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Hardcore players how often do you die

ipatrishkov · 2026-03-29T00:55:19-07:00

Hi, So yesterday my lvl 91 necro was one shot by a lvl5 herald in a players five game, or at least I assume that happened. Because it was 3 am and I didn’t h…

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HCrob `13`

4 months ago (pre-Resurrected)

Since the release of RotW, 0 deaths. Almost have a fully-geared

Frenzy barb. Thorn heralds are a nightmare to even shake hands with.

atari `1588`

4 months ago (pre-Resurrected)

I very rarely lose a character. On average maybe once every nine months. Most of the time it’s a Sorc and usually when I’ve been distracted and made several mistakes.
I try to counteract this as much as possible by not playing when I’m too tired, mostly farming areas where there isn’t excessive danger and by equipping them relatively safely. For example with

Thundergod's Vigor and

Stormshield instead of

Arachnid Mesh and Spirit.
So even if I panic and click the wrong buttons, I often still have enough time to compose myself, drink a full rev potion and retreat to a safe spot.

ipatrishkov `154`

4 months ago (pre-Resurrected)

so reading through advice, I am kinda doing all of that already. But it seems my peeps die more often than others, so I am probably less carefull. I am also less experienced, because I only started grinding Diablo 2 a lot since last year and before that probably have a few hundred hours at most

In other words, its a skill issue for me . haha

BigD `511`

4 months ago (pre-Resurrected)

HCrob wrote: 4 months ago
Since the release of RotW, 0 deaths. Almost have a fully-geared
Frenzy barb. Thorn heralds are a nightmare to even shake hands with.

Life Tap

Wand is mandatory for dealing with those fuks

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Baltar `8`

4 months ago (pre-Resurrected)

1 Death since the beginning of December (when I bought D2R). L81 Sorc that I got complacent with in Chaos. I have a new Sorc that just hit 90, so I've mostly learned that lesson =)

I do remember long time back the biggest reason for Death was surely lag. While DCs do still happen occasionally, they resolve considerably faster than they used to. Have yet to lose a toon to DC <crosses fingers>

knittler `21`

4 months ago (pre-Resurrected)

Died once, level 27 sorc on normal Diablo to his lightning attack. Was not prepared for how much damage it did. It happened when I first started playing d2r with my childhood friend some odd years ago and I think is just a consequence of refamiliarizing.

Otherwise thats it, D2 is a very cozy HC experience in my opinion. It isn't that rippy. Just respect the couple enemy types that can chunk you, and now with heralds respect their potential damage output and kite accordingly.