What are your facepalm moments that you only have yourself to blame for?

vibeborn · June 18

So yesterday I decided to make some weapon glyphs for a character I'm currently leveling. My character is almost level 25 so I make some glyphs that are minimum that level.
But when my character reaches level 25, I cannot apply the glyphs, and I wonder why, so I take to the internet and notice that the level of the weapon has to be at least the level of the glyph, so I think, okay fine I can craft some level 25 gear. Which it turns out I cannot, because that doesn't exist. So I give in and craft level 26 gear instead, and then let my character level up again.
When I'm level 26 I apply the new weapons, I again try to enchant them, and it still doesn't work. I go on the internet again to see if there's anyone else who's had that problem, and most of them seem to be because the weapon was lower level than the enchant, but my weapons are level 26, and the enchants are minimum level 25. So I take a five minute long stare at the glyphs, and wonder, are they bugged?
Then I read it: They're jewelry enchants….

joerginger · June 18

Just last Sunday: Falling to my death while checking bookshelves in Aetherian Archive and after reviving taking the wrong door and walking out of the trial while 11 people were waiting for me to get back to them. Falling to my death again, only this time somewhere else, on the way back didn't improve things much.

PeterUnlustig · June 18

Visiting the forums again and again. Despite not playing the game due to horrendous performance.

SidraWillowsky · June 18

Oh god, the list is endless...

1. Went for a purple jewelry master writ because I had the zircon plating to spare, but just barely. The writ called for a harmony Julianos necklace. I made a ring.
2. Farmed the Dreugh Waters area in Stormhaven for about two hours doing nothing but killing Dreugh so I could get Dreugh Wax
3. I accidentally unequipped my staves during a vMoL run. It took me far too long to figure that one out.
4. Back when there was poison that remained in the arena after defeating the final boss in HoF, I couldn't seem to get through the door to turn in the quest. I'd die, rez, then try to open the door and immediately die. This went on for about five minutes as I became continually frustrated and was ranting to my guildies and freaking out about not being ale to turn in the quest. Turns out I was at the wrong end of the room, trying to go out the entrance...

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doomette · June 18

I cringe at the amount of white fish I sold to a vendor because I didn’t know you could filet them when I was going for master angler years ago. I’m talking like a whole faction zone and half of another. RIP all that perfect roe.

The_Lex · June 18

I bought crown crates

vibeborn · June 18

The_Lex wrote: »

I bought crown crates

Crown crates are my guilty pleasure, so I feel that one

MrGarlic · June 18

I accidentally deconned a gold Spell Power Cure resto staff. (When it was BiS)

Support would not, or could not restore my mistake.

I never ran a healer again and pretty much lost interest in the game after that. The time it took to find a group to run the dungeon and finally get the SPC resto staff was just too much to be bothered with.

Vevvev · June 18

Had Volendrung in my hands and charged headfirst at Chalman with a zerg at my back. Like an idiot I lead the charge and the AD set a ambush at the milgate. My allies reclaimed the hammer but they were not happy with me.

ShawnLaRock · June 18

I like to think I actively & purposefully do not fall prey to FOMO - but I spent ~800k completing the New Moon Priest motif book in the first 2 days of release.

It makes me cringe to even admit it publicly - b/c even at an 80-1 gold:Crown ratio, it would only have been ~320k.

Aaaaaand - especially because I have close to 20k Crowns sitting there unused - and I now have 3+ of each of the 14 pages in the book from farming the unintended 100% drop rate from the Dragonguard Cache - when they are even hard to get rid of for a measly 5k apiece.

Ugh. Lol.

S.

Edit: I have not, and probably will never even actually use the style at an outfit station, ‘cause I don’t even like it that much.

Sylvermynx · June 18

ShawnLaRock wrote: »

I like to think I actively & purposefully do not fall prey to FOMO - but I spent ~800k completing the New Moon Priest motif book in the first 2 days of release.

