Top Ten Ways....to DIE

[GPA_Coyote]

<DIV>Dramatic isn't it?</DIV> <DIV><BR>DIE all in capital letters looking all scary and serious?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This week we've slapped together the TOP TEN WAYS To DIE In EverQuest II.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>No, not your usual deaths either. The embarassing ones. The ones you don't want people to KNOW about.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Your shame. Your humilation....our bread and butter.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://eq2.tentonhammer.com/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=1051" target=_blank>http://eq2.tentonhammer.com/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=1051</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>And with the Weekly Pimpings come...</DIV> <DIV><BR>The WEEKLY BLOG PIMPINGS! Yaaaay!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This week we've looked back on 2006 and why it sucked, and today we discuss...</DIV> <DIV><BR><A href="http://coyote.blogs.tentonhammer.com" target=_blank>Freedom of Speech and the EULA.</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Yeah. Get your hate mail ready. I can take it.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV>

[Calthine]

Coyote, I love you.I was going to offer to have your babies but my husband objected.  Can I breathe heavy in your ear?<div></div>

[GPA_Coyote]

<P>.....yes. Yes you may.</P> <P>You just made me all happy in tingly no-no places dear.</P>

[Mystfit]

<DIV>I found this article ironic in that I suffered humiliating death #11 just today. I fell off the side of a rainbow in Frostfell and died....</DIV> <DIV>I mean honestly......<img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> it said death to pain and suffering, but I think we know the truth.....it was the shame...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>edited for a typo...</DIV><p>Message Edited by STCardGeek on <span class=date_text>01-04-2007</span> <span class=time_text>11:40 AM</span>

[KerowynnKaotic]

<P>I suppose since you are doing the " Top Ten " .. these were somewhere on your list ..</P> <P>.....</P> <P>"Mentor Mentality":  Just because you are a lvl 70 with fabled doesn't mean you can mentor down to lvl 40 and solo that Epic *3 lvl 45 mob.</P> <P>"Regular Brackets verses Fancy Brackets" (aka Solo Orange verses Heroic Orange) :  "But, we've BEEN killing Oranges!   .... "</P> <P>Then there is "Let's follow the Puller and Pull this OTHER heroic mob(s)"</P> <P>Or .. "But, " I " am the tank!  I am a lvl 51 Monk .. he is just a lvl 58 Pally!"  </P> <P>Or .. "My Job is to damage the mob!  Even if it means I start casting/shooting arrows/etc before It has even said "HI" to the tank!"</P> <P>*sigh* .. that was mostly (1) group last weekend.  </P>

[MisterE]

Okay tell me if anyone has done this one??  you are by yourself soloing mobs till your fingers bleed your dicing your slicing your planting mobs left and right your health goes down some but you dont care. why? cause your uber... ur l33t you are the master o these mobs...  then it happens..  METAL chest yes!! folks you just won the lotto you got a master the one in a million shot you won the eq2 lotto!!   whoot /happy dance...     open the chest   BAM!!!  revive screen ...       [expletive haxx0red by Raijinn] forgot you have ZERO disarm skill and oh ya that health that you been letting hover around yellow got put into the purple...  you got PWNT by the chest...     Now revive ur greedy rummpus and hope u can run back to the chest after all those solo mobs u pwnt respawn as heriocs....  

[NiamiDenMother]

My first death ever was to ... the forge.They've fixed the bug with reaction arts that caused folks making T1 sconces to die fiery molten deaths because they couldn't counter events when making metal plates, but I've got a long, long memory.Let's not forget things like ... trying to harvest a heroic badger for ore in EL and other fun stuff.Other than that, though, yes, I'll admit to having died to <i>at least </i>5 of your top ten.  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /><div></div>

[Mystfit]

<DIV>Or what about forgetting to check if the elevator was at the top when going down the mine shaft in Zek. Lots of time  on the way down to regret that one......</DIV>

[NiamiDenMother]

<div><blockquote><hr>STCardGeek wrote:<div>Or what about forgetting to check if the elevator was at the top when going down the mine shaft in Zek. Lots of time  on the way down to regret that one......</div><hr></blockquote>The House Ogre did that one, as my mystic just  stood at the top, bracing for the aftershock of a plate-clad ogre impacting with the bottom.I find the ones where you can SEE death coming for you and there's not a doggone thing you can do to prevent it, to be the most amusing.I can mentally picture Wile E. Coyote holding up a sign that says "Oops!" or somesuch, just before he plummets into a chasm.</div>

[SisterTheresa]

