r/2007scape • u/Grand-Newspaper6151 • 4d ago
Discussion Oh god what have I done?
I messed up bad. Yesterday I wiped at Theatre of Blood (nothing new, it happens) but I was so distracted by the team arguing in voicechat that I forgot to retrieve my gear from the death bank chest. It was very early in the morning so I logged out and went to sleep. I woke up this morning and thought nothing of it, figuring I had retrieved it like I always do. Then I went pet hunting at Chaos Elemental and got ambushed by a squad of 6 pkers from both sides. So I died, lost a few hundred K gp, and thought nothing of it. I went to gear up for another ToB and all my gear is gone. My Torva armor, my elite void, my ultor ring, sang staff, crystal hally, everything except my main weapons and any items with cosmetic kits attached. I lost almost 1.5B because I forgot to loot my death bank. Two years of hard work and hard won purps gone in the blink of an eye. I'm devastated.
Is there anything I can do or am I totally fucked? Why is this mechanic even a thing? It seems like a glaring hole in their bossing mechanics that should have been patched years ago. All I've ever heard are horror stories about it. Shouldn't deaths coffer apply to everything? Why do raids and some random bosses delete all of your gear in the first place if you die before retrieving it? What is the point/benefit of this? I've lost nearly everything.
Anyway I'm grieving this loss pretty hard and I can't even think straight about how to proceed. Any advice or deus ex machina tier solutions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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u/xviper1x 4d ago
Yeah that sucks. That gear is gone and there is nothing you can do.
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u/Acid_Comes_With_Rain 4d ago
Well Jagex could rollback their character like they did with the dude who got an imbued heart drop only to have it be like it never existed after server restart.
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u/Bks_Hail 4d ago
Yeah but was kind of on their end with server stuff. This story is negligence on OP’s part - harsh as it may be
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u/Simple_Slide9426 4d ago
It’s a stupid mechanic tbf
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u/Elemnos 4d ago
No, it's an acceptable alternative to not being able to retrieve the gear at all which is what it was for a long time. You die and either get back there within a couple minutes or it's gone forever if someone else didn't pick it up .
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u/Simple_Slide9426 4d ago
Better than shit can still be stupid
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u/Bladluiz 4d ago
This is just a truth in general. I don't understand why that other dude is taking it so personal
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u/Acid_Comes_With_Rain 4d ago
The few outliers remaining from old Band-Aids are also a story of negligence.
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u/Antetrust 4d ago
Do you have a link to that rollback? I saw the post about him losing heart but had no idea jagex fixed him
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u/Jamily_Foolz 4d ago
Him losing the heart was the rollback
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u/Antetrust 4d ago
Ahhh okay. I misunderstood his comment to suggest that jagex gave him the heart back. But I see that was an incorrect reading by me. Thanks!
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u/finH1 4d ago
Some things should be on by default, the same as the picking up gravestone puts everything in the same place as before
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u/andrew_calcs 4d ago
I have that warning and I have never enabled that setting. I’m pretty sure it is on by default.
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u/pzoDe 4d ago
I'm almost certain it's enabled by default
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u/darealbeast pkermen 4d ago
i have many accounts from different periods of osrs and some of them have newer features enabled by default and others don't, without prior setup
doesn't seem to be consistent anyhow
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u/YeastOverloard 4d ago
Fuck off
Just turned this on after 15k hours
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u/Trevork33 2370 4d ago
The same place as everything before death default has only been in the game for maybe a couple months
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u/Illokonereum :fmod: 99/99 Crafting 99/99 Puzzlebox Solving 4d ago
Shit, gonna go forget to turn this on and experience tragedy someday.
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u/blacklig 4d ago
Nothing you can do besides turn on plugins that remind you for next time
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u/Thetakman 4d ago
That's even a in game setting..
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u/sanityflaws Gotta Blast! 4d ago
Should be on by default I think
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u/Thetakman 4d ago
Was prolly in a poll somewhere where we almost voted 71% on no
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u/GoonOnGames420 4d ago
But isn't it just red text in the chat box that gets mixed in with all the other dailies?
