worse ways to die in cyrodiil (top ten, least worse to worse worse)

geonsocal

if you're reading this, you're either in the wrong section, or you spend most of your eso time in cyrodiil - laughs and grins my friends, it's only pixels

worse ways to die in cyrodiil (top ten, least worse to worse worse):

10). dying because you're outnumbered 20 to 1
9). dying while checking your inventory/map
8). dying due to lag
7). dying on your mount
6). dying to someone using shady mechanics
5). dying while still trying to use siege equipment
4). dying to someone with lower cp
3). dying while running away
2). dying right before you get through a door
1). dying to someone playing pretty much the exact same build you're playing

most humorous death ever - years ago when i still had sub 50 characters, during a siege at ash, someone killed me on the top of the main gate at ash, i was firing a catapult up on the keep's top floor...right after they killed me we captured the keep, i got some XP and leveled up from like 42 to 43 or something and came back to life...

the person who had just killed me was still there, it took them a second to start trying to kill me again, by then i made it back down to the ground and around some allies...they kept firing at me though until i made it a good bit away, i don't think anyone on the ground knew what was happening...

Metemsycosis

Unexpectedly high fall damage
Get stuck in the environment
Way back in the day I killed myself with a reflected meteor
Chased relentlessly by a big group
Ride half way across the map just to die inq less than five seconds of combat
At your alliance gate
While bagging
While talking trash with an opponent
While the flag flips to your color
Get X'd, it happens

WoppaBoem

I really like your worse worse : 1). dying to someone playing pretty much the exact same build you're playing

I would say it not the worst in your context because yours all are valid and pretty much agree. But dying again by dark convergence while your not even fighting the person who proc's if for my feeling over 20m away fighting someone else get pulled survive the dmg but your fellow alliances mates dont and get killed by VD and occult overload

geonsocal

ah, that's a good one @Metemsycosis , I forgot about death by fall damage, ugh, I can't tell you how many times I've died streaking off the top of a keep


Way back in the day I killed myself with a reflected meteor

i totally forgot about this - yes, i've killed myself before too, i remember some templar skill that would have a bubble then explode, and that blocking oriented gear set...

geonsocal

I like that @WoppaBoem = death by some stupid gear mechanic...

I still get a bit annoyed by just how often caluurions shows up on my death recap...

convergence is annoying for sure, maybe the reason caluurions bugs me so much is that I never farmed it to use myself

DaisyRay

Some of my personal favorites that I repeat despite dying...

1.) Mistakenly streaking into a zerg
2.) Mistakenly streaking into a ball group bomb
3.) Mistakenly streaking off a keep and dying from op fall damage
.... I hit streak by mistake a lot

4.) Ganked while typing in zone chat
5.) Ganked while on my horse and reading zone chat to see where to go

I do not pay attention to my surroundings and it shows

6.) Trying to drop and ult inside a keep and then dying from siege before I can get it off.
7.) Running out of resources before I notice and then dying.
8.) Forgetting to put my heal pots back on.

You can't heal yourself with meatbags, Daisy!!!

9.) Standing around and watching a 1v1 only for the winner to turn on me.
10.) Being Daisy in pvp!

Nord_Raseri

Everything else is fair game(So is #5)

5). Because they are better
4). Dumb mistake
3). Lag
2). Positional Desync
1). Loadscreen

geonsocal wrote: »

10). dying because you're outnumbered 20 to 1

There was a time where if me and jeebs weren't outnumbered by at least 20 we'd get bored and walk away(With the group still trying to kill us ) sadly I all but gave up on pvp a year ago. Miss it, but not sure if I come back.

Nord_Raseri

Funniest death: I stood on Alessia bridge spear-chucking ep player after ep player to feed the slaughterfish, laughing so hard the whole time as they kept coming. Well, I saw another ep player, dressed exactly like my character, walk up with that jester-funk walk. I just stood there looking at them. Boom, over the ledge I go. Turns out they were a templar too. Damn karma in the spitting image of my own character.

