Your HardCore Death Story - Page 16
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Forgottenfrog
United States1268 Posts
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Msr
Korea (South)495 Posts
On July 27 2012 22:12 trinxified wrote: 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. hell diablo I disconnected and reconnected 2+ min later I relog on and my friend I was on skype with said I was still in the game being hit by diablo despite being disconnected for over two minutes and relogging in. Luckily I was overgeared and lived. No idea why it didn't have my character leave the game. | ||
chocopaw
2072 Posts
Second came my lvl25 DH, I died to Belial... on normal... Still no idea how it actually happened, I juked his attacks, but pretty much everything hit me. Ah well, another important experience made.^^ | ||
dpurple
Turkmenistan592 Posts
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padfoota
Taiwan1571 Posts
On Asia HC - where there are only at most 44 people playing at any time, and the Auction House is so limited in items its almost sad. There is only one 1h on AH that has 1k dps, and lvl60 items with vitality and all resist reach a total of 20 pages. ALL DEFENSIVE ITEMS. On my road to 60 I met many other friends, in fact, us 4 met also during our own roads to 60. Considering the fact that Asia HC players are further split into Korean speakers and Chinese speakers, with English being a rather uncommon language, anyone who I can talk and connect to in HC instant becomes a friend. We feel instantly closer vs standard pubs who jabber away in Korean and we have no idea what they are saying, but even then, the HC community in Asia is so tiny we all feel obligated to watch each others back, and from time to time join a low difficulty mode (through friends) and help out the "little ones". However, all these friends eventually died on our road to 60. for Every day when we joined pubs with other players someone would die. Death is common in HC, and each one hurts. For our friend group of about 10 people, it was down to 4 - 2 Barbs, 1 Wizard, 1 WD. The wizard was the longest HC friend Ive had since the time it took my Barb to 60, I had played with 2 of his wizards, one died at the level of 51 to some bullshit DC. I stopped leveling and helped him all the way back to 50 whenever I couldnt find a public game, since there really are very few players, and level restriction meant I had an even lower chance of finding a party in HC. The chat is separated by client language too, and since half, if not most the taiwanese players are in US, the players in Asia with Chinese clients are quite few too, and there is no one in the HC chat. Back to my story. We finally got through Hell mode, destroyed Diablo with pumped up lvl60 gear bought from AH (decent for what is available), and decided to give inferno a try. Started out Inferno A1 - decided to keep going until we got to the Blacksmith quest - Killing Mira. By rights, this should be the easiest part of the game ever, zombies dont really hit you, and porcupines are total pushovers too, but the biggest part is, no elites. At least, thats what we thought, and while half chatting, half playing, we dropped down the crater in the chapel, and ran into a fucking elite. Bat monster, Firechain, Mortar, Frozen, and something else insignificant as I recall, I was too busy running. Too many times in normal have I seen barbs get raped by firechain mobs, and I know how much that thing hurts in inferno when no one has any resist worth mentioning. I quickly typed "RUN RUN RUN RUN" knowing I couldnt tank it with no resists as a barb and since the beginning part after dropping down the crater is a tiny corridor - I knew the frozen orbs would rape us if we got caught up in it. At this time, my other barb friend had went to bed and didnt join in this encounter, so it was just us 3. The wizard and doctor decided to kite a bit while running back, and since all our damage was quite decent for the beginning of A1, 10-12k on WD, 18-20k on Wizard, 12k on me, the two of them did manage to drop the bosses hp a bit while I stunned and spammed Party Ignore Pain as best as I could when the orbs were going to blow. We ran all the way back to the entrance of the crater, up the stairs into that very tiny platform, forgetting that after dropping down you cant return. The firechains were coming up and going to rape. Frozen orbs begin appear. Since I didnt attack, I led the fleeing party, and came to the realization that I had led them not just to a dead end, but the tiniest possible platform possible - the worst for frozen orbs. There wasnt even time to type. WD had burned his passive, saving himself from death, and running back the way we came in soul form, while I jumped down from the platform and switched on Ignore Pain hoping for the best. The wizard didnt come down. Teleport was on CD. He was jammed between 3 walls and 2 elite with firechain, and my Party Ignore Pain didnt reach him. I watched his HP disappear in a flash before I could say "shit". I typed sorry (in Chinese) one character at a time while running away and spamming revenge, killing the final elites eventually. He was at loss with words, and first asked "Who led the way", and then came to the realization that it was the right way, but we just couldnt go back up after dropping down. I had watch this guy die twice, and since I pretty much brought him up, it fucking hurt. The scarcity of characters in Asia HC makes it seem like a fucking apocalypse, and good players were hard to come by, so each death felt horrible. It was like losing a guy in your party of last surviving human beings. The Witch Doctor and I took revenge in a very stupid way by continuing on and actually reaching Cain, killing the Purple boss, and killing Mira. Shit Happens. | ||
