Sincere condolences

[McCain123]

I thought it would be nice to express your condolences without spamming the RIP-thread. Just copy the RIP-entry and your comment here.



RIP: Our Fallen Friends
Death Certificate

Character name: Librasulus
Character level: 77
Character class: Paladin
Character build: Hammerdin
Game difficulty: Hell
Act: 1
Corpse looted: No
Death type: PvM

I'm a sucker for punishment...just did Countess, got a Key...ran on to get wp for Cloister and mule it...saw the Pits on the way...stop...muse I might find some good stuff in there...came across an ambush of Rogue Archers with curse from below me, Skeletons with Might from the right and Fallen boss with lightning from the left...merc goes down in 2 secs, I S&E immediately...here's the sucker for punishment part...I rejoined for revenge and the same thing happened except I tried to fight on and got my bum handed to me...lost a nifty 30 to life 22 to mana large charm and a 19 to life 7% poison res that I picked up on the way to the Tower and i'm mostly peeved at the loss of a Fal rune, aforementioned Key and my 33% Gheeds, to say nowt of my gear which wasn't bad...oh well, rebuild with a Sorc next I think as that was my first ladder death...



Sorry to hear that mate. I guess you have no chars at the moment, so as soon as your new sorc hits level 24, I can rush you through normal and we can do some Baals together, as I´m struggeling for levels aswell.

[MrKaxe]

Mucho appreciatedo my friend, I think as I am not at work today (twisted my ankle very badly at the weekend, ripped some stuff, nicely coloured) I will get on before KTA and get her started...I have the runes and an empty 4-socket Broadsword for a Spirit so that should get me off the ground with her...i'll shout you if I see you on, thanks again :thumbup:

[Zelator]

RIP Kaxe. Sorry to hear.

[AgentMarth]

I have always thought of there being a need for a R.I.P. thread discussion. Sometimes you just want more of the story, or just to comment but you can't.

So I approve of this thread.

Sorry, for the loss, it sucks to lose a character, but it seems like you have the friends to help get you back on your feet luckily.

[ZappaFan]

I have always thought of there being a need for a R.I.P. thread discussion. Sometimes you just want more of the story, or just to comment but you can't.

So I approve of this thread.

Sorry, for the loss, it sucks to lose a character, but it seems like you have the friends to help get you back on your feet luckily.

This is the way to do it. We can't have discussion in the RIP thread or it becomes a total mess (or worse a PK debate).

I'm ZappaFan and I approve this message. :thumbup:

[MrKaxe]

Character name: Rejuvnation
Character level: 29
Character class: Sorceress
Character build: Future Orb/TK
Game difficulty: Normal
Act: 5
Corpse looted: No
Death type: PvM

and

Character name: ThePerfectSLave
Character level: 56
Character class: Sorceress
Character build: Blizzard
Game difficulty: Nightmare
Act: 3
Corpse looted: No
Death type: PvM



Damn dude! Thats some bad luck in a short space of time...condolences...

[Zelator]

Thanks man... no worries about the Rejuvnation sorc though, the name was spelled wrong! Remake is 45, so I'm fine. Hows your sorc doing?

[McCain123]

RIP: Our Fallen Friends
Death Certificate


Character name: FROZENBIATCH
Character level: 19
Character class: Sorc
Character build: Orb/TK
Game difficulty: Norm
Act: 2
Corpse looted: No
Death type: PvM


Cause of demise: Tried taking on Duriel solo. At level 19, I thought it would be cake, but its damn hard killing at the early lvls with the orb/tk build. Anyway got down to the chamber static'ed him to half health and emilio died in 2 hits. Tried to tp back but Duriel got on top of me fast. Hit me once knocked me down to half health and interrupted my tp cast. Tried to S&E, hit esc mouse slipped and mashed the left mouse button. Saw the video options screen and knew I was done.

Lesson: Don't panic and don't be an idiot:crazyeyes:

Sorry to hear that, but at least this death was unnecessary. In normal you should always drink black bottles before fighting Andariel and white bottles before fighting Duriel to improve poison and cold res. Feed a few to the merc aswell then he lasts longer.

