What are the hacks to watch for?

[Dia]

What are the hacks to watch for?

Yeah yeah...I've been playing d2 for so long...what the hey, decided to start hardcore. Probably going to throw the sc ladder2 items I nabbed up on ebay, just for the heck of it. Anyway, I've been lurking in the hardcore forum lately, not posting...anything. Sort of new to the scene...played hardcore during 1.09 too, had a lvl 49 or so wolf druid before I quit. Anyway, can you guys give me a heads up on what kind of hacks I should watch for? I see like 200 threads about this TPPK, but I don't exactly know what it does. Any help is really appreciated.

 

[Relativity]

TPPK is when some character fires a skill, and uses a script to go to town and hostile immediately after (ie go to town and hostile in less than a second). The spell that the character had cast then becomes "hostile" to the player it was directed at, often killing them instantly. Bone spirit is a common attack TPPK'ers use because of its extremely high damage with synergies, but almost any projectile attack works.

 

[Cleglaw_Himself]

Tppk is by far the worst around in hc.
And yes, there are even throw barb tppkers now to join the crowds of bone spirit necros and guided arrow zons.
There are obviously annoying ones like ppl using Pickit - where you hardly get to see the items before someone has grabbed them.

Other easy ways to die on hc are:

be the first to take a tp from a suspiciously high lvl char who does not have a merc. Not only could it be trapped, but they could leave a spell such as blizzard or meteor there for you and hostile u the instant u walk through.

 

[ConnerMacleod]

Hmmm, the LIST of TPPK builds that I can personally confirm do exist:

1) Necro Bone Spirit
2) Necro Bone Spear (I saw this one attempted today)
3) Druid Tornado
4) Sorceress Fire Ball
5) Sorceress Blizzard
6) Sorceress Glacial Spike
7) Sorceress Ice Bolt
8) Amazon Guided Arrow (usually only in lower to mid levels, requires really crappy life on the PKee to work)


Hmmm, that's all I've personally seen in action. With the sheer scarcity of Sorceress builds out there, I'm positive you'll never have anything to worry about from them. [/sarcasm]

Watch your behind and welcome to HC!

 

[Tool_Master]

Don't forget to watch out for they tppk thrower barbs with dual eth gimmers...those things hurt like crap.
There's also teeth tppk but i haven't seen much of it lately.
The only other thing that comes to mind is a pally using the uniq ward bow which gives +to guided and uses holy shock/freeze/fanat/or whatever

 

[ConnerMacleod]

I hadn't seen a thrower in action, but I definitely have heard the stories.

 

[_OrpheusPrime_]

Anyone in clan APA, BM, or hell.. anyone with a tag should be suspect. I never take tp's from ppl with tags in their name nor do i continue to play with them if they start firing projectiles anywhere near me. Good words of warning, fear the clans, most of them in hc are up to no good.

 

[Tool_Master]

You see the thing is conner, you don't actually see them throwing the axes. It just looks like they are standing still and then...WHAM!!!! just like that, you're dead. The first time I saw it happen i was standing next to a sorc and all of a sudden i heard the scream and had no idea what had happened. It turned out latter the guy had been aiming at me because i wouldn't trade with his friend so fortunately the sorc saved my life.

 

[Cleglaw_Himself]

You see the thing is conner, you don't actually see them throwing the axes. It just looks like they are standing still and then...WHAM!!!! just like that, you're dead. The first time I saw it happen i was standing next to a sorc and all of a sudden i heard the scream and had no idea what had happened. It turned out latter the guy had been aiming at me because i wouldn't trade with his friend so fortunately the sorc saved my life.

I always knew sorceresses wouldn't last long as bodyguards!

 

[sahlakh]

And remember, there's a bug which lets you skip the hostile timer and enter wp's. Charged zons with good gear are especially dangerous here, even more if you have your echoing weaps out ^__^

 

[Phantom_Man]

Let me shorten this up a bit.

Since we have tested every possible skill, we know which ones can TPPK or not, but then, I wouldn't want to give you guys ideas, now would I? All I will say is, the list is much longer. Any character can TPPK, it just depends on their gear.

1) Necro Bone Spirit
2) Necro Bone Spear (I saw this one attempted today)
3) Druid Tornado

5) Sorceress Blizzard (Hits very seldomly.)

7) Sorceress Ice Bolt
8) Amazon Guided Arrow (usually only in lower to mid levels, requires really crappy life on the PKee to work)

Phantom- :drink:

 

[ConnerMacleod]

And correction noted Phantom. Thanks! Seeing isn't always believing I guess.

 

[Phantom_Man]

Oh, and for the GA zon, you'd be amazed at what a 9 Frame WF can do. Factor in Might merc, and the very common hammerdin, +decrep from Baal, and you do serious damage.

Phantom- :drink:

 

[TheCerberus]

So whats the deal with Blizzard? It's possible to do, just very hard to hit with.
Phantom, do you know if this is any different with Classic? I've had one Blizz sorc try to TPPK me, I'm not sure if it was manually or scripted, but it looked like it disappeared right when she hostiled. I'm probably wrong, it happened really fast with no damage done to me, I'm just curious.

 

[Phantom_Man]

Well, I'm never actually seen someone do it. Whenever a friend of mine PKed with his Blizz sorc he used a different skill because it was more accurate. It is supposed to work, but it is very hit or miss, based on the shards that fall.

Phantom- :drink: