09-28-2003, 05:51 AM
hehe, thanks for the advice, unfortunatly it doesn't help as I'm worried about actually *killing* things, not really about staying alive.
Now, the REASON I'm not worried about staying alive Is because I've been playing hardcore ever since Diablo 2 classic came out (yes, I'm as old a hardcore player as you can get). and I know how to stay alive. I haven't died once in the 1.10 beta (I went completely legit, no drop mod until NM council runs, then I backed up my char, and kept going with the drop mod so I could progress a little faster). In hell I was having a hell of a time killing zombies in the den and they HURT. I take things slow when they are new (You know, the whole hardcore survivability thing) which meant letting my merc take a few hits before I attempted them.
As I said, I'm having a hell of a time actually killing things in hell (runing away a lot and gathering too many enemies to kill off at once) My merc dies, and if ther's more than a couple of monsters at once or any boss with bad mods It's pretty much impossible for me.
I'm just worried about actually killing things and progressing through hell as a melee char...
Now, the REASON I'm not worried about staying alive Is because I've been playing hardcore ever since Diablo 2 classic came out (yes, I'm as old a hardcore player as you can get). and I know how to stay alive. I haven't died once in the 1.10 beta (I went completely legit, no drop mod until NM council runs, then I backed up my char, and kept going with the drop mod so I could progress a little faster). In hell I was having a hell of a time killing zombies in the den and they HURT. I take things slow when they are new (You know, the whole hardcore survivability thing) which meant letting my merc take a few hits before I attempted them.
As I said, I'm having a hell of a time actually killing things in hell (runing away a lot and gathering too many enemies to kill off at once) My merc dies, and if ther's more than a couple of monsters at once or any boss with bad mods It's pretty much impossible for me.
I'm just worried about actually killing things and progressing through hell as a melee char...
Do what you can about what you can do. Don't worry about what you can't help.