<p>An effect in Guild Wars. Blessfrey is inspired by Guild Wars's ruleset, but it doesn't have its own version of Death Penalty. <br></p>
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<h2>what is death penalty? </h2>
<p>Upon death, a character gets this effect applied, decreasing his maximum health and energy, Each death adds a 15% reduction for a max of 60% less max health and energy. You can lose DP by gaining XP, gaining Morale Boosts (either by killing Bosses or using MB consumables) (...also 10% MB is max), and using DP-reducing consumables. 75xp removes 1% DP, and that includes VQ and quest rewards. In Hard Mode, rez shrines won't rez anymore if everyone in your party has max DP, forcing you to return to outpost. </p>
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<p>Pets don't suffer DP. Pre- deaths don't give DP. Vengeance, Death Pact Signet, etc doesn't give DP. Deaths during in-town holidays don't give DP.</p>
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<p>DP is reset when zoning to an outpost, resigning, and between PvP matches.
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<h2>why is that in Guild Wars? </h2>
<p>IDEK, just spitballing these. I haven't even played in years, so the details may be way off. <br></p>
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<h3>pros of DP, penalizing death, rewarding zero-deaths-playthroughs in general</h3>
<p>ANet obv added DP to penalize dying. <br></p>
<p>In PvP, this makes a whole lot more since to me than PvE. Penalizing losers and creating imbalanced gameplay is just part of PvP. DP evaporates off anyway. IDK if I even ever really noticed DP in it. I played bomber in JQ, so I even used that mechanic to my advantage in that competitive format. </p>
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<p>IDK, it usually just brutalized me for no clear reason in singleplayer PvE. I did actually use it to my advantage as a BiP. So it's just another mechanic to play with in the metagame. But anyway. </p>
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<p>DP adds a tonal difference between areas and missions with rez shrines, without rez shrines, and with rez shrines that will refuse to rez you. Normal areas (like Snake Dance) may be challenging, but you can party wipe hundreds of times without zoning and keep your nose on the grindstone until you finally reach Droknar's. If you party wipe even once in a mission or in Foundry, you have to go back to outpost. Then Hard Mode makes anywhere, even Plains of Jarin, more serious - you hit 60% DP on everybody and you go back to outpost. There are areas you can goof off in indefinitely, and then there are areas you can "lose" in. Some areas, you can brute force. Some, you have to plan a strategy and keep an eye on your party members' DP. <br></p>
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<p>Since dying teleports you to rez shrines, death can become a form of travel. I thiink you can cheese some of the ciper quests by intentionally wiping to a mob by town then getting rezzed at a shrine right at the destination. We also had people die, then I'd Necrotic Traversal past a wall and teleport-rez people past the wall in Urgoz or something. I don't think death-as-fast-travel was ever a game-breaking issue, but DP would sure keep people from fast-traveling around UW that way or whatever, if they ever started putting rez shrines down there. </p>
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<p>It makes it harder to brute force through everything. If your build doesn't work on the first few mobs, you have to go restrategize. At least, ideally. IDK. I definitely kept brute forcing at 60% a number of times. If it was implemented as a deterrant like Witcher "YOU ARE CARRYING TOO MUCH WEIGHT" or Torchlight "I AM OVERENCUMBERED" or any of the games that turn the screen bright flashing red, you can't punish people haha. They are going to keep picking up every useless trash, move at 40% speed, and squink into the flashing bright red screen while the character yells at them. </p>
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<p>GW is an online game, so it's more meaningful IMO for an MMO guy to have Survivor than my lost singleplayer save on some harddrive. Now that we have Steam achievements and stuff, maybe that's less true of singleplayer games. (Are Survivor achievements common on Steam and PSN and stuff anyway?) The titles were lots of fun, but Guild Wars's HoM was the coolest achievement-thing probably anyway. </p>
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<h3>cons</h3>
<p>It's annoying. Getting to 60% is brutally unfair. Every other MMO breaks all your expensive armor and unlevels you, so I'm being a baby. It was even kinda mindnumbingly fun to crawl, mob by mob, though EotN dungeons as a lvl 20 with 100HP tbh. But I just can't picture punishing a man like that. I don't know if death is penalized in any other singleplayer game where death isn't a game over. Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Hades, Two Worlds...The Cat Lady? etc. </p>
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<p>Since cap DP makes the game impossible in an unfun way, you obv have to pop your candy canes or go back to town. Going back to town breaks up the gameplay. Anything that takes you out, erases all your progress, and makes you start again is usually bad. Death loop games have this flow, I think. You jump up, ready to try again. The restart area is even kinda comfy or fun in some way. Guild Wars beats you down and makes you feel defeated lol. </p>
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<h2>why is nothing like it in Blessfrey? </h2>