<P>I will admit right here ... I have done them ALL!</P> <P>-=dances=-</P>

[pointytail]

<div></div><div><blockquote><hr>NiamiDenMother wrote:<div><blockquote><hr>STCardGeek wrote:<div>Or what about forgetting to check if the elevator was at the top when going down the mine shaft in Zek. Lots of time  on the way down to regret that one......</div><hr></blockquote>The House Ogre did that one, as my mystic just  stood at the top, bracing for the aftershock of a plate-clad ogre impacting with the bottom.I find the ones where you can SEE death coming for you and there's not a doggone thing you can do to prevent it, to be the most amusing.I can mentally picture Wile E. Coyote holding up a sign that says "Oops!" or somesuch, just before he plummets into a chasm.</div><hr></blockquote>/laugh!Did that on my 1st JBoots run of Zek. <span></span>Surely others have done the same. <span>:smileyhappy:</span> Followed right behind our leading scout while the tank waited at the top. Great thing about it is that there's plenty of time to laugh it off in TeamSpeak as you inform guildies what happened.</div>

[MysticmorganRo]

<P>Okay, here's my first death ever in a game.  I played a Wood Elf Druid in EQ1 (revived her for EQ2), within the first FIVE minutes I was in the game I had fallen off a ramp in Kelethin and died.</P> <P>Or here in EQ2, my druid apparently does NOT know how to safely climb up and down trees!!  Had 3 deaths in a row from falling off a tree the other day.</P>

[Wrapye]

Had a variation of the falling damage on the other day.  Was playing my fae paladin, and had just called back to Kelethin.  I ran off the edge of the platform, expecting to float down like I always do.... except that I was on my Holy Steed.  No glide when you are on a horse.  I bet the hole in the turf looked like a pegasus had just crashed there.<div></div>

[Calthine]

My favorite, and I do this just often enough to be really embarassing...Log in, decide I don't want to craft, jump on my horse and head out to do an Adventure writ just for variety.  Pull, engage...  SPLAT![Removed for Content]?Oh.  I'm still in my no-stats crafting work clothes....<div></div>

[Crimson Blade]

<DIV>mumblemumblemumblemumblerainbowdeathinfrostfellvil lagetoomumblemumblemumbletwicemumblemumble...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>*cries great, hot tears of shame*</DIV>

[SisterTheresa]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Crimson Blade wrote:<BR> <DIV>mumblemumblemumblemumblerainbowdeathinfrostfellvil lagetoomumblemumblemumbletwicemumblemumble...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>*cries great, hot tears of shame*</DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>I so want to know ... how did you pull that off?

[KerowynnKaotic]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> SisterTheresa wrote:<BR> <BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Crimson Blade wrote:<BR> <DIV>mumblemumblemumblemumblerainbowdeathinfrostfellvil lagetoomumblemumblemumbletwicemumblemumble...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>*cries great, hot tears of shame*</DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>I so want to know ... how did you pull that off?<BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>I did it several times .. I feel no shame .. I was on a scout .. I was practicing Safe Fall .. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></P> <P>Oh and how? .. angle yourself off to the side abit while sliding down .. it's rather funny .. you fall (and die) in the sitting position.    ...  </P>

[NiamiDenMother]

Yepyep!  Don't try that stunt with a level 15 scout who hasn't worked on her safe fall unless you LIKE having folks stop and laugh at your corpse as it sits there pitifully off to the side of the rainbow.  My token froglok ... croaked.<div></div>

[AvalonSpirit]

<P>oh here we go.  i decide to leave my lvl 70 fury, and play my lvl 42 bruiser.  nothing to do.  but ... oh wait.. guildies working on dwarven work boots.....  so in my desire to have something to do, sure i'll come mentor and have some fun. <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> .  kill kill kill , slaughter slaughter slaughter, after all we all have level 70 mains, we've done this routine, blah blah blah, two healers, shaman and druid, dps, etcs.  so we get to the part of getting the brew in blackburrow.  and on our little trek, while yes im mentored, we are all still high enough that these lowly bb gnolls are grey, pfft.... waste of time.... we go straight back to hook off the drop into the water for our swim to the brewery..... but wait.... someone yelled about water at the bottom.... and the shaman saves the day by casting his group EB spell.... and everyone enjoyes the deep swan dive into the pool of water of this long drop and splashes happily to their death....   amid cries of "[Removed for Content]???"  and "OMG!!!" .... the little bruiser with 5 hps left (yes lets hear it for safefall).. while laughing histerically, explains to the rest of the group that shaman EB makes you sink to the bottom of the water like a rock.....  congratulations.... the shaman just wiped the group......  <continued histerical laughter>... and when the response comes of "HTH did you live?"  i proudly exclaim.... SAFEFALL!!</P> <P>:smileyvery-happy:</P>

