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How not to die in hardcore mode?

dont push beyond a comfort level until you have high level gems and lots of toughness. With high gems Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard and Esoteric Alteration you'll be okay for until about 36ish grift if you d/c and you're surrounded by elite packs (assuming ur gems are 50+) after that you can't really have a setup which doesn't die at some point.. just make sure you have backup items and gems before you start to push into the higher tiers so when ur hero dies you have a backup.. the mobs/elites do lots of dps at the higher grifts and most of the defensive items require that your character activates something sort of skill to keep them going. Crusaders generally have the best suitability, followed by wd, the rest of the heros require you to have spells active to keep up the toughness i.e waste set requires you to keep WW on for you to have the reduced damage. Keep in mind the higher toughness you'll have the longer it will take you to clear grifts, so you might live at the start but it might take you too long to clear rifts for it to be efficient. The best thing is to look at builds and keep and eye on ur character to constantly keep adjusting him. When you have ur backup gear and you're pushing the grifts, dont be shy to push up because when you die you might as well have cleared a lot of higher grifts and hopefuly farmed enough backups you can do it all over again. If you dont want to die, dont play HC, in HC you will die, that's not a question to even ask, but the question is when. I'm assuming that you wont be farming 30 grifts forever and u'll be pushing into 40+
 
I am using S3 barbarian build 3 piece IK + 5 piece Waste + RoRG. Using CoTA with 50% dmg reduce and Unity ring and a Star of Azkaranth. I use that neck only because sometimes the bot stucks on the molten core/desecrate or only sits on them and waits. I don't think it is possible to bot 55-60+ without dying with bot so I am only using it to farm at low levels//level up gems while I am not playing. I will push higher rifts with bot after getting some backup gear.
 
Miskin said:
I am using S3 barbarian build 3 piece IK + 5 piece Waste + RoRG. Using CoTA with 50% dmg reduce and Unity ring and a Star of Azkaranth. I use that neck only because sometimes the bot stucks on the molten core/desecrate or only sits on them and waits. I don't think it is possible to bot 55-60+ without dying with bot so I am only using it to farm at low levels//level up gems while I am not playing. I will push higher rifts with bot after getting some backup gear.
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At what grift-level are you running with that setup?
 
im running full IK - with unity, WOTB striding giant, cota together as one - and defensive gems on grift 47 - i'm not going higher then that - I've died like 2 times after i push higher - at grift 47 you can dc and survive - the major issue is when demonbuddy makes "Demonbuddy stopped working" and the bot then just stands afk for 10min..
 
I'm using simple follower with a heal monk and 6 waste + 4 IK barbs. They farm keys at T8 and run GR45. They could run higher if the follower system worked better. Fairly often a barb will run off and clear mobs on it's own.

Run the heal monk as leader since it gets stuck on packs then the barbs clean it up.

Star of Azkaranth is a big help as the bots like to play chicken with the molten cores.
 
All I dd for last couple years is bot HC.
But with D/C server happening too much and the "patiently waiting for Nav Server" occurring at the worst times for a HC player...sadly I've switched to SC.

No idea when this bot will be fixed, but perhaps in next year or so, it will be better times for a HC botter. :)
 
trolderik said:
im running full IK - with unity, WOTB striding giant, cota together as one - and defensive gems on grift 47 - i'm not going higher then that - I've died like 2 times after i push higher - at grift 47 you can dc and survive - the major issue is when demonbuddy makes "Demonbuddy stopped working" and the bot then just stands afk for 10min..
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You got a buildlink (diablofans?) to the build you're using?
 
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