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We all know that playing HardCore could mean permanent death of your character, but even though we know we are playing with 1 life its sometimes still so hard to emotionally and rationally let go of your character if/when they die. I couldn't stomach playing anymore this morning once my first D3 HC character died ( oh so quickly too >.< ) until I had decided to get a bit of sleep, but when I wake up I'll be right back on HC unless I'm playing with my brother - he likes to play safe and keep the nice things he finds. So for all of you like me who have a hard time erasing your archived characters and moving on - lets share the stories of our epic battles, and final moments of our HC lost souls to whet our appetite for battle before we log back in for some more demonslaying ;D
I played my first HC character in D3 - Wizard. I lived to lvl 9. Met up with a Barbarian who I've never met, friended him and we adventured. I was nearly trapped away from my Barbarian buddy 3 times in different battles and certain death seemed the inevitable result in the under levels of the cathedral, but miraculously I lived (super click-click-click micro :D). My then party of 4 (grown to 2 barbs, 2 wizards) went on to defeat the skeleton king. After the glorious battle I missile'd my way into a plaines forest on the next quest. In the forest I killed a curious tree which animated and uprooted to attack. I sent a rolling congo line of magic death spheres at the creature. I totally killed that evil Ent. However, I had stepped in a puddle of its green goo which remained after the tree had died, for a mere 2 seconds, which turned out to be deadly since the green ground puddle was poisonous...
AerJinn I hardly knew ye..
My next HC - Wizard ;D __
Now I have a lvl 16 Wizard in Act 2. The party that helped me get through Act 1 was with me. Within the first 5 minutes of Act 2 my party had attracted too many monsters to handle and we got routed all the way back to the city gates - a full 2 minutes of sprinting back to the safety perimeter of town. Two barbarians died trapped by the swarms (rip Joe, Barbie). The DH and I made it back to the city gates with the help of consistent slow time casts. I didn't even really know Joe and Barbie in rl but they helped me get some good Intelligence boosting armor. Joe gave me a legendary ring that added intelligence and more before he was slain >.<
To awesome ppl who nevertheless fall beside you gloriously! I will not forget that unforgiving bloody route which claimed the lives of half of our party.
Edit: Added latest tale of woe while HC'ing
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Back in Diablo II, I once took a few days off of work because I messed up my shoulder what good. And for some reason, I decided to see if I could make a HC summon necromancer when I could only really use one arm. I made and lost so many necros - but I did finally get one into hell difficulty after my arm healed.
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D2 one since i dont have D3 yet.
Playing a trap assassin and just got to doing Baal hell runs, this was before bots let you afk exp in their games so you had to run down to baal yourself, no sorc to find the room for us either. I find the throne room first, announce it to people and they all TP back to town awaiting my TP. Sometimes in the throne room some small skeleton dolls spawn, these guys hurt alot and when they die explode for massive amounts of damage.
I figure i was gonna be nice and put the TP inside the actual throne room, but on my way there i get caught by like 15 of these little fuckers in a corner. I panic TP and escape with like 10% hp. Everyone else takes my TP thinking its a safe TP to the throne room. I can only imagine what happened from here, but im guessing in their panic people started killing the small guys, who then blow up for massive amounts of damage. It went something like this and the events are in maybe a 3 second timeframe:
Player 1 has died, deeds of his valor will be remembered Player 2 has died, deeds of his valor will be remembered Player 3 has left the game, diablos minions grow weaker Player 4 has died, deeds of his valor will be remembered Player 5 has left the game, diablos minions grow weaker Player 6 has left the game, diablos minions grow weaker Player 7 has left the game, diablos minions grow weaker Player 1 has left the game, diablos minions grow weaker Player 2 has left the game, diablos minions grow weaker Player 4 has left the game, diablos minions grow weaker
I never said the TP was safe so it was their own fault i guess, since it is common sense not to take a TP in HC unless you know it is actually safe. But everyone who played legit and didnt have a disconnet addon pretty much got screwed over in seconds. This was early on in the release of LoD and people in the game were from lvl 75 - 85 maybe. I didnt even get to loot their corpses as they rage left so quickly without a word
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On May 15 2012 23:29 unkkz wrote:D2 one since i dont have D3 yet. Playing a trap assassin and just got to doing Baal hell runs, this was before bots let you afk exp in their games so you had to run down to baal yourself, no sorc to find the room for us either. I find the throne room first, announce it to people and they all TP back to town awaiting my TP. Sometimes in the throne room some small skeleton dolls spawn, these guys hurt alot and when they die explode for massive amounts of damage. I figure i was gonna be nice and put the TP inside the actual throne room, but on my way there i get caught by like 15 of these little fuckers in a corner. I panic TP and escape with like 10% hp. Everyone else takes my TP thinking its a safe TP to the throne room. I can only imagine what happened from here, but im guessing in their panic people started killing the small guys, who then blow up for massive amounts of damage. It went something like this and the events are in maybe a 3 second timeframe: Player 1 has died, deeds of his valor will be remembered Player 2 has died, deeds of his valor will be remembered Player 3 has left the game, diablos minions grow weaker Player 4 has died, deeds of his valor will be remembered Player 5 has left the game, diablos minions grow weaker Player 6 has left the game, diablos minions grow weaker Player 7 has left the game, diablos minions grow weaker Player 1 has left the game, diablos minions grow weaker Player 2 has left the game, diablos minions grow weaker Player 4 has left the game, diablos minions grow weaker I never said the TP was safe so it was their own fault i guess, since it is common sense not to take a TP in HC unless you know it is actually safe. But everyone who played legit and didnt have a disconnet addon pretty much got screwed over in seconds. This was early on in the release of LoD and people in the game were from lvl 75 - 85 maybe. I didnt even get to loot their corpses as they rage left so quickly without a word
I used to purposefully do that to people...I tended to regularly have high level HC characters and when I got bored I would rush people. I took some guys from act 1 normal to act 4 nightmare. Got a nice group of monsters around the tp I made and said it was safe and then loled at the deaths. Good way to spend an hour
I cant wait for my D3 stories, my goal today when I get home is to rush to 10 then play through on HC for my first real play through, taking my time to take in the story, then going crazy with farming.
