quests.
-join a guild if we have one, or else just some random guild. The addon broadcasts whenever someone dies which is hilarious and leads to a wall of F's. "Timmy the Paladin has died to Hogger at Level 12". "F"
* - exception for grouping, you're allowed to group for one run of each dungeon (have to be in the level range of the dungeon).
Real talk, do not attempt any dungeons with randoms. So many people died in my SoM guild at level 36 or whatever due to a bad group. Stick with pals or skip the dungeons.
Get the addon, you have to have it before you create your character for it to count.
Addon | Classic Hardcore
Rules and tips:
-you cannot group*
-you cannot trade (not even conjured items)
-no mail or AH
-tradeskills allowed, you can wear whatever you craft but you have to farm the mats yourself
-your only cash income is from what you loot or from quests, so skinning is a solid trade to get. pair with tailoring early on to make yourself some starter bags
-questing is allowed and encouraged for both the exp and gear rewards. you may want to grind mobs at some points for exp. generally, you want to overlevel the quests.
-if there's any doubt in your mind that a quest may be too hard, skip it and move on (or wait a few levels). skip the elite quests.
-join a guild if we have one, or else just some random guild. The addon broadcasts whenever someone dies which is hilarious and leads to a wall of F's. "Timmy the Paladin has died to Hogger at Level 12". "F"
* - exception for grouping, you're allowed to group for one run of each dungeon (have to be in the level range of the dungeon).
Real talk, do not attempt any dungeons with randoms. So many people died in my SoM guild at level 36 or whatever due to a bad group. Stick with pals or skip the dungeons.
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RobXIII
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I was wondering why anyone would risk a dungeon run, but man doing that on a SoM server has to be some of the most adrenaline you can snag while playing WoW
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It'd probably worth be it.
Imagine playing that way on a PVP server? Do you just hide in town all day?
Lambourne
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There's some griefing/baiting going on. Some of it is YGWYFD. Queue for Goldtooth (named kobold), someone showed up with a pvp enabled orc trying to bait people into attacking him. It's really only people trying to queue jump by mashing a macro that end up ganked, so fuck em.
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Dalien
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On my SoM server there was a level 40 hunter who would spend all day, every day kiting Teremous the Devourer from Blasted Lands to SW. He had a huge body count and used to post pages of all the angry whispers he would get. No idea if that's still possible, but as a general rule you should never AFK in town.
classichc said:
If you die to something like that, you can't appeal it.
Watch out for PvP flagged rogues stealthing on top of mobs you're about to attack too. On SoM there were a bunch of level 20s undead rogues doing this in Westfall. Some even went as far as to dress up like Defias, which was hilarious btw.
Once you get past Westfall/Redridge the griefing dies way down.
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The not grouping for shit like this on hardcore is retarded.
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Lambourne
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It's annoying in some situations but it (along with no mail/AH) is really the only way to make sure everyone has an equal challenge. I just skip any quests with a queue, you can easily make up the xp with a minute or two of grinding. No point wasting time standing in line or trying to snipe it. This being WoW in current_year, there are a lot of people stuck in the "must follow optimal path dictated by levelling guide" mindset. HC requires you to adapt your play, which is half the fun. Decisions matter again.
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Gutterflesh
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Started a trio and I come to find out if one person dies it's all over.
I have confidence in myself, but my retarded friends are a whole other issue.
Doubt we make it past 20.
I have confidence in myself, but my retarded friends are a whole other issue.
Doubt we make it past 20.
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