But are you a HC viable player?
What is the goal of this? That can also help you figure out what and how to play. You wanna push Shattered Realm as far as possible in ultimate or just beat the game in Veteran or something in between?
Yeah, you’re right. Sorry about that.
I hope I am, eh. I still have to make progress, otherwise, I wouldn’t be here. 
My goal is to beat the game in any difficulty. I do not aim into being performant in Crucible.
So I would like to clean the game from Veteran to Elite with one character. I almost have beat the first part : Veteran. Almost.
Every time one of us, my friend or me, we start from the beginning, so it can be a bit long, but eh, it’s ok.
I don’t want to sound pretentious or that someone give me an easy mode for the game or anything. I just want to know if there is builds out there with acid/poison damage that people think is most suited to survive in hardcore.
Once again, thanks for your input.
Ok you have not even beaten veteran HC yet? Then you should not even look at guides here since those are for level 100 chars basically.
I don’t play HC but I have not died in Veteran since my first ever I made char 
so you don’t need build guides, you just need to learn the basics of the game
Oh yeah ? I must be really bad… With my friends. Maybe.
Or maybe playing in multiplayer make the monsters hit really harder, I don’t know ?
Or maybe we don’t play safely enough.
But eh, Veteran is almost done. I understand what you mean, but I don’t think we are THAT bad, idk. Maybe we’re missing something.
monster health and damage scales poor in multiplayer with player setting. Multiplayer is much easier than single player.
Anyway, I would never play HC multiplayer due to all the weird bugs there are with auras and so on. Sounds too risky.
Oh yeah, it scales poorly ? Okay, never check’d that to be honest.
So, I guess we’re both bad, ah ah.
Bugs with auras ? Players auras or monsters auras ?
I should investigate, you make me curious.
Player auras. I have heard and read so many people gotten themselves killed by party member aura.
This is misleading. Only item auras ever had (and likely still have) this bug. That’s why things like Enchanted Flint, Vitriolic Gallstone etc became personal buffs instead. Player auras are regarded safe.
Let me use this
as my reply 
Though I do recall that someone got burned to death by a companion Aura of Censure…
I’ve levelled over a dozen HC characters (all self found of course) in the past couple of months. All pretty good, but this is my absolute favourite at the moment - https://www.grimtools.com/calc/b28jqEKZ
Packing a ton of defence and over 250k passive retaliation, which goes up to 450k+ when all buffs are up, - this thing destroys nemesis and bosses. In campaign you just hold right mouse button and see the beautiful acid spinning cloud eliminate monsters. Can play half asleep and/or while drinking beer lol.
Where is the poison damage ?
Hello Aikimox, thanks for your input,
Like Malawiglenn, I see a fire/physical build for the most part. Are you sure you gave us the right link ?
Check the retaliation section - Acid, not poison. It packs a ton of physical and some fire damage, but the main source is still acid.
acid: 18k with all procs and buffs
physical: average is 269k with all procs and stuff.
How is main source physical retal?
and if acid retal was biggest source, why dont you have transmuted guardians to turn their rr aura to acid?
Also I can not add upp all retal damage to 450k+ with all procs and stuff up
Damn, wrong link lol, hold on…
yeah that one makes more sense 
which class did level up with first?
I think the Oathkeeper side is more fun
Yes, Oathkeeper all the way through EoR + Guardians.