No need for retail, just add achieve and title.
Level a toon to 70 without one death, and get an achieve with a clever name I can’t think of yet, and account wide title.
Hmm what looks better - “Trîçks the Hardcore”… or oh yes definitely “Hardcore Trîçks” that sounds naughty.
Don’t forget that Hogger gets arrested and sent to the Stockades midway through fighting him instead of you having to kill him.
a long leveling gauntlet through each expansion back-to-back would be nice.
I have been playing retail hc since ever. It is almost impossible to die in retail
Only dh’s actually have to die. To open a portal in their intro bit.
Or they can let the other DH sacrifice himself to fire up that portal. That’s an option.
But if you die you get to that nice Illidan lore bit about being an immortal soul.
Using modern WoW tech they can make you “pretend” to die and just make you run back while in a different phase.
It’d be neat, sure - if a bit wonky, because of how out of whack retail’s level scaling is (where you’re weaker as you level, rather than stronger).
But tbh, I’d rather see HC servers for WotLK Classic first, before they even think about retail. I know the addon was primarily utilized on Era, but there was a HC community in WotLK as well and it kinda sucks they didn’t get HC servers too.
retail hc would work if they made it so mobs didn’t die in one hit and you couldn’t hit level cap in 4 hours. retail is literally on auto pilot easy mode for 95% of its content, they would have to completely retune the game.
I don’t see any point in doing hardcore on retail. Leveling is super safe since everything scales to your level. You can buy gold and level boosts. Mounts are unlocked near instantly. You’d have to make so many rules just to have it work. Sounds kinda lame.
There’s some achievements for no death raids and dungeons afaik. That’s as close as you’ll get.
Never knew that. I always sacrificed the other dude
You vastly overestimate the time needed to read a Wowhead article.
If the “TOTALLY LEGIT, NOT COPIUM” world revamp happens for the next expansion like the rumors say, that’d be an excellent time to introduce Hardcore into retail.
“Try out the new leveling map! Survive until max level without dying and you get an achievement! :D”
Retail HC already exists. You can track deaths in your statistics.
nobody cares about retail. the only reason retail exists is because management cant admit their new product is inferior to a 20 year old game. they have to keep their job to make it look like they are doing valuable work to the upper mngment. and upprr mngment dont play games anymore so they just look at data and tonerhead metrics. its how middle managers continue to play ball
I would love for Retail to have a HC mode. I really enjoy the diversity of new game content with the stakes of if you die your dead involved. I have played WoW since WotLK. I have enjoyed it and still enjoy playing. I mean if the “journey” mattered to a lot of people maybe the could scale down the way you level. I would also like retail to still have a Classic questline instead of just insisting on going to Chromie. Please Wow make a HC retail. I know I would have fun.
3 months later… you necro this…
Refer to my last post
I would play a retail HC
Retail HC would be dope, c’mon Blizz