0.9.11 Two-week Hardcore Race League

It was a pleasure playing and trading with you all. Thanks GGG for this game, heres to new, awesome leagues in the future.

This league was great fun...even loosing my main guy the day before it ended at 47 was worth it in the end when I got two UNIQUES in 24 hours on my back up toon. The gaming gods were kind to me in spite of my loss! I may have missed out on the 75 orbs I was shooting for but I still had a great two weeks running & chatting with everyone.

I hope they gathered some good data and that perhaps the templars will get some love as it often felt like I was outta sync with the mobs my level...that tree feels like it still needs some tweaking. (Or it was user error! LOL)

Cheers & great run all!

Bella

Thanks GGG had a great time

Well, that was a bunch o' fun. Congrats to all the winners.

Congratz to the winners!

First time trying hardcore and it is really great, yesterday failed with a melee ranger at level 16 by those spawns that explode and then today made a marauder up to 30 to get those prize orbs.

Hope you guys make more of those leagues and I am really looking into Iron-man and Cut-throat! They look amazing!

EDIT: I hope the winners Stream live or record the unique map run!

I can't believe I finished in 18th place! I played EXTREMELY conservatively, always staying over-leveled and using every available means to try to survive. Despite this, I died on day 3 (to suicide squids) at lvl 45 and had to restart. Luckily I took this opportunity to redo my build plan and came up with something much much better the second time around. The times when was struggling, I would either respec a small part of my build, or use up a bunch of orbs to get a weapon upgrade.

My build was a life regen / +max life tank, however I ended up spending quite a lot in offensive axe passives and ended up with a lightning strike that dealt 2,500+ damage. Had about 2,950 life at level 72.

I started doing maps pretty late compared to others, and I had to abandon a few that were just too deadly for me. Despite having only 10% increased quantity on my gear, I was fairly lucky with map drops and didn't have to grind the pyramid quite as much as I would have. Nearly ran out of alteration orbs toward the end trying to roll maps with increased size and increased monster pack size. xD

The whole experience was a lot of fun, but I do feel a tad exhausted after pouring so many hours into the league. If I had played less conservatively I probably wouldn't have had to play so many hours.

Thank you GGG for an awesome event!! I cannot WAIT to see more events like this in the future!

Nice race and congratz to the winners!
One interesting thing thing to think about...it seems like there is no Templar in the top 20 I wonder if the reasons for this are just style issues, low survivability in melee or a significant lack of damage output in the later stages of the game?

When is the next HC race starting? Im really looking foward for the next one.