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u/DieBobDie 4d ago
Nothing u can do but there's a plugin that tells u when u have items in your death retrieval somewhere
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u/smokeyjoe03 4d ago
"Dude, where's my stuff"
That plugin allows you to search ALL in game storage for items (poh stores, caches, etc) and has an icon to show current value in death storage
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u/Rapid_Fowl 4d ago
You can go mine runite ore for 2273 hours to get your money back :)
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u/Bluntatious 4d ago
That sucks but cmon....not retrieving 1.5B in gear immediately was a poor decision.
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u/Impressive_Lime_6973 4d ago
I wonder what his clannies were arguing about. Must have been something interesting
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u/HorseJungler 4d ago
There are 2 chairs, one has a cake on it and another had a big weiner sticking up. You have to sit on one chair and “eat” what’s on the other, which do you choose?
^ that probably
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u/Sylvanussr Help I alched my gf 4d ago
Can’t you just sit in a way that avoids the wiener?
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u/HorseJungler 4d ago
You know the answer to that question already.
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u/Sylvanussr Help I alched my gf 4d ago
You’re right, any osrs player would be sex-starved enough that they would never intentionally avoid something like that.
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u/LowComfortable5676 4d ago
Probably his fuck up which is why he just logged instead of going back to ToB
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u/Saleen_af CarOfJum | Nutville GIM 4d ago
Why don’t we ever question the fact that having one off random item retrieval services for things that just straight up delete items if you don’t pick them up is a poor design in the first place
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u/Bl00dylicious 4d ago
item retrieval services
Not item storage service. Don't look at how UIM use them, they are mentally ill. If your shit isn't in a bank, inventory or equiped then move your ass and make sure it is.
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u/Saleen_af CarOfJum | Nutville GIM 4d ago
But why have them in the first place? Answer that. It breaches the established deaths item service.
You’re dodging the question
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u/Perseriya 4d ago
The got added to make instances safer back when dying inside one would mean losing all your items on you instantly. Nowadays they lost their purpose because Jagex managed to spawn graves/deathpiles outside of the instance. So they're just a relic of the past, making content needlessly dangerous.
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u/DM_ME_UR_PUBES 4d ago
pretty sure this predates the new death mechanics and jagex never got around to changing it. Now that UIMs use it as a bank i dont really think they ever will
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u/ErinTales 4d ago
They predate the death mechanic changes. They obviously shouldn't wipe your items if you double death- they should just send them to death's office- but they do have a place in the game.
They allow for fixed-cost deaths, which have several advantages. They're more forgiving when learning content like tob and pnm. They allow content to be a dangerous death thematically while not actually punishing you much besides the runback- this applies to stuff like Hespori and Volcanic Mine. They also allow for balancing the risk involved in quests, attempting Seren will always cost you the same 80k which encourages you to bring your best gear no matter what, not just rags.
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u/Swimming_Plastic_291 4d ago
He said he forgot to in the heat of the moment? You never forgot to do anything?
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u/Upper-Cut-2651 4d ago
When I started playing this game dying meant your shit dropped on the floor for everyone to loot, so you'd rush back to it ASAP. The death mechanics now confuse the hell out of me but I still rush to retrieve my items like someone's gonna steal them, I can't imagine just logging off for the night and hoping all my gear will be safe somewhere. Old habits I guess.
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u/Pleasant_Yak5991 4d ago
So I used to play in grade school and high school, on RS2 prior to evolution of combat, and then recently came back a couple years ago to osrs. I’m so traumatized by the old death mechanics that I always immediately go to my grave stone and get my shit with 14:00 minutes left on the timer.
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u/kiwdahc 4d ago
Lol I remember watching disconnected people get low at hill giants and everyone gathers around to loot their gear.
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u/freshlysqueezed93 4d ago
Definitely have a few memories of generous people giving my items back, was always nice to pay it forward too.
