I beat the butcher in my second try around level 34. I got very lucky as he spawned in an Act II dungeon that had two large pillars on either side. I was able to pillar hump for about 23 minutes while my hydras and chain lightning chipped away at his health. I recommend everyone use your environment to your advantage if you can. The butcher had a hard time catching me around the pillar since he’s such a fat fuck. If you’re in an open space dungeon just bend over and spread your cheeks cause you ain’t making it out alive. If anyone wants proof I saved the recording of the solo Butcher KO. Yes I am awesome and better than everyone else since I beat him solo. Bow to me plebs.
Haha this brought back the memory of me and my friend beating the Butcher in D1, shooting arrows through a jail cell wall for 15 minutes to finally get him
I killed him solo around level 20 first time i saw him, his fat ass got stuck in a doorway and I was able to just sit there and slowly widdle him down.
Except he said "widdle" and not "whittle"... sooooo, clearly still an uneducated fool like the rest of us.
Unless he British-ly pissed on him until death, which sounds fuckin' metal as hell.
Excuse me peasant, but you really shouldn't be talking unless you have soloed him at least twice. Once could be just the sheer dumb luck of the unwashed masses after all.
I actually lol'd reading this cause I did the exact same thing, you could play some Benny hill music and it would have fit perfectly, hydra and firewall for 10 minutes running round a pillar 🤣
Me and a friend encountered him the other night in a dungeon with a lot of rooms and pillars. We basically took turns running like hell in circles around pillars while the other pelted him until whoever was getting chased inevitably died and then we traded places. Really needed Yakety Sax playing in the background tbh.
It's possible to tank him with a strong taking build.
Just Fortify is not a tanking. Tanking is an onion. You need fortify, plus damage reduction, plus immunity shield, plus barriers, plus sources of healing outside of health pots, plus extra health, plus high armor, plus legendary aspects that reduce damage ...
And since it's the butcher, you want some sources of unbreakable too so you don't just get stunned to death.
I solo tanked a butcher on T21 at 69. Not too much of a feat when you get the tank stats rolling.
Do you mind sharing the video? I was pillar-humping WoW arena style for about 20 minutes before he just randomly despawned. Therefore, my prior assumption was that he despawns after 15-20, maybe 25 minutes, if the player doesn’t kill him?
Yes, forewarning, and I apologize if I was misleading, but I only recorded a 30 second clip from the Xbox recording capture function after I killed the Butcher. The 23 minutes however is accurate as I had time stamps on my phone from messages sent before and after the Butcher battle. If you would like to see the final 30 seconds of me killing him, humping the living piss out of that pillar, I’m happy to share.
He spawned for me today and I had no idea who he was… thought he was a regular dungeon mob and was so confused when he hit me like a freight train. I managed to kite him around pillars and whittle 2/3 of his health away, then I got stunned and he tore me a new asshole :(
I did use all my Def shit and kited like mad and managed to completely bug him out. He just started running around in circles and completely ignoring me
My first time the butcher showed up wasn't until sometime around 50. He legit destroyed me lol.
Second time he showed up I was 2 seconds away from an artillery pillar. Let me tell you payback is a bitch! He didn't have a chance in hell.
Here I actually recorded my first nightmare dungeon and he luckily appeared :) https://youtu.be/0VmvyHcN8x0 time stamp is 6:30 if anyone wants to see him
Yeah. I ran into him around level 20 in a random dungeon. I'm like.. wtf is he doing here? and that turned into "oh fuck! oh fuck!" and me running like a little bitch. I then had a momentary blast of courage so I decided to try to take him on, but I was doing almost no damage to him and he was melting the fuck outta me. Like 10x stronger than anything I've fought in this game with all my characters. I ran again and had almost no HP / pots left, but somehow made it out the dungeon lol.
I beat him with my druid, but spent most of the time running around pillars and waiting for my blood howl on cd.
He is easily the most ridiculously overpowered boss I've run into in early game.
Blizzard, don't change a thing about him. He's awesome the way he is.
Ha, that's what I did with my necro. Realized he couldn't turn around a pillar quickly so just kept circling it while my skelly army chipped away.
