What am I doing wrong? 07/02/2011 03:03 AM CDT
The following has happened to me the last 6 times I've gone hunting. I outright dodge/block literally a thousand straight attacks without taking a scratch, then I just randomly die. I've never seen this happen once before last week, and now it happens every single time I go hunting. I can't even gain combat skills anymore. I have actually gone BACKWARDS over the past week because (on top of losing an hours worth of mindlocks) I lose more exp from departing than I can gain before I randomly get one shot for no apparent reason.

Did something change recently? Before last week I always would start getting nickled and dimed to death, maybe catch an unlucky stun and die, but it was something you could see coming and try to avoid it. Getting randomly one shot is freaking retarded, and I think I'm probably just going to stop hunting until Combat 3.0 comes out because I'm sick of spending several hours a day training without actually gaining any skills

See retarded log below

Apu

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A zombie stomper stumbles backward in retreat.
A zombie stomper shambles west.

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Heavy footfalls and a chilling grunt announce the arrival of a zombie stomper.

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Groaning in frustration, a zombie stomper retreats from combat.
A zombie stomper shambles northwest.

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Heavy footfalls and a chilling grunt announce the arrival of a zombie stomper.

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Groaning in frustration, a zombie stomper retreats from combat.
A zombie stomper shambles northwest.

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Heavy footfalls and a chilling grunt announce the arrival of a zombie stomper.

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A zombie stomper stumbles backward in retreat.
A zombie stomper shambles northwest.

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Heavy footfalls and a chilling grunt announce the arrival of a zombie stomper.

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A zombie stomper retreats, apparently sensing this is no ordinary togball.
A zombie stomper shambles west.

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Heavy footfalls and a chilling grunt announce the arrival of a zombie stomper.

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Groaning in frustration, a zombie stomper retreats from combat.
A zombie stomper shambles northwest.

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Heavy footfalls and a chilling grunt announce the arrival of a zombie stomper.

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A zombie stomper backs off, grunting disconsolately.
A zombie stomper shambles northwest.

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You begin to hum a masterful sonata with only the slightest hint of difficulty.
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* A zombie stomper grunts revoltingly and punches at you. You partially block with a crocodile-skin buckler.
The fists lands an extremely heavy hit that knocks you down and out with a blow to the nether regions (Total loss of bowel control accompanies a twitching death!).
Your death cry echoes in your brain as it quickly dawns on you that you have just died! Already, you feel the tug of eternity upon your soul and you struggle to remain tied to this world.

A chill takes the seat of your soul as your remaining spiritual strength bleeds away steadily. However, you are comforted that you have curried the favor of your god, which will greatly improve the course of your resurrection or reincarnation.

Your body will decay beyond its ability to hold your soul in 133 minutes.
[You're very badly balanced]

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A zombie stomper retreats, apparently sensing this is no ordinary togball.
A zombie stomper shambles west.

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A zombie stomper retreats, apparently sensing this is no ordinary togball.
A zombie stomper shambles west.

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A zombie stomper backs off, grunting disconsolately.
A zombie stomper shambles west.
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Re: What am I doing wrong? 07/02/2011 03:13 AM CDT
AFAIK that's how high end combat always worked. It's a result of high end combat damage going notably beyond what an individual body part can support. So if the critter's offense score is 1000 damage, and your defense score is 950, but your abdomen can only take 40 points of damage... any screwup is a big screwup. The fact that your health can take 500 points of damage is negligible because your vital body part explodes.

3.0 is aimed to fix that, though.
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Re: What am I doing wrong? 07/02/2011 03:26 AM CDT
I just don't get why this never happened to me once before in Stompers, and now all of a sudden it happens 100% of the time. It's not really like this is "high end combat", it's just zombie stompers

Apu
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Re: What am I doing wrong? 07/02/2011 05:19 AM CDT
>>I just don't get why this never happened to me once before in Stompers, and now all of a sudden it happens 100% of the time. It's not really like this is "high end combat", it's just zombie stompers

Not just zombie stompers. Anything in that 500ish rank range can do this. Fine for days and then wham you're dead. If you went to Ratha or South Barricade celpeze you'd notice the same thing, eventually.
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Re: What am I doing wrong? 07/02/2011 11:01 AM CDT
Welcome to upper level content, Apu. That's about the only way anyone over 500 ranks in combats dies.
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Re: What am I doing wrong? 07/02/2011 07:25 PM CDT
<<Welcome to upper level content, Apu. That's about the only way anyone over 500 ranks in combats dies.>>

Its so much fun < insert sarcasm font.
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