It depends what you mean by hardcore. Even savage is casual in this game in that you can start each tier in under an hour of easy normal mode quests, and the time burden of endgame is very low. There's no need to farm nested pop items, and there's very little BS like needing to insert low percentage chance augments into combat armor like in f2P korean games. For an MMO, this game is very casual, but that's not bad in that a lot of the hardcore stuff trimmed is time wasting.
But no offense if the quests bore you its kind of hard to see why you want a hardcore experience. I mean, the story mode in this game is nothing compared to leveling in a more hardcore mmo.