dmfg
United Kingdom591 Posts
On July 28 2012 04:11 VaySept wrote: 2 of the 3 are my fault (or rather my provider's), not Bnet. Still, it made me take a 3 week break off. I've only lost 1 char so far, having got my 3rd to 60 (only 1 progressing in inferno though). 54 wizard died to a DC in A2 hell while kiting fire chains, molten + something pack of ghouls. Like yours, was a DC my end and not a problem with Bnet. | ||
CheAse
Canada919 Posts
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ShaLLoW[baY]
Canada12499 Posts
It's his POV, I die offscreen while he's raging. We went onto the forums to find a million page thread of people who had experienced the exact same thing. Never forget. | ||
TheRealDudeMan
United States213 Posts
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Black Gun
Germany4482 Posts
On July 29 2012 05:47 padfoota wrote: This isn't my death, but it just happened to me nonetheless On Asia HC - where there are only at most 44 people playing at any time, and the Auction House is so limited in items its almost sad. There is only one 1h on AH that has 1k dps, and lvl60 items with vitality and all resist reach a total of 20 pages. ALL DEFENSIVE ITEMS. On my road to 60 I met many other friends, in fact, us 4 met also during our own roads to 60. Considering the fact that Asia HC players are further split into Korean speakers and Chinese speakers, with English being a rather uncommon language, anyone who I can talk and connect to in HC instant becomes a friend. We feel instantly closer vs standard pubs who jabber away in Korean and we have no idea what they are saying, but even then, the HC community in Asia is so tiny we all feel obligated to watch each others back, and from time to time join a low difficulty mode (through friends) and help out the "little ones". However, all these friends eventually died on our road to 60. for Every day when we joined pubs with other players someone would die. Death is common in HC, and each one hurts. For our friend group of about 10 people, it was down to 4 - 2 Barbs, 1 Wizard, 1 WD. The wizard was the longest HC friend Ive had since the time it took my Barb to 60, I had played with 2 of his wizards, one died at the level of 51 to some bullshit DC. I stopped leveling and helped him all the way back to 50 whenever I couldnt find a public game, since there really are very few players, and level restriction meant I had an even lower chance of finding a party in HC. The chat is separated by client language too, and since half, if not most the taiwanese players are in US, the players in Asia with Chinese clients are quite few too, and there is no one in the HC chat. Back to my story. We finally got through Hell mode, destroyed Diablo with pumped up lvl60 gear bought from AH (decent for what is available), and decided to give inferno a try. Started out Inferno A1 - decided to keep going until we got to the Blacksmith quest - Killing Mira. By rights, this should be the easiest part of the game ever, zombies dont really hit you, and porcupines are total pushovers too, but the biggest part is, no elites. At least, thats what we thought, and while half chatting, half playing, we dropped down the crater in the chapel, and ran into a fucking elite. Bat monster, Firechain, Mortar, Frozen, and something else insignificant as I recall, I was too busy running. Too many times in normal have I seen barbs get raped by firechain mobs, and I know how much that thing hurts in inferno when no one has any resist worth mentioning. I quickly typed "RUN RUN RUN RUN" knowing I couldnt tank it with no resists as a barb and since the beginning part after dropping down the crater is a tiny corridor - I knew the frozen orbs would rape us if we got caught up in it. At this time, my other barb friend had went to bed and didnt join in this encounter, so it was just us 3. The wizard and doctor decided to kite a bit while running back, and since all our damage was quite decent for the beginning of A1, 10-12k on WD, 18-20k on Wizard, 12k on me, the two of them did manage to drop the bosses hp a bit while I stunned and spammed Party Ignore Pain as best as I could when the orbs were going to blow. We ran all the way back to the entrance of the crater, up the stairs into that very tiny platform, forgetting that after dropping down you cant return. The firechains were coming up and going to rape. Frozen orbs begin appear. Since I didnt attack, I led the fleeing party, and came to the realization that I had led them not just to a dead end, but the tiniest possible platform possible - the worst for frozen orbs. There wasnt even time to type. WD had burned his passive, saving himself from death, and running back the way we came in soul form, while I jumped down from the platform and switched on Ignore Pain hoping for the best. The wizard didnt come down. Teleport was on CD. He was jammed between 3 walls and 2 elite with firechain, and my Party Ignore Pain didnt reach him. I watched his HP disappear in a flash before I could say "shit". I typed sorry (in Chinese) one character at a time while running away and spamming revenge, killing the final elites eventually. He was at loss with words, and first asked "Who led the way", and then came to the realization that it was the right way, but we just couldnt go back up after dropping down. I had watch this guy die twice, and since I pretty much brought him up, it fucking hurt. The scarcity of characters in Asia HC makes it seem like a fucking apocalypse, and good players were hard to come by, so each death felt horrible. It was like losing a guy in your party of last surviving human beings. The Witch Doctor and I took revenge in a very stupid way by continuing on and actually reaching Cain, killing the Purple boss, and killing Mira. Shit Happens. ouch, that really hurts. but that level is known as a notorious death trap. once you jump down, there is no way back, so no matter how bad the hypothetic boss down there is, you have to be able to take him on. | ||
