Allegedly you can farm larges faster. Assuming you get one that is useful from the pt4 chest. 50/50 shot at getting one, and then smaller chance its something useful like a scale or stone.

I'd rather complete and hit my 20ths quicker.

Invelios wrote on Aug 10^th, 2011 at 5:29pm:



If you don't have many toons to run shroud best way is to run without completion five or six times, then complete twice. you'll never ransack a chest that way.

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The DDoor is there for people too stupid to hit "recall" when they want to get out.

Some people like to recall early so that they can farm parts 1-4 without getting a completion.  Some subset of those people demand a DDoor because they enjoy being griefed by AoK.

Edit:  the most amusing part is when AoK gets blamed for an immediate altar hit when there aren't even any AoK members in the raid.  Because apparently, some of them leave the guild and join other guilds in disguise so that they can hit the altar incognito or something.

Just need to check this: /death can get interrupted if you're hit by something? Like blades or fireballs?

On new toons if people don't have the shards they need people will do this also. They have all the larges etc to T3 so that is not an issue. Couple of runs and you've got your concord op and lit2 or what have you.

ddoor to walk calmly out the front step seems so civilized. Or word  of recall scrolls on a divine.

faster to farm larges doing new invasion runs theres exactly 50 million chests that can all drop larges

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And that front step is not a place where you want to be.

You can't get back into the "main" part of the Shroud once you're in that front entrance*, so if someone hits the altar and completes after you've taken the DDoor and before you've exited the quest, you're extra screwed.  You get the completion that you didn't want AND you don't get the two end chests.

Friends don't let friends DDoor.


*if you /stuck at the front entrance, it can take you back to your location from before you took the DDoor.

popejubal wrote on Aug 10^th, 2011 at 11:39pm:


I pretty much said exactly that didn't I? And surely anyone who has had the least experience of questing should know that ddoor takes you back to the front part of the quest *inside* the quest. And then it becomes their own lookout to do the 2 clicks it takes to turn around and hit the gate to exit the raid.


Combat Wombat wrote on Aug 10^th, 2011 at 11:39pm:



How so? I roll up a new toon. I get it to 13. I dualbox flag it. We run a guild shroud. I only get 3 of the 4 supremes I wanted to craft the two items I need (2x khops or whatever). We run it again. I sit quietly crafting. Done.

Sorry I don't follow you.



Frankly people get their knickers so twisted about ddoor and I don't get why. Maybe they've had a bad experience where someone being 'helpful' casts a ddoor right on top of the last boss or something.


My original question still stands and unfortunately I am not currently in game to test this: can /death be interrupted? I rarely do this action but I remember being annoyingly interrupted in times past.

Previously, no.  Now, you can interrupt it, at least according to recent release notes (I haven't logged in to test it). 

No idea whether taking damage can interrupt it.  Seems counter-productive, really 

Combat Wombat wrote on Aug 11^th, 2011 at 12:01am:


True. But the original question was why *anyone* would do it.

Also if you get lucky and have a friendly long timer they will most likely be happy to shout you T1 and T2 ings. So if you've got your blanks you may still choose to not complete and get shards for those. So same deal really new or old player.

Different people are going to come at that raid for different reasons new or old - it is nice if the leader has the flexibility to take this into account.

These days crafting is a big factor. If you're newer, 8x 25 runs for crunchables and ing is not bad if you only have one Shroud runner.

Perfect.