Hardcore and Solo Self-Found
At character creation, on the website, you may pick one or both modes. Together with plain Softcore they make four groups that share the same world, chat and guilds but are kept apart where items and help are concerned. A mode is fixed at creation; you cannot add one later.
| Mode | Trade and party | Items | Death |
|---|---|---|---|
| Softcore | with other Softcore characters | from anyone | the usual rule (The death rule) |
| Hardcore | with Hardcore only | from Hardcore and Hardcore SSF | ends the mode, see below |
| Solo Self-Found (SSF) | nobody | only what you found yourself | the usual rule |
| Hardcore SSF | nobody | only what you found yourself | ends the mode |
Hardcore death. The first death turns the character into a normal Softcore character in place. You keep the character, its level, its gear, spells, tree and atlas progress, and you pay the normal experience cost. You lose the Hardcore flag for good, and your place on the Hardcore ladder is frozen as "fallen". In Hardcore SSF a death leaves you in SSF. The scripted death of the tutorial is cancelled for Hardcore characters.
SSF rules.
- No trading of any kind: trade window, bank transfers, house sales. You cannot join a party, and healing or buffs from others do nothing to you.
- Drops reach you only from a clean kill: no player of another group may have hurt the monster. Items lying on the ground or in a corpse that others stamped are not yours to take.
- Your SSF characters share one SSF stash and wallet (Depot and stash).
- Bosses, including the pinnacles and Voruun Hale, are designed to be beatable alone.
Leaving SSF. Type `!leavessf` standing in a protection zone, never inside a map, and confirm twice. It is permanent: you lose the SSF ladder place, keep everything you carry, and can trade again. SSF becomes Softcore; Hardcore SSF becomes Hardcore.
Ladders. The Highscores button opens the ladder window: pick a league and a board, filter by class, hide the fallen, or find your rank. Fallen Hardcore characters stay on the Hardcore boards, marked fallen. Boards refresh every ten minutes. `!ladder` still shows the top ten of your group; add `softcore`, `hc`, `ssf` or `hcssf` to see another (Season rewards and the ladder). Item links stay shared by everyone (Item links in chat).