A German streamer leveled his character in Diablo 4 for three days and then deleted it within minutes due to a mistake.
Who is it about?
- Bonjwa is a German Twitch channel where a team of various streamers creates content
- The channel has over 228,000 followers on Twitch. The streamers of the channel showcase the “Just Chatting” category and various games, including WoW, Elden Ring, Dark and Darker, and the recently released Diablo 4.
- On average, Bonjwa has over 4,000 viewers
- One of Bonjwa’s streamers is Niklas “Honor” Behrens. Honor often plays strategy games on stream and is also one of the founders of the channel.
Why did he waste his time? On June 2, the Early Access of Diablo 4 started – pre-order customers could play before the official Diablo 4 release on June 6. This includes Honor and the Bonjwa team.
Honor wanted to play the highly anticipated action RPG with a hardcore character. A death means the end of the character. Whoever dies loses everything and has to start over. Players set the corresponding settings during character creation.
However, the Bonjwa streamer must have made a mistake during character creation and mode selection – instead of hardcore, he played softcore and since his character did not die at any point, the mistake went unnoticed for days.
Overall, Honor grinded for three days, so the entire Early Access weekend (via Twitter). When the streamer noticed the mistake, his Barbarian Heidi was already level 47.
How did the streamer react? Honor understandably reacted in shock to the mistake and was deeply frustrated. At first, he wondered how this could have happened and was appalled that it was only noticed now.
After his streaming colleague Matteo “Mental” Ricciardi suggested it was the most extreme thing that had ever happened at Bonjwa, Honor replied: “This is the biggest fail of my life”
You can see the streamer’s reaction here in a clip on Twitch:
How is the streamer playing now? Honor has created a new character with which he starts over and wants to really play hardcore this time.
Already a few minutes after realizing that he had been playing a softcore character for days and wasted his time, Honor deleted the old character: “I’m deleting the character now. What should I do with a softcore character? I don’t want softcore. What should I do with that trash? It doesn’t count, it’s invalid. […] I’m not playing a softcore character.”
With the new character, however, Honor could progress faster, believes his streaming partner Mental, as he already knows his build and the bosses.
Honor is not the only Diablo player who made a critical mistake and wasted a lot of time:
Expert makes a big mistake in Diablo 4: Wasted over 70 hours so you don’t have to
