Corpse Runs @#$%@&!Follow

Morning everyone,

Corpse Runs are the most painful part of the game for me. I will actually log out of EQ and not play the game for days after a particularly bad death (i.e. stupidity on my part and/or others).

1.) Does anyone else have this problem or is it just a personal issue for me?

2.) I hate the set back that occurs from the loss of experience and
gear (only temp of course). The time that is needed to find my corpse, find a necro and or cleric, work to gain back the experience is just painful.

Some people who post on this forum seem to die all the time and actually see it as a challenge. Of course, they have access to a guild and numerous alts that make the process of rebuilding a bit easier and quicker.

Anyway - just needed to vent because my new pally went down last night after someone trained my single camp.

Bubspeed

Different strokes for different folks I suppose. It's not that we love getting killed. It *is* a challenge, in the way that without the risk of death the game wouldn't be very challenging.

Honestly, the best thing to do when you die is just get right back into your group and keep going. At the lower levels of the game, the gear mudflation and ready availablity of buffs makes regaining exp super easy. Imagine hunting where you are in purely oldworld gear. Heck. I remember when you were "uber" if you had all bronze armor by the time you were level 20. And armor with stats on it? You had to raid for that stuff. A level 35 character was happy as anything to get a piece of armor with +3str on it (and nothing else!). I'm not kidding.

You're fighting the same mobs with 5 times better gear. Yeah. That doesn't make you immune to death, but it sure should make it easier to recover. Don't sweat not getting rezzes. I don't think I recieved a single rez on my first character until he was well into his 30s. I'm always amazed at folks in their 20s standing around begging for rezzes for 30 minutes at a time, when they could have gotten the exp back in 10.

By the time you actually lose something significant from dying in terms of time, rezzes are pretty much available easily. CRs are never fun (makes DoN worth it right there IMO!), but not that difficule ultimately. Try dying in your mid teens at the bottom of befallen sometime. That was a "fun" CR (and probably the hardest I've ever had, not counting some early fear raids).

Dying sucks. No doubt about it. But it's just part of the game.

I'm the same way. I'm almost religious about CR's. Even if I looted everything except a fishing grub off the corpse, I'll go clear it. I don't want the corpse sitting there. Of course, as others have pointed out, with DoN that's not a problem for me anymore. I'll gladly spent the 175pp to summon all of my corpses at once and get them rezzed in one easy, fell swoop (of course donating heavily to the cleric that's nice enough to do all of those rezzes).

AMEN!! I actually did something last night that wiped out the whole group!! I let a mob run BAH!! trained fable on us wiped the 4 of us well maybe the wizard lived. I tried to camp but it was too late. Peeps where not happy> blamed me(which it was my fault) I apologized said was my mistake very very sorry. All was well. Peeps are forgiving if you just recognize your mistake like said in qoute above peeps make mistakes.
It is frustrating to die..but you just got to pick up and keep goin. If you just stop playin for days you will feel like you arent getting anywhere.

Zaphian - 62 druid

Qoute:

I would be embarassed to have my corpse lying next to a zone-in or the PoK book for days



Hell I leave my corpse where ever just to show I was there....lol.Ive got 4 corpse's on the floor in guild hall .I try to leave an arrow or some junk item just to keep it around.Dieing is part of the game get use to it.

don't fortget, that Bub is not guilded (that's how I read his OP). so using the guild altar is no viable option.

stupid deaths? well...no such thing. they might be useless, if you don't learn from them, but that's about it.

but, I can very well relate to the feeling of "what the heck, then I let the corpse rot and play an alt."

Not true, you do not have to be in a guild to summon your corpses back into the guild lobby.

(Although I do resent not being able to use the regen pool though!)

"I do not feel like wasting a spot to keep a fishing grub or arrow on my body so the corpse can sit there. No, all my spaces have good things in them, so I never leave a corpse laying around, plus to me, I just don't see the point. And I too can't bring myself to ask for a rez if gross stupidity on my part resulted in the corpse (not that I can ever remember anthing like that ever happening...) "





First of all i dont do it on purpose i said i try to leave an item and second does it really matter?? What is someone gonna make fun of me cuase i died?? who really gives a fat hairy plague rat ***???

Warning contains opinion (duh)...

If you want to leave 10 corpses lying around that is fine. Just looks like you have no clue what you are doing. I can understand if I see your dead self deep in a dungeon, but the guy who has 4 corpses in PoK or 3 by the PoK book in OT will cause me to AVOID him like a fat hairy plague rat.

I just said FOR ME I do not like leaving them. That's what OP was asking I believe. If I do leave a small item on them, it is only because I expect a rez very soon, and need my equipment sooner.

I was warned before i started playing EQ now i see what the people were trying to warn me about.