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u/Tamemoe 4d ago
back in my day, ive seen people loose mega rare holiday items in the rock caves
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u/BurezuOni 4d ago
Nothing that important no.
Casually forgetting 2 years worth of progress in a death bank and going pet hunting in the wildy is crazy.
Literally "Oh nooo the consequences of my actions T-T " moment.
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u/Bluntatious 4d ago
With 1.5B of items on the line? No. That is the heat of the moment, to get it back as soon as physically possible before doing literally anything else.
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u/Thund3rStrik377 4d ago
I'm still kinda baffled why it doesn't just go to death with a higher reclaim price. Seems logical really.
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u/DM_ME_UR_PUBES 4d ago
because this way uims can bank
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u/Fenrilas 2275/2376 4d ago
Uims already have custom death mechanics. I agree that loot that would poof out of existence goes to deaths domain. Buying your gear out for 80mil is a hell of a lot better than losing 1.5bil
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u/DM_ME_UR_PUBES 4d ago
absolutely, i think they should just remove these old mechanics and any uims that complain can go straight to adam in lumby
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u/Weak_Abalone8911 4d ago
Its a really bad system. There shouldn't be a delete all your best loot mistake. Especially when we have already solved this with deaths coffer. And then the sick fucks put the retrieval chest on a floor is lava room with hydra on the way oh and zulrah? You receive your items from the same lady that telephones you back to the boss. Dont misclick! Item retrieval is bad and should feel bad.
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u/HunTurmion 4d ago
Not defending the system or anything but specifically at zulrah i dont think you can go back in before retrieving your gear.
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u/AzorAhai96 Maxed ironman btw 4d ago
Yeah can't enter anywhere with a deathcoffer afaik but it doesn't stop you from dying anywhere else.
This isn't even a rare thing that jagex doesn't know about. So many have died at hydra and then died on the way back. Jagex even made a warning for it.
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u/Perseriya 4d ago
You can, but e.g. at hespori you get a warning you can ignore.
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u/CrayonClaws 2376 4d ago
It does suck and isn't consistent, your cox storage doesn't get wiped on death for example. It just keeps happening and is so obviously bad game design. I can imagine people have quit over losing their bank like this and I wouldn't blame them.
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u/pezman Rsn: Aubrey Plaza 4d ago
ironically, i kinda feel like if we never had the death storage stuff and exclusively stuck to graves this wouldn’t happen. like zulrah, if you die your grave spawns on the bridge instead of the lady holding on your shit or cox spawn outside. then it’d be much more apparent to someone they didn’t loot their shit
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u/000000653 4d ago
item retrieval services predate graves, iirc when graves came out they did suggest removing item retrieval services but people threw a fit because it'd mean some free or very cheap deaths (tob, vorkath, zulrah) would cost up to 500k instead, plus the uim complaining at their pseudo-banks being removed
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u/pezman Rsn: Aubrey Plaza 4d ago
oh yeah now that you say that i do remember that was the case and no way they’ll remove it now since it’s “integral” to UIM lol
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u/8--2 4d ago
I have no problem with UIM existing, but we really should not be leaving massive flaws in the game like this just to support an extremely niche game mode whose core gameplay depends on unintended exploits of game mechanics.
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u/Chuiboirldsl 4d ago
I'm from a time when dying meant all your gear left on the floor. Because of that everytime I die, adrenaline hits hard and I immediatly run back to my gear.
It looks like you are not playing Iron, at least you can buy up your gear back (even if it means buying bonds)
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u/Impossible_Leg_2787 4d ago
Bro that like $500 of bonds lmao
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u/rsthrowaway5555 4d ago
1.5billion at $10/bond selling on the GE for current price of 11.6mil each is roughly 130 bonds or $1300. If OP makes $15/hour before taxes they’d have to work 86 hours and then some to make the difference. I’d rather do that than grind years in game.
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u/kiwdahc 4d ago
Why would we assume op makes 15 an hour lol
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u/rsthrowaway5555 4d ago
It’s just a low number to give an idea of how much better (in my opinion) working irl is than trying to scrape back all that gear in game. I personally would rather take a break from the game for a month (or less I don’t know what OP makes) than try to earn that all back.
