Is there a death aura spell or was it a hacker?

[Gods Drunkest Driver Safe&Legal]

I invaded a dude the other day and the host name was Griffith which i found funny, but he had a summon going by the name "You're beautiful" and he used what looked like the inner strenght pyromancy, you take damage but gain bonus damage over time. But when he walked within like... 20 steps from me I started filling up a gauge i hadn't seen before and when like 3 seconds had gone passed it instantly killed me, and he ran up and backstabbed me, and it did no damage because i was "dead" and when i got back up it replayed the animation and he held me hostage for like 5 minutes.

I hate being the guy going "oh that dude was hacking" because usually i'll concede that the other player was simply better or i made a mistake, in fact most of my invasions so far have been successful ones. But something about that particular encounter has had me thinking pretty hard these last few days. Any insight would be appreciated

[⭕TheSodaman]

There is a death aura spell. It should make you look like you're getting impaled by plants coming from the ground or something. / or in this case, another effect that probably wasn't intended for PvP.

And while it's technically in the game, it is likely far from intended as it is a low to no effort, kill host / hunter / co-op in 5 seconds, kind of issue.

Now the hostage thing for 5 minutes is a sick f*ck. And that I couldn't say. If you recall the player's name, may be worth reporting them to Bandai for all the good that it'll do. It's one thing to kill an entire party in a couple seconds and another to waste their time in a state of death for several minutes longer.

[アゼム]

It's not a hack but it's almost certainly a bug. It happens when you pair 2 things together and EVERYONE is using it now because it will definitely be patched and is completely broken

[Balm]

fire's deadly sin buff applies your weapon ability in an aura around yourself
so he was using a weapon with an effect like frenzy or death (if you collapsed with glowing fire it was frenzy, if you got speared by a weird thing it was death)
it is insanely broken and will be fixed/nerfed soon, probably

[DragynDance]

Fires deadly sin is a pyromancy that is currently bugged. It makes you rapidly take damage to also make everyone around you rapidly take damage. Think liek righteous fire from Path of Exile. The caveat here is that it is super bugged, and whatever status effect your weapon causes, the damage ticks from the fire (which happen rapidly) also apply the status with. There's a weapon that applies death status. Shout out to a secondary exploit you can do with this spell, the fire ticks constantly and rapidly proc the repulsion effect from the erdtree greatshield to basically let you machinegun extremely hard to dodge, 1.5k+ hitting bolts of holy.

Earlier from titles had this spell, and it was also bugged, in exactly the same way, but earlier from titles never had a weapon that caused curse (death), so it never became a huge deal.

[Donoghu]

I know it might not be it, but if the bar filling up was orange with a strange orange-ish-red-ish eye/ball icon, that's madness and, yes, it can kill you really quickly as much as it can also kill the other one. The Madness-related spells are insanely strong and scales on faith, but only works on humanoid (so works on all players). Its FP usage is low, but comes at a price which is that the caster also has its own madness meter raise (slower than the target).
When the madness meter is filled up, it deals an huge chunk of damage out of both your HP and FP. Basically, you must avoid that bar from filling up at much as possible and the only defense against it is Focus and you can only raise that resistance with the Mind Attribute.

[アゼム]

Originally posted by Donoghu:

I know it might not be it, but if the bar filling up was orange with a strange orange-ish-red-ish eye/ball icon, that's madness and, yes, it can kill you really quickly as much as it can also kill the other one. The Madness-related spells are insanely strong and scales on faith, but only works on humanoid (so works on all players). Its FP usage is low, but comes at a price which is that the caster also has its own madness meter raise (slower than the target).
When the madness meter is filled up, it deals an huge chunk of damage out of both your HP and FP. Basically, you must avoid that bar from filling up at much as possible and the only defense against it is Focus and you can only raise that resistance with the Mind Attribute.

The one OP is referring to is death blight which is black. It's not a chunk like madness or bleed, it's instakill

[Gods Drunkest Driver Safe&Legal]

Thanks for the information. I had a feeling it was an exploit or something and im glad that my concern wasn't dealt with by a hoard of people saying "git gud" lmao. Hopefully it gets patched soon because that just isn't fun to deal with lol

[Belbe's Phyrexian Toy Collection]

yeah it's an unintended mechanic or a bug; thankfully you can just peace out of their world if you see someone using it. did some research and it definitely is a bug. the spell is not supposed to behave in this way