How many are still dying when solo farm??

UnKn0wN415

UnKn0wN415

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2007

Bay Area

Looking 4 PvP Guild!

R/

Just wondering is some are still dying when they solo farm?

any sort of lag does not count...

forgot to cast a skill
instead of being careful you rushed into it
etc

Ecto farming to finally get my chaos gloves

1st and 2nd casted my skill to soon and it wasnt far enough and dam Aatxe killed me...

3rd run finally made it to smite, nightmare popped up and instead of me running away I attacked it and forgot he can remove Enchantments and you know the rest..

KoopaOne

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Nov 2007

Austria

[YoHo]

Me/

i constantly die in Gates of Kryta against a boss, because i run out of energy

Friday

Friday

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2006

[DVDF]

^^ lol yes, the Mes boss Someoneorother the Spiritlessorsomething takes some careful e-management to kill in HM...

I die lots when soloing - usually because guildies and others are talking to me and Prot runs out while I'm talking back and not concentrating...

The rest of the times are when I'm trying to take the farmer girl to new places and I don't know what the foes have on their skill bars.

Aera

Aera

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2005

Galactic President Superstar Mc [awsm]

E/

I sometimes die while farming for Destroyer Cores with my W/Rt. You can get unlucky sometimes, and they sometimes seriously SPIKE with Lamentation.

It's like 1 out of 20 runs though, but still.

strcpy

strcpy

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2005

One of Many [ONE]

A few of my runs are "dangerous" in that there are enough interrupters that I may not be able to get either Prot Spirit or Mystic Regen off in time on my monk no matter what I do. My 130 HP Dervish still farms some places that are also "dangerous" where skill recharges have a small window where the groups can kill me. I definitely die from time to time doing any of these things. Of course, there are also farming runs with the 130hp dervish that you intentionally suicide but they should count less than lag.

As for other runs I sometimes get distracted by real life (phone rings or other such thing) or I do the farming while after consuming large amounts of alcohol - all of those sometimes results in deaths.

Most of the farming runs are really easy if you pay 100% attention, most of the better ones have a large chance of dieing if you neglect to do that for a short period of time. Anyone who says they do not die from time to time farming either isn't farming one of the better spots, isn't telling the truth, or has a special spot they better hope no one else finds.

However, other than the first few runs to figure out what is going on you shouldn't unintentionally die very often either. One should go at least a few skill points between deaths if not more.

Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

At an Insit.. Intis... a house.

Live Forever Or Die Trying [GLHF]

W/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by UnKn0wN415
Just wondering is some are still dying when they solo farm?
Shit happens when you party naked... and when the margin between living and dying is a single bad click or split second distraction.

VitisVinifera

VitisVinifera

Banned

Join Date: Nov 2005

Northern California

HoTR

N/Me

any time you 55/105/600 monk it takes a slip of the finger, tiny misstime, or hitting the wrong skill to cause death

could there possibly be anything suprising about that?

LeoX

LeoX

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

United Kingdom

Guildless Since 2005???

W/

Yeah it happens now and then, usually because i'm talking to a friend and forget to press a skill.
Although lag is not counted, i do get that too.

Davros Uitar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

Fool Wolves

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Friday
^^ lol yes, the Mes boss Someoneorother the Spiritlessorsomething takes some careful e-management to kill in HM...

I die lots when soloing - usually because guildies and others are talking to me and Prot runs out while I'm talking back and not concentrating...

The rest of the times are when I'm trying to take the farmer girl to new places and I don't know what the foes have on their skill bars.
Must be a difference between our builds - I never have a problem with the Me boss in Gates - it is the Ranger boss who usually gets 2 me's with him and one of them interrupts.

For me it is flawless victory against the 4 casters, standoff or lucky timing for 20% win v tank, and probably less than 5% I beat the ranger

Back on topic - usually only carelessness that takes people down. Once they have got used to the correct timings of their builds it gets almost automatic.

onerabbit

onerabbit

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Thanks to all the guru [mods]

i die alot when 55 monking lulz.. rush in and forget to cast enchants :P

Coridan

Coridan

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2006

US

Old Married Gamers {OMG}

W/

on the collasal run in zhelons whatever... i would talk to the Guard to get the blessing...then cast my spells...often with out retargeting myself...so the guard is all spelled up ...i run in...1 hit...doh

take_me

take_me

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Mar 2006

Europe

Country Roads [HOME]

Happens every 20 runs or so if I press the wrong skill, or get body blocked, or trying to type a message
(mostly at Raptor-Farming at the moment)
It would be un-human if it didnt happen every now and then^^

Friday

Friday

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2006

[DVDF]

^^ HAHA Cordian got the other one I tend to do when not concentrating - in Farhanur, get the undead bounty, move a little way towards the mob, prot the the sunspear at the shrine, run a few paces and promptly die... >.<

baz777

baz777

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2005

South East England

Leader: Lady Hairy Armpits S[mell]

E/

I die quite often

Always when the wife is speaking to me.

