How did YOU die in hardcore?

67 Regular Week Race - Vaal Smash 2days 20hrs into race.
85 Onslaught - MFing maps, thought I could tank poison alcs with -60 chaos. Turns out I couldn't.
80 Nemesis - Had MF rings on by accident, died to Temple map Piety, stunlocked by storm. Painful. Refuse to alt f4.
60something Onslaught - CI Clawer, tanking packs at docks, emt a mega pack that was a bit too much to leech through.
Late40s Onslaught - CI clawer facetank Brutus, no armour, thought I could leech through it (o.O)
73 HC - Suicide to play with IRL friends after week race
Lvl 53 Regular Week Race - Die to cruel Piety.
LVl 79 HC - Friend comes in room, look away, look back "Resseruct" died to skeles at ledge.

Lost lvl 69 ST Scion to frenzied multi-projectile voidbearer. Pretty classic. I only had 45% fire res and relied on my instant flasks. Too bad I was pretty tired when playing and didn't react fast enough :(

My first HC character died in Nemesis, lvl 55 witch. Me and my friend didn't dare to face cruel Kole and decided to run away from him (bad idea). We didn't manage to shake him off and continued to run in to more monsters. On my side I managed to run past them, but got stuck to them on server side. I had /oos'd the whole running EXCEPT at that time... So my squishy witch got wasted to softcore.

My second char tanked the whole fight without a problem. And I learned something.

Died in cave of anger against an exploding spawn. Explosion gfx caused my fps to drop to zero for a bit. I died to two more exploding spawns explode chain killing me/my fps.

I was farming merciless Ledge, all the monsters stopped moving and i got an unexpected disconnection a few seconds later. When I logged back in my ranger was in Standart.

Died 2 Times

I only play HC

lvl 76 in a 72 Mine map. Surrounded by monsters next to a wall --> nowhere to run ... no logout reflexes yet as that was my first character.
lvl 87 in a 74 Maze map. 30 meters away from Vaal almost offscreaning him --> using attack on rightclick and did not reposition myself. --> Stood actually infront of him --> RIP 13k HP 16k dps RoA
lvl 95+ to a reflect pack in any map --> This death has not yet happened, but it will!

my latest death lvl 36 or 37 @ My first time @ normal Dominus, didn't read what he can do and how hard he hits.. First and second phase easy as fk.. then third phase.. stand in blood rain and let him leap on you -> death..

lvl 65 - was just feeling like my build came together, finally had enough regen to run bloodrage, turned it on and died to increased physical storm herald.

Lvl 65 - opened door to a room with a lot of mobs and then backed away, server decided I had run into the room. Saw I was slowly dying so tried for the first time ever to alt f4. Hit the windows key instead and went to desktop. I actually hadn't realised I hit the windows key, I thought alt f4 had worked! Then I noticed POE was still running.

Lvl 66 - Tweaked my build a bit nd was absolutely raping with loads of hp/regen/overcapped resists, was running maps at lvl 64 without issue. The map boss for the gardens popped up and I decided to face tank him whilst shifting the position I was sitting in. Died in two hits.

Lvl 50ish - Remade char and was ripping it up, had just found 5 uniques in a couple hours. Equipped one, some helmet, popped bloodrage, multistrike flickerstrike into room, desynched a bit, took a load of damage, ran out of the room to regen and watched myself slowly die as the helm stops regen when on low life.

Lvl 40 - leap slammed into a load of mobs, got cursed and took a load of damage so tried to run away but somehow managed to click on a chest. Died while opening it lol.

All in nemesis.

lvl 66 burning discharge
1shoot by lmp shock arrow crit--> 3 stack shock..
i was near a freakin wall :/

lvl 2 templar permafroze by medicine quest boss (was not a big deal xD)

Most of my lvl >70-80 characters (quite a few, lost count, most of them been deleted) have died to epic desyncs or FPS drop/spikes. There are two exceptions to this:

1) Just before switching to CI/Vaal Pact (OB) from life in a discharger I screwed up with a reflect pack in a map (most dangerous moment for the build back then, whoever played the char knows).

2) Stupid team mates pulled a bunch load of blue arc/lightning thorns casters along their (was a map with "more magic monsters" and pack size if I recall right) melee mates (the ones that spawn in barracks act 3) and I melted in a fraction of a second after entering the Overgrown Ruin boss room (almost had the same crap in cemetery boss room once).

Characters in the 60-70 range, same crap, most of my deaths have been due to technical issues, but there are a few exceptions. In Nemesis specially I ripped to the new mods twice:

1) Early in the league when didn't know yet how CB worked, in Cruel Marketplace was punctured AND stacked a few CB dots, I didn't have remove bleed flask yet (and was pretty much out of charges quite fast), didn't manage to log off in time.

2) Again, early in the league, Stom Herald undying in City of Sarn while I was farming, got shock stack while surrounded by a lot of the white undying "monkeys". Ripped before being able to log off.

Hadn't have problems any more with these (if necessary I just skip them, specially Storm Herald which is quite dangerous as you can get stacks quite fast and melt in a fraction of a second), but can see some of these being very dangerous at high lvl maps (playing rather casually so haven't got there yet).

Below lvl 60 I have lost few characters outside races, but most of them have been because rushing content and/or getting too cocky (the ultimate HC killer after desync). I did have the typical imbecile loss: "writing in chat while my character died" back in OB when there was a bug where rare mobs would hit way harder than they should after a patch (not as extreme as the carrion queen bug, but similar). One I remember quite well was in a week race, 2nd day or so, was playing solo and I entered western forest a bit under levelled, with terrible chaos res, and got owned by a bunch of poison arrows very fast.


After a while you get used to bullshit deaths (in endgame be careful with certain bosses, specially elemental dmg can wreck your character if you are not prepared for it), but I will never get used to desync deaths even in races sucks, I stopped playing Descent when first implemented cause it was 'desync city' for me). But I find playing SC very dull honestly, it's hard enough for me to keep the grinding interest in HC already, but sometimes when playing casually I wonder if I should be playing any SC league and would enjoy it more. Oh well, who knows, maybe some day.