I'm sure there will be some champion/rare groups that will be difficult at any level & gear in hell. Vortex/Jailer & Arcane & Shielding/Invulnerable?Originally Posted by Immortal_K
Yes. There are so many items available that it's relatively easy to find a steal (sub-20k) of a weapon for a massive upgrade. I'm using a 330dps rare bow on my wizard, and it totally kicks ass.
Not anymore. Blizzard put an end to that when they discovered skills that were being used not how they intended. Wizard was using Energy Armor-Force Armor with intentionally as little vitality as possible. 35% of 4k hp is MUCH less than 35% of 40k hp, but the Diamond Skin-Crystalline Shell is still of a high value. Blizzard just hotfixed the skill so that it will only absorb up to 100% of your life. So if you have 4k life and a monster hits you for 20k, you're going to die. As for Demon Hunters, smoke screen's duration just got cut in half, which is huge for affecting how they could escape & evade in inferno.
When you die in HC, your stash is fine. Everything on your character, both equipped gear and in inventory, is gone forever. There is no body looting like D2 - they didn't want ANY reason for another player to possibly benefit from a death, and they also wanted to be able to remove gear from the game. Yes, the hardcore and softcore stashes are totally separate. Also, the stash is not tied to characters - it's tied to the account. If you only have one character and you die, your gold, stash, and blacksmith/jewelcrafter progress is still saved. I haven't died yet in hardcore, but two friends have, and they kept all their stash/bs/jc progress (and gold & stash items) so far. Getting all 3 tabs of hardcore stash is important as it allows hoarding of items, which means you can continually have all 10 auctions running. Good items in hardcore (those with vitality, main stat, socket, etc) sell for a LOT more than softcore. I sold a rare amulet that was around +20 to all 4 stats, 15% MF, and a socket with around a level 25 requirement for 199k gold yesterday.
With prices being so much higher in the gold auction house in hardcore, I think it's only a (short) matter of time before Blizzard realizes that not implementing a RMAH for hardcore is a big mistake to their profits. They'll make you jump through whatever hoops necessary to cleanse their hands of what happens if their servers cause you to die and lose all the real $ you put into RMAH purchases.. but I'm sure it'll happen eventually.
As for leveling the BS and rolling vitality gear.. I think you're better off just buying +vit gear from the AH early on. You know what the cost is, and there will be plenty of deals. The BS is a crapshoot and still costs a decent chunk of gold compared to what the AH has available.
You can have your only HC character die, and all your gold, stash gear, and BS/JC progress is saved. It doesn't matter which hardcore character put the gear in there - it's just tied to your account. Create another HC character and you'll see everything available. Two friends have done this.
Remember.. the stash is just as important for keeping high volume/low price guaranteed sales going on the AH. I always tend to price my *very* good items high and my decent items low. This ensures that I hit the jackpot every now and then but that I also maintain a steady flow of income. I'll keep 2-3 high priced items on auction, and the other 7-8 are priced very low, between 2k-20k, to keep money flowing.
In hardcore, unless it's a weapon, if it doesn't have vitality, I don't even bother with the AH. It gets salvaged.
Here's my list of what I look for:
1. If it's a magic (blue) item and has vitality+str/dex/int, I'll sell it for cheap (2k-4k), and it is gone quick. If it has a socket, it's easily sold at 4k-6k.
2. If it's a rare (yellow) item and has vitality+str/dex/int, I'll sell it for cheap (5k-15k depending on stats), and it's gone quick. If it has a socket, it's easily gone even after adding another 10k-20k to the price.
3. If it's a rare (yellow) item and has vitality & str/dex/int & magic find/resist all & socket, that's the sort of item you price high 75k-500k+ and wait to hit the jackpot.
4. If it's a level 60 item but has "level required reduced by xx", you can usually sell this for quite a bit as there aren't many great items available to level 45-55 guys.
5. Boots with +% movement speed always sell fast.
6. If it's a weapon and doesn't have a socket, it's worth much less.
7. If you're selling a weapon and it has a socket, stick a ruby in it so the DPS displayed on the AH menu is higher than unsocketed. Sure, it'll cost you a ruby, so only use one that you definitely don't need. If the weapon has a high dps for the level, vitality+str/dex/int, and a socket.. you can make some big money. If it's a monk fist or 1hd crossbow with +life added per hit in addition to the other good stats, that's quite valuable.
8. If it's a legendary and has fantastic random stats (some are fixed and some are random), it can be extremely valuable. I have Lut Socks (great MF boots as they have MF/GF/Movement speed as fixed modifiers) that have +vitality, so that's huge.
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