How did you die?

[Isolani]

Solo hard streaked to 20 on my first character, 18 wizard/2 rogue. Solo elite streaked 2nd character to get 1750 favor (not even going to try for 5k, too grindy for me, grats to those who get it though, that is not easy). But 2nd character died at L15 last night, didn't have freedom of movement and those ranger mobs in Mad Tea Party spam entangle or whatever that is...just kept failing rolls to escape it until a bunch of mobs beat me to death while I was helpless. That death was just dumb on my part though. I forgot about those mobs because I always have eternal FoM flask on my regular server, so they are not any threat normally. Lost some good gear on that guy too, a ratcatcher and a few pieces of ravenloft stuff.

Died a couple more times on lowbie wizards today trying the new palemaster enhancements. I suck at palemaster apparently. Started a warforged 18 arti/2 rogue plan a few hours ago, up to L5 now, didn't see any way to get improved precise shot unfortunately, need way too much dex for it when you don't have any tomes Would have to dump stat constitution and use some level ups to get it, which I didn't like to think about. Should still be ok though, I'll have some low DC blade barriers to toss around for the higher levels if I make it that far. Think my next build will be some sort of eldritch knight wizard multiclass monstrosity. Or maybe a druid, I haven't played a druid in a long time.

[SynalonEtuul]

Level 10, in Bounty Hunter. Jumped onto a ledge and got insta-killed by a whirling blade trap. Died long before it even appeared on my screen. Yes I am bitter

[Ralmeth]

I saw someone unfortunately die in Spies on elite. We had just killed the fire elementals, and he attempted to turn one of the valves with a poison trap on it. He kept getting hit with the trap, which stopped the valve from turning. He survived the first hit, and the second, and the third, and keeps trying to turn that valve. I’m thinking to myself, what are you doing?! Back away! But no, he just kept going. His hit points were dropping, they’d go back up from heals, but he was determined to not stop and kept getting hit, kept getting knocked out of turning that valve. I just couldn’t believe what I was seeing. He was an experienced player, had run Spies a gazillion times. Eventually he succumbed to the poison and he never did get that valve turned. I think he was just tired as it was late.

Notes to everyone:
1) You can stand on top of that valve and turn it without the trap hitting you.
2) If a trap hits you once, jump the heck out of there!
3) If you are tired, you are going to make mental mistakes. Go to bed and live to fight another day!

[Cianos_Fanas]

I TR'd and was holding level 14....a shadow got me with his "taint".

[TheOnly_LightInDark]

Lvl 9 holding 10, Carnage reaper spawned on me, crit for more than my health. Moral of the story fort fort fort.... Not a total loss character was built before I understood how the quests worked so he had missed some lowbies, also now I can alter his build to make him better.

Just missed out of dying in TOEE elite, partly leader decided that the wiz and warlock who were out of mana could wait to shrine until after he spoke to the Fire Guy (even though shrine is literally next door). Fire guy rejected the offering and started the fight. Wasnt going well leader ran off (I think to escape the room but it is barred). He died, looked like the Wiz had died, Warlock was still up not sure what he was doing but I bailed as fast as possible since all mobs now looking for new target. First time using Alt F4 (surprised I remembered it) and hold my breath for the next 15 min hoping it worked. Moral of the story shrine first, also Pugs are dangerous and watch the leader if they are reckless might be time to bail.

[GeneralDiomedes]

Decided to walk into the 'Danger Room' on the guild ship to see what it was about .. died instantly. Hard one to take.

[CernunnosM]

3 deaths.

https://clips.twitch.tv/PunchyPrettyCasetteFeelsBadMan

Sigh.. yeah. Waterworks champ caster on the drop to ledge.

https://clips.twitch.tv/SecretiveImpossibleWolfPanicVis

You'll never guess what happened this time.

https://clips.twitch.tv/SuccessfulDe...tterBigBrother

I didn't see this one because the ddo client crashed. Watching the clip, I think I see what happened but still salty about not being able to do anything about it due to crash.

4 now. That's it for me, I think. Tired of wasting so much time, particularly running the same stuff.

https://clips.twitch.tv/CuteBloodyNewtPartyTime

[Silverleafeon]

Decided to walk into the 'Danger Room' on the guild ship to see what it was about .. died instantly. Hard one to take.

I was online, sympathies...

Cogsworth:
"Nothing at all to see on the fourth floor, dusty, dirty, empty.
Absolutely nothing of interest..."

Belle:
"If there is nothing there, then it would not be forbidden..."
Belle dashes off the to west wing (fourth floor).

Cogsworth:
"Wait!"
Sighs

[Silverleafeon]

4 now. That's it for me, I think. Tired of wasting so much time, particularly running the same stuff.

https://clips.twitch.tv/CuteBloodyNewtPartyTime

New starter area coming sometime this year?

[VirtualReality]

I was one shotted by a stalactite in Twotoad. Yep pulled the lever and was hit in the head by a stalactite. Those things are dangerous. I think we should out law them like lawn darts. Be careful out there anything can happen.

[GoldyGopher]

Running Irestone Inlet with a full party of Level 8s. For several of the group it the last quest before the take 9.

Get to YaarYar's schooner and between the four characters they only have 5 Powder Kegs. The are sitting on the schooner arguing about whose job it was to collect the powder kegs.

Enter the Rogue carrying two Powder Kegs, swaps them out and our four heroes are still arguing over who has to run back and collect the powder kegs. Rogue tries to explain he swapped them out and wants permission to lite the fuse and move on. The party leader says sure. The four heroes still arguing. Rogue and I high tail it off the boat. Message about being a floating bomb or whatever it says occurs/pops on the screen. Three seconds later and our four heroes find themselves in the land of lost souls and the party leader is laughing so hard we can hear his wife asking if he was okay. Yeah that's right, they still were on Yaaryar's schooner when it blew up.

[knightindullarmor]

Rogue Mechanic using my new great crossbow in the 3rd Depths chain quest with a player monk and two cleric hires. We had planned for this quest specifically - making sure we could kill the wraiths. Right before the wraiths, however, I had to do the optional and open the secret doors - as rogues are want to do. Up pops the scorpion and I shoot. My bolt hit's it squarely on the mark and does a lot of damage. That's when I realized it was a champ and I had just grabbed massive aggro! Panic immediately set in! I did my best to back-pedal and shoot, but I saw the writing on the wall. Despite now being prepared for the inevitable, that scorpion killed me even quicker than I had imagined it would.

Sometimes you squish the scorpion, and sometimes the scorpion squishes you.

I dont understand how you were doing depths chain at level 12+. Great crossbow requires T5 rogue mech, and you should also have T4 arti. Using GXBow prior to level 12 is a player error due to poor build choices. Without the 30% ranged alacrity, RXBow is much more damage, and without Endless Fusilade your GXBow user is seriously gimped. Gimped characters die in hardcore.

[knightindullarmor]

1st ed: The electricity floor in Snitch... Dance, dance, die. Level 8 holding 9.
2nd ed: arcane skeleton in necromancer's doom. Lvl 2. We will shall never speak of this again. I blame 1st ed trap death anger for trying to zerg. Lesson learned.
3rd ed: still alive and kicking for now but only lvl 3. Slowly, slowly. Creep, hide, recall if bum squeaky moment achieved!

Safe spot is to stand on the valve that must be turned to deactivate the electrical floor.

This is a player knowledge error similar to the tale of the folks that died on the floor of the incinerator room in that same quest. If you have been parked at cap for a while and/or have not run a quest recently, DDO has taken away all penalties for doing a quest on normal first - try it on normal to 'remember' where traps are, what the mechanics of the quest are (like standing on or near value in electric floor in snitch rooftops), etc... before going in on elite or reaper.

[AlmGhandi]

Arti 1 Pale Master 7
Two-Toad Tobias...……
That valve with the stalactites that is often talked about.
Yeah....

[Kotharsjach]

I dont understand how you were doing depths chain at level 12+. Great crossbow requires T5 rogue mech, and you should also have T4 arti. Using GXBow prior to level 12 is a player error due to poor build choices. Without the 30% ranged alacrity, RXBow is much more damage, and without Endless Fusilade your GXBow user is seriously gimped. Gimped characters die in hardcore.

There is so much wrong here with this statement I felt like I had to chime in, especially since it's basically just griefing someone who is sharing his tale.
The strength of of your build, especially with regards to it's lethality is only a very small part of the hardcore equation. Build strength is no doubt part of things, but often it can work against you. If you come into a quest relying on the strength of your build it can breed carelessness. If your counting on your bloated hp, extremely high evasion or ect. to save you come what may, the 00.01% of times it can't will be the time your back in korthos. This is just my personally opinion, but first and foremost in HC is knowing your limits, and knowing the strengths and weakness of your build. #2 would be threat identification and threat netrualization, and by this I mean netrualization of the risk imposed. Like sending your hireling out as beholder bait while you snipe from behind cover, risk close to zip. Even if I'm on my 1k hp wlk/pally tank build, no way i'm going near a trap that can hit x6 times, if possible a player trapper or a hire trapper can take care of it. Similarly, I know a famine's cyclone blast will rip through all my stacked PRR/MRR and cut straight to the bone, and it can cause knockdown for 6+ seconds. Lastly, execution is key, a good player with a bad build is more likely to survive in HC than a bad player with a good build. Be smart, always stay on your toes, prepare as much as possible, trust your gut, and don't be afraid to restart or back down. I'll echo this x3 with regards to party roles, if your a tank or a trapper don't be afraid to say "I'm not doing that" if the particular situation at hand makes your spidey sense go off.

[AlmGhandi]

There is so much wrong here with this statement I felt like I had to chime in, especially since it's basically just griefing someone who is sharing his tale.

Beat me to it. It may even be just deliberate disinformation! I know Great Crossbows are not the best... but I find them to be perfectly viable.

[Silverleafeon]

(Guild: [Guild] ___: not a good night for 10+ in ddo

Sympathies all...

[Caradui]

So, surprisingly, traps haven't killed me yet... But you may find my deaths amusing nonetheless.

My first life ended when my level 4 wizard wandered into the Searing Heights for some easy xp... And, since I was half asleep, I forgot to summon both my hireling and my skeletal knight, fumbled with my shortcut keys ineffectively when I finally realized I was being attacked, and then was mortified after the 'You Have Died!' tone sounded and I met Mortality for the first time in the afterlife. My frustration at my own carelessness only increased as I silently reviewed all of the mistakes I made, and I resolved not to make them again. I really shouldn't have died out there.

My second life came to a close when I was trying to beat the quest 'Archers Point Defense' or something like that... The one with all of the bugbears and hobgoblins trying to kill the guard captain. The details escape me though, so it could be my imagination, but there are certainly no traps in that quest. He was a level 9 wizard, too.

My third life was snuffed out at wizard level 4 in R1 'Durk's Got a Secret'. I'm not sure if the reaper that rushed me was the cause of death, or a kobold shaman's lightning bolt. The sad thing is that I'd barely survived a lightning bolt earlier in the quest (I was slowly bleeding out when a fellow party member used a heal spell on me)... But I blame the kobold shaman in the end.

I'm going to make a new wizard soon so I can take revenge on the kobolds. It's personal now. -_-

P.S.
I think I'm going to either make sure I get more sleep before I use this new character, or have a pot of coffee on hand every time I go questing with him. Insomnia is not helping matters, clearly.
P.P.S.
Second edit to my comment. Now that I think about it, I think my level 9 character was rendered helpless in the quest by a 'Ray of Exhaustion', then I got mobbed before I could recall. Ironic that a 'Ray of Exhaustion' killed an insomniac wizard, is it not?

[stoerm]

Pure monk, XP capped. Holding level at 19 and running level 15 quests for favor.

Red Rain on *hard*, fighting trash in an alleyway until out of nowhere BAM I'm in the land of lost souls. Apparently exploding constructs can do ~ 500 fire damage at this difficulty. So much for monk saves and improved evasion, so much for soloing Crucible.

Back to Korthos without cloak or mascara.

[gott_ist_tot]

Komoda, level 12
The DPS of Inquisitive is so absurd I decide to go solo into the Shadow Knight on elite. One room, second, everything falls down faster than grass blades under a good lawnmower. Traps? Yeah auto detect them all, then disarm. Easy peasy.
Ding, dead.
This is how I learned about taint of shadow + ray of enfeeblement combo.

Komodaaaargh, level 16
Because I learn nothing, I farm the ghostly cloak from Tempest Spine again. Yeah, solo, you know, Inquisitive DPS and that. Because I learn nothing, I pop in to the Necro 2 again at level 12, this time with a meatshield-shaped friendly barbarian. Wow, this works so much better.

Level 16 I decide to I solo the Blockade Buster. Having never played it before, I do it on hard. Set the timer on the first ship to two minutes, so I have the time hop go on the second one.
I enter the Captain's cabin on the second ship, the door-entering transition ends, but instead ending up in the cabin, I end up in the afterlife.
This is how I learned that in the Blockade Buster getting on one ship is not enough to protect you from the explosion of the other one.

All in all, a learning experience. 5 stars out of 5, would recommend.

Komodaa, currently level 6