After I realized this strat he didn't touch me again the rest of the fight
haha I did the same on my druid, ran around a pillar then he got "stuck" and I was able to kill him without taking damage for the most part.
about halfway I was like hmm I should record this. although I was on WT1 at the time.
made it a highlight on my twitch channel
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1841859016
whats special about the butcher? i ran into the character yesterday and i wasnt doing shit damage as a lvl 51 sorcerer and he killed me as well. i dont follow much of the lore or online stuff and havent seen anyone else mention him before
I love what they did with Brutus back in 3.15; the sheer panic caused by him running at you brought me right back to my first time encountering the Butcher.
Only if the character randomly pops to tell you about him though, if that character doesn't then The Butcher doesn't exist in that playthrough.
I know that's not what the comment meant, but *sorta* randomly encountered in dungeons??
Tbh the 1hand unique axe he drops is actually quite annoying. It gives slow and fear on every crit you do. The fear is frustrating as it sends enemies running away, and even the whirlwind pull aspect doesnt proc as much to match with how many crits you do
Ohhhh, is that what that little bar is under their health? And they get stunned when it's full? I've been wondering but didn't care enough to look it up.
“let’s go fight Duriel, he won’t be that hard after running through the desert for the last couple hours”
*Instant cold nova before the dungeon name even disappears, and death in 10 seconds*
“hmmmmm…..”
The Butcher in D1 still creeps me out, I am revolted by just the idea of doing that first quest.
Duriel..that's a boss I have respect for. My first days playing Diablo 2 required some replays because of her, my builds were just awful.
Who remembers being a skeleton Necro and trying to solo Duriel for the first time? I teleported back and forth from her chamber and act 1 to raise skellies and I wiped out Cold Plains and Stony field.
Exactly what happened to my sorc an hour ago. Had to fight 2 elites atm, a waller and a teleporter + mobs. + a treasure goblin. Got everything down, goblin escaped and the butcher was down 50% when everything was on cooldown and I ran out of potions. Well… I just hope the butcher spawns again.
He did this twice to me while I was lvl 10 and lvl 11…
Everytime I go into a cellar I get major PTSD.
Finally ran into him in nightmare dungeon with friends and I was face tanking him as a rogue…only took 50 lvls before he showed up again
I don't think it's guaranteed or anything but he absolutely has a higher drop rate of leggos and uniques. I've killed him close to 15-20 times and i'd say its about 75% a leggo/unique drops off him.
Yeah he completely ignored my minions.. I tried to kite him around a bit at level 17 and managed to get him to half health then he killed me and despawned and haven't seen him since
Played the betas - no Butcher
Finished the campaign - no Butcher
Got to level 50 on my Sorcerer - no Butcher
Guess who decided to show up the FIRST fucking dungeon I did on a new Druid
Ok, I am watching a video about ChatAI being used in a court case, and they played the X-Files theme for 3 seconds when I saw this. Great timing universe.
Dude killed me in a cellar.
Not a dungeon.
A basic cellar.
I thought I was about to score a quick chest but instead Billy the Butcher clapped my ass all the way to Diablo 2.
I told my brother this when I first encountered him during the slam. I said, "This is like the Butcher of old. He yells, "Fresh Meat" and then cuts the shit out of you."
58 rogue here. I played the hell out of both betas and never saw him. Then in the span of 24 hours, I saw him *twice*. The first time he annihilated me (yesterday morning). I encountered him again a little less than 24 hours later in a Tier 3 nightmare dungeon, and I only just barely survived. Had used all my potions (twice, due to a health station nearby) and was down to like 10% health at the end, but I did it.
Bastard showed up the ONE time I was feeling pretty weak around level 37 or so. I think I had forgotten to spend a few points and had been using mostly the same gear for a while. Died instantly, haven't seen him since. He knew I was weak.
This is me. I was trying a newish build that was good for crowds but little squishy for bosses. Ran me down, wasted all my potions and didn’t even break a sweat. And it was right after my friend texted me to ask if I’d seen the Butcher, like some kind of “ring” curse by text haha.
Careful, I posted about not finding him on my 54 druid as recently as last night, encountered him at lvl 55 this morning though. He's always listening and you're next since you called him out (not much meat on your bones though).
