How you died in HC

Thought it would be interesting to share our experiences with HC and how we died.

My first char I got to Maelstrom of Chaos: Summons died on a ledge map and a huge mob of cold snap casters nuked me and my insufficient amount of cold res.

Just today: 1 hit KO'd by Vaal on ruthless after taking too long to get out of the way of his fire slam attack. With 2,8k es I was annoyed and surprised, but realised I only had 15% fire res, so I guess I deserved it.

At level 50, its a bit of a bummer, but I won't reroll the char until I at least hit end game, as I haven't played with maps yet.

What's your best HC death story?


Or any death if you feel the inclination.

The first and only time I have played hard core I made it until I had to fight Brutis in normal. I know I am a hc noob but I think I did really good. I was playing a dual claw shadow and I probably just needed better claws and armor.

My HC deaths are as frequent as they are enlightening.

- running around a corner into the middle of several explosive spawn
- recently taking on Kraityn with a pure evasion build, little health, little DPS, and no summons/totems for distraction ...oops? ;)
- flicker.. flicker.. flickerflickerflickerfli.. doh.
- random losses of focus

Surprisingly, I haven't been killed yet by a charging Rhoa.. nearly though. They hurt. A lot.

Can't help but shrug, learn, and re-roll.

Last time I lost a bow ranger to Alira in normal, corpse explosions got me.

That over-sized vacuum cleaner has sucked the life from many an Exile :'(

I had 2 deaths to Vaal in the recent 1-week HC event:

* "Watch for falling rocks" - L55 merciless. Got hit twice by rocks in close succession.

* "off-screen lazors" - L47 ruthless. Zapped to death while I was distracted by re-opening a town portal.

Also had a stupid death to a pack of rare hellion dogs supported by lightning spark casting goatmen in cruel prisoner's gate.

Other HC deaths:

"don't let your character get surrounded" - had a couple of careless early deaths in 3 hour HC events to ice breath/sea monster swarms in norm submerged passage. Some close calls with rhoas in mud flats too, but thankfully no deaths.

"exsanguination" - puncture sucks! It's run and bleed to death or stand still and get swarmed. Ran into a nasty pack of (naturally fast) dogs in cruel rocky climb with the haste aura. Game over LOL.

Here's one I remembered randomly:

Summoner on ruthless cliff top. Got too close to a rare fire shaman with fire shield up, my zombies attacked it, and got nuked by the resulting explosion. Twas an interesting day that one.

2 days ago got a witch to level 61, my first char to reach that level in hardcore, also found 3 maps while playing on the merciless difficulty.

I was kinda excited to try the maps endgame content. so I proceeded to engage merciless vaal.

While fighting him the European server crashed. 20 minutes later I was finally able to log in again only to find that my character was dead.
Had a rage-quit moment, haven't touched the game since.

lets see

freeze locked pretty early by a added cold dmg/increased crit chance rare
killed by kraityn
killed by puncture
killed by kraityn
killed by freeze lock
killed by oak
killed by stun lock on a high lvl CI build
killed by puncture

not particularly interesting but plenty of them

My first death happened in a dungeon where i ran into a small room full of Spark spammer skeletons and a necromancer...


I guess i don't even need to say more than that :P