[Zelator]

RIP: Our Fallen Friends
Death Certificate

Character name: ZappaFan_Singer
Character level: 54
Character class: Barbarian
Character build: Singer/Frenzier
Game difficulty: Nightmare
Act: 4 (Izzy)
Corpse looted: Yes
Death type: PvM


Cause of demise: Impatience and utter stupidity. Been a grind leveling up my two first S5 characters, and finally got to the point where I'm just about to do NM Forge. Had gotten the City waypoint but did not see Izzy on my way (wasn't doing a total clearing because again, I was in a hurry to get to NM forge). So I decided to double back and hit Izzy before I went ahead onto River. Got overwhelmed by a bunch of nasty Gloams and died a very quick death. Thanks to TheDarkSide for helping me loot. Been quite a while since I had a death I probably needed a reminder. I was playing WAY too recklessly.

Ouch, sorry to hear that :( At least you got looted..

[McCain123]

RIP:

Death Certificate

Character Name: Naeth
Character Level: 31
Character Class: Necromancer
Character Build: Fishymancer
Difficulty: Normal
Act: Act 4 - Chaos Sanctuary
Corpse Looted: No
Death Type: PvM

In a 8 player game, decided to take on Diablo. All was going well until Big D lightninged all my skellys, so I tp'ed out to grab some more from cold plains. Diablo had about 1/5 life left so I was happy, entered back through my tp and instantly Diablo started his lightning attack again, straight at me. I think I died in less than a second, while trying to quaff my rejuvs. Note to self for next time, don't tp so close to Diablo. *Tear.

Sorry for your loss. It seems I was just luckier than you yesterday. I did the same on Hell for the reason, that your minions need ages to regroup on Dia and when I came back he instantly Boneprisoned me. Really bad feeling beeing two yards away from Dia, unable to move, one finger on the Juvs, mentally ready for S&E. Luckily my Gumby and Decryptify slowed him down that much, that he didn´t try anything on me, before my skellies had destroyed my prison.

And a second note for all you Summoners out there:
BE CAREFUL WHEN CLICKING ON EVIL URNS.
Even worse then my trip to Dia, was a careless click on an evil urn in act5 thinking my skellies will handle it. The monsters of the evil urn spawned right on top of me so the situation looked like this, me in the middle, then a circle of monsters and arround that a circle of skellies. With a little more bad luck on the monsters mods, this would have been my first RIP entry, so I just had a heartbeat of 140 and 8 big purples less, when the inner ring disappeared.

[MrBill]

RIP: Our Fallen Friends

Death Certificate

Character Name: Kelba
Character Level: 77
Character Class: Barbarian
Character Build: Berzerker
Difficulty: Hell
Act: Act 1 - Tower
Corpse Looted: Yes
Death Type: PvM

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Nasty little pack there -- but not (by far) the worst I've run into in the Tower; Champion Ghosts or Archers with Might or Fanaticism, particularly as stair traps on the odd-numbered levels, are even worse. :omg:

BTW -- Running anywhere in HC Nightmare or Hell without a belt of nice big, fat purple potions (especially as a melee fighter and even more especially if you're a Berserker and can't leech) == verrrry bad idea! Every one of my HC characters, even the ones just starting out, have a purple-colored belt; helps immensely in getting past act bosses, too.

Condolences on your loss there. It's still an accomplishment to get to Hell in the first place, which I have yet to do this ladder season... wish me luck.

Cheers

Mr_Bill

[AgentMarth]

BTW -- Running anywhere in HC Nightmare or Hell without a belt of nice big, fat purple potions (especially as a melee fighter and even more especially if you're a Berserker and can't leech) == verrrry bad idea! Every one of my HC characters, even the ones just starting out, have a purple-colored belt; helps immensely in getting past act bosses, too.

I have to agree with this. My characters generally have 1 row blue, 3 rows purple. A healing potion will not always be enough to heal you quick enough. You need the insta heal of a rejuv more often then not.

My Zerker's though, tend to be 1 blue/1 red/2 purple. Since they have no way of leeching, and sometimes the Insight/Prayer Merc heal is a bit to slow.

[ZappaFan]

Just less than a week later and my Singer rebuild hit 50 this morning whilst glitching NM Meph.


RIP: Our Fallen Friends
Death Certificate

Character name: ZappaFan_Singer
Character level: 54
Character class: Barbarian
Character build: Singer/Frenzier
Game difficulty: Nightmare
Act: 4 (Izzy)
Corpse looted: Yes
Death type: PvM


Cause of demise: Impatience and utter stupidity. Been a grind leveling up my two first S5 characters, and finally got to the point where I'm just about to do NM Forge. Had gotten the City waypoint but did not see Izzy on my way (wasn't doing a total clearing because again, I was in a hurry to get to NM forge). So I decided to double back and hit Izzy before I went ahead onto River. Got overwhelmed by a bunch of nasty Gloams and died a very quick death. Thanks to TheDarkSide for helping me loot. Been quite a while since I had a death I probably needed a reminder. I was playing WAY too recklessly.

