Diablo 3 Hardcore Inferno cleared

Posted 19 June 2012 by Xanth

Last night (or is it this morning) the duo of Kripp/Krippi managed to take down DiabloWikiInferno Diablo. I was able to watch a bit of their stream on Izzy and while it may have been a little boring, they clearly have some good strategies for staying alive, and some I expect us to mimic in the future.

On a side note Bashiok had to spoil the news with this cryptic post on twitter:


People think that was the first HC Inferno clear? Weird. Webcams r 2 legit 2 quit. hay HAY

If it wasn’t the first, it was the first the world has seen! Congratulations guys!

Update: Bashiok corrected himself and confirmed that this was the world’s first HC Inferno Diablo kill:

My apologies Kripp and Krippi, looks like you were 1st HC Inferno clear. (my spreadsheet deciphering isn’t what it used to be) Congrats!

Update #2: Click through for video of the 23 minute final Diablo battle.

Tagged As: | Categories: Bashiok, Diablo 3, Game Features, Hardcore, Inferno, Twitter
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60 Opinions have been expressed on “Diablo 3 Hardcore Inferno cleared”
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  • Now we wait for someone to clear HC inferno…

  • Wow, great work.

  • Yay – who cares?! :roll:

  • Yeah, congratulations to both. There were several close calls during the fight with Diablo, but both made it through to the end.

  • This is an achievement but it is not a solo clear. That would have been a lot more impressive.

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    Trollingham
    June 19, 2012 at 13:50

    To be honset I find it hard to belive this is the first HC clear of Diablo, given the game has been out for over 2 months now, more than likely that was achieved by some crew within the first two weeks, just most people do not care for online fame and bragging rights so do not care if no one but themself knows the fact.

    But two people doing it is impressive as apposed to the full 4 man crew with ranged and tanks buffing and healing each other etc.

    To be honest Blizzard should announce such landmark occassion in the news announcements on official forum, no need to mention players (unless they contact prior and player agrees to let community know who they are) but to mention the achivement of a feat most players are aspiring to can be good, will spur people on more knowing it can infact be done and the game is not too impossibly hard lool. Then again a handful will rage quit the game since they did not achive it first and I say good riddance to such spoiled children who did not get what they wanted like they always accustomed to.

    • Two weeks? Seriously?

      Oh, I noticed your nickname ^^

    • 2 months ? r u kidding me ? – it’s 1 month and 4 days…

    • Not sure why I’m bothering replying to “Trollingham.”

      First of all, the game has hardly been out for over two months. It came out five weeks ago today. Not sure what calendar system you use but that’s one and 1/4 months.

      Secondly, to insinuate that some crew probably did this in the first two weeks is absolutely absurd. These guys are ridiculously dedicated to the game, having likely put in 12+ hours every days since the game came out. While Softcore Inferno was likely taken down in your suggested timeframe, that’s only because you can die zillions of times en route to Inferno completion, and I can 100% assure you that anyone who has cleared Inferno in Softcore HAS died zillions of times, particularly those who did it ~three weeks ago. And because you can die repeatedly, you can get by with gear that wouldn’t get you out of Inferno Act 1 in HC.

      I’m inclined to believe that you A) don’t play HC and B) have never played beyond act 1 in Inferno. Blizzard is rebalancing acts 2-4 for a reason. The enemies in acts 2-4 inferno will kill you in seconds regardless of how good your gear is. And the reason it took these guys five weeks is that they spent a ton of time farming goblins/trolling the AH for gear. ANd not just good or great gear, but top tier, AMAZING gear. Acts 2-4 Infernoare only possible with the godliest of gear, and even then, you need to be extremely cautious and extremely lucky. Kungen had pretty much the best gear available for his HC barb and watch how that worked out for him: (http://www.twitch.tv/kungentv/b/321324964). Kripp also had a death in a3, and his gear was pretty much the best avialble, too: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZmxiP_YsVk).

      If this really wasn’t the first Inferno HC completion, then the only other people I can see having done it were some savants in Asia. I’m skeptical as there has been zero announce about it.

      • you literally answered your own question within the first sentence

        great job!

    • if you’re not even knowledgeable enough to know how long the game has been out then why should we listen to anything else you have to say

  • Even if they did skip stuff to clear HC diablo is no joke. It’s not like skipping through you can just faceroll him. I will admit he is easier than the champs in act4 but he is still hard as all get out.

    • Yes, skipping through zones or not, this is truly an impressive feat. My hats are off to these two for killing Diablo in inferno on Hardcore.

      …and @trollingham – the game has only been out for a month (5/15/12), not two.

  • I wonder what Bashiok was thinking with “People think that was the first HC Inferno clear? Weird. Webcams r 2 legit 2 quit. hay HAY”.

    So it is weird for us to think that after 5 weeks the endboss on the highest difficulty was slain?
    Does he mean that he expected it to happen much earlier than 5 weeks? That was certainly not their expectation before release.

    • I saw many predicting it would happen within two weeks.

      • I have seen that aswell, but that was from players who up till then had only seen the super easy beta content.

        I would not have expected a Blizzard representative to make such a statement.

    • He was saying that HC Inferno had been defeated by the time these two people did it. That’s all.

      The webcam comment was to say that a video proves it happened, not that it was first.

      • Yes, so within 5 weeks the game was beaten on the highest difficulty. And this does not surprise him.
        I find that questionable, because before the release he did not expect this would happen within 5 months.

        Edit: It is okay for him to have had different expectations. I don’t mind that at all.
        But then I do not think it is a smart move to twitter something like that, feigning surprise that people think this is news.

  • Impressive, considering I died probably 347.696 times already and my highest HC character is lvl 12 at the moment , altough I did kill the mighty Skelton King : ))).

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