From what I have seen in videos/livestream of OBT the xp penalty seems pretty benign. You loose some % from dying in PvE, but most (if not all, atleast 80% of what you lost, it was hard to see for sure..) can be returned by a healer. All you loose is money (hopefully so much it hurts) and even if you dont buy the xp back you can make it back in 15 min max. You also get some debuff. You wont delevel (im pretty sure but not 100%, read it a long long time ago) so once you get to max you can wipe in raids all you want. You wont loose xp from dying in PvP. You will only loose abyss points (that is used for buying PvP gear and stuff). You gain abyss points from killing other players. So.. Its not a very harsh penalty, but you will still feel it I hope and it is exactly how a reasonable death penalty should look according to me. Dying in PvE should definitely be penalized, cuz its pretty unskilled to die from a monster. PvP is all about dying and an xp penalty from PvP would only deter people from fighting. Not loosing lvl is a good thing, so you can focus on whatever endgame content there is without having to constantly work to stay max. All good
I think they have it set up like this so people will pvp alot because that is what the game is all about really. If there was a huge penalty for dieing via pvp then no one would do it. I would not call dieing from a monster "unskilled" because there are some very strong monsters in the game that you will run across that require a party. There have been a few times soloing that i got jumped by 3 or 4 mobs and had to run for my life....failed a few times at it
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I think they have it set up like this so people will pvp alot because that is what the game is all about really. If there was a huge penalty for dieing via pvp then no one would do it. I would not call dieing from a monster "unskilled" because there are some very strong monsters in the game that you will run across that require a party. There have been a few times soloing that i got jumped by 3 or 4 mobs and had to run for my life....failed a few times at it
Velika: City of Wheels: Among the mortal races, the humans were the only one that never built cities or great empires; a curse laid upon them by their creator, Gidd, forced them to wander as nomads for twenty centuries...