Favorite "Oops" moment?

scorpiodog

I wonder how far away from shore I can swim ...

filthymushroom

Ehhh...

Pressing the synergy button on the Warrior in Hard Mode...

tinythinker

filthymushroom wrote: »

Ehhh...

Pressing the synergy button on the Warrior in Hard Mode...

Yup, once had someone wipe our whole group (wasn't even me)

scorpiodog wrote: »

I wonder how far away from shore I can swim ...

Wondered the same thing when I started playing, seeing as how I was an Argonian and all.

Autolycus

No-Death run on vet City of Ash. Got all the way to the end, and one person fell off the bridges into the lava. Smh... haha.

failkiwib16_ESO

Autolycus wrote: »

No-Death run on vet City of Ash. Got all the way to the end, and one person fell off the bridges into the lava. Smh... haha.

lol I've done that, because someone casted rapid maneuvre while I was riding with full speed... but I managed to survive at least.... I died later, when the tank lost aggro of a flesh atronach, and he was the one who needed the no-death run

Autolycus

failkiwib16_ESO wrote: »

Autolycus wrote: »

No-Death run on vet City of Ash. Got all the way to the end, and one person fell off the bridges into the lava. Smh... haha.

lol I've done that, because someone casted rapid maneuvre while I was riding with full speed... but I managed to survive at least.... I died later, when the tank lost aggro of a flesh atronach, and he was the one who needed the no-death run

Lol, yeah this has happened a few times that I recall. I'm guilty of it at least once too.

DHale

Favorite oops moment was a certain named EP NA PC elite guild was sieging an undefended ash I was all by myself and my group was up north. I snuck out of ash with dawnbreaker of smithing and Camo hunter and snuck up on an "anonymous" player. I had and inviso pot (or ten) and rapid maneuvers and three pieces of Cyrodil ward so I was superfast. I one shotted him and went Invis. About 18 ppl chased me for over 10 minutes around the keep across the map and I got away from them all. My friends went to ash repaired the walls. They hate whispered me like nothing you have ever seen still have the screen grabs. They trolled me for weeks and would Zerg me down every chance they got for months. I trolled back... It was so fun would I do it again... Heck yea!

Loralai_907

My favorite oops moment would have to be way back in the beginning, when they were still INSISTING you could play any way you wanted to. I decided to take that to the limit. I made a Wood elf mag dk. Yep. She's my full time crafter now lol, only goes adventuring when I need to pick up more skyshards for her. Compared to my High Elf mag DK, my crafter is total crap and I am doing too much else to deal with changing her now.

Vifen

Accidently sent 40k to random player by misstyping the name. He returned them back thank god!

failkiwib16_ESO

Vifen wrote: »

Accidently sent 40k to random player by misstyping the name. He returned them back thank god!

This reminds me of my old recipe provider. He was a really nice guy I met in low level area, and he was enthusiastic about farming + buying and reselling recipes... I got him on my friends list, and he would sell me all kinds of recipes, specially low level green ones that I needed for my multiple chars.

He most often sent me money with the recipes instead of COD them lol so I wrote him a mail explaining things, and sent back his gold + payment.

..recently I was mistaken for someone els and the person was about to send me 200k ...well after explaining that I had plans to rob the guy the money was intended to, he sent me the money anyways

...the guy I was mistaken for was my bf, and yes I take his shiny coins for skooma deliveries.

Kozai

I'm attempting to drop off a writ, or talk to an NPC, and the mouse drifts slightly onto an object as I hit the key without my noticing, and I "steal' something right in front of a guard. Particularly problematic indoors. . .

Fellenore_Ewalion

The day I died in Cyro but received a death recap like if it was a PvE area.

tinythinker

It still helps new players to see that others make mistakes or have accidents. It's still funny to see how people have played the game over the years.

New or vet, tell us what your favorite oops moment.

tinythinker

Two from yesterday, with nice synchronicity.

I was trying to get WW on a character I am dusting off, so my guildmate built ult to transform and then... hit me with Dawnbreaker.

