Will the Mad King kill survivors?

Do deaths from the Mad King's games add to your /deaths total? I started a new character in an attempt to get a max survivor title, and am nearing the second tier now. I wouldn't mind picking up a few holiday items and a festive hat along the way, but wouldn't want to end up loosing my progress to a bad game of paper, rock, scissors or something like that.

No, I don't think so. I don't think A.net would want to field the hundreds of complaints they'd get.

More likely the deaths are like the one in the Shing Jea tutorial - just a 'dummy' kill.

i think since you would be in town when this happens and things are different in town the answer is no, but of course i know you would like an answer from anet itself, maybe someone that had a survivor during the dragon festival and got killed by the grawls can answer it too.


@Trickfred:I remember the nightfall tutorial, " there are also deaths that occur and these will weaken you , let me demostrate" *poof* dead. I was like WTF!? nothing hit me!

I highly doubt it. Besides all the complaining as has already been mentioned, there's lots of "deaths" that don't actually count as such. Resigning doesn't count as a death, nor does your "death" if a key ally you were supposed to keep alive, dies. Forced deaths like at the end of Vizunah Square, don't count either.

while logic would dictate that it certainly *shouldn't*, I find this to be a perfect example of a detail that can be very easily overlooked (which, after numerous complaints, Gaile would somehow spin this to be something that was meant to be a feature, not an oversight). Personally if I had a Survivor character, I'd take the safe route.

during the mad kings first show the deaths did not add to your total so no worries

heres some advice take one of your non survivior chars check its deaths, go do a game and die intintinaly and see if the death toll when up any.

be careful with that, once everyone die in this cinematic, if you have a MM in your group, the minions will become masterless and start a slaughter by killing each and every person in both parties, i lost my 2nd survivor that way xD.

Mad King's deaths didn't count last year. I know I checked it when he killed me the first time. For some reason. I really hate dying.

nope, survivors will be safe from the this kind of "death"

just don't die in the tag arena......that counts