[Just beat the final boss (No healing items, no armour)]

I forgot to say in my opening post, my strategy, which is ridiculously OP and what had me speed through the game, was

 

Bleed stacking

 

Seriously a 5 stack of bleed does HALF of a monster's hp, sometimes a third. still alot of damage. I enjoyed using the Beer Bottle + (Extra bleed stack) mods. An example is toothpick which gives 1+ bleed on hit.

 

The beer bottle hits 4 times, so you can easily get a 4 stack of bleed on all opponents within your very first move. this is assuming you have the 3+ bleed on hit, still op

 

[Just beat the final boss (No healing items, no armour)]

Kinda shows you they NEED to rebalance this game. Hardcore difficulty is way too easy

 

My load out?

 

 

-Vibro blade (for the lulz. i had +250 hp per hit equipped)

-Beer Bottle (dont remember what i had equipped)

 

No armour, no healing items at all, when I revived i HAD to switch characters, and I play a mage.