04-20-2004, 11:23 PM
Gentleman by the name of something Catapult informed me that there was a way to kill someone while starting out not hostile to them. He was a necromancer and joined a hell cow game that someone else opend up. That person got mobbed by cows and dropped when Mr. Pult entered the portal. He joined my party and allowed me to loot his corpse which I did not reciprocate. He waited until I was attacking some cows and standing at the edge of my screen cast some bone spirits, then I died.
Just as I died I got the hostile alarm simultaneously with the portal opening and my death scream. Apparently when a necro returns to town his bone spirits don't disappear, they keep going and when he hostiled me they targeted on me. No human could trigger the town portal and the hostile that fast and he confirmed this by taunting me in multiple colors which I don't know a legit way of producing. So some program out there produces this effect which means every chump on the block can have it.
Other than not playing with any necromancers (pale bastards) how can this be avoided? Are there any other classes/skills where this bug can be exploited? I'm thinking hammerdins and meteor/blizzard/orb sorcs can do the same thing. Volcano/boulder/fissure druids? I know trap assassins are fixed.
Playing it safe that would really limit my ability to party and for some places like hell diablo or ancients that would make my life REALLY difficult. Any ideas?
Oh and next question....what build should I start on next?
Just as I died I got the hostile alarm simultaneously with the portal opening and my death scream. Apparently when a necro returns to town his bone spirits don't disappear, they keep going and when he hostiled me they targeted on me. No human could trigger the town portal and the hostile that fast and he confirmed this by taunting me in multiple colors which I don't know a legit way of producing. So some program out there produces this effect which means every chump on the block can have it.
Other than not playing with any necromancers (pale bastards) how can this be avoided? Are there any other classes/skills where this bug can be exploited? I'm thinking hammerdins and meteor/blizzard/orb sorcs can do the same thing. Volcano/boulder/fissure druids? I know trap assassins are fixed.
Playing it safe that would really limit my ability to party and for some places like hell diablo or ancients that would make my life REALLY difficult. Any ideas?
Oh and next question....what build should I start on next?
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