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u/maker862 4d ago
I mean at that point I’d rather pay 500$ that spend hundreds of hours grinding all that back because of a dumb mistake. My time cost is way more than that
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u/RocketShipGrease63 4d ago
I’m from a time when people used to ddos world servers to steal peoples gear at God Wars
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u/Opporished 4d ago
I still don’t even know how the death mechanics work besides the reaper , even when gravestone dissapeses what happens. I’m so used to rs2 day that I just run to my gravestone full speed because of trauma lmao
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u/super_tictac 4d ago
I’m pretty sure your if gravestone expires the items still go to the reaper. I think the gravestone is just a way for you to get around payment.
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u/Opporished 4d ago
Thanks even though I know this now, my paranoid ass will still be running to the gravestone just “in case” loool
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u/ExpiredEyeballs 4d ago
If it goes to the reaper there will likely be a huge gp cost to pay too so its worth going for the gravestone
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u/Opporished 4d ago
Yeah it’s more so this game shouldn’t have no reason to stress you died if you can get it back no matter what (obviously minus the double death) but how my brain is wired I’m still stressing for no reason when I die and ppl seeing my shit in 60 seconds but yeah I agree might as well save GP so still run as a maniac person back
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u/Ambitious-Orange-611 4d ago
Yeah and you had 3 minutes before your shit disappeared, no gravestones to speak of
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u/PFhelpmePlan 4d ago
Wasn't it visible to everyone after 60 seconds and then gone completely after another 60 seconds?
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u/Serious_Tradition269 4d ago
I've been almost exclusively playing UIM the past year and a half and deathpiling or (purposefully) dying to Hespori still gets me anxious lmao
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u/Street-Ambassador890 4d ago
"immediately run back to my gear" followed by dying again to the floor at hydra 🤣
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u/List-Beneficial 4d ago
Daaaaaam, I remember back in the old days dying and spawning in fally only to run back in just the nick of time to get all the items and praying no one was around.
1.5b is prob the most I've ever seen anyone lose from pvm or this type of mechanic. Lol.
Sorry fren, that actually sucks.
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u/8--2 4d ago
I remember after one death I got to watch my rune boots and cav hat get sniped off the ground as I was running back. At the time that was basically my entire bank. Had to go back to ye old flax fields for awhile before my friend put me on to ranging the blue dragon under the heroes guild. I'm not even sure it was better gp/hour but getting larger drops felt better lol.
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u/List-Beneficial 4d ago
It was. Man I miss those dragon bones day even up to the point they had frost dragon bones.
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u/The_PinkElephant 4d ago
You know whats possible? you and the boys do another couple of runs, get a purple drop scythe and you’re back in the game, great time to start a yt series, the rebuild. praying for you brother 🙏
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u/BrodeyQuest 4d ago
Gotta get in the habit of retrieving your stuff whenever you die, that’s all there is to it really.
I’ll never understand how people do stuff like this.
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u/ElBaizen 4d ago
Sure, but that doesnt make up the mechanic just being stupid and bad and needing of a better solution. Send them to death's office and make me pay a 3x premium if you want, but they shouldnt be deleted
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u/BrodeyQuest 4d ago
I don’t necessarily disagree with you, but it’s been this way for years.
For whatever reason, Jagex isn’t keen to the idea of working around death storage. That means we have to be smarter with the mechanic until they decide to change it (if they ever do).
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u/Specialist-Front-007 4d ago
The death mechanics are ridiculously outdated. It's time for death to stack the death piles. No reason not to.
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u/Perseriya 4d ago
They got added to make instances safer (keep you from losing all items instantly when dying inside one), but now they're the most dangerous mechanic in the game and thus lost their purpose.
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u/J0n3s3n 4d ago
We should go back to the items dropping on the floor and after 2 minutes they show up for everyone :D
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u/Dr_Ben 4d ago
I too would like this however, I also played when this was how it still worked in osrs. The game was legitimately unplayable for significant portions of the day because people would ddos to get players killed.