padfoota
Taiwan1571 Posts
On July 29 2012 13:01 Black Gun wrote: ouch, that really hurts. but that level is known as a notorious death trap. once you jump down, there is no way back, so no matter how bad the hypothetic boss down there is, you have to be able to take him on. Known? I didnt know until now. Neither did the Wizard who has 4+ characters on normal that has cleared inferno (fricken glass cannon monk as main wtf) Always remembered the entire beginning section (before you exit Northwest Gate, which is filled with elites) as a big "no elite" zone other than the yellow one down in somebodies home when you are off killing wretched mothers. We simply decided to progress on util we can farm Mira + Dank Dungeon for early items since the AH is empty or too expensive (niether of us have past 500k, total of 6 ilvl63 shields with vit+allresist) | ||
Black Gun
Germany4482 Posts
On July 29 2012 13:23 padfoota wrote: Known? I didnt know until now. Neither did the Wizard who has 4+ characters on normal that has cleared inferno (fricken glass cannon monk as main wtf) Always remembered the entire beginning section (before you exit Northwest Gate, which is filled with elites) as a big "no elite" zone other than the yellow one down in somebodies home when you are off killing wretched mothers. We simply decided to progress on util we can farm Mira + Dank Dungeon for early items since the AH is empty or too expensive (niether of us have past 500k, total of 6 ilvl63 shields with vit+allresist) a friend of mine died there on nm to waller desecrator mobs, and i have seen at least 5 people on the jsp hc forums that reported the cathedral lvl 1 as a deathtrap. and now you also know it, even though your story is particularly bitter. dont get me wrong plz, i feel really sorry for your loss, im just surprised that a hc player as experienced as you didnt know about this place. | ||
padfoota
Taiwan1571 Posts
On July 29 2012 21:23 Black Gun wrote: a friend of mine died there on nm to waller desecrator mobs, and i have seen at least 5 people on the jsp hc forums that reported the cathedral lvl 1 as a deathtrap. and now you also know it, even though your story is particularly bitter. dont get me wrong plz, i feel really sorry for your loss, im just surprised that a hc player as experienced as you didnt know about this place. No problem man, perfect moment for quoting: "Why do we fall, sir?" | ||
Na_Dann_Ma_GoGo
Germany2959 Posts
Man Asian Hardcore sounds really weird. Is it due to server instability that barely anyone is playing there? | ||
Roachu
Sweden692 Posts
On July 28 2012 04:40 Forgottenfrog wrote: Came home drunk yesterday and decided to play. Turned the corner and BAM 3 suicidal ghouls coming at me. Instead of running like I should on Hardcore, I decided to kill it before it hit me. We all know how that worked out. Boo for courage juice, damn alcohol got me overconfident. This reminds me of a situation with my HC wizard. My first foray into HC so I treated every single mob as a inferno hellspawn thing with several ToD abilities so naturally I pretty much never had to take a health potion, I barely ever took noticeable damage. In act 2 I encountered that baneling-fallen spawning purple boss in the oasis who stands in a dead end above a small pond. He spawned those suicide enemies in a rate which made it just a bit too frustrating for me to stay perfectly safe given the confidence I had gained so ofc I had to run up to him, with maniacs hot on my tail. What I didn't notice before getting myself cornered was just above-screen where I had been standing was a cute pack of elite decivers. They burrowed and all came up to me at the same time a maniac exploded, leaving me with around 5% HP left in a flash. I panicked and started mashing diamond skin that JUST came off cooldown before the other maniac could blow up. I survived. I shouldn't have, but I did and that was the most exhilarating gaming experience I've had in years. Not a death story I know but that was a fucking miracle in my mind. | ||
me_viet
Australia1350 Posts
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Ahtiven
Malaysia159 Posts
"Fine, I will run through and kill Jondar again" When I logged in, they pronounced him dead and so I removed him to Hall of Fallen Heroes to remember his deeds. | ||
padfoota
Taiwan1571 Posts
Also remember to run with a friend. | ||
Sluggy
United States128 Posts
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padfoota
Taiwan1571 Posts
On July 30 2012 13:27 Sluggy wrote: Took my slightly under-geared lvl 54 barb in to 'escape the crumbling vault' in hell mode. I had never done it before so I didn't know what to expect. I just saw a dude with an exclamation point so I clicked him. Stayed up for a while but I got frozen and mauled by ~4 champ packs while all my stuff was on cooldown. That was some horseshit. Lvl51-55 When you just enter Hell is the most dangerous of times per-inferno. Your gear sucks in comparison to the current difficulty, you can gear up for it, and you arent used to the mobs yet X_X Everyone who hits 51 and runs into inferno I tell them to be careful. Personally I waited until lvl54, bought a new weapon and some upgrades from spamming NPCs on nightmare and hell before running in. | ||
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