boylehatesu said:
I lost my lvl 82 druid with over 6k life to a fire enchanted extra strong hephisto in hell. No transforming to human no passing go no $200 I was dead as a door nail. So Bug = not fixed and any idiot that flames him for dying to a bug is pathetic
Hephasto is LE, so what probably happened (as some previous poster was saying, I think), is that the LE starts out, but the FE instantly hits you on death. This starts the animation and then the Lightning crawls over and you die to that.
Remember, there isn't much difference between 75% Fire Resists and 65% Fire Resists.
Half of it is Physical, and with Amplify Damage, 2/3rds of it is Physical. The difference between 75% and 65% is only 3.3_3%.
Here's another theory: You know how Baal cleans up the corpses after each wave? Would it be possible that that deals 1 damage or more? It looks like the CE animation, but as we all know, lazy-assed Blizzard repeats TONS of animations.
In response to boylehatesu: Yes, we all know about the bug. He should know, too. Standing next to Lister while Amped is like "asking a homosexual half-ogre to wrap its genitals in barbed wire before abusing you sexually".
At best, I think that the transformation will save your life once. Relying on it to save you when it *OBVIOUSLY* fails is like dueling a Ethereal Snapper with 48 SOJs in your stash, 28 life, Max Block/Dodge.
You will eventually fail the block and you'll lose your 48 SOJ's.
I think that an easy way to solve the problem is to have "cannot be cursed" gear.
Stick in as a Jewel Mod or something, and then that would stop Iron Maiden deaths, and these Amplify Damage/Decrepify insta-frags.
A good Melee character will have max DR, at least 75% FR, probably absorb, etc.
They'll be taking at most 40% of a FE explosion, and with even 3k life, that's not that hard to handily survive.
Cannot be cursed would also resist a lot of deaths to multi-shot monsters (which can, for some strange reason, hit you all 3 times when your multishot can only hit them back for one).
EDIT: Of course, this won't happen, but it's interesting to talk about how Blizzard could have stopped a bunch of complaining about the game (I think that the FE bug is pretty biased, but so is Tommy Hilfiger, so deal with it).