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I tried the resync with client, I use it so often I have a hot key assigned to it. Maybe logging out/in would have helped. I do the logout/login every time I get the "You are already holding something." I can't recall ever having my corpse not open. I mean even when it is empty it opens to the empty coffin gump.

But this is so rare a perfect storm of bugs, features, phone calls, and careless preparation on my part. Unless unmounting you at the newbie champ is planned. I found it to be a bit of a pain if you are just riding something with low hit points like a horse.

If I would have had everything insured, fine. If I would have chosen any other destination, fine. If I hadn't received a call from a handicapped senior citizen that needed a ride, fine. If it had been in Felucca I may have been able to find someone to help me loot the corpse. If the bug that wouldn't let me open my corpse would not have hit that particular time, fine. If there was a GM online, probably fine. If clicking the newbie dungeon would have taken my character to any other location then the newbie champ, fine.

I'm feeling kind of special, like riding the short yellow bus special!  :lol: Once in a lifetime conflagration of events, features, and bugs. Heck, checked my taming BODs and I already have two that will get me some +5 gear. I will miss my hat, just extraordinary good loot wizards hat. I hate the darn leather caps even when they made with special leathers, runics, and uber imbued.  Talk about stuff that makes you feel short yellow bus kind of special. We need straw hats imbue-able!

Walter

1. insure!
2. do not leave your char except it is realy save!
3. insure! insure! insure!
4. allow to renew insuration!
5. wasn`t there a corpse stone anywhere ?

Others aren`t allowed to loot your corpse, except at PvP areas or if your in a group and did allowed your group mates to loot your char. If I'm not mistaken.

Sometimes it helps to press shift+ctrl and double click the sign.

I did not make it clear: My corpse was there, but it wouldn't open. Even did the shift+ctrl trick and it still wouldn't open. I could pick it up and it would rubber band back to the same spot, but still wouldn't open. Only one corpse, only died once, corpse would not open. Ran off screen just in case it was a problem with Razor auto opening corpse upon using the world gate, ran back and it still wouldn't open. Tried the same way there, using world gate and newbie dungeon because sometimes Razor will auto open a corpse when you gate or recall into an area, nothing. At least 5 minutes of double clicking my corpse every way possible and it wouldn't open. Eventually it just disappeared. No GMs online so that's the way the cookie crumbles.

I started a new character on my account to see if I could duplicate the bug. Died on the world gate but didn't have any problems. I don't know what caused the bug, I just know I got hit pretty hard by it.

My characters die *A LOT* because of the my game style. I always put GM hiding and Stealth on them so corpse recovery is *NEVER* a problem. It would not have been a problem this time except for the bugged corpse.

Even if the character was killed by other players and dry looted, you can still open your corpse. This was different.

It's just time to suck it up and collect another couple of thousand taming BODs to get the right ones to replace my gear. Time to turn in another couple of hundred fletcher quests to get another runic fletching kit. About the only thing that will be tough is imbuing my equipment to the level it was before the loss. Mats are a bit hard to come by now. Heck, I started doing MIBs again last night to give me a leg up on gear. I did have one nice bow insured but was carrying pretty full kit. Lost at leas 2 more bows nicer then the one I had insured and a nice luck/resist/LRC suit. I've seen the +5 lore and veterinary stuff go for about a million a piece so on the high side, lost about 4 million gold on it alone. Heck, I know people that have lost Towers to bugs! It was their guild headquarters so plenty of people to verify it was being refreshed and like new condition before it disappeared. It just happens.

Walter Wego

Drifting a bit. Helped a new character and ended up under attack at a world gate so I just clicked "Newbie Dungeon" for the destination knowing it would take me to the newbie champ. Just then I got an important phone call so thinking I'd be invisible I answered the phone. There is a bug at the newbie champ that unmounts you from your ride. New feature, something attacks your mount and it unhides you. My mare wasn't in guard mode and apparently someone had trained a bunch of monsters to the gate. Monsters attack mare, my character is unhidden, monsters attack my character, my character dies.

I get off the phone, see situation so I go to resurrection gardens and return to the newbie champ. I double click my bones and NOTHING! I single click, I double click, I leave area and return multiple times, nothing. The corpse won't return gear or even open. I ask someone in the area and they tell me it gives them the "You can not loot this corpse" message. I page a GM, none online. Corpse disappears and needless to say I didn't have all the much insured.

Nothing lost that can't be replaced of course but it took me 4 months to collect some of the stuff like a full +5 taming outfit, boots, apron, robe, sash. I think I did about 400 turn ins to get my runic fletching kit I'd only used twice.

Just venting and commiserating, bugs are bugs, nobody likes them or puts them in intentionally. Them be the breaks.

Walter Wego

Year old dead thread but I want to add the table of rewards is not accurate. Specifically the a 3x15 dragon/drake/wyrm LBOD gave a wooden horse.

The Tamer BOD reward may have a logic flaw in the script. If you look through the rewards, people are getting the same reward for a LBOD of difficult tames as a small BOD. IOW, if you turn in the 3 filled BODs instead of the filled LBOD you end up with 3 horses instead of one. Just look at some peoples' houses that appear to have been doing BODs, they usually have a row of these horses going across an entire wall. The horse comes up *WAY* to often and just adds clutter. It would be better if it was something like a pet dye or low level consumable like a PPS.

The wild ones are much stronger then the tamed ones. Taming beats them with a Nerf stick to the point where they aren't half as potent as the wild version. The same thing happens to Beetles.

The tamed GDs run for about 500-800 hps, start at mid 60 dex, over 600 str, and just over 300 int. They do well in most fights because they have excellent resists and much better damage then a regular dragon. About even money with a Lord of the Abyss but a wild GD will eat their lunch. I've seen them drop like a prom dress against a Frost Orc.

They have excellent, even after being lowered from taming, starting skills. Once trained I think the only thing you need to use a pet power scroll on to get over 100 is meditation. Dex does rise but it is capped at ~125 and seems to take forever to rise.