I remember when players on Hardcore who were hit with a DOT skill in the Scorched Chapel (like Rend, for example) and would leave the Scorched Chapel with the DOT still active, would die outside of the PVP arena and be permanently dead.
The very first week in Inferno when it was possible to be a 0 vit Wizard and rely purely on Energy armor>Force armor and life regen. Man I was sad when they broke that!
If you mean the big black tornado, that's because he's the smoke monster from LOST.
http://www.diablowiki.net/Black_Rock_Ledger
Remember when threads like:
2 Million gold budget for a barbarian to farm mp7-10 efficiently.
...were posted everyday.
Bad old times... nostalgia.
Yea man this game is sooo buggy
Now with RoS and Loot 2.0 ist bearable, but still nowhere near D2 and D1 sadly.