Its nearly imposible to retrieve your own corpse at higher levels if you happen to die. If you wait till your full hp your corpse has disapeared. If you go and try to get it before it depops any mage mob hits for 20+ dmg a spell (even with max magical resistance since its pure luck based), any melee mob hits for almost the same when you don't have armor on. Some places require you to break down a wall with a weapon and you cannot attack with your fists.

If your corpse isn't too far away and no casters around you can run to bank, regear up, and go for your corpse and hopfully you can live long enough to loot your gear and run. If there are casters... ya that thing is gone, even if you regear up a frost magi hits for about 40ish dmg and they usually come with other melees or another magi.

And because of all that its usually never worth risking a full set of gear that takes over 12 hours of straight farming to get. Level 20 to 66 and still havn't found platemail gloves nor a breastplate with fire or magical resistance on it.

 

Maybe add a npc that'll enchant your gear so next time you die to a npc you start with it for the low cost of 5k per piece or maybe triple the drop rate of non rogue gear (have like 10 sets of that crap lol). Or an npc that'll summon your corpse for a heavy cost or rare material thats hard to get.

Sadly now that I think of it I'm probably just QQing over content I really shouldn't be soloing anyways. I think reapers of life, ice magis, ice elementals and so forth are all really ment for a group of 2+ people, probably 4+ if your evil since you can't spam heal from a whtie mage.

What do you guys think of being an easier way of recovering your corpse from npc deaths?

 

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Its nearly imposible to retrieve your own corpse at higher levels if you happen to die. If you wait till your full hp your corpse has disapeared. If you go and try to get it before it depops any mage mob hits for 20+ dmg a spell (even with max magical resistance since its pure luck based), any melee mob hits for almost the same when you don't have armor on. Some places require you to break down a wall with a weapon and you cannot attack with your fists.

I disagree; it’s not necessarily hard to retrieve your body. Obviously this has a few exceptions. When the game is out of beta the current map will only be about 1/7 of the world (nearly positive). When the game is that big your idea might come into play a little bit more.

 

Quote:Korzek

Maybe add a npc that'll enchant your gear so next time you die to a npc you start with it for the low cost of 5k per piece or maybe triple the drop rate of non rogue gear (have like 10 sets of that crap lol). Or an npc that'll summon your corpse for a heavy cost or rare material thats hard to get. Sadly now that I think of it I'm probably just QQing over content I really shouldn't be soloing anyways. I think reapers of life, ice magis, ice elementals and so forth are all really ment for a group of 2+ people, probably 4+ if your evil since you can't spam heal from a whtie mage. What do you guys think of being an easier way of recovering your corpse from npc deaths?

 

I like your ideas, but its all part of the challenge. There has to be some economy to the game, correct? With deaths the way they currently are you can’t easily retrieve your body or items without a bit of effort.

Instead of a NPC who can enchant items, why not give merchant the ability to enchant items. The cost of an enchantment could be gems, diamonds, and so on. The end result could depend on all the statistics of the premade weapons.

On the other hand, a NPC who can retrieve your body for gold or gems would also make a great addition to the game. Obviously this couldn’t always apply; if you die when you were against player you shouldn’t simply be able to bring your body to you. There should be some kind of regulation for how it would work. Possibly multiply the total value of your items for the cost? As with above, you shouldn’t be able to use it for several minutes after dying in a player vs. player battle, this would allow the other player to loot your body for what he’s earned.