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McCain123

23-07-2008, 13:09

Your red ball was almost empty, but you could prevent the RIP-entry and want to give other people a change to learn from your mistake. Then tell your tale here ...

My summoning necro was cruising through Hell act 5, having a good time and carelessly clicked on an evil urn, thinking his skellies would easily kill, whatever spawned. Well the mob of the urn spawned exactly on top of my necro, so he was trapped in a circle of monsters and his skellies formed an outer circle arround the circle of monsters that collapsed after 8 big purples and a fast moving health during the time it took.

My sorc was doing nm-Baals and between the waves I cleared my inventory. The 4th wave spawned, I had pressed 'i' to close the inventory and faced an extra fast wave 4. My merc was trolling arround in the throne, so wave 4 surrounded me. No big deal, a teleport to reposition and ... wtf teleport didn´t work. My health melted away really fast and I had drunken the first two purples, when I realized what the problem was. I was still holding a skull from the inventory, which prevented my right mouse button from doing anything useful. After leftclicking it off, I could go on as usual.

MrKaxe

23-07-2008, 13:46

Very hairy man! I've done the urn thing before as well, no wonder they are called evil!

To throw one out, as i'm sure people have done this one a few times, hitting 'enter' to bring up text to reply to someone's chat and then trying to use hotkeys for something and typing gibberish instead of the desired function, usually a 1111111 as you want a pot and your merc brought in some mob just offscreen and you paused to type in a seemingly safe enviroment!

McCain123

23-07-2008, 13:58

There was a funny post about playing HC drunk and let your last words be '1122334412341'.

MrKaxe

23-07-2008, 15:53

There was a funny post about playing HC drunk and let your last words be '1122334412341'.

Linky me I wanna see! :grin:

McCain123

23-07-2008, 21:02

There you go ... linky (http://forums.diii.net/showthread.php?t=618308)

MrKaxe

28-07-2008, 16:21

Thanks dude, I remember that and I don't usually remember a damn thing lol!

McCain123

28-07-2008, 22:26

Waiting out lag spikes can be a bad idea aswell. I was on my way to mephi with my sorc, when I lagged. I waited arround 10 seconds, then the game started to catch up, with dolls exploding, big heary beasts hitting me and all the funny stuff. 12 ( !!! ) big purples later I was still alive, and I won´t do it anymore ... I think :crazyeyes:

asdfgah

29-07-2008, 09:24

My sorc almost died yesterday.

Opened a door in tal rasha's tomb and..

SWOOSH!!11!!
I have apparitions biting me everywhere :dizzy:, and my life goes to just a few %. Extra fast fanaticism aura enchanted bosspack :surprise:

I believe it was the FHR of my spirit that got me out of that one.

Conclusion:
Use telekinesis to open doors, or if you don't have the skill, don't stand in doorways if you don't know what's in the room you're about to enter... Depending on what monster types are in the area of course. Watch out for fast moving stuff!

Basketcase

29-07-2008, 10:40

Nearly lost my 74 Necro last night in a solo NM Baal

CE'd a doll pack while standing just that little bit too close, had about 1mm of red orb left after that. If I hadn't put a few points into Bone Armour, it would have been deeds.

Conclusion:
I hate dolls... they took my last necro and nearly got this one. Oh, and Gloams suck as well :)

AgentMarth

29-07-2008, 17:36

CE'd a doll pack while standing just that little bit too close, had about 1mm of red orb left after that. If I hadn't put a few points into Bone Armour, it would have been deeds.

Just to mention, when you are around Dolls, consider using Decrp over Amp. The -enemy damage applies to their death explosion, so it effectively cuts it in half. So a ~500 death blow (1,000 if it rolls that 5% critical) is cut down to ~250.

As for me, one I can remember.... I believe it was recently with my Hdin, fighting a pack thinking "Well, they can hurt, but not much unless alot of them come at once, its only NM" follow by "holy crap my life bulb!" *juvies*

Or, Hephisto, who was a lovely Fana, ES, Amp'er. Was cleaning River with my Rift-A-Sin for a forge, I knew hit would hit hard, but I thought 30% DR, Block, and BO/Shout would serve me well. Well, it kinda did, as for if I didn't have BO, his seemingly ~1,500 damage hit would wiped my ~1,300 base life, yeah.....

McCain123

06-08-2008, 10:57

AgentMarth

11-08-2008, 17:09

Ah yes, the thinking you have BO when you don't. It can be very dangerous, which is why I always cast it like 3 times just to make sure I don't only throw BC and Shout.

Whenever I port Hell Baal's, I always pop up the LCS to make sure I get BO/Shout. Last thing I need is to port into a bad pack, and never port out.

MYK

12-08-2008, 01:51

Seems like I have those 5% extra luck needed to survive situations, where I did stupid things.

Started a Mephi-series, got BO and teled through Durance level 2 when I got a real hard hit ( 50% health lost ). No biggie, drank a juv and made my way to Mephi, who killed my merc in like 3 hits. Now my instinct told my to evade all further attacks and go to town as fast as possible to find out, what was wrong. I did and saw I was not boed, because my toons were not partied ( and had no loot rights either btw. ). The hit on the way was just averarage and I was pretty lucky not to meet really hard hitting monsters. :whistling:

Push the life buttons next time you level her. :whistling:

I didn't BO a few times. Merc dies pretty quick, I get hit with the Cold Orb and my eyes go: O_O

Hp_Sauce

12-08-2008, 16:06

Seems like I have those 5% extra luck needed to survive situations, where I did stupid things.