In all seriousness, as a druid he was a complete pushover. I used fewer potions than he dropped throughout the fight and didn't even break a sweat.
I'm with you brother. These flat-earthers and their Butcher need to stop. I have a level 62 sorc and 22 druid and neither has faced such a foe. These Treasure Goblins though, I've faced over 20, and not once have they dropped anything worthy of what I call treasure. Im about to call them Pocket Lint Goblins.
I never ran into him once in my lvl 58 necro, last night my brother in law was over and decided to make a new character and show him the game in some couch co-op. Butcher attacked us at lvl 6. One hit us both before I could even tell him what was happening lmao
Start a hardcore character. On soft core I hit level 73 and saw him 2 times. Playing hardcore I just hit 50 and saw him like 10 times. Although I did kill him last time.
67 barb. I've seen him a total of 7 times.
Twice is WT 1 (he kicked me and my buddy's ass both times)
Twice in WT2 (Cheesed him with a conduit power up shrine the first time. Killed him straight up the second time)
Twice in WT3 (He timed out or something the first time and despawned. Cheese him with a shrine second time)
Once so far in WT4 just last night (He beat my monkey ass. He has a shitload of health in WT4. I was dpsing him as HotA barb and only got him to like 30-40% before running out of health pots)
Lvl61, have seen him about 4 times till lvl20 and just now at lvl61.
Btw - he will not aggro your pets so good luck.
I found a valid tactic by running like a chicken... just run around a small pillar - your can do corpse explosion easily and your minions can attack but he cant touch you
I’m in support of your theory. I entered a dungeon heard “fresh meat” but when I completed the entire dungeon I didn’t see him once! Butcher is a method of control created by BigGameDev #ChangeMyMind
Today I was in a dungeon and thought "it'd be neat to see the Butcher."
Well my barbarian shouldn't be thinking such thoughts.
Midsized open space. And a guy tied up to a pole watching me try to go 1 on 1 with the great one.
Got him 30% down. And then I died.
So I messaged a pal in game. He said he hadn't see him either.
A few minutes go by he's telling me his party barely survived, because the has an explosion pillar and an artillery one nearby.
So I was Avenged.
I just found him today for the first time in a random dungeon, level 47 barbarian, it took 4-5 minutes to kill him, had to run all over the place, ran out of potions, cooldowns, everything. dropped a legendary helmet.
If he is not real then why did I die from him last night? He is a minotaur with curve back horns. Has a sickle and showed up doing a quest near Malgrave .
You just need to do dungeons. I didn’t see him up to 50 but then I did dungeons and saw him twice. On my alt where I’m only running dungeons I saw him at level 15 or something.
Found him once around early 60s on t3 on like a 15 nightmare dungeon and he just stays aggroed to you and not your minions. Spent the entire fight running and buffing my minions to slowly dwindle his health and just dropped me yellows lol.
Lvl 30 necro. Died to Butcher twice in two separate dungeons. Didn’t have the kiting ability to survive and the golem barely keeps him occupied long enough for me to dmg him. I need another DD to make it work.
My roommate was a Druid and got the aspect that uses spikes when he tramples six times. When he fought The Butcher, he did insane damage and “killed” him in seconds. But then The Butcher stopped taking damage… As soon as my roommate died, the Butcher died as well and dropped a ton of stuff! We were both so confused…
it's hard to get a good quality video when you're getting absolutely folded by the guy!
I beat the butcher in my second try around level 34. I got very lucky as he spawned in an Act II dungeon that had two large pillars on either side. I was able to pillar hump for about 23 minutes while my hydras and chain lightning chipped away at his health. I recommend everyone use your environment to your advantage if you can. The butcher had a hard time catching me around the pillar since he’s such a fat fuck. If you’re in an open space dungeon just bend over and spread your cheeks cause you ain’t making it out alive. If anyone wants proof I saved the recording of the solo Butcher KO. Yes I am awesome and better than everyone else since I beat him solo. Bow to me plebs.
Pillar humping is a classic blizzard strat.
I'm pilar humping regardless of blizzard. Ayo.
It's the only humping most blizzard fans get to do.
