Yet another reason Melee suffers a huge disadvantage.

I was playing Hardcore tonight on my Monk - I have played every character on Hardcore to 50+ so far except Monk and Warrior and I was in The Molten Vault facing off against Mektul, the Forgemaster on my Monk. He does some frontal aoe hits, so to maintain damage on him since I'm in melee I roll behind him - freeze him, bell him, begin unloading. Usually being behind a boss is a big advantage because a boss is required to pivot before threatening your character.

What happens next? After becoming unfrozen he begins his run phase back to the molten lava and starts dragging my character with him, he's actually really far back from the lava - over a full screen. I'm not getting pushed aside and continue getting dragged so I begin rolling wildly left and right but it keeps me jailed on his NE hitbox. After 6 long seconds of me feverishly trying to escape I get pulled into the lava too and melt in less than a second.

Looking back, I should have just pressed ESC and reloaded the second my first roll was unsuccessful and reloaded at checkpoint. We go again - but this game has been mostly easy on Monk so far so I wasn't ready for the absolute nonsense death I was about to experience as Monk, as Monk is not even close to how dangerous my Warrior is to play.

But this is just a testament to the unusual issues (in this circumstance I would call it a bug, because no other character who attacks at a distance would be found in this situation) melee runs into while playing that just puts them in a continual line of fire of circumstance with very little counterplay.

To the developers and designers? Maybe make Mektul, the Forgemaster actually HOOK YOU with an ability thats DESIGNED TO HOOK YOU to justify this Curb your Enthusiasm, Austin Powers steamroller meme death.

Thanks!

I had a white monster do this to me once. It's a rare glitch. you get pushed back for several screens and can't roll out of it. I got out of it from killing the enemy but on a boss you're just screwed. I wouldn't even try hardcore on this glitch filled game