The players of WoW are usually considered heartless and cold. But WoW Hardcore seems to awaken a new side: players show something like “compassion” and help each other, even someone who actually deserves to die because they were so careless.
This is the situation:
- In WoW Classic Hardcore, each player has only one life. If you die, you are dead and must create a new character.
- As a result, some tricks from Blizzard in World of Warcraft, which are usually hardly noticeable, suddenly become important: such as monsters that are much stronger than the area they appear in.
- This mechanism suddenly makes legendary foes from the past exciting again.
Player goes AFK in a “safe” city – Major mistake
This was a player’s problem: A player named Loogie went AFK in WoW Hardcore in the middle of a village, Darkshire. He felt safe there.
What he did not know or had already forgotten: In WoW, there is a mob called “Little” (Stitches). The monster spawns when players complete a certain quest and runs towards Darkshire to kill anyone in its way.
Because Little is a level 35 elite mob, it can cause a lot of damage in the region. It tramples the guards of Darkshire like Godzilla in Tokyo.
Normally, Little is taken down by a higher-level player before it appears in Darkshire, but in WoW Hardcore, there are very few such players, so Stitches set out to devastate the city of Darkshire.
The player Loogie would most likely have died in the middle of Darkshire and lost his character.
What happened instead? As a player recounts on reddit, strangers discovered Loogie and preempted his impending doom. They banded together and risked their own lives to kill Little and save Loogie.
They told Loogie about their heroic feat in a letter. It is said that even higher-level players were summoned to save the AFK player.
WoW Hardcore brings strangers together
Why is this so special? Normally, WoW players only care about their own friends and guild members. Any other, “so-called randoms,” are actually irrelevant and hardly worthy of attention. They are seen as rivals in the fight for loot and mobs.
That in WoW Hardcore now people help a stranger, even someone who apparently messed up, is a rarity and earns much praise in the reddit forum:
- One says: “We did everything for Loogie, and he survived. He logged out one or two minutes later.”
- Another says: “I was there. He resisted all my spells, but damn it, I fought for Loogie and risked my only life.”
- A third user says: “Hardcore WoW has slowly begun to restore my faith in humanity.”
Another Reddit user simply sighs: “That’s so sweet.”
This player was less fortunate. He had friends, but also misfortune:
WoW Classic: Twitch streamer shows the dumbest method to lose a HC character at level 60