NordSwordnBoard

Worst is death with no counterplay. The rest is something you got yourself involved in lol.

geonsocal

i love the alessia bridge story - yes, i too have had some epic fails on that bridge...sadly, now that i'm full time DC - i rarely get to cross or fight on it anymore...

can't tell you just how many times i've killed myself with streak - i stopped trying to even slot it for a year or so...

it's funny, it's always the fails that stick with me the most...

one evening heading deep in to off-hours the covenant was in the process of getting itself gated...we were down to the last 3 keeps and our scrolls (obvious we were going to get gated)...

sometimes you can earn some big d-ticks if you're alone and defending a keep, also - if it's a uncoordinated small group you can actually either stop or delay the keep capture...

this particular group though was using siege shields and counter-siege, definitely overkill on their part...

they also had the EP emperor with them...the player was a dragonknight...

i was pouring oil on to the front door and first flag from the top floor of glade...my plan was to continue to pour oil on folks until some of them came up to kill me...

saw the emp just standing on the small landing heading from the bottom of the stairs up to the top floor...we were basically looking across from one another from opposite ends of the room (not exactly, but close)...

i thought they would continue up the stairs with their alliance buddies to come wipe me...

nope, the emp dragonknight did an elevated leap from that landing all the way across the room and one-shotted me as i watched them...

even after it happened, i didn't really believe it was possible...

what's funny, the exact same sequence got repeated at warden...

that "super" leap has stuck in my mind for years now - it really was sort of a spectacular death...

xDeusEJRx

The worst way for me is fall damage. Sometimes I roll dodge and my character literally flies off the edge to take 40k fall damage from 2 stories (even with fall damage reduction cp) and it kills me. Like I'm not trying to do a super roll or something like that but my character rolls like 50 feet and falls to their death

DaisyRay

geonsocal wrote: »

saw the emp just standing on the small landing heading from the bottom of the stairs up to the top floor...we were basically looking across from one another from opposite ends of the room (not exactly, but close)...

i thought they would continue up the stairs with their alliance buddies to come wipe me...

nope, the emp dragonknight did an elevated leap from that landing all the way across the room and one-shotted me as i watched them...

even after it happened, i didn't really believe it was possible...

what's funny, the exact same sequence got repeated at warden...

that "super" leap has stuck in my mind for years now - it really was sort of a spectacular death...

LOL omg this almost happened to me before. Mind you I was clueless about gap closures and so on. I was in IC trying to snipe people because I was too scared to get down. I saw a Templar and they stopped moving. In my mind I'm thinking "Oooh! I can kill them." I forget the name of the skill, but they leaped from the ground and towards me. At the same time, I had been letting loose a shot on my bow. To this day I have no idea if I killed them or if the fall damage got them. Either way, they died and I was so confused. I didn't know people could leap so far and kill you! I was very lucky. I even got it on video and was sharing it with everyone I knew.

VaranisArano

Dying because it took 5 button mashes to get through the door...but I foolishly mashed the button 6 times, and now the door has spat me back out into the face of an oncoming horde.

Nord_Raseri

geonsocal wrote: »

i love the alessia bridge story - yes, i too have had some epic fails on that bridge...sadly, now that i'm full time DC - i rarely get to cross or fight on it anymore...

Yeah, that was towards the beginning of us being able to destroy bridges and milegates.

geonsocal wrote: »

can't tell you just how many times i've killed myself with streak - i stopped trying to even slot it for a year or so...

I don't even want to know how many times I've swam with the fishes trying to jump down to the side stairway from the bridge towers and go flying sideways or bouncing.

WuffyCerulei

Man I've had some goofy deaths before, and annoying ones...so here I go.
Least Annoying/Silliest
10. Purposefully yeeting myself off Alessia Bridge to avoid being killed by someone
9. Also purposefully running into a zerg to death port because I don't want to run back to a keep
8. Suddenly DCing but be dead when I log back in
7. Misjudging a height and dying
6. Being killed by a fellow sorc

Most Annoying
5. Getting suddenly zerged down
4. Some sweaty pvper chases me down
3. A ball group kills me with exactly 20 ulti combos at the same time
2. Being ganked by some no-life Nightblade at a town
1. Being killed by anyone with PK (Player Kill/Killing/Killer) in their username

