Embarrassing ESO Moments

Rasande_Robin

I joined a RP-Guild once. We had an RP-Event and I wrote a ":)" basically the entire event was "chat based". I got banned from the guild and never heard from them again.

Was both cringe and embarrassing to be part of that...

Braggar

Cyrodiil

I played as a EP. Entered one of our attacked keeps, saw a AD ram right in front of the open keep gate. Tried to set it on fire. Turned left, and saw about 30-40 AD players next to me.....

TaSheen

Braggar wrote: »

Cyrodiil

I played as a EP. Entered one of our attacked keeps, saw a AD ram right in front of the open keep gate. Tried to set it on fire. Turned left, and saw about 30-40 AD players next to me.....

*wince*

AnonomissX

Was in Southern Elsewyr enjoying the scenery for the first time. Was in an Xbox party chatting it up with my fellow guildies. I came across a really high up cliff over a South facing beach and thought it would be cool to conquer my fears and do a big jump into the ocean, just like you do those big jumps over the waterfalls in Wrothgar. So I run and make the jump, thinking how cool am I ... just to hit the water and immediately get eaten by Slaughterfish, along with my guildie who thought it would be cool too. Ooops!

FeedbackOnly

Long ago ..you couldn't lock items

I decond a weapon weapon worth 200k

P.S Back then 200k was like a million now.

zaria

Jammy420 wrote: »

katanagirl1 wrote: »

Jammy420 wrote: »

Every time I try to get into a keep in cyro when I am being chased by a ball group and I stand there like an idiot because of the oh mighty door boss.

I click the button, nothing happens for a second, so I click again just as I enter the keep, so I’m back outside…

Exactly, lol. Like, the performance is stellar for me now, but for the love of sithis, fix the door boss, and the potions which refuse to be drank.

Or running up the stairs to the keep walls and overshoot on the switch as in most times.

freespirit wrote: »

Dropping my ulti on treasure chests whilst trying to loot, unfortunately this is one I still repeat to this day!!

Made even more annoying when Bastian pipes up with "Well that was a bit excessive" 🤣

Anybody who have played Hogwarts legacy has probably also wasted lots of ulti if ultimate bound at R.
That is that you would spam R all the time in HL to reveal loot, interactive items and enemies.
And you always feel stupid doing it.

Braggar

True Teamwork. LMAO

I_killed_Vivec

Usually forgetting to eat, to be fair that is my "hard mode" for overland content but it is a bit embarrassing when I turn up for a WB or dragon and I'm dead on arrival

Other than that, I've mentioned before when I was on the platform in the Arena zone of IC, peered over the edge to see a mass of enemies streaming across the zone. Moved forward to get a better look... and fell into the middle of them. Dead before I hit the ground.

Kallykat

Any time I enter a PvP zone. Any time. Ever.

Also, when I first learned you could switch key bindings, I changed my ultimate on all my characters so it would be easier to reach during combat. I've since changed it back on some characters when I noticed it. Occasionally still I will be trying to quickly loot containers and miss my aim, sometimes releasing an ultimate on a container. Nearby guards don't like that.

SeaGtGruff

Crafting an expensive ring or necklace for a Jewelry master writ, then running off to do other things in the game before going to Wayrest to turn in my master writ(s), then using the decon assistant to decon my loot, only to realize that I just deconned the ring or necklace I'd crafted.

And then doing the same thing again a month or two later, despite having (supposedly) learned my lesson the first time.

Kesstryl

Dying to a quest boss trying to get screenshots of the fight.

FeedbackOnly

Amour needed repair....turns out it wasn't the healers fault tank was dying

Sorry

boi_anachronism_

When i forgot to take off streak after running through part of vka and accidently streaked through the final boss. The tank wasnt happy.

VDoom1

Ohh so many memories! So many wops moments.

Early game, years ago. I had yet to discover armor sets, so I crafted this normal non set heavy armor at 160CP and golded it.
I thought it would be the strongest in the game.

Live and learn.

Wuduwasa13

I was once casually sieging the back wall of Chal to make a second breach when my alliance were attacking it. I was in party chat with friends having an in depth convo. It was taking a while, no big deal. I look on screen and in red (yell) is a load of zone chatter about ‘can the moron stop sieging’ etc. I shrug and assume it’s someone jumping on another’s siege, it happens. Then it flashes up “ can the idiot stop sieging the back wall ffs. The keep is ours”.

The moron was me.

Lesson here: pay attention when you siege.

Kallykat

Kesstryl wrote: »

Dying to a quest boss trying to get screenshots of the fight.

I do this all the time when I'm updating the UESP wiki with creature pics. The best screenshots of enemies usually happen in the brief moment after I die and resurrect myself right up on the guy before he can see me again. I had someone cursing me out before for being a coward and not fighting the boss when, little did they know, my goal was to die and leave the boss alive. I was mad at them for killing the boss and ruining my shot!

FeedbackOnly

Wuduwasa13 wrote: »

I was once casually sieging the back wall of Chal to make a second breach when my alliance were attacking it. I was in party chat with friends having an in depth convo. It was taking a while, no big deal. I look on screen and in red (yell) is a load of zone chatter about ‘can the moron stop sieging’ etc. I shrug and assume it’s someone jumping on another’s siege, it happens. Then it flashes up “ can the idiot stop sieging the back wall ffs. The keep is ours”.

The moron was me.

Lesson here: pay attention when you siege.