Started a Mephi-series, got BO and teled through Durance level 2 when I got a real hard hit ( 50% health lost ). No biggie, drank a juv and made my way to Mephi, who killed my merc in like 3 hits. Now my instinct told my to evade all further attacks and go to town as fast as possible to find out, what was wrong. I did and saw I was not boed, because my toons were not partied ( and had no loot rights either btw. ). The hit on the way was just averarage and I was pretty lucky not to meet really hard hitting monsters. :whistling:

I did this just yesterday too! I went in for the static and got a little closer then normal so he turned and attacked me a few times hard. I thought "that's unusal". But it was when I went to stand back and throw orbs and he 2 hitted my merc that I decided to tuck tail and run away to town to see what was going on.

-hps

Dekadez

12-08-2008, 22:14

I have so many near-death experiences in the week i've been baaling meph hell. It's terrible...

Stuff like: Teleporting right on top of a group of Fanamaulers/manaburn stygs. Happened to me 3 times already, sometimes I hardly got away with 15 hp.

Jarath

13-08-2008, 02:04

Had a few close calls this week.

Was baaling with the gauss gang, since it's an 8 player game with other players tanking I didn't bother summoning my skellies. TP to the throne is called safe, so I step down. Just as I come through the first wave hits and start walking towards the TP, I'm not worried at first but then I notice that they have fanaticism... and no one else seems to be coming through the TP. I quickly cast decreptify and try to draw them away from the TP but the pathfinding puts me right along side a bunch of the little buggers. I go down to 1/4hp in maybe 2 hits (even though they're decreped), I use a rejuv, get whacked again, use a rejuv.... then everyone FINALLY comes through the portal. Barb uses BO, and the rest of the players kill off the troublesome monsters. It only took everyone else maybe 10 seconds to follow me down but it felt like forever. :D

Decided I wanted to do some hell cows for a laugh. Also decided to revive some dead cows for extra meat shielding. Why why why did I do this? Such a mistake. Ended up coming across a boss back with might aura and didn't notice they weren't my revived cows until just the last second. Hit save and exit in a panic. That'll be the last time I summon revives in the moo moo farm.

magicianDK

13-08-2008, 02:12

My Near death experience...

So my paladin, zeal champion, maxed out Fant (level 27) level 10 holy shield, level 50 overall. I decide you know what, I just got to NM, let's do some NM cows, I'm tough enough for that.

So I propose this idea to someone who has chant and they said sure. So before you know it, I have fant, enchant, for a whooping 4500 zeal max zeal dmg, and very high AR.

Not only that, but my defence merc plus my holy shield leaves me near 5000 with decent dex for block.

I decide hey, since I haven't done so in a while charge right into the first heard of cows I see. I figure 8-10 cows, not too much to see what I've got. before you know it, there are cows surrounding me, seems like that 8-10 was more like 80 and my merc dies.

Im trying to leech with my zeal hits, but I can't tank them, all my juvies have been used except for 1 reg juvie.

Just as I hit it...my life goes from near nothing (maybe like 2hp) to about 1/3rd and i have just enough time (by a second) to save and exit.

MrBill

13-08-2008, 02:14

My (now) Level 77 Lower Resist / Skeleton Mage / Thorns Necromancer, "Mr_Hate", just about got the Deeds screen late yesterday, while trying for the umpteenth time to find the right way to the Summoner through the Arcane Sanctuary.

He had a full army and was on the path that has all of those stupid red teleporter portals... there is one such layout where, no matter how hard you try, you simply cannot see what monsters are at the other end of the teleporter portal pair, because the "destination" portal is so far from the "originating" portal that the "destination" one is for all intents and purposes off the screen (even at 800 x 600 resolution).

My Necro risked it, but the second he appeared at the destination he found himself surrounded by godly monsters, one of which -- some stupid Goatman type thingie -- had managed to get between him and the red portal (this happened before Mr_Hate materialized on the other side; personally I think this is a stupid Diablo bug, since it gives you no way whatsoever in which to retreat back the way you came... it's very unfair).

Despite having a huge army camped out on his square, and despite not moving with about a 26% block chance, my Necro got hit over and over again, with each strike wiping away about 2/3 of his 890 hit points... :dizzy: after about 5 big purple happy pills I decided that discretion would be the better part of valor and hit the S&E -- first time that I have had to do that, in about a year.

As a sidenote, man is the Arcane a royal pain for a Necromancer, even one like mine whose minions can kill from a distance. You rarely get more than a few skellies or Revives (plus Golem) with enough front to attack the monsters and it's also almost impossible to get more than 2 or 3 mages close enough to fire at whatever's blocking your way... meaning that even with CE, it takes forever to batter your way forward. Very frustrating because my army annihilates almost anything it runs into, when my army can actually fight, as opposed to waiting in line behind me! :banghead:

"Not Dead Yet" :whistling:

Mr. Bill

AgentMarth

13-08-2008, 17:32

Wasn't to close of a call really, but the first time I had to save and exit in a while:

Was Ubering solo yesterday for the second time the season, everything was going fine (a bit slow though in minis, but no big deal) when after I had downed Mephy (the hard part) and Baal, I headed for Diablo. At this point, I am not worried, I figure he'll go down nice and easy, and I'll just pray for a nice torch.