Now, later in the day I am running a pledge and go to hit my Dawnbreaker and... turn into a werewolf.

*sigh*

gepe87

My oops moment is when i still siege an outpost and i didnt notice that is already owned by my alliance.

tinythinker

gepe87 wrote: »

My oops moment is when i still siege an outpost and i didnt notice that is already owned by my alliance.

That seems to a happen quite often.

tinythinker

Oops, indeed. Just knocked a mob into the ceiling in Coldrock Digging using Poison Injection...

???

tinythinker

How many people have trashed or vendored housing item recipes because they didn't know that they weren't one-shot things you had to find each time you wanted to make something but rather consumed to learn a pattern?

Because I'm pretty since Homestead dropped I'm gonna guess I've done that at least dozens of times since I kind of saw all of the housing stuff as "the same" and needed to clear space in my inventory...

Yeah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnJIbdRc7wA

Aela_Dragonrider

I've only been doing ESO for about a month and...

1: My first character is EP and she's in Bal Foyen doing some quests, one of which sends her to a fort west of the town. Well, she heads out the north gate (didn't know there was gate on the fort side at the time) and sets off around the city walls. As she passes the westernmost gate, she sees an armored warrior right outside the city, knocks him down with Stone Fist...and he was a guard! Was so horrified that I let him kill me.
That was the first time I ever died. The second was jumping off a cliff as a SHORTCUUUUuuuuuut.....splat!

2: My second character did her first Group Dungeon, Fungal Grotto 1, with a proper group...Though that run did have two of us trying to fight one boss as the other two ran off to another and i think we all died numerous times before we finally regrouped. I leave the group to offload stuff, come back, and join up with someone from the previous run to do Fungal Grotto...2. Just us two. I was level 20-something and he was not much more than 15. We died very, very quickly. At least twice.
Then we were still idiots enough to try Fungal 1 ourselves. Got halfway before we got wise and left.

3: My second character is in a group with two others farming bosses in Glenumbra. She's a WW and one of my groupmates (is that the proper term?) requests a bite. After giving myself the perk and readying my transformation ultimate we go in search of a WW shrine only get royally lost wandering the Rift in search of the shrine were I got my bite. Which is actually in Bangkorai. And we found the Rift one only because my other groupmate finally looked it up.
What makes this an 'oops'? The Rift shrine is where I ended up after become a WW myself! I had already been there but had never realized it!

4: I've had my share of accidental 'Banzai' charges and 'Ultimates-in-the-Bank' but even worse was this: I was doing the quest in Mournhold where you go into the Mournhold sewers. I was using WW form to clear enemies and rushed into a large room to kill some enemies as I was running out of time on it. Except it was filled with way more hostile npcs than I thought. So WW runs out, I'm getting mobbed, and I go to use a Health Potion from my Quickslot. Turns out I had set Almalexia's Lantern to my active slot because I wanted to see what it did and I hadn't had time to try it out. So I die surrounded by a beautiful glowing orb.

tinythinker

Aela_Dragonrider wrote: »

I've only been doing ESO for about a month and...

Welcome!

Aela_Dragonrider wrote: »

1: That was the first time I ever died. The second was jumping off a cliff as a SHORTCUUUUuuuuuut.....splat!

Yeah cliff diving is a popular "oops" experience.

Aela_Dragonrider wrote: »

2: My second character did her first Group Dungeon, Fungal Grotto 1, with a proper group...Though that run did have two of us trying to fight one boss as the other two ran off to another and i think we all died numerous times before we finally regrouped. I leave the group to offload stuff, come back, and join up with someone from the previous run to do Fungal Grotto...2. Just us two. I was level 20-something and he was not much more than 15. We died very, very quickly. At least twice.
Then we were still idiots enough to try Fungal 1 ourselves. Got halfway before we got wise and left.

Still, it's fun to test your limits. And sometimes in such runs you can make friends while learning; especially painful, deathful learning.

