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The "best builds" metagame is very different between Normal and Hard. In Normal you can go Glass Cannon with virtually anything and have it work; you start with +15% Vit and GC drops you to -35% Vit. In Hard GC takes you from -25% Vit to -75% Vit, which is way too much unless you're also going Man-at-Arms for Picture of Health. This doesn't necessarily mean you can't go "Glass Cannon mage," but it does mean I have absolutely no idea how you'd pull such a miracle off.

I like playing Hard. I am using one Glass Cannon (Madora, doing pretty much the standard warrior thing she does but with Picture of Health and stacked Constitution for a very high max AP), and she's very powerful, but I don't think I could get away with it on anyone else.