[SuzieLu]

<DIV>This death actually occured a few years back when I decided to dabble around with my boyfriends (now husband) toon in EQ I.  I'd seen him running around killing stuff and chit chatting.  The only thing I knew about the game was from what I'd seen him do.  Use the arrow keys to move around and you type :say  or :m whatsyourface to talk to someone.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I'd never played before, I just watched him with his toon for hours.  He would get new gear and show me how cool it looked.  Hours and hours, and hours of playing to equip his toon exactly the way he wanted.  He was very proud of her (I think all guys play girl toons so they can have eye candy to look at as they run around).  I thought it might be fun to try it out since he was asleep and I was bored.  So here's what happened.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I log on and his toon was in a place with lava and goblins everywhere (I  had zero clue what zone I was in, or where anything in this game was) .   I was being very careful slowly going around corners to see if there were scary mobs near (since I didn't know how to play his toon, no clue what spell did what.).  Just want to take a look around...Slowly moving extremely careful, oh my God I am soooo tense...phew the mobs at the front are grey...cool.  I see a huge pool of lava to the left of the stairs I need to go down.  Slow, slow...crap the stairs are steep and I don't know what I'm doing.. Step, step..ack!  I fell off the stairs..I'm in the lava...I'm burning..holy crap!!! I'm burning..I have burned to death.   Loading.......  [expletive haxx0red by Raijinn]??</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Next thing I know is I am in a town.  I  am not wearing any of the gear..  Holy crap, I don't know what to do.. I don't know where to go.. There's a timer on the corpse.  I have no idea how long until the corpse disappears along with all of the gear.. he is gonna be sooo [Removed for Content] if I lose everything.. I can't let him know I've done this stupid thing...Why oh why didn't I start a new toon!  I am so stupid...  There are people around me.  Let me see if they can help me.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I message a person passing by me....Hi, can you please please help me?  I logged on my boyfriends toon and I died and have no idea of where I died at or how to get there.  I know there was  a lot of lava and a lot of goblins.  He is going to kill me.  Any idea of what i need to do? .....No response...  I message it again to another person...God I hope I'm atleast doing the message right.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Person messages me back!!!!!  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Kind Player: Did you go through Nek Forest they respond.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Me:  Umm..I really don't know..I just logged on at a place with a lot of lava and goblins.  I don't know where Nek Forest is.  I just know I fell down some stairs into some lava and my boyfriend is going to kill me.  I don't know where anything is.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Kind Player:  I think you were in LavaStorm in SolEye or SolB.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Me:  Do you know how to get there?  I really really have no idea where I even am right now.  I've never turned his character on before.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Kind Player:  I know how to get you there.  Want me to show you?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Me:  OMG that would be so awesome.  I love you sooo much.  If you can get me to the zone in places of those places you said in lavastorm then I'm sure I can tell which one I was in from the entrance. (Yeah, I know -- I am truly clueless - zone in place of those places, not a typo..had no clue of what to call them.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Kind Player:  Ok follow me.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Victory?  A 20 minute run we arrive at the correct location.  SolEye.  I zone in stepping over corpses of other players and head to the stairs.  I tab all through the lava trying to find my corpse and it is nowhere to be found.  I creep around super super super slow..no body..omg  what am i gonna do?  I prepare my self for what must come next.  I am going to have to wake him up and let him know what I did.  I  cant find the body and if it doesn't get found all of his gear will poof.  I head back up to the zone in to camp out.  I click the floor cluttered with corpses of other players. One by one..not me..Wait! There I am!! My corpse is at the zone in!  Yay!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I quickly loot the corpse and no one will ever have to know.  =)  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I did tell him what happened.  He wasn't mad.  He even gave the person who helped me some gear for his toon.  So it was my most horrific death ever.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Next time I logged on, I started a new toon for myself.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV>

[Lasai]

Ah, confessions!I have a mental block about the Zek elevator shaft.. every char I've gotten to Zek seems to have to take that loooong plunge.However, the fall down the Eye of Anuk was better. I was able to take a deep breath halfway down and scream twice.Most embarrassing was running to the mailbox in East Freeport, falling off into the harbor, and somehow getting stuck in stuff and drowning. (this is why I WALK in EFP, no, I'm not overburdoned, Im not roleplaying, I am sick and tired of swimming).Metal chest death is also interesting.. specially since it used to list that on Station Players.Last Killed By.. The Treasure Chest of whatever mob.

