Template:Player death

Player death in an open world dungeon in Alpha-1.^[1]

We don't have deleveling, instead what we have is experience debt. Now the more experience debt you accrue, the greater the detriment to your character; not to the point where you can not get out of the debt. There will always be a way forward to remove your debt.^[2] – Steven Sharif

When a player dies they disintegrate into ash. The ashes contain any items lost by the player due to applicable death penalties.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7] These ash piles are immediately lootable by any player.^[4] Player flagging is not triggered by looting.^[8]

A non-combatant (green player) who dies suffers normal penalties, which include:^[6]
- Experience debt (negative experience).^[9]
  - Skill and stat dampening.^[6]
  - Lower health and mana.^[6]
  - Lower gear proficiency.^[6]
  - Reduction in drop rates from monsters.^[10]
- Durability loss.^[11]^[12]^[6]
When players die and they take durability loss, our durability loss isn't like other games where it's a gold sink so to speak. It's a combination of both a gold sink and a material sink. So in a sense, even if you only have completed items, when you take that durability loss you are losing out on materials. It's just a debt to the materials that you are losing instead of the active loss of that material in your inventory. So now you are accruing a material debt if you want to repair and increase again the performance of those particular items that take that durability loss.^[11] – Steven Sharif
- Dropping a percentage of carried gatherables and materials that are used in the generation of something else.^[13]^[5]^[6]
  - Items made for final consumption are not dropped, such as consumable items created by the Cooking and Alchemy professions.^[13]
  - A percentage of the certificates a player is carrying are also dropped.^[7]
  - If a player dies there will be a period of time before their mule despawns. Other players must kill that player's mule to be able to loot it.^[14]
  - If a player's mule dies its corpse will contain the same percentage of lootable items as the player.^[14]^[15]

A combatant (purple player) who dies suffers these same penalties, but at half the rate of a non-combatant.^[6]
A corrupt (red player) suffers penalties at four times the rate of a non-combatant, and has a chance to drop any equipped items based on their current corruption score.^[16]^[17] This includes:^[17]^[6]
- Dropping weapons and gear.^[17]^[18]
Any amount of corruption allows a player to drop equipped gear upon death. The higher the corruption the greater the chances.^[19] – Steven Sharif
- These dropped items may be looted by other players.^[20]
- Corrupt players respawn at random locations in the vicinity of their death, not at regular spawn points.^[21]
  - Non-corrupt players always respawn at the closest active respawn point (to their death).^[22]
- Corruption penalties occur as the corruption is gained (not just at death).^[23]
- Death penalties for corrupt players apply in every location, including naval PvP zones.^[24]

Experience debt will scale to approximately 2 or 3 percent of the total XP for a max level player. These numbers are subject to change based on testing.^[25]

Non-corrupt players will suffer reduced death penalties in naval PvP (open seas) zones.^[24]
- These penalties will be less than those for a green player.^[26]
Death penalties (mostly) do not apply to objective-based PvP (also called sanctioned events).^[27]^[28]^[29]^[30]
There will not be death penalties applied to event-based deaths. The penalties are in the outcome of the event. So your number of deaths is likely going to impact your ability to win that particular event and that's going to be the penalty. This is it to encourage players to opt in to the events right because the more participation we have the more fun it can be; and we understand that the community at large- there's already a risk versus reward component to these events. We don't need to stack on additional risk versus reward to inhibit kind of- to increase the barrier to entry for players who may not be as interested.^[30] – Steven Sharif
- Gear degradation applies on death during Caravan PvP.^[28]^[29]

Death penalties do not differ between Pvp and PvE, but this is subject to change.^[31]

Death by falling is possible.^[32]

Fall damage that occurs while mounted will be first applied to the mount; and if the mount dies as a result, then the remaining damage may overflow onto the player, but this will be determined based on testing.^[32]

Death by drowning is possible.^[33]^[34]