Quote Originally Posted by Nermy2k View Post
If it makes you feel better you're not actually mistiming. Check your ping sometime, the average is about 300ms, and often it'll be 500+. I mean I guess it's better than the servers not being up at all, but I feel bad for people who are pathologically compelled to make a hardcore character because sometimes life saving skills just refuse to trigger.
My latency is normally not higher than 300 ms, but even then I think that 1/3 of a second has cost me.

And even beyond latency, like I said: 10 seconds of loss of control over my character because of lag spikes often results in a death.

It's one thing to have permanent death in a turned based game like a Rogue-like, but in a real-time action game like Diablo where a simple accident or a couple seconds loss of control could cost you everything, I just don't understand it.


I dunno... as a solo wizard in Nightmare, it feels like things are dying rather slowly, even while my character is quite squishy. Perhaps I'm wrong about that.

I will say this: I don't know how I could do this without Diamond Skin (absorbs all damage up to a limit for a period of time). Also, Teleport with Wormhole is incredible: it's a blink, but after the first use the CD is delayed for a second which means you can get up to 2 more casts off. It's just amazing control.