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Dilbert2001
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Great news for pvmers, especially not-so-good-pvmers like myelf. This is even better news when Free Death is stacking with the unlimited aura refresh buff. It is logically the best time for me to learn HM Vorkath.

I have many IRL ways to celebrate this holiday season though, so perhaps I won't be able to reap the biggest benefits of these stacking buffs events, until the last few days after New Year.

Will you go pvming more! If so, hope you get the biggest loot for this merry 2023 RS3 Christmas and happy New Year!

25-Dec-2023 18:03:30

Dilbert2001
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Shi No Neko said :
I just died while doing a slayer task and it made me run to my grave to get my stuff. I think the free deaths is broken. Just a heads up.

If you die, you respawn in Death's Office, free death or not, unless you die in a safe death activity. You can just talk to Death and reclaim your items for a fee usually but now it is totally free.

Next time if you die and don't find yourself in Death's Office for whatever reason, you can check with Death in his office instead of running to your grave.

If "you think the free death is broken", you should file a bug report with Jagex, but not in my thread in the RSOF as it won't help Jagex.

26-Dec-2023 17:49:12

Shi No Neko
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The way you describe it is not the way free/safe death worked at the end of Nov. At that time, I would appear in Edgeville with all my stuff and a statement in chat indicating I was hidden from Death's gaze or something like that. Free/safe death should be the same with the same mechanic. Why am I now having to buy my stuff back from Death in his office if it is free/safe? I have input a bug report, but I wanted you and anyone who read your thread that there may be a problem, or in this case per your statement, a total change from the way they just implemented it a few weeks back.

27-Dec-2023 00:59:12

Dilbert2001
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Shi No Neko said :
The way you describe it is not the way free/safe death worked at the end of Nov. At that time, I would appear in Edgeville with all my stuff and a statement in chat indicating I was hidden from Death's gaze or something like that. Free/safe death should be the same with the same mechanic. Why am I now having to buy my stuff back from Death in his office if it is free/safe? I have input a bug report, but I wanted you and anyone who read your thread that there may be a problem, or in this case per your statement, a total change from the way they just implemented it a few weeks back.

Free death is just free death. It is not described as anything or remotely compared to how different free death events with different content were conducted in the past.

We don't have to buy back our items from Death at all. Just talk to him when any free death event is on and he will gladly give everything back to us totally
FREE
. No need for grave running in RS3 whatsoever, and actually barely RS3 players run to their graves because death cost is on the average just a single digit percentage of what it used to be before the Death Cost Reduction update.

27-Dec-2023 17:29:51

Shi No Neko
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Not sure what you mean about gravestones being more expensive than actually buying my stuff back from Death. I get my stuff for free from my gravestone instead of paying Death for my stuff. I can't afford high end gear, haven't augmented my stuff (except some tools and like 2 weapons I don't use much), I don't boss other than quest bosses and some slayer mobs, and I try to make sure I can get to my grave when needed. I have never bought my stuff back from Death, so the need to ask him to give my gear back was never something I had ever done before. This is why appearing in Death's office without my stuff, instead of Edgeville with my stuff like at the end of Nov., confused me and appeared that this event was broken.

Edit: I've played this game over 17 years and purposely purchased the longest lasting gravestone before they changed it multiple times and this new process confuses me and is not something I have ever done. I don't see how paying death is cheaper than if I get my stuff back from my grave for free. Why have the option of the gravestones if they don't want us to use them? I can't afford to pay to buy back my gear that I have had for years and had to save a very long time to get. I rarely buy stuff from the GE and mainly only because those items helped me do quest bosses I got stuck on and they were suggested by others/wiki. I rarely use degradable stuff, but i guess I will lose some durability from those, although free deaths should prevent that during this event and has not affected me too much in the past.

28-Dec-2023 00:18:51 - Last edited on 28-Dec-2023 00:26:19 by Shi No Neko

Dilbert2001
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Shi No Neko said :
Not sure what you mean about gravestones being more expensive than actually buying my stuff back from Death

I never mentioned that at all. I wrote and meant
"free death is just free death"
. You die, you claim your stuff back from Death in his office for
FREE
during the Free Death event. No need to go to your gravestone at all. It is just as simple in RS3.

28-Dec-2023 17:09:14

Bertel62
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Dilbert2001 said :
You die, you claim your stuff back from Death in his office for
FREE
during the Free Death event. No need to go to your gravestone at all. It is just as simple in RS3.
How are people supposed to know that? Usually when you talk to Death, it is because you want to pay to get your items back. If you don't want to pay, then you obviously don't talk to him. You never find out that you can get your stuff back for free unless you are willing to pay, and then find out that you don't have to pay after all.

And don't say it is simple. The very fact that people post about it on the forum, because they have troble understanding how it works, and think it is bugged, is proof that it is not simple.

It is a stupid way of having it work. We should simply not lose our items when we die, and there should be no gravestone.

30-Dec-2023 11:04:28 - Last edited on 30-Dec-2023 14:36:02 by Bertel62

Dilbert2001
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Bertel62 said :
Dilbert2001 said :
You die, you claim your stuff back from Death in his office for
FREE
during the Free Death event. No need to go to your gravestone at all. It is just as simple in RS3.
How are people supposed to know that? Usually when you talk to Death, it is because you want to pay to get your items back. If you don't want to pay, then you obviously don't talk to him. You never find out that you can get your stuff back for free unless you are willing to pay, and then find out that you don't have to pay after all.

And don't say it is simple. The very fact that people post about it on the forum, because they have troble understanding how it works, and think it is bugged, is proof that it is not simple.

It is a stupid way of having it work. We should simply not lose our items when we die, and there should be no gravestone.

We know this from the last free death event. Besides, right upon our death and appearance in Death's office, Death automatically talk to us and offer to return our stuff for free. Not that we have to click him and find out.

30-Dec-2023 16:48:27

Bertel62
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Dilbert2001 said :
Bertel62 said :
Dilbert2001 said :
You die, you claim your stuff back from Death in his office for
FREE
during the Free Death event. No need to go to your gravestone at all. It is just as simple in RS3.
How are people supposed to know that? Usually when you talk to Death, it is because you want to pay to get your items back. If you don't want to pay, then you obviously don't talk to him. You never find out that you can get your stuff back for free unless you are willing to pay, and then find out that you don't have to pay after all.

And don't say it is simple. The very fact that people post about it on the forum, because they have troble understanding how it works, and think it is bugged, is proof that it is not simple.

It is a stupid way of having it work. We should simply not lose our items when we die, and there should be no gravestone.

We know this from the last free death event. Besides, right upon our death and appearance in Death's office, Death automatically talk to us and offer to return our stuff for free. Not that we have to click him and find out.
Didn't you just say the following in a previous post: "It is not described as anything or remotely compared to how different free death events with different content were conducted in the past."? So why are we now suddenly supposed to compare it to previous events? You just said the exact opposite.

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