Everquest Corpse Recovery Now a Thing of the Past!
Everquest is reknowned for being a hardcore game - its tough and when your character dies, there are severe penalties. The Everquest corpse recovery run is one of the most feared and dreaded events in the game! However, as from October 7th 2008, a major change to the game system has rendered these corpse runs a thing of the past!
The Dreaded Corpse Recovery Run!
For the last nine years, Everquest has had the most severe death penalty of any mmorpg. The big problem is not so much the experience loss - as that can always be gained back through more fighting, but the loss of equipment. Your Everquest character is most strongly defined by the equipment that he wears and carries. Although there are banks that allow us to store alternative equipment and keep our money safe, all of our very best gear will be worn and when we die in the game world, a corpse is left behind at the point of death and still has on it every item of worn or carried equipment unless it had a “no-drop” flag.
You can recover your equipment by going back to your corpse and looting it but of course most deaths occur in dangerous places and if you happened to die in the depths of a particularly nasty dungeon your chances of getting to your corpse whilst you are naked - no armor and no weapons, are slim. To make matters worse, Everquest had a system in place which would mean that if you didn’t recover your corpse within 7 days, it would rot which basically resulted in the perment loss of all your equipment! This has caused many a player to quit the game altogether!
Shadowrest Makes Everquest Corpse Recovery Less Important
In 2004, Everquest introduced the special zone known as Shadowrest, which is a kind of grave yard. With the addition of this zone, if a player had been unnsuccessful in a corpse recovery within the 7 days before it was due to rot, rather than being destroyed the corpse would now go to Shadowrest to lie in peace. At this point all a player had to do to recover his corpse was speak to a designated NPC (they are in Plane of Knowledge, East Commonlands, The Field of Bone and many others) to be transported to Shadowrest so he can recover his corpse.
This addition to the game meant that there was no longer the risk of the perment loss of equipment which stopped many a player from quitting the game. However, most people do not want to have to wait an entire week (and that is real time - not game time) before they can play their character again!
Players Now Revive Fully Equipped!
The patch of October 7th 2008 brought three changes to the death system:
- Players now revive with ALL of their equipment on them
- Casters and Hybrids revive with their spells still memorized
- Revived players suffer a ressurection sickness for a couple of minutes
The experience loss is still there but the biggest change is of course the fact that when your character dies, you revive wearing all of your equipment and everything you were carrying! If you want to recover your lost experience you can still do a corpse recovery with the aid of a friendly cleric but the Everquest corpse recovery run is now going to be a thing of the past for the vast majority of players!
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