body decay time sometimes is too short

[DOCTOR THUNDER]

Baracoon really ripped me off today, twice in a row. The first time was stupidity on my part, but the second time was because his body dissapeared before I could find it in the pile of bodies and gold. I used all names and alt+shift. Sometimes i could find where it said "the remains of Baracoon" but I could not get close enough to open it. I was using Grim Strikes and Death Blade summoners. Those summoned death blades work great, but they cause baracoon to spawn huge amounts of ratmen. Add to that the bodies from 2 uses of grim strike, and the remaining undead standing around blocking me... It would have been nice if the body of the champ lasted longer, perhaps long enough for the ratmen bodies to decay so I could find it.

I know why monster corpses in the champ areas decay so fast, it saves on server resources. I also have this problem with Supremes. If I have to fight off another monster, usually I don't have time to look at all the loot. Its like a race to try to loot the fastest.

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[Red Squirrel]

Actually I could maybe look into increasing the time on monsters (other then champ spawn ones). So the champs themselves and any other mob would stay longer.

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[Munson]

one day i killed the paragon death balde without killing the jedis, and when i went to loot, after a couple minutes when i was done killing the jedis from inside the square, i had barely any time to check for a chest, and the corpse dissapeared while i was looting it.

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[Red Squirrel]

Its at 7 minutes right now, so I'll set it to 12 minutes.

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[Death]

Baracoon really ripped me off today, twice in a row. The first time was stupidity on my part, but the second time was because his body dissapeared before I could find it in the pile of bodies and gold. I used all names and alt+shift. Sometimes i could find where it said "the remains of Baracoon" but I could not get close enough to open it. I was using Grim Strikes and Death Blade summoners. Those summoned death blades work great, but they cause baracoon to spawn huge amounts of ratmen. Add to that the bodies from 2 uses of grim strike, and the remaining undead standing around blocking me... It would have been nice if the body of the champ lasted longer, perhaps long enough for the ratmen bodies to decay so I could find it.

I know why monster corpses in the champ areas decay so fast, it saves on server resources. I also have this problem with Supremes. If I have to fight off another monster, usually I don't have time to look at all the loot. Its like a race to try to loot the fastest.

Baracoon or any champ is the worst place to die for 2 reasons:

1) The ratmen just loooove to loot the shiny stuff from your corpse
2) CTRL + SHIFT has a maximum and if there's enough items in that area, ctrl + shift might miss a couple because there's too much (So you might not even be able to use that)

Thankfully there's the simplicity of simply walking over your corpse to auto pick up during those occasions but finding your body can still be a pain. Decay times for bodies are 7 minutes till bones and 7 minutes till total decay (So 14 minutes).

The monster decay time is about half that at 7 seconds which I agree, is rather short in some instances. A good example you brought up is with supremes or creatures who carry a ton of loot. There's so much loot to filter through, there's not a lot of time to loot everything before the body decays.

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[DOCTOR THUNDER]

I am talking about the monster corpse, baracoon's corpse in particular. When the champ does the gold shower thing, that makes ctrl+shift useless. There was probably 50+ ratmen bodies, about that many undead, and 30 or so undead still alive. I could see his corpse when I used allnames, but it was still impossible to open.

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[Death]

I am talking about the monster corpse, baracoon's corpse in particular. When the champ does the gold shower thing, that makes ctrl+shift useless. There was probably 50+ ratmen bodies, about that many undead, and 30 or so undead still alive. I could see his corpse when I used allnames, but it was still impossible to open.

Ya I mentioned that afterwards when I realized I was talking about the wrong thing but decided to keep the first part in.

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[DOCTOR THUNDER]

the thing is though, I was referring to Baracoon's corpse, not mine. It was so hard to find.

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