Now THAT is bad luck!

Deicide · Post by **Deicide** » Fri May 19, 2006 10:37 pm

Well, bad luck AND stupidity. It was stupid because me and my party (almost everyone at lvl 25, including me), decided to go to Shadow Plane.

Ok, we barely arrive there, and a Shadow Render is waiting for us. We can't touch the thing, and yet it is killing us easily. I die. Got raised. Died again. Got raised. Died again, learnt my lesson and stayed dead, asking the rest of the party to run.

Ok, two party members are also down. The Shadow Render is by the side of my corpse. I choose to Respawn and get the respawn penalties...

Now comes the bad luck part.

When I hit respawn and get the penaulties, in that half a second that you are rising from the ground, the Shadow Render or some of the Greater Shadows nearby uses some fear effect on me. I fail the save, and instead of being ported to my bind rift, my character runs screaming like a little girl. The Shadow Render comes after the scared toon and kills him AGAIN. Thus, I must respawn AGAIN and take the same respawn penalty. Thus, I lost over 50k gold and 2.5k xp in one death.

I have a screenshot, but don't have a place to host it to show you.

But THAT was bad luck!

JesterOI · Post by **JesterOI** » Fri May 19, 2006 10:50 pm

50k gold and 2.5k xp lost is nothing really.

Trying losing a few mil gold and 20k xp to a server crash.

Deicide · Post by **Deicide** » Sat May 20, 2006 12:38 am

Wow.

kingfatzo · Post by **kingfatzo** » Sat May 20, 2006 4:13 pm

Was a similar incident not brought up in another recent post? i am pretty sure, but i dont have the incentive to cite it for you:

Solution : be paitent when hitting the respawn button

however, that is pretty funny -- dead man running around

GeraldV · Post by **GeraldV** » Sat May 20, 2006 5:57 pm

I've had something simlar to Deicides experience - respawned while stonehold gas was still up. Hit respawn, rose from the dea - stoneheld, didnt teleport to respawn point. Just had to stand there and get killed again. How humiliating!

Also respawned, got hit with about 4 crits before porting, and promptly died upon arriving at respawn point. Those Songs of the Hand had a good chuckle on that one, let me tell you! Almost enough to send a paladin renegade ...

Anyway, just reaffirming Fatzo's point - not an uncommon occurence.

Post by **VagaStorm** » Sat May 20, 2006 7:48 pm

Yes, I've seen this hapen when I was fighting a dragon, it knocked me down on respawn, and I got another shot at killing her :p Still killed me tho :/

JesterOI · Post by **JesterOI** » Sat May 20, 2006 9:40 pm

I was in a party once, got killed, hit respawn close to a monster, got killed again.
Cool thing was for that split second when I was respawning and being rekilled a party member popped off a Horrid or something and killed 10 things giving me a crap load of xp which more than covered the cost of a double respawn penatly, xp-wise atleast.

P. Fricebottle · Post by **P. Fricebottle** » Sat May 20, 2006 9:47 pm

I've done this one multiple times...

I'm in a close fight 1v1 on a monster. I think I've got him because hes at Near Death and I'm at Badly Injured so no biggy. But, he suddenly pulls off a couple of crits (engine likes to do that out of nowhere for some reason) and I die. When I respawn in the split second I'm there I swing again and he dies. Its kinda a satisfying feeling of killing your killer.

JesterOI · Post by **JesterOI** » Sat May 20, 2006 9:58 pm

The game engine cheats.

Why can they never make one that doesn't cheat?