The Rules and Guidelines for the Unofficial Hardcore Summer League 2024 are:
1. No ship buffs. The event ship will not be offering ship buffs, and event participants can not use any other guild's ship buffs. This is to keep this very challenging. Ships can be used for transport. Guild vendors are permitted, like the ones in House K.
2. Always run quests when you are the base level of the quest (if you are level 3, you run the level 3 quests in the compendium, any difficulty, N/H/E or Reaper (1-10). Try to challenge yourself and your group.
3. Start from scratch/level playing field: Don't use AH/ASE or items from alts in your bank. Use what you find in quests or what you can purchase and/or trade from any in game npc vendors, traders or brokers.
4. One life to live. If you die, you can't use that character any longer in the event, and must leave the event guild. You can leave 1 item to your successor/next event character as an Heirloom Item. A event character can only ever have 1 Heirloom Item. Designate it by declaring in your BIO. This One life to live rule also applies to Hirelings. If a hireling in your use dies, you can no longer summon that hireling. Make a note of this Hirelings death in your BIO and never summon the Hireling again because he's dead to you. This is a per character basis, but can be a per party basis if the party so chooses (meaning that if another party member's Frogo died in a previous quest, you also won't be able to summon Frogo).
5. Loot the Body!!! When a player character dies, party members can loot 1 item each (or a stack of items in the case of collectible bags, potions, scrolls, ammo, etc.) from the dead character. That is 1 item each, and excludes the Heirloom Item designated in the dead character's BIO. To do this, take the dead player character to a RESS shrine (it must be a RESS shrine and not raise dead or any other spell or ability to raise the dead party member). Once the character has been resurrected, they can link the items in party chat or list them in voice chat to the group. The surviving players in the party that are in the instance can then roll to set the order of looting, or they can just pick if in agreement. (Handle this like you would when putting up items for roll or trade when looting a raid chest, if you'd prefer, but still 1 item per character). A trade window is opened to pass the selected item to the 1st player, and this is then repeated for each player until every player permitted has looted 1 item. If looting a quiver or collectible bag, it must not be bound obviously. Unbound bags and quivers are considered 1 item, no matter the contents. Stacks are considered 1 item, not matter that stacks size. Only 1 slot can be moved from the dead body to the living character, thus keeping this limited to 1 item or 1 stack of items or 1 container of items moved. After the looting is finished, the dead player character must leave the instance and the event guild.
That's it. Pretty simple. No leaderboards, no achievements, as exploits could happen and we're going to avoid that like the plague. Any prizes given out will be for participation only, and be handled with RNG/randomizers to keep it fair.
Remember: Have FUN, be FRIENDLY and be FAIR. And enjoy the CHALLENGE!
Any changes to the rules are for Kozybean and the community event organizers to decide, before the event goes live.
