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What is Hardcore?
Hardcore is pretty much the same game. The only big difference is that you only have one life per character. So choosing to fight a big pack of mobs under geared can mean certain death. Here is a little experiment that I want you to try. Create a hardcore character. Set the difficulty to the highest you can get it too. Then start a hardcore campaign with that character. The point of this experiment is to try and survive without picking up any gear or items. See how far you can get. Doing this experiment will open your mind to how kiting and dodging attacks are really a necessary thing to do. In hardcore you cannot just stand there and take the hits and die. It’s ok to do that in soft core, but you will die standing there in hardcore. The other part of the experiment is to die. You probably won’t get too far if this is your first hardcore character. So getting your first character death out of the way now in this experiment will help with the nerves later on. Losing a character later on will be much more of a mental impact if you don't know what it feels like to die.
Pace of Hardcore
One thing to keep in mind when first starting out in hardcore is to slow down a bit. What I mean by this is to not run gung-ho into mobs. I like to run the edges of the maps and kill off all the mobs on the edges. Then work my way through the middle zig zagging. If you run the middle of the map first, you are more likely to get into fights with multiple rare and champ packs. Your goal starting out is to fight packs one at a time. Remember, when the going gets tough, run the way you came, not into an uncharted area. Running into areas you haven't cleared yet will get you killed. In hardcore it’s also pretty important to learn what types of moves that mobs do. Like if a certain mob is running at you, can you take a hit? Or will he one shot you with his huge hammer slam. Remember from Mike Tysons punch out, “Stick and move, Stick and move”. Stuff like this is important to learn as you go along. Remember the turtle wins the race.
Resources
So if you’re new to hardcore you realized that you have nothing. In the beginning its important to just farm for rares, blues, and whites and build up your storage with crafting materials and back up gear in case you die. Heck, I mean WHEN you die. Whites are hard to come by later on. So while you see them on the ground, pick them up and break them down at the black smith. It would behoove you to grind it out and level that blacksmith up as soon as possible. The blacksmith gear is there to help fill in the gap. Another trick of the trade is to use the vender. If you don't see an item you need you can always reset the game, and check the vender again to get the item with the stats you want. Doing this will help your characters stay alive longer.
Stats and Leveling
What I do in hardcore is stack VIT and high armor values. Doing this will keep you alive longer. Later on around level 50 or so you want to start stacking resist all gear. What you can do is stay in one area for a while and farm for gear with resists on them. For your first hardcore character I suggest running normal difficulty. Doing this will ensure a better chance at survival. I usually run at the highest difficulty and ramp down when the mobs HP gets too unbearable. Doing the leveling this way is much faster, but more dangerous. You can try out whatever way you like it’s your game and your time.
Conclusion
This was a quick intro to hardcore. In the future I will write more specific articles about characters, gearing, skills, and how to survive.
Welcome all to the beginning of our Heroes of the Storm coverage. This was a rough match to just get ourselves use to the action of game as well as talking about it at the same time.
We'll be building a playlist(s?) for Heroes exclusively that will contain:
- Quick Heroes spotlights showing off Heroes and abilities
- Gameplay matches against AI and people alike
- Matches with other community members of the Heroes fan sites.
Most importantly, feel free to submit questions in the comments to be looked at and answered!
Welcome to Scythe and Shield, a GrindExp Diablo 3 podcast. Hello, I am Dr J Dredscythe and will lead you on this adventure. Scythe and Shield aims to have great discussions with great people about some of the larger topics of the day while also getting beneath the BattleTag and get to know our community personalities a little more intimately.
In this show, I talk to 9pad and Cybrwolf - members of the Shattered Soulstone community about Hardcore. We discuss how good it is, and if now is the best time ever to sign the charter and march towards glory!
9pad: https://twitter.com/9PadGaming
Cybrwolf: https://twitter.com/Cybrwolf0
Diablo III: Reaper of Souls
We give a nice review over what we each have seen and done over the last couple of weeks. Leveling to gearing to are we having fun yet?! Are we?! Bottom line is we are and have much higher hopes for the expansion, especially with Seasons and Tiered Rifts coming out soon(TM)
Warlords of Dreanor Alpha
We go over some of the keep updates, changes and points of, well, points of interests we could say. New t systems, squishing of stats and the ever increasing world....(you got it)...of warcraft!
