So I thought the whole point of hardcore is to get to level 60. When I logged in, I found some guilds who are raiding. So basically it’s a different raiding community? Only difference is of course the leveling process but after that level 60 experience is same for normal classic and hardcore classic?
And everything is out already right?
P.S. By the way, this is the only version of the game that allows chinese client - is this intended or? And why? Hardcore fits chinese or chinese speaking people or what? 
Hardcore is what you want it to be.
As to raiding on HC, which i´ve never done: The raids and mechanics are of course the same, but the way players go about them differs greatly from regular vanilla.
Caution is the magic word.
End game raiding is basically “petri out petri out, guys” in any minor inconvenience and 1-3 ppl die
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Oh, so people also die permanently in raids? That’s just masochism.
And some raid mechanics requires people to die right?
There is not a single boss that requires people to die
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Vael? But ya, abusing everything possible, might be doable…
Any unavoidable mechanic that results in certain death for a player should be changed to fit HC´s need. I see no reason in not to cheese this mechanic.
They changed the linken quest part as well, the one where you´d normally die on a regular server. I guess adjusting a boss mechanic is just too much of a burden for blizzard.
Just curious: Does Vaelastrazs no longer put a buff on people, making them die after 20 seconds? Or is the workaround just to hearthstone out?
You hs out if you get the debuff and with wb its a minute killtime
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Without Petri you can abuse Masterwork Target Dummy with full raid and Lip to drop aggro
The Vanilla raiding is easy. The HC Vanilla however doesn’t leave any room for mistakes, even on simple mechanics. However Vanilla has randomness, like tank damage spikes received. So everybody in HC raiding excepts you not only to know the raid, but having full preparation to reduce risks.
The point of hardcore is surviving with your one and only life.
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Actually only a tiny fraction of people playing HC raid in endgame.
I’d never do it… pure madness and masochism for anyone that has any sort of real life responsibilities 