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Haha first HC character, went Barb, figured yayaya will be ez pz, no deaths till nightmare, and then.....
Running through that zoltan kule dungeon of sorts (I am bad with names of dungeons and mini bosses etc), I meet a few exploding guys, who deal a hefty bit when they blow up in your face. No big deal, take it slow. Turns out, they disagreed, and an elitemob that I didn't see walled me in (my god, the walling AI is good now), and 4 fkers promptly run in and blow up in my face. My jump thingie was on cd. I was a mere level 21 :D
Have started again, went DH (use a DH in SC, so I feel most comfortable with that), no problems so far :D
One thing I love about HC though is the AH, so much better. I mean I can sell lvl 3 whites, and buy top range gear at my lvl (20ish) for the same price, it is crazy, and means I actually AH most blues and all golds that I don't use xD
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First Hardcore character just died after killing Inferno Skeleton King. Got feared into a corner and walled there until desecrator killed him. I don't think I'm going to remake.
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Farming A1 with freshly bought gears to respec for a CM build from kiting, ran into Champion Dark Cultists with Molten/Firechains/Fire/Something Else, they ran around me, started dropping like a brick. Had Diamond Skin on, potted, and teleported away, but still died in about a second. I guess 350k EHP+DS still wasn't enough to facetank A1.
After all the exploits that are being revealed though, not gonna remake. Just gonna sell all my stuff, trade to SC, and then cash out.
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On July 27 2012 09:16 Nored wrote: Farming A1 with freshly bought gears to respec for a CM build from kiting, ran into Champion Dark Cultists with Molten/Firechains/Fire/Something Else, they ran around me, started dropping like a brick. Had Diamond Skin on, potted, and teleported away, but still died in about a second. I guess 350k EHP+DS still wasn't enough to facetank A1.
After all the exploits that are being revealed though, not gonna remake. Just gonna sell all my stuff, trade to SC, and then cash out.
In my opinion the melee classes are just better for inferno in HC. I had a wiz with about 450k EHP buffed (700-800 resists, 7k armor 38k life) but it got raped in about 0.01 seconds in act one by vortex/fire chains/arcane/something pack.
On the other hand I had a monk with much worse gear (440 resists, 5.5k armor 40k life) and had no problem progressing through act one. The extra 30% damage reduction is huge.
The argument I suppose is that range classes are supposed to never be hit, but when you have things like vortex, fast teleport etc. in reality you're not always going to be able to avoid every kind of damage. It's fine in SC where increased dying can be compensated for by killing stuff faster but in HC you're generally going to be better off with a monk or barb than anything else IMO.
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On July 27 2012 16:00 tomatriedes wrote:Show nested quote +On July 27 2012 09:16 Nored wrote: Farming A1 with freshly bought gears to respec for a CM build from kiting, ran into Champion Dark Cultists with Molten/Firechains/Fire/Something Else, they ran around me, started dropping like a brick. Had Diamond Skin on, potted, and teleported away, but still died in about a second. I guess 350k EHP+DS still wasn't enough to facetank A1.
After all the exploits that are being revealed though, not gonna remake. Just gonna sell all my stuff, trade to SC, and then cash out. In my opinion the melee classes are just better for inferno in HC. I had a wiz with about 450k EHP buffed (700-800 resists, 7k armor 38k life) but it got raped in about 0.01 seconds in act one by vortex/fire chains/arcane/something pack. On the other hand I had a monk with much worse gear (440 resists, 5.5k armor 40k life) and had no problem progressing through act one. The extra 30% damage reduction is huge. The argument I suppose is that range classes are supposed to never be hit, but when you have things like vortex, fast teleport etc. in reality you're not always going to be able to avoid every kind of damage. It's fine in SC where increased dying can be compensated for by killing stuff faster but in HC you're generally going to be better off with a monk or barb than anything else IMO. Yea, it's true. I didn't have any trouble with any packs up until those Dark Cultists; even when things would get momentarily unfrozen, or there popped out an arcane sentry or something, I wouldn't take more than maybe 10% of my HP per hit. Not knowing just how fast the damage on certain affixes stacks up can definitely get someone killed.
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My death story? I didn't see it happen. *sigh
Basically in Normal, Act 3, just before Cydaea. Level 29 Barbarian and crazily overgeared since I spend time in the AH, so almost zero chance of dying since I oneshot everything with Cleave Rupture and quite tanky as well...
Until there was a minor power outage. My PC turned off for a split second while I was facing a few white mobs, turned back on, logged back in after a few minutes and then I was met with the news that my hero died from a phasebeast.
So I guess it takes a while until the game logs you out? I'm assuming my Barb was just sitting there, AFK even though my PC is turned off.
If I was playing on a laptop, I guess this wouldn't have happened.
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Yeah, it takes 10 seconds to leave the game whenever you aren't in town. It still would have happened from your router powering off would it not?
