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

My wizard Dings 49 during the middle of a quad kite in EW. I root the one remaining mob and load up my spiffy new Ice Comet spell (back when the spell did like 1200 damage).

Cast the spell for the first time and Bam! Loading.....

I nuked myself.. right in front of a raid that was forming. At least I got a quick rez and raid buffed :)

More recently, I was on a raid that was going poorly. I was asked to TL someone to PoK and accidently ported my group out instead.

Although the dumb things I've done in EQ are myriad, one that stands out recently was one of my early exploratory trips to the Bloodfields. I ported in with my mage (two-boxing) and fired up my tracking to see if any named were about. Once I got one in my sights, I ran off the bridge to go find it. The only trouble is, I'd forgotton to levitate myself. SPLAT!

I've gotten my bard down to 10% by attempting to chant kite myself.

The sad thing is the time involved in doing that before I noticed what was going on.

Dumbest thing I have ever done besides Leaving EQ for WoW for 2 months? Im an Ogre warrior, so I am the utmost of perfection, my alt on the otherhand is a HE Pally... She's pretty dumb.

Worst though has to be about the 14th or 15th time I tried to run into Qeynos with my bard and forgot my AE damage song was playing... well any zone with big powerful monsters who would otherwise ignore a lowly L10 bard but like to squish them when they play AE damage.

I had good faction with the guards in Kelithin on my Ogre... so I decided I needed to bank really badly, A shammy had shrunk me a while before that... so I went banking. 3-4 minutes later I was happily re-arranging my bags and doing some tailoring sitting in th ebank when low and behold I wasn't little any more. I couldn't get out of the bank. THis wa slong beofre the return home button, my guild was all asleep in bazaar, my friends were offline, zone was dead except a couple newbies.
I did what comes natural to an Ogre, got my bow, targeted the nearest kelithin guard I could see and drew back a shot, "your target is out of range you can't hit them from here" SO I attacked the banker with a bare fist and waited a while for him to slowly pummel me to death. Loading please wait.... Fortunately you can summon your own corpse through tiny doors and attacking one banker doesn't seem to make you public enamy #no1 in Kelithin.

While I personally have never done anything dumb in EQ (heh!), I did witness a pretty funny "duh!" moment one of my friends had.


Waaaay back in the day, a couple of my friends were playing EQ. We were actually having a lan party (back when people did that). I was watching them. We were pretty much done for the day, but they decided they wanted to duel for fun. One player was a warrior, and the other a bard. Remember, that this was a long time ago, and we'd all "just" started playing, so EQ was pretty new, and no one was using any major tactics. The two were just beating on eachother mostly, and since the bard was a couple levels higher, it seemed like he should have the advantage (I think he had slightly better gear as well).

The guy playing the bard, was marveling at how long it was taking. He had a couple songs going, so he figured he was good. He could dish out some extra damage, and continualy heal himself with his regen song! He'd be a force to recon with!!!

What he forgot though was that both of them were still in a group together. So his regen song was affecting both of them. It took him several minutes to figure out why it seemed like the warrior was gaining HPs at a pretty fast rate. Yeah. Good times...

Handing a stone glowing stone of expulsion that I had just purchased in the bazaar for my husband's toon and giving it to his pet instead of him :( I was certainly Ms popular that evening. Fortunately a GM saved my marriage lol and returned it

Way back in the day I was doing my ranger's newbie quest for his bow, and hit up the island in the Ocean of Tears for the nut that was needed. I got off on the wrong island, and got tired of waiting for the boat, so I decided to jump on one of the rafts and make my own way over there. I got turned around (well before the maps), so I hit autorun to continue heading in one direction. Then I think to myself, (remember, I just started playing) I wonder if I can fish on the raft. So I release the helm, and low and behold there goes the raft out from under me. That was a long swim (over an hour) back to Freeport.

Ldon we were on the last mobs.Things had not gone well and the nerc.leader was using pet as puller I was mending and not paying attention like I should waiting on next mob to show the puller had missed two hidden mobs the three wiped the puller his owner and the cleric who tried to heal leaving me and a Shammy we got things under control (I thought) and did away with one I told the shammy that I would take my hp down to about 20 and lay hands on my self not to worry about healing just buff and dp what she could (she was low on mana)
I get to 20% hp, one mob about 35% the other about 80ish. I go to lay hands and had not selected myself I was standing so close to the mob that the graphic look like I had healed but by the time I realized I was trying to lay hands on the MOB I was at like 5% and to late lights out. the poor shammy was out of mana and didn't stand a chance by herself so ported by the time the cleric found us the time on the ldon had ran out. This was all my fault and a really dumb thing. Had I paid attention in the first place. We wouldn't have been in that posistion. live and learn die and learn faster.

Refer to my "Help me identify my dropped item" post....

DUH!

Here is a good one, as a newbie wizzy I was on the boat by the necro and could not figure out how to get off, in addition the boat wouldnt move for some reason. So I notice I have something targeted I start nuking....I see the HP going down and think I am "killing" the boat. LOADING PLEASE WAIT....

I've CH'ed the mob so often instead of my SK that I no longer consider it an especially dumb thing to do. And I've went AFK under water more than once and had to do a CR.

The dumbest thing I ever did was when I asked a 65 SK to help my kill a level 60 mob in Tox. To make a long story short, I took not one, but two clerics with him to Tox. And I let him die. There's no way you can explain what happened other than "I screwed up". It was also my most embarrising moment in EQ, as letting the tank die when you have two FM clerics does not reflect well upon your skill as a cleric.

The dumbest thing I've ever done PP wise was when my cleric was young. I found that if I combined the LQ skins I looted with a silk thread the merchants would give me a few gold for the leather padding instead of a couple of silver for the skin alone. So I proceeded to make stacks and stacks of leather padding and sell it all to a vendor. I must have made a couple of dozen plat in total that way.

Edited, Thu Aug 18 21:35:40 2005 by sarongor

An old in-game friend brought up an incident the other night that happened to me a long time ago. I'd forgotten about this.

I was running for my life from a pack of Skeletons in East Commonlands as young Rogue, and someone shouted LOADING, PLEASE WAIT. I wasn't paying that much attention and let go of the up arrow.

LOADING, PLEASE WAIT.

Ah, fook.

Here's dumb for you: I still to this day forget that corpses rot or "age" when logged on another character on that account. So just a few nights ago, after dying in....Veksar? and finishing up the group, I didn't want to have to bother with the corpse and rez, so I left it thinking I'd just deal with it the next day...then logged onto my trader for the night.

Next day, log back in, hit the Expedient Recovery AA, get a corpse and a message "You have no corpses able to be resurrected."