Originally posted by Mharr:

You get a huge temporary survival buff when removing a gravestone. 50 seconds of 1/4 stamina usage for movement (free movement if combined with Eikthyr's power) large physical damage resistance and 10 hps regeneration.

Originally posted by TooTall1:

I fear their path in real life is harder than need be as they do not realize that the problem is not out there ...

Originally posted by TooTall1:

I fear their path in real life is harder than need be as they do not realize that the problem is not out there ...

Originally posted by TooTall1:

Upon any death it is usually clear why it happened and how to avoid it in the future, if you can think rationally and not rage quit like a two year old.

Originally posted by eskypep:

Well, I'm a mediocre fighter, but I've heard friends (who are quite skilled in PvP and PvE) shout swearwords with fury under certain circumstances.

While the game is really great in general there are some things that really kill game fun, at least imho (and those who I play with).

One thing is that dying decreases your skills. There is some time period after death saying that you are safe from loosing more skill points in case of another death, but either that doesn't work correctly or not long enough or it pulls away more points than those 5 said percent.

Look, if you get killed by one or more deathquitoes, they seem to stay at or near your death place. If you go back to regain your equipment, you are very likely to get killed again. And again. And again. Take a look at your skills and you'll notice some unpleasant surprise.

Now I have seen videos with people giving good advice: If you died you should take your time, fill your stomach. Okay so far. Get new weapons. Well, that's a bit more difficult, because usually you had your good stuff with you and that's gone for now. It is not always easy to gather important ressources for good armor and weapons, so you won't have a bunch of those. So you go back equipped worse than before which does not improve your chances to be the "boy who lived".

Another problem is that if you got your reserve stuff in your inventory you cannot take your death stone at once. You have to stay there and take some items which takes time and gives the mobs every time to kill you again. Even if you managed that you have to go there again to take the remaining stuff.

Maybe I've got an idea how that could be solved: in case of taking the death stone you should be either given the most important stuff first (best armor, best weapon and so on) or you should be given everything, the most important stuff into free places in your inventory and the remaining stuff in some usually inaccessable inventory and you need a chest or two to sort things out.

Sometimes it happens that you do not get the death stone using the "E" button even if your inventory is empty. You have to klick the "Take everything" button. Unfortunately that moment of surprise in addition to the time needed to klick that button gives the wolves more than enough time to bite your arse again. Bingo. Death. Second equipment lost.

There is some general problem with the fact that mobs seem to stay close to your death stone, even if you come from far away and even if a long time period has passed by.

Another fun-killer is, that while you fight hard against one or two mobs, there is a good chance that the amount of mobs increases the weaker you get. Fight a troll in the darkwood and jump around or run to avoid getting hit, fire you bow and see your stamina vanish into oblivion and you will stumble over Greylings, Greydwarfs, at least one Greydwarf brute and a shaman. Your vanishing stamina and health seems to summon mobs. The same goes for dragons, wolves and golems or Deathquitoes, Fuling and Lox.

Well, last but not least: you loose stamina while you run or fight or jump or whatever. But the mobs do not. Why do the mobs have to be strong and fast infinitely?

See ya

Originally posted by Mharr:

You get a huge temporary survival buff when removing a gravestone. 50 seconds of 1/4 stamina usage for movement (free movement if combined with Eikthyr's power) large physical damage resistance and 10 hps regeneration.

Originally posted by eskypep:

Well, I'm a mediocre fighter, but I've heard friends (who are quite skilled in PvP and PvE) shout swearwords with fury under certain circumstances.

While the game is really great in general there are some things that really kill game fun, at least imho (and those who I play with).

One thing is that dying decreases your skills. There is some time period after death saying that you are safe from loosing more skill points in case of another death, but either that doesn't work correctly or not long enough or it pulls away more points than those 5 said percent.

Look, if you get killed by one or more deathquitoes, they seem to stay at or near your death place. If you go back to regain your equipment, you are very likely to get killed again. And again. And again. Take a look at your skills and you'll notice some unpleasant surprise.

Now I have seen videos with people giving good advice: If you died you should take your time, fill your stomach. Okay so far. Get new weapons. Well, that's a bit more difficult, because usually you had your good stuff with you and that's gone for now. It is not always easy to gather important ressources for good armor and weapons, so you won't have a bunch of those. So you go back equipped worse than before which does not improve your chances to be the "boy who lived".

Another problem is that if you got your reserve stuff in your inventory you cannot take your death stone at once. You have to stay there and take some items which takes time and gives the mobs every time to kill you again. Even if you managed that you have to go there again to take the remaining stuff.

Maybe I've got an idea how that could be solved: in case of taking the death stone you should be either given the most important stuff first (best armor, best weapon and so on) or you should be given everything, the most important stuff into free places in your inventory and the remaining stuff in some usually inaccessable inventory and you need a chest or two to sort things out.

Sometimes it happens that you do not get the death stone using the "E" button even if your inventory is empty. You have to klick the "Take everything" button. Unfortunately that moment of surprise in addition to the time needed to klick that button gives the wolves more than enough time to bite your arse again. Bingo. Death. Second equipment lost.

There is some general problem with the fact that mobs seem to stay close to your death stone, even if you come from far away and even if a long time period has passed by.

Another fun-killer is, that while you fight hard against one or two mobs, there is a good chance that the amount of mobs increases the weaker you get. Fight a troll in the darkwood and jump around or run to avoid getting hit, fire you bow and see your stamina vanish into oblivion and you will stumble over Greylings, Greydwarfs, at least one Greydwarf brute and a shaman. Your vanishing stamina and health seems to summon mobs. The same goes for dragons, wolves and golems or Deathquitoes, Fuling and Lox.

Well, last but not least: you loose stamina while you run or fight or jump or whatever. But the mobs do not. Why do the mobs have to be strong and fast infinitely?

See ya

Originally posted by Sunny:

Some things:

1- Mobs smell and hear. They aren't attracted by your low health, they're attracted by the sound of combat, or you being upwind from them. The bigger your fight, the further the sound carries, the more mobs hear it and come running. (ETA: This means if you are in a big fight and getting low on health/stamina, MOVE. Train the mob you're fighting away, make it a running battle, so that the place where the mobs are going for the noise is not where you're currently fighting. as soon as the troll is down, get OUT OF THERE.)

2- When progressing, make two sets of base gear -- weapon at current level, armor in the same general range, then you can do lower level tools or w/e if you need to. Keep it in a box by your bed, use it only for equipment recovery. Trade it for what's on your body as needed, and then first thing, make up another backup set.

3- Deer boss power. Use it to run in to your body; once you get ALL of your gear and the tombstone disappears, you will get a corpse run buff that makes you way hard to kill (which makes it way easier to escape).

4- Patience. When approaching your body, find a spot nearby to watch from. Wait. Time it for the mob being as far away as possible as it pats before you use the deer power and run in.

5- Do not hit the plains without a nearby (NEARBY!) bed and small base. Build outposts. Use portals when exploring; particularly on continents different from your base.

6- Skills aren't important enough to stress out over losing them. They make a difference; they do not make as much of a difference as *player* skill. Player skill trumps character's skill level by a longshot, losing character skills is not as detrimental as it could be.

7- Slow down. Be patient. Prepare. Play cautiously, look before you leap, watch where you're going. You die FAR less often if you don't run around like a blind bull in a china shop that just got stung by a bee.