orcishgamer: Actually, that makes little sense... why make that bit annoying on hard core? Shared stash was actually a reasonable usability change they'd added and it does nothing to cheapen hard core...
stonebro: Well, it makes sense since it could be considered cheating farming bosses for gear in normal and then gearing up your hardcore characters with gear and gold you've essentially farmed at no risk.
What irritates me though is that the vendors aren't transferred over either. I have both blacksmith and jeweller at level 8, but have to start from scratch in hardcore.
That ALSO applies to your stash. I've bought full two tabs on normal, giving me lots of space to keep items I think I might need or want to auction off, but no, on hardcore you start with 14 slots. Because you NEED to stay ahead of the content curve gear wise on hardcore, you really need to save up your gold for the auction house, so spending 200.000 gold on stash upgrades is out of the question for a while.
So yeah, it really really IS hardcore.
Oh no, yeah, that would be cheating, but having your stash shared between hard core characters only would be fine.
orcishgamer: Actually, that makes little sense... why make that bit annoying on hard core? Shared stash was actually a reasonable usability change they'd added and it does nothing to cheapen hard core...
Pheace: Is he talking about between hardcore characters? I assumed he was talking about from non-hardcore to hardcore. My bad if it's the first.
Yeah, I think I misunderstood his statement. Can anyone confirm that there is a shared stash between hard core only characters (that non-harcore characters cannot access and vice versa)?
amok: I don't think you can use AH on hardcore either.
Real money AH will not be present in hard core mode. I'm sure the gold AH works fine, though.