<p>I just don't like it. I don't think there's anything like it in the death loop singleplayer game genre anyway. Maybe I'm wrong, but it's not going in for now. <br></p>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>creatures belong to factions </span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>creatures have life, spirit, AR, etc </span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>creatures are in parties</span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>creatures belong to factions </span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>creatures can be passive</span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>creatures can be fleshy</span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>creature can be a summon</span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>creature can be a boss</span> </li>
</ul>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>creatures can have a special skill active on them like Stun Immunity</span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>creature can have altered armor against damage types. Plants are more susceptible to fire and slashing. Etc. This alteration comes in the form of a skill always applied to the creature </span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>creatures can be in parties</span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>creatures' armor rating is 3 * creature level + armor bonus. The armor bonus is 20 for warriors and paragons, 10 for rangers, dervs, and sins, and 0 for everyone else. </span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>creatures' maximum health is level*20+80. </span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>creatures' maximum energy is 20 for warriors, 30 for rangers, paragons, sins, and dervs, and 40 for everyone else. they have 1 extra pip of energy regen. </span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>creatures can have a special skill active on them like Stun Immunity or Natural Resistance. This can make the creature have altered armor against damage types. Plants are more susceptible to fire and slashing. Etc. </span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>character has spirit </span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>characters start with 20 energy </span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>characters start with 2 pips of energy regen</span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>Death Penalty decreases characters' maximum energy</span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>a set of armor increases energy regen by a total of +2 for warriors and paragons, +3 for rangers, and +4 for dervs, sins, eles, monks, mesmers, necros, and rits. </span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>a set of armor increases energy by a total of 20 for warriors, 25 for rangers and sins and dervs, and 30 for everyone else. </span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>a pip of energy reegen generates 1 energy every 3 seconds. </span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>characters start with 2 pips of energy regen</span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>a pip of energy regen generates 1 energy every 3 seconds. </span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>energy can drop below 0. The UI will read 0 until energy is recovered.</span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>if character is at less than full health, is not attacking, not taking damage from attacks, not using offensive skills, not being targeted by offensive skills, and has not lost health for 5 seconds, their health will begin to regen slowly at a rate that increases by 1 every 2 seconds until it reaches +7 health regen. </span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>characters start with 100 health</span> </li>
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<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>armor comes from core armor, bonus armor, and special armor</span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>character has equipment</span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>armor bonus - additional energy, energy regen, additional health, reduction in physical damage, increase in AR. headgear gives +1 to single attribute for their job</span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>a set of armor increases energy regen by a total of +2 for warriors and paragons, +3 for rangers, and +4 for dervs, sins, eles, monks, mesmers, necros, and rits. </span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>a set of armor increases energy by a total of 20 for warriors, 25 for rangers and sins and dervs, and 30 for everyone else. </span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>there are different equipment slots</span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>there is a main hand and an off-hand slot</span> </li>
<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>main hand reflects the handedness of the character. Night is left-handeded. The player can choose her handedness. </span> </li>
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<li class="latest">{{random.choice(['.','•','☆','★'])}}	<span class=mundane>The Danger Zone is more commonly known as the "aggro bubble", the white translucent circle around your character on the radar. It determines when NPCs become aware of, and subsequently hostile to, their foes. Exceptions to subsequent hostility include most creatures with level 1-2 in starting areas, like Juvenile Bladed Termites in Normal mode. </span> </li>
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