Death Penalties

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Drahken wrote:

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slyme wrote:

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Pavshaus wrote:

I have to agree the death penalty, especially once you get to merciless, is ridiculous. This is made even more intolerable by the fact that zones that are several levels below your char level can snuff you in an instant due to large mobs of rare monsters dealing ridiculous levels of crits or normal damage all at once. The zone balance coupled with the death penalties makes the game frustrating at best. Challenge is one thing, moronic unjustifiable imbalance and penalty is another.

Perhaps the introduction of a resurrection orb which could be used to restore characters to pre-death penalty levels at a players option would be a viable alternative?

(I also agree)
When I need to do 3 full merci docks runs to gain back what is lost from one death I have 0 incentive to continue playing.

wait till you get a little higher in level.. it goes up quickly. one death would be like 10+ dock runs

and a ressurection orb would be cool. I think this game needs more currency orbs as it is anyways.

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slyme wrote:

If they made an orb it would need to be available from a npc for a minimal price or it would make it "P2W" in the sense of paying for experience. They really should just get rid of the penalties in SC;

or perhaps no penalty for your first death (on a timer); if you die again within 15 minutes you lose exp. if not once 15 min pass timer resets and you get a free death.

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EmperorGR wrote:

Not sure if anyone suggested that since i didnt read all 149 pages but anyway



It will be a lot easier for players to take the penalty even if the actual XP loss in numbers was the same if it wasnt a pure 15% decrease in a matter of a second.


SO lets say we have 2 people both for the sake of easier calculations have 10000 XP


Person A dies , loses 1500 XP (current system)


Person B dies , he is cursed with a status that decreases the xp he earns from now on until his XP loss goes to 1500. (the mechanic actually already exists in game with the unique that decreases the experience gained.)

Both ppl lost same XP the difference is that you can accept a lot easier a slower progress but still a progress than a direct removal of your hard earned xp

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slyme wrote:

When I need to do 3 full merci docks runs to gain back what is lost from one death I have 0 incentive to continue playing.