Talk:Hard Mode/@comment-24025453-20160210210955/@comment-24458380-20160222161205

@Cla the Ninja,

As long as you've slain the Seneschal at least once, switching to Hard mode is the same as New Game Plus, but in Hard mode.

I mean that you keep all your equipment, Portcrystal locations, gold, Rift Crystals, and so on but you'll be starting the storyline from the beginning in Hard mode with all the rewards and difficulties involved.

To put this another way, you don't lose anything when you start Hard mode except for your storyline progress in Easy/Normal mode.