P.S.
Personal note: "Quad, the audio was suppose to be perfect, fan of doom!"
Welcome to Scythe and Shield, a GrindExp Diablo 3 podcast. Hello, I am Dr J Dredscythe and will lead you on this adventure. Scythe and Shield aims to have great discussions with great people about some of the larger topics of the day while also getting beneath the BattleTag and get to know our community personalities a little more intimately.
In this show, I interview fellow Diablo 3 player, podcaster, and video maker - RTG Sibcoe. We talk about how far the game has come in the past year. We also talk about the Crusader class and all the expects from concept to skills.
RTG Sibcoe Website: http://www.redteamgaming.com/
RTG Sibcoe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RedTeamGaming
RTG Sibcoe YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/RedTeamGaming
Diablo III: Reaper of Souls
With just over a week left till Reaper of Souls comes out we got some more information about the Blood Marsh along with its awesome soundtrack. A Crusader Q&A was also posted to get your lore on. If your one of the few that have not picked up Diablo 3 yet, but RoS is making you think about it, you can get Diablo 3 through the Blizzard store for 50% off! That’s a 20 buck game folks! The deal last until the 23rd. Lastly, the development team will be holding a Live Q&A on the 24th with the community.
SAVE 50% ON DIABLO III FOR WINDOWS AND MAC
JOIN US FOR A LIVE Q&A ON MARCH 24!
REAPER OF SOULS™ FIRST LOOK: EXPLORING THE BLOOD MARSH
REAPER OF SOULS™ FIRST LOOK: BLOOD MARSH SOUNDTRACK
Heroes of the Storm
So much, where to begin?! All the Heroes have been revealed along with it being Tychus week. A very nice general walkthrough of the Alpha and how it works, along with another video on how you’ll play the game , pick Heroes, level them up, pick skins, abilities, and much, much, more was posted too!
Oh, yeah, the Technical Alpha went live! Hopefully we’ll be in it within a few weeks giving you many hours of content, thoughts, builds, and guides in the future.
Lastly, a 4th Live Q&A will be on March 19th at 11am PDT (1pm EDT) with a focus on Talent Systems.
THE HEROES OF THE STORM TECHNICAL ALPHA IS NOW LIVE!
HEROES OF THE STORM VIDEO: TECHNICAL ALPHA WALKTHROUGH
HEROES OF THE STORM PREVIEW: UNLOCKING THE HERO WITHIN
Q&A Live #4 – Talent System - March 19th @ 11am PDT (1pm EDT)
StarCraft II
StarCraft has been getting ready and entering into the next WCS. Some opinions have been going on the recent development of the ESL (Electronic Sports League) taking over the NA WCS Season 1. Also, the community license has been update for tournament organizers.
WCS America Production and Schedule Update
Community Tournament License Update
World of WarCraft
The latest Dev Watercooler was unleashed on the community, and as to be expected many varying opinions on the direction the tem is taking instant healing spells and how the new direction for pacing damage in new content will work with this design change for healing all around. Also, the community license has been update for tournament organizers.
The Warlords of Draenor pre-purchase has gone live! Pre-purchasing the Deluxe version gives you direct access to the instant level 90 boost, Raven mount and Hatchling pet too. Other items such avatars for SC and a Flag banner for your Diablo 3 characters too.
Dev Watercooler: Building Healthy Gameplay
Community Tournament License Update
World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor Pre-Sale
Instant Boost to Level 90 Trailer “OMG GNOMES!”
Hearthstone
Patch 1.0.0 was released and with it, Hearthstone finally left Beta and is now LIVE! With patch 1.0.0 the game had some last minute card balancing to Tinkmaster Overspark and Nat Pagle and also added a slew of card animations and those new card backs that we saw in the past weeks. Hero portrait animations were teased as well as a preview of the Golden Heroes too were shown. The Hearthsteed was brought back to the surface and we got information on how you can obtain it for your WoW characters. Lastly, the community license has been update for tournament organizers.