Aela_Dragonrider wrote: »

3: My second character is in a group with two others farming bosses in Glenumbra. She's a WW and one of my groupmates (is that the proper term?) requests a bite. After giving myself the perk and readying my transformation ultimate we go in search of a WW shrine only get royally lost wandering the Rift in search of the shrine were I got my bite. Which is actually in Bangkorai. And we found the Rift one only because my other groupmate finally looked it up.
What makes this an 'oops'? The Rift shrine is where I ended up after become a WW myself! I had already been there but had never realized it!

I left a delve once after forgetting I hadn't finished the quest that sent me there, returned to the quest giver, and had to go back.

Aela_Dragonrider wrote: »

4: I've had my share of accidental 'Banzai' charges and 'Ultimates-in-the-Bank' but even worse was this: I was doing the quest in Mournhold where you go into the Mournhold sewers. I was using WW form to clear enemies and rushed into a large room to kill some enemies as I was running out of time on it. Except it was filled with way more hostile npcs than I thought. So WW runs out, I'm getting mobbed, and I go to use a Health Potion from my Quickslot. Turns out I had set Almalexia's Lantern to my active slot because I wanted to see what it did and I hadn't had time to try it out. So I die surrounded by a beautiful glowing orb.

You'll die a lot in this game. Might as well look good while your at it.

GoonyGoat

Wasn't paying attention to the level and my guy and went from lvl 49 to 510 at the last boss fight .... Went from doing "meh" damage to hitting with wet cabbage leaves. Least it was just FG1 so still managed pretty easy ... though have a good respect for gear levels now

tinythinker

Wraith66 wrote: »

Wasn't paying attention to the level and my guy and went from lvl 49 to 510 at the last boss fight .... Went from doing "meh" damage to hitting with wet cabbage leaves. Least it was just FG1 so still managed pretty easy ... though have a good respect for gear levels now

Ouch. Hope you were able to get geared back up quickly and able to start smashing things again!

GoonyGoat

tinythinker wrote: »

Wraith66 wrote: »

Wasn't paying attention to the level and my guy and went from lvl 49 to 510 at the last boss fight .... Went from doing "meh" damage to hitting with wet cabbage leaves. Least it was just FG1 so still managed pretty easy ... though have a good respect for gear levels now

Ouch. Hope you were able to get geared back up quickly and able to start smashing things again!

Poor fella's been downgraded to crafter until further notice

AshenArtifice

Attempting to use Soul Trap on a mudcrab, but an NPC wandered in front of me just as I fired, so I got them instead.
Also, accidentally using Lightning Form in an area crowded with killable NPCs and getting a pretty big bounty from it.

So in general, accidentally hurting/killing NPCs.

Jaimeh

An 'oops' moment recently was roll-dodging off the Mage's platform... at least the view was pretty:



(to add insult to injury, I couldn't even loot afterwards )

Jazz_Funk

Made a “Faux Pas”” this week. With the piles of motifs, we are all accumulating from the event I decided to clean out the guild bank of the guild I run. After selling and deconstructing numerous items and replacing it my own, including 8 buoyant armiger motifs I realized I had cleaned out the wrong guild bank. Managed to get all my stuff back but still feeling somewhat guilty and foolish for taking items that didn’t belong to me.

Kristo33

Ok, Im new to game, yesterday, running around looking crafting nodes and just explored, didnt pay mutch attention to surroundings aaand found some nice place. Looked around tought damn its beutiful aaand I was dead, WB spawned right behind me...I had no clue....

zaria

Jaimeh wrote: »

An 'oops' moment recently was roll-dodging off the Mage's platform... at least the view was pretty:



(to add insult to injury, I couldn't even loot afterwards )

Did it once, but did not remember the look much because of the shock.

Jaimeh

zaria wrote: »

Did it once, but did not remember the look much because of the shock.

I was a bit shocked too, but as the fight progressed, I had time to look around and take a few screenshots. Also, there wasn't a skyshard to be found down there, which was quite rude, tbh

Arkray

I went to Wrothgar to craft something and I accidentally fell off a cliff, received the "Wrothgar cliff jumper" achievement.