I’ve been playing D2R for quite a while now, and I really love the game. SOMETIMES, though, it is a “bit” unfair. When you go down the stairs to Baal’s level and instantly die because there is a pack of ghosts blasting you before you can blink your eyes, that’s pretty brutal. You have no chance to recover, because they will just do it again if you try to recover your gear and xp, so no choice but to save and exit and recover gear from corpse when logging back in. I can handle these guys if I have a chance to fight them, but that’s the problem - no chance to do anything before being dead. It’s just a part of the game, I know, but knowing that doesn’t make it less painful! And I was soooooo close to level 90! I’m running a Lightning Fury Javazon and I DO have Thundergod’s Vigor Belt and other lightning resist stuff. If I had a ton of lightning resist charms I would stack those, but I don’t think it would matter with how powerful those ghost initial blasts are. That makes it worthless to try to put on a backup set of gear to go back down the stairs and survive long enough to tp away a bit and cast a portal. Well, I’m done venting. Sorry if I wasted your time. I’m STILL gonna keep doing Baal for the xp and drops!
There are a few spots like that, such as the cow portal. Luckily the insta death situations are pretty rare, and to be honest, they are really a problem only in hardcore.
That’s part of the excitement, you never know when you’re going to run into worst packs… it is tough but part of the charm…otherwise what you think solution is for blizz? As you’ve touched upon, there are ways to make your character much tougher to kill ^^
That’s what the charges on rune word Sanctuary are for. It makes it unfair for souls. 
The Slow Missiles?
O.o
It is, and I get what you are saying… I don’t play an Amazon, and I don’t know your light res is, so there is that… however, I always have a TGods (do you have a WispProjector? With TGods and WispP - would probably allow you to just bask in the lightening) in my shared stash for entering there, and the Plains of Despair… much like I have a StormShield, Shako and Sting-of-Ears for entering the WorldStone and Durance. and a DwarfStar for Nihla… etc.
Different tools for different tasks.
Good luck in your quest for lvl90.
Can also happen when going to the shenk waypoint in act 5.
The game is still loading, but your char is already standing in between enemies and just dies until you get in control.
Good luck casting Slow Missiles during a load screen, even if you could the souls would likely be out of range anyways.
Yep, according to Blizzard’s official blogposts load screen vulnerability was supposed to fixed at D2R launch but it never was and still isn’t to this day. 
See my post here for more info:
The chance of souls spawning near the Worldstone Keep wp or any wp in a large area is rarer now than it was in Diablo 2 LoD. I have ran Worldstone Keep 100+ times on hell difficulty in D2R and only had souls close enough to the wp to attack me as soon as I loaded in 2 maybe 3 times that Souls spawned on Worldstone Keep level 2. I think Blizzard tried to make it so that these insta death situations happen a lot less frequently in D2R.
I have not yet seen a mob right inside the cow portal in D2R that was not lured to the portal by a player trying to escape death
That is an obvious problem that I did not take into consideration. But that’s no reflection on how excellent Sanctuary is for dealing with souls.
OP is referring specifically to the Throne Room entrance where souls load to it’s left and right sides.
Not, true. I didnt notice anything like that, its still the same.
ya i was about to say. never ever had a problem in worldstone. not even close.
try not to go through a wp from a different act, always set off from the same act, doing this mitigates the risk of such a sticky situation
T-god’s belt makes souls deal no damage. Capped light rez generally is enough.
Loading times are also going to be MUCH faster on good hardware. Cap framerate at 144, and run the best settings you got to hold that framerate. All loads should be well under 2 seconds, most about damn near instant.
“a lot less frequently” is not good enough.
it needs to never EVER happen.
Yep this game has hardcore components even when not playing hardcore mode. It’s been a thing about classic blizzard titles from the beginning. The last level of Warcraft II. It’s insane. Only the most skilled can beat it and it is definitely not fair by any stretch of the imagination.
Man everything from around 2008 back from Blizzard was just gold. Makes me sad to see how far they’ve fallen.
In all the runs I have done in my 1,496 hours of play in D2R I have not had souls at throne room enterance but a few times. This could be cause I play solo most of the time due to playing a character that is fairly inefficient for killing in mp games (Necromancer) but kills real good playing solo I also play HC non-ladder mostly and there are not many players on HC non-ladder. it seems like all the people that play HC are on ladder
I checked the active players and Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction and D2R and in 2023 D 2 LoD still has 26 million players where D2R has only 56,000 players this is why there seems to be almost no one playing D2R cause the majority of players stuck with the original D 2 LoD and likely did not even purchase D2R
Let me guess, you sourced these numbers from your uncle that works at Blizzard?
26 million people, playing LoD ? the game that is even more dead than d2:r ? i kind of doubt it.