How many times have you died from running/jumping off a cliff?

Tornaad · May 10

Yesterday while trying to finish all the quests in the Reach, I found myself deliberately jumping off the highest platform I could find for the fun of trying to see if I would actually survive the fall or not and thought, I wonder how many times I have actually jumped off cliffs in this game. I would not be surprised if it was actually over 9,000. (Yes, that is a deliberate reference to DBZ)

Necrotech_Master · May 10

never kept track, but the answer for both "intentionally" and "unintentionally" is probably "a lot" lol

there are several achievements that require you to jump off a cliff at the right spot lol, most of them you will survive if you land correctly (in the water) lol

Elsonso · May 10

No clue.

A few times have been trying to get some achievement or was trying to dive into water and missed the designated landing zone. I remember one time I was chugging along on my horse and was suddenly doing a Wile E. Coyote, though.

Marronsuisse · May 10

1 to 50

Not often but I frequently kill my friend when giving her a lift on my multi-rider mount. I don't know why but I'm fine and she takes massive fall damage, lol

AzuraFan · May 10

1 to 50

No clue, but probably less than 50 times. My main is a Bosmer, which helps. I'm more likely to get eaten by a slaughterfish.

VisitHammerfell · May 10

Over 9,000

Accidentally? A few. Sanity's Edge death chest among them. On purpose? Betweeen lawn darts events and unaliving my toon on purpose to get to a wayshrine, too many to count.

LunaFlora · May 10

Over 9,000

Very often.
i love jumping from big heights in eso.

also it is fun that Stormhaven and the Reach have achievements for it.

Melivar · May 10

1,001 to 9,000

For sure over 1000 its just faster sometimes to take a nose dive. The best ones are in Cyro when the whole party follows to thier deaths.

Necrotech_Master · May 10

LunaFlora wrote: »

Very often.
i love jumping from big heights in eso.

also it is fun that Stormhaven and the Reach have achievements for it.

wrothgar also has an achievement, i dont remember if theres any more than that

my personal favorite leap is the one in vaults of madness dungeon, and i like to see how far i can go with a lot of speed

ive managed to miss the water in some cases, or in others ive had so much momentum ive landed on one of those floating platforms lol

Tornaad · May 10

Over 9,000

VisitHammerfell wrote: »

Accidentally? A few. Sanity's Edge death chest among them. On purpose? Betweeen lawn darts events and unaliving my toon on purpose to get to a wayshrine, too many to count.

The jumps I find the most fun are those where I am trying to jump off something to unalive my character only to live anyway. In some ways it is both disappointing and awesome.

ArchangelIsraphel · May 10

1 to 50

I've always been fond of saying that Cyrodiil isn't so much PVP, but PVH- Player Vs. Hill.

I love riding down a small, seemingly manageable incline, only to ricochet off of it in some unexplainable way that launches me into the air, ensuring that I fall to my death. /s

Meanwhile I can throw myself off of a very high keep wall deliberately with the intention of blood porting, and land on my feet with 2% health left, meaning I have to take the walk of shame back up to a much higher part of the keep. I'm not even extremely tanky XD

Tornaad · May 10

Over 9,000

ArchangelIsraphel wrote: »

I've always been fond of saying that Cyrodiil isn't so much PVP, but PVH- Player Vs. Hill.

I love riding down a small, seemingly manageable incline, only to ricochet off of it in some unexplainable way that launches me into the air, ensuring that I fall to my death.

Meanwhile I can throw myself off of a very high keep wall deliberately with the intention of blood porting, and land on my feet with 2% health left, meaning I have to take the walk of shame back up to a much higher part of the keep. I'm not even extremely tanky XD

That is funny. Now I have a term for my favorite way to get back to base when questing in Cyrodiil. I take a single scouting mission, and then a capture a resource mission, and then complete the scouting mission, and capture as many resources as I can until someone helps me blood port back to base.

Grizzbeorn · May 10

Too many to remember.
What I DO remember are the 4 times when I also killed my mount along with me in the process...

YORKSHIRE76 · May 10

51 to 100

Most falling deaths are within a few hundred meters of a certain way shrine in summerset, (I forget the name).
It is near a foul fishing hole at the bottom of a quarry. I dont like it there..gravity works against me, please nerf it or give me 1 % enchanted ring of feather fall back.. (morrorwind)
That way i can be as clumsy as a lemming.
Or I have to learn to fly..

