I am all for death penalties as long as they are known upfront. What I am having a hard time with is logging in what is believed safe for a 42 level Sword Swinging tank and enter into the fray with multiple Droach and get smoke before I am fully logged in. Try to retrieve tombstone, and die 6 more times. Ultimately I find 6 of the 7 tombstones. Now I have gear permanently damaged. I am not sure why I could not find one of the tombstones. Aside from the monster swarm that I had vary little chance of damaging, and no chance of surviving their 2 to 3 hit deaths (btw: they seemed to stun on near every hit, so running was not much of an option, I tried)
So do I just suck this up as newbie luck, or is there some way to repair my armor and trinkets? I would prefer not to/do not want to have to get garbage items from NPC's and try to fight in areas equivalent to my skill level?
Whats the answer?