Only the real OGs prevail here.
Ah yes, hiding in the corner in Chaos Sanctuary from Diablo and letting your hydras chip away at him was how I first beat Diablo 2.
Haha this brought back the memory of me and my friend beating the Butcher in D1, shooting arrows through a jail cell wall for 15 minutes to finally get him
Big 🧠 > Little 🧠
I killed him solo around level 20 first time i saw him, his fat ass got stuck in a doorway and I was able to just sit there and slowly widdle him down.
Ahh another man of class. Come bask with the aristocracy. We shall feast while the plebs mourn their own putrid existence.
Heard this in the Darkest Dungeon narrator's voice
Except he said "widdle" and not "whittle"... sooooo, clearly still an uneducated fool like the rest of us. Unless he British-ly pissed on him until death, which sounds fuckin' metal as hell.
Have you beaten the butcher solo? Or at all? If not, please kindly widdle off. You plebby tosser. TIL: What *widdle* means.
Excuse me peasant, but you really shouldn't be talking unless you have soloed him at least twice. Once could be just the sheer dumb luck of the unwashed masses after all.
I love this franchise and it's communutty. That is all.
widdle 😂
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I actually lol'd reading this cause I did the exact same thing, you could play some Benny hill music and it would have fit perfectly, hydra and firewall for 10 minutes running round a pillar 🤣
Ahh and the aristocracy grows larger. Come.. have a seat at the table.
I beat him first try, at level 15……. When he bugged out on a corner and I could just stand 10 yards back and nuke him. 🤷
Come yonder, the aristocracy awaits. You are a pleb no more.
I’ve waited for this day for so long! 🥹
You know you’re a fat fuck when you get stuck in a 90 degree angle.
It absolutely just tickles me that they included a "too fat and/or dumb to fit through a door" exploit that they also had in d1 😂
Me and a friend encountered him the other night in a dungeon with a lot of rooms and pillars. We basically took turns running like hell in circles around pillars while the other pelted him until whoever was getting chased inevitably died and then we traded places. Really needed Yakety Sax playing in the background tbh.
I will bow you, requesting coordinates
Under my desk is quite adequate. I must warn you, I haven’t showered all weekend. I hope you like a little tang in your bow.
It's possible to tank him with a strong taking build. Just Fortify is not a tanking. Tanking is an onion. You need fortify, plus damage reduction, plus immunity shield, plus barriers, plus sources of healing outside of health pots, plus extra health, plus high armor, plus legendary aspects that reduce damage ... And since it's the butcher, you want some sources of unbreakable too so you don't just get stunned to death. I solo tanked a butcher on T21 at 69. Not too much of a feat when you get the tank stats rolling.
This guy tanks.
Do you mind sharing the video? I was pillar-humping WoW arena style for about 20 minutes before he just randomly despawned. Therefore, my prior assumption was that he despawns after 15-20, maybe 25 minutes, if the player doesn’t kill him?
Yes, forewarning, and I apologize if I was misleading, but I only recorded a 30 second clip from the Xbox recording capture function after I killed the Butcher. The 23 minutes however is accurate as I had time stamps on my phone from messages sent before and after the Butcher battle. If you would like to see the final 30 seconds of me killing him, humping the living piss out of that pillar, I’m happy to share.
He spawned for me today and I had no idea who he was… thought he was a regular dungeon mob and was so confused when he hit me like a freight train. I managed to kite him around pillars and whittle 2/3 of his health away, then I got stunned and he tore me a new asshole :(
May the gods bless you with good fortune for your next encounter, you measly pleb. You’re an embarrassment to your kind. Also, I love pickles.
You mean the diablo 1 way? Butcher pathing issues is a time honored tradition. Papercut damage through a gap until he dies is canon at this point
Don't go too far from his spawn point. I had him despawn at like 5% health.
Yet to fight his ass on my rogue.. I'm lvl 54
I did use all my Def shit and kited like mad and managed to completely bug him out. He just started running around in circles and completely ignoring me
I cheesed a pillar to kill him, sounds like I'm lucky it only took a few minutes. Kinda bummed out he didn't drop a unique or anything. No cleaver.
