>4. Gate. Don't laugh. Geared healer w/ cabal powers vs.
>wounded me w/ limited number of teleport potions. Could be
>nasty. Never died this way, but once came close.

I usually just compare it mentally to old Master tesseract, and while that's not making it easy to kill Battleragers, it's also not making it easy for bloodthirsty mages to kill random warriors and thieves.

So, sure gate isn't much fun, but you're far safer from that sort of thing now than once upon a time.