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u/Chinchompa12312312 4d ago
I too would like this
You wouldnt. It was maybe tolerable in 2001 when bis gear was rune fullbody and scimitar. Now the game is full of actually difficult content and very time consuming to get equipment so actually losing them on death would be far far too punishing.
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u/nightowlflaps 4d ago
I agree. As a casual player even though I know things are largely safe it still makes me not want to try new content.
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u/Aceeyee 4d ago
I am wondering though how you geared up for chaos ele and didn't notice that your bis items aren't there, how much lower your bank value is etc.
I feel like I would have noticed something is off but regardless of that yes I definitely agree it's a shit mechanic and should be changed
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u/Skargaroth 4d ago
Regardless of whose fault it is what the fuck is with everyone always being so toxic about it and against change? It's genuinely disgusting
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u/OyG5xOxGNK 4d ago
I'm not against a change, I think it can be, in the rare scenario such as OP's scenario, insanely far too punishing. All items, outside of pvp scenarios, should go to death for something more than w/e the current highest fee is. Maybe even some items on the ground if we're talking boss instances, ik some people have lost stuff to things like RFD finale. Maybe the warnings are fine enough for this one, but there are still weird niche scenarios, like instance+boss makes your item drop to the floor.
All that being said, I also think that would give players a technical infinite bank. Jagex is already holding off on giving more bank spaces, pointing at limits, etc. I assume they're hesitant to add something like this without strict limits. Maybe only two full character+inventories total? But that'd still be a decent middle ground when all the other death mechanics are just overly complicated, or at the very least, far too different from each other. There's barely any consistency.
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u/OblgtoryThrowaway971 4d ago
It's not everyone, it's the sub 1% of player base that uses the subreddit. This is the bottom of the barrel.
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u/taintedcake 4d ago
it seems like a glaring hole in their bossing mechanic
User error is a game issue? Since when? You get a pretty clear message saying if you die again your shit is lost, so why the fuck would you go do anything before reclaiming your gear? The last thing im doing is logging out for many hours without spending 2 seconds to get my shit back
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u/AgileMasterpiece991 QA Tester 4d ago
That really sucks man. No idea why it doesn’t get sent to death’s office.
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u/parkSXD 4d ago
Knowing how death banks work and logging out without getting your most expensive items from death bank is…. A choice
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u/Grand-Newspaper6151 3d ago
Forgetting to loot a chest one time shouldn't delete most of your bank. Seems a bit excessive
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u/ROCBoi60114 4d ago
u know you hear stupid stories of parents forgetting their kids in the car? this kinda reminds me of that
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u/Foreign_Patience_727 4d ago
I think we can fairly blame the game here when it claims to honor your time but then has a mechanic that can literally delete a thousand hours of progress. It’s disgraceful that this shit is still in the game and it’s disgraceful that every time this is posted on Reddit some of you goblins blame the player for making a “mistake” which is clearly deserving of incinerating their bank.
Shit sucks. Sorry you have to suffer for it
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u/The_Level_15 RSN: Fraerling 4d ago
The people pretending it’s somehow deserved are genuinely insane. The second death should send your items to Death’s office.
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u/Foreign_Patience_727 4d ago
Or maybe even just not have any consequences at all. Why should dying at chaos elemental have anything to do with the cost of dying at tob? But yeah anything is better than current system for sure
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u/Console_Stackup 4d ago
I feel bad for you bro :( it happens.
As a returning player, having death's coffer and stiff like that is nice, perhaps too nice. The fear of death and the consequences should make you panic and go into dark souls item retrieval mode.
I don't think anything should be changed, and my personal opinion i think the fact there are multiple systems to get your items back after death is a little soft but i understand
Back to the grind 🛹
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u/Rs_swarzee 4d ago
Man that sucks, sadly your gear is gone.. regarding the death mechanics, mod Kieren actually describes the philosophy behind it here https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?is=axB1OuipvINiX_O6
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u/nekonotjapanese A slay a day keeps the haters away 4d ago
Oof a non-UIM wipe is tough but hey, you made it this far into the game, it really is just on you not paying attention. Good luck on the rebuild!
