16 hours of Hardcore mode. I logged in at 11:40am yesterday, and it’s now 3:49am. I am still wired from all the coffee, but it will pass, I’m sure.

I made two characters, but only played on one today. Lusongee joined the Death Smile guild and reached level 8. I have done almost everything up to level 4.

I did skip Shan-to-Kor and Tangleroot. I will run the Sharn Syndicate tomorrow and the Depths chain in-house, Denieth.

I had a close call in Two-Toed Tobias with a pair of reapers and one of the new champions. I saw the hirelings had aggro and decided to use my bottle of mist from Ravenloft. Well, I accidentally moved and reset the cooldown just as the hires were turned to paste.

I freaked out and hit ALT-F4.

It was a timely move, and I was pleased to see when I logged back in later that I wasn’t dead.

There are all of these new Champions for Hardcore mode, and they are totally beastly. I feel like I spent half the day running away from stuff.

I was online when the highest-level player died.

They were level 12 when he died, racing to 20 to TR. I believe their name was Wesside, a Sorcerer / Bard build. That player was up to level 5 in the first 22 minutes of the game, crazy.

I have a little over 6k Reaper experience points, 433 Favor, and my crafting is level 42. I made a nice +2 fortification, a 55 mithril large shield of solar guard for my Favor guy.