The penalties of dying in all forms, help! :)

Could anyone point me out to an article about death penalties? and the counters to them

do you drop a level? can you drop them in pvp? do death have additional penalties? how do i identify them, and get rid of them ect etc :) this is all a big blurry could for me atm :)

thanks a lot!

You only get it when you die from mobs and it can easily be removed when you buy a scroll in the Grocery Store.

and about xp and item losses? anyone who can give me a bit more insight in "death" in general?

maybe i phrased it wrongly :) but i meant "all" penalties that dealth have in this game.. item drops, xp losses etc etc. ":)

You can find all the info you're looking for,in the "News/In Development" section.
I think it's under the date 23rd of October...you can find all the latest changes in death/death penalties since that update!
I hope I was of a bit of help!

XP: being level 9 or below, you do not loose XP upon death (this was changed, it was level 4 previously). Until level 40, you loose 8% upon death. After 40, it is 4%
Exceptions are:
- Arena, Coliseum, Being killed by Zariche sword - 0%
- Battlefield like sieges, clanhall battles - it's 1/4 of regular XP loss, so like 1%
- clanwars - 2-way clanwar both sides has XP loss reduced to 1/4, in one-side only the clan that attacks. Clan under attack suffers full XP loss.
- Festival of Darkness - it's 1/4 too when died by mobs there
- Rift party - correct me on this one, XP loss should be reduced to 1/4 too.

Items: Upon death, you do not drop any items in PVP or PVE now. In PVE, chance of drop was replaced by possibility to catch "Death penalty" debuff, which decreases your combat abilities (lower matk, cast speed, attack speed, patk).
In PVP you do not loose items at all.*

*There is one exception: when you kill somebody who does not flag (responds to your attack and turns name pink too), you get PK point and Karma ponts. Your name turns red. If you have 5 and less PK points, normal rules to death apply.
However, if you have 6 and more PK points, and gain karma (you are still red), there is chance you drop any item from inventory up to 5 items or stacks of items, equipped or not.

Special case is Zariche sword owner - player gets 99.999+ karma instantly, name turns red, but when being killed as a Zariche owner, or being killed by zariche owner, you neither do not drop items, nor loose XP (except Zariche itself of course).

thats great info, thanks a lot both of you!

XP: Until level 40, you loose 8% upon death. After 40, it is 4%

Ok, when has the % changed?
Last time I died on my scout (lvl 39) he lost 5%. (Last week)
Last time I died on my Necro (lvl 49) he lost 5%. (Within the last month)

Last time I died on my BH (a very loooong time ago) (lvl 58) he lost 4%.

When C5 launched I had to delevel my then human wizard (academy points ftw!) who was lvl 40@99% to 39. On each death I lost 5%.

To my understanding the xp loss is 5% @ levels under 52, 4% after.

Not 100% sure but I belive you can get death debuffs from PvP if you are red reguardless of PK score. If you are above 5 PKs, however it appears to be that you get debuffed as often as you previously would have dropped items (which is almost every death) and you drop items about as much as you did with no karma prior to the patch. That is a bit confusing but I think it's about right

Last I died on my dwarf pre-40, she lost 7.something % ... So I do not know. But pre-40 you loose more than post-40, I am sure about this.

I've lost as much as 10% early on, but then, at that point, it is hardly noticable since you get it back fast anyway.

I belive it's now 0% 0-10, 12% 10-20, 8% 20-40, from what miccoz said it sounds like 5% 40-52, and 4% 53+

It used to be 12% from 5 to 20, 8% from 21 to 40 and 4% after 40

Now it is 8% from 10-40 and 4% after 40.