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On July 27 2012 21:52 serum321 wrote: Yeah, it takes 10 seconds to leave the game whenever you aren't in town. It still would have happened from your router powering off would it not?
I guess.. Though it was literally a split second power outage, where it turns off and turns on immediately right after. It was very depressing since I didn't get to see my death, nor could I do anything about it.
Are you sure it's only 10 seconds? I don't even think I would've died within that time since I was tanking everything. Sucks.
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Its possible it may take longer than 10s from a disconnect, I know it is 10s when you leave a game.
Some people like to use thorns in hc for reasons such as this so you may want to keep that in mind for the next char you roll.
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Suicide bombers in Act3, enough said.
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My level 6 character got surrounded by skeletons and died. D:
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On July 27 2012 22:47 serum321 wrote: Its possible it may take longer than 10s from a disconnect, I know it is 10s when you leave a game.
Some people like to use thorns in hc for reasons such as this so you may want to keep that in mind for the next char you roll.
Yeah, good call. Most likely would've been able to live if I had thorns, as honestly I don't think 10 seconds was enough time to kill me at that point. They weren't elites either, so yeah.
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Mine's so bad. I afk'd in a spot I thought was safe, left to cook. I come back and there's one of those giant tree wraith things standing over my body. =/ Level 34 Barbarian.
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Level 48 Monk; Arreat Crater Level 2.
Azmodan had just popped out to tell me how my hero and all his kind would be wiped off the face of sanctuary; boy I should've listened. It was near the entrance to the tower of the cursed (?), when I spotted a pack of Bloated Malachor (Colossal Golgor type monster) - Arcane Nightmarish: They hurt like mad. Usually I wouldn't even lose much hp fighting anything, but these guys are on steroids or something. I ran backwards after taking a few hits to think of how I should approach this fight. I pulled one minion away and punched punched punched, he was down to 50% but I was down even more. I decided that I could tempest rush past them instead. All 3 minions were on my screen now, so I guess it should be safe to go. I tempest rushed past the three easily and then I saw their boss ahead of me. "Not enough spirit", wailed my poor character - I was stuck between 3 fat arcane spewing nightmarish bastards on steroids and their leader on a narrow path. I hit to gain spirit then mashed my serenity button, then I saw an opportunity: there was a spearman behind the boss. Come on please let me thunderclap to it - "Nope", says blizzard. And then my deeds of valor will be remembered.
Sigh I guess I should've rerolled or pulled them to a more open area before attempting anything risky.
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I think those Bloated Malanchor have a bugged and way too high damage output, especially if you compare them to anything else. The one before the arreat crater stuff also deal high damage, but those ones deal easily more than twice than that.
So that's why those probably hurt you so much ;P
My condolences!
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3 deaths in HC so far.
Level 60 DH, end of act2 Hell + Show Spoiler +been disconnected, have not seen the "You have died" screen. Level 54 WD, act1 Hell + Show Spoiler +been disconnected, have not seen the "You have died" screen. Level 34 Monk, act2 NM + Show Spoiler +been disconnected, have not seen the "You have died" screen.
I hope I'll have more luck with my new DH.
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On July 28 2012 01:00 VaySept wrote:3 deaths in HC so far. Level 60 DH, end of act2 Hell + Show Spoiler +been disconnected, have not seen the "You have died" screen. Level 54 WD, act1 Hell + Show Spoiler +been disconnected, have not seen the "You have died" screen. Level 34 Monk, act2 NM + Show Spoiler +been disconnected, have not seen the "You have died" screen. I hope I'll have more luck with my new DH.
Wow... Very unlucky, but at the rate of how many times Bnet crashes/disconnects, I'm not surprised.
I'm wondering as to how dedicated you are to keep playing HC, when 3 characters have died the same way already...
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afaik the bloated malachors are bugged so that each attack of them hits twice. combine this with the higher dps that elites have anyway and the stacking damage with affixes like arcane enchanted or molten and they easily deal much more damage than any other mob type.
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On July 28 2012 01:03 trinxified wrote:Show nested quote +On July 28 2012 01:00 VaySept wrote:3 deaths in HC so far. Level 60 DH, end of act2 Hell + Show Spoiler +been disconnected, have not seen the "You have died" screen. Level 54 WD, act1 Hell + Show Spoiler +been disconnected, have not seen the "You have died" screen. Level 34 Monk, act2 NM + Show Spoiler +been disconnected, have not seen the "You have died" screen. I hope I'll have more luck with my new DH. Wow... Very unlucky, but at the rate of how many times Bnet crashes/disconnects, I'm not surprised. I'm wondering as to how dedicated you are to keep playing HC, when 3 characters have died the same way already... 2 of the 3 are my fault (or rather my provider's), not Bnet. Still, it made me take a 3 week break off.
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