An explosion of Drop Hackers...

[kandrathe]

The dangers of playing with strangers. I rarely will venture into a pubbie game in softcore, and that is mostly to gift away any nice low level rares I've found. I think I can count on one hand the number of games I've actually quested with others. I think on two of those occasion's I was PK'd. One in particular I remember was my lvl 50ish elemental druid "Kaww" who was desperate to level up to get enough power to be effective in Hell Difficulty. So, I was joining any pubbie 8 player NM blood run games. It made me angry, like you, at being so violated. Like anyone would doubt the outcome of a match up between an elemental druid and any PvP designed char. Using cheap tricks makes it doubly so as there is zero skill involved in cheating.

My point; It seems that in HC you have so much more to lose, and so IMO I would never venture into a pubbie game in HC ever. I think you need to develop a cadre of trusted HC users that you play with, who will not back stab you. It is hard enough for me to survive some of the 1 hit kill beasts without having to worry about script kiddies.