Hi, I have a problem in Diablo 3, it’s about a hardcore hero I made for season 21, as I was going through the bounties of Act 2 and suddenly he wrote me that I was killed. I still didn’t understand what killed me. Then when I enter the hall of fallen heroes and writes about the hero Slain By: Unknow
Please check if there is a bug and if so, restore my character. Thank you very much and have a nice day 
The game tells you that your hero was slain by unknown when it was something other than an enemy or the environment that killed them. What this generally entails is a pack of Dune Dervishes. When these mobs start spinning, they become shielded. Not only does their shield mean they are immune to damage, it also reflects projectiles. This means that if your hero is using a build that throws projectiles, e.g. Impale DH, Frenzy Barb (due to thrown axes), Corpse Lance Necro, and so on, their own projectiles (or those issued by their pets or other players) can be returned to them.
The hero’s mitigation / health cannot withstand this and they die but, as it wasn’t a mob or the environment that killed them, the game doesn’t know what to say they died from, so it says “slain by unknown”.
Season 21 is even worse for this because of the season theme. The lightning breath weather effect is treated as a projectile and has such reach that it can even hit mobs that are off-screen. This means if there are shielded Dune Dervishes off-screen and you happen to direct the breath onto them, you’ll kill yourself. This was reported during the PTR, but Blizzard didn’t fix it.
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Even if it was a bug, Blizzard does not restore HC characters for any reason. They really mean all those warnings that say death is permanent.
Meteorblade is likely correct about what killed you. It is not a bug though.
Hopefully you have some back up gear in your stash!
I’d think that the lightning breath being treated as a projectile, rather than a channelled spell, isn’t right but who knows any more with Blizzard’s current attitude to the theme. HC players reported this during the PTR, for exactly this issue, i.e. you could one-shot kill your hero by aiming the season buff at a mob you can’t even see yet.
Not a bug. RIP.
Not happening my friend. RIP
You also have a nice day! Good luck with your next character.
That entirely depends on whether the seasonal lightning breath is supposed to be classed as a projectile or not.
Good point, but either way I’m sure we will get the “working as intended” meme.
In the folder where Diablo III stores screenshots, there will be screenshot of what was on the screen when you died. On a Windows machine, they are usually stored here by default:
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Diablo III\Screenshots
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