Quote Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah View Post
If you ever implement a harsher death penalty you fail as developers. Make the fights challenging instead.
Agreed. Personally, I would try to punish the player just slightly, but reward him more for not dying. We had a good discussion about that here:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ences-of-death

I also made a blog about what I would do to change the handling of death here: http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...entry?e=155429