Breakfast Topic: Personal blooper reel
by Lennon Simpson 
Apr 15th 2010 at 8:00AM
In four years of playing, I've done some dumb things. It happens. Play this game long enough and odds are you'll goof up somewhere. Sure, everyone pulls threat and wipes a raid or misses a clutch CC in PvP. Those things come and go, but I mean some epically silly things. For instance, when I was but a wee noob to WoW, I spent three levels grinding XP from the turtles on the shores of Tanaris because I didn't know where to go next. I also had a habit of wanting to color-match my gear by level. Yeah, I was that player. But I wasn't thinking, "Hey, this would make a cool RP set." No, sadly I was thinking, "What kind of adventuring hero would go out into battle looking like a patchwork quilt?" Of course, it's safe to assume most people do things like that. Right? Guys?
More recently I've found myself using the random heroic tool on a regular basis, and with my hardcore raiding career long behind me, I was actually getting gear I needed. Once I got so excited about a new piece of gear that I hit "disenchant" instead of "need" out of habit. Sigh. At least the void crystal was worth something. Substantially more groan-inducing was passing on a 500 gold Pendulum of Doom on the auction house, then finding out not too long after that they easily sell for over 20,000. Within the same day, I found out that Green Lenses of various stats (such as stamina or intellect) were also worth a similar amount of money. I groaned, remembering that as a newly minted engineer, I had vendored or destroyed several of these, finding them useless for my level 60.
Does anyone have any similar groan-inducing events? Do you keep a personal blooper reel of screenshots of some hilarious mistells or other shenanigans?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 8)
Boocat Apr 15th 2010 8:08AM
I remember having Bow of Searing Arrows drop on me from some random mob and selling it in the AH for 100g only seeing it back in the AH for 5000g. It was a long time ago.
Banic Rhys Apr 15th 2010 8:08AM
Anyone else notice this while it was up?
http://i44.tinypic.com/w18ml2.jpg
I have DCed on five times in a row (1 per fight) for unrealated reasons while my guild attempted Putricide.
manouch0073 May 26th 2010 4:39AM
Heh, passing on zulian tiger counts ? =)
alex Apr 15th 2010 8:12AM
I'm sure everyone will have a similar story to this, and it was fairly recently (Start of Nax 2.0) that whilst before a 10 man, I was getting ready, swapping gear, selling all my greys to the vendor, buying potions, all well and good.
Until...about 3 days later I realised I sold my boots to the vendor and had some grey ones equipped! I'd equipped the boots and sold my epic ones by mistake, I did flag a GM, but my guild found it hilarious...
Daco Apr 15th 2010 12:59PM
Did the same thing a few months ago, on a low-level alt I was leveling. I stopped at a vendor to sell my trash. You know how when you first click on a vendor, the buy/sell screen immediately comes up, but if they are also a trainer or questgiver, you'll get the dialogue screen that lets you choose what you need from them? Well, as soon as I clicked on the NPC I started right-clicking the gray items in my bags. After clicking a few and not seeing them disappear from my bags, I realized he was still waiting to find out if I wanted to browse his items or be trained. I chose appropriately and quickly vendored my "trash."
It was when I logged in the next day that I realized that I was wearing a lot of gray items. When I'd right-clicked those trash items the first time (without the vendor screen being up), I'd of course equipped those items instead. When I then sold my "trash," I was of course selling my blue and green (mostly blue) items I'd picked up from dungeon runs. I didn't think of submitting a ticket (since it was my own stupidity), but a few quests and a couple of purchases off the AH geared me up enough to get back into the dungeon queue and it all was replaced within a few levels anyway.
People criticize Gearscore a lot, and often deservedly so. However, I love that addon. Why? Because an occasional quick glance at my "number" serves as a reminder that I haven't done something this epically stupid again.
Puh Apr 15th 2010 8:12AM
Early in BC, I was waiting to offtank one of the adds that you have to kill before Magtheridon. My personal healer and I were hanging out at my add while everyone else was getting organized. Sadly, it was allergy season and I had a sudden sneeze attack. I sneezed so hard that I hit moonfire--pulling the add.
