When you die?Follow

a friend told me in old days of eq1 when you over lvl 10 and die you lose items so you have to run back to your corpse, is it still the same today?
if so what happens if you die on way to get your body lol?

awsome, tyvm for the info :)

Your welcome,

If you're in a situation where you want to continue battling and deal with the ressurection later on, you can. (ie when you have an xp potion still ticking down..and want to maximize every second).

A dead corpse lasts, and is rezzable for numerous days.I cant remember how many but I think it is well over a week or two before it expires and is then unressurectable for the lost xp.

Good luck..

It's not days any more, unless you are completely logged out of game. It's 3 hours of in-game time, 7 days of out of game time, if you haven't exceeded the 3 hr in-game limit.

At lower levels (<40 imho), it's not really worth waiting to get a rez, if you don't have one available, as a few kills will generally get you the lost xp back. Mid level, it will take many more, and even a kill or two just to get the 4% back from a death + 96% rez, and at high levels, depending on the difficulty of mob you can kill, from 2-20 kills for the 4%. This at 100% regular XP, and 0% to AA XP.

Hope this helps some.

Yther Ore.

Just a few more comments. When you die you return to your bind point in game. There are corpse summoning NPC's in the guild hall. A lot of folks will pay the plat to have the corpse summoned and rezzed, if they are not in a group with a priest class.
As stated above your dead body does not have gear on it. You keep your gear on you.

Paladins also have a rezz spell.

The 3 hour in game timer ticks away if you are on your account, not just on the dead toon. Dont die then go log on another character if you plan on getting a rezz.

Ahhhh, memories of the "good ole days."

If you've never seen it, check out this oldie-but-goodie classic EQ video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKDkvy9sKuY

In the past, not only did you have to return to your corpse to loot everything - including all worn items (one could tell the "dead toons" because they were back to the "just rezzed" look), you had to locate your corpse in the first place. This was trickier in some zones than others and more difficult for those who had just begun to play EQ and hadn't yet learned the layout of the zones. (No in world maps at the time either.) Greater Faydark was a bit tricky due to it being primarily a forest, plus many a hapless soul accidentally fell off one of the Kelethin platforms to an untimely demise. Thus the very common shout, "Has Anybody Seen My Corpse?"

Necros were able to locate corpses, so they were in demand at the time for this purpose. I tipped many a necro for this service, until I discovered a miracle - Chipped Bone Rods. They had 5 charges (I think) in them and would point the direction of one's own corpse. I began traveling at all times with one or two of these in my bags. At higher levels when the loss of experience really hurt, especially for us soloers , I also made sure I always had enough plat on me to tip a cleric well for a rez.

My most memorable experience with dying prior to the current system: Not sure what level I was, maybe low 30ish. I was doing a quest, got turned around, found myself in Kael Drakkel, cast invis on myself (my main is a Druid) and tried to find my way out. Of course invis dropped and I was dead in seconds once the giants spied me. I asked for help from my guild but there was no one, at least online at the time, who was high enough level and/or had indifferent or amiable faction with the giants to enter without risking their own death. A few people teamed up, came over, found my corpse, but it was in an area that, iirc, the mobs could see through invis. Not sure how I finally got my corpse back. I'm sure one of the guildies brought it out for me - you could give permission to another to drag your corpse to a safer area for looting. I just remember it took a bunch of people from my guild and an hour or so to recover it. I never went near Kael Drakkel again...

...until a couple weeks ago. Except for that one experience, I'd never seen the zone and it was time for payback!!! *grins*

That reminds me of when my guild leader somehow got stuck underground at the tp in point to the Dreadlands. None of us could help get her out. I tried grouping with her and then using a tp, but that didn't help. She had to contact a GM.

As far as night vision..ack! My first two toons were elves. Then I saw a post on the druid forums that if one wanted to move about freely without being constantly asked for sow or tps to create a human druid. Even in /anon or /roleplay mode, people would assume a woodelf was a druid. I rolled one and was traveling around Norrath. I was running through the (then) EC tunnel when my screen went completely black. I figured the EC tunnel was just especially dark for some reason. Knowing that tunnel well, I just kept going to the other end, but after exiting, everything was *still* black. Now I'm thinking something happened to my monitor so I'm working with the controls on that until I had a light bulb moment: human toons can't see at night. Duh!

Yeah, that toon got deleted quickly!

I created my first toon mage about 4 times due to losing a corpse. I liked the idea of going to the qeynos sewers at level 5. Then I created Jonwin and stopped playing a mage.

Oh I wasn't drowning, I was running into the level 40 guards to the sk gm.

No it wasnt a whole lot of fun, I stopped hunting in qeynos sewers until I made it over level 10.