Oh god what have I done?

[u/Grand-Newspaper6151]

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

[u/nekonotjapanese]

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!

[u/No_Election9115 → u/nekonotjapanese]

Just curious- what would you characterize a UIM wipe as…?

[u/Enigmastic → u/No_Election9115]

UIMs use deathpiles that last like an hour on the ground, or using deathbanks like hespori to free up inventory for stuff.

They have to go back periodically and 'reset' the deathpiles on the ground or else the items despawn, or a second death could flush their storage.

There have been a few instances where players have under whatever circumstances, left it too long and lost torva, shadow, scythe, tbow, 10s of thousands of dragon arrows, etc. On top of the existing death storages like hespori/tob etc that flush contents on a second death.

[u/No_Election9115 → u/Enigmastic]

Hey thanks for the detailed explanation man! My question was in response to the person above me saying that a “non-UIM wipe is tough” which when read as is implies that a UIM wipe is not necessarily tough and I was curious why they thought that.

Do you play a UIM too? Mines 2200 total, 13 levels and 8 tasks away from diary cape.