New Hardcore League Season Ideas

[Qadashael]

Post new ideas for things that you think might be easy to implement, but would change things up for a future season of Hardcore. Bad ideas are OK.

A few from myself:

• Hardcore Speedrunning: A timer ticks up when in quests. A leaderboard tracks the top players getting to 20 by time in quest. All quests lock 1 minute into the quest, preventing other players from entering for the league so that players can't just enter near-complete quests.
• Item degradation. Remove the ability to repair items on server. Possibly double items from chests to compensate. Players need to constantly cycle their items and cannot easily farm gear for mains, and/or need to save their best gear for scary situations.
• Forced team play - Possibly by only opening quests to groups of 3 or more, or having a stacking debuff for number of missing players.
• Some use of veteran status as a means of rerolling on death to mitigate lost progress. You keep favor collected up to level 4 or level 7 based on unlock status.

[Gram]

No action points earned from experience.
If that is excessively hardcore, an alternate means of earning action points in place of experience: 1 ap/100 favor, 1 ap/faction favor reward, or 1 ap/monster manual character deed?

Everyone has permanent Epic Defensive Fighting active.

Remove all vendors, but replace gems with spell components, dissolvers, etc. And leave a torch on the floor somewhere in Rest Stop.

Reduce the overlevel entry limit from 4.

Remove the elite difficulty.

Progressive content unlocking, either over time or based on player influenced milestones. Or both? Allow platinum (or shard) "donations" to be accumulated as "votes" for the content to be unlocked the next day.

Remove all shrines, disallow quest reentry, implement a 2 minute lockout timer, and disable hirelings with divine vitality.

Disable moving forward and backward. crab people crab people

[ironmaiden-br]

1- must play quest at level on normal hard elite.
if you run R1 you can run 1 lv above , R2 2 lvs above R3, 3 levels above, R4 4 lvs above

[Memnir]

Just bring back the Mimic Invasion, or something like it. Don't need to reinvent the wheel every time - and that was honestly the most fun I've had in Hardcore. This season just felt like week-old leftovers as a result, and I didn't partake of it much.

I also don't feel like adding challenge by reductions or restrictions are going to make future seasons fun, either. Challenging, sure. Fun - hard no.
And if it's not fun* - I'm out. That's a game-wide axiom, not just for HCL, but it's been the secret to my long-term enjoyment of the game so I'm going to keep abiding by that mindset.



*for me. YMMV

[DoctorOfLiterature]

I would like to see a Lvl 30 reward. I achieved 1750 favor and reached lvl 20 and stopped. If there had been a lvl 30 reward I would have kept playing to try and reach it.

[TrinityTurtle]

Just bring back the Mimic Invasion, or something like it. Don't need to reinvent the wheel every time - and that was honestly the most fun I've had in Hardcore. This season just felt like week-old leftovers as a result, and I didn't partake of it much.

*for me. YMMV

I'm with you Memnir, I had a blast with the mimics. I got my horse with a month to go, so just kept tooling around collecting up mimic gear because it was silly fun and a good time. I hit this season to get the rewards, I didn't make it season one and two, had to learn to control my add behaviors in an unforgiving setting, so was happy to get them, but the minute I did I just wandered off, there wasn't anything fun to keep me goofing off on hc once I got the footprints (which look hilariously bad on a gnome, they don't scale like horses, I look like a bigfoot faker wearing big wooden foot patterns running around).

[Qadashael]

Just bring back the Mimic Invasion, or something like it. Don't need to reinvent the wheel every time - and that was honestly the most fun I've had in Hardcore.

I'm with you there - the Mimic season was probably the most fun to play. That and the one with unusual champions no one understood at first - the danger was real. Maybe let the mimics do something other than acid damage, or even a random typed elemental damage? You can still skip a chest, but if you take it and it's a mimic, it might hit hard in a way that isn't completely negligible with some acid resistance. Or maybe mimics have an element based on quest level. 1-4 acid, 5-8 fire, etc.

Reskin reapers as skeletal ghosts and make it pirate-themed, maybe. Add a few creepy sound effects, or a one-second piano rift that announces spawn of a reaper so you know that there's danger somewhere before seeing it just to heighten the tension a bit (Left4Dead did this to great effect).

[Oxarhamar]

Just bring back the Mimic Invasion, or something like it. Don't need to reinvent the wheel every time - and that was honestly the most fun I've had in Hardcore. This season just felt like week-old leftovers as a result, and I didn't partake of it much.

I also don't feel like adding challenge by reductions or restrictions are going to make future seasons fun, either. Challenging, sure. Fun - hard no.
And if it's not fun* - I'm out. That's a game-wide axiom, not just for HCL, but it's been the secret to my long-term enjoyment of the game so I'm going to keep abiding by that mindset.



*for me. YMMV

I’m with it but hopefully this time they will also bring it to live

Mimic event on live is too rare & too short

Chests should always have a chance to be a mimic if you asked me & mimic event should make the chance higher

[brian14]

I too vote to bring back Mimics! That was the most fun event.

[Jacoby]

Just bring back the Mimic Invasion, or something like it. Don't need to reinvent the wheel every time - and that was honestly the most fun I've had in Hardcore. This season just felt like week-old leftovers as a result, and I didn't partake of it much.



*for me. YMMV

Honestly, the mimic invasion is season 4 with the special crown's were the best ever. I died a lot but thoroughly enjoyed the challenge. Season 5 was dull by comparison. We did use it as an opportunity to get a couple guildies their cloaks that would not normally otherwise have tried it, but that's not the point of hardcore. It is for the challenge and it is for those players that need that edge. If it were not for harddcore I would not still be playing this game.