My most frustrating death of the year

[Cathbald]

Hello everyone! I'm used to dying, most of the times because I'm not patient and rush things, but not this time and I guess this is why I come to vent on the forums

I was playing a halfling skirmisher, level 25, in nightmare/roguelike (didn't manage to win in nightmare yet ).
In Daikara, just before level 20, I had found almost at the same time the burning star and an escort who teached me Track. From this point onward I played slower, mapped everything and understood just how powerful this was.
At level 21 I found the Untouchable. I was already seeing the rest of the west being a breeze with this wonderful armor and the rest of my stuff being very good already (60%+ resist in confusion and stun among other things).

Then I went to Celia's crypt and that's when it happened.



I open a coffin and this Bone Giant pops up. I look at it a bit, see nothing that I can't handle. I use Bash and Smash to put up a little distance and that's when the shit hit the fan.

I push him back and my projectile is in the air, waiting. He uses blast which deals me 331 of my ~700 HP and the Untouchable decided not to activate a shield for reasons I don't get.

The blast pushes me directly into my projectile from bash and smash. Trained reactions (level 5 of course) activates and reduced the damage by about 15-20%, can't remember the exact percentage it had, but still no signs of the Untouchable.

And of course I had gotten a crit. And I still get 467 damage from myself. Causing me to die with approximately -30hp.

And that concludes my most frustrating death of the year, thanks for reading all this, and if you have any idea of how I could have avoided that don't hesitate to say so. I'll feel better if it was clear it was my screw up and not the game decided I had too many nice things in this run.

Silver lining : yay! I got a new achievement!

[sunspire]

I never knew that this is even possible.. getting pulled into your own projectile. But then again, I am relatively new and playing Time Warden (a Time Warden skill causes all your projectiles to pass through friendlies).


So .. is it player error? Yes, you should of played as a Time Warden , and this could never happen. Also, you could of used a 200% speed sling .. I do have a normal win with skirmisher , and also played nightmare with skirmisher and died to some Pride bosses/uniques, and your experience proves how useful a 200% speed projectile weapon is

In all seriousness, you just got incredibly bad luck with the rng. Astronomical odds against that happening , I would say.

[Effigy]

This happened to me a lot when playing Archer/Skirmisher. Enemies that have a pull skill like Bone Grab or Abduction can pull you in front of your own projectile because the pull happens immediately, but projectiles have a travel time based on their speed. The same thing can happen if they use Dark Portal on you.

[cttw]

Same thing with some corruptor spells. It's not a low odds event, really. While it may not happen many times, it's guaranteed to happen a few times in a game, it's just a matter of waiting for a mob with one of the multiple pull skills. I too have been a fool of a took.

[KirKill]

The Untouchable only activates the turn after the damage is taken, since his attack and you getting pulled in your own shot was in the same turn it didn't activate.

[HousePet]

Underestimating a unique bone giant was definitely wrong.
So was assuming that The Untouchable was going to save you from anything.

A shield or heroism inscription was needed.

[cctobias]

Hah yeah I had similar stuff happen all the time when I was running that Meteoric Madness run, although it was often me running into the missile by mistake. Usually I would kill something with the first or second Earthen Missile and I was already at about 250% move and then when step up kicked in or if something shot at me and made the brawler speed increase happen and I would be even faster than the missile.

Fortunately Unstoppable prevented me from killing myself without it I think Iwould have killed myself like 30 times.