Stressing Over a Hardcore Character
When regular Diablo 2 starts to become mundane I, and I’m sure many others, would enjoy mixing it up by creating a hardcore character.
Hardcore characters get one life. Death is permanent and it changes the way you approach building your character.
I can recall creating a hardcore Necromancer that focused primarily on just summoning as much undead as possible. The thought process was that I would put as much stuff in-between me and the hordes of enemies trying to kill me as possible.
Using this strategy I would slowly, but surely, chug my way through all of Normal and nearly all of Nightmare before tragedy struck.
I recall being up to Act 5 of Nightmare and disconnecting somewhere in an open field, I’m not sure if another player came in and PKed me, or if was monsters that got me, but either way, my Necromancer was murdered too soon. I didn’t touch Diablo 2 for years after that but I’m ready to give it another go now when Diablo 2: Resurrected comes out.
