Forgive me if this has been posted before. Harmtouch should not refresh any longer on death on the PVP server. This was changed in February of 2001 on PVP server.
-- Due to the recent improvements to "Harmtouch", it is doing much
more damage than it would before and unbalances PvP. As such it will
now do less damage in PvP (68% of PvE, down from 80%). In addition,
Shadowknights on the PvP servers were routinely killing themselves via
non-XP losing means and attacking other players with Harmtouch
immediately upon respawn. In order to address this situation, Harmtouch
is no longer automatically "recharged" by death on the PvP Servers.
The Patch Notes from era just search it via Ctrl+F
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/hist...es-2001-1.html