Well, I hit a bit of a snag..... He summoned a few minions, to which i paid no mind too since I know once you engage them they don't summon anymore, but then suddenly noticed something, that "volcano" thing was right under my feat, and yeah, the summons were not stopping. So, there I am with Diablo, being pelted by ever increasing number of minions, I tried to run away, but waited to long and was surround. However, I had moved just enough to be unable to whack at Diablo, so there I was, surround by minions, Smiting the minions to try and run away, and sudden realized Tap ain't kicking in. So yeah, after using 2 full rejevs while deciding what to do, I just S&E'd. More annoying then anything else.

Another time though, my first Uber run of the season. Nearly did Deeded me.

So I enter Matrons Den. Turns out, Lilith is like 2 rooms away. Perfect I think, I don't need to take forever finding her. Yeah, but thing was, a boss Succubus pack was in the room too, but I didn't see that right away. I was already toe to toe with her, when the red balls start coming, may way, and I am thinking "oh god no, don't let it be Amp!".

I try to lure her out a bit, and it works somewhat, but one still follows. One is enough. I see a curse cast, thank god its that crappy lower defense curse that with Holy Shield and Shout, is nothing. So I keep at it. She hits about 1/4 left, I am starting to get a high heart beat still hoping for no Amp, when suddenly "Hello mister Unique, how are you today? In an Amping mood? Ah, it seems so." Bamn, I get Amp'd, and proceed to freak. A few hits take about half of my 3kish life, and really freaked me the hell out.

Now I would have S&E'd, and tried again, but remember, she was right by entrance, and so was the boss pack, so I had nowhere to seperate them. After burning a few rej's, she went down though, but not until raising my heartbeat to an extreme level.

I don't have to many of these, by they can be "fun" so to speak.

MrKaxe

21-08-2008, 10:23

Last night I persuaded Tom to do just one NM Baal for my budding IK Barb so that I could gain some quick exp before he continued to rush me through Hell...i'm loving it as i'm gaining like there's no tomorrow and I can acually kill stuff as well! Wave 3 spawns and the bee-astard is FE/LE and as I blissfully whirl my way through the pack I smack him once or twice and my health drops to a sliver in the bulb...I stop whirling dead centre of the pack and stand there for at least 4 seconds with no life but it was like a real whirlwind (or hurricane?)...calm at the centre of the storm...no one hit me and I didn't hit anyone so I popped a full juve and whirled on out again and ran cowering into a corner...Tom had given me the IK Armour not 2 seconds before that and said "You better mule it dude.." I said "Nah, it will be fine with you rushing me!"
Moral: don't get too relaxed, there is always a situation that can kill you so pay attention to everything!

AgentMarth

23-08-2008, 01:10

Its because of that slight chance Bartuc can be FELE that no matter what build, what char, what res, what life, what anything that I back away on that wave in NM.

Zelator

24-08-2008, 13:21

Its because of that slight chance Bartuc can be FELE that no matter what build, what char, what res, what life, what anything that I back away on that wave in NM.

That's my new rule... after it killed my hammerdin last night!

weatherman

24-08-2008, 21:42

My near death experience was today, in act 3 in the sewers below upper Kurast.
(lvl 25 skellieNecro)

Me and my friend had just killed a large horde of... stuff, and I discovered I was poisoned. Now normally poison does nothing, it just fades away after a couple of seconds, but not today, it ate off most of my health bulb to quickly for my liking, no prob, just guzzle a health pot and wait a sec. After the pot weared off and the poison still at it. I began to panic, only one way out, I quicky tped. In town I had NO health, I checked my bulb and marvelled, only 1 hp left.

Luckily I hate hardcore, I don't like the down-and-out part of it.

I guess I was hit by more than 1 poison, maybe 4-5.

Heh.

*edit* oops, didn't realise this was a HARDCORE almost dead thread... sorry.

sahlakh

25-08-2008, 07:39

*edit* oops, didn't realise this was a HARDCORE almost dead thread... sorry.

What would be the point to make such thread in SC; people die all over the place anyway.

Duh, I forgot... it's the gold loss! damn!

McCain123

27-08-2008, 14:29

Duh, I forgot... it's the gold loss! damn!

You nab, of course it´s the XP-loss. :smug:

sahlakh

02-09-2008, 17:02

You nab, of course it´s the XP-loss. :smug:

You won't lose exp in normal, right? :P

Zelator

04-09-2008, 17:36

You won't lose exp in normal, right? :P

Correct there sir.

FoxyG

04-09-2008, 18:29

actually in softcore if you die in hell a few times at, say, level 93, you might as well have died since it will take as long to get to 94 as it would to go from 1 to 90 :P

MYK

04-09-2008, 19:06

actually in softcore if you die in hell a few times at, say, level 93, you might as well have died since it will take as long to get to 94 as it would to go from 1 to 90 :P

A few hours? Haha :smug:

AgentMarth

04-09-2008, 19:18

actually in softcore if you die in hell a few times at, say, level 93, you might as well have died since it will take as long to get to 94 as it would to go from 1 to 90 :P

A few hours? Haha :smug:

Don't forget the no gear loss!

Azhul

05-09-2008, 12:17

A few hours? Haha :smug:

I hear such remarks often, yet find it impossible. Regardless of what "fight these here at that level" type guides I read, none of them actually live up to high levels in a few hours. What gives?

AgentMarth

06-09-2008, 23:13

Grush, ~1-2 hours depending on rusher.

Ubering to 80, ~2-3 (?) hours.

Having a level 80+ character in a quarter of a day, priceless.

