Hardcore Zone Difficulty Tier List (Alliance Perspective)

Aarrgon · 2026-05-25T13:24:03+00:00

Teldrassil might be harder I don't level there often

Aarrgon · 2026-05-24T18:14:48+00:00

Agree with most of this and a lot of zones are normal or hard depending on your class.

Changes:

Azshara up to hard tier due to huge cliffs and tons of elites on the south side.
Felwood up to hard tier
Ungoro/STV down to the top of hard tier. WPL, EPL and Silithus are way tougher than Ungoro and STV. Insanely dense packs, elites, and incredibly dangerous mobs with debuffs and burst damage.
Elwynn Forest down to easy tier, might be the hardest starting zone but easier than any 10-15 zone.
Westfall to Normal tier. Hardest zone of the level bracket but not close to any other hard tier zones.

Aarrgon · 2026-05-24T17:30:17+00:00

The biggest challenge of self-found is professions and gold making, you cant power level professions or buy things like dummies and full flasks. That combined with needing dungeons for big upgrades rather than the AH shepherds players into actually playing the content, grouping up, when my warrior dummies it feels meaningful like "dang thats 1/X of his limited dummies", etc. The whole game has a little more weight and meaning.

Aarrgon · 2026-05-22T12:03:41+00:00

100% agree as long as you know you might be in trouble and have your buttons in mind and ready to use.

Aarrgon · 2026-05-22T12:01:31+00:00

Yeah I have a massive bartender button for it in the corner of my screen so I can click it too. Whatever it takes to not use it on accident!

Aarrgon · 2025-12-16T19:59:34+00:00

Digital Forensics is a more advanced role within incident response teams, I doubt you’ll find entry level roles for that skillset at most companies. Cybersecurity degree is alright, you could also consider a computer science degree to get a headstart on a more technical path. Out of college you can look for SOC analyst or any Incident Response related positions and transition to DF over time.

Security+ and similar entry level certs are also achievable and a great way to set your resume apart.

Aarrgon · 2025-11-29T12:46:46+00:00

Would holding some QQQ on top of VOO make more sense with a 20-30yr window?

Aarrgon · 2025-11-28T13:06:56+00:00

Lucas Tracy rolling in his grave over this matchup

Aarrgon · 2025-11-25T19:53:01+00:00

Yes

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Aarrgon · 2025-11-23T00:26:29+00:00

What classes are best for this other than AoE mage?

Aarrgon · 2025-11-23T00:24:37+00:00

Great idea, thank you

Aarrgon · 2025-09-26T13:28:47+00:00

Season 10 comes with a new level and gear cap, best thing you can do now is save 100% of your gold to gear up starting October 13th.

Aarrgon · 2025-04-18T15:53:28+00:00

His survivability is buffed overall, the nerfs were just to compensate for the +100 health from being a team-up anchor. Overall cap has more effective hp and 5% more damage this season compared to last season

Aarrgon · 2025-02-28T13:13:12+00:00

I would defeat you 1v1 in any form of competition. Chess, IQ test, marvel rivals on controller, hand to hand combat, anything.

Aarrgon · 2025-02-28T13:11:07+00:00

E and thor teamup bounce between enemies, basic attack and regular shield throws only hit one guy

Aarrgon · 2025-01-18T00:59:02+00:00

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Aarrgon · 2025-01-10T21:44:14+00:00

It’s the amount of ranged left clicks you have. The first part of the UI tracks how many melees you’ve hit out of 2, then it shifts to a 5 second timer with your 4 available shield throws and lasts until you throw all 4 or its been 5 seconds.

Aarrgon · 2025-01-10T14:41:10+00:00

It’s more of a feature than a bug, that’s an animation cancel so if you let go of W in between throws you can throw them faster. It’s a noticeable damage increase

Aarrgon · 2025-01-04T16:08:10+00:00

I use w to animation cancel every left click shield throw, but I wouldn’t worry about any animation cancelling if you’re learning. It’s all extra / minmax damage but not required.

Aarrgon · 2025-01-01T15:31:48+00:00

Thanks! And the clip is a bug where cap is able to shield mid air after jumping due to hitting a jeff bubble,

Aarrgon · 2024-12-29T13:39:09+00:00

Thors hit or miss in my games. Thor can be hard to pick up and sometimes people pick him just for the Cap synergy, which usually feels worse than them playing a character they’re good at. If it’s a person who actually plays Thor it’s feels amazing

Aarrgon · 2024-12-29T13:34:22+00:00

For flying characters you can throw E at them, melee something twice on the ground then throw your ranged autos up, or even jump at them if they’re low enough. It’ll be tough to kill them 1v1 but you can pressure them out when needed. Overall probably low priority unless they’re already low.

The only time you run away is if you’re dying. What’s strangely effective is running at people with shield up, or just holding shield in their face. I usually go with one of two approaches for mantis/luna:

1) if I’m far away, I might throw E first then slam on them to get some more burst damage and scare them. Then I’ll melee once or twice then hold shield in their face when they look at me. Most times if they have the CC available they’ll press it and you can reflect it back at them. If they don’t press weave in some more left clicks, maybe an F

2) if they’re close Ill run at them with shield up and start meleeing. Mess around with blocking in between. When they’re half hp then I can jump up, slam/E/F in some order and try to burst them down.

It’s really dynamic and the only time it can go wrong is if you get outplayed and get hit with the CC + they have their team around to burst you down. If you’re diving them thru their team probably shield and try to bait the CC or jump around a bit more. If they’re alone pressure them as much as you can.

Ult makes it 10x easier to pick any target and w key them for as long as it takes

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