Hey y’all, I wanted to share a video of my most recent death this morning on my Hardcore Whirlwind Barb.
I feel like Blizzard is finally getting somewhere with some of the changes they’re making to the game, and after many seasons of not really enjoying the game all that much I finally put together a build that I was enjoying, until I died in a way where I actually can’t even tell what killed me.
I was doing a Pit 50 (Torment 3). I had 14k life, capped on armor, and all resistances. Was using witch powers that gave me a barrier, and I got one shot. The Hall of Heroes tells me my death was from an “Unknown Killer”
I am going to link a youtube clip of my death and i’m wondering if anyone can tell me if they see something i’ve missed.
A death like this, where I can’t even explain what happened, takes away 100% of my motivation to even play the game at all. Especially a character like a barb where you have to be in the thick of it.
Here is the video : https://youtu.be/b2k6SYVTr0g
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yeah its happened to me twice and a couple others in another thread. You should send that clip to bug reports. And so far the common thing between us all is we’re using earthquakes and we used the witch barrier power.
So I’m loading up another toon and ill try and play just quake with no barrier and see how that goes. If I die again to unknown killer, i’ll post back again to see if maybe it’s earthquakes that is the problem. Small indie company smh.
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Appreciate the information. I’m definitely curious if you end up not seeing any issues due to not using the barrier power.
Thanks for sharing. I hope they see it, or please post this again under ‘PC bug reports’ as well? I just leveled up a barb, and something similar happend to me as well, when I just switched to using earthquake from the rune and it almost killed me, but not total death. am probably still early on. so yeah, likely some weird interaction that we’re damaging ourselves?
yeah, don’t mind updating how it goes without the barrier. i’ll try it out as well.
I just died without a reason. I was at full life and barrier. Normal enemies and suddenly … Death buy unknown killer also. But i was a spiritborn but i was using the barrier witch power. It can be related to that
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even when watching it at 0.25 speed, still can’t see what hit you. what are the other witch powers you are using?
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Something like an “unknown killer” lol. I was using besides barrier, Doom orb, soul harvest, aura of lament and hex of shattering
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Thnx for info, it means it’s not only barb prob.
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So now my turn to add to the list, though, its not as bad as you guys, since I was just leveling an alt character.
“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGUeh1Rt0G4” lvl 48 necro.
the witch powers were the Barrier, the 3 summons, (frog, bats, vengeful spirit, then the one that grows your minions after casting ultimate, and the attack speed boosting one.
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Hmm…it was the same as us…if i die again with this bug…i won’t play HC this season again…really frustrating!
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Wow these videos are just as bad as mine! Really appreciate you guys providing more examples. I’ve submitted this thread to the bug report thread. Hopefully we can get some visibility on this.
Definitely curious if people see this issue without using that barrier power.
Just because nothing Blizzard does seems to make any sense… there’s another issue with the witch powers in that they sometime just stop working until you port to town and back. Woo hoo! Think that poison DoT is helping you? Or that shield? Well guess again!
Though I’m only able to repeat this by walking in/out of towns the fact that the client and server are in disagreement on whether powers should work is pretty disturbing.
I seem to remember some weird 1 shots with barrier and fort on SB last season.
Thanks for the heads up, I’ll avoid it this season too!
This is exactly what happened to me an hour ago.
Instant dead in Pit 40. “Unknown Killer”
Also a whirlwind barb. Overpowered for this level. I made this level many times using nothing but the mouse without any visible life decreasing.
Even the boss of the level couldn’t one hit me with the barrier off.
If it is a bug, I give up playing. It doesn’t make much sense for me.
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I crafted one of the witch gems that improves potency so it refreshes in 3.5 sec every 5 seconds and it hasn’t happened since
It was suggested a possible cause of this bug is cos of Thorns interacting with the barrier power when upgraded. Feels like it makes sense cos for my necro, I think I had just placed some skill points into spiked armor which gave thorns.
Then for spiritborn, you would get thorns right? when you use armored hide or something? can’t remember. And barb usually places one skill point to get thorns to cause bleeding?
Plus I levelled my rogue all the way to para 200 with the barrier and had no issues. So thorns seem to make the most sense.
Next day and again.
HC barb lvl51 when farming in open world. Full life and barrier.
Instant death without any visible reason.
“Unknown Killer”
Dont use barrier. Rip twice, stoped use it and ok.