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

AlienatedGoat

heaven13 wrote: »

Cliffs, definitely yes.

Not the dumbest, but I still cringe when I drop my ult on crafting tables/writ turn ins.

Accidentally reading the final page of a motif my crafter needs, but on my main

Opening a master writ that required 8 traits for a piece I only had 6 in because I didn't check the set requirements first. Was worth a good amount so it just sat in my journal and the ones I could have done piled up in inventory.

Going into Cyrodiil without realizing you had to purchase your own siege. So I ran over and was firing someone else's until I got a really exasperated "stop using my ****" whisper. I felt SO bad.

Lol, I've done the master writ one. Didn't check, saw it required BA back when it was still new. Chose to eat the vouchers and delete it from my journal. 120+ vouchers.

Oh, a tip to keep from accidentally dropping ult. Swap from R to T if you can reach, or R to Q if you've got small hands. You can rebind next quest or whatever to any other free key. I used to accidentally drop ult pretty much everywhere before I did this.

Guarlet

Bajatar wrote: »

Buying the crown store adept starter pack. 1-2 days later it got discounted by 50%. 500 crowns down the drain.

It's probably way too late now, but if that happens again, you can try asking ZOS customer service for a crown refund so that you can get it at the discounted price. I had this happen after I bought a horse from the crown store, and then the starter pack containing the same horse went on sale immediately afterwards... they took back my horse and refunded my crowns when I pointed that out. Not saying they'll always do it, but they were nice enough to in my case.

Minyassa

Oh, crikey. I've:

Deconstructed a gold I'd just made and upgraded;

Checked my map in IC and then had to answer the phone and just left him there very obviously with a map in his hands just standing there;

Equipped an ice staff with a DPS sorc because I had no clue it taunted and then wondered why the hell everything hated ME so much;

Vendored or deconned countless valuable gear pieces I could've sold because I thought "nobody would buy something I just picked up out of a chest like anyone could";

Bought/made all new gear and respecced all skill points and abilities before going to do Undaunted pledges...not only forgot to assign stat points but forgot to EQUIP GEAR AT ALL--I'm sure the other people in the group were wondering why I sucked so very horribly;

Didn't know you could use spaces and multiple words in names so had to come up with some bizarre awful spelling of an imported character's name and did not find out until he was too high level to trash and start over (I am too cheap to spend 2500 crowns to fix it);

Spent 45+ minutes fine-tuning a toon's appearance and then forgot to pick the right class and had to trash and start over. -__-

Oh, and I have two master writs in my quest journal that have now been there for about 6 months because I didn't know you could look at what they were before you open/accept them. I refuse, just flat refuse, to trash them. I'm now on the last week and a half of researching the last traits I need to be able to craft those sets. Sheeeeesh.

Kiralyn2000

Got involved in a moronic political argument in Alik'r chat last night. Should have just closed the chat window.


Crafting & golding 5 pieces of new Divines set gear for my latest 50, and only then noticing that I'm still researching Divines on medium wrists. So the gold set bracers have no trait at all, cause it defaulted to None as I scrolled through the armor list crafting each piece. (Unlike most every other armor & weapon category, I learned Nirn on that one earlier than 9th trait)


Trying vMA on my "I've no idea how this game works"-build, original-main, bow/bow Stamblade. (I don't pvp, so she's got no Vigor or Caltrops.)


And yeah, I love firing my ult when I mess up looting and "R" isn't "Take all".

Fang_of_Lorkhaj

Joining an area chat trial pick up group. Nope. Nope. Nope. ._.

Guarlet

Kiralyn2000 wrote: »

And yeah, I love firing my ult when I mess up looting and "R" isn't "Take all".

This happened to me waaaaaaay too much until I finally remapped my ult to T. Yeah, um..... I meant to cast Fiery Elemental Storm on that barrel. You can't prove that I didn't. It probably deserved it.

Joshuagm1991

Getting rid of gold burning spell weave not knowing I could put it in the bank for later use. I also didn't know our banks were account wide. I thought they were character wide.

SMH

reprosal

Tried a no death run VCoS with a tank that thinks Morkuldin is good.

Florial

Gosh, too many to list. I'm always making mistakes.

However when I first started the game, I was absolutely clueless about many things and didn't have the motivation to really learn. I quit shortly after launch and came back a year later for another try. When I looked through my roster of characters, I chuckled. All my characters including my highest at the time (40ish or so) never equipped a second skill bar---at all. I suspect I thought it was a hassle at the time I first played. Some of the racial choices, gear choices just made me shake my head. Some of my lower level characters were geared out in gold armor---big sigh. I'm not an MMO newbie having sunk my teeth into Asheron's Call as my first MMO. Guess that ESO just didn't click and I was too uninspired to learn.

Esha76

Ocean_Charlie9 wrote: »

So many dumb things xD But the best was at the beginning of the game, in the tutorial. When you defeat your 1rst mini boss and the Prophet summon the portal to escape Coldharbour Prision, you must wait to be teleported right? Well, this fluffy khajiit was so excited to play the game that jump off right to the big hole and die. 10/10 best start of a game ever.

I did the same exact thing once, which would also be the dumbest thing I ever did in game as well.

That, or read General Chat from time to time. I think I now understand the draw some people have to "reality" trash TV...

The_Hawk_1975

I didn't finish the jubilee cake quest as I thought it was going to be around for ever like the rest of the quests...

Yes, I am a NOOB..lol

EvilAutoTech

I got a high voucher writ for a morag tong sash in a set from an early zone. I checked my outfitting collection to see if I could craft it. I travel to the crafting location and find out I did not know the motif. I could use it in the outfitting system because I bought Morrowind CE. I had to trek back to a wayshrine and travel to Mournhold so I could buy the page.

Other than that, I golded out my level 45 Prismatic greatsword and some of the housing I bought may have been a little redundant (I own two houses in The Rift, I own Mara's Kiss and Barbed Hook apartments).

LadyLethalla

Creating a generic item instead of a set item and then golding it out... more than once.

Invincible

Subbed

Eyesinthedrk

Jumping off a cliff trying to dead res to get to a keep before it flags and accidentally pushing X and resing right where I died at the bottom of the clif.

Yolokin_Swagonborn

Created my first character.

Eyesinthedrk

Or how about running VCOS with friends everyone wanted motifs and I got swords. So to be a smart ass I went to post in chat to show off but accidentally pressed X and read it on a non crafting alt

LadyLethalla

Oh and I started on EU, got as far as Cadwell's Silver 2nd zone and given my stupid timezone there weren't enough people around to help with a dolmen (this was back before 1Tam). Tried to find people a few times and then went off to play Fallout 4. Came back, started a new character on NA.
At this point a "friend" told me I was doing it all wrong, that my most important stat as a stamblade wasn't health and by the way did I know I could equip a second weapon? Umm... no, I didn't know either of those things...

Needless to say I went off and learned at that point.
When I returned to EU shortly after, I respecced my main, another stamblade.

Ragnarock41

I purchased an outfit slot.

bloodthirstyvampire

Trying to fight 2 AD and DC zergs on my own they where fighting each other, I was new to pvp just following the carnage needles to say I died rather quickly

DanteYoda

Playing with mods i just added i miss clicked and killed a npc... In the middle of Grahtwood city... cue benny hill music till i died...

Respawned at way shrine to run back and saw the dead body on the ground.. without thinking i looted it.. Cue the benny hill music again.. till i died...

SugaComa

Some asked for 10k in zone chat further a horse ... Having saved 1m in gold to buy a house I was feeling generous, so I sent him it via mail.

Only I pressed hard left and sent him the full million

DanteYoda

Asardes wrote: »

Ocean_Charlie9 wrote: »

So many dumb things xD But the best was at the beginning of the game, in the tutorial. When you defeat your 1rst mini boss and the Prophet summon the portal to escape Coldharbour Prision, you must wait to be teleported right? Well, this fluffy khajiit was so excited to play the game that jump off right to the big hole and die. 10/10 best start of a game ever.

That could occasionally happen even when done right, especially to AD characters who were dropped into that tower on Kenarthi's Roost.

Still does happened to me two days ago? jumped into the light and well this in Kenarthi's Roost.

AndyMac

Woke up, logged in and pretty much immediately joined a random group doing the Spellscar quest - dodgerolled or just plain fell straight off the first bridge. Still have no idea why I did that.

Group chat was:

Me: Sorry
First random: Yeah, you're good
Second random: LOL

Probably should actually wake up before joining a group of any kind.

Taleof2Cities

Enchanted a vMA staff once which overwrote the unique enchantment it already had.

Fortunately, I made this blunder on the PTS server.

brewsky_jsbub17_ESO

Well first I somehow managed to get stuck with a stupid username on the forum during beta testing I think. I then ran around heavy attacking with a bow and dual wield on a nord templar healer for like 2 months after console release. Then I found abilities and used puncturing sweeps and binding javelin cause I didn't have enough magicka for both skills.....during all that I leveled up provisioning to 50 and thought it was lucrative to craft roast pig with a 4x multiplyer to sell to the merchant to make gold. I also died over and over and over to invisible mudcrabs in my very first dungeon wondering how anyone was ever gonna beat that place. Anyone else do any of this? Lol. - xRaHx

Demra

DeadlyRecluse wrote: »

It took me over 2 years of playing to realize there was a "buy multiple" option on siege vendors.

Previously, I clicked 100 times to buy 100 repair kits.

Omg.. thank you

brewsky_jsbub17_ESO

The_Hawk_1975 wrote: »

I didn't finish the jubilee cake quest as I thought it was going to be around for ever like the rest of the quests...

Yes, I am a NOOB..lol

Dude I did this too but this year I got two mementos! I turned in the 2nd year quest when chef donalon came back and then did the 3rd year quest right after! I was able to share it as well from what I remember. Too bad I didn't to someone who wasn't around then.

firedrgn

Made a nirn bow for someone agreed to a price. And then. Drum roll...........

I sent him the bow and the gold.

Blood_again

Running the Badman's Hollow with 1st person view. Boss solo try with this view.
It was CBT and I didn't realise the 3rd view advantages yet. I even didn't see a differences between a simple mob and boss. And finally I've just got lost in that maze of roots.

Spending over a million gold for master writs just before the Morrowind release.
My commercial plan was based on predicted voucher raise in gold. You know, trait learning tickets, new furniture recipes. Totally failed, because the voucher price hadn't raise at all.
Those writs were filling my bank as a dead weight till the Dragonbones with it's home containers.

Invited and haven't kicked the tank after his phrase "Can tank, but I'm not very good player". Then promoting him to lead because the crown on tank is comfortable for group.
Holy holy, that was normal trial pugged with the fake tank. Well, we finished it, but... Never did it before and have no interest to try it again.