Can the 5 seconds death timer be disabled?

Dying sucks as it is. Why do I also have to sit there for 5 seconds staring at my screen as if the game is a dissapointed parent that wants me to sit there and think about what I did. This is not LoL or DOTA, the death timer has zero meaning besides annoying the player. Especially since I'm playing offline.

I'm farming Tran Athulua right now with my maelstrom sin. Despite my best efforts I keep getting one shot every few minutes by an arrow swarm that's almost invisible against the background the the maelstrom visual effects. That's fun enough, but that death timer just makes me want to altf4 and uninstall after a while. And yes, I realize I'm irrationally upset by this but what you gonna do.

Maelstorm visual effects? You should have seen old maelstorm explosions

About the timer, it's annoying but rather can't be removed. It has a purpose, to stop people from death spamming in timer dungeons.

It was added recently to keep the annoyance element in equilibrium. You see, respawning with your gear already equipped left a large hole that needed to be filled.

To add to what Vikan said, death timer also plays an important role on dungeons which have a lockdown.

Additionally, suicide smashing should not be a viable strategy for bossing - this is the same reason town portal has a cooldown too.

The 5 second cool down could start immediately after death rather than pressing escape to start it. For whatever reason, there seems to be a delay and esc can't be pressed right away. Sometimes I think I've activated the cd and look away from the screeen and look back and it hasn't started. If it starts immediately and esc is required to return to town after the cooldown is over, it would be much better.

That is correct, and that's because the ESC menu appears on DD (dead) animation rather than DT (dying). In other words, it will show up once the animation of the character dying is fully played.

We are well aware of that issue and been trying to fix it, though seems fairly complicated. Still, it's something we'll keep on our backlog and revisit regularly.

Pls enable the menu during the animation so I can ragequit faster