I, personally, am opposed to this. Dying is supposed to be tough. Sure, it gets frustrating, especially if you die a few times in succession, but death is supposed to come at a cost. You mentioned that you would like an xp bonus to the last point before the death. If you die numerous times, where would that point be set to?
All rules in all games can be classed as an "inconvenience". It is not a complete answer to say you have to have it one way or not at all. There are many ways to deal with being killed in game.
My view is that dying should be punished so you are less likely to go gung-ho into every situation. If you die, and it hurts, you think about your actions first.
Permadeath is a solution, yes. It is the most severe solution you can get, but it is one solution from a multitude of possibilities. The spectrum runs from no penalty what so ever to losing your character and all their equipment.
VR have gone for the slightly painful loss of xp as a reprimand to thinking about your actions. I'm fine with it.
I mean, I was planning on playing on a regular server, not hardcore, Conan the barbarian server, I mean sure, he got a rez too after all, but at what cost? Essence Emerald anyone? Utilizing the market for more expansion and sales, Plus Raid encounters like Innoruuk could still be a thing this way.
This death penalty isn't hard core now in my opinion. In my opinion too many people can rez, and 50% rez is too easy to get, At the least the 50% should be exclusive to Clerics and gated behind some epic quest that a whole guild needs to help them complete.
So I have a question for you AwRy3, where should it stop? where I want it, where you want it? Where the next player comes along and suggests we should get 75% of our exp back IF we find our corpse? Or the Next player that comes along and suggest we shouldn't lose any exp and our Items should be left on our corpse "because I don't have time now like I did in 1999 to go retrieve a corpse"
That reminds me, Way too much corpse summoning going on in game as well...