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Got a funny karma one for D2.
I joined a TPPK clan under a fake name for about a month was waiting for a good chance to PK their leaders, finally I get a perfect chance with my nado druid, killing 3 of them in 1-2 Tornados as they were fighting Baal. I had allow loot on 2 of them which were fully decked out, so I went back in to collect the loot and while teleing back to the corpses I dc'd, logged back in dead, was so funny.
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I remember my lvl 78 amazon. Died in the throne room because of the minions of destruction.. They surrounded me and gave me a swift death. I did take a screenshot when I died and I used it as a desktop background for a while
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I already died in D3 to a jailer mob. I was running around with my WD skilled to fight Leo (i.e. minimal crowd control, max DPS) and ran into a Scavenger jailer pack that jailed me and just destroyed me. RIP blammo, level 11 WD. Nice knowing you!
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Lvl 9 barb in D3.
Server kicked me out.
Went back in.
Dead.
Servers are down atm and I'm very worried about my new lvl 15 HC barb. Feels like the DRM is my main obstacle, not the in-game enemies.
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On May 16 2012 02:08 Seacow wrote: Lvl 9 barb in D3.
Server kicked me out.
Went back in.
Dead.
Servers are down atm and I'm very worried about my new lvl 15 HC barb. Feels like the DRM is my main obstacle, not the in-game enemies.
DRM will always be the main obstacle :<
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we were level 23 when three of us died at the end of act 2
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Just so people know. If you get DCed in the middle of a battle or something and then you relog.... blizzard will put you in the exact same spot surrounded by monsters.... >.< This was especially dangerous for me since my PC tends to lag only when i load D3 for the first 2 mins. I
almost had to write about how my level 20 barb died...but luckily not this time!! ^_^
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I rolled 2 characters Hardcore in d2 several years ago. The first one was a hammerdin that was rocking hard until somewhere in nightmare, if I remember correctly it was the maggot lair. No room for hammers into a disconnect and my hard work went down like that.
After a few days of leave I came back strong with a werebear druid. Some friends I was playing with were helping me level back up with some cow runs, and being fairly new to the cow level I saw some fences and figured, "oh, that must be a relatively safe spot to- Moo, moo moo, moo MOO, moo moo." To my dismay, I ran straight in to the cow king and got obliterated. Since then I haven't had the courage to man up and try hardcore again.
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On May 16 2012 06:30 Senj wrote: I rolled 2 characters Hardcore in d2 several years ago. The first one was a hammerdin that was rocking hard until somewhere in nightmare, if I remember correctly it was the maggot lair. No room for hammers into a disconnect and my hard work went down like that.
After a few days of leave I came back strong with a werebear druid. Some friends I was playing with were helping me level back up with some cow runs, and being fairly new to the cow level I saw some fences and figured, "oh, that must be a relatively safe spot to- Moo, moo moo, moo MOO, moo moo." To my dismay, I ran straight in to the cow king and got obliterated. Since then I haven't had the courage to man up and try hardcore again.
Bovine death T.T
+ Show Spoiler +That must have been a HC Pasteurization :D
Edit: added spoiler since I don't mean to bring up harsh memories in too light a way.
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I leveled a wizard to level 10 and instantly transitioned into hardcore. Act 1 went very well, killed the act boss without even realising it was the act boss. I happily strode into act 2 where I found this poor little girl who needed saving. Alas, it was no real little girl. It was a trap set by big blue monsters, who hooked me in and one shot me with a sturdy blow to my head.
It was sudden, I didn´t have time to react. I miss her. Rose was her name. May she forever bloom.
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I just died from disconnecting... it was an error on Blizzard's part. Wow.
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lvl 95 hardcore pally died in hell mode diablo. Forgot to toggle off of sacrifice, got hit by Iron Maiden, Sacrifice did 9% self damage -> over100% self damage -> gibbed pally.
Havnt played D2 since.
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On May 16 2012 08:26 altec1011 wrote: I just died from disconnecting... it was an error on Blizzard's part. Wow.
Omg now im worried. Servers down and I was in the middle of a fight when it crashed. FML!!!!
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On May 16 2012 12:57 Sultan.P wrote:Show nested quote +On May 16 2012 08:26 altec1011 wrote: I just died from disconnecting... it was an error on Blizzard's part. Wow. Omg now im worried. Servers down and I was in the middle of a fight when it crashed. FML!!!!
Yeah I think we're all dead.
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Had my first death last night. I had taken my time getting to 10 on SC and then was trying to rush back to where i was now in HC mode. Had a game of 3 people and they decided to go back to town and i said "fuck that"
Went down a level in the dungeon and aggrod 2 umbriels (i think was their name?) + 1 rare umbriel. I had a chance to escape back to the stairs but choked on a click and died...
Oops...
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Still alive and healthy in d3!
In d2 : just dueled my characters to death lol
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