If you consider it "more difficult and time consuming" then you might want to get a doctor to check it for you.

Other than the fact that the highest level player can grind for 50+ hours straight and be happy if they were to gain 1% of their experience bar?
If you die to mobs while you're grinding, I believe you lose 10% of your experience. Rip 500+ hours.
On top of that, basically anyone who has been playing longer than you can kill you in an instant if they don't like you being in the same area as them.
Or, they can just be dicks and drop you to a low hp and walk away.

The auction house isn't like any other game. There is an rng factor in almost every aspect of the market.
Want an item that rarely gets listed? Good luck. There are probably hundreds of preorders for that item.
There's a chance that an item won't sell through a preorder and go to the market, but good luck, because hundreds of people want that item too.
Everyone who wants the item can bid on it, and basically, it's a lottery. Obviously, only one person wins... or nobody does.
If nobody wins the item, then whoever has the fastest and greasiest fingers wins the item. But good luck, because hundreds of people are spam clicking, using macros, etc.

Of course, you can alternatively upgrade all of your gear yourself.
But it'll cost billions upon billions of gold. With the chance of it not working, degrading, or blowing up completely if you're upgrading accessories.

This post was edited by Kokua on Dec 8 2018 06:20pm

I mean 100 hours of combat training is only around 4% of experience max bar in rs, and that’s for one skill

100 hours of slayer would be 3-4% as well

That does sound like a hassle in the late game, but I’d say losing 500 hours is no where near the same emotional effect as losing 1500-3000+ hours of sup in osrs hcim.

Plus the fact that anything you need or want needs to be self obtained regardless of what it is, and boss drops using this method can take thousands of hours on its own.

It sounds like a serious grind but idk if it matches up with hcim tbh

I mean, that's just one level. After that level, the next level will take exponentially longer. And after that level, there's yet another level that will take exponentially longer.
There are boss drops in BDO, but you're more likely to get a boss item through the random black market vendor at night that you have to pay stamina for each chance, thus limiting your chances per day.
Simply obtaining boss armor isn't the end of the story though, because you have to enhance it to actually make it useful. Failed upgrades reduce the maximum durability. Boss armor is a pain in the ass to repair.

Ah, and there's a set of elite mounts. They cost billions just for a chance to obtain, with extremely small percentage of success.
Unicorn, Pegasus, etc. There are mounts in the game that literally only a single player owns (the one that immediately comes to mind is the black Pegasus). You might never see it.

This post was edited by Kokua on Dec 8 2018 06:40pm

UIM is worst

This. Ask Jupe.

Honestly the only game i dont play hardcore mode in is path of exile. I literally just die sometimes n dk why. Every streamer dies too randomly. Shits rough

Reminder that red helms are just dirt helms with paint

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