Post your stupid deaths here.

[Kevin]

In that case I shouldn't have died because thundering strike does AoE on every attack and it is what pulled me in then poof.

I know attacking them is the way to go, because that is what I normally do.

I'm confused, because you said this:

I thought I could string them out enough so I activated them and started running.

So, I'm picturing you running in to aggro them and then running away... and that makes me think that's the reason they exploded on you. If you hadn't run away and hit them instead, I think you would have been fine.

Yes I did that, and did it successfully. I had pulled one away and killed it, as I said. I was going back to the other 4 of them when I screwed up and ended up porting in with Fists of Thunder - Thunderclap. They were much more tightly bunched up than when I had first seen them which is part of why I had decided to try and string them out in the first place because since they were champions and I wasn't sure I could hit them all even with all AoE attacks that I thought it would be safer. But they hadn't even started coming at me again when the port and insta splat happened.

Perhaps since I had aggro'd them earlier that is why the blew up instantly when I got back in range after having killed one of them.

I've also had normal ones blow up on me when they have clearly been being hit by my AoE damage because I could see their health bars going down. Which means I no longer have any idea what actually makes them blow up and I'm certainly not going to mess with a champion pack of them in HC on a melee toon again.