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I personally feel like the death penalty, specifically to gatherers, is in a poor state. I understand the idea that it would be considered too harsh if you dropped gear every time you died, but lets look at a common scenario.

Player 1 (lets use a level 15 mage as an example) goes out and spends 4 straight hours as part of a group farming a PoI camp. During this time they get massive xp (we can say about 1.5 levels), quite a hefty stack of glint (lets say 20 bright worth), a handful of droppings and emblems, and one or two pieces of gear. The group was well set up for where they were farming and other than the occasional death of the tank, no one else died. Eventually the group breaks up and on the way back to town Player 1 gets killed because they did not see that 3 star level 20 standing behind a tree. When they die, they have a minor xp debt, dont drop any of their gear or looted gear, they lose half the droppings and emblems and 10 bright glint. They get back to their ash pile and recover half of the droppings, emblems and glint that they had lost.

Player 2 (again lets use a level 15 mage) spends 4 hours looking for gatherables. We can even limit this and say they are just looking for one profession and not make it lumberjacking for willow or mining for copper, lets say they are an herbalist and looking for bluebells. In those 3 hours they were able to gather 596 Daffodil, 744 Snowdrop, 212 Flax, 138 Moonbell, and 116 Bluebell, all of various rarities, and get a smidgen of leveling xp and some decent gathering xp. During their journey back to town they also die, they have the same minor xp debt, and lose half of all their gatherable resources. Supposing they get lucky and are able to make it back to their ash pile before anyone else they are able to recover half of what they dropped or a full hour's worth of gathering. This is compounded by the various resource rarity since these dont stack with each other this gives a different stack that is reduced by half. So if our player had managed to get say 20 legendary bluebell then die they lose 10 and if they can recover their ash pile they get 5 back.

This seems incredibly one sided and intentionally detrimental for gatherers. Like I said I understand not wanting to have a system where you can lose your equipped gear but the current system is overly punishing for gatherers. I would like to see it where you only drop glint along with all of the changes proposed by the original poster. I also think there should be some form of mitigation (reduced durability loss, reduced xp debt, increased glint rewards), for tanks when they are in a group as they are the most likely to hold agro, get beaten on the most, and often are the ones to die.