How do I make a Hardcore Character?

[barbarian9]

How do I make a Hardcore Character?

I just installed Diablo2 and the expansion the otherday and installed the patch 1.10. I can't seem to make a hardcore character now? There used to be a box to check under the name of the character you were about to create that allowed you to make a 'hardcore character' but it is no longer there? Just under the box that allows you to create a expansion character.

Sigh, please forgive me for asking if I'm missing something painfully obvious but i went through the 'patch readme' 3times and could not see anything mentioning it. i did a search on your forums and at Battlenet itself and have been unable to find an answer. I even uninstalled the game entirely and tried to play without patch 1.10 (my expansion is version 1.07.) However this still did not fix it.

Anyway if anyone has a solution please help me out, thank you in advance and I apologize if this has been asked before.

PS - I'm talking about making a hardcore player for single player when you are at the character creation screen in case it was not completely clear.

John

 

[Merick1]

I don't hear people talking about this much anymore, but you must beat baal in normal to make a HC char.

In 1.09 you had to do this for each account, in 1.10 it's for each CD key.

 

[barbarian9]

???

Ok, thanks for your reply, though I'm still very puzzled about this? I remember being able to make harcore characters at Level 1 in single player and there was no limit or never seemed to be, now I can't create any at all. Still...maybe that's the "key" as I have just started from scratch again (New PC and hard-drive, I lost all my characters I used to have, sever al that were 60-70th level.)

Any other replies on this would be greatlt appreciated still, thanks for your reply though Merick; your answer might well be exactly the answer I was looking for.

John

 

[Orphan]

Yep, I believe you'll need to kill baal before you can make a hardcore character. The same thing happened to me when I re-installed diablo on my old computer.

It's not that hard to rush to baal, you can probably do it in a about 30 minutes, if you make a sorc (I can't really go into it on here, because i don't want to break any forum rules). Then you can start over hardcore for serious :thumbsup:

 

[ScruffyhawkIII]

30 minutes for a normal rush? jeez, doesnt it usually take like..4? 30 minutes for a *hell* rush maybe..no tricks or anything either..

 

[Orphan]

30 minutes for a normal rush? jeez, doesnt it usually take like..4? 30 minutes for a *hell* rush maybe..no tricks or anything either..

are we talking about a solo rush here? I mean, if he's playing on bnet, then sure, he could probably do it alot faster, if he gets someone else to rush up him. But he mentions that it's a hardcore character for single player. Because of the fresh install, this will likely be his first character, and he'll have to make a softcore character before he can make a hardcore character, so he'll need to solo rush.