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My character dies out of nothing!

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#1

It happened 3 times today: I’m fighting a boss with my Lv.125 barbarian and he suddenly dies. Just like that.
Weirder part of it is that although my equipment lost durability, my gems didn’t drop.

First time was in the Lv.115 Monument of Desire Dungeon. First run, first boss. The party had great tanker and cleric, and all I was doing was to run behind the boss to safety and spam my DPS attacks as usual. My HP bar was clearly full.
Then my barb dropped dead. What the heck? I saw someone else dying too, so I thought we lagged badly and were attacked by tons of fire pillars without even noticing, somehow. Ok, no big deal, I spent a Soul Crystal and finished the boss.

Second run, second boss, it happened again. Same circunstances. Had to spend another Soul Crystal to not lose the boss drops, but this time I was really focused on keeping my HP bar full.

I thought “screw that, I’ll do some leftover low level quests” and went to kill the bosses from Lv.69 Gytis Settlement Area. As I was fighting the bull one, which barely damaged me and had about 30% HP, while mine was fine and all… suddenly dead again. And again I checked my gems didn’t drop.

(EDIT: I know that the gems come back to you when you use a Soul Crystal, but this last time I didn’t use one at all. And in the previous ones there weren’t gems around when the character fell.)

I’m completely confused. What’s going on? Anyone else having this? What can I do to avoid it?

(Not sure if it has something to do with it, but I’m from Brazil, playing in Orsha and using Excrulon add-on set.)

#2

It may be related to the optimization? It must be hiding particles that do damage.

#3

Yea that boss one shots me too. Dont think its a bug though. Not sure about your gems. Best way to not die is to avoid the attack…

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#4

For the 115 first boss, did you see the flames on the ground? They’ll move around and gather together to someone and that’s enough damage to 1 shot most.

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#5

My strategy has always been to circle around the boss and attack only when it is about to use a skill to the other direction. Does that bull can really one shot a Lv.125 barbarian with full 10k HP?

#6

If i remembered correctly, the first boss has a deadly fire AOE, which can one shot you easily.

This AOE is hard to notice due to lag and graphic display, so you are right, you guys are attacked by those fire pillars, which are very deadly. And yes, a 10k HP barbarian can get killed easily by standing inside the fire for more than 3 seconds. He probably didn’t notice it due to so many effects around him.

I forgot the 2nd boss tho, but it’s possible that you didn’t clear the mob around you? Archer mob are very deadly there. Otherwise, maybe you got hit by some AOE you didn’t notice.

And, you don’t always lose your gem when died, just some chances.

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#7

He used the flames various times. Some bit hit me but I managed to avoid them. When the fact happened, I didn’t see him using the fire pillars at all, although I associated my death to that attack, because it’s the only thing I remember that could suddenly take my HP from full to zero.

#8

Gorgon in Gytis settelment area may cause “coma” with its attacks (you are left with 1 hp) and since some of its attacks are multihit - you instantly die with next hit.

Notice debuff on player before his death. Its:

maybe its same for boss in lvl 115 dungeon.

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#9

Was there a fire explosion? When I died there I noticed he throw flames everywhere, then you see on the ground lots of shadow dots homing onto one person, when one touches you they all explode and ko you.

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#10

What settings are you playing in? Maybe playing with higher settings will let you see those hits.

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#12

Maybe the op was under the effect ‘Death Sentence’? Some monsters posses it ,This skill kills you immediately when it wears off without any damage numbers being displayed. Personally have had a few cases where the timer disappears such as entering a quest instance.

#13

@nizidr Whoa, that’s cheap! I didn’t know that, thank you for the info. But as of the other bosses, I’ve been doing their runs lately. It’s the first time this happened, and at both.

#14

On that boss sometimes i only see the shadows of the fire pillars.
Pay attetion…

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#15

I don’t remember the explosions but yes, I noticed those shadow dots! I’ll definitely check that in the next run, thank you!

#16

There is an old tip from WoW: “Dont stand in fire”.

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#17

Thank you for the info, nekomiko. I thought it was a 100% gem drop everytime.

#18

That may be it. I’ll enable all graphical features and see if I spot flame pillars or just shadow dots again on that boss. Thanks.

#19

If you’re mentioning that orange bar, I didn’t notice anything like that over my character prior to the deaths.

#20

in 115 there are invisble but yea you still see shadow that chasing you, it like fly or something which killed you… and as for that lv 69 map… the debuff killed ya XD dont worry it not bug… at most you have to run away when you see alot of dark dots before they blow up

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