Why with the last one? Cuz I know they only seek enjoyment in being the most annoying and most toxic pvpers you'll meet.

geonsocal

VaranisArano wrote: »

Dying because it took 5 button mashes to get through the door...but I foolishly mashed the button 6 times, and now the door has spat me back out into the face of an oncoming horde.

very worthy addition - which seems to occur pretty much inevitably at some point during the play session...

geonsocal

WuffyCerulei wrote: »

3. A ball group kills me with exactly 20 ulti combos at the same time

i will literally spend like a full minute staring at the death recap muttering:

jaws343

Dying because Streak burned resources but kept me in the same spot.
Dying from Streaking off a bridge.
Fighting but doing no damage, only to realize you died 15 seconds ago.
Dying to an NPC at a resource during a very winnable fight against another player(s)

My top 4

jaws343

VaranisArano wrote: »

Dying because it took 5 button mashes to get through the door...but I foolishly mashed the button 6 times, and now the door has spat me back out into the face of an oncoming horde.

To add to that, dying right after leaving an unflagged keep, but not realizing it was about to flag and being unable to res.

Jaimeh

The worse death, which has sadly happened quite a few times:

I play with a controller and the interaction button is the same as the jump button. When I put down 2-3 oils on top of the D-rink in keeps to defend from enemies sieging the keep, I use them sequentially, but sometimes other people might use them, so when I go to the oil and press the interact button, I can't interact with it, since someone else is using it, and I jump instead, falling down in the middle of all the enemies sieging the door, and dying on the spot. Just imagine trying to use your siege but instead getting yeeted and landing amongst a sea of enemies

geonsocal

jaws343 wrote: »

Fighting but doing no damage, only to realize you died 15 seconds ago.

this is a tough one here, only because a lot of the time - i know i'm dead, just from the situation/action around me, i know i'm dead - still popping potions, pressing ultimates, whatever i think may save me...even though i kind of know i'm probably already dead...

jaws343 wrote: »

Dying to an NPC at a resource during a very winnable fight against another player(s)

i've been deliberately using the npc's as much as possible since i first started playing in IC, so, when a player occasionally uses them better than me, i'm okay with that, kind of just tip my hat...

now, whole different story if i'm all alone and somehow manage to die at a resource - that is very much annoying, basically meant i simply got careless...

Rohamad_Ali

Worst way to die is in a stack of vicious death player corpses. It just confirms this ones fear of ever grouping again.

OBJnoob

Best death: I’m being escorted by a small contingent of AD soldiers back into the south of the map because I’m carrying an elder scroll. That’s right, I’m a hero. About to cross the Alesia bridge and feeling good because we own our home keeps so I’m thinking this bridge marks the safety line… when, halfway across, a small contingent of EP (the bad guys ) pops up out of stealth. Pretty sure a brief but brutal battle ensued… I admit I’m not terribly sure, because the very first thing that happened is an EP Templar speared me off the bridge. Now… I can’t quite remember if I actually fell into the slaughter fish and made it to shore or if I somehow landed on a ledge on the side of the cliff… but I was able to stay there while AD eventually won the fight. With some courage and some lucky trick jumping and crouch climbing I made it to a point right below where a couple of my intrepid teammates had started trying to climb down closer to me. So after much discussion… I log off. They were able to click the scroll from where they were… and then they had to do the same thing one more time, and the scroll was saved. The game couldn’t be cool and teleport me to the gate or anything when I logged back in… so I unceremoniously lept into the slaughter fish.

Worst death: so there’s your boy, solo flagging his home keep. Because it’s 9pm est and it’s Xbox RW. And I play for yellow. When out of the keep comes some red sweaties. I can tell they’re sweaty because they come out to 3v1 a brother solo flagging his own home keep on Xbox RW. So I’m on a bow sorc… I throw a combo out at the first guy I see. He’s tanky. I’m rolling about, 2v1, when I notice a 3rd— a sorc— free casting on me from range. Go into kite mode. They’re chasing me but I’m way too fast… and then, next thing I look, they aren’t chasing me anymore. What’s the fun in that? So I turn around and start chasing them and oh boy am I way faster. I burn the not tanky melee player in an instant. Duking it out with the sorc but the tanky feller won’t leave me alone. Try bursting the tank again not happening. So now I’m dueling the tank with a sorc free casting on me. I catch the sorc by surprise when I suddenly switch targets, preload crystal and send it flying alongside a focused aim… drop my ballista, barswap streak spin gg sorc. So I’m left fighting the tank and he’s slowly going down… I can tell he’s running low on resources, looking for a way out. He’s running from me now, the coward. He tries to get away by hopping off this rock but I follow because he’s not getting away that easy he deserves his fate! Aaaand, I fell to my death.