What ever your needs are, there is High level Hdins ready to spin.

~~~

Serious part :

When you do a Grush, if you do not include the time it takes to get a level 40 to glitch you into NM/Hell, you can have it done fast. If you just go straight for the quests, use a character who can solo well at p8 with no immunes (Enigmadin), you can reach act 5 hell withing a short amount of time.

Then use an organ set (again not counting the time to gather keys/ do Minis) you open the portal, kill D/B, leave Mephy, trap him, bring in leechers, and enjoy the ding ding ding sound while you leech.

The process if done with a good group can be done very fast and you can easily hit 80+ in under 4 hours starting with a level 1. I normally don't do the level 1 thing, as I tend to be the level 40, so i can't give an exact time, but none the less, its easy to do.

Its a bit trickier in HC though, since if you die from a stray firewall in Act 3 Hell running to the red portal by Mephy, you get screwed outta the work. In SC its just Esc and retry. Also, actually Ubering itself it tricky, if the target is messed up and the skels spawn on the low levels.

The hardest part sometimes is finding 2 Hdins to spin, and a Necro to Bonewall. That is unless someone wants to manually walk up to Mephy to trigger the spawns.

Just search for like "Uber leveling Guide" or something of that sort.

Murloc

10-09-2008, 21:25

I was running NM ancients with my barb and doing fine. I'd finished off Madawc and Korlic and was working on Talic. I was so happy I'd killed the LE Korlic without dying that I didn't notice Talic was FE. So I kill him and luckily get the xp and level up before he explodes, taking me down to |-| health. ><

Hp_Sauce

10-09-2008, 21:52

I hear such remarks often, yet find it impossible. Regardless of what "fight these here at that level" type guides I read, none of them actually live up to high levels in a few hours. What gives?

This post is very much OT and I apologize for that but...

If you read this post here (http://forums.diii.net/showpost.php?p=4442834&postcount=1).
You can see that soloing to a decent level isn't impossible (though difficult)
This person made it to Guardian status (at level 65) in 3 hours 20 minutes (even stopping to do his NM Hellforge along the way.)

-hps

MrBill

13-10-2008, 19:12

Name: POS_Hammerhead

Build: Level 88 Hammerdin (doh), US East Hardcore Hell (but off-Ladder)

Situation: Cruising through WSK1 trying to get this guy, who is a relic from Ladder season 2, up to Level 89, so he can wear the shiny crafted Caster amulet (+2 pally skills, FCR and other goodies) that was made for him eons ago. Accompanied by his trusty A2 Holy Freeze merc Waheed (double doh!), who was confidently crippling everything in his path with his Reaper's Toll Thresher and Treachery armor (gogo Decrepify!), POS_Hammerhead was doing the usual "stop, switch to Concentration, cast hammers, watch everything walk stupidly into hammers (only about 5K magic damage per since no Torch, Anni and only one skiller) and die, switch to Redemption for mana, rinse, repeat" thing... then he turns the corner and gets zapped by the Champion Gloams.

About 1300 of his 1450 hit points gone in one second, and that's with 76% Lightening Resist. Owwies! :shocked:

Pop purple happy pill, "feets do yo' stuff", wait for stupid Gloams to come waltzing up one by one. Serves them right! ;)

As my hero Nietzche says, "that which does not destroy me... only makes me stronger." (That said, I think it's time for a few more mini Lit Resist charms... what's the point of wearing GA if you don't use what it bestows on you...)

Mr. Bill

Kragujevac

20-10-2008, 04:20

http://i37.tinypic.com/ddo008.jpg
Never think you can tip more cows than is possible with your current weapon pick.

TempestKhan

27-10-2008, 07:04

MrBill

28-10-2008, 01:41

Hehe good read so far...

Anyways my turn..

During one of my endless amount of Pit runs with my Summon necro Packed with mf gear i came a across a group of archers fallen sisters or what ever there name is..

Thinking my summons do the work an i can call in the CE to clean up they cast AMp alll over my little private Army of summons it only takes a few sec when i find my self all alone in the pits i then call in the tp an run away..

Then thinking to myself hmnn maybe it was just bad luck lets try again so i resurrect faruk an go an get a new army an tries again only this time they aim for me an in a split sec without warning im down to 66 hp out of a total 1409 hp´s .. almost had to change pants.......

Christ i hate amp but i dont respect it at all since im a summoner but when the enemy has ranged its a diffrent case now when i see em i just make a new game..

That doesn't sound like just Amp; it sounds more like "Amp + Extra Strong + Might" or something similar (I understand why you didn't hang around to read the boss modifiers, carefully...).

But those archers down in the Pit, particularly Level 2 where they can fire at the choke point just past the stairs before your minions are able to get at them, can be verrry dangerous, and one other thing to look out for -- yes, if the boss archer has Multishot, you can get hit by more than one arrow at a time; I'm 100% certain of this, I've both had it happen to me and have seen it happen to other players. One arrow from a Might archer with (say) Cursed or Extra Strong is bad enough; two or three may mean it's 'rebuild from Level 1' time. :shocked:

Glad to hear that you dodged the bullet this time though mate. Just don't count on it every time.

Cheers

Mr. Bill

oOmpie

28-10-2008, 12:03

Dim Vision is your friend... :)

AgentMarth

28-10-2008, 16:18

Attract is your friend.

Dim Vision won't stop the boss from giving you a nice hello. Attract however, will make the boss, and everyone around the Attracted monster, suddenly bum rush said monster, all the while you are able to still use Amp to take the monsters out faster.