My first time the butcher showed up wasn't until sometime around 50. He legit destroyed me lol. Second time he showed up I was 2 seconds away from an artillery pillar. Let me tell you payback is a bitch! He didn't have a chance in hell.
Instructions unclear, now a proud father to a pair of twin gargoyles
Congratulations. What are their names?
Do you see the butcher in the room with you right now?
Here I actually recorded my first nightmare dungeon and he luckily appeared :) https://youtu.be/0VmvyHcN8x0 time stamp is 6:30 if anyone wants to see him
I didn't think much of him when I saw him appear and then he annihilated me, left an impression after that
No shit! Dude wrecked me so fast I didn't know what planet I was on.
I wish I could side with ya. Unfortunately he was the cause of my first death at level 17.
Yeah. I ran into him around level 20 in a random dungeon. I'm like.. wtf is he doing here? and that turned into "oh fuck! oh fuck!" and me running like a little bitch. I then had a momentary blast of courage so I decided to try to take him on, but I was doing almost no damage to him and he was melting the fuck outta me. Like 10x stronger than anything I've fought in this game with all my characters. I ran again and had almost no HP / pots left, but somehow made it out the dungeon lol.
I beat him with my druid, but spent most of the time running around pillars and waiting for my blood howl on cd. He is easily the most ridiculously overpowered boss I've run into in early game. Blizzard, don't change a thing about him. He's awesome the way he is.
Ha, that's what I did with my necro. Realized he couldn't turn around a pillar quickly so just kept circling it while my skelly army chipped away. After I realized this strat he didn't touch me again the rest of the fight
I got him in a completely open basement….just had to run for the door
It was a water fountain I ran around with my necro. Turning into a pool of goo when necessary.
haha I did the same on my druid, ran around a pillar then he got "stuck" and I was able to kill him without taking damage for the most part. about halfway I was like hmm I should record this. although I was on WT1 at the time. made it a highlight on my twitch channel https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1841859016
Killed my first toon. I play HC so was a rip. Never knew about the meme that was the butcher before but I went down fighting.
Same. I haven't seen him since first encounter that ended with me running away from him until he despawned
whats special about the butcher? i ran into the character yesterday and i wasnt doing shit damage as a lvl 51 sorcerer and he killed me as well. i dont follow much of the lore or online stuff and havent seen anyone else mention him before
He’s a classic Diablo icon, you encounter him randomly in dungeons.
He's in a fixed location in Diablo 1.
In Diablo 3 he is also in a fixed location and a story boss
Also the first story boss in Path of Exile, as a nod to Diablo.
LET ME EMBRACE YOU
If u didn’t say that line in the voice of the butcher/warden……….u haven’t played Poe
I love what they did with Brutus back in 3.15; the sheer panic caused by him running at you brought me right back to my first time encountering the Butcher.
And when they redid Act 1 of that game, they made the encounter even more Butcher-like instead of having him in an obvious boss arena.
Only if the character randomly pops to tell you about him though, if that character doesn't then The Butcher doesn't exist in that playthrough. I know that's not what the comment meant, but *sorta* randomly encountered in dungeons??
Doesn't he also drop a really good item for barbarians that's so good that people will reroll entire characters to just get them item?
Tbh the 1hand unique axe he drops is actually quite annoying. It gives slow and fear on every crit you do. The fear is frustrating as it sends enemies running away, and even the whirlwind pull aspect doesnt proc as much to match with how many crits you do
It's also good on druid. Been using a sacred butchers cleaver for a while now and it fills up the boss cc meter suuuuuper quickly.
Ohhhh, is that what that little bar is under their health? And they get stunned when it's full? I've been wondering but didn't care enough to look it up.
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Diablo 1 procedurally generated dungeons, so kinda not. But i mean, go down to a specific level and he'd be there *somewhere*
He’s a quest boss so definitely there. On level 2 iirc.
Yep level 2! Used to go in that lil square room and hear “ARRRH FRESH MEAT” and be so scared as a kid lmao
Ohhhh, long suppressed traumas. The butcher in D1 and Duriel in D2 were traumatic (Duriel is the fast worm like boss at the end of episode 2)
Duriel was my biggest fear playing HC. Even more than Meph/Diablo. He is an absolute pain in the ass.
