You have been defeated by $name

[Mikan]

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[joeygannaio]

wierd... i have no idea lol

[Arkenion]

:O
Lol, the guy who said Hi to you is a friend of mine ;)

[rmchapman]

Looks like a code error.

The game is programmed so that, when you die, you are sent this message:
" 'You have been defeated by ' + $name "

'$name' is a variable, who's value is the name of whatever killed you. Perhaps in this case it couldn't assign '$name' a value, so it added "$name" to the message.

[Arkenion]

Looks like a code error.

The game is programmed so that, when you die, you are sent this message:
" 'You have been defeated by ' + $name "

'$name' is a variable, who's value is the name of whatever killed you. Perhaps in this case it couldn't assign '$name' a value, so it added "$name" to the message.
Yes, but the strange thing was, that there was no damage message, so why did he die?

[rmchapman]

Most probably lag/client being out of sync with the server. The client had killed the mob, but the server still thought it was alive. So the server kept sending damage to the player, while the client didn't report damage being taken in the combat log or health bar, as it thought the mob was dead. This continued until the character died from the servers perspective, so the server told the client to be dead. So the character died and since it had no apparent source of death it displayed '$name' in the death message.

Keep in mind this is mostly pure speculation.