Hardcore Mode
Hardcore Death Penalty is an option available from the signpost near the well in Serbule Keep.
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Death Penalty
When you die in Hardcore Mode, in addition to being sent back to a respawn point some of your items become broken. In order to use them again, you must take them back to the location you died.
When you are fast enough you can touch your tombstone to restore all items from this death. When your tombstone is gone you have to use all broken items near where you died to restore them. Using a broken item will tell you how far you are from the point so you will always be able to find the location. Touching the tombstone is only a shortcut.
Exception: your gear will not break when you die from falling from great height.
Hardcore Only Equipment
- Winter court. Note that not all Winter Court armor is hardcore-only. For example the level 75 Winter Court Battle-(Boots/Greaves/Coat/Gauntlets/Helm) do not require hardcore mode, although their level 80 'equivalent' Winter Court Murder-(Boots/Greaves/Coat/Gauntlets/Helm) do require hardcore mode.
- Obtainable from
Full set of low-level hardcore armor, no endurance requirement.
- Torgans barter items
- Hardcore Belts from Toolcrafting
List of Items Usable Only in Hardcore Mode
Hardcore Only Recipes
- Recall Beginnings (Hardcore)
- Obtained from the hardcore signpost
- No ingredients, level 0
Hardcore skill choice
You can use any skill when playing hardcore but remember your items can break. If you are a fire mage with only one staff and that breaks, all fire abilities will be disabled.
That makes certain skills a bit better for hardcore characters because there are no key items:
- Psychology
- Mentalism
- Animal Handling
- Unarmed (some abilities may need claws)
- All animal skills, including Warden
A similar possibility is to choose a skill whose triggering item has an unbreakable version, for example:
