Feeling like trying out HC.

Any tips appreciated on a HC chara that has a good leveling guide with focus on HC and not SC.

Im thinking sorc (fire shield) Druid? tanky? barb? same reason?

Any thoughts?

Really depends on what type of gameplay you like. How mechanically skilled you are.

A team mate had at least 10 rips at least and he really did try hard. Mostly in level 60-70 when transiting into WT4, otherwise when from NMD in higher tiers level 80s.
This season he started out as a rend barb going into thorns pretty early on and made level 100 in 3.5 days. https://maxroll.gg/d4/build-guides/thorns-barbarian-guide

Thanks, thought thorns barb was just a gimmick for pvp... looks like i found a character to start! Cheers.