geonsocal

oh that had me laughing @OBJnoob

Exeter411

Logging in on an off night from my guild, port to a trikeep to look over the map. I appear at the transitus and instantly die. A certain DC ball group is running around inside farming players, and I was lucky enough to appear just as they ran over the transitus.

Worst part? It's happened three times.

ezmaye

OBJnoob wrote: »

Best death: I’m being escorted by a small contingent of AD soldiers back into the south of the map because I’m carrying an elder scroll. That’s right, I’m a hero. About to cross the Alesia bridge and feeling good because we own our home keeps so I’m thinking this bridge marks the safety line… when, halfway across, a small contingent of EP (the bad guys ) pops up out of stealth. Pretty sure a brief but brutal battle ensued… I admit I’m not terribly sure, because the very first thing that happened is an EP Templar speared me off the bridge. Now… I can’t quite remember if I actually fell into the slaughter fish and made it to shore or if I somehow landed on a ledge on the side of the cliff… but I was able to stay there while AD eventually won the fight. With some courage and some lucky trick jumping and crouch climbing I made it to a point right below where a couple of my intrepid teammates had started trying to climb down closer to me. So after much discussion… I log off. They were able to click the scroll from where they were… and then they had to do the same thing one more time, and the scroll was saved. The game couldn’t be cool and teleport me to the gate or anything when I logged back in… so I unceremoniously lept into the

Please tell me you were calling out "parkour" while doing this XD

Oakenaxe

1 shot heavy attacks and not being able to get through the door

Iriidius

NordSwordnBoard wrote: »

Worst is death with no counterplay. The rest is something you got yourself involved in lol.

Yeah death with no counterplay frustrates more than death because you made an error.

last. loosing a fair duell against a nontoxic player(that maybe has exactly the same build as you)
10. lagging in an important fight
9. loosing a duell against a toxic Elite Zergling when he is alone 1 time who now claims it doesnt make a difference if he zergs you because you loose anyway and are not worth a duell.
8. getting bombed and getting immediately hit by plaguebreak/occult overload from a squishy neighbour.
7. getting ganked while afk(away from keyboard but still seeing the screen) for 2 seconds inside a keep of my own faction
6. getting killed while disconnectet
5. getting killed by plaguebreak/occult overload from npcs
4. Running away from enemy Zerg as soon as you see them, but still getting caught and killed
3. getting killed because the door doesnt work for minutes
2. accepting a duell that turns into a 1vX.
1. Getting Calurion/Heavy attack ganked while 1vXing against gankers accomplices(, then finished of by mages wrath).
0. Kombination of last ones

Sindrik8x

You forgot dying because your quick slot is actually a siege weapon instead of a pot... [snip]. AT LEAST once a night.

[edited for profanity bypass]

acastanza_ESO

Sindrik8x wrote: »

You forgot dying because your quick slot is actually a siege weapon instead of a pot... [snip]. AT LEAST once a night.

The number of times I "joked" about trying to drink a trebuchet...

[edited to remove quote]

geonsocal

ah, it's been a while my fellow sithis enthusiasts, let us discuss those final moments once again...

i wear pariah, juggernaut and play stage 3 vamps...used to love the phoenix set, that proc, pop a health/immoveable potion and streak away...

so, this is something that happened recently, and has definitively happened in the past - getting your opponent to about 10% health, start really unloading, watch their bar stay right about 10% health, hit them with your ultimate...

watch their health, stay about the same...finally deplete your toon of resources and resolve, die a bitter death, quickly rez and wonder why that little bit of health they had, just wouldn't go away...