First and foremost: I have not, and never will be, in Excellence.
Now that we have that out of the way. Are you serious? Gates of Hades does ~300-350 damage to a decently geared PLD. Unless it spammed 4-5 in a row, and none of your incompetent mages (or yourself) bothered to cure you, it's impossible you died from that. Maybe you just suck?
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