Epic Diablo 4 Hardcore run brutally ended by the Butcher at level 99 BlizzardOne Diablo 4 player\u2019s incredible hardcore run was brought to a swift and savage end once they fell foul of the series\u2019 most notorious boss \u2013 the Butcher. The Butcher is greatly feared by Diablo 4 players, as there\u2019s nothing more panic-inducing than hearing his catchphrase \u201cFresh meat\u201d while you\u2019re running through a dungeon. For characters playing on the highest World Tiers, the Butcher\u2019s appearances are rare, but a constant risk. Many players choose to run from the hulking beast or jump through a portal to safety, but some brave souls choose to fight him for the rewards. However, this can go horribly wrong, as it did for Reddit user Primary-Confusion-89, whose hardcore run was ended by several brutal blows from the Butcher. Hardcore characters in Diablo 4 keep going until they die and once they do, the run is over and the character ceases to exist. For some, they can avoid death and keep their run going indefinitely, but most are cut down eventually, as the game gets harder and harder. Primary-Confusion-89\u2019s run lasted for 23 hours and 49 minutes until the Butcher appeared and introduced the player to his meat cleaver. The player was also level 99, so close to reaching 100 when the fateful last blow was struck. What makes this story so rough is that once characters reach level 99, even on the hardest settings, they tend to dominate in PVE and only very bad luck or poor decisions end their playthroughs. Other players commiserated with Primary-Confusion-89 with one saying: \u201cHow does that happen at level 99?! That\u2019s really unlucky, damn.\u201d With another saying: \u201cMaaaan. This is rough. Have you hit level 100 hardcore with a different character yet or would this be your first?\u201d Some shared their own experiences, saying: \u201cI\u2019m sorry. I was right there with you last night. From 1-99 I didn\u2019t see a single Butcher. Literally, as soon as I dinged 100 in a level 64 NMD he appeared. It didn\u2019t even register that this was the Butcher until he was almost finished off.\u201d Another player considered just how terrifying encountering the Butcher can be, they wrote: \u201cThe lightning strike of adrenaline I get upon hearing \u201cfresh meat\u201d just\u2026 good lord\u2026 Lol\u201d. The Butcher was the very first boss of Diablo 1 and returned as the first major boss in Diablo 3. In Diablo 4, he\u2019s a random encounter that spawns in high-level dungeons and has essentially become the boogeyman for those playing in Hardcore mode, where just one death means the end of their run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Epic Diablo 4 Hardcore run brutally ended by the Butcher at level 99 BlizzardOne Diablo 4 player\u2019s incredible hardcore run was brought to a swift and savage end once they fell foul of the series\u2019 most notorious boss \u2013 the Butcher. The Butcher is greatly feared by Diablo 4 players, as there\u2019s nothing more panic-inducing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}