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I get home and begin one of my typical evening Act 1 MP1 runs on my trusty ol’ support barb. 4 of us are rocking through the run at a brisk pace when the DH of the group goes to town and starts idling. No problem I think to myself, the other 2 players are mowing down monsters left right and center so we don’t even break stride. With the run nearing its end one of the non idle players leaves the game leaving myself and a lawnmower of a witch doctor to face the third hall and the man himself, the Butcher. Approaching the Chamber of suffering we have to deal with the pesky AFK DH and wait for the countdown before we can dance with the meat-head.

Well the chamber of suffering loads and all I see down there is myself… The Lawnmower apologizes for hitting no and wishes me luck on my tango in the fryer before respectfully leaving the game. My first thought is, well this is going to take a while, no problem as Blizzard removed enrage timers. I start slowly chipping away at the butcher all the time wishing the DH would get back so he can leave. A few minutes pass and low and behold ALL the grates on the floor light up….

Well fuck me me….

I’m struck with horror as I realize they only removed enrage timers from champion packs, not act bosses. Now being forced to constantly stand in fire (oh how disappointed my old wow raid leader would be) I see my health slowly drop and there’s absolutely nothing I can do to stop it.

fuck me….

I start freaking out, my adrenaline starts going, I don’t really see how I can survive this fight now. Thoughts of previous deaths start to surface, only instead of this untimely demise coming unexpectedly, it will be long, drawn out and fully expected. I look at the butcher at 1/3 health, I look at the DH portrait, I begin cursing the DH for going AFK.

fuck me…

Well, if he’s taking me down, he’s taking me down with a fight. Focusing on the battle at hand I try and figure out how I could possibly survive this while full of adrenaline at this point and likely shaking as well. 2 healing wells, I’m sure they respawn, how long does that take? I couldn’t possibly survive their alternating cooldowns can I? Revenge? Charge? There’s a little bit of life leech. Potions? That’s a little more time. Iron Impact to reduce damage? Even more time. Oh look, there's plate not on fire for a few seconds! I try pouring on as much damage as I can while hitting revenge, leap attack and charge every instant they come off cooldown while also trying to dance on cold plates I see. I pop one healing well while frantically trying to sustain my health. Can I do this? I pop the second healing well, no healing wells left. I keep fighting for my life, I was sure I was going to die here, damn this fire! I start getting low on health and start thinking about the re-roll I’m about to do. The first healing well comes off cooldown! Can I do this? The butcher has maybe 1/8th of his health left and I’ve survived the healing well cooldowns. I’m literally fighting for my barbarian’s life now and doing everything I can to save it.

He collapses in a pile of battered flesh…

I stopped and just stared at the screen. I had to get up and pace the room. Yup, I was definitely shaking at that point. From across the room I look at my screen and see that DH portrait in the corner, fuck that guy… It took a few more minutes to calm down and collect myself, the most intense experience I’ve ever had playing Diablo 3 had just come to an end, but I survived it. Sorry Death, but I know you’ll be back some other day…

-This is why I play Hardcore

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And who cares of a bot gets PL100 first? It doesn't effect you and eventually if it is a bot it will get banned.

I do, its like winning the Tour de France while being doped. Nobody will remember the 2nd place winner years later, although he is now officially the winner...

Do you remember who was #1 in the 3rd D2 ladder season? Probably not. Years later no one will remember who was first in pLvls either, unless some website keeps that data recorded for us, of course..... but that's not exactly the same thing as remembering on your own who got the world first Illidan kill 5 years later, now is it?

Depends entirely on who it is and what it is. I'll always remember Krip being the first and only person to kill HC Inferno Diablo pre patch just like I'll always remember RussBarb being the first Vanilla D2 character to ever hit 99.

Yup that's more or less true

Added single res for monks

Nope, I'll add those after 1.04 hits.

One was found and sold today for $1000, I'm not sure if the guy is crafting them for people or just plans on milking the AH. And yes, on US

Buffs are a cool idea, guaranteed modifiers or ilevels are not

No it's just a feat of strength, I don't think difficulty matters

Free to anyone who wants to experience it and Kill Jay Wilson (along with the achievement). I'll bring you in after my MF run (which should be done in 20 mins or so). Also to note, don't leave tristam and go into the weeping Hollow, there's a horde, fast arcane enchanted Vortex pack at the entrance.

Add me at BazDefunct#1607, first 3 people will be invited once my run is done

I meant what I said. Playing a barb is all about having a large enough EHP pool that revenge will replenish more life than the damage you take. Dodged attacks do not have a chance to proc revenge, and therefore anything that is dodged doesn't matter at all. Sure having 20% dodge is better than having 10% everything else being equal, but there is no point to sacrifice anything in order to get more dodge.

Yea, He's totally right! revenge is like, permanently attached to a barb's set of skills, we can't "not" use this skill, in fact barbs without revenge die the instant they load into a game...

With the ilevel requirements for each. I'm specifically wondering just how high stats can get on ilevel 60, 61 and 62 items.

Thanks!

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What formula are using you using to calculate the mitigation and effective health values? I made a sheet and my EHP is consistently about 10% higher than the values from yours.

thanks!

EHP: = Life / ((1 - DR from Armor) × (1 - DR from Resistance) × (1 - 0.30 if monk or barbarian) × (1 - DR from other source))

EHP: = Life × ((1 + Armor / (50 × Monster Level)) × (1 + Resistance / (5 × Monster Level)))

Yea I'm basically using the same formula (just in a different format, I confirmed using your exact same formula and it's coming out to the same) but it's still off. I wasn't calculating the 30% reduction for a barb or monk but it's still off. Your sheet is coming up with the correct HP pool and DR %'s, but the EHP numbers are still coming out differently. Yours were about 10% higher than mine before, sorry, now when I add in the 30% DR mine are about 10% higher than yours, that's with and without the dodge added.

What formula are using you using to calculate the mitigation and effective health values? I made a sheet and my EHP is consistently about 10% higher than the values from yours.

thanks!

Me and a few buddies killed Hell Diablo in HC on Monday (May 21st), now we're farming gear in Inferno..