Is there a reason we need flowers and ore deposits to explode and kill you?

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So much fun dying to exploding flowers.

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It’s your penalty for trying to be productive in the game. Those bombs coming off mining deposits are a blast as well.

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apparently its to combat bots. have fun being punished by daddy blizz because they refuse to actually fix the botting problem and make players suffer instead :rofl:

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How does one die to these? o.O

Also: it’s fun! I love the interaction. I’ve wanted this back since BC. :smiley:

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You get knocked off a high place before you can herb while mounted. For those of us too lazy to get the equipment to herb while mounted. That would include me.

The bombs do nasty damage in the beginning actually.

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Goblin security measures at it’s finest

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Goblin Rocket Jump looking real crispy Bill Bixby right about now, eh?

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Activity? In MY idle PC game?

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I’ve been hit by one of the bombs exactly once. Just gotta reposition and find a lucky spot.

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i died a couple times to them too but started paying attention after that lol it’s not hard

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Well… Mages can Blink, Warriors can Leap, DHs and Evokers can glide, Druids don’t take much fall damage in kitty, Shamans can use Gust of Wind, Slow Fall is also a thing for Mages, Levitate for Priests, bubble for Paladins, Rogues don’t take much fall damage and most of those herbs you can position yourself to not get knocked off.

So it seems there’s only a few classes I can’t think of a way to not take the fall damage.

But it’s still fun! :smiley:

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Seems like the kind of stuff that would make me just let the bots farm for me and just buy it off them in the AH later

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We’d take the advice if we could read.

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Bots don’t care about those things. They didn’t in DF either. It’s for RPG flavor and fun— like we had in BC and like people asked to have back again.

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Pick the irradiated herb and run away.

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It’s not equipment, it’s a perk you get putting 60 knowledge points in one of the category.

Also the exploding stuff, the closer you are, the faster you mine it. Just fyi.

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Because how would it be funny if they didnt?
As soon as i realize its that kind of node I just move along.
Im not playing Ions little mind games lol

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I picked up a Mushroom and it became an elite Mushroom with small mushrooms around him. I never die on those. But less-skilled players would be eaten by those.

I love such surprises. It keeps the game fun instead of just looting it like boring.

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Yes, that was figured out after the first time of it happening. But it was still a surprise the first time.

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I’ve mined a few ores, and haven’t died to an exploding one yet.