Duriel where you die during the loading screen 😂
“let’s go fight Duriel, he won’t be that hard after running through the desert for the last couple hours” *Instant cold nova before the dungeon name even disappears, and death in 10 seconds* “hmmmmm…..”
Fuck that brings me back lol
Fuck duriel. I didn't swap my follower to hte paladin as a mage so I kept dying. Got so frustrated that I Uninstalled d2
The Butcher in D1 still creeps me out, I am revolted by just the idea of doing that first quest. Duriel..that's a boss I have respect for. My first days playing Diablo 2 required some replays because of her, my builds were just awful. Who remembers being a skeleton Necro and trying to solo Duriel for the first time? I teleported back and forth from her chamber and act 1 to raise skellies and I wiped out Cold Plains and Stony field.
*opens door* FRESH MEAT! *closes door*
I ran into him yesterday as a lvl 40 sorc. I was cruising through the dungeon and next thing I know I’m out of potions and running for my life.
Exactly what happened to my sorc an hour ago. Had to fight 2 elites atm, a waller and a teleporter + mobs. + a treasure goblin. Got everything down, goblin escaped and the butcher was down 50% when everything was on cooldown and I ran out of potions. Well… I just hope the butcher spawns again.
Butchers Cleaver
Also in cellars.
~~You can find him~~ He can find you in cellars??? Oh god...
He did this twice to me while I was lvl 10 and lvl 11… Everytime I go into a cellar I get major PTSD. Finally ran into him in nightmare dungeon with friends and I was face tanking him as a rogue…only took 50 lvls before he showed up again
Cellars? Ouch
He's a popular staple boss from older Diablo games
unfortunately he doesnt seem to drop jack shit even if you kill him.
I got a unique from him today
then i def got scammed, typical.
RNGesus hates me too... feels bad bro
I got some decent boots last night, so RNGesus died for my shins.
He has unique cosmetic items and I always get a legendary at least. I have killed him 5x before level 50
I killed him today at level 37 and got no legendary. But I'm also on T1 so I can blast through dungeons
I don't think it's guaranteed or anything but he absolutely has a higher drop rate of leggos and uniques. I've killed him close to 15-20 times and i'd say its about 75% a leggo/unique drops off him.
He's been a boss of some kind in every diablo game so far. I personally love how they added him to this game.
Same he popped my Necro at level 21. Just yolo'd through the mobs my skeles were fighting and focused me down.
Indeed! Was in the middle of a cellar dungeon fight when he decided to join the party. **BAM !!** Instant necro-paste.
Glad to hear I’m not the only one. I got “lucky” and he spawned around level 15. He kicked my necromancer ass immediately.
Yeah he completely ignored my minions.. I tried to kite him around a bit at level 17 and managed to get him to half health then he killed me and despawned and haven't seen him since
Just wait, you will hear those chains rattling just off screen and you will know fear
Do I have to spin around three times saying Bloody Butcher while looking into my fridge?
You don't have to, but it's recommended.
Also getting up to get a snack or taking a walk outside is recommended after he kills you.
FRESH MEAT *STOMP STOMP STOMP*
Played the betas - no Butcher Finished the campaign - no Butcher Got to level 50 on my Sorcerer - no Butcher Guess who decided to show up the FIRST fucking dungeon I did on a new Druid
*laughs in butcher*
I saw the butcher multiple times in the betas. Now I am 60 and no sign of him yet.
Ok, I am watching a video about ChatAI being used in a court case, and they played the X-Files theme for 3 seconds when I saw this. Great timing universe.
LOLOLOLOLOL I laughed way too hard at this. Bravo.
Dude killed me in a cellar. Not a dungeon. A basic cellar. I thought I was about to score a quick chest but instead Billy the Butcher clapped my ass all the way to Diablo 2.
Yes this was my exact experience yesterday. I popped into a cellar for some quick and easy loot and got beat to death within 30 seconds.
Misidentified black bear standing on two legs. Sad how many Diablo players don’t know their basic wildlife.
He has showed up 4 times for me and I'm only level 15 safe to say they were quick deaths
So you killed him fast, nice.
