Ouch. RIP
Zecora, Season 22, Level 70, paragon 699, Witch Doctor in Diablo 3, reaching Greater Rift 76 solo.
She (and I) are on the Diablo 3 Hardcore Solo Witch Doctor ladder for completing Greater Rift 76, with a time of 3:39, rank #751, the highest I have been in the two 'seasons' of Diablo 3 I've played.
Zecora was on Torment 16 (hardest Diablo 3 difficulty,) doing a Greed run, and got 1-shot accidentally. That's alright, Diablo 3 gives a little benefit of each character having a single safety spell, preventing the first death every 60 seconds. She got unlucky, getting a second 1-shot to a falling chest, with her being on the outskirts of the damage circle. She was just barely within the hit radius I guess; I thought it didn't hit, but it was close enough to count.
This is a sting. She progressed to a far deeper Greater Rift difficulty than I thought I would even try for, and could have gone even further. I did want to see how far she could get this season, and how far up the leaderboard I could get, but her journey has come to an end.
I think this is harder than Diablo 2 Hardcore, as you get more 'progress.' Diablo 2 is a simple step through the questing arc, and then into later MF/optimising, and can easily be replaced by gear that is found while MF'ing. The end-game paragon levels are kept, but you cannot simply re-equip with the same gear quite as easily. And, in terms of paragon leveling, that takes a lot of time and connection with the character as well. Leveling itself at a high Paragon level is easy enough though.