Assassin Skills Discussion

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No real exotic mods to Bremm: no conviciton, no extra strong, no extra fast.  cold and ltg enchanted.  As far as I can tell, he was alive when I died, so it was not a cold blast death thing.

If one can't work though so simple a problem as getting past Hell Mephisto without dying, which I have done dozens of times before patch 1.10, there is no point in writing a guide for HC.  Ya gotta walk the walk before you talk the talk.

Occhi
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I wouldn't be ashamed of that death, actually. It's been less commented on than the FE bug has, but CE and LE in combination have been observed many times to have bizarre, often fatal consequences, even without a death explosion.

Here's one interesting link, although there are a great deal of anecdotal reports that are more disturbing:

http://www.theamazonbasin.com/d2/forums/in...ndpost&p=496952

As far as having to "walk the walk" goes, my personal opinion is that a fair amount of general expertise completing the game in HC, combined with a lot of experience with the specific build(s) in question in Hell, but not necessarily through Hell, is enough to have credibility in a HC guide. Unless one is willing to rush, "cheat" in SC or SP, or just has plenty of time to make repeated attempts at it, the random element and time constraints are too great to make attaining Guardianship a requirement, rather than just a useful qualification for writing a guide.

I'm probably biased though, as I've yet to get a Guardian of any class, and probably more to the point, I was really looking forward to reading your guide.

edit: /waves at Yogi ... My centesimal and your bicentesimal posts, don't ya know. :)