That was an embarrassing wipe to explain.
cheezygonzalez11 Apr 15th 2010 12:03PM
My tendency for stupid button pressing is to pull out my fire elemental in the middle of Dalaran or pop heroism while we're all sitting around feasting before a boss.
That's embarassing, not gonna lie. It's happened like twice, and if we're right in front of the boss (as opposed to doing/waiting to do trash) our RL will tell us to "GO, GO!" so we don't waste hero.
Also, related to flying off things--playing with water walking is fun. It's tradition for our raid shamans to screw with water walking, especially on Anub where you fall into the water. But putting it on your boyfriend before auto-following him off a cliff and hitting the rocks while he hits the water and dies is a sad, sad murder-suicide.
johan Apr 15th 2010 8:14AM
On the first day of 3.3 I was running heroic PoS and the hilt dropped, I had no clue what it was, but since everyone else need rolled so did I. I won the hilt. And a DK started to make a fuss about me winning. So I just gave it to him to shut him up. I figured I can't use swords anyway.
I didn't know they sold for so much and that I could have gotten a spell mace from it. Since then I do my homework better...
Namy Apr 15th 2010 8:15AM
I mention this at every possible opportunity because it will live with me forever! Vendoring the Hyacinth Macaw :(((( It was taking up bag space, I didn't know!!! *sob* It dropped off a pirate right next to BB. That is the only thing I've done that makes me smack my forehead and shout 'doh' when I think about it even though it was almost 2 years ago...doh!!
Lucidique Apr 16th 2010 3:56AM
I once sold a Hyacinth Macaw for 50g.
I'm pretty sure whoever I sold it to, had the time of his life :(
RetPallyJil Apr 15th 2010 8:16AM
That would be the day, at level 14 or so, when a level 60 paladin asked me, (I guess he'd been watching me kill things):
"Uh, what spec are you?"
Me: "What?"
60 explains about the N key. "Which tab has the highest number?"
Me: "Oh they are all in uh, retribution."
60: "Then why are you using a shield?"
Me: "For more armor?"
He proceeded to yell a lot of very instructional stuff at me, all of which stuck, I'm happy to say. Thank you, Mystery Level 60 Paladin. You made me the oddly happy and vaguely bitter RetPallyJil that I am today!
Tricia Apr 15th 2010 8:18AM
Before I really got into cooking on my main, I lvled a number of lowbie Horde toons and so subsequently spent a lot of time in the Barrens. I passed on the recipe for Deviate Delight 3 or 4 times to other party members since I didn't care to cook. If I'd known then what I know now, about it's semi-rareness and the resale value.... I wouldn't have been such a poor player for so long LOL
Soulestream Apr 15th 2010 8:20AM
I farmed mats on my first toon for 3 days to make 5 Robes of Power to sell
http://www.wowhead.com/item=7054
Live and learn
Bynde Apr 15th 2010 3:30PM
I see what you did there.
And I did the same thing. D'oh!
Umbrascia Apr 15th 2010 4:32PM
This. I only did the robe of power once, but I seem to do it repeatedly with other things. Just spent a good few weeks farming mats to make my newly-70 lock friend a full primal mooncloth set, only to be reminded that she is not a tailor :( I've also repeatedly farmed mats for fancy bags, and then equipped them myself, instead of giving them to the guildie they were for....sniffle.
Hih Apr 15th 2010 8:01PM
Haha! I did the same thing too getting the mats to sell a Robe of Power on the AH only to realize after the fact that it was BoP.
Mognet T Apr 17th 2010 3:12PM
My friend made one for me when I hit 38 in Vanilla, he was 40-something. We were both so excited until he tried to trade it. Bad times.
John Apr 15th 2010 8:24AM
(this is more her story than mine) I was grinding gorillas in STV with a female paladin for the sinew for that stupid quest. A blue BoE dropped. I told her she could have it, under the condition that if anything else super sweet dropped, I could have it. She agreed.
The next gorilla dropped Staff of Jordan.
vandenhamster Apr 15th 2010 9:37AM
Did she speak to you after that? I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if she head-desked herself into unconsciousness.
joff_graham Apr 15th 2010 10:45AM
This says a lot more about old school quests than you realise. A blue BOE AND a Staff of Jordan dropped before the Gorilla Sinew?? Man, I hated that quest