So, just how rare is the "from beyond" town event?

[Mew]

I've been told it's a quite rare event, but during the course of 80(some) in-game weeks, I got the event THREE times. Am I just lucky? I mean, I'm not complaining; by random chanse I got one of my favorite crusaders back, but stll!

[Solo Death]

Like, it's RARE rare. I've never gotten it, myself. I know Baertaffy has a total of twice since Town Events came out. 3 times in 80 weeks seems quite lucky.

[Mew]

Originally posted by Solo Death:

Like, it's RARE rare. I've never gotten it, myself. I know Baertaffy has a total of twice since Town Events came out. 3 times in 80 weeks seems quite lucky.

That's absolutely amazing. Thanks for telling me! (also, you watch Baertaffy, too? woot!)

[Solo Death]

Originally posted by derpydistraction:

Originally posted by Solo Death:

Like, it's RARE rare. I've never gotten it, myself. I know Baertaffy has a total of twice since Town Events came out. 3 times in 80 weeks seems quite lucky.

That's absolutely amazing. Thanks for telling me! (also, you watch Baertaffy, too? woot!)

Absolutely, Baer is the best. Not the best player, but he's ♥♥♥♥♥♥ entertaining.

[Horrendous]

Funny story about that event. I named a Jester after one of my best friends. He sadly died in the ruins at level 4 (not sure to what, might have been against the Necromancer. ) This was well before the Town Event update, so I felt pretty bad knowing an extension of my friend was snubbed out. At this time, I had a fair amount of fallen heroes in my graveyard I know I'm awful When the town events rolled out, one of my first events was From Beyond. I was simply ecstatic when the Jester came back to life out of so many other dead party members.

[Mew]

That's a sweet story, Horrendous. When it comes to naming people (if you want to, at least), it's like oregon trail. Never EVER name 'em after family/friends.
Also, woot jester. My favorite class <3

[Vantris]

I only ever got it once and because of that my first healer is now with me again. Unfortunately I couldn't save my bounty hunter (Vangaurd) who I named after myself.

[Mew]

Originally posted by Vanguard:

I only ever got it once and because of that my first healer is now with me again. Unfortunately I couldn't save my bounty hunter (Vangaurd) who I named after myself.

Aww, shame. my best bounty hunter at the time, Dog Puncher, died. I never got a res for him.Ii just kept renaming all my bounty hunters after him. (though, knowing my luck, i could get the event yet again and he might be there *shrug*)

[Vantris]

Originally posted by derpydistraction:

Originally posted by Vanguard:

I only ever got it once and because of that my first healer is now with me again. Unfortunately I couldn't save my bounty hunter (Vangaurd) who I named after myself.

Aww, shame. my best bounty hunter at the time, Dog Puncher, died. I never got a res for him.Ii just kept renaming all my bounty hunters after him. (though, knowing my luck, i could get the event yet again and he might be there *shrug*)

Yeah maybe one day my best bounty hunter will return to the land of the living. Oh and a ghoul was his cause of death.

[Mew]

Ghouls are metal as hell.
But, yeah, that's a shame. Think Dog Puncher original was one of the ones that got murdered by the siren. Because party wipe twice. TWICE!!
EDIT: My favorite crusader I resurrected was there, too. Didn't have a custom name at the time. His name was Budi, but after the first time with the event, He got renamed to Bud.

[Vantris]

Originally posted by derpydistraction:

Ghouls are metal as hell.
But, yeah, that's a shame. Think Dog Puncher original was one of the ones that got murdered by the siren. Because party wipe twice. TWICE!!
EDIT: My favorite crusader I resurrected was there, too. Didn't have a custom name at the time. His name was Budi, but after the first time with the event, He got renamed to Bud.

Yeah the Ghoul also killed Dismas and I had to restart (I know its dumb but I want that achievement) from scratch.

[Mew]

I'm trying for that achievement too. It's really tough. Those two are just naturally more squishy just because you want to keep 'em alive and i'm 83% sure the game knows it.

[imaloony]

Originally posted by Solo Death:

Like, it's RARE rare. I've never gotten it, myself. I know Baertaffy has a total of twice since Town Events came out. 3 times in 80 weeks seems quite lucky.

Yeah, really lucky. My current run is approaching Week 80 and I haven't seen it once.

[Deerflipper]

I had it happen 3 times in 100 weeks BUT it's bugged. Twice it didn't have any heroes listed so I couldn't bring any back. It only worked once out of three events for me. I reported it in the non crash bug section, nothing so far.

[LaserGuy]

From my experience, I would guess it has a probability of about 1/50, plus the added condition that you need a certain number of deaths (I think it's 3 minimum, might be 4). So getting 3 times in 80 weeks would be fairly unlikely, but within the realm of possibility, especially if you picked up some deaths quite early.

While I like the idea of resurrecting heroes in principle, in practice I don't find this event to actually be all that useful, simply because it's so expensive to get those characters back into fighting shape. If you're playing NG+, of course, then it can help extend your campaign.

[Mew]

@jellySlayer Yes, I killed a lot of characters very early game (mostly crusaders, plague doctors, and jesters. Jesters in particular are just so squishy. but I love 'em <3) from stupid mistaked like forgetting I could abandon a quest and forgot to get one of my early jesters to have inspiring tune for stress management. Not to mention the double party wipe on siren *shudder*. Dark, dark days, those were. Maybe it has something to do with that.

@HolyDingleberry That's a shame. I'm sorry! I know it's not my fault or anything, but you have my sympathy.