Documenting my journey to all 45 classes to level 100 in HC

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Hey party people - inspired by some posts and discussions on this place, I had the idea to challenge myself to get all classes to level 100 in HardCore mode.

I was thinking it would be cool to have a live document, tracking progress, and being able to share the grimtool of each character as well as their transmog once they individually reach their goal.

So here it is - just a Miro board and some manual work, but pretty happy on how it turned out:

Don’t expect me to finish this challenge in the next month or so, but I’ll keep this board updated and maybe post some updates from time to time.

Maybe a couple of questions:

  • Don’t hesitate to check the grim tools for those characters, I’m open to any advice to become a better player / theorycrafter! (Some components will be out of wack, some characters have not been touched for a while!)

  • Anything else that would be cool to document? All ideas welcome!

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Welcome to the forum and good luck with your challenge. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Are you going to play them all solo self found or allow them to share gear? Share materials?

Is the goal is just to document for funsies or to try to create a comparable experience between each run?

I think the coolest things to document will just be whatever pain points and breakthroughs you experienced for each class. What was hard and why? What items/changes helped and why?

Etc.

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Thanks, great idea to mention one or two highlight per character!

I’m using GDIA to manage my gear, I couldn’t imagine doing this challenge without the gear / XP potions / mandates to be honest.

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A short couple of years adventure ahead.

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Just checking, you’d be surprised how many people like iron man challenges in a game as RIPpy as GD.

In the case definitely highlighting during the leveling process which item changes at what levels helped out a lot.

This is a bit more abstract but if over the process of playing such a variety of builds you find some universally good tips for HC, patterns of behavior you observe change in how you pilot your characters as you gain experience, or things you learn to start doing on most of your builds to have a smoother experience, that will also be very valuable.

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Now that’s a way to keep this game alive and well. May you succeed in getting all 45 to level 100. In HC no less.

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I’d love to see a graveyard compendium, a journey paved by corpses and hard learned lessons. May RNG bless you a great journey! A grand and great goal :smile_cat:

Edit: errr, scratch that! I see the Hall of the Dead section. Nice!

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October update:

Since the board was created I did the low lift exercise of bridging the 6 levels gap I had on a few chars to bring them to 100, and finished leveling my Reaver, super pumped about the expansion.

The new potions make HC substantially easier in my opinion, I was worried about the Reaver’s survivability, the using the mana potion as a shield potion has been incredible.

I’ve been fine-tuning my Ritualist and I have been farming SR 30-31 and Ascendant mode comfortably to gather all of the new blueprints and get the new reputations to Revered, which is now done - and I’ve been able to deck out the Reaver in Fenris + new cold relic thanks to it.

On the IRL side of the house I’m starting a new job in October and travelling to Nice for EVO (shoutout to the FGC!) so Grim Dawn will be a bit more chill this month - still need to decide on who I level next!

Thank for reading!

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