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r/poeruthless•
Tavron

HC Ruthless Market

Question

Hi all,

I was thinking of playing HC for the first time in an ARPG (despite my many years in the genre), since it sounds like a lot of fun to be that much more invested in your character.

So I wanted to hear if there's someone on here that had a feeling with the market for HCR in this league. Mostly just in regards to Gem trading as I don't expect there to be a lot of items available with so few Ruthless (and especially HC Ruth) players.

Was there some happening in in-game trade channels/trade site or was it completely dead?

Posted Nov 24, 2023, 2:47 PM UTC

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Total_Night_2277•

I've played all HC ruthless seasons so far. The first month or so is active enough for trade chat and trade site. I think it is in a great place for being the ruthless mind set.

You can find most support gems at a reasonable cost. Sometimes there may only be 1 or 2 of a certain gem and it will be out of reach to purchase.

Unique items or aura skill gems are not something you can reliably trade for, even common ones. Sometimes if you can get a good one that you can't use you can trade for one you may need.

Also I find that the people trading are more friendly than regular HC trade, since the pool of people is smaller it's better to not piss off others.

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TavronOPLeague •

Sounds good. Yea, I definitely enjoy the smaller community also in trading, so good to hear.

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MattBrixx•

HC Ruthless Trade is just deadge is all. Playerbase was already small and it's end of season time, so no surprise

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Tree_Growing_Bare•

It's actually good enough for the first month of the league. I personally played like 6 chars and I could always buy or get the gems I needed.

Then it slowly falls off, but you wil still find people having them in chat. On top of that, you are not likely to find rare uniques, as those are most likely going to be used, but there are still plenty useful ones being sold. I remember a few ephemeral edges, or sunblast that I used, even dyadians and quill rains.

What you will 100% find is metric crap ton of replicas.

Overall, I find the rhc trade to be useful enough and more engaging than non-ruthless Quick and Go spams. You make quite a bit of friends by asking what they are playing and then sharing some advice.

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TavronOPLeague •

That sounds decent enough, cool and thanks for the answer!

Is there a high drop chance on replicas in Heist compared to the otherwise reduced drops in Ruth in general?

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Tree_Growing_Bare•

I haven't done heist at all, but iirc, heists on Ruthless don't have rewards based on the type of blueprint, it's random all the way through. I don't know enough, but I guess replicas are the more commonly spawned reward type.

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CodeRadDesignSSFR_Scarflax•

all blueprints final rooms in ruthless heist are a mix of gems and replicas, so every wing in every blueprint will have at least one.

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TavronOPLeague •

I asked about the league in general. Not now, but the whole league, so also the start of it.

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Light01•

Most gems are half an alchs, it's quite easy to find one you need, and it is the most dynamic category in trade.

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MagicznyMichal•

Last time I played Ruthless HC was on Crucible.

I could always get support gems that I wanted (even if they were not listed, someone would respond to my trade message).

The number of available items was not huge, but enough to get me going in yellow maps.

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For me the big diffrence was looting and selling stuff - finding things were so much more satisfying and selling them so much easier than on regular SC/HC.

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TavronOPLeague •

It really does sound more satisfying and how I actually would want Trade to be. I always play semi-SSF due to items on regular just being too easy to get, but still like the option to trade.

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