😂 This is priceless

kumenit_taeynav

ive got 2 of my own here

first one was when i was getting into a scheduled trial with one of my guilds. just before we got everyone in i notice theres something up with my gear. the staff on my front bar was not good in the slightest. at some i had accidentally equipped a level 14 ornate maple staff and lost my original staff. i held the group up an extra 5 mins to swap to my crafter to create a whole new staff and swap back.

second one here was more recent. i was getting a group set up in cyrodiil. i had about 6 other people in my group and was advertising for more folks to join. i didnt select the chat box and as i was typing up my message all my menus came up but it was too late for me to stop typing and i accidentally left the group. i had already spent a lot of time in cyrodiil at that point and was already frustrated with some of my alliance members not being cooperative team players so i just quietly left cyrodiil, too exhausted to own up to a simple mistake to keep playing

Twig_Garlicshine

Running around Cyro fishing, farming, taking screenshots (I still think it is one of the best looking zones).
Run into a full group (24m days) of enemies --because I forgot to repop my UI keybind.
Sometimes it happens just because I forget which alliance I'm on in non-GH servers.

Elsweyr drop - somethin somethin dragons.

Taking over a year to figure out you can blow up lines in Antiquities.

Pvp event - Change toons queue up IC, run out look for fight, and find it.
Me: "Holy crap this is hard today, they should be dead. Kite, kite heal heal.
Man, they are good, wow. More kiting, healing, wtf.
Oh sht they gonna win. Pull it off and win."
Player texts me after: "Awesome fight. My first time here, cause I thought pvp was super hard and I'd never be good at it."
Me: "Great, hope you pvp more. Fun times."
Log out to toon hop and get the gear sets from the previous toon.
Fighting nekkid happened far too many times before I stopped transferring sets around.

Beilin_Balreis_Colcan

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Crafting an expensive ring or necklace for a Jewelry master writ, then running off to do other things in the game before going to Wayrest to turn in my master writ(s), then using the decon assistant to decon my loot, only to realize that I just deconned the ring or necklace I'd crafted.

And then doing the same thing again a month or two later, despite having (supposedly) learned my lesson the first time.

Yes, I did that a few times for the daily writs, not the master ones though. Now I always try to remember to do the decons after my other daily jobs.

phairdon

Being killed by trash mobs, including at dolmens, after hitting Q during combat and activating mementos.

Braggar

A player killed me in Cyrodiil. I forgot, that I was still in a Battleground queue. All of a sudden, the BG match started and I accepted. I arrived dead in the Battleground match. A good start.

I started a different Battleground match. And noticed I was entirely alone in my group, for about 5 minutes.

AuroranGoldenEagle

When I was fairly new to housing, I purchased a lot of varied furnishings from Guild Traders for a LOT of gold.

Much later did I realise that more than a few of these could have been bought from a home goods furnisher, for a far cheaper price, lit. 100s of gold vs 1000s in some cases.

Vhozek

AzuraFan wrote: »

For the longest time I thought you had to belong to a guild to use the guild traders.

(a close second would the be the time I happened upon a player taking on a WB alone in Wrothgar. He was standing on top of some rocks and trying to range it. I thought I'd help, so I waded in. Things started out okay, but then I was killed. I rezzed, only to be killed again the moment I re-engaged. This happened about 3-4 times. I figured the other player must have been laughing their A off, because I know I was. I still laugh about it today.)

I have 2211 hours, you don't have to be part of a guild to use them?

FeedbackOnly

Vhozek wrote: »

AzuraFan wrote: »

For the longest time I thought you had to belong to a guild to use the guild traders.

(a close second would the be the time I happened upon a player taking on a WB alone in Wrothgar. He was standing on top of some rocks and trying to range it. I thought I'd help, so I waded in. Things started out okay, but then I was killed. I rezzed, only to be killed again the moment I re-engaged. This happened about 3-4 times. I figured the other player must have been laughing their A off, because I know I was. I still laugh about it today.)

I have 2211 hours, you don't have to be part of a guild to use them?

You don't have to be apart of a guild to use them.

@Vhozek

SalamanNZ

Jumping backwards to my death in BGs. I'm getting better at not doing it

jtm1018

Old story of my adventure in tamriel, when I was starting actually, I was lvl 5 with trash/training gear, saw 3 crabs, they are just crabs ffs, I attack them and I was murdered by 3 crabs, smh. This was in late 2018.

Wuduwasa13

FeedbackOnly wrote: »

😂 This is priceless

Ngl I died inside a little when the realisation hit me. You can bet your ass I straight up got on my mount and rode off into the sunset (aka towards bleakers) leaving behind all my siege before the rest of my alliance ran up and saw it was me.

YunaWolf

My very very first character:
- I found the first city and somehow attacked a villager or guard by mistake.
- Of course I got bounty.
- I had no clue, what to do, and every time I run away, there was more bounty.
- And as a new player I had no money / gold.
- I was so desperate, did not know, what to do
- so I deleted my character

And I always was confused, if there was an friendly NPC, a Player, or hostile human NPC and was so scared to to run towards them xD I thought, this was so exciting, that we cannot differentiate (I did not know, there were names)

And then this memory from the Prophet.
- We were walking on this "Flying Island"
- I was impressed by the looks and the loud sound and watched in the sky and the falling anchor
- and of course I fell of this island

I needed a looot of time to understand, how to open chests / lockpicking

And running / riding around in Cyrodiil while I am not real PvP Player
- and dying in the Lava, because I didn't see it

And - when I wanted to try dual wield, I was so confused, why I still only had only one weapon in one hand and none in my other hand ...
.. until I found out:
- I had 1 dagger in the front bar
- and 1 dagger in the back bar

Jaraal

My most embarrassing moment in ESO was when I had to tell this guy he was wrong. He had no idea that ZOS revoked his stealth years ago!