Been married nealry 30 years and have been cought out in the past when not really listening to her and have apparently agreed to give her some money!

Real life cash more important than GW cash to me

fowlero

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

England, UK

We Are The One And Only [rR]

When 600ing my shift key often gets stuck.

Not helpful, run into mob all casted up. Dance about a bit, ooh healths dipping:

*Presses 2 (Spirit Bond)*
*Presses 2 again*
*Hmm (Death occurs)*
*Ohhhhh*

Ogden's very forgiving though.

neighto

neighto

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2005

The Heart of Life is [Love]

lol all the time

i have a tendency to yap too much in guild chat... 9 times out of 10 it ends up in me dying

as my saying goes in guild chat
"55ing and chatting dont mix"

Dark-NighT

Dark-NighT

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2006

Stygian Veil

Shoop Da Woop [Lolz]

N/Mo

The raptor cave kills me quite a lot, sometimes its rubber banding, but most of the times its the boss that kills me with his touch skill, but mostly after all the stuff that dropped from the nestlings.

Aera Lure

Aera Lure

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

In Baltar's head

Bring Out Your Dead [BOYD], former officer [LBS]

Mo/

Oh sure, lag kills me from time to time. So does the occasionally poorly timed chat. Then there are the test runs where I ask "wonder if this will work" and then I go and see, tweak and then go try it again.

Overall though, if its a run I know, I dont die all that often.

Kusandaa

Kusandaa

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

N/Mo

When I used to farm Hidden City on my necromancer, I always told my guildies I was farming deaths; I died too much for the thing to become profitable :|. Other than that, lag or chat. I don't die -too much- though.

Carboplatin

Carboplatin

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2005

[PIG]

W/A

usually when the phone rings and i start chatting i die

Yang Whirlwind

Yang Whirlwind

~ Retired ~

Join Date: Nov 2005

Copenhagen, Denmark (GMT +1)

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by R Langdon
usually when the phone rings and i start chatting i die
That's a classic,- died a ton of times like that too!

Also boredom is your enemy - about 1 run in 20 I would die from "mental lag" when farming Destroyer Cores in the Glint Challenge Mission. The build (ele) is ironclad,- but you can still manage to die if you're not paying attention!

upier

upier

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Done.

[JUNK]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Yang Whirlwind
Also boredom is your enemy - about 1 run in 20 I would die from "mental lag"
Aye - my biggest enemy.
Farming is so freaking boring that I just don't pay attention to what I am doing.
So it's pretty much luck when I DON'T die!

super strokey

super strokey

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2006

Soviet Canuckistan

N/

I die when i make mistakes by rushing for forgetting something. I havnt farmed in a long time though, i might try a 55 ss build on the raptors cave but i have no idea if that will work cause there is so many of them. ANyone know a good build for them with a necro?

Dylananimus

Dylananimus

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2007

The Eternal Champions

W/Mo

Guild chat gets me killed more than anything. Then there's the fact I have a short attention span and get distracted by....ohhh, shiny leaves on that tree over...OUCH!

I end up taking an item of clothing off to give my little monk some health back so she's not at 1hp. Often in fact, she's left running around naked, still trying to kill...hehe

UnKn0wN415

UnKn0wN415

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2007

Bay Area

Looking 4 PvP Guild!

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Coridan
on the collasal run in zhelons whatever... i would talk to the Guard to get the blessing...then cast my spells...often with out retargeting myself...so the guard is all spelled up ...i run in...1 hit...doh
lol ya this has happen to me quite a few times, still remember the first time this happen, thinking did I use the right build, did I cast my skill in the wrong order...

talking to guild members are one reason I still die, casting a skill that last 18 sec and thinking thats plenty of time to quickly reply to a guild member...

Bazompora

Bazompora

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2006

Belgium

N/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by UnKn0wN415
instead of being careful you rushed into it
That, all the time. The grind is so mindnumbing that I just can't focus on it.

mrvrod

Guest01

Join Date: Jul 2006

I hate to admit it, but I'd die all too often when I was core farming with a w/me VwK build. Every single time though it was simply because i wasn't paying attention to what I was doing. The grind can get mind-numbingly unbearable.

Thank God I don't normally farm. I did it for 5 days before christmas, earned 100k per day (minimum of 16 hours per day. Yes my drops were that bad). Then I split the gold between my two sons as an extra christmas present.

So now I'm broke again, and no desire to farm AT ALL!