What's your "I have the worst luck" EQ moment(s)?

[Goregasmic]

Never did the shawl quest on live so figured I'd do this iconic quest at least once. I got to 165 tailoring which should give me roughly 60% success rate on the final combine of the 6th shawl. Last week being double loot I figured it would be perfect to refarm the parts if I failed an attempt or two. So 5 failures later I was utterly defeated and trying to find ways to cheer myself up and I mathed out that I had about 0,41% chance to also fail the 6th attempt.

Narrator: he also failed the 6th attempt.

It sent me wondering: with the game being so harsh at times, what's your "I have the worst luck" story? What never dropped, which mob never showed up, which roll did you lose way too often? I'm sure we all have too many stories like that.

[jolanar]

Going after a named mob when you want the common drop and then getting the rare drop 4 times in a row.

[shovelquest]

/random 100 on anything but gems and commons.

[PatChapp]

Fell asleep #1 at beads camp,woke up after 25mins later
Kicked out of list due to failing Check, beads had just dropped. Was my longest eq play session,like 18-20hrs

[sajbert]

Originally Posted by PatChapp [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Fell asleep #1 at beads camp,woke up after 25mins later
Kicked out of list due to failing Check, beads had just dropped. Was my longest eq play session,like 18-20hrs

I went longer on Jboots, like 25hrs and never got them that session. Had to bail and retry again.

[Jimjam]

Originally Posted by sajbert [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I went longer on Jboots, like 25hrs and never got them that session. Had to bail and retry again.

What a way to save either 3k or a week of logging in for 5 mins 2x a day!

[zelld52]

Every time I'm oom or low mana on my enchanter my charm breaks at the same time root does

[Samoht]

Originally Posted by Goregasmic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I mathed out that I had about 0,41% chance to also fail the 6th attempt.

Narrator: he also failed the 6th attempt.

See, this is what you did wrong. This is the gambler's fallacy. Your previous attempts do not bear any influence over the current attempt. It's always the same flat success rate.

[Goregasmic]

Fell asleep #1 at beads camp,woke up after 25mins later
Kicked out of list due to failing Check, beads had just dropped. Was my longest eq play session,like 18-20hrs

Oh shit, that's a narcos pablo meme moment right there.

Originally Posted by zelld52 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Every time I'm oom or low mana on my enchanter my charm breaks at the same time root does

Yeah, had that happen way too much. Just one last pair, even if you're low, in the name of efficiency and then you get an add, juggle them for 10 minutes and still die only to spend another 15 minutes running back and rebuff, because efficiency right? Now I'm much better with self control and much faster at ditching sketchy fights, it just isn't worth it even if you invested a lot in it. If it looks like a future "should have gated when I could" moment, I do.

But I think there's also a reverse-survivorship bias where we don't remember all the times it happened with full mana/hp and we were able to deal with it while we're scarred by the unlucky deaths.

[sajbert]

Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What a way to save either 3k or a week of logging in for 5 mins 2x a day!

I know right. To be fair though Jboots were pretty instrumental for leveling.