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[Concillian]

While I enjoy Hardcore immensely I wanted to try a new account and not use the AH, so I got a character to Hell but I felt the time needed to find better drops and move on was not entertaining enough, so I stopped playing and gave the account away to a friend. Said friend didn't enjoy the game and returned the account, so I gave it a try again and leveled one of each class to nightmare or close to it. But I stopped as I personally find the item drop system so uninteresting.

To me, loot feels at least reasonably interesting when you have a 5 stack of NV. I often have 2 rares getting to a 5 stack and then it seems like almost half and half. ilvl is a secondary issue, that may be a little off from ideal, but rare:magic ratio feels alright when you have a guaranteed rare on a random pack and 2 from a scripted boss.

However, when put into hardcore mode, this system downright sucks. Leveling hardcore becomes unnecessarily tedious, and leveling is a substantial portion of the hardcore game.