These are general guidelines I made for myself to have an experience both combat wise/leveling wise closer to vanilla whilst keeping the positive new features coming in increments.
So far I can’t stop playing hardcore without this, I’m normally done with the season at this point but I just keep on playing, maybe you’ll like it maybe you won’t I don’t know but I thought I’d share it.
Hardcore Elevated Guidelines:
World Tier I-II: 0-1x Profane Mindcage
World Tier III: 1x-2x Profane Mindcage
World Tier IV: 2x-3x Profane Mindcage
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World Tier I-II: 0 Offensive/Weapons Temper Allowed
World Tier III: 1 Offensive/Weapons Temper Allowed
World Tier IV: All Offensive/Weapons Temper Allowed
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No EXP/Gear seasonal blessings boost allowed (besides Paragon Glyph EXP)
No elixirs/incense besides Elixir of Fortitude II on WT3-WT4
No touching seasonal item progression board.
Infernal Hordes: no preferences.
Pit: monsters level min 11 above.
NMD: monsters level min 13 above.
I’ve made a clan where we’ll follow those guidelines for those who are interested search for D4 Hardcore Elevated or D4HE on the clan board in-game for NA or add BreathFox#1172