Permanent Death Servers

[Velhart]

What's hard about Powerleveling a job to 50 in 2 days or spamming enter a bajillion times til your crafter/gatherer dings 50? Actually like someone else mentioned a smart player would likely have a separate character dedicated to crafting and gathering so that if his battle character died that progress wouldn't be lost.

Common Sense is severely lacking in this neck of the woods.

Unless someone finds an exploit in the new version, you won't be able to just power level through killing mobs. They have said plenty of times that questing/dungeons/leves are the best way to get a character from 1 to 50. How long will that take? Who knows, but power leveling won't be a viable options anymore.

[debola]

I think this would be awesome. However, I have no delusions that it would ever be implemented in ffxiv. waste of server space and not enuf interest. pple would spam it in the beginning but the numbers would dwindle too fast and by too much.

Like some other people here, the first thing i tot of when seeing this was Sword Art Online. hehe

To make this game like that would be uh-mazing and i'd be hella interested in that special server. I think it could work if people were given the ability to instantly return to safe zones from dungeons and dangerous areas like in SAO. that would compensate easily for the possibility of tanks and healers dc'ing in a boss fight.

[Honz]

I wouldn't mind a perma death server to be honest only if the server was severely limited. Only this server would have world pvp, and the only safe zone is the inn or your player house.

1. No exp allowed. Cap is lvl 1 and will always be one.

2. Starting gear only. All gear is lvl 1 no exceptions.

3. No crafting/gathering classes. Gil is only for getting repairs from NPCs.

4. All attackable npcs are aggressive and their levels would range from 15~99.

5. No instances and no claim on mobs.

The challenge would be to complete the main story at lvl 1.

[noxs]

You can delete your character every time you die in normal servers and.. you got permadeath. Nobody stop you to do it if you want to play like this.

[Lirion]

Imagine how many characters you would have to go through to beat Garuda.

[Matsume]

Imagine how many characters you would have to go through to beat Garuda.

That's kind of the point of the concept... You get to be known as one of the only players on the server who has achieved such a thing. Fame n fortune n epeen galore. Like the first player in XI to get maat's cap...

[Majidah]

That's kind of the point of the concept... You get to be known as one of the only players on the server who has achieved such a thing. Fame n fortune n epeen galore. Like the first player in XI to get maat's cap...

How good a PLD is isn't messured on whether or not a crappy WHM let him die once.

[XavierBlade]

That's kind of the point of the concept... You get to be known as one of the only players on the server who has achieved such a thing. Fame n fortune n epeen galore. Like the first player in XI to get maat's cap...

Or, you could probably just not do that. Either way works.

[XavierBlade]

This thread makes me want to punch a baby.

[TaalAzura]

I think it would be a lot of fun if implemented correctly. Perhaps instead of when you die, you have a 5:00 timer after you die that, if you don't receive a raise in time, you die for good. Albeit less hardcore, it still wounds like it would provide a lot of fun.

EDIT: And honestly, this game doesn't offer much of a challenge as it is; implementing this urgency of getting a raise in the allotted time is a lot more exciting than just mindlessly running content over and over. One of the best parts of playing new content is figuring out the best way to overcome it, and to me it seems a lot more exciting when there's a huge risk involved.