Riddle me this, Batman

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10-23-2009, 01:58 PM
d0z3rr

Riddle me this, Batman

So I was in Nexus last night with my 5 paladins (1 prot, 4 ret). I was destroying Anomalus when suddenly I wasn't paying attention and left a stray nexus rift open. My paladins started taking a lot of damage, one got really low on health and I was frantically trying to heal it.

I'm mashing buttons as I see her health drop to nothing on healbot then her name blacks out (dead). I continue crushing Anomalus and was frustrated I let someone die during this fight considering how easy it was going (almost too easy, these paladins are insane!)

Anomalus gets down to about 10% and another rift opens, so I mash the follow key and run over to the rift and make quick work of it. I noticed that my dead paladin had now risen from the grave and was at ~30% health! I make a "wtf" face then lock eyes with the undead paladin and an awkward silence fills the air as my paladins stand there wondering wtf is going on (meanwhile Anomalus is smashing his Nexus fist into my face)...... anyways finish off Anomalus with all my paladins alive and healthy.

So yeah....how is that even possible? I know that there is no way that paladin did not die. She is retribution, so she doesn't have ardent defender.
10-23-2009, 02:17 PM
Jubber

Fraps or it didn't happen... lol.. No that is strange.

Sorry if you was expecting more... That's all i got.
10-23-2009, 02:23 PM
Naysayer

The rift acted as a defibrillator imo.
10-23-2009, 02:42 PM
Svpernova09

Nerf self rezzing paladins.
10-23-2009, 03:49 PM
accretion

Healbot?

My best guess is a slight hiccup in Healbot. I've seen health levels fluctuate/disappear many times, especially on Pets, so I'm guessing that unless you confirmed it via the "I'm looking at my unit frames and it's also at 0 HP" test, then it was another healbot blip. Strange, no doubt.
10-23-2009, 06:43 PM
d0z3rr

Good point Accretion, since she "died" I didn't bother even glancing at my unit frames (even though they're right in front of my face, and even bigger than healbot! lol). So yeah, it could have been healbot's fault......and I didn't notice any corpses on the ground. Then again, it was pretty frantic since it was my first attempt at Anomalus with these paladins.
10-23-2009, 07:47 PM
Ualaa

I like the idea of auto rezzing pallies.
I wish they could teach the trick to various members on my assorted teams.
10-25-2009, 08:42 PM
TheBigBB

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ualaa

I like the idea of auto rezzing pallies.
I wish they could teach the trick to various members on my assorted teams.

Paladins should have a spirit of redemption on the prot tree, similar to what a priest has. It lets you keep tanking for a few seconds after death. It would allow another tank some time to get threat up before a wipe, or time to prepare for the wipe or time to finish the fight. Good idea, right?
10-26-2009, 04:39 AM
Prega

unique thing i can think it s about somenthing related to possible addon bug: noticed strange lag/bad timing in "refresh time" in some addons about how it showing hp/mana.
maybe paladin wasnt really dead, but addon considered it in that mode.
personally not using healbot, but could depend by a similar issue.
10-29-2009, 12:03 AM
daviddoran

lag spikes can have very irregular results, ive been dead/alive at different intervals before, i've died, and my ghost stood up right over my corpse, and I rezzed on the spot, without getting ported to the GY, etc etc.
10-29-2009, 12:10 AM
TheBigBB

Quote:

Originally Posted by daviddoran

lag spikes can have very irregular results, ive been dead/alive at different intervals before, i've died, and my ghost stood up right over my corpse, and I rezzed on the spot, without getting ported to the GY, etc etc.

Ah, yes, this has happened to me before, but only under very laggy circumstances. Usually I'd wind up dead again at some point later, or suddenly appear elsewhere. It's been a while, too.
10-29-2009, 12:56 PM
d0z3rr

Well it happened again last night on Ingvar. I saw a paladin die on healbot (again, didn't look at my unit frames!). I was using fraps at the time. I was clearing out fraps movies and forgot to watch the movie before I deleted it to see what really happened >.<

There was definitely lag, I had a hell of a time positioning ingvar correctly: I would face him one way then he would randomly re-position himself or would stand way too close to my tank.

*edit* by way too close (not that it matters) I mean almost inside my tank, so I would back up, then he would re-position facing my group (dark smash...no!).
10-29-2009, 06:26 PM
BobGnarly

nexus/UP gremlins imo.

seriously though, not sure. maybe healbot is a little behind?
10-30-2009, 07:30 PM
heffner

edit: nm, didn't notice you stated she didn't have Ardent Defender.