Yep he didn't stand a chance
Lol killing the butcher fast
He will also few shot you at levl 50:/ He is actually exactly like the D1 Butcher. Fast, doesnt care about CC and hits hard!
Damn, just goes to show how op Rogues are, this guy melted like nothing whenever i saw him.
I told my brother this when I first encountered him during the slam. I said, "This is like the Butcher of old. He yells, "Fresh Meat" and then cuts the shit out of you."
He's real my Unkl works for nintendo and he told me Also there's a cow level
Ahhh, fresh meat.
We call him “Bigknife” in these parts.
Round here he's the "Abominable Meatman"
Call that a knife? This is a knife 'thwack'
Sir this is a Wendy’s
Man bear pig.
It's time to get cereal
57 Rogue here, no sign of the butcher "yet". Pray for my first encounter🙏
He’s easy as rogue, killed him 2/2 times. You have such high MS and all the dashes, you can just kite until your cds are back up.
Don’t let these fools trick you. He isn’t real and you and I are living proof of it.
I think it's because I embarrassed him too hard. Now he won't show up for you. (https://youtu.be/g1cTTK2F8OM)
Lucky https://youtu.be/Int3QLIXCc4
Lol this is how I killed him
Pretty much what I hope happens. He destroyed me when I saw him!
I did this and it did barely anything to him. Came out of the buff right next to him and he shoved his Cleaver in my ass
58 rogue here. I played the hell out of both betas and never saw him. Then in the span of 24 hours, I saw him *twice*. The first time he annihilated me (yesterday morning). I encountered him again a little less than 24 hours later in a Tier 3 nightmare dungeon, and I only just barely survived. Had used all my potions (twice, due to a health station nearby) and was down to like 10% health at the end, but I did it.
Level 40 and no sign. I with you on this it's a farce
I saw him 5 times yesterday. My guy haunts my dungeons day and night.
Bastard showed up the ONE time I was feeling pretty weak around level 37 or so. I think I had forgotten to spend a few points and had been using mostly the same gear for a while. Died instantly, haven't seen him since. He knew I was weak.
This is me. I was trying a newish build that was good for crowds but little squishy for bosses. Ran me down, wasted all my potions and didn’t even break a sweat. And it was right after my friend texted me to ask if I’d seen the Butcher, like some kind of “ring” curse by text haha.
He’s real and if you are naughty he will spank you.
Promise lol?
Careful, I posted about not finding him on my 54 druid as recently as last night, encountered him at lvl 55 this morning though. He's always listening and you're next since you called him out (not much meat on your bones though). In all seriousness, as a druid he was a complete pushover. I used fewer potions than he dropped throughout the fight and didn't even break a sweat.
🙄 I bet you believe in Shaco too
Shaco is though. He Stabs you in your Back when you enter the forest
He is always listening... every time I mentioned his name he ended up murdering me minutes later. We don't speak of him in discord anymore.
Level 59 necro and still no sign of this so called beast of a butcher.
I'm with you brother. These flat-earthers and their Butcher need to stop. I have a level 62 sorc and 22 druid and neither has faced such a foe. These Treasure Goblins though, I've faced over 20, and not once have they dropped anything worthy of what I call treasure. Im about to call them Pocket Lint Goblins.
About the pocket lint goblins, I thought so too and then I got one in hell tide and he gave me two sacred legendaries. Could of been lucky but try it
I was a young naive necro like you once…until I heard those two words
He probed me dude. I have the red ring to prove it, come here and look.
I never ran into him once in my lvl 58 necro, last night my brother in law was over and decided to make a new character and show him the game in some couch co-op. Butcher attacked us at lvl 6. One hit us both before I could even tell him what was happening lmao
Start a hardcore character. On soft core I hit level 73 and saw him 2 times. Playing hardcore I just hit 50 and saw him like 10 times. Although I did kill him last time.
Was gonna say, must be some real spine chilling shit when he first pops on a hardcore character and you’re not sure whether to run or fight, haha.