[Corbolu]

<P>Anyone who was a bard in EQ1 must know one of the more famous ways of dying:</P> <P>At lvl 2 try out your new song in the bard guildhall. Always nice to buy a AE damage spell and have your bard-mentor and all other members of the guildhall beat the crap out of you for trying it out. </P> <P>Greetz,</P> <P>Corbolu</P><p>Message Edited by Corbolu on <span class=date_text>01-08-2007</span> <span class=time_text>07:21 AM</span>

[Barbai]

<div><blockquote><hr>Corbolu wrote:<div></div> <div></div> <p>Anyone who was a bard in EQ1 must know one of the more famous ways of dying:</p> <p>At lvl 2 try out your new song in the bard guildhall. Always nice to buy a AE damage spell and have your bard-mentor and all other members of the guildhall beat the crap out of you for trying it out. </p> <p>Greetz,</p> <p>Corbolu</p><p>Message Edited by Corbolu on <span class="date_text">01-08-2007</span> <span class="time_text">07:21 AM</span></p><hr></blockquote>oh please only newbies got killed by the spell merchants, real bards get wasted by the priest of discord right outside of kelethin</div>

[Terron]

Nearly my most embarrising death - getting distracted when running to the bell in Willow Wood, going off the end of the pier and not noticing until I start taking damage from drowning, then being unable to get out of the water quickly enough. Most embarrasing - on a run to Naggy with some high levels to show/clear the way - misjudging that jump down near the end - falling past the path on which most of the group are standing, withing touching distance - the rest watching from the top - everyhting seeming to happen in slow-mo - going into the lava. Then I had to ask for help to get back down. <div></div>

[Foondabaa]

<DIV>I am probably not the first person who received their first death by drowning.  I do find it notable, however, that for about the first week I played the game I died every time I went underwater.  It wasnt that I didn't know about the whole breath thing, I just couldn't seem to get myself to surface.  I didnt realize that you had to zoom into first person view and head to the top, I was always playing with my camera zoomed out.  This allowed me to get close to the top but not enough to breathe.  I can only imagine people watching me floating at the top of the water with my head still buried under the surface frantically flapping around trying to escape.  Did it about 5 times, and got extremely frustrated swearing my head off about my character's inability to get his [expletive haxx0red by Raijinn] head out of the water. Luckily, that was over a year ago, and I had forgot about it until reading this thread...thanks for the lovely reminder.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Stearic</DIV> <DIV>70 Swashy - Blackburrow Server</DIV>

[JerronBlacksilver]

This one's a bit off topic, but I couldn't resist...this is, in fact, the most shameful named mob death I've ever seen. Snagged this one running around in SH tonight. Fear the clockwork duck!<img src="http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/9744/deathbyduckfh7.png"><div></div>

[Barbai]

is that like getting killed by a snow bunny in eq1 when velious came out?  All these little lvl 10 things in a zoned with 30,40's in made be strangly paranoid about some hidden killer rabbit.<div></div>

[Ponos]

<DIV>I remember the Mage Tower in South Qeynos and thinking the pool at the bottom was deep enough to jump from the top pier instead of using the portal.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Boy was I wrong.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I remember the Tree House in Elddar Grove and thinking no one else would call the elevator while I was up there.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Boy was I wrong.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I remember thinking Grimfeather wouldn't attack me because I wasn't worth it.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Boy was I wrong.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>My life as a Norrathian seems predicated on false assumptions.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>  </DIV>

[Loolee]

<div><blockquote><hr>JerronBlacksilver wrote:This one's a bit off topic, but I couldn't resist...this is, in fact, the most shameful named mob death I've ever seen. Snagged this one running around in SH tonight. Fear the clockwork duck!<img src="http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/9744/deathbyduckfh7.png"><div></div><hr></blockquote>I KNEW that little duck was worth getting!  Go Go Quacker Yig!!!</div>

[Tuppen]

<P>Camp out on one of the sewer grates near the city merchant in Qeynos Harbor....</P> <P>Log back in...</P> <P>Discover that you are underneath the grate, can't climb out, are a class without escape/evacuate, Call of Qeynos is down for 45 minutes, you shout for help from someone who can evacuate....but no one answers.</P> <P>Let yourself drown so you can revive.</P> <P>That's embarassing...purposely drowning yourself in sewer water.</P><p>Message Edited by Tuppen on <span class=date_text>01-16-2007</span> <span class=time_text>01:45 PM</span>