A player of Diablo 2 Resurrected has now happily told how a revenge plan that he worked on for 8 months came to fruition.
This injustice was done to the player: The player KrimzontheRed was badly cheated in Diablo 2. He tells the story of his humiliation and revenge in the JSP forum (via jsp).
Krimzon was in a multiplayer game of Diablo 2 with his level 70 barbarian and told the chat that he was new here in “Hell” difficulty and could use some help. He was grateful for any tips.
Krinzon says: Until then, he had only had good experiences with the Diablo 2 community and may have felt too confident because of it.
Through his request for tips, a group of players apparently took notice of him, who were planning something evil. The player Don lured him into a teleport stating: “It’s safe,” but when Krimzon went through the portal, he was immediately killed by far too strong opponents and lost his barbarian forever.
The people in the game even made fun of his death. One said he would check the JSP forum to see if Krimzon would perhaps start a thread about his death.
Krimzon now realized that this was obviously a group of friends in the game who enjoyed specifically cheating and leading people like him to their death. One of the killers, the one who joked about the forum post, even gave him some starter items and pretended to be just an innocent bystander.
Krimzon told the people what he thought, they should improve, such behavior was disgraceful, but then went on his way. However, he “noted the names and Battletags of the players for later use.”
This took place in April 2023.
Months later, the victim meets one of his killers again
This is how the player took his revenge: A few months later, in September 2023, Krimzon had recovered from the humiliation and was back in Diablo 2. Here he met the player Gwyneth, whom he identified as one of the killers from back then. That was the one who had asked him if he wanted to whine about his death in a forum and who had given him starter items. He also uploaded Don’s PK videos on his YouTube channel.
Krimzon writes:
“I wasn’t sure if Gwyneth was Don himself or just his accomplice. And I didn’t care either.”
Krimzon set a clear goal for Season 5: Revenge. Kill Gwyneth – but that had to be well thought out. He decided to play for the long term.
Victim played for 4 months with one of the wrongdoers and gained his trust
For months, Krimzon sought the trust of Gwyneth, played with him, befriended him, not letting on at all that he considered him one of his former killers.
The two planned their entry into hardcore PvP for months. During this time, Krimzon even leveled his new barbarian up to level 99 – his first level 99. However, the people in the group laughed at him for his idea of entering PvP. If he had never done it before, he would surely be killed immediately, and then his character would be gone, they told him.
But Krimzon read up on Diablo 2 PvP, and after initial experiences in which he earned his first spurs as a player killer, on December 5, 2023, he was ready to hunt with Gwyneth.
“I joined Gwyneth’s game and said that I wanted to keep him company. […] I was shaking. My heart was racing. I shared my body with him – Gwyneth shared his.” I knew I had to stay calm in the first rounds. I had to eliminate all doubt.” […]
After 2 whirlwinds, the revenge was executed
In the end, however, his plan worked:
“I hesitated for a second, almost recoiling. But then I went through with it: I turned hostile. Two steps, two whirlwinds. Gwyneth (97 Assassin) was killed by KrimzonHC.”
Krimzon says: He felt conflicted after the kill. He had wrapped a guy in false security. He now felt cheated. He could understand that. Gwyneth had invested weeks, even months in the character that was deleted in a second. And a large part of Krimzon felt sorry for that.
But there is a valuable lesson to learn here: “Don’t be a jerk. Don’t lead innocent players down a path of revenge.”
After the fight, the player then sent him a message that he wasn’t the one back then, Don was just a friend. He was the one behind it.
But Krimzon did not accept that. He should have just chosen better friends and not a friend who lures innocent players to their death. The MMORPG EVE Online is known for its major scams among good friends:
