Greetings.
I am a veteran Diablo II player. I always run Uber Tristram for fun. It is something I always do and I am quite experienced about damages, survival, builds, skills, and so on.
I do ubers with a hardcore smiter. I pull the ubers one by one. First, I pull the Mephisto and I kill him with 75% Lightning Resist. Then one by one , the other two.
However, right now, I have lost my smiter due to some unknown damage source. Right after killing the Mephisto, Baal teleported on me. There were 5-10 skeletons only raised by Mephisto. The moment Baal arrived with teleport, my 3300 HP suddenly dropped to 0. Baal didn’t even finish his provoking quote, meaning he neither auto-attacked me nor cast a spell.
I am very frustrated. I am sure there were no connection issues due to these reasons: First, it is impossible for them to deal such a damage in no time. Second, to top it all, I have 75% block rate, nearly 40% damage reduction and full resistances, with also a mercenary who also soaks up some damage. Third, due to these, my death took literally no time, the game was not frozen and I could attack skeletons and could see their HP dropping by my attacks. No connection issues. Everything happened in the blink of an eye - just as Baal teleported on me.
I kindly ask this hardcore character to be resurrected back because I have nothing to do with this death. I have lost a lot of characters with a lot of useful items and effort, yet I accepted all of them. I have lost a lot due to my own connection issues. But this one, just a non sense.
Of course, I suppose you can see the ambigous damage and the death result on game logs. Could you please kindly check the logs or anything that has the potential to show an evidence for the case?