What's the purpose of playing hardcore? Do you loot more gold? Or just items sell for more at the auction house?
There's a little prestige in an otherwise boring game.
No additional loot or gold, but yeah the gold on Hardcore tend to be worth more $$ pr mil than on Softcore for obvious reasons!
Well, just theorycrafting a hardcore botting build. You would want:
Life After kill, 1000+
Thorns, 12000+
HP 40k
Life Regen 1000
Allres 350
At least like this, you could bot Nightmare for gold with more or less zero risk. Even if bot shuts off thorns will be enough to kill the mobs and any mobs that for any reason don't kill themselved on Thorns you still stay alive.