Suffering from Spontaneous Death

[sainy_matthew]

Okay, something weird happened last night when i was running Invasion on Elite. Working our way through the dungeon with a pretty good group & my character just up and spontaneously died. At first i thought that maybe i'd been hit by a particulary nasty death effect that i hadn't seen (outside of my visual arc), but after checking the combat log i could see no reason for my death, no failed save, no damage... So i was brought back to life (because as i mentioned my group was made up of awesome) & went on to complete the dungeon. Then right at the end, as i'm finishing out, in an empty room, with my back to two walls, again I spontenously died. So I check the combat log again... nada, nothing zip. No rolling ball of darkness causing random effects in the room, no DoT effects, no monsters in the room & no traps.

Has this happened to anyone else recently, is this some random death counter that has been put into elite runs, or what?

-M

[Eistander]

Well, I can honestly say this is the 1st time I hear of absolutely nothing showing in the combat logs and killing someone.. however I do remember a particularly nasty bug that monsters used to "fall" on you.. and then you would have been killed by "something".

Almost sounded like the infamous "something", but if there is nothing showing in the combat log, the only thing I can think of is that your character is really having a time of things, and the cyanide tablets kicked in.

[sainy_matthew]

Well, I can honestly say this is the 1st time I hear of absolutely nothing showing in the combat logs and killing someone.. however I do remember a particularly nasty bug that monsters used to "fall" on you.. and then you would have been killed by "something".

Almost sounded like the infamous "something", but if there is nothing showing in the combat log, the only thing I can think of is that your character is really having a time of things, and the cyanide tablets kicked in.

I'd never heard of it before... But to have it happen twice in 15 minutes was strange. The first time i figured it had just glitched out on the combat log, but when it happened the second time.

[Snowborne]

It might be a bug. A week ago, I was in Undead form, and died with no cause that I could determine. This happened twice in the Necropolis quests within about 10 minutes of each other. Since then, it hasn't happened again.

[Truga]

It might be a bug. A week ago, I was in Undead form, and died with no cause that I could determine. This happened twice in the Necropolis quests within about 10 minutes of each other. Since then, it hasn't happened again.

In necropolis this happened to me twice. There's a debuff the shadows like to give to people, where if you reach 0 str you die. And all of the shadows also of course drain str when they hit you. And there's some annoying wizard wannabes casting ray of enfeeblement. You can figure out the rest.

Edit: This has nothing to do with the OP's issue probably, just clarifying things.

[Tom318]

Stuff disappearing, people dying for no reason.. it's just weird that the stuff you grinded (ground?) for days to get, just disappearing for no reason.. or for people to have to res you or retrieve your stone because you died for no reason, that does seem a little unfair.

[donfilibuster]

Stuff disappearing, people dying for no reason.. it's just weird that the stuff you grinded (ground?) for days to get, just disappearing for no reason.. or for people to have to res you or retrieve your stone because you died for no reason, that does seem a little unfair.

If you are talking about the lag monster feeding off your shared bank that's a different issue, with lag as reason.
Testing the bank with a minor item is a good caution atm, despite the annoyance.

[BOgre]

I blame either the Lawnmower Man (movie version) or Tron. Actually, probably not tron, but Sark or evil-CLU for sure.

[Maxelcat]

sometimes if you step off a short ledge and you grab the edge like you were hanging from it (and your toon is half in the ground) when you move to fix it you are thrown into the air and insta-killed.

if i remember there's a ledge in water works that does it all the time.

[phalaeo]

You are all wrong.

It's HAUNTED and that's that.
Harrumpf.

