Loot needs to persist after death.

Agreed, it’s like the game is griefing you when that happens. I think it’s just an oversight and not a design decision

Yep, this happened to me. Boss wasn't too difficult, it's just his dozens upon dozens of goons that swarm you afterwards. The only frustrating deaths I've ever had in this game was getting stuck on terrain then having mobs swarm around you, hemming you in.

Agreed. Nothing like spending 10+ min fighting a boss then out of nowhere get rekt by a swarm of mobs before getting the drops.

Like others have said, this seems to their vision. You get one shot and if you die then you failed and need to try again another time

To add insult to injury, it’s always loot that you’ve been looking out for that drops when you die. The amount of jeweller orbs or levelled support gems that drop when I die makes me very sad lol

Ya this needs to change two days ago!

Easy solution: Don't die.

I lost some rares in this way, too. But I don't think there's anything to fix - just like leaving an item on the ground in a map with no portals left.

Happened to me with the wolf lol. He died but died a second later too. Then I went and killed him again because no one steals my loot!

My first jewelers orb dropped and I died right after. Haven't seen once since. Devastating.

Got to agree, happened to me once. I mean i get it, but just taking your stuff away felt underwhelming.

Mechanic definitely could see an improvement. No respawned boss and no loot kinda lose-lose situation.

No. That's your death penalty. I accept it.

Hard disagree.

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I bet this gets changed

Getting ambushed after a boss fight seems like such an evil design choice from the devs lol.

Wrong game, try again elsewhere, chief. You learned the fight isn’t over until his minions are dead. You didn’t beat the encounter, you don’t get the loot. Take what you learned and move on to the next.

When this first happened to me, I was a little mad. For some reason though, seeing it happen to everyone else makes me feel better, like it's par for the course and one of the risks.

Yep, that's way too punishing. That's a not a difficulty deal, that's just cheap and awful. Maybe it wasn't even intended by devs?

Yes this is super frustrating and have no real value from a gameplay pov.

Yeah happened to me a couple times in early act, consider it punishment and a trial for maps when you cant reenter the map anyway

I strongly disagree.

You shouldn't let your guard down after killing boss.

Stuff like these happens in other games like Monster Hunter where u have limited amount of time to loot.

It's frustrating when u die or interrupted, it makes u hate interruption even more. But it that vengeance just grew on you to be more diligent.

It's just classic situation. Nostalgic & Refreshing.

Plus, it makes a good rant/rage posting.

The raider boss got me too with the 50 enemies that spawn on top of you after he dies, wtf.

How about staying alive???

The same thing happened to me with Draven. I killed him while he hit me with his aoe. Resurrected at checkpoint, my exalt and 2 rares gone.

In 2 acts, I double KOed with bosses 3 times. All the yellow stuff on the floor, poof. Hey, at least quest item didn't bug out like a lot of games do.

EVERYONE KEEP UPVOTING THIS!! JUST LOST A UNIQUE WORTH 10 EXALTED IM FUCKING PISSED

Is this a difficulty thing?

Like I never noticed any loot drop and I have died many times...

That's only a campaign issue though. If you die in the endgame in maps everything still on the ground is gone too.
Better get used to it now.

Eh, yea this is a common experience with that boss, but only because we aren’t expecting the ambush.

It’s an ambush!! You’re supposed to get got by it.

Considering death has NO OTHER detriment because of the nature of the checkpoint system and how plentiful they are, I like the current set up.

note that single shot loot does persist, I died on a boss and the uncut gem redropped, I think it might likely also be the case for quest items.

I know it's frustrating but it's also a case of don't die, if you died before killing the mob you just wouldn't have seen the loot.

Happened to me too.

I killed the rock boss in Trials of Bullshit right as I got tagged by a volcano and failed. A unique dropped and I couldn’t get it.

Nearly 25hrs later and I haven’t seen another one drop. Bout 45-50hrs in total and I’ve only seen one.

It’s so demoralizing to the point where I question if I even want to play anymore.

same exact thing happened to me on the same exact boss i was pissedddd

Same thing happened to me and I lost two exalts because of it. This needs to be changed ASAP. It felt horrible in Last Epoch and it feels horrible here.

You could have respawn the whole area including the boss by re-entering the zone holding ctrl.

I feel people are no enough aware you can and should farm some bosses/zones.

I litterally just lost back to back loots from the last boss of Act 1 and Balbala after a 20 mn fight.

Great idea ggg, really great.

Did they do a quick patch on this? I just died and revived and a rare item dropped before death carried over (but not blues)

This is not a skill issue

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Softcore is not the vision.

The worst part of this is when the boss has a quest item. Game is literally unplayable for me since I cant progress the story. Game thinks i killed the boss, which i did, and therefore won't respawn it. Have relogged, came back hrs later and boss still isn't summonable. It's not a difficulty mechanic, it's a straight up dogshit mechanic. Bug report sent so nothing I can do but sit and wait, and realistically i'll just have to start all over. Bricking a map is one thing, bricking the entire game is another.

This same thing happened to me, the mob was unexpected and they killed me. Then it happened again at the next boss too. I Killed him with a grenade at the same moment he killed me. Two bosses in a row. I would care but IDGAF about loot. Just like shooting monsters with my crossbow and blowing them up with my grenades.

How about the game just plays itself and wins for you too while they're at it? 🤦

It's not that loot doesn't persist. It's that the ENTIRE map insta resets when you respawn. Not just loot, everything on the map resets aside from the layout. It's like a soft instance reset, far as I can tell only difference is the layout staying the same. I'm saying this as someone who enjoyed plenty of soulslikes, this mechanic makes no sense in an arpg.

It does. It's just that you are in another instance and death is banishment from that instance so you can't get it.

It shuld not. U need first clear every little shiet before you start picking up your drops. You die? Shit happend. For me it's pretty ok.

And yes I lose 2 uniqe items becouse I die and not pick it up.