Ouch, sorry to hear that :( At least you got looted..

[MrKaxe]

Thor will sadly be missed TJ...that was an evil evil bunch of mods for a Soul :shocked:

[ThomasJohnsen]

Thor will sadly be missed TJ...that was an evil evil bunch of mods for a Soul :shocked:

Thank you - I will surely miss him alot.

Decided not to rebuild him yet. I am making a Windy as a replacement.
Just erasing him didn't seem right, so he is still among us in his dark robes.

:cry:

[Zelator]

That sux dude... RIP

[ThomasJohnsen]

Character name: JonesMcBones
Character level: 80
Character class: Necromancer
Character build: Bonemancer
Game difficulty: Hell
Act: 1 - Tower
Corpse looted: No
Death type: PvM

Oh I am so sorry to hear that harry. The countess can spawn some pretty nasty packs. Hopefully you have some stuff muled to get another char started. And if not - give me a whisper, and we'll work something out (*TJ_Hardcore).

RIP JonesMcBones
:cry:

[harryjnr]

Thanks. I managed to pack some bits and pieces away though, so no worries.

Next time I'll be leaving the rune hunting to the professionals though. :)

[Jarath]

RIP: Our Fallen Friends
Death Certificate

Character name: Bloodmix
Character level: 72
Character class: Necromancer
Character build: Skelliemancer
Game difficulty: Hell
Act: 2 - Canyon Of The Magi
Corpse looted: No
Death type: PvM


Cause of demise:

My first real HC character. Was clearing through act 2 with a couple of gauss members, was a bit worried that my resists were too low but otherwise our small group was very capable. Just killed summoner, running to Tal Rasha's Tomb, I stop for a second to increase the volume in options menu... BAM slain by a Hellcat javalin thrown from off screen in a single hit. It all happened so fast that I hit enter to exit options... and ended up exiting the game instead. Thanks to the guys who were playing with me, was fun and hope you managed to kill duriel without any hiccups.

[ThomasJohnsen]

RIP: Our Fallen Friends
Death Certificate

Character Name: IvansWarMachine
Character Level: 88
Character Class: Sorc
Character Build: MetOrb
Difficulty: Hell
Act: Act 5 - Lvl 3 of the Nilly Hotel
Corpse Looted: No - Brave effort from my BO Barb but alas no
Death Type: PvM

:cry: I share your pain :cry:.

But alas - there is no going back to softcore. Hardcore is the real deal. Softcore feels like cheating when you have tried Hardcore seriously.

[Krazeyivan]

That I know, softcore is a joke

[MrKaxe]

Ha! Ivan IS the HC, he could never go back!

Sucks about your sorc dude, I just popped my head in to read it, nasty snakes! We'll get her back up in no time!

[olbaid]

oops. wrong thread

[McCain123]

RIP: Our Fallen Friends
Death Certificate

Character Name: IvansWarMachine
Character Level: 88
Character Class: Sorc
Character Build: MetOrb
Difficulty: Hell
Act: Act 5 - Lvl 3 of the Nilly Hotel
Corpse Looted: No - Brave effort from my BO Barb but alas no
Death Type: PvM

All was going perfectly fine, MF'ing all the main hotspots, Andy, Countess, key hunting etc
Andy even gave me a nice 7%MF 10FR small charm. Just about to mule but I gave it 1 more go for more D keys............. damn :dizzy:

BO's myself - E-shield up, tele'd down no sweat, clicked stairs to visit nilly. Dead, just dead, insta-death i call it. Stair trap with LOTS of aura'd snakes, no chance of tele..... nothing just super fast death. Maybe a hint of tiny lag there but not a thing I could do, am totally gutted. :weep:

She had my best items, Anni gone, Charms gone, 6 keys gone (had the keyset dammit!), Merc was decked out too.