To me, Attract >>> DV. Even moreso since to make DV effective, you need a decent level, be it from hard points or plus skills, while Attract is a one point wonder.

MrBill

10-11-2008, 05:16

Now THAT was a close one.

Had taken my beloved Non-Ladder Level 89 Full Tal's set Firewall / Thunderstorm Sorceress, "POS_Sparky" (yes Narci if you're reading this, it's the same one that you used to do Baal runs with, back God knows how many years ago in 1.09), out for her once monthly spin to keep alive on Battle.Net; and, since she's now almost 90 (has only taken about 5 years to get her from 89 to almost 90... :whistling:), after a ho-hum tour through WSK2, decided to try River of Flame.

Mucho baad idea!

The first couple of encounters went okay, but then, charging from the left (they apparently came from that little out-jut into the flame lake that has the two chests in it), came one of the WORST boss Urdar pack I have EVER seen.

All I see is at least one boss Urdar (turned out to be two, actually... see below) with Fanaticism :shocked: , so I start a cautious retreat back toward the Waypoint. Merc, thanks to the Decrep from his Reaper's Toll, stays up for about three hits and then gets pounded into a fine red smear on the pavement, and now I start thinking, "feets do yo' stuff".

Damn good idea, let me tell you!

I'm teleporting madly backward, to the right toward the RoF causeway, and I see the Urdar pack quickly gaining on me... WTF!?!?!? I was going to stop and just hit the RoF Waypoint, but I could easily see that the pack was going to be all over it by the time that I could click on it (this is no word of a lie -- I have NEVER, EVER seen Diablo monsters that can move that fast, not even Frenzytaurs), so I figure, "Egads, I haven't cleared the right part of the River yet, but what have I got to lose, anything has got to be better than this crowd." Well, I was right, but that doesn't mean it didn't hurt.

Somehow -- don't ask me how -- I manage to teleport across one of the lava inlets, giving me a precious split second or so before the boss pack makes it on top of me. I try throwing a TP, but the friendly other Urdar pack that's there gives me a few friendly love-taps to remind me that they're not happy that I intruded on their tea party, and, of course, since they have Knockback, it keeps me away from the TP as the Fanaticism pack is now within a half second of showing up on my doorstep and helpfully giving their aura to the Urdars in whose midst I'm now being pummeled.

It's Teleport time again -- what's left to do? I hot key to Teleport and hit it again and again, but I keep getting stunlocked and hit for 25-50% of my hit points (1080 at full health, this was my first Hardcore Hell build, I guess she's a bit fragile), but somehow (maybe the 2 or 3 FHR charms I've got in my holding area) I manage to break the stunlock and start jumping wildly around, right past the Fanaticism boss who looks up as I'm sailing past and goes, "Hey, you, come back here!!!"

I was teleporting back to the left, again in the midst of a crowd of Urdars, but this time I was able to get back to the clear area just to the left of the RoF Waypoint and throw a TP back home.

But did Mr. Bill give up at that point? No way, Jose! ;)

Knowing that the game would stay up for a few minutes, I exited POS_Sparky after resurrecting her too-fragile Merc, and bring in POS_RhythmStick, my Level 89 Plague Javazon. The crucial difference between these two characters (apart from a 36K Plague Java for the Amazon :grin:), is the latter's Level 35 (with prebuff) Valkyrie, plus POS_RhythmStick's patented FearMerc (basically he has tons of "Monster Flees x per cent", which means that the bad guys end up running away while they're poisoned). So my Javazon zips down to RoF, throws the Decoy way ahead down the causeway to the right, and watches it get poofed in one hit... yeah, that's him up there, all right!

One good Plague Javelin and half the hit points of a Level 36 Valkyrie later, I get a look at the boss pack. There are actually two boss Urdars:

Boss #1 : Extra Strong, Extra Fast, Aura Enchanted (Fanaticism), Stone Skin, Immune To Physical.

Boss #2 : Extra Strong, Extra Fast, Spectral Hit, Lightening Enchanted, Fire Enchanted.

I should again take the opportunity to point out how fast these monsters were. Like I said, I have never seen a boss pack that can move like they did -- they had to be bugged or something. They could run much faster than I could teleport halfway across the screen. Yikes!

Well, any one that you walk away from (alive that is), is a good one. Just don't tell my Merc.

:thumbup:

Cheers

Mr. Bill

TempestKhan

10-11-2008, 12:50

Good tell there bill hehe

MrBill

20-12-2008, 20:30

Character name : Hanna_Banana

Build : Orb / Hydra Sorc with weak Enchant backup (mainly for merc AR)

Level : 72 (at the time), U.S. East Hardcore Ladder

Location : Mausoleum (in A1 Hell)

Situation : Decided to take my long-suffering A2 Prayer merc, "Emilio", down to the Mausoleum (as it's one of the few places where my somewhat under-geared Ladder Season V Sorceress can semi-safely MF).

Just to give you an idea of what "under-geared" means here, the Sorceress' best two items are a Smoke Dusk Shroud and an upped Nightsmoke belt; poor old Emilio has to make do with a Shael'ed / Amn'ed Hone Sundan, an upped Heavenly Garb (well, it gives him a few more resist points, I guess) and a Wormskull hat for a little poison damage and life leech.

Well, we're more or less blasting everything in sight with a combination of Hydras (~500 points per, Fire damage) and a Level 25 Frozen Orb (unfortunately still low Cold Mastery, as yet), and we take one step inside an innocent-looking room, and... BLAMMO! 600 or so of my delicate little Sorc's 710 hit points, gone instantly, due to an "Extra Strong, Extra Fast, Lightening Enchanted" Boss Zombie with the Might Aura. Purple happy pill, Teleport backwards real fast, then... BLAMMO! Another 600 points gone! :surprise:

At this point, on the screen, the Boss Zombie was at least half a screen away, so all I can conclude is that there was some kind of weird desync going on, frame rate was good, etc.. Purple pills, do you' stuff!

To make a long story short, he managed to whack off Emilio's head two or three times, before the Hydras finally got him... when I remembered to use the Weaken charges from my Smoke armor.

Moral of the story: Never trust the lying D2 map screen. If they're closer than on the far edge of it, assume that they're so close that you can smell their bad breath, from having eaten "braaiiiins" for 800 years without brushing their teeth. :nervous:

Cheers

Mr. Bill

ZappaFan

12-01-2009, 16:35

MrBill

13-01-2009, 05:32

Not sure if this counts as a "real" NDE as the character involved was only down by about 1/3 of her hit points... but she certainly would have been dead except for... well, read on.

Was doing one of my once per month "keep-alive" runs of my legions of high level HC characters from previous ladder seasons, in this case "Icya_Mueller", a Level 83 (almost) PureFire Sorceress (~7K Fireball, ~17K Meteor plus a Level 12 Orb for backup).

Had started the game with a Blizzard Sorceress who of course is next to useless in the Act 5 Ice Caverns, so with the game session still up I exited the Blizzard Sorc and brought in Icya. Decided to try the Crystalline Passage... my bad idea.

I got the map where the CP Waypoint is at the top left, then there is a little bend in the passageway, so you can't really see what's "beyond the bend" until you walk or Teleport up there. Silly me, I decided to Tele... at which point, when the screen re-drew, I was, uhh, face to face with one sh*tload of Frenzytaurs, those Dark Rogue type chicks with the lances, as well as something that was shooting arrows (I think these were also Dark Rogue types but I didn't stick around to find out). There were at least two bosses in this triple pack, and at least some of the Frenzytaurs were Champions, that much I was able to see.

I heard the Amp Damage curse sound and my trusty merc Emilio, who had foolishly forgotten to turn on his Holy Freeze aura, went down in one shot (apparently to a Frenzytaur, or an arrow, or some combination of both). I Teleported backwards, with a third of my hit points already gone to some kind of attack that I didn't see, only to see 3 or so Champion Frenzytaurs bearing hard down on me. But this time I deliberately did not Teleport back to the Waypoint; I've learned the hard way that this requires rapid hot-keying and a misclick can land you somewhere where you can neither click on the Waypoint (if you constantly get hit and put into FHR you can't activate it) nor throw a usable Town Portal. So I just ran back, and as I clicked on the Waypoint, the last thing I saw was one of these Frenzytaurs, swinging his axe at me.

What's the matter, has he got some kind of axe to grind?

As an aside, I then resurrected Emilio and cleared out the Glacial Trail, which wasn't such an unfriendly area tonight. I seriously considered tracing my steps back in the opposite direction from the GT-CP gateway, but decided not to largely because of (a) only ~930 hit points and (b) possibly, Fire Immune Frenzytaurs. Not sure if they really were FI, but I didn't want to sit and read the description. Neither did Emilio. :whistling:

Cheers

Mr. Bill

Azhul

02-03-2009, 11:40

Nearly lost my level 82 paladin Twice just now in the Durance of Hate. Those DOLLS how do they get so awful?! I have over 22k defense, 2288 life, and max chance to block, but it just doesn't matter. I fear a pack of more than 3... was redlined the first time so quickly if I had lagged or clicked off the window for one instant there's no doubt in my mind I would have been dead. I got that "feeling" like when you suddenly die... my heart jumped. I happened yet again not longer, and I was just about to leave the Durance for good when I came upon the stairs to level 3. Sweet.

Spinns

05-04-2009, 14:09

Decided to make a martyr on sp in hardcore for a new challenge. For ages I was using a naga I found with fools mod then I found a rare mallet with cruel mod and nice max damage mod on it, all it took was a few swings and misses from a heavier hitting weapon with a lot less ar to nearly empty my bulb. I'm now thinking of trying a new sacrifice based build though so it's not all bad

Pugmh

26-04-2009, 15:53

My SP HC fishymanser allmoast die today. I was running in WSK 2 from the waypoint to the stairs to kill baal . In my map these points are very close. So i think ok i will try to get there in a sec . But some snakes-like monsters close my way and hit me really hard . I have only 390 life so ... i hit 12 and esc :crazyeyes: . My life was empty but i was still alive. So i will not run again in front of my minions.....

KillaMike

03-06-2009, 11:07

as new to HC i am gonna tell you my "Death XP" xD

martual artist, lvl 18 fire claw / dragon dual claw est with BoS on, fisher mancer and sorc as well in game. just killed andy in under 30 secs ( was well surpreice, after sorc was screaming half screen away and necro's skellies wanted to relax on floor ) she died with fully charged fire + other charged.

back to present time, killed rade, health never gotten lower then 2/3 of my hp, coming out of lut gholen, looking at beetle. beetle looking back.

asa like, bring it on.

beetle like: i am boss.

asa like: what boss?

beetle like: LE, MS ( mutli shot )

asa like: you already lighting enchanted and multi shot... oh plz, you aint ranger.

1 hit em, and andy was nothing compare to him, because poor assa with 35 res was with feet up.

Nice_Sorcy storry:

River of Flame, after killing nm dia with ez, at lvl 52, she felt comfi to get her HF solo, did see everything, been on time, and praer/insight merc with 35 hp per sec was all nice. some one ( too many on screen ) was cureser, so Amp on my head, i am like, yeah, 50 hp gone, 2 sec wait, np, and knight hitted me... usually they take about 1/4 of my hp.... but that was a) boss b) extra strong.

moral, got cursed, go town get it off asap. dont wait for merc to heal you.

Nice_SorcyBack

nm, lvl 74, about to go to hell.... huge lag.... wave 4 on your head... aura ( fana ) mana burn and Extra strong. lag off... ( after i read it all, i knew something bad gonna happen ) we shall remember all it sayd.

good thing i had ww barb there to help me.... got killed when enter tp with minin.
( he said needed mana to get ww going, and ML should have been okay for that, sooooo wasnt )

there are my storyes.

and near death.... going into cata lvl 2 with sorc lvl 62 and every corner = exitment

too afraid too lose another char to play with her, time for tea and get some bravity :crazyeyes:

Nweb

08-08-2009, 23:41

Lvl90 Light sorc 1,500hp and 900mana es after bo. Max block, 3k defense, max resists.

I don't have a very eventful tale since the whole thing was rather brief but it sure woke me up to the fact that I am NOT invulnerable as my arrogant teleing all over the place may have led me to believe.

Was running the umpteenth hell baal and was slowly walking through the throne room (as I normally do for safety's sake) after teleing through the two upper floors. The place is crawling with dolls and mummies and I slowly wade through them. I use my trusty tele to throw my merc to tank everything while I shuffle back and throw out lightning. Everything is going good and I'm at the arch leading to the area where baal's minions spawn. So almost there.

My merc is busy dealing with a boss pack of dolls that came from baal's direction while I cautiously blast at them. Suddenly 1-2 dolls run up to me from behind even though I was sure I well cleared the path I was walking. I'm thinking 'not good' but thankfully my merc finished with his pack of dolls so I was able to tele-reposition him and myself to deal with the two pals who sneaked up on us. Whew.

Another doll comes running in from the top. I'm getting a little uneasy but deal with it all the same. Everything looks quiet and finally I pass under the same arch leading to baal's area. I'm precisely under the arch so I only see myself from the waist-down and I don't even see my merc. I hear my merc attack and wabam: the 900mana es and about 900 life got in a second. By now I was thinking wtf only to see another 2 dolls running from baal's direction.

Before I could comprehend what to do with them after being knocked to about 30% of my hp, 3 more dolls resurrect (yes, I saw it this time) from their corpses behind me, all about half a screen away from me. By now I realize that I need to bail (pardon the pun) NOW if I want to leave this game without a hoodie.

I hit the keyboard in the general direction of big purples and tele'd once in a direction I thought safest to buy me enough time to save and exit. I pulled that off but while doing it I saw another 2 dolls resurrect and a pack of mummies right around the corner merrily doing their thing (resurrecting). :whistling:

Since then I decided maybe it'd be better for me to start using my SS instead of the upped Visceratuant that gives skills and max block.

O.O

Nweb

08-08-2009, 23:47

Had the closest near-death experience this morning as I've had in a very long time. Was leveling a frenzier (Hell Baal glitcher), and am running three characters on 3 computers, and wasn't paying close enough attention to the glitcher (who was just standing in Hell Baal's throne room gaining exp). He got poisoned and I hadn't noticed it until his health was all the way down to where his life orb looked totally clear. Not sure what his health was exactly because I smashed the keys to make him gulp a purple. This was at 4 AM, had just gotten up and hadn't even had my first cup of coffee yet (was perking). Well I was certainly awake after THAT!

By the way, poison can only kill mercs and minions (not too sure about them). If the poison is strong enough to drain 'all' of a character's hp then the poison will stop affecting you precisely at 1hp. IE. you can never die from the poisoning effect of poison (:P) attacks alone.

ZappaFan

14-08-2009, 20:13

By the way, poison can only kill mercs and minions (not too sure about them). If the poison is strong enough to drain 'all' of a character's hp then the poison will stop affecting you precisely at 1hp. IE. you can never die from the poisoning effect of poison (:P) attacks alone.

Yup! but standing in a corner of Hell Baal's throneroom while all the fighting is going on with only 1 HP isn't a very good idea, either. ;)

Rawness

15-08-2009, 00:24

Yup! but standing in a corner of Hell Baal's throneroom while all the fighting is going on with only 1 HP isn't a very good idea, either. ;)

I dread that thought...

KillaMike

15-08-2009, 01:07

By the way, poison can only kill mercs and minions (not too sure about them). If the poison is strong enough to drain 'all' of a character's hp then the poison will stop affecting you precisely at 1hp. IE. you can never die from the poisoning effect of poison (:P) attacks alone.

and i would like to dissagree, psn can kill you, even at 1hp.

proofe: ask any one with plague zon, they ll kill you with pure psn ( make level 9 char on hc, and see it for your self )

Reelix

25-08-2009, 00:13

Whilst doing NM Pindle runs with a strafazon / valkazon, my usual tactic was to enter the red, run just up the stairs, cast a decoy (Lvl 25), and a valk (Lvl 25) next to it, then stand back, and strafe away happily.

This worked every time, except the one near-death experience:

- Nightmare Difficulty -

After the intro, and into my strafing, I noticed my Decoy, after being hit about a little bit, go *poof* - Which was unusual, as it had (I think) 4k life (I had 1k, lvl 25 Decoy) - Well, I had my valk for backup! (Not having it quite yet click that my decoy had just been insta-gibbed), so I have Pindle run straight past my Valk ignoring it totally, and perform a double charge, the first one hitting me with Amplify Damage! After seeing the amplify, I hastened a quick S&E, and rejoined on 98 life! Whew! Lvl 68 Amazon saved! :D

- Edit -

Until TPPK'd 20 minutes later on ;p

MrBill

26-08-2009, 03:16

Level 87 Toxic Fairy (Max PJ / LF) Ladder Javazon "Sheila_Killyou" was doing one of her endless Tower runs looking for that elusive Um rune... or in fact any half decent rune (I'm not picky at this point, it has been a lousy ladder for my MF'ing).

Now to be fair, she had already run into a couple of entertaining boss Archer packs, including one that had sent me back to the Rogue Encampment to spend a cool $50K resurrecting Haseen's butt. [BTW : He is a FearMerc(R), Face of Horror hat to make 'em run, The Meat Scraper to make 'em bleed. Works doubleplusgood, 99% of the time.] So I was half paying attention, this time... I should have been paying 100%.

Stepped into a room with a LOT of champion archers into it, dropped the Decoy nice and far in (saved my butt!), then heard the two sounds that intelligent D2 players dread the most : Amp and Fanaticism, coming from the boss... one arrow from that "rhymes with witch" and Sheila dropped down to ~250 of her 1255 hit points. :shocked:

Feets, do yo' stuff! :scared:

Anyway, after a purple happy pill, both Haseen and the Valk had wandered in, time enough for me to throw another Decoy and a nice green java... there was nothing wrong with those archers, that 19.5K of poison, couldn't fix. :cool:

Still... I think I'll maybe pay some attention before I get hit, next time...

Cheers

Mr. Bill

MrBill

26-08-2009, 07:14

Seems to be a scary time for all my Hell level characters these days...

My off-Ladder Level 85 Holy Freeze Zealot, "HSG_Krusadist", was on the 60-day countdown, so I decided to take him out for a quick Tunnels run. He is a decked-out Act 2 (at least, Sewers and Tunnels) type, with Rockstopper, GA, HoZ, Gores, LoH, Highlords and a Lawbringer Caduceus.

He has 1100 hit points (I know, lowish for a melee Paladin), 75% block and (this is important), 90-92-90-64 resists in Hell.

So he starts running the Tunnels, and, of course, the combination of Level 25 Holy Freeze, the Sanctuary aura and Decrep from the Lawbringer stick are just owning everything in sight...

Then HSG_Krusadist turns a corner and runs into a LOT of those skeleton mages that throw the little charged bolts at you. He proceeds to start beating on them with his Caddy, then, out of the corner of his little 2-D animated eye, sees a boss skeleton mage... with, Conviction. :shocked:

Now you have to understand that with 90+% resists against Fire, Cold and Lightening, this character is not used to being afraid of elemental attacks. However, this time, he gets hit by five or six of these nasty little charged bolts, and instantly his life ball slivers... not sure how low it got but it couldn't have been much more than 100 points or so, obviously the dumb driver frantically hit the potion buttons and HSG_Krusadist beat a hasty retreat, coming back a second later with Salvation on to give himself 180+% stacked resists, which did the trick.

I am not sure if I am calculating this correctly, but let's say that he got hit by four charged bolts, all at once. That would mean ~250 points of Lightening damage after the Paladin's resists had been reduced from the boss monster's Conviction aura, but assuming that the aura had say reduced HSG_Krusadist's final resistances to the 20-60 range, we are talking about one hell of a lot of Lightening damage that must have been there as the monsters' unmodified, initial attacks. (Couldn't find an exact figure on the Arreat Summit.)

It would have sucked to have lost this character as he is a hold-over from the first Ladder season, and he is also one of my first characters to do Hell Baal and live to tell the tale (admittedly, he had a lot of help from a certain Level 87 Sorceress... you know who you are, if you're out there reading this...)... but that's another story. :grin:

Cheers

Mr. Bill

korialstraz

26-08-2009, 08:05

and i would like to dissagree, psn can kill you, even at 1hp.

If you get hit by psn once, then it won't kill you (exception is rabies which will), but if the poison damage is reapplied when you're at 1 HP it will kill you.

MrBill

05-09-2009, 23:17

New candidate for "stupidest n00b death (almost) in D2" :

How about a Level 77 Barbarian with > 2600 hit points (as well as 75 across the board resists, except for Cold, which is 72) who's down in Flayer Dungeon Level 3, having just whacked the Witch Doctor (nasty little guy, I hate Mana Burn!) and has switched to his pair of +3 to Warcries throwing spears, so that the Find Item thing is a bit more effective. (But no blocking, because no shield, when holding a spear in each hand.)

Happens to be standing in front of one of those annoying little flying bolt traps (you know the ones that go 'click' and then send something looking like a shuriken flying at you) while horking everything in sight...

... then the game lags. And lags. And lags.

When it wakes up, my beleaguered Barbarian is down to ~500 of his original 2600+ hit points, :shocked: due to those little shurikens having whittled him down, bit by bit. A close call, but imagine how embarrassing if it had lagged just a few seconds more... :p

Grrrr

Mr. Bill

BTW : Did you know that two doll pops down there, even with 75% resists and ~15% PDR, is 2000 points of damage? Ouchhh...