Post your stupid deaths here.

[MongoJerry]

This qualifies as a stupid death under every definition of the word. So, I made the plunge tonight to kill Diablo in Hell and finally see Inferno. I trucked through the last half of hell Act IV (so much easier with the new mob AI than before), entered Diablo's lair, and absolutely destroyed him. It was the best I'd ever done in any Diablo encounter in that he hardly got a hit on me. I'm thinking, "Jeez, I just need a little bit of gear -- and yeah all of the effort it takes to get *to* Inferno Diablo -- and I'm ready to take him on." I mean, the guy's AI doesn't change. He just hits harder, but he hardly hit me, right?

So, I'm feeling good. I get into Act I Inferno and I'm killing a few zombies and an Amazon Basin friend is telling me about how he got a lot of gear and gold by farming treasure goblins and Sarktooth in Old Tristram. I figured I'd try it out to see what the excitement was about. So, I threw on some modest mf% gear that isn't too bad as fighting gear either, so that I wouldn't cripple my character too much and I reset the game a few times -- kill Sarktooth, check to see if there are any goblins, etc. It seemed boring, but if I get some cash or a couple items out of it eventually, what's the harm?

So, on the fateful death run, I check to see if Sarktooth is there. Nope. I run into Old Tristram and don't see the cellar spawn, so I click to leave game, which makes the screen very dim and the dialogue box covers a key chunk of screen right around the character. As the 10 seconds ticked down, what I didn't see was a couple of bloated slow zombie guys who hit like mack trucks edge toward me and kill me with 3 seconds left. *Sigh*

Ah, normal mode Tristram. How I missed you so. I think I'll level Grizabella up this time using Energy Twister.