Thread:ManicEraserCat/@comment-27148044-20171208035227

He was a Wizard with a T9 Staff, a T4 Ability, a T11 Robe, a T3 Ring and several other valuable items in his inventory. Things were looking pretty good for me; I was getting my first stat potions, I was killing my first Gods, I got over 200 Fame for the first time, etc. I was thinking "Wow, I'll never be able to lose this character!" Oh, if I only knew...

I was in the Godlands farming Gods when someone killed a Medusa. It dropped an entrance to the Snake Pit. I went in there with several other players, thinking "I've beaten this at least 2 times before. What's the worst that could happen?" Everything, that's what.

I was impatient an't willing to go through the whole Dungeon room by room, so I teleported to the only player who wasn't at the start, a Knight.

I ended up inside a room that had, well, a lot of snakes inside it. I think there were about 5 or 6 of the Greater ones, and a TON of smaller ones. The Knight I teleported to was already in the next room and no one else had made it that far yet, so I was alone. Anyways, I wasn't paying much attention to my health because I was thinking I could kill all the enemies before it would be a problem. After all, this Dungeon hadn't given me too much trouble in the past. When I finally noticed that my health was getting low, instead of teleporting to the Nexus or healing like any normal player would do, I tried escaping into the previous room.

Guess what?

That room was also filled to the brim with enemies.

I died there.

In hindsight, teleporting there was a terrible idea from the beginning, for several reasons:


 * 1) That Knight was probably just going to kill Stheno before I could even collect the loot. Even if that wasn't the case, was 1 Speed Potion and the possibility of a slightly better equipment piece really worth the risk?
 * 2) Knights are pretty tanky, right? You can assume that the reason why he was getting through the Dungeon so quickly is because he was just walking past most of the enemies rather than killing them. So I should have already expected the spot I teleported to to be filled with enemies.
 * 3) Those Snakes may not be too bad on their own, but in groups, they can cause a lot of damage, especially to a fragile class like the Wizard. There's no reason why I shouldn't have been paying attention to my health.
 * 4) The 1st time I beat a Snake Pit was with a Rogue. The other time, I only beat it because everyone else was already in the boss room, where I could teleport to.

I'm probably not going into a Snake Pit again for a long time, even if I'm with a bunch of other people. The worst part about this is that I don't think I have any matching equipment pieces in my Vault to start out with when I make a new character, whenever that is. Like, I have a T9 Heavy Armor, but I don't have a high-tier Sword to go with it. I have a T8 Wand, but I don't have a good Robe to use alongside it.

Ugh. Remember: In Realm of the Mad God, always ask yourself "Is this reward REALLY worth the risk?" before getting into a dangerous situation.

Oh, well, I guess it could have been worse. That Wizard didn't even have 1/8 maxed stats, so maybe it's not as bad of a loss as I thought. 