These leagues will be a godsend to the hardest of the hardcore players, thanks to the game-altering changes they offer (with plans to let players create their own leagues later down the line). PoE also introduces the concept of Leagues, which act like separate ladders with individual rule sets.
This makes Hardcore play that much more appealing to gamers afraid of trashing a huge time investment with a single mistake. Like any self-respecting Diablo descendant, PoE offers players a Hardcore option to test their mettle this system also uses the ingenious change of permanently shifting Hardcore characters to the Normal servers upon death, instead of banishing them to digital oblivion. Many a hardcore action RPG gamer was forged in the fires of Diablo II, where perma-death and incredible challenge created an atmosphere of intense risk offset by reward in the form of reputation.