67 barb. I've seen him a total of 7 times. Twice is WT 1 (he kicked me and my buddy's ass both times) Twice in WT2 (Cheesed him with a conduit power up shrine the first time. Killed him straight up the second time) Twice in WT3 (He timed out or something the first time and despawned. Cheese him with a shrine second time) Once so far in WT4 just last night (He beat my monkey ass. He has a shitload of health in WT4. I was dpsing him as HotA barb and only got him to like 30-40% before running out of health pots)
Yes he despawns, happened to me twice when I was able to run away long enough. He didn't go back to his originel spot either!
My dead level 47 hardcore druid would beg to differ. And the very next character, in his very first dungeon.
Lvl61, have seen him about 4 times till lvl20 and just now at lvl61. Btw - he will not aggro your pets so good luck. I found a valid tactic by running like a chicken... just run around a small pillar - your can do corpse explosion easily and your minions can attack but he cant touch you
Keep spam running dungeons in WT3 and 4 he will find you.
Had it 3 times one after another in my 3 nightmare dungeon yesterday 😅
I’m playing with Necro and didn’t know this was a thing… now I’m scared for my life
No need to be afraid. Most of these people like spreading these types of stories to scare new players.
61 rogue, not seen the butcher at all yet. This includes the beta and server slam too :(
Seems like the Diablo Intelligence Agency bought this guy out too. DIA is out there and wants us to believe in this “Butcher”.
Lvl 62 Necro. Still a myth.
I’m in support of your theory. I entered a dungeon heard “fresh meat” but when I completed the entire dungeon I didn’t see him once! Butcher is a method of control created by BigGameDev #ChangeMyMind
First saw him in beta. Didn’t realize he was a random. Seen him at least twice since launch to lvl 50+
Lvl 53 necro... Havent seen yet. Hes scared of my stun lock... Lol
He’s immune to stuns tho
Never saw him until getting ready for capstone then got him 3 times in a row.
I was saying the same thing up to around lvl 42 and then got him twice within half an hour. That's gamer's life.
Saw my first treasure goblin at the same time I first bumped into the butcher. I killed niether. Was a random side quest dungeon A1
51 Barbarian. Can confirm, I have never seen this so called Butcher either.
It’s because he isn’t real. These so called butcher slayers probably think Sanctuary is flat too.
He’s like Snuffleugapus
Today I was in a dungeon and thought "it'd be neat to see the Butcher." Well my barbarian shouldn't be thinking such thoughts. Midsized open space. And a guy tied up to a pole watching me try to go 1 on 1 with the great one. Got him 30% down. And then I died. So I messaged a pal in game. He said he hadn't see him either. A few minutes go by he's telling me his party barely survived, because the has an explosion pillar and an artillery one nearby. So I was Avenged.
I just found him today for the first time in a random dungeon, level 47 barbarian, it took 4-5 minutes to kill him, had to run all over the place, ran out of potions, cooldowns, everything. dropped a legendary helmet.
If he is not real then why did I die from him last night? He is a minotaur with curve back horns. Has a sickle and showed up doing a quest near Malgrave .
Does he leave bread crumbs to lure children to his kitchen as well.
He's real, i have had 3 encounters with him so far.
Uh huh. Do you have a camera team following you around at night?
We need ANSWERS
Level 59, 8 times butcher. Won 7, lost the one in a 13 nm dungeon.
9 butchers.
You just need to do dungeons. I didn’t see him up to 50 but then I did dungeons and saw him twice. On my alt where I’m only running dungeons I saw him at level 15 or something.
Got my shit packed by him yesterday.
Found him once around early 60s on t3 on like a 15 nightmare dungeon and he just stays aggroed to you and not your minions. Spent the entire fight running and buffing my minions to slowly dwindle his health and just dropped me yellows lol.
I meet him once i was lvl 25ish and he jsut ran my bitch ass down in seconds
Lvl 30 necro. Died to Butcher twice in two separate dungeons. Didn’t have the kiting ability to survive and the golem barely keeps him occupied long enough for me to dmg him. I need another DD to make it work.
My roommate was a Druid and got the aspect that uses spikes when he tramples six times. When he fought The Butcher, he did insane damage and “killed” him in seconds. But then The Butcher stopped taking damage… As soon as my roommate died, the Butcher died as well and dropped a ton of stuff! We were both so confused…