I was mucking along the main road in the plains of strife (elite) and encountered some aether clusters, so I started to kill them off, it zapped me once with the aether bolt they do, the cluster died and started to get out of the ground as an amalgamation, and … then I was respawning in Fort Ikon. I didn’t see me die, nor did I see me get shot by anything, I’ve got 70% aether resist and the zaps never did all that much damage in the first place.
it took me 4 more deaths to figure out what was killing me, turns out there was an aether hero with teleport offscreen, but because the range on teleport was higher than what I could see on screen, and due to the instant fade to black/respawn, I had no idea what was killing me or how to avoid it, much less survive it. Even something as simple as ‘you have died’ with a ‘respawn in town’ button would be great. I can at least look to see what may have killed me, rather than just… appearing in town.
Fighting that hero was completely obnoxious to boot. Hard to avoid a teleporting one-shot killer. Damn my only poor resist being piercing! shakes fist