Ive been playing POE for a bit now, and I have to say, the XP loss on death was refreshing and welcomed. Why cant WoW have some sort of punishment for death? Made the game feel more meaningful IMO
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The punishment for death is Rita /cackling at you! Mwahahahaha!
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Um. No.
Not no.
HECK no.
Not even heck, even more than heck. Nope nope nope.
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Cackling at a dead person is so toxic omg
Because the developers actively avoided this sort of mechanic to differentiate themselves from other games that did this.
Also because it’s a dumb mechanic
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The die animations are funny! My favorite is the little male blood elf die animation. He raises his hand like he is clinging to the light 
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If they make regular questing more difficult people at the lower skill levels will run into a quest then can’t do and they will be dead in the water, unable to continue questing.
They will have no choice but to leave and that’s money gone.
For those elites who like to look down their noses and cry “git mud” or “git gud”, what ever that means, it would mean no more game to play because there are not enough of you paying for subscriptions to keep the lights on.
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Hmm Losing gold on death?
- (Blizzard: WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN)
Losing 50g on death isnt punishing
Losing XP on death is how old MMOs used to work and it was terrible. Plus if you had just leveled the XP lost would de-level you. Sometimes they would even have it where if you died you dropped whatever you were carrying and anyone could just come by and pick it up.
This sorta happens all ready with the damage to the armor and repair cost.
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Maybe you should implement your own system of punishment for yourself upon death. Smash your hand with a hammer, spray pepper spray into your eyes, put ice cubes down your shirt…
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are you advocating self harm on the forums???
I sense a business opportunity! Now selling audio recordings of Rita cackling, 10 dollars each. You can play it every time your character dies as a punishment.
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You can play hardcore WoW for that.
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Leak your own nude, purchase a sports car, fast for 24 hours each time you die. There, some more ideas 
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DAMN IT, ITS ALWAYS THE TAXES XD
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repair is a thing
HC wow is just people grinding spiders in the forest for 100 hours then drying to lag, total waste of time and no skill
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XP loss on death would make no sense in WoW. Most of WoW’s content is done at level 70 where there is no XP. If you want it punishing enough to delevel you, that wouldn’t work either because gear has lvl restrictions as do raids. Imagine going for a raid boss, dying, having all of your gear unequippable, and you removed from the raid until you farmed back to level 70. This would be awful. The current punishment of repair costs is really the only thing that could work in this situation.
I recommend Black Desert if you want a punishing MMO. They have XP loss on death as well as crystals (which can be very expensive) have the chance of breaking.
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you can only lose your progress to the next level, you cant lose levels themselves *in POE