What's the dumbest thing you've ever done in-game?

AlienatedGoat

For me it's accidentally running my mount off of every single cliff in the game. Even the ones where I take it slow and try to skiddle my way down like a ninja, I always screw up the last part and plummet to my death. I try to avoid cliffs because I already know I'll tumble off them. It's made worse by the death cry of my mount which makes me feel terrible.

I've even died on the final cliff jump in Vaults of Madness by jumping too far and landing on the shore.

You'd think a goat would be better at managing cliffs and higher elevations.

What's the stupidest, dumbest thing you've ever done in the game?

VaranisArano

Golded out gear that in hindsight wasn't all that useful.

Exalted_Goose

Gold Training Armour...

[EDIT]: Oh, and buy Crown Crates!

jedtb16_ESO

same kind of thing. i've posted about it here several times...

trying to get a toon down a cliff that, in hindsight, is clearly impossible.

i still do it, they must hate me.

AlienatedGoat

VaranisArano wrote: »

Golded out gear that in hindsight wasn't all that useful.

I've done this.

Though I have a guildmate that really took it to the next level.

He crafted a full set of gear and golded it out, before realizing he made it in c150. So he did it again, crafted another set, golded it out. This time, no traits. Tried again, craft, gold, c150 again.

He whispered me this and told me he'd pay me to craft it for him.

Lyserus

on the northern cliff of Greenshade (I think), I was exploring when I see this argonian dude looking north, and from there you can see Kvatch from a distance.

Then the argonian said "I'm going to try to swim there"
So we did together.

Thennnn of course I was killed by slaughterfish midway.

And the argonian traitor was behind me, and he swim back once he saw what happened to me

casinoguy

Sieging a keep in PVP that had already flipped.

AlienatedGoat

Lyserus wrote: »

on the northern cliff of Greenshade (I think), I was exploring when I see this argonian dude looking north, and from there you can see Kvatch from a distance.

Then the argonian said "I'm going to try to swim there"
So we did together.

Thennnn of course I was killed by slaughterfish midway.

And the argonian traitor was behind me, and he swim back once he saw what happened to me

Lol, that's one savage argonian.

Shanjijri

Decon a whole gold set, thinking that I'll never use it again, and needed it a month after.

zaria

Phage wrote: »

I've even died on the final cliff jump in Vaults of Madness by jumping too far and landing on the shore.

I say all died on that.
Farmed vault of madness for worm, "no death run pls", we don't use AoE on first boss, i stay mostly on healing staff, then splat

Mine is deconstructing stuff needed for master writs
And yes farming Fang Lair for Jorvuld’s Guidance with low success, it drops in Scalecaller

ZOS_Holden

Thanks for sharing, everyone, it's so nice to share a chuckle at our less than stellar moments. We're sure you all bounced back in no time, and speaking of bouncing back, we've definitely run off of more cliffs than we'd like to admit.

Danikat

Made 7 armour pieces for a 5 piece set. I was so wrapped up in making sure I didn't do something stupid like forget to pick a trait or make it for the wrong level that I completely forgot about moving to another crafting station after 5 pieces.

And also yeah, fallen off far more cliffs than I care to count. Sometimes because I was too busy looking at the scenery and didn't notice the cliff, sometimes because I misjudged how far down it was and sometimes because I just didn't hit the right button to stop in time.

Oh, and run out of bag space while doing crafting writs, started sorting stuff out and salvaged the items I'd just crafted and was supposed to turn in for the writ.

Gythral

Mount my horse on top of a cliff & watched it fall off!

Tried to jump down a waterfall into the water below, only to miss the water and hit a rock: hard (on just about every waterfall in game)

MajesticHaruki

I tried to kill a guard. Guess how that ended.

starkerealm

Recently? Deconned a Mending Shield. Which may not sound spectacularly stupid, until I realized it was the only thing I was missing to run mending on a PvP build.

nomikkh

Gythral wrote: »

Mount my horse on top of a cliff & watched it fall off!

Tried to jump down a waterfall into the water below, only to miss the water and hit a rock: hard (on just about every waterfall in game)

I can't even count how many times I died (or nearly) on the last jump in the Christmas holiday quest of Let's Jump In The Water Naked.

Sting864

Standing in red and not blocking...

firedrgn

jedtb16_ESO wrote: »

same kind of thing. i've posted about it here several times...

trying to get a toon down a cliff that, in hindsight, is clearly impossible.

i still do it, they must hate me.

Untill u jump off cliff in wrothguard and survive(not knowing) and get achivment. Then all cliff diving is worth it.

Caligamy_ESO

Me and 3 buddies tried for like an hour to strategize our way through Sanctum Ophidia when we were vet14

zaria

And yes trying to heal vWGT with medium armor night silence
Was doing TG quest and had SPC.
Was not kicked as DD and tank was worse

Moonscythe

Allowed myself to be killed by a skeever. I say allowed because I could have fled when I realized the lag was going to do for me but no, I had to keep waving my arms and pushing buttons while the skeever gnawed me off at the knees..

Sheezabeast

Buying gold Red Mountain and Dreugh King and Viper jewelry...its so useless now but still so shiny. Too bad I can't decon them in Summerset.

SickleCider

It's not always the cliffs that get me

it's the small falls

don't drop five feet when you have a single pixel of health.

ktdotexe

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Tasear

Died to a murcrab....

Enemy-of-Coldharbour

I do lots of stupid stuff (I blame wine). Most recently, I was farming chests in Vvardenfell for BA motifs when another player started racing me along my route trying to beat me to chests. It was a give and take scenario. Anyway, I see a chest up ahead with a few mobs next to it and see the other guy not far behind me (yes, he was a chest poacher). I get to the chest first, clear the mobs and then accidentally roll dodge off the cliff before initiating the pick. I decided to call it a night after that.

Jhalin

Dodge rolled my healer off the tank rock trying to avoid a heavy attack from a vAA axe.

When i was a wee noob, Sneak Attacking the first nAA boss.

Sanctum74

PetiteFire wrote: »

When I first started playing... destroyed Aetherial Dust thinking it was trash.

I used to do the same thing with potent and fortified nirncrux, oops!

Tryxus

Every time I enter vMA...

ZioGio

Two lessons I learned the hard way in my ESO career :

• Do not accept a Master Writ without first checking if you have the knowledge to fulfill it
• If you see a scroll in a dungeon boss room, bad things will happen if you activate it

This movie quote comes to mind from The Simpsons Movie when I think back about how I felt after unintentionally activating the hard mode scroll in the PUG run:

Bart: "Oh, this is the worst day of my life."
Homer: "The worst day of your life so far!"