LIVIN' ON THE EDGE: Diablo 2 Hardcore Challenge
 

It's time to pull up your tube socks, strap in your sandals and adjust that fedora, folks. I present to you


We're going to be playing Diablo 2 ladder on US East. /hardcore/

Season 1: July 5th to October 5th, 2016. At the end of the season the highest level surviving character shall be announced as the winner.

Rules:

1. Character must be Ladder/Hardcore/Expansion
2. To enter the contest you must make a screenshot of your character name and post it.
3. Rushing/Botting is allowed
4. Post a screenshot of your death and list the level/act
5. No cheating/hax or mountain dew consumption (or other performance enhancing substances)

What do I win? Lots of bragging rights.

Let's see who can get the highest level without dying! You must make a screenshot of your character creation screen and enter your toon's name into the mix. Ideally post screenshots of your progress, too.

GG DD GL HF

LET'S GOOOOOOOO

I'll kick this baby off. I'm going to be following a guide a la Arreat Summit. Since this is my first Hardcore toon with no twinking, I'll be trying a Fishymancer build (max skeletons, max skeletal mastery, corpse explosion)

Toon name Maalicious

http://i.imgur.com/IineLJN.jpg

Corpsefire went down pretty easy.

http://i.imgur.com/JgVmA9N.jpg


Act 1 Quest 1... check.

http://i.imgur.com/Ho6mBKg.jpg


My first blue drop. OP ASF

http://i.imgur.com/uIte8UP.jpg

Blood Raven involved a lot of chasing...

http://i.imgur.com/gQ7UpQg.jpg

...but in the end she went down rather easily.

http://i.imgur.com/GfdDqqG.jpg

And the trappings

http://i.imgur.com/RSMcXE5.jpg

Exploring the Mausoleum after Blood Raven's demise.

http://i.imgur.com/LlXiQas.jpg


Spine Brow in the underground passage killed all of my Skeles when she exploded. /chortle

http://i.imgur.com/hidz44i.jpg


Everyone's favorite little shit

http://i.imgur.com/4XEqMi3.jpg


Wahooey

http://i.imgur.com/VJuzK4i.jpg


I've got big plans for dis 2 socket armor. Gotta find Tal/Eth runes and I will have my very first runeword! (Stealth)

http://i.imgur.com/SYbblDJ.jpg

D3 > D2

Mr. Woodfist fell to the skeles pretty fast

http://i.imgur.com/LOawzAr.jpg


Tristram: LET'S GOOOOO

http://i.imgur.com/d1nDaoy.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/dHbe0NR.jpg


"Stay awhile, and listen."

http://i.imgur.com/5DHkLlJ.jpg


Oh hell ya

http://i.imgur.com/MiWQWMM.jpg

Into the tower we go...

http://i.imgur.com/yKWyVrP.jpg


Countess went down really fast. Almost didn't snap the photo in time.

http://i.imgur.com/g379WTJ.jpg


3 Runes! Alllllriiighhhttt

http://i.imgur.com/BJus7fz.jpg


Yeppers just found my offhand for the next few acts.

http://i.imgur.com/q7qrfuL.jpg

Outer Cloister

http://i.imgur.com/Rac7iQv.jpg


The Barracks

http://i.imgur.com/5yylPD8.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/GuCRUAI.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/tIXaXUr.jpg


The smith was very tanky but he just took a lil time is all!

http://i.imgur.com/f9i2hQh.jpg

Haven't played d2 in a loooong time. Do runes always drop in act 1 lowest difficulty or did they drop cuz you're in hardcore mode?