Death and ShardsFollow

I am new to EQ, and EQ2 ~ (obvi, everyone is) and was wondering how to handle reviving and the shard recovery. I just finished playing after 3 hours or so this morning. Had a great PT, lvl'd from 13 to 15 in the woods and BB. However just at the end of PT we all died and then I found myself all alone with a shard in BB. I stupidly tried to sprint to get it and made a MASSIVE train, where I died again, next to my spirit, of course. Ok so now I'm stuck with 2 shards in BB. I feel very frustrated after having such a good morning. Should I just forget the shards or make it my prority to get them back asap. I dont fully understand the debt system yet, as i have not gained xp with a shard out there, let alone 2. Any help in comforting me is appreciated. TY :)

I was forced to leave one behind when I did the Access Quest for Fallen Gate.

It's an instanced battle and I was solo'ing it. I managed to kill all the mobs and opened the chest at the end only to have it kill me (I had rested to 75% HP before opening it). I completed the quest since I killed the leader but I was not allowed back in and I couldn't get my shard back.

The only thing I noticed was about 100 HP missing (my HP was red when I opened my profile). Didn't notice anything else but I didn't look too hard.

Just last night, someone was shouting for help with the same quest. I offered my services to get my shard back.

I managed to do a very impressive fall down the shaft of the Qeynos mage tower, landing on a small ledge about 3 meters above the floor (where the tapestries attach) and taking 600ish damage in the process. The resulting corpse was unreachable from the tower floor, to get to it I had to fall down the shaft to the ledge again, which'd still kill me. I gave in to inevitability and let my shard just lie there.

After 3 days, the shard & related quest had magically disappeared and all my stats were back to normal.

From what i understand you dont have to get the shards and eventually make the experience up, But it would take alot less tiem to find your shards and regain some debt.

If you don't get your shard, you have other negative effects on your character besides the XP debt. Decreased HP is one that I've noticed. Even after you make up the XP, the negative effects exist until you recover your shard or the 3 day time limit is up.



It works very nicely :)

Not much more to elaborate on.. If you have a shard in a dungeon, you can right click on the door (before you enter) and chose retrieve shard.

I did the exact same thing, I went up one of those teleporters, got laggy and couldn't move, then suddenly I was falling and dead. It was very frustrating.

I'm pretty sure that leaving a shard out there also reduces sta. but that would reduce HPs as previously stated anyway.

I tried right clicking on the zone before I enter (Vermin's Snye 3) to recover my shards and I do not have the option to "recover Shards"