Death twice - a bit much

In Crag Foothills, PVP flagged for the XP bonus. Met a bunch of mobs, wild melee ensued. Also there was another player who was flagged. Will he attack me ..... err yes! Did my best, died. No worries, all fair. Got the ransom message (piddly incidental stuff; who cares?) then on rez noticed that my XP was 60K down.

So I have been ransomed (for a PVP death) and decayed (for a PVE death). I don't mind one or the other, but surely not both.

Extract from the chatlog:

[1/19/2018 2:40:08 PM] Pepi attacks Asclepius and hits, dealing 6 points of damage from Puncture.
[1/19/2018 2:40:08 PM] Pepi attacks Asclepius and hits, dealing 47 points of damage from Puncture.
[1/19/2018 2:40:08 PM] Hardened Elven Fighter attacks Asclepius and hits, dealing 4 points of damage from Rend.
[1/19/2018 2:40:09 PM] Pepi attacks Asclepius and hits, dealing 4 points of damage from Ignite Weapon.
[1/19/2018 2:40:09 PM] Asclepius utters the phrase Reno.
[1/19/2018 2:40:09 PM] Pepi attacks Asclepius and hits, dealing 3 points of critical damage from Ignite.
[1/19/2018 2:40:09 PM] Asclepius attacks Hardened Elven Fighter and hits, dealing 77 points of critical damage from Bow.
[1/19/2018 2:40:10 PM] Pepi attacks Asclepius and hits, dealing 7 points of damage from Puncture.
[1/19/2018 2:40:10 PM] Pepi attacks Asclepius and hits, dealing 8 points of damage from Puncture.
[1/19/2018 2:40:10 PM] Asclepius is healed for 38 points of health (critical).
[1/19/2018 2:40:11 PM] Asclepius attacks Hardened Elven Archer and hits, dealing 30 points of damage from Bow.
[1/19/2018 2:40:11 PM] Pepi attacks Asclepius and hits, dealing 4 points of glancing damage due to armor.
[1/19/2018 2:40:11 PM] Pepi attacks Hardened Elven Fighter and hits, dealing 13 points of damage.
[1/19/2018 2:40:11 PM] Hardened Elven Fighter: (fighting) Your struggles are pointless.
[1/19/2018 2:40:11 PM] Pepi attacks Asclepius and hits, dealing 4 points of critical damage from Ignite Weapon.
[1/19/2018 2:40:11 PM] Pepi attacks Asclepius and hits, dealing 76 points of damage from Pull.
[1/19/2018 2:40:11 PM] Asclepius attacks Hardened Elven Archer and hits, dealing 63 points of critical damage from Bow.
[1/19/2018 2:40:11 PM] Hardened Elven Archer attacks Asclepius and hits, dealing 46 points of damage from Aimed Shot.
[1/19/2018 2:40:11 PM] Asclepius has been slain by Hardened Elven Archer's Aimed Shot!
[1/19/2018 2:40:11 PM] You have died at the hands of other outlanders. The Oracle has decided upon a Price for this conflict.
[1/19/2018 2:40:11 PM] An item (Lesser Wand) has been removed from your inventory as part of the Price.
[1/19/2018 2:40:11 PM] An item (Bear Carcass) has been removed from your inventory as part of the Price.

According to the chatlog, I should have lost XP (PVE death) - yeah don't like it, but that's the deal - and NOT been ransomed. I really don't care about the value of the ransom - it was nothing - but this looks like a glitch.

 

@Asclepius, there's a timer on pvp activity. five minutes, maybe? if you engage in pvp and die for any reason within the time limit, you get a lootstone. this was to keep people from denying their vanquishers their reward by, say, throwing themselves off a cliff rather than letting them get the killing blow in.

however, this may predate the decay-on-death thing. i'd think it should be doing a check to see if the death is eligible for a lootstone even though it was a pve death before applying the decay.

 

I always thought it was last hit, could be wrong. Honestly it should be because loosing exp within a timers timer is just going to make new players not want to pvp.

@Chris Can you please school us on the mechanics?

 

@Alley Oop , that makes some kind of sense, thanks for your input. I was just puzzled because it seemed weird and wrong. As @Valor said, I would appreciate a ruling from @Chris, as would we all.

 

oh, it is weird and wrong. i think it predates the death on decay mechanic, and so they should adjust it to compensate for that.