Immortalize Your Mortal Dead

[Valeli]

I don't think we have too many people playing HC here yet, but I died the other night and since I'm all self-centered I felt like putting a thread of this sort up. I'm going to pretty much copy the suggested rules ZappaFan had in his thread/section for this over on the D3 forum (with some minor changes), since I feel they're reasonable.

RIP: Our Fallen Friends

HC Death Certificate:
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Character name: Name Here
Character level: clvl Here
Character class: class here
Character build: physical ranger, cold crit witch, etc.
Game difficulty: Normal-Cruel-Merciless
Act/Area: Act 1, Cavern of Wrath, etc.

Cause of demise: Short description goes here.
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RULES FOR POSTING IN THIS THREAD:

1. Please use the above Death Certificate format. Just highlight the above text, ctrl+c to copy, and then ctrl+v to paste into your new post.

2. NO REPLYING TO THREADS! This is not a discussion thread.

3. Minimum character level is THIRTY (30). Yes, this is a fairly arbitrary number. I just don't want the thread getting spammed with low level deaths. By the time you're thirty you should be closing in on the end of normal, and have developed at least some rapport with your character.

In his thread ZappaFan said the mod would PK any posts of lower leveled characters. I'd say that too, but I'm not a mod and can't do it. Just play along though.

4. Do not post here to discuss these rules. PM me if you feel one of the rules is genuinely awful.

5. Do not use your Short Description as a soapbox. Describe how you died.

This thread may be periodically pruned, with the oldest entries deleted. (Last part left in from ZappaFan's rules. I don't think we'd get so many posts in this thread that would be necessary but.. just in case, I'll leave this in).

[Valeli]

HC Death Certificate:
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Character name: Miyanna
Character level: Level 56
Character class: Witch
Character build: Freeze Pulse/Ice Spear
Game difficulty: Cruel
Act/Area: Act 3, Markets

Cause of demise: Monkeys once again proved my greatest nemesis in PoE. I had just specced into CI, and ran into a large pack of monkeys along with some other stuff. There weren't any uniques or anything hard with them, just a ton of them. And they puncture. I didn't realize they punctured until it was too late, so I saw my ES dropping, ran to get away from whatever was killing me that I couldn't see, and only saw my ES start to drop faster. It bottomed out quite quickly.

Lessons learned: CI is pretty rough if you don't have a way to protect yourself from stuns. More importantly, puncture is /very/ rough when you can't pop a potion to counter it. Most importantly, you should hate every monkey that you see: from chimpan-a to chimpanzee.
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[DickScotchfist]

HC Death Certificate:
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Character name: HaltHammurTime
Character level: 47
Character class: Templar
Character build: Lightning Strike/Molten Shell
Game difficulty: Cruel
Act/Area: Act1/Shipgraveyard (came back for quest)

Cause of demise: Rhoa ambush + trapped in corner

Lesson Learned: Even if you've outgeared/outleveled the content, never let your guard down, and you should always play with your full attention on the game.
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[fBSunny]

HC Death Certificate:
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Character name: fB_SecondTrySMASH
Character level: Level 57
Character class: Marauder
Character build: Glacial Hammer/Ground Slam
Game difficulty: Merciless
Act/Area: Act 1, Ledge

Cause of demise: Started lagging a bit that night, but successfully cleared the ledge 5+ times without any scary moments. Ran up toward a pack of archers with allies deal substantial extra damage. Game basically froze, after 2-3s of not being able to interact I alt-f4'ed. Logged back in and was dead.

Lesson learned: Don't play on your highest level character if you have been lagging.
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[magicrectangle]

HC Death Certificate:
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Character name: ZoundsCleave
Character level: 36
Character class: Duelist
Character build: Elemental Cleave
Game difficulty: Normal
Act/Area: Docks


Cause of demise: Unique pack of voidbearers. Started missing/rubberbanding, tried to leap slam out, but didn't work (leapt in place instead)
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[tyren]

HC Death Certificate:
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Character name: FolkoelDefender
Character level: 59
Character class: Marauder
Character build: Chain-LA Shocker
Game difficulty: Merciless
Act/Area: Loadscreen/Fellshrine

Cause of demise: Not being in control of character due to loadscreen, thus arrowed to death by an archer while loading into the area. Wish they'd fix this bull****, grace period is not nearly long enough with these long loadtimes. RIP.
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[magicrectangle]

Yeah I don't see why load invuln can't last forever, and just go away when you move or take any action.

[magicrectangle]

HC Death Certificate:
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Character name: ZoundsCake
Character level: 65
Character class: Marauder
Character build: Ethereal Knives
Game difficulty: Merciless
Act/Area: Catacombs




Cause of demise: Room full of frost mages. I got frozen, and managed to spam down every flask except for the one with removes frozen on it. That will teach me to have different flask combinations on my different characters. :(
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