Picked myself up and started a hammerdin for revenge!! God damn it D2 if your bugged with overpowered insane damage snakes! meet my hammer!!! :evil::evil:

Will miss u girl, good times had!
Anni + Ondals and Experience Shrine sitting in Baals throne room.....sniff

Character name: Lovely_Lydia
Character level: 43
Character class: Sorceress
Character build: Blaze/Orb
Game difficulty: NM-Outer Cloister
Corpse looted: No
Death type: PvM

Cause of Demise:
Dunno really. Something dropped me to like 20 HP's in a single go (from 430, had ES on but that took only 25% damage). It was one of Flamespike's little brothers that did the final deed (MS/ES even), but I suspect the real cuplrit was an FE boss that died to my first Orb (didnt even see it, only saw a different color amongst the stuff that died). I saw my HP's drop, thought "maybe I should pop a juve here.." and the next instant... *gunk* ... within ten seconds of hitting the WP I was dead.

Ankeli was so kind as to trample the little bugger into the ground. Alas... well... at least she didnt have any gear worth mentioning, so that's ok :) But its a shame of the Lovely_Lydia's Chainmail with Stealth in it.

Character name: YouKnowYouCan
Character level: 92
Character class: Sorceress
Character build: Blizzer
Game difficulty: Hell
Corpse looted: Yes
Death type: PvM

My sorc was doing great all the way to this very moment and together with the gausscommunity we had done tons of baalruns. Anyways, it happened at the same time as the Lister pack spawned. Was picking up an item where the minions spawn to then go back, but right when i was about to teleport back the antivirus poppup shows up and tabbed down the game. The char was standing a little to the left so i thought i could manage to S&E before she got deeds. Well, she died at the same time as i saw the game screen.

Had an eth tomb reaver and plenty of gems which i wanted to mule, but instead i kept on playing like nothing would happen. She will be rebuilt, but this time with max block instead of more hp.

Character name: oOmpole
Character level: 76
Character class: Barbarian
Character build: Polearm Leaper
Game difficulty: Hell
Corpse looted: No
Death type: PvM

Was doing fine participating in Hell Baal runs just keeping monsters off people's backs with Leap when I did not pay attention and entered a TP into Throne that was called "not safe".
And not safe it was. I insinctively popped a juvie, Leap Attacked away and hit Alt-F4 in mid-air... JUST after I got toasted, so I ended up with an invisible character and ofcourse no possibility to loot :badteeth:

Too bad, he was real fun to play, although he had a real hard time killing in Hell diff.

Seems like the KTA-crew and Mr. Bear had a crappy weekend. Sorry to read all those RIPs guys.

[ThomasJohnsen]

Character name: oOmsicle
Character level: 75
Character class: Paladin
Character build: Frost Zealot
Game difficulty: Hell
Act: 1 - Stoney Field
Corpse looted: No
Death type: PvM

Cause:
CE/LE. I had tried to solo my way through Hell A1, but my merc got murdered everywhere we went past the Dark Wood, so I decided to take it easy and get some levels in (and hopefully some items) in Stoney/Trist (little to no cold immunes :p).
Was doing fine for a couple of "runs" until we were fighting a Crow bosspack. I noticed the CE/LE so stepped WAY back, merc pops the culprit and after the CE ring was gone my health starts dropping in two HUGE chunks without a monster ANYWHERE in sight. Popped a juvie after the first one, but the second one tore me a new one.

Tbh, I'm getting pretty tired of ridiculous bugged deaths like this...

:cry: Sorry to hear that.

Is there a bug with cele monsters similar to the fele bug on NM that will carry cold damage/phys damage on the last spawned bolts from an exploding monster?

[MrKaxe]

Condolences oOmpie, that is a ****ty bug death indeed :(

[MrKaxe]

Condolences to dyolf and Suss for those unlucky deaths :cry:

[Demon Dude]

Hardcore is harsh, I will conquer it one day though.

[MrKaxe]

Re: RIP: Our Fallen Friends (Ladder Season 5)

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Character name: Kosolap
Character level: 77
Character class: Druid
Character build: Maul/Fireclaw Werebear
Game difficulty: Hell
Act: 1
Corpse looted: No
Death type: Lag

A rebuild of my previous bear, this one was turning out even better! Had a perfect Jalal's, Kosolap's Windhammer (decided to use that over IK maul for fun), Dracul's, Aldur's armor+boots, some good charms, angelics... Having 10,000AR, 3500dmg, 4000 life, mauling with fireclaws through Act2 hell was going smoothly, just found a Bonehew there. Went into act1 to kill Bone Ash -- my antivirus starts updating, slows and completely freezes the game. I drink some full rejuvination potions, Alt+F4, come back and find him dead

Savage savage death there man, condolences :(

[MrBill]

RIP: Our Fallen Friends
Death Certificate

Character name: YipeeYabbaDoo ...{snip}... the CPU was expending all its energy on AVG's behalf. When I logged on I was greeted by a dead sorc . . . how lame. (If anyone has any suggestions on how to prevent this sort of occurance please stick a comment in the sincere condolances:thumbup:)

Very sorry to hear about the loss of your Sorceress. That sux. But...