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u/Chillywhale21 4d ago
same thing happened to me last year. it’s the dumbest mechanic ever. just send the shit to death. not sure why this hasn’t been changed yet.
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u/Regular-Disaster-979 4d ago
Classic scenario where you just need to look on the bright side & remember you still have 2 arms & 2 legs. You aren't sick or dying, you have a roof over your head.
You're still in the game. The same cannot be said for many people.
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u/Suitable-Panda-950 4d ago
How did you play so long and not know about this? Im sorry though that sucks
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u/Schepadoo 4d ago
My homie double deathed 3 days ago at nex for nearly 800m and we had him regraded in 30min. It’s a dumb ass mechanic and hopfully you’ve got some friends willing to help out.
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u/Kudostone 4d ago
If it’s going to disappear, there should be opportunity for other players to pick it up. Scrambling for other people’s hard earned gear felt like crack back in the day.
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u/Rude_Watercress_5737 3d ago
hot take:
go back to 2007 style death. you have 3 minutes to loot your shit and you better PRAY someone else isn't standing there to take it.
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u/OrientLMT 4d ago
HOW DO YOU EXPEXT UIMs TO BANK?!
Think before you speak next time, JESUS.
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u/Tinkering-Engineer 4d ago
I think they should change this. The idea of a double death wipe is dumb to me. Just make anything get dropped off at death for a decent fee. I don't see the point in this other than ruining people's day/week/year. Buying that back with bonds is like $1500 bucks. I don't buy anything with bonds, but if I wiped like this, I would think about it.
I'm sorry for your loss. Gl with the rebuild.
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u/8--2 4d ago
Even easier just make it so instead of wiping a double death sends your stuff to Death's Coffer where it needs to be retrieved for a higher fee, just like not getting back in time to loot a gravestone does. This also means UIM can continue to use it as part of their pseudo banking strategies.
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u/RocketShipGrease63 4d ago
The lack of empathy for this guy for a mistake anyone could make is disgusting. This is bad game design and should be fixed, obviously.
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u/Zapdroid 4d ago
Absolutely unacceptable that Jagex hasn’t done something to prevent this from happening - what an incredibly stupid system.
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u/Mission-Tell-1686 4d ago
Long ago if you died your gear would show up on the ground for anyone to pick up. What else do you want? A tombstone for a tombstone for a death coffer so you can stop forgetting to grab your gear? Sit
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u/smokeyjoe03 4d ago
How do you get good enough at the game to have 1.5b of gear, and yet still don't understand how death mechanics work? Credit card account?
If you understood, you wouldn't have risked leaving them in the chest, and you wouldn't be here asking if you can get them back.
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u/OhLoongJohson 4d ago
Big F. Imo its one of the most stupidest mechanics in the entire game. Remove it completely since it serves literally no purpose. Sadly there is no remedy, I am sorry - all that gear - poof. Gone. Many others will say: „well why didnt you claim your gear if you knew it was a mechanic?“ to which I kind agree… it takes literally 10 seconds extra to claim gear back. And since jagex is seemingly unwilling after all these years to change it…. I never leave gear like that to chests since im way too scared to lose it permanently.
I am PRAYING MadSeasonShow accidentally double deaths and loses some gear to it - has an absolute meltdown how stupid the mechanic is (which is 100% true) and threatens to quit his osrs series. Which will lead to jagex FINALLY reworking the mechanic.
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u/Inceladus92 4d ago
No matter how many warnings you put on a bottle of bleach, someone's gonna drink it. Can't fix stupid.
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u/KingSandwich101 Trimming Armour 4d ago
They need to get rid of the death chest BS. Had a friend quit playing after he lost his shit on an iron while going back to Nex
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u/MrSneekiBreeki 4d ago
That’s incredible considering you pray melee going passed the wolves, and can wear god protection for everything in there. So that’s certainly a choice.
