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Embarrassing ESO Moments

wilykcat
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Mine is when I thought ESO for the longest time was developed by Square Enix up until recently i noticed it was actually developed by Zenimax. 😆

Then... I didn't realize there was a hole in the ground in this one dungeon and walked right into it getting another character stuck.

And...

What is your silly, embarrassing, or funniest mistake that happened in ESO?
  • ForzaRammer
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    Miss pronounce all sorts of gear sets.
  • jtm1018
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    When I was killed by 3 mudcrabs, when I was level 5, back when in 2018.

    I swear vengeance on those fracking crabs.

    I will murder their kind when ever and where ever I fracking see them.
  • Jammy420
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    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.
  • Pitterpatter69
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    Also cyro, I use stampede and launch myself across the battle only to find myself in the middle of at least 10 EP. One of them looked at me and said "you die first". I did lol
  • SandandStars
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    Getting t-bagged when I die 1 vs 3 in a bg. I’m embarrassed for whoever thinks beating someone 3 to 1 is so empowering that they must t-bag.
  • Hapexamendios
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    Any attempt to pronounce the southern public dungeon in Vvardenfell usually ends up as a series of curse words.
  • AzuraFan
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    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.)
  • AScarlato
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    Getting eaten by slaughterfish during beach-party RP. Didn't know some houses come with them lol.
  • jtm1018
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    Getting t-bagged when I die 1 vs 3 in a bg. I’m embarrassed for whoever thinks beating someone 3 to 1 is so empowering that they must t-bag.

    Oh, I do that as a retaliatory response, I know I cant beat anyone on 1v1, but tbagging me after winning a 1v1 against me is a derp move. I tbag said [Snip] even if I was not the one that killed said [Snip], as a retaliatory response to their [Snip] way.

    [Edited for profanity bypass]
    Edited by ZOS_Volpe on May 17, 2023 12:56PM
  • Daggerfell0929
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    U35 was pretty embarrassing. Also the lack of rewards which causes fewer players to participate in endgame activities is one is pretty embarrassing.
  • SilverBride
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    I was out questing and saw a chest nearby. I ran toward it and noticed someone following me so I hit sprint to beat them to it... It was a quest NPC.
    Edited by SilverBride on May 17, 2023 3:06AM
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  • rpa
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    Accidentally golding a crafted lowbie medium armour piece because of lag.
  • thorwyn
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    I once explored a delve back in the days when I was pretty new to the game. Carefully sneaking around the corners, I suddenly bumped into a mob and went into panic mode. I attacked, mashed some buttons, dropped my ulti but nothing happened. Turned out the mob was just another player sorting his inventory. So I walked away as quickly as possoble, trying to look busy and innocent. It wasn't very convincing I assume.
    Edited by thorwyn on May 17, 2023 3:26AM
    And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
    And if there is no room upon the hill
    And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
    I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
  • Nightowl_74
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    As a brand new player it took me a long time to figure out why gathering nodes kept disappearing every time I tried to use one in the same spot as another player. Obvious, sort of, but not so much if the nodes are client side in the other game you play. So I kept trying to utilize the same location as other people for awhile. Lol
  • DreamyLu
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    Harvesting a platinum seam until I realize it's not a seam, it's a silver shiny animal...
    I'm out of my mind, feel free to leave a message... PC/NA
  • Credible_Joe
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    Just a few minutes ago I was in the sewers squaring up to the same ganker over and over again and losing every time. @OnlyFins, if you're on the forums, you've got chops.

    It went a little something like this:
    Thank you for coming to my T E D talk
  • amig186
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    A long time ago when I was a beginner, I saw a couple of people doing a dolmen. I wanted to help so I shield-charged right in, but before I could do anything I got caught in a lich's CC and died in half a second. I decided to respawn at the wayshrine and go somewhere far away. I've never taken that much damage from one since so I'm not entirely sure what happened there, but it was certainly an embarrassing moment.
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  • zaria
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    AScarlato wrote: »
    Getting eaten by slaughterfish during beach-party RP. Didn't know some houses come with them lol.
    Yes but the pier was an trap 😺
    All houses with ocean has slaughterfish
    Grinding just make you go in circles.
    Asking ZoS for nerfs is as stupid as asking for close air support from the death star.
  • Zodiarkslayer
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    I was out questing and saw a chest nearby. I ran toward it and noticed someone following me so I hit sprint to beat them to it... It was a quest NPC.

