What's was your "dumb" EQ moment?

[Raavak]

Forgetting how rain AE spells work, sitting in the center of a group of mobs (in Chardok), casting it a couple times, banging my head on the table as I appear at my bind point realizing what I'd done.

[nhartbau]

On live, as a level 30ish dark elf enchanter, I was working on my JC in FV outpost using High Elf Illusion. I was there all day clicking away. Later a friend asked for help somewhere so I bound myself really quick and helped. A few days later I gated. I had bound myself right in front of the FV banker. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Death after death later, trying to run away from the bankers/guards, I got a mage friend to CoH me to LOIO zoneline. It took a few tries timing my respawning with CoH going off. Finally got out of that death loop about two levels lighter.

[Sarkhan]

One of my favorite dumb moments was on live on my necro. It was so long ago I have troubles recalling the exact zone but I'm almost certain it probably happened in surefall glade. Now I must not have had an expansion or something because when I tried to click to port into jaggedpine forest from surefall glade my character suddenly appeared in the sky at the top of zone limits, still in surefall glade. Now I was freaked out for a moment. Here I was up in the sky and falling fast and I watched as trees came rushing towards me and I panicked - I didn't know what to do, I had harmshield memmed and even to this day I don't know if it would have saved me because I instinctively hit my FD instead...

[Sarkhan]

Worse part is, I first went for harmshield and paused in 'wtf why is this happening' terror and then went for FD instead.

[zahlia]

ON P99:

Just yesterday, I saw Amelinda broadcast that the patch had introduced some issues with the boats, and to send her a tell requesting a TL if you were at a dock. I forgot this helpful information almost immediately, since I was (and planned to stay) in Kunark. (No, this isn't the really stupid part yet.) Later, Faydedar popped and as the big guilds were completely focused on Trakanon, my guild decided to move to TD and give it a shot. I dutifully sent Amelinda a tell, and got her afk message, which was something like "I'm afk making dinner now, so please petition if you need help with the boats!" We were 16 or 17 people at that time, and I will admit that it did briefly cross my mind that sending in all those petitions at once was probably overkill, but sending in one petition asking for a GM or guide to TL all of us together seemed kind of presumptuous, so I decided that it was probably best to each send in a petition when we reached the docks. (Yes, we're getting to the truly stupid part now.) About 60 seconds later Uthgaard popped into our guildchat to let us know that WHOEVER HAD THE BRIGHT IDEA TO SPAM THE GUIDES WITH 20 PETITIONS ALL FOR THE SAME THING AT ONCE had better think twice before they repeated such a stupid stunt. The truly idiotic part? At the time that he popped into our guild, I'm 99% sure that I had just set our MOTD to something like "LEZGO SQUISH FISH! Go to docks an' den send 'tition fer gets help cuz boats is BROKENDED!" I know that Uthgaard's temper is the stuff of legends, but you have to admit that he probably deserves a gold star for not suspending my account on the spot.

ON LIVE:

My first character was a wood elf. (For some reason I thought that Kelethin was cool, instead of seeing it for the maze/exercise in frustration/deathtrap that it was.) When I was level 3 or so, I was invited to my first group. The group leader very patiently explained where to find the button to push to join, and then how to speak in group, and a number of other things that I had never come across before, since EQ was the first online game I ever played. While giving me a tour of GFay, he picked up another true newbie who was just as clueless as I was. He asked us to follow him once again, but the other newbie didn't budge. He explained again how to follow him, and when the other player still didn't respond, my gratitude and admiration for our benevolent guide were crushed when he announced that "the guy is probably LD". I mean, just because he was having trouble figuring out how to move his character was no reason to say, right to his face no less, that the poor guy was probably learning disabled!!

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[TheBlackSheep]

Most of my nutties were on Live during the first couple of weeks after release.

Ran up over a hill to come face to face with Froon and Choon. I literally shit a diamond. On the CR I got the brilliant idea that I could sneak up behind them, you know, because they couldn't see me since they were standing there facing the other direction. Yeah, no. That was a re-roll.

I used to think that if you were standing on the spawn points, mobs wouldn't spawn. We also used to leave rooms in Blackburrow in an attempt to entice them to come back sooner. We never understood why that never worked because it made perfect sense to us at the time.

Splitpaw. The original one. I would go out there and solo the surface gnolls for hours, even days, collecting up rusty drops for cash (Gold pieces! Holy shit!) and literally walking back (heavily encumbered) to Qeynos because I thought the only place you could sell was in cities. Let's not stop there. I got the bright idea that I could probably run to Qeynos and back twice in the time it took me to walk once, so I figured I could hide half my bags in a tree and then come back and get them. I spent an hour finding a tree I could get up into and dropped half my bags (full of coveted rusty loot) on a pixelated limb. I was right about the run, and I thought I was really something for my ingenious idea. I got back and couldn't find my bags. I raged and raged thinking someone had stolen them. Petitioned and waited for hours, raging more.

That was when I found out from a guide about what they called "decay".

I think that was my first of a half a dozen rage quits.

Azorath

[Baa]

All during classic on my first char
- Rolling a mage and putting all my points into str due to my friends advise (he was lvl 10 so obviously he knew his stuff)... I believe his words were "Mages are like battle wizards, with str it means they can do even more damage!"

- With the same friend we decided HHP sounds like a good place to go, we cut right through the middle of Kith at night time and proceeded to be feared and killed. We spent almost a whole week trying to find our corpses.

- Killing the AC and then camping after a long session, when I logged on the next day I notice I never looted the ring off him...

That's about all the big ones I can think of!

[Kika Maslyaka]

prabobly my brightest newbie dumb idea memory is following:

So I am on my first char ever level 5 warrior, running around Qeynos Hills, and having hard time fighting wolves and bears.
Suddenly, I see this large Rabid Grizzly on top of the hill.
"Aha!" - I say to myself- "Its a Rabbit grizzly! That means its a non predatory bear that only eats rabbits! Look, I will prove it to you! It will not attack me!"

And I swiftly run up the hill, never thinking twice about conning the creature...

SPLAT!
LOADING PLEASE WAIT...

This is how learned a new word - "rabid" [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Otto]

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

My very first death in EQ was drowning in the tiny Kaladim fountain on my newly-made level 1 dwarf because I couldn't figure out how to swim out of it. I seem to recall frantically pushing random keys and looking through the manual as my character's breath ran out.

Two of my RL friends did that very same thing.

On live when I first started before Kunark launched, I attacked Ember the fire beetle twice. Once before I knew he was a halfling's pet, and once shortly after when I forgot.

[Falisaty]

Well as a mage using Water pet you think you are casting the DMG shield on it then and come to find out ur spells are not where you normally keep then in the spell line up and cast a Rain spell...... LOADING PLEASE WAIT!!! happens all the time /sigh