Death Penalty Changes in 0.11.3

Keep it up GGG, the 6 socket change was a necessary one. It takes people's focus away from game mechanics to always be on the look out for 6 socket items. If people want high item tension, there is a party allocation for that. I am not sure about the reduced exp penalty though, I think 5% cruel and 10% merci may make a little more sense but if 8% keeps more people playing so be it.

Good call GGG i think death penalty sucks anyway on a easy casual player league...
I play on Standard and Hardcore leagues but when i go standard i usually do it to check out some experimental builds and just have fun so the less death penalty is welcome and sounds like more fun. We will see how this death penalty change will work...

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We're okay with the strategy of throwing yourself at a boss several times if it's a little too hard for you (which allows us to have pretty challenging mandatory boss fights), but there needs to be a penalty so that this doesn't become a dominant strategy.

I think you should scale penalty depends on circumstances of death. For example: killed by uinq - 8%, by rare - 10%, by magick - 12% and 14% by white monsters. Values can change, but i think it's pretty fair system.

Isn't it possible to set the amount of exp lose in the leagues and by do it that way the hardcore players can't rant about it.
I've died a few times to desync and that is kinda annoying cause you are not in control of what is happening so I don't like the penalty you get from dying and lowering it seems to be the right choice.

Maybe this was suggested already, but I would like to see quantity (- 20-50%) OR rarity (- 50-100%) drop penalty if you die for

a) few minutes

b) for a specific number of monsters killed (like 100)

to discourage killing bosses while dying at 0%exp, OR even if you do it, then you will get reduced loot, but atleast have killed the boss to progress through.

Yeah the 6-socket thing sucks! If somebodies too slow to miss it, then too bad. I actually play with a buddy and we have fun fighting over them and chromatics. It seems you guys are "bending over" for the whiners, just saying... I do like the exp penalty reduction for now because of the desync and the desync caused by partying with a summoner. Can you guys fix that please?

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drepanaspis1 wrote:

I vote for 5% and 10%, 3 and 8 just seems a little low.

I would rather they start there as well. Oh well I'm sure they know what their doing.

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Qarl wrote:

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Dreggon wrote:

This is an option that was considered, however a debt is very psychologically negative if you stop playing after dying, and then come back to the game, as you have a penalty that you only get long after the associations with the act that gave you the penalty.

I think it's needed.

Personally I tend to "cheese" some hard boss-fights by waiting until I level and then do them knowing there is no risk of me losing anything (other than my dignity). Basically you can die repeatedly without any punishment whatsoever, I don't think that's a good thing.

How about negative experience in this case for penalty?
In this case, you would get to -8 experience. You would still be at same level, but you start at -8% instead of 0.
Just trowing ideas out there.

Sorry if this has been mentionned, but I didn't read the whole 45 pages.

crave in for the crybabies

poe used to be for the hardcore players

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exorzist wrote:

crave in for the crybabies

poe used to be for the hardcore players

It becomes hardcore the day the majority of mobs can 1-shot you no matter how much armor/evade/hp/es you have and alt+f4 forces your character to stay online for 10 seconds.


Edit: Like I've said before: the original mario is more hardcore than PoE, and that was game for children.