EphemeralEverAfter – Self found “no regrets” death poll for the 1 month hardcore league

1. She uses only gear that she finds, crafts, or buys from in-game NPC vendors.
2. She runs solo in the hardcore 1 month league (no dual boxing, no assistance from other characters).
3. All passives choices are permanent, meaning no refunds and no regret orbs will be used.
4. I reserve the right to "farm" specific areas for levels and gear.
5. I reserve the right to assess a situation and not fight a specific battle (or finish up a particularly nasty map, or run a particular corrupted area), if the odds of survival look bleak. Also, logging out is an option, if overwhelmed.

About rule 5, I have no logout macro, slow reflexes, and fumbly fingers, so you can weigh the worth of the option to logout for trying to keep EEA alive. But, I expect running away from battles to rarely occur, as overcoming challenges is what makes the game fun to play.

Make a post containing your guess with the following details:

1. Character level at death (level 1 to 100)
2. Difficulty level and zone in the game in which she dies (ie: Cruel docks, Level 68 map, ...)
3. Act (mini-)boss or enemy type to deliver the killing blow (ie: Merveil, rogue exile, corrupted area boss, magic voidbearer pack, ...)

I'll add each guess into the pool of guesses made (see post 2 below for that information).

To help for making guesses, I play solo, mostly in one kind of hardcore league or another, and I don't trade or engage in RMT. I've not yet defeated Dominus on merciless difficulty, nor have I taken a character beyond level 70 maps.

I'll make posts about how the death race is going, as EEA makes progress. When she dies, the death race ends, I'll post about the details in this thread, and I'll contact the winner to transfer the best available currency items to the winner.

My computer is too slow for streaming. I'll post a kind of running journal for EEA in this thread, instead of doing video.

While leveling through normal and cruel difficulty, EEA will be a hybrid life / energy shield summoner who relies mostly on fire trap, raging skulls and zombies. But, the longer term plan is to shift to zombies / spectres. I'm most likely to take the Chaos Inoculation passive for her in Act 1 or Act 2 of Merciless difficulty (if she survives long enough for that).

As EEA levels up, her passives will be posted along with other information about her progress.

Chest slot: spectres
Head slot: zombies
Boots or gloves slot: reduced mana – clarity – discipline – lightning warp
Boots or gloves slot: cast when damage taken (high level) – immortal call – Vaal skill – Vaal skill
Weapon: flesh offering – convocation – curse
Shield: cast when damage taken (low level) – enduring cry – frost wall

Switch weapon: desecrate – devouring totem – bone offering
Switch shield: purity auras

Unset ring – arctic armour

Daily missions for the Forsaken Masters will hopefully prove useful to fill in some gaps on gems that can't be acquired from quest rewards.

Everybody gets only one guess and nobody can make the same guess as somebody else who guessed already.


Make a post containing your guess with the following details:

1. Character level at death (level 1 to 100)
2. Difficulty level and zone in the game in which she dies (ie: Cruel docks, Level 68 map, ...)
3. Act (mini-)boss or enemy type to deliver the killing blow (ie: Merveil, rogue exile, corrupted area boss, voidbearer, ...)

I'll treat a death in a corrupted area as a death in the zone from which it was entered, for the purposes of determining in what zone the death occurred.

Normal Difficulty

Techercizer - lvl 32, Warehouse Sewers, leaper


Cruel Difficulty

Perq - lvl ?? Upper Barracks, Brutus

EphemeralEverAfter died at level 48 in City of Sarn, most likely to Perpetus.

Two guesses are close. But, Chundadragon has the edge of being more specific and quite close in naming the location, as well as being very close in level. Chundadragon is the winner of this death poll.

Chundadragon - lvl 45-ish, Sewers, ???
mruuh - lvl 50-ish, ???, instance server glitch, followed by a lag spike and a disconnect
morbo - lvl ???, Upper Sceptre of God, Dominus


Merciless Difficulty

blubbber - lvl 55, Tidal Island, Hailrake
Perq - lvl 55, Upper Prison, Brutus
ventiman - lvl ???, act2, chaos bond drop bears


Maps

Waves_blade - lvl 70ish, lvl 66-68 maps to voidspawn beyond boss spawn