Hardcore mode... IN RETAIL?¿¿!¿

Not much else to say. other than Bump… or silly dummy doyyyy idea. lol

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upside down question marks are pure evil.

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I was actually thinking the other day of adding new game modes:

Hardcore: one death
Survival mode: no repair and no item merchants
Softcore mode: no deaths, you teleport back to last hearth.
Story mode: Revisit the entire essential Warcraft story and leave out the grind

:dragon: :ocean: :dragon: :ocean:

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Imagine running +20 keys in hardcore. Lol.

Or even worse…imagine running +14s with random pugs!

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I wouldn’t be against hardcore mode but I do feel like the modern game’s design is less congruent with a hardcore mode. Mobs are generally much less deadly and all classes have a lot more buttons to evade avoid and mitigate damage.

Not saying dying never happens, but outside of keys raids and PvP, when does it really?

We don’t have an equivalent of, say, the defias in Westfall.

Perhaps if hardcore mode also made the mobs in the world more threatening?

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More likely, I’ll make it to Valdrakken and forget my mount is of the non flying variety

:ocean: :dragon: :ocean: :dragon:

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Lol make it all the way, whip out your favorite flyer, jump off a cliff.

Rip

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First time jumping off a cliff without remembering I’m on a class without slowfall would make me uninstall immediately.

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You want hard core go to a Private server… turtle wow comes to mind…

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I would love it if we had a liner questing path that tells the wow story from start till current.

Great idea!

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Retail actually has difficult content so… wouldn’t really work.

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But they are making official hardcore servers…

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Really just came here to complain about the question marks, you win.

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PVP Retail Hardcore - No instances.

Edit: FFA

Questing in Vanilla is much harder than retail. Accidentally pull a third mob on many classes 1-60 and you’re done for.

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Spain wants to know your location.

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Yes and people say raiding is too yet everyone 99 parses and every video has people moving actually never at all.

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Getting from lv 1-70 on retail without dying is extremely easy

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So that means the only part of hardcore retail feasible would be open world leveling. The rest wouldn’t be possible.

I refuse to admit open world classic leveling is difficult. I played Vanilla. It wasn’t bad at all.

There’s a difference between needing to be careful and it actually being difficult despite being careful.

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tell them i said to bring it on. tell chileans i gonna bring it on.

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