Corpse Decay

[thefloydian]

Sorry if there's somewhere I coulda looked this up, but do any of you know what lvl your corpse stops decaying fast? I asked a few places in game and no one knew for sure.

[quellren]

Five comes to mind.
That's the level you start losing exp on death, so it kinda makes sense.

Not 100% sure though.

[Naerron]

lose exp at lvl 1 here. amd i think it's lvl 10 your corpse stops decaying fast

[Darklake]

You don't get the "you have lost experience" message until after 4, at least.

[quellren]

lose exp at lvl 1 here.

If you do in fact lose exp at lvl 1, it's such an insignificant amount that it doesn't even register. I've been running Savok's Vert UI for a long time and one feature of that UI is adding an exp bar to the window with your HP/Mana/END. It also adds a percentage value to that bar and I am 100% certain that at levels under 5, that value does not decrease on death. So if you are, as you believe, losing exp regardless of lvl, it's less than 1% per death. At lvl 5, that changes and IIRC, you lose ~6% exp per death.

I believe that fast corpse decay ceases around lvl 5 for 2 reasons:
1) I've left a lvl 5 corpse on the ground on purpose as a holding place before I had bags.
2) I generally move by holding down both mouse buttons, so I accidentally click on alot of junk on the ground. I've unintentionally tried to loot many many corpses in the newbie area and EC tunnel that returned the system message " This corpse will decay in x days, x hours, x minutes. If a lvl 8 corpse decayed in 24 hours or less, there would be alot less corpses, and alot more posts in the forum about it.

[Darklake]

2) I generally move by holding down both mouse buttons, so I accidentally click on alot of junk on the ground.

Me too.

/hidecorpse all

:-)

[quellren]

I have a /hidecorpse allbutgroup hotkey made, but I'm too lazy to click it every freaking time I zone from Nek/EC/NRo/FP.

[Messianic]

I don't like to use /hidecorpse all because i like seeing all the millions of newbie corpses everywhere.

Particularly the floating ones near Kelethin.

[Darklake]

It's a pain in the arse when you try to target something and you keep getting "Umbongo's corpse". It's either that or everything seems to be "a bat", stupid bloody target boxes.

[Dr4z3r]

you lose ~6% exp per death.

Death penalty is ~10% of the exp it took to gain your previous level. So it's roughly 1/2 a yellow at most levels, and roughly 1 yellow at 31, 36, 41, and 46.