Welcome to the Hearthstone Launch!
Ride Into Action on Your Hearthsteed!
Hearthstone Patch Notes - 1.0.0.4944 - All That Glitters!
Upcoming Coming Ranked Play and Card Balance Changes
Community Tournament License Update
Special
We just want to say thank you to Rho for pimping out the show(s) we do and helping spread the word.
Thank You to @RhoWoW Realm Maintenance for Added Our Shows to Their Awesome List of Podcasts
P.S.
Will make sure audio is better next time, already on it!!!
Welcome to Scythe and Shield, a GrindExp Diablo 3 podcast. Hello, I am Dr J Dredscythe and will lead you on this adventure. Scythe and Shield aims to have great discussions with great people about some of the larger topics of the day while also getting beneath the BattleTag and get to know our community personalities a little more intimately.
In this very first show, I interview Official Diablo 3 Forum MVP - Jaetch and we talk about the resurgence of people back to Diablo 3.
Jaetch on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jaetch
Jaetch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Jae7ch
Diablo III: Reaper of Souls
With the big release of Patch 2.0.1 this past week we have been chopping at the bit to see how the revamped systems translated from the PTR / Beta servers to Live. We were not disappointed. New life it seems has really been brought back into the game and seeing a full friends list is a real great thing! The Diablo CMs made a nice wrap up of patch 2.0.1 for getting quickly up to speed if you’ve been out of it for a while too! Other notable points are more pre-order bonuses were revealed, new TV spot commercial, and XP Community Boost for all active players till March 24th!
Diablo III: What's New in Patch 2.0.1
+50% BONUS XP IN DIABLO III – LIMITED TIME ONLY
REAPER OF SOULS™ - TV SPOT REVEALED
REAPER OF SOULS™—PRE-ORDER LOOT REVEALED
Heroes of the Storm
The information for Heroes is getting more exciting by the week, almost by the day. The Technical Alpha has been announced, so we may be able to finally play and report to you on the game first hand shortly. Also, over the past couple of weeks now, Heroesnexus.com has been going through the internal “Development Alpha” build and we have sneak peeks at early skins, systems, and much more.
It appears that a weekly rotation of a set number of free to play Heroes will be in per week, rotating out to new ones the following week. Also, similar to Heathstone when it was in Closed Beta, a special gift appears to be given out to those that test the in-game shop. These two points make it seem that Blizzard is going with a “LoL” model vs. “DOTA2”. As always though with Early, rapidly changing, datamined information, take it with a huge grain of salt seeing as it may already have changed internally by the time we see it.
INTRODUCING THE HEROES OF THE STORM TECHNICAL ALPHA
HEROES OF THE STORM TECHNICAL ALPHA FAQS
[DATAMINED INFORMATION] SHOP REWARDs, WEEKLY ROTATIONS, MODES, & MUCH, MUCH, MORE!
StarCraft II
StarCraft II has been steadily moving forward making small improvements and getting ready for the next WCS. There have been two patches – one a bug patch primarily, and another small balance patch. Lastly, the Twitch Premium Subscription for Season 1 is now available.
WCS Season 1 Premium Subscription Tickets Now Available on Twitch
StarCraft II 2.1.1 Patch Notes
Heart of the Swarm Balance Update -- February 28, 2014
World of WarCraft
The development team for Warlords released their visions for normalizing and redoing the racial and ideas on the incoming stat and gear squish. We also go over the big $60 bucks for a level 90 boost.
Warlords of Draenor Racial Traits
Dev Watercooler: Pruning the Garden of War
Blizzard Confirms and Talks About $60 for Instant Level 90 in WoD
Hearthstone
Hearthsone gave us a few updates and teases for the future. Season 3 has come to a close with the posting of the ranks. New card backs that we were told about at BlizzCon last year were shown off. Two of which were labeled as “upcoming reward” leaving us to wonder more! With no new balance patches being announced yet, this may be solidifying the cards as they are along with a rather ominous tweet regarding “last chance” to get your Goblin Mekkatorque, we may be at release really soon!
Last Chance to Get Your Goblin Mekkatorque!
New Card Backs Coming to Hearthstone!