Also, at this moment, there is for sale:

From Barteq88 - Axes, Daggers, Earths
From Labbatblue - Axe (good set)
From Alexis99 - Swords
From Ryan - Daggers
From LP_Soldier - Staves, Swords, Clubs, Axes, Daggers
From Lewy - Axes

There is gear available. I just ran the 3 first trading pages.
Most of those are resonably priced.

I just love HC and will continue to play ot - bufcore way 😁

I think there was actually a lot of skill involved on SC for undergeared death farmers when they first started and were soloing wave 6-9 of NMNM. I watched stream it a few times and I can tell you… that guy has skill. I was overgeared and safely soloing it with salvation and staying at reasonable levels of health…

He was literally jumping into the catacomb and trying to land hits and grab drops in windows of opportunity that lasted less than 200 ms. At that point it’s a skill game… and that only happened on sc.

Oh well… guess that’s kinda over now. No Maze No More no more. There’s still soloing EPs down 16 trapdoors that I did back in the day and it was hard but… that wasn’t skill, just pots

Rest of the game takes no skill IMO
Well… idk I haven’t done a mirror maze, so maybe if you find elemental education in a mirror maze that might take a bit of skill? maybe someone else can weigh in on that.

what i done took skill? u give me too much credit i missed a few drops from not clicking fast enough and dying haha. most memorable was a 50 int dagger. it became. a bad habbit too. been dancing on the edge of death ever since nmnm! vs 3 wave of EPs lol and yes defo lost a bunch of items. i will never know if they were good or not.

I mean... closest thing to skill you can find on LS anyway.

I'm always on the look out for a way to show off my skills at LS but so far no luck. I basically want to do something like I did on wow, but in LS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OudGjGR-kMQ
LMK if you have any ideas

To die and have no repercussions?? Makes sense

Everyone dies. What you do in the moments before your death are what matter.

Game mechanics either core are the same. Skill is not a requirement, only the approach to continuing and mostly the willingness to continue. Want some examples:

Trap Doors: (only issue is that it takes more time killing monsters with little reward)
... So you want to explore Trap Doors, well it is simple, if you have the gear and killspeed to continue on, you can do so, but if you do not, you can just whistle on the spot and level up for more stat points for Damage (Strength or Dexterity or Intelligence), now as for some others, they may want more Vitality because they have not reached their ideal number. If you fall into more than one Trap Door, you can still use whistle and level up before continuing to Explore.

Soften the Sneaky Shell: (Excluding Guardian) ... in reference to solo.
... Have three(3) Intelligence Items (35+ Int) in your Vault, even if your Cast charm has no Enhanced Effect, but like 30+ Intelligence. Noted this is around level 35-45+. If you have the patience to Cast, go to town & Regenerate your mana pool, you will eventually kill off Soften the Sneaky Shell. This is what I use on my Samurai & Paladin (base 30 int by then), takes time:


Magical tempered diamond sword
Level Req: 45
Damage: 24 to 241
+33 Intelligence

Angelic tempered diamond plate mail
Level Req: 45
Physical Defense: 46 to 140
Magical Defense: 0 to 18
+16 Vitality
+38 Intelligence
+8 Life Regen
+2% Mind Numb

Magical lightning X
Level Req: 35
Spell Damage: 12 to 125
Mana Cost: 77
+44 Intelligence

Again, no skill, just how the player approaches it, same as people using Magic Luck gear solo'ing, Welling, skilling. As a Hardcore player, I could choose to equip my Magic Luck gear for each wave encounter and switch to killing gear and kill, or reduce their hit points and switch to ML gear and then kill ... again, it is up to the player how to approach it and have the perseverance to play that way.

The only difference for the core is the player base... that is all there is to it, if the reverse happened, there would be more gear for Hardcore players and a higher economy, I guess you could say that Softcore has Death Farming and more chances to obtain higher Tier gear.

So, yup, Hardcore needs more players to get more gear. Simple enough.