    Let me guess, she was like:
    "Do you know how long I've been looking for that chest?"
    No Effort, No Reward?
    No Reward, No Effort!
  • katanagirl1
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    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…
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  • ESO_player123
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    Not long ago I was killing some low level daedra in Stormheaven to complete a daily endeavor. I was really irritated because another player kept following me and insisted on killing the same mob as myself. Running to the other side of the field did not help. I knew that is was the same player because he was wearing some armor with annoying effect applied to it. It took me several minutes to realize that it was my own Bastian helping me out. I did not recognize him because I switched one of his abilities that day and the new one was applying that "annoying" effect on him.

    Not my brightest moment for sure.
    Edited by ESO_player123 on May 17, 2023 4:52PM
  • Bergzorn
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    When I was new to the game and got my first Restoration Staff, I was expecting it to heal. The city guard I heavy attacked was not amused.
    no CP PvP PC/EU

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    DC Zerg Beacon

    guild master, raid leader, janitor, and only member of Zergbored
  • StackonClown
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    1st time I ever logged into PVP - got ganked in a 3 move combo within 1 minute - i didnt go back for weeks :-)
  • JARTHEGREY
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    The first few times I used a Banker - I used to queue up behind all the other people and wait my 'turn' - then got annoyed about other players pushing in.

  • Kitziboo
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    I rarely use Isobel and every time I do try to level her, I confuse her for another player racing in with her jabs (She is kind of set up as tank). I have even swerved a chest on my harvesting route to leave it for the other person and when I went back after realising my mistake, it had gone.
  • SeaGtGruff
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    My most embarrassing moments were probably when I ranted and raged about something I thought was broken but that was actually working correctly; it was my understanding that was faulty.

    For example, I didn't know how to use the Journal to see what I'd done and what I still needed to do for an achievement, such as which ancestral tombs I'd taken rubbings of and turned in to the Library of Vivec. I had already collected and turned in a lot of rubbings, and figured I must have found nearly all of them.

    The piece of paper on the librarian's desk listed only one tomb, so I thought that must be the one I was still missing. Yet when I went to the tomb, I couldn't get a prompt to let me take a rubbing. I searched online and found some references to players having trouble due to not facing in the correct direction and at the correct angle, so I kept trying and trying and trying. Then I made a rage post about how the quest was broken, etc.

    Of course, the tomb listed on the paper was the very first one the librarian sends you to, so I'd already collected a rubbing of it long before, which was why I couldn't get a prompt to take a rubbing when facing it.

    I also didn't understand about the big replica of Vvardenfell that gets filled in as you turn in rubbings, which helps you see the general areas of any tombs you haven't turned in rubbings for yet.

    When I finally figured out how to use my Journal to see which rubbings I still needed, and how to use the replica of Vvardenfell to determine where to look for those tombs, I felt quite the fool.
    I've fought mudcrabs more fearsome than me!
  • Jammy420
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    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.
  • Vetixio
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    Everytime I try and use a postern door of a keep we don't own in Cyrodiil even if I'm not being chased by players I look dumb to myself :lol:
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  • Necrotech_Master
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    when im running around on the alessia bridge and run down the stairs too fast and my momentum carries me off the bridge entirely lol
    plays PC/NA
    handle @Necrotech_Master
    active player since april 2014

    i have my main house (grand topal hideaway) listed in the housing tours, it has multiple target dummies, scribing altar, and grandmaster stations (fully filled out with current game), as well as almost every antiquity furnishing on display to preview them

    in progress: acquiring mundus stones (currently only have the thief)

    feel free to stop by and use the facilities
  • ESO_player123
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    Another one:
    I did not realize that once you find the Harborage for the first time you can fast travel there from any wayshrine until after I completed the Main questline.
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