*crosses arms and tries to look reaaal mean*

[Sweetpea]

strangely enough i had the same experience when i was logged in last. i was running slayer zones topping off my kills and i was standing around waiting for a shrine to reset and suddenly i was dead. i thought the zone was clear. so i checked... yep everything was dead... checked my combat log.. then remembered i'd killed that for raids. in the end i figure either it was a really really weird glitch or whatever killed me died in the attempt (i happen to have a lot of instant death guards on this toon)...

there is one theory i didnt give much thought to but my mates are trying to assure me is the only option, i rage.. alot... rage clicky, madstone then run around with my boots on to get it to proc again... they reckon that whilst i was waiting for the shrine all my rages ran out and hence the death.. but unless my math sucks i am pretty sure i have too many hps for that to be the cause... i bring this up cos i am curious as to maybe that being a possible reason for your mysterious demise?

[sainy_matthew]

@SweetpeaI was running a cleric at the time, with maxed health, deathguarded, aided & with a a full list of defensive spells active. Then as i'm finishing out, i'm dead. So no, it's not a rage thing. And even then it would appear in the combat log as "[insert player name here] has died." I didn't even get that. I was just dead.

[Astraghal]

There's a rare beholder on one of the levels that I've seen attack through walls, I bet that's what got you.

[phalaeo]

There's a rare beholder on one of the levels that I've seen attack through walls, I bet that's what got you.

Could have been the first one, but he said that the last was as he was finishing out and there was nothing in the combat log.

I'm going with the theory that the dungeon is haunted....

[Hordo]

Could have been the first one, but he said that the last was as he was finishing out and there was nothing in the combat log.

I'm going with the theory that the dungeon is haunted....

There is no haunting.

He came down with a case of Horditis(TM).

Rarely seen outside of the Khyber server, Horditis(TM) is a terrible affliction in which the character spontaneously enters the death state creating the soulstone.

Usually it occurs in the presence of a HordoToon(TM), but as this was on the Argonessen Server, I would suggest it erupts from a latent and suppressed desire to play on Khyber instead.

The Hordeath(TM) effect itself is random and there is no current treatment for this affliction. If this occurs to your character, the best course of action is to pay to transfer that character to the Khyber server and give all your stuff to Hordo.

Until then this disease with no known cure may continue to strike your character much to the amusement of your party-mates.

HORDO

[SlogUK]

Rage running out and beholders through walls are much less fun than haunted dungeon. I reckon it's the ghost of a kobold you deliberately hacked up in waterworks. It's found power in the other world. In order to appease it you will have to do a whole week of crystal cove where you go into the instance and make none of the kobolds lift a finger to get any crystals.

Seriously though, beats me. If nothing in combat log. If rage was out you'd get the constitution falling message, if a beholder it would say. Must be the kobold ghost. You should have let it live.

[sainy_matthew]

Rage running out and beholders through walls are much less fun than haunted dungeon. I reckon it's the ghost of a kobold you deliberately hacked up in waterworks. It's found power in the other world. In order to appease it you will have to do a whole week of crystal cove where you go into the instance and make none of the kobolds lift a finger to get any crystals.

Seriously though, beats me. If nothing in combat log. If rage was out you'd get the constitution falling message, if a beholder it would say. Must be the kobold ghost. You should have let it live.

So your saying i shouldn't have taken that crystal from that ghost in that recent special event? I'll know better next time...

[Nahual]

Weirdest thing I ever saw was back in the days of Euphonia´s Challenge. I was showing my bro the game and he jumped down from a crate and died. Not saying it was a pile of creates just 1. Dropped down from one and he was at -115 or something like that.

Obviously he just turned around and said "this game sucks"

[FrancisP.Fancypants]

Weirdest thing I ever saw was back in the days of Euphonia´s Challenge. I was showing my bro the game and he jumped down from a crate and died. Not saying it was a pile of creates just 1. Dropped down from one and he was at -115 or something like that.

Obviously he just turned around and said "this game sucks"

That could be a lag thing. Every once in a while I catch lag coming off a box, or a stair, or whatever, and I'll get lag for a second. I unfreeze, I touch the ground, and suddenly I lose a big chunk of HP. I vaguely recall a thread or something on the wiki about this if you're more curious than me.

But yeah, it's a thing. It happens.

[Jonny_D]

Maybe a certain buff ran out on you and is bugged causing death... try and replicate the effect again