Window$ anti-virus program blues? Fix follows.

(1.) Surf to : http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

(2.) Burn Ubuntu Linux 8.04 Desktop CD to CD-R / RW. Set PC BIOS to boot from CD as first boot device. Reboot.

(3.) Click "Install" icon on desktop. Choose "Use entire hard disk for Ubuntu" and "Completely Delete Windows Permanently?" options.

(4.) When new O/S installs, reboot.

(5.) Run Synaptic Package Manager from "System -> Administration" menu. Seach for and install WINE Windows compatibility layer application.

(6.) Configure WINE. (I recommend running Window$ applications in a separate window -- with full-screen there's too much of a chance of a misbehaving Window$ program doing stupid things like grabbing 100% of the CPU and not letting you back to the Linux Desktop.)

(7.) (Re)Install Diablo II and LoD by double-clicking "SETUP.EXE" application from relevant CDs. Allow patch 1.11b to download and install when you next connect to Battle.Net.

(8.) Enjoy playing Diablo and your Window$ games without ever having to worry about stupid Window$ "Product Activation", (sic.) "Genuine Advantage", anti-virus programs, pop-ups that corrupt games, or, of course, viruses and malware. Enjoy the free OpenOffice software suite that costs zero, as opposed to Micro$oft Office for ~$1400.

(9.) Have a good laugh at the expense of all those poor masochists who are still, for some reason unknown to me, still voluntarily suffering at the hands of Mssrs. Gates' and Ballmer's bloated, CIA-backdoored, DRM-crippled, agonizingly slow and inefficient so-called operating system.

(Or, of course, if you prefer, keep running Window$. That way you'll get lots of experience in starting new Hardcore characters from Level 1.)

:evil:

Cheers

Mr. Bill

[HanShotFirst]

Mr. Bill, thanks for spending all that time responding to my question . . . I'll definately look into Linux but I'm more than a little concerned that if I try to install Linux onto my computer then Windows might go and do something vindictive like reduce my computers usefulness to that of a really big paper weight. :scratchchin: Still, I'll look into it, and thanks again.

[MrKaxe]

HC Death Certificate:
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RIP: Our Fallen Friends
Death Certificate

Character name: KTA_GreenArse
Character level: 75
Character class: Paladin
Character build: Avenger
Game difficulty: Hell
Act: 2
Corpse looted: Yes
Death type: PvM

Cause of demise: Fe Ce Blunderbore boss that got popped. (by my recklessness!)
We were battling our way towards Duriel in the Tomb during our weekly KTA session. Only three were present, namely a singer barb, a bonemancer and my Conviction Avenger pally. Were doing Ok-ish until we ran into a pack of Blunderbores. I noticed the boss being FE/CE so I immediately types a warning message, but while I was typing the Bonemancer Shift-Click Bonespirited him, and me, to death.

My bad, I should have walked back before typing. On to the next run ^^

MY FAULT!! NOT YOURS!! The shift-click tends to gravitate towards a boss monster, which in our case was not a good thing, so very sorry dude!

[MrKaxe]

Character name: WatWatInTheBut
Character level: 93
Character class: Paladin
Character build: Hammerdin
Game difficulty: Hell
Act: 5
Corpse looted: No
Death type: PK


Cause of demise: Well, a "friend" lured me to do some baalruns. Had only 16 millions left to 94 so i decided to go. Bad choice. As soon as I joined the game and went in to Throne, got tppk'd. After that, the guy decided to drophack me thus preventing me from getting my loot.

I do hope you reported him to Blizzard...I know it seems like they won't do anything but sometimes they do...I mean c'mon, insult to injury; if you could have looted it would have been a killer blow to die, not a killer blow x2 when they guy was that much of a *"&^$%$^*%$*(^$^ to not let you loot!! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE!?!

/rant

[coldsong]

I do hope you reported him to Blizzard...I know it seems like they won't do anything but sometimes they do...I mean c'mon, insult to injury; if you could have looted it would have been a killer blow to die, not a killer blow x2 when they guy was that much of a *"&^$%$^*%$*(^$^ to not let you loot!! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE!?!

/rant


99% suck, plain and simple.

is why D3 should we P2P - weed out the script kiddies at least