What's the dumbest thing you've done in EQ?Follow

It's funny, I've been playing the game since the begining and I'm always careful but today is a different story.

I logged on my necro to buy some new gear. I made good money off a sale so I figured what the hell. I see this shield that I've been eyeing for a while and decide to buy it. I buy it and run down the hall to try it on when I look in my inventory and see that it's not there. It took me a second before I realized that this character only had Hand Made Backpacks which only hold large items. Yup, you guessed it, the shield is giant size. I start looking all around the trader but there's nothing on the ground so I sent in a petition.

Time will tell if I get the shield back but if not I'll just deal with it.


Update: While I am waiting for a gm I decide to finish the 8th part of the Demi Lich Scullcap quest. I had just gotten the last drop. I open up the Flaxen Hilt, (it's a combinable container used in the quest), and guess what I found. It appears that the Flaxen Hilt can hold giant sized items. /whew





Edited, Sat Aug 13 19:42:48 2005 by Grimleaper

Nice save, you don't always get that lucky in this game :)

I can certainly contribute to this.

- Using a shiny brass idol to Divine Aura camp. In Uqua. As a warrior. Before any clerics lived. (yeah, complete wipe. did I mention I was only an app at this point?)

- 20king constantly for a week

- actually admitting in guildchat, in the #1 guild on the server, that I had just died in fungus grove. Worse than that, I had a blonde moment, and said 'greenies just swarmed me in echo caverns 8(' instead of FG.

This was back before we had shadowrest or guildhall. Anyways I had been out drinking and came home and decided to play some eq. At the time I had a 65 druid which decent gear around 64ish AA's, epic 1.0. Anyways I was in feeroot and seen a guild having trouble with POF raid. Well stupid me decides "Hey I can kite, maybe I can help." Well I learned exodus doesn't work in POF that night, and I ended up staying up late trying to get my corpse back with the rest of that guild.

Accidentally using exodus at random times. Sometimes during raids. During boss fights.

Gating out of an ldon by accident.

Buying stuff in the bazaar my alts cannot use because they are not high enough level.

Dieing in Kedge Keep trying to solo the corrupted seahorse.

Dieing in PoFear with a bunch of noobs trying to do a cr for their friend. Needed a GM rez for that one.


Edited, Sun Aug 14 09:19:40 2005 by TheGreatSieg

So many...can't think of just one in particular...

I've taken flying leaps off of the gorge in EW and the cliff in EJ, several times each.

Once left my cleric AFK up the wall in OT (near Frontier zone) and stayed away for about 3 hours. Came back to find myself literally waist-deep in corpses in EW near the Ry'gorr fort. Looted about a dozen before I realized that...I AM A CLERIC and could have rezzed several. So I arranged the remaining corpses into a smiley face, took some screenshots and rezzed them.

Then there was the time my cleric died in Sebilis with a group. I kept asking them if they could move my body to zone-in, but never got any responses. I started messaging a guildie about how messed-up they were, but accidentally sent it to the group. They really didn't want anything to do with me after that.

This is not so much the dumbest thing I've ever done, but it takes the cake as the most consistent.

I'll run around doing errands, only to run back to PoK or the bank, or wherever, when I could have gated.

.. due I have totally done this. I can attribute at least ten deaths to me snaring myself while kiting the outer cave in POV.

Good Thread!

Two things come to mind for me. (I'm a 53 Shammy BTW)

1. Was pissed for a while cause my pet sucked so bad...then i realized i was casting a lower level pet than the latest one i had : (

2. My SK friend had given me his Horn of Hsagra for use in PLing my rouge brother. While i was giving my brother the horn i didn't see my ghostly pet standing through him....gave my pet the horn by accident!!! Thats a 30 K weapon on my server. I was scared my friend was gonna kick my *** but a GM gave it back before he woke up :) I tell you what though, my pet was putting out some hella damage for about 1/2 an hour!!

Playing my DE necro, remembered something I needed in Neriak, took the pok stone to Nektulos, headed to Neriak zone, but I wasn't REALLY playing my necro, I had switched to my shammy. Bam Bam Bam dead. The really embarrassing part was having to hire a young DE to drag my corpse away from the guards (no lobby then). He was kind enough to only laugh for 5 minutes or so.

If getting lost counts as dummmmmmm, I have about a gazillion stories. Or falling into or off things, my toons are all uncoordinated for some strange reason. I think it's a bug.

On my human monk, I was leading a "raid" about 6 years ago (remember this was *way* before any official raid tool) and we were coming from HHK to the Karanas when I hollered out, "Follow me!" Being blind as a bat, I ran with SoW speed right off the cliff edge at the *top* of the mountain leading down into East Karana...LOADING PLEASE WAIT. Everyone laughed their *** off =P

I was hunting in wolf form for an epic drop on my druid near the top of the stairs in EJ when I noticed far in the distance a "naked" human running towards me with what appeared to be SoW speed. He gets closer...then closer...I say, "Hail"...nothing...I say again say "Hail" thinking he's not in range or just rude. BAM...Serverilous (spelling?) hits you for 300... BAM BAM BAM...LOADING PLEASE WAIT. I had no idea that, at that time, it was a common graphic glitch for the dragons to load as naked a human.

Rooting myself umpteen times in Trakanon hunting/fighting the forager cycle MoBs in search of the regen breast peice...LOADING PLEASE WAIT.

Dying many many times of asphyxiation in the Grey hunting Shissar Organs for an EB item that I (obiously) didn't have yet...my EB spell would wear off and I wouldn't be paying attention...LOADING PLEASE WAIT.

The biggie, however, was when I was leading a TT raid a couple years ago when 85ing was new (and bugged). Took 72 of us over an hour to get everyone into PoN(b) buffed and ready and another 30 minutes to engage TT. I had our MA and SA and 3 CLR's in my group. I thought I would go ahead and MGB SoTW3 when TT was at 25ish so no one would die (the raid was going flawlessly) and, instead, I hit Exodus...the raid wiped...Man, I thought I was gonna be sick. Strangely, though, everyone to the last person was cool about it =)

Daith
70 Druid
Bristlebane

Edited, Tue Aug 16 10:16:01 2005 by Shogunman

Hunting in The Overthere with my BL in his late teens/early twenties. Inventory was full, when some kind of skin dropped (maybe an Excellent Sabertooth Tiger Hide). I didn't want to let it rot, but couldn't use the PoK-stone with the hide on my cursor. So I decided to put my mixing bowl on the ground around the corner, run to bank in PoK, get rid of some items, come back and take it up again.

When I came back, the mixing bowl was - of course - gone. I didn't know at that time that items that you drop on the ground may poof. The zone was full of players (it was the 6th anniversary celebration time), and I suspected that someone had taken it. So I /ooc'd "Anyone found a mixing bowl near PoK stone?", but only got some laughs. Then I thought that the thief may have gone to PoK, so I went there /ooc-ing, same result.

When I realized that I would have to buy a new one, I went to the baking merchants - and felt like a complete idiot, when I found out that a mixing bowl only costs some silver...

When doing my druid epic, I figured the run to LOIO was so long and the camp for the Barracude such a pain that I'd bind close by so I could gate there any time. Works great until you get the mob, he's pissed and you are dead, and dead again, and dead again, and again until some friends come help.

Other was a young druid saying to myself "Hey I've never been to the Wakening Lands and I have this nifty port". Saw graphic of about 3 dots from Wushi and then had to find a nice Nec to run thru Kael to summon corpse. Was about 3 hours of down time trying to get that worked out (long before the guild lobby summoning).

Edited, Tue Aug 16 13:34:54 2005 by Therac