DoofusMax · May 10

No idea, but it's a lot. Most of the time it's unintentional (there's a cliff on the other side of that rock. whodathunkit?), but those waterfalls in Wrothgar have claimed more than their fair share of soul gems.

AcadianPaladin · May 10

1 to 50

Zero times on purpose.

cyclonus11 · May 10

101 to 1,000

ESO_player123 · May 10

No clue, but this is my preferred way of travelling in Wrothgar (don't like to waste time riding around the mountains).

zaria · May 10

1 to 50

Marronsuisse wrote: »

Not often but I frequently kill my friend when giving her a lift on my multi-rider mount. I don't know why but I'm fine and she takes massive fall damage, lol

Probably the fall damage reduction cp, they help a lot.
in Wrothgar I say its main cause of death outside vMA. You had lemings stuff during Wrothgar anniversary events with guild groups running off a cliffs.
Before the fall damage cp you could wipe group in Cyrodil riding off cliffs, luckily you can re spawn at site as pve death.

Lumsdenml · May 10

Over 9,000

I have no idea, but it feels like about 10k times. My guild has an inside joke about our crowns driving us all off the cliffs to our deaths in cyrodiil. In fact, we have an in game note over by Faregyl mine by the waterfall to commemorate our lemming-like commitment to stay on crown!

TaSheen · May 10

1 to 50

I can only remember once. Right after the fall damage got added (and I didn't know it at the time) I jumped off the cliffs in Grahtwood to get down to the beach so I could pick up the enchanter survey I had.

Yup. SPLAT.

huntgod_ESO · May 10

101 to 1,000

Probably under 1000, though I was part of guild that during our yearly anniversary would play lawn darts byt throwing ourselves off a cliff and giving prizes to whomever came closest to the target.

I've also done a not inconsiderable amount of PVP in no-cp cyro and died soooo many times forgetting I didn't have fall damage reduction.

Jaraal · May 10

101 to 1,000

I do it on purpose a lot, as a free port, or a shortcut. If a crafting survey is say, at the bottom of a cliff in Grahtwood, I'll jump off and die at the bottom rather than wasting two minutes taking the obnoxious long road down.

Nerouyn · May 10

No idea, but several times this week at least.

This like many games has unrealistic fall mechanics which beg exploitation.

Is it realistic that I can safely ping pong my way down insanely tall drops by carefully bouncing just shy of the kills-you-instantly distance? No but this game is choc full of grind and it's a shortcut I'm often willing to try.

Doesn't always work but I also have a small mountain of soul gems so it's an affordable loss when I miss.

Lumsdenml · May 10

Over 9,000

huntgod_ESO wrote: »

Probably under 1000, though I was part of guild that during our yearly anniversary would play lawn darts byt throwing ourselves off a cliff and giving prizes to whomever came closest to the target.

I've also done a not inconsiderable amount of PVP in no-cp cyro and died soooo many times forgetting I didn't have fall damage reduction.

Lawndarts, always a good time!

Hapexamendios · May 11

Intentionally or unintentionally?

Either way I haven't counted.

wolfie1.0. · May 11

Over 9,000

There is a reason I have a character called: Sir Falls-off-cliffs-alot

bmnoble · May 11

Quite a bit, haven't died as much on accident since they reworked the CP system, adding that breakfall CP passive.

Use to die on accident either while riding around with the map open or misjudging the depth of water when taking a short cut.

Roztlin45 · May 11

101 to 1,000

Actually have looked for places to jump or long jump with mount to see if the god Talos has forgiven me. Thus restoring my ability to fly and return to the heavens. My sins may never be forgiven....

Wildberryjack · May 11

Accidentally or on purpose? Either way I'm not sure but I won't hesitate to corpse travel if it's the fastest way to get down to where I want to be LOL.

VisitHammerfell · May 11

Over 9,000

Tornaad wrote: »

VisitHammerfell wrote: »

Accidentally? A few. Sanity's Edge death chest among them. On purpose? Betweeen lawn darts events and unaliving my toon on purpose to get to a wayshrine, too many to count.

The jumps I find the most fun are those where I am trying to jump off something to unalive my character only to live anyway. In some ways it is both disappointing and awesome.

I often put Balance/Spell Symmetry on my bar when doing surveys and treasure maps just for this purpose. Even a little hill will kill you. 😂

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