Sincere condolences

[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

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.

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!!!

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

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 ).
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)

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.)



Cheers

Mr. Bill