Responding to someone elses lag related hardcore death
As far as the issue with Battle.net, this one unfortunately might have been specifically between your connection and the gaming servers. On my end, there are at least 15 hops…
Hardcore – Sometimes I think my wizard has 9 lives…
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/8198731438 .. and I wonder if my luck will run out before I can even reach Paragon 30. I've posted recently about some major lag spikes that occurred (once right…
Network monitoring of Diablo III’s gaming servers
I've been able to build a better map of one particular subnet of Blizzard systems on AT&T's enterprise hosting network (which is where Blizzard's gaming servers are hosted but on…
Hardcore – Latency Spike
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/8197649754 I didn't have my more extensive map of network monitoring going today when I encountered a sudden spike in latency while taking on an elite pack at the beginning…
Hardcore – Trying to run but going nowhere fast… (lag)
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/8087878875 I previously noted the possibilities of hardcore related death from high latency or disconnects here even though I hadn't personally experienced one yet. My wizard had her feet superglued to…
Offline Mode – Highly Unlikely
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/7923723114#16 Following was my response to the oft-asked question about Diablo III offering an offline mode (with separate offline only characters, no achievements, etc). As much as lot of us…
Inferno was fun once
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/7894649388?page=3#49 Following was my response to a thread about how Inferno used to be "fun"... anyway, i remember them saying they did that because they never intended the difference in…