Ever wanted to start hardcore? Then start on the right foot with some gold handy!

Why do it? It makes the first levels a breeze, even a modest 100k gives you plenty of gold to buy a handful of items every few levels. Hell, any items you buy can be resold as soon as you outlevel them because of high demand in the HC AH. It also allows you to upgrade your HC stash & artisans earlier.

How does it work? You friend me (Methrin#1631), we trade an amount of money in softcore or hardcore, then we trade in the other mode. I have no qualms about trading in small increments first to build trust but I've done trades like these several times in the past on the official Blizzard forums and nobody ever complained about me.

The rate I would trade at the moment is 1 HC gold for 2.5 SC gold.