What happens when your character dies on WoW?
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What do you mean, "if you find your body"? I don't understand. Do you create another character and go look for your body?
Schadenfroh
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you have to get your ghost (which appears at the nearest graveyard when you die) to walk back to your body, if you die in an instance, you rez at the entrance to the instance.
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http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/basics/death.html
Haha, that animated image they have on the side is great.
EDIT: One bit of info looks a bit outdated, you can get rezzed by other players without any rez sickness.
Haha, that animated image they have on the side is great.
EDIT: One bit of info looks a bit outdated, you can get rezzed by other players without any rez sickness.
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what's with the angel screenshot? Is that one of those creatures that can see and are only seen by ghosts? (never played WoW)
When you die, you pretty much have two or three choices...
- Be a ghost and run from the graveyard to your corpse. The only penalty is that you start with minimal health/mana, and the time/hassle of running across the map.
- Use that angel and ressurect right there in the graveyard. This is a very significant hit to your armor and weapon integrity (which costs money to repair). It also induces Rez Sickness for 10 minutes, which takes ALL of your stats down 75% for that time.
- The best option is if you have a friend or party member nearby who can rez.
What are those soulstone thingies?
And did the plan on having death-only (ghost only) quests get implemented?
And did the plan on having death-only (ghost only) quests get implemented?
If the finishing hit on you is from an NPC, you lose 10% durability. If it's from another player, you lose nothing. You're sent as a ghost to the grave yard and you can either run back to your body or res at the graveyard for an additional 25% durability loss as well as res sickness. You can also get ressed by another player as well and you are sent to where they are.
You can't really do anything as a ghost, so a quest you could only do as a ghost would be kind of hard.
Back in beta, one of my guildmates was exploring as a ghost (before they made it so everything was B&W when dead) and found a quest you could get as a ghost. It was hard to get to and I don't remember the details, but it was a fairly high level quest.
I don't know if that made it into the live game or not
The dwarf in the middle of blackrock mountain on top of that tombstone gives you a quest only as a ghost.
That said, you basically take a 10% durability hit on all your items when you die to an npc whether you get ressed, res yourself, or use the spirit healer.
That said, you basically take a 10% durability hit on all your items when you die to an npc whether you get ressed, res yourself, or use the spirit healer.
No, it's 10% of max dur. Basically if you've got a weapon that's at 70/70...
Death one puts it at 63/70 (assuming that the weapon wasn't damaged in battle)
2: 56/70
...
Well, items can be repaired at most vendors. The fees are pricey, but not excessively so. Figure for full dur replacement, 1/3 the sell price of the item (IE if I can sell that 70 dur sword fully repaired to a vendor for 8s, having all 70 dur put back onto the sword will cost me ~3s). The cost is also prorated depending on the damage - just having 7 dur replaced will cost ~30c.
Oh, by max durability, I mean permanently lowering the maximum durability. Well, that's not as bad. 
Originally posted by: Emultra
Oh, by max durability, I mean permanently lowering the maximum durability. Well, that's not as bad.
Nono, I meant the maximum durability of the weapon. Nothing I know of effects the durability on a permenant basis, nor effects that maximum.
In other words, the penalty for dying is VERY, VERY minimal.
Dying to an NPC costs you a couple minutes and what will be spare change at your level.
Dying to a player in PvP combat will only cost you time
After so many deaths in a row, you can't always res right away, the game makes you wait additional time. The additional time increases with each successive death This is really only a penalty in two scenarios:
1) in a large scale RAID against very difficult NPCs. In this case it is relatively common to have a member die then be resurrected mid-combat. This prevents unlimited resurrections in this case
2) In PvP combat it keeps you from killing someone better/higher level than you just because you're right next to a friendly graveyard and their graveyard is far away.
The increasing time to res decays after a significant amount of time alive. So if you die three or four times in the span of 2 minutes or so, you may start the 1, 2 ,etc... minute penalties. But then if you spend 10 minutes alive before you die again, you can res right away.
Dying to an NPC costs you a couple minutes and what will be spare change at your level.
Dying to a player in PvP combat will only cost you time
After so many deaths in a row, you can't always res right away, the game makes you wait additional time. The additional time increases with each successive death This is really only a penalty in two scenarios:
1) in a large scale RAID against very difficult NPCs. In this case it is relatively common to have a member die then be resurrected mid-combat. This prevents unlimited resurrections in this case
2) In PvP combat it keeps you from killing someone better/higher level than you just because you're right next to a friendly graveyard and their graveyard is far away.
The increasing time to res decays after a significant amount of time alive. So if you die three or four times in the span of 2 minutes or so, you may start the 1, 2 ,etc... minute penalties. But then if you spend 10 minutes alive before you die again, you can res right away.
Soul Stones are a Warlock class specific ability. Warlocks can use an ability called Drain Soul on any non-player character as it dies to drain its soul. If the creature killed dies while affected by drain soul AND yields experience points to the warlock, it will turn into something called a Soul Shard which will appear in the warlock's inventory. Looks like a little purple gem. Then, later on at his/her liesure, the warlock can use a special spell to convert a soul shard into a Soul Stone. When used on a target player, the soul stone is consumed (disappears) and "captures" the soul of that player for 30 minutes. If the player dies during that 30 minute period while their soul is "captured" inside the soul stone, it will enable them to choose to either resurrect on the spot with a certain percentage of their maximum life/mana or release their soul like normal and appear as a ghost in the nearest graveyard. The soul stone is a one-time-use thing. Once you resurrect by it, you have to have your soul trapped again or next time you die, its off to your local graveyard (unless you are resurrected by a priest or something). Warlocks can conjure up different degrees of soul stones as they get higher level which allow the player to resurrect with greater and greater percentages of their maximum life/mana. Soul stones vary in degree from minor, to lesser, to normal, to greater, etc. . .A Warlock may only posess 1 soul stone in his/her inventory at a time and may only "use" the soul stone on any player (self included) once every 30 minutes. A soul stone is a conjured item and will disappear from inventory and be lost if the Warlock logs out for more than 15 minutes. People love soul stones for recovering from group wipe-outs. Most often, in a group situation, a warlock places the soul stone ability on the group's priest so that if the whole group dies, the priest can resurrect himself by the soul stone and then proceed to resurrect the rest of the group members.
And yes, I play a Warlock. Is that what you wanted to know?
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