how to avoid beeing pked

[Occhidiangela]

First off, get into Baal Runs early in game creation, as Invites start popping up. IF you are a late joiner, it is fairly easy to Trap a WP on you.

Don't go down a WP unless everyone else is not in town. If someone is standing right next to the WP when you arrive, get back to town ASAP. (Particularly if you see a Hydra . . .)

Get to know who the jerks are. If you play a lot of HC games, you will start to see a few easy to recognize names. Avoid them. If in doubt, head out.

Always travel with a Merc, and if you have a summonable, at least one. Some PK attacks, like Hydra, will be diverted by such targets. GA probably won't. Bone Spirit won't. The skeleton Horde will.

Part of what you do is adjust your resistance to deal with the hightest Probability spell that will eat you. IMO, that is Hydra or GA, YMMV.

Part of what you do is practice very carefully the "ESC" exit maneuver. Sometimes, the speed at which you do that is your fastest salvation. Or, use your left hand to start pumping purple pots as fast as you can while your right hand uses the space bar (which you have hot keyed to TP) and the mouse to TP back to town.

And sometimes, when the PK has a godly hacked Bow and is shooting GA and using scroll hack, you die within a fraction of a second.

Around Chargers, find terrain (columns and such) to interpost between you and the Paladin. Its pathing seems to be weird.

Magic resistance is difficult to find. A few unusual items have it. Most don't. Thus Bone Spirit is not something you can get high resists to.

Enjoy.

Occhi