ryanryanryan0310

Have you people never heard of a "blocker"(useless quest item you keep in your inventory, that can't be sold)? You put all your l33t items behind it so you don't accidently merchant it.

Back on topic:
After changing built from axe to sword, went into FOW with group and realize I was only doing 3 damage. Saw that I still had 16 in axe mastery. But I keap my mouth shut and maded it to forgemaster. No one was the wiser...

The first 2 months of playing, I didn't realize there was a skill trainer. Sold all my runes, dye's, rare material to merchant. Must have been a glich, cause I never saw that sell button on those traders... But I'm wiser these days, got to remember to read the manuals when I buy games.

Tetris L

Accidently sold a black dye to the merchant.

It's peanuts compared to Captain Arne Is PRO's 600k loss, but it's still my worst self-ownage.


Oh, and one time I ruined Canctum Cay mission for my party by getting too close to the Vizier while the rest of the party was leading the ghost to his graveyard. /puts head down in shame

Not A Fifty Five

Umm.. I've done a lot.. bringing attributes for the wrong build, bringing a gvg build to RA on accident (Still won twice cause I was LoD monk but needless to say half the party left when I told them the oops on the first round)...

But I gotta say what tops it off is my early days in buying and selling. After farming FoW and then trying buying and selling I discovered just how much more money you make. So I tried it out with some success, working my way up to 50k which was a lot for me then. I knew pretty much everything right off the bat, low req and perfect mods selling for a lot, except two things:Skin and double modded items. So I end up buying this req 8, -2/no mod ornate shield for 45k, pretty much all my money. I ended up selling it a few months later for 5k

Bunny Thumper

after a few weeks of playing i traded my BLUE STAFF (!!) for Ghostly Req 9 fire,hct 20% (gold)......and yeah, i merched it

Tyrian Runner

ive never really had any problems with farming, i just loose intrest quick, even if im making a few k per run. Well, because of that, ive never really had much "extra" money for use on things i wasnt particarly saving for. I sold a near perfect gemstone axe 2 days ago, 80k. finished out my ranger's ancient armor, bought a guild hall NPC, aaaaaand decided to remake my warrior. OOPSIE! all of my leftover money and a few ectos were on my warrior when i deleted him. Didnt realize it until this morning when i opened up storage and couldnt find the cash for a new armor set XD

Yeah, so about 63k got deleted, which isnt really a lot, but like i said... i usually dont ever have more then 5-10k on me

Trylo

i dont make many mistakes >_>

im surprised at how much you people have lost!

my worst self ownage was buying Kurzick 15k in the first couple of weeks factions was out for my ele... the day after i bought it amber went down 2k a pop ... around 100k losses IIRC... but i still have the armor to this day

Markaedw

frenzy and a ranger don't mix.

It's was my second character and first with warrior skills so I thought "Wow fire twice as fast, those catacomb skeletons won't stand a cance!" BY my third death I decided that frenzy doesn't work well.

Edge Martinez

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Admins Bane Buying Factions.

Amen. Thread winner.

Swiffle

Kiting a sword Warrior on Frozen isle near stand as monk, pulled him back aways, get ready to return, fudged up and double infused(hit 3 instead of 2) myself down to 1/4 hp, then he final thrust'd for the killshot. just had to ask for a res :|

Clerihew

Doing Urgoz for the very first time with a group that had fought for hours to get as far as the first warden room. They ask for a volunteer to stay out. I agree. They all go in and I confidently step into the bridge thinking that didn't count as it wasn't technically inside the room......

Since then I always stay out, even when someone else offers to do it. Once you've been personally responsible for group ownage you develop major paranoia.

shadowmist

Hmm, worst thing I've ever done is bring my running build on a thunderhead keep mission. Was using an axe, which as you know sometimes deals low damage. Was curious as to why it was so low all the time, but chalked it up to increased enemy armor or something. Then when hitting a squishy, I found I was still doing crap damage! I then realized I had the wrong attributes set. Luckily, we got through the mission without mishap. Then the group monk said I was a good tank, didn't have to heal me a lot. I was so embarassed that I couldn't say a word.

Another time I've messed up is when I was taking my ranger to cap punishing shot I think. One of the mob groups dropped two gold items, a hammer and a rune. I could've sworn I clicked on them both, but when I zoned and checked my inventory, I found I hadn't picked up the rune! Now, I triple check everytime I pick up a rare item.

Hmm, once I died five times in a row when farming the wardens with my rit. I can't say I was inexperienced, as I had been farming for a while, and had easily done the entire run before. But for some reason I kept messing up and getting knocked down before i could cast vwk. I didn't kill any of the monsters once! And to add insult to injury, for some reason I got the farming string note, even though I had just started...

Never had a trouble with accidentally losing an item in my inventory. I keep mine well organized and sellable items always come first, and rare items I move to the second bag, before going into storage. I have however dyed my pre-searing armor black before... and customized a few green items that I now find useless on that char.

Spazzer

We were splitting against ritspike and I was told to run to the other split. The shortest road was by passing right by the flag stand (Druids) where all of the rits were. I tried to do it.

Another time, I was pulling for a Tombs (PvE) group. I grabbed a nice, big, fat, juicy aggro and had it balled up nice and tight. But I didn't realize the Minion Master was still a long ways back, afk.

I also merchanted a Kanaxai's Edge, but I usually don't do things like that because I use minipets to stop my clicking.

One more: I was playing through Hells Precipice because I wanted to Fraps a cinematic. When the cinematic came up, I pressed the "Skip" button by reflex, and had to do the mission all over again.

dansamy

Way back in the day, before the Fragility/Virulence nerf, I was the prot monk in one of our GvG battles. (This was when 2 heals and one prot was common in GvG.) We came up against a team that was spreading conditions everywhere. I hit Martyr....and instantly died. Fragility triggered for each condition that I pulled off each party member. Wheeee!!! I learned to read what those pink boxes in the corner were about that day.

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scorpio 698

I don't post much here... or at all... But I have to add mine.

I was in mineral springs on my monk going to cap SoJ. Everyone knows the Avicara use scourge healing right? Yeah, well, I was at mid-hp and was being a bit lazy. I didn't see that everyone in my party had a hex on them (scourge healing) and hit heal party. -200 hp, dead. Luckily no one else realized why I died.

scorpio 698

Dang double post.

The Hand Of Death

Using blood of the master while MMing and killing myself. I was MMing and there was a second hero MM in the party. I didn't know blood of the master healed all minions, even those not controlled by me. I was at 200 health expecting a -100 or so sac when I got a sac somewhere around 250. Heh then my minions killed the second MM and then all those minions killed everyone else in the party and we failed the mission. Go figure .

olly123

my worse self pwn was when i first farmed sorrows, i got borhans holy rod,, at the time 10k was a lot of money. so i came backed and asked for a price check, first one said it was 25k but said hed buy for 27k, i should have seen it so i said yes . only then to b told by wiki it was at 100k+20 ecto :P ah well

Yarly

Selling 36 ectos to merchant in ToA after taking out of storage. Was just about to go and finish off a set of ranger fow... gg.

Was