Death is never a pleasant experience but it's inevitable at some point when playing.

When a player's hp drops below 1, he or she will die. A dialogue box will pop up asking the player to "Release Spirit" and this comes with a 6 minutes countdown timer. While in this mode, you can still see and hear everything that is surrounding your corpse, but you will not be able to perform any action, not even open your inventory or quest log. You may still swivel your camera and talk in party chat and guild chat (private chats) but not by using zone chat or /say or /yell etc (public chats).

Where do I go when I die?

Once you click on the button to release spirit or your 6 minute timer is up, you will be transported automatically to the nearest graveyard that is designated to be usable by your faction and enter ghost form .

Graveyards are places where your spirit gets sent to when you die. All zones have at least one graveyard and many zones have multiple graveyards located in such a way that players do not have to travel too far (typically less than 5 minutes) in order to reach their corpse.

Most graveyards in the world are designated to be used by both factions while other graveyards are faction specific. Not all zones have graveyards for your faction either and this will bring about some interesting repercussions for dying in PvP as you might find yourself at a graveyard in the next zone instead.

What can and can't I do in ghost form?

• When you are in ghost form, the game world will appear very different to you and some game mechanics are changed.
• The game world is rendered in an surreal black and white greyscale, with an equally eerie looking spiralling cloud formation. Eerie audios complete the setting.
• Your character will be translucent and look ethereal to you.
• While in ghost form, you have 1 hp. You can levitate over water (run over it) as well as breathe underwater.
• While in ghost form, you cannot interact with objects in the game world. A door that is closed will remain closed until a living player actually opens it at the same time for you to go through.
• You cannot use any spells, items or abilities, but you can still manage your inventory.
• You can see other ghosts as you wander about, including the ghosts from the enemy faction.
• Ghosts can move 50% faster than their normal running speed while alive. This helps out in returning to your corpse.
• Ghosts cannot see any living enemy or player, unless the player is in your party. Players in your party can also see you in ghost form.
• When you are near your corpse, within about a 50 yard radius, all players and enemies will become visible to you so you can select a good spot to ressurect.
• Public chat (zone, say, yell, etc) is not available to the player but private chat (party, group, guild, etc) is.
• There are a few special creatures in the world that can see and kill ghosts. These are visible to the player. Dying in ghost form will return you to the same initial graveyard you appeared in when you died.
• Ghosts can take falling damage and die. However, the falling range before you start taking damage is extremely high. This is a safeguard to prevent players from accidentally falling into inaccessible place where they will remain stuck after ressurecting there.
• If you died outside of an instance and try to walk into an instance while in ghost mode, you will be teleported to the initial graveyard you appeared in when you died. If you died inside an instance and walk into a different instance, the same thing happens.
• You cannot explore an instance in ghost form. Once you enter the instance in which you died, you will resurrect with half your hp and mana at the entrance. It does not matter if your particular instance no longer exists.
• You can resurrect with any Spirit Healer at any graveyard, but you will be resurrected at the initial graveyard you appeared in when you died. This prevents using ghost mode to travel to far-off locations.
• If you are disconnected or log out in ghost form, you will log back into the game in ghost form.
• You can make use of ghost form to explore nearby terrain.

There are some quests in the game that are given by ghosts! This means you have to die before you can obtain these quests since you cannot see these ghosts until you are dead.

Night Elves have a racial trait such that when they die, they will turn into a wisp (a special ghost form for the Night Elves). Wisps move 50% faster than normal ghosts.