It makes me cringe to even admit it publicly - b/c even at an 80-1 gold:Crown ratio, it would only have been ~320k.

Aaaaaand - especially because I have close to 20k Crowns sitting there unused - and I now have 3+ of each of the 14 pages in the book from farming the unintended 100% drop rate from the Dragonguard Cache - when they are even hard to get rid of for a measly 5k apiece.

Ugh. Lol.

S.

Edit: I have not, and probably will never even actually use the style at an outfit station, ‘cause I don’t even like it that much.

If you're on PC NA, I'll take one each of your dupes off your hands....

phairdon · June 18

Going way back to 2015. Sold a motif through a c.o.d. sale. Added the motif to the mail as well as the amount of gold I was selling the motif for. The buyer received the motif plus something like 60k gold. The buyer was supposed to send me 60k gold.

ShawnLaRock · June 18

@Sylvermynx - I am an XBOX NA pleb - but for anyone on my sever, I can reluctantly let a full book go for, hmm... how does 700k sound? <facepalm 2.0> lol

S.

kargen27 · June 18

Tried to jump into the ocean and missed. I died.

Wanted a screenshot of a sunset. Went to the top of a tower to take it. My character was short so I needed to jump to be above the little wall then push my hotkey to capture the screen. Instead of jumping I did a backroll off the tower. I died.

Crafted a full set of gear golded it all out then noticed I didn't trait it. Deconned the gear started over and did it again. I lived.

Let an Orc touch me.

CassandraGemini · June 19

SidraWillowsky wrote: »

Oh god, the list is endless...

1. Went for a purple jewelry master writ because I had the zircon plating to spare, but just barely. The writ called for a harmony Julianos necklace. I made a ring.
2. Farmed the Dreugh Waters area in Stormhaven for about two hours doing nothing but killing Dreugh so I could get Dreugh Wax
3. I accidentally unequipped my staves during a vMoL run. It took me far too long to figure that one out.
4. Back when there was poison that remained in the arena after defeating the final boss in HoF, I couldn't seem to get through the door to turn in the quest. I'd die, rez, then try to open the door and immediately die. This went on for about five minutes as I became continually frustrated and was ranting to my guildies and freaking out about not being ale to turn in the quest. Turns out I was at the wrong end of the room, trying to go out the entrance...

I'm really not sure what to think about the fact that your points two and three have happened to me as well.

Two when I was still very new to the game and had no idea how to get the upgrade materials. I thought it seemed only logical that the dreughs would drop it so I ran around dreughside (I think that's what the village is called), killing dreugh and hoping for some dreugh wax to drop. When I finally decided to google it I felt really stupid for a while.
And three, well, it was obviously not exactly like that, but I remember that I did a DLC dungeon (don't quite recall which one it was) at one point and accidentally unequipped one of my daggers while trying to recharge the enchantment in the heat of battle. Yeah, stupid idea, but the outcome was even more stupid, considering I somehow failed to realize I was swinging only one dagger for almost the complete rest of the dungeon. Then again, none of my teammates said anything about it to me and I didn't get kicked either, so I can only guess that no one noticed it in the end. Ever since then I take great care not to unequip my stuff in the middle of battle

Also, I'm pretty sure I posted this little story at some point in a similar thread, but I vividly remember my first time in Vaults of Madness and how I managed to fall into the hole at the very end before the last boss, when you have to jump the broken bridge. 3 or 4 times in a row. I don't even know how I did that or whether I was drunk or something, but it was extremely embarrassing.

Sylvermynx · June 19

ShawnLaRock wrote: »

@Sylvermynx - I am an XBOX NA pleb - but for anyone on my sever, I can reluctantly let a full book go for, hmm... how does 700k sound? <facepalm 2.0> lol

S.

Aw damn. Well.... sorry m'friend. Hope you can find someone to take the dupes off your hands.

ChimpyChumpy · June 19

I golded some sub level 50 training gear. Wasn't paying attention and just kept spamming the button.

Lintashi · June 19

Farmed Jorvulds staff in Scalecaller. Never dropped for me, but I got it by trading with another party member. Transmuted it, golded, used for months. Asked once guild member advice on matter of skill usage, and provided screenshot from addon, showing all my gear, skills, etc at once. Got reply- " why are you using cp 100 staff?" I still use that staff on one of my chars, too lazy to grind for it once more. And also golded wrong gear once, when doing master writs.

Tyralbin · June 19

Trying to craft a potion for a master writ.

Wouldn't work so I spent ten minutes trying to work out the problem.

Checked to see if Potion Maker was bugged on ESOUI.com.

Then realised.

My bags were full.

Zenzuki · June 19

Crafted an entire set of gold set gear for a guildie using his mats (which he had barely enough for the entire set).

Realized as I was trading with him that I wasn't on the "set" tab while crafting and just made a golded out basic set. doh

Had to re-make an entire set (now using my own mats).

Obv. this was before they updated the crafting station to default to the "sets" tabs. An awesome QOL update if ya ask me!

JayKwellen · June 19

Long ago when I was still painfully new I was trying to help my husband out with his character. He was trying to change his sets around to try something new, I think it was spinners or something. I went and bought the staff for him, golded it out, and then trying to be nice I went and transmuted it to the appropriate trait for him. Oops.

The rest are mostly in Cyrodiil. While the stupidity always unfolds in different ways it typically always starts with some variation of "I got this" and ends with my staring at the death recap.

Lannharr · June 19

When players run toward you pulling mobs and goodbye or sneaking pass through you when you are killing mobs near treasure chest or psijic portal to loot it.

rei91 · June 19

Once I was doing jewelry master writ for blue ring, mashed the button and upgraded it further.
I still have the ring in my bag in some hopeless hope that one day I'll get the writ for it...

Apox · June 19

died in vMA today on ice stage because i forgot to move when he was shattering the stage. its been frustrating relearning the spawns after a long break, especially since i never really learned them to begin with, and there was a lot of rage, but when i died to the stage shatter im just like "well that was my own *** up"

kargen27 · June 19

JayKwellen wrote: »

Long ago when I was still painfully new I was trying to help my husband out with his character. He was trying to change his sets around to try something new, I think it was spinners or something. I went and bought the staff for him, golded it out, and then trying to be nice I went and transmuted it to the appropriate trait for him. Oops.

The rest are mostly in Cyrodiil. While the stupidity always unfolds in different ways it typically always starts with some variation of "I got this" and ends with my staring at the death recap.

Did something similar. A staff that at the time was worth a lot of gold dropped for me. I thought hey if I change traits on this thing it will be worth even more. It is in a chest somewhere in one of my homes.

jm42 · June 19

I often forget to lock monster sets and decon them... way too often

Lotus781 · June 19

Parting with cash for this game.

Dragonredux · June 19

I was farming for a scathing mage necklace for a while and when it finally dropped on a run when i wasn't looking for it. I destroyed it by accident instead of locking it...I banged my head against the wall a couple times after that.

Shawn_PT · June 19

Hit the wrong combination of keys and activated a long-winded memento during what was going to be a Flawless run. The boss had fun smacking my upended backside while I fished for apples.

Ectheliontnacil · June 19

When I was pretty new to the game, I saw some people wearing the dark seducer costume.
I thought it would look good on my dunmer dk, so I started researching traits went to the seducer crafting station in stormhaven. I made a full set, equipped it and well...I was dissapointed.
At least I figured out how costumes work.

SirLeeMinion · June 19

Er... last night

I was parsing on the trial dummy, and started the rotation wrong. Since I wanted a screenshot parse from full health, I real quick picked up the dummy, stored it and then hit undo so it would be replaced at full health. Of-course, when I had originally placed the dummy I had ESO+... without the additional ESO+ housing slots I couldn't "undo" and put it back. I could almost hear it laughing at me from my inventory, "...and you call me a dummy!"