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