Path of Exile 1 Gameplay Help and Discussion - Death Penalties - Forum

The time of harsh death penalty is over... if we want death penalties we had just to play hardcore btw. but may be a death counter visible on character stats might be dissuasive for dying to often? or a visual effect like character become slightly transparent like a ghost until he had killed a certain numbers of monsters and thus regain is consistency. something like that without being detrimental in term of gameplay add a psychological and moral effect. you were dead... that must be showed in a way or another... ... nothing	Posted by __Z__#6480 on Jan 29, 2012, 3:51:30 AM Quote this Post
Its easy loss of 5% exp and debuff (-20% damage and +10% taken damage) untill farm that 5% amount	Posted by Dest3#1489 on Jan 29, 2012, 4:51:42 AM Quote this Post
I'm a fan of the above, a minor penalty that goes away until you gain experience. Maybe have it also slowly tick away to avoid the case where somebody gets stuck because now they can't really gain experience to get out of it without dying.	Posted by Umbraal#6534 on Jan 29, 2012, 6:46:25 PM Quote this Post
" Dest3 wrote: Its easy loss of 5% exp and debuff (-20% damage and +10% taken damage) untill farm that 5% amount Interesting idea, it just depends how long it actually takes to get that 5% back. If 5% at higher levels takes 1 hour or longer (as in many different mmos) it could be too much of a deterrent to bother playing after that death. Die a few unlucky times most likely due to that debuff, and many players would just shrug and go play another game rather then spend hours reclaiming lost exp.	Posted by pmundhenk#7187 on Jan 30, 2012, 1:17:29 AM Quote this Post
I really really hated the fact that when you die in diablo 2 you drop your gear. I dont mind the running back or the gold loss, but having to navigate through the mob that killed me in a weakened armorless state really sucked. Not really sure how i feel about most of these suggestions. I would think something simple like a xp/gold loss and returned to town or waypoint would be best. Xp loss makes death seem a lot worse than some sort of currency loss as currency is usually easy to come by.	Posted by Mjade#6104 on Jan 30, 2012, 1:48:48 AM Quote this Post
" pmundhenk wrote: " Dest3 wrote: Its easy loss of 5% exp and debuff (-20% damage and +10% taken damage) untill farm that 5% amount Interesting idea, it just depends how long it actually takes to get that 5% back. If 5% at higher levels takes 1 hour or longer (as in many different mmos) it could be too much of a deterrent to bother playing after that death. Die a few unlucky times most likely due to that debuff, and many players would just shrug and go play another game rather then spend hours reclaiming lost exp. Sure, i understand it so maybe like 5% loss and penalty in first 3 difficultys, and static 5 min penalty with 1 random item dropped from ur inventory (equipped item) at the last difficulty.	Posted by Dest3#1489 on Jan 30, 2012, 4:48:23 AM Quote this Post
Lol i don't even have a clue if there's a penalty on default atm. I didn't die so far. I do know i always HATED losing my gear on other games when i died. It's also horrible for people who lose connection. (Possibly died because of that) I don't see the use of walking back to your corpse, nakid, which is surrounded by mobs. My vote is for death penalty(= f.e 10% less damage and 10% less armor..summit like that) and loss of experience.	Posted by bitsjie#3389 on Jan 30, 2012, 1:45:09 PM Quote this Post
Nobody says about LOSING ur gear, drops - not lost. U always can came back and pickup it.	Posted by Dest3#1489 on Jan 30, 2012, 2:34:19 PM Quote this Post
I've died twice so far while not paying attention to the action around me: an unexpected boss fight and a harder monster that was aggressive after being passive for a while. I think different leagues should have different penalties, but the most forgiving (lowest, casual, however you want to say it) of levels should implement the social stigma style penalties as said by __Z__: " The time of harsh death penalty is over... if we want death penalties we had just to play hardcore btw. but may be a death counter visible on character stats might be dissuasive for dying to often? I'm super casual, so just a death counter (with triple digits perhaps? ;) ) is enough for me (and there should be a league for casual...).	Posted by dilweed#6879 on Jan 31, 2012, 7:17:48 PM Quote this Post
" Chris wrote: The purpose of this "Developer Discussion" forum is for us to discuss topics with you that we feel we need feedback on. We haven't decided on a system for death penalties in Path of Exile. Clearly in specific leagues like hardcore there is a well defined death penalty, but we haven't come up with anything solid for default play. I understand that this has already been discussed here, but I'd like to build a bigger discussion that hopefully results in some kind of decision. Currently, when a player dies, they can respawn (with no penalty) in that act's town. We will probably be introducing something like town portals, soon, so we're going to need a more appropriate penalty. We don't like the idea of dropping an item upon death, because players of the default league have specifically chosen to not suffer permanent loss when they die. Having an experience penalty is possible, but maybe there's something more interesting we can do. Do you guys have any ideas for how we can handle this in an interesting way? Drop 600 gold per leve, if ur level 10 u drop 6000 gold. Youre corpse is lootable for 1minute, if another player stumbles upon u during that time he can take all your items. other than that i dont think u guys should do to much of a death penalty, it may sound cool and hardcore but many ppl will get tired of it and quit playing http://www.youtube.com/user/robinekenberg/videos http://www.twitch.tv/theenglishman	Posted by lourobin#4999 on Feb 1, 2012, 4:18:42 AM Quote this Post