Remember the Purists?

[Katharsis]

Remember those hard core Diablo players who would play a character only until he died? I started a new hunter recently and was running a perfect game to level 21 when I got DC'd during a fight and logged back in at the graveyard. *sigh*
What is your record for immortality?

[Ruodhaid]

i remeber to have read a warrior made it to 80 whitout dieing, he didet get any help and just killed green mobs / did greed quests.

my personal record was on my warlock died first time in stv at 32

[Boogieman]

Thats funny that you died the first time in a dc i did a hunter that died the first time in a dc at 27

[Maxion]

I used to try keeping track of stuff like this, but gave up.

[Starbuck_Jones]

Usealy somewhere after level 60 I will end up hitting my "7" key instead of the = key. = is my follow keystroke and 7 is my flying mount. Thus resulting in a few deaths here or there from falling out of the sky.

[lans83]

Usealy somewhere after level 60 I will end up hitting my "7" key instead of the = key. = is my follow keystroke and 7 is my flying mount. Thus resulting in a few deaths here or there from falling out of the sky.


This is why my mount key is not next to any of my action/attack keys. I actually have to move my hand to the left side of my keyboard to mount/dismount.

I can't even remember my first death playing any toon really. Not even first wipe while boxing. Guess the events just weren't that memorable for me :/ oh well. Maybe this should be added into those 'Statistics' that Blizzard put into the Achievement system, but then again, this still isn't 100% accurate on everything.

[Maxion]

when i box, i have my mount keys as alt-u and alt-i, makes sure i don't accidentally hit them :)

[HPAVC]

Hardcore mode would be a cool for leveling if it had a benefit, but after that I am not sure.

But you would need a way of 'hardcore without help'. Obviously having a level 45 in Strat with an 80 is not very 'hardcore' ... 45 in strat with other 45s is hardcore.

[Volch0k]

Already done: http://www.wow.com/2009/06/04/achieved-level-1-to-80-with-no-deaths/

Never tried this myself th

[yaki]

Most of my RAF teams cleared at least 60 without wiping...sometimes one or two would die, if I was dealing with a more difficult class to keep alive. And certainly the ones I granted to 60 had no deaths.

[thinus]

Obviously having a level 45 in Strat with an 80 is not very 'hardcore' ... 45 in strat with other 45s is hardcore.

Reaching 80 by leveling through BGs and not dying is hardcore.

[Multibocks]

LOL. Now that.... that would be a sick individual that tried that.

[Shodokan]

I leveled a druid to 80 with no deaths and no help.

[Lokked]

Pre-BC, Pre-Soul Link nerf, Pre-Death Ray nerf, Pre-Fear nerf, I leveled a warlock (my 3rd) to 60 on a PvP server with no deaths. Good ole' Succubus - Death Ray + Fear + DoT. I really do miss those days.

[yaki]

Pre-BC, Pre-Soul Link nerf, Pre-Death Ray nerf, Pre-Fear nerf, I leveled a warlock (my 3rd) to 60 on a PvP server with no deaths. Good ole' Succubus - Death Ray + Fear + DoT. I really do miss those days.

Do it pre-Death Coil and we can talk.

[Maxion]

Do it pre-Death Coil and we can talk.

Actually that was pre-death coil. he said death ray.

[yaki]

Actually that was pre-death coil. he said death ray.

I just assumed he was doing something really odd with the Gnomish Death Ray. It used to have some amusing moments.

Damn, that'll teach me to assume people know what they're saying! ;)

[lans83]

Damn, that'll teach me to assume people know what they're saying! ;)


"Assumption is the mother of all fuckups."

Words to live by :D

Nah, wish I could pull something like this off. Would be easier to pull off with your own team rather than soloing all the way.

[yaki]

"Assumption is the mother of all fuckups."

Yeah, assuming the other person is using birth control...:eek::eek:

[Naysayer]

I only play hc on d2, but in WoW I have to be able to pvp so that wouldn't work with the way BG's are set up.

[Maxion]

I just assumed he was doing something really odd with the Gnomish Death Ray. It used to have some amusing moments.

Damn, that'll teach me to assume people know what they're saying! ;)

I believe he was indeed talking about the gnomish death ray.

[Lokked]

Gnomish Death Ray used to be able to Double Hit and Crit on both hits for upwards of 3-4k total, which at the time was a retarded amount of HP (lvl 60 w/greens had maybe 1.6k-2k hp?).

The period I level that warlock was between the time of the Death Coil Buff (which added the Horrify effect and reduced reuse to 2min) and the Gnomish Death Ray nerf (which lowered damage and eliminated the chance of a double hit).

Yes, pre-Death Coil buffs this would have been a different story. There were a lot of other problems with CC at that time which made Warlocks a free HK for any class in the early days of WoW.

Anyways....

[Maxion]

I was thinking more about before death coil was even put into the game, then again my main wasn't a warlock at the time, so maybe i'm mistaken and that there was no such time?

[thinus]

I was thinking more about before death coil was even put into the game, then again my main wasn't a warlock at the time, so maybe i'm mistaken and that there was no such time?

Warlock Fear was OP at the start. Then Fear was nerfed repeatedly until Warlocks had no chance against melee, you just couldn't get any distance. Free HK to a rogue if caught alone. This was what inspired the Roguecraft videos by Mute (however biased, one sided and flat out wrong in some cases).

Then came patch 1.8, the Death Coil patch and this was when Soul Link came along as well if I am not mistaken. They were re-balancing the classes 1 at a time back then and 1.8 was the Warlock's time.

EDIT: Death Coil was always in the game I think, in 1.8 it got the 2s Horror effect.