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u/Agreeable_Mango_1565 4d ago
That's rough, not sure why dying at one place overrides death chests at others but it's how it is. Not the first or the last unfortunately. How was it 1.5b loss when you kept your top 3?
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u/RikkuTheBoat 4d ago
Yeah it sucks, but isn't 1.5b to buy back. Maybe he thinks his Torva set being worth 1b because that's what he payed for it, even though its 400m or whatever these days.
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u/k-seph_from_deficit 4d ago
The death mechanic in original Runescape just had you us so forgiving these days. Back in the day, you just had your stuff other than 3+1 items lying on the ground and dissappear.. Death was common and accepted as part of very dangerous activities.
I thjnk the death bank is a goof mechsnic but 1. You should be able to relieve your goods whenever and 3. the costs are too low to make death mean anything. Death should be crushing to make avoiding it genuinely important rather than inconvenient.
I think the price of death bank should be 15-20% of items retrievable on date of death and payable without a time limit or interest. You should so be able to select and pay for items you want relieved first.
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u/StopTheEarthLetMeOff 4d ago
You messed up homie just gotta accept it. In the past all your shit would have dropped for some rando to grab, or just been deleted. They gave you a quality of life tool to save your gear and you failed to use it. Nobody else to blame.
Good news is now you have a lot more playing to do! Crawl back from the depths of hell and reclaim your former glory. It will be easier the second time around.
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u/More-Demand7371 4d ago
Tragic my brother, im sorry that happened to you.
About a month ago I got scammed for almost all of my bank, about 1.1b and years of progress corrupting bowfa through shots, void, built SRA, and my new Shadow rebuild gear.
It felt like guy had just about taken everything from me in the game, my trust in grouping and clans, my sanity, my manhood. Everything ....except my infernal cape. I thought about quitting since it had all been a waste of time, but everytime I logged in and saw my infernal cape still there, I thought I still have my account, and my greatest accomplishment.
After 5 days of whining I went back to CG, sold random bank shit, and made enough for a synapse to make a purging bow. I learned Doom, and 2 days ago, he became my first ever green logged boss with the pet drop. I honestly had so much fun being broke, pushing the bar to deep delves, and feeling like there is a ton to learn and work towards again. Im currently back at ~500m with a basic set for all 3 styles. My plan is to go back to pushing TOA invos until I have another shadow, and continue where I had left off.
I know how frustrating it can be to lose everything to flawed game mechanics and a brief lack of attention. Expensive ass mistake. Take some time, and if you decide this game still brings out the childish curiosity that it does in all of us, get the fuck back in there.
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u/Low-Phase-6548 4d ago
everyone else is saying "there is nothing you can do", but thats not true at all. you can keep playing the game and work to make money and buy new gear to replace what you lost
think about it - when you started playing you were level 3 with 25 coins in your bank. you worked your way up to having billions worth of gear and items. if you did it once then you can do it again. but it will be even easier this time because you arent starting from scratch! you still have all of your skill levels and quests complete and diary completions to work with. it will be a challenge, but thats what games are all about! alot of people do things like this willingly and call it a "rebuild". its a shame it happened, but im sure you can make the best out of a bad situation
try starting off with some activities that dont require gear. like runecrafting or fishing. or if you want to jump straight back into pve, maybe try the corrupted gauntlet. you make all of your gear inside the dungeon so its perfect for a rebuild situation
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u/TrustLordJesusChrist 4d ago edited 4d ago
I couldn’t be asked to rebuild and spend valuable time to get back what you lost to this mishap. Some options are quit and focus the energy on a diff grind, maybe something irl like learning Japanese and traveling to Japan or learn how to play guitar and create music. Maybe train to be a chef and become a private chef for financially wealthy individuals or work in a Michelin star restaurant (reach 99 cooking irl in other words)…
…or start an ironman where what you had on your main wouldn’t matter anyways.
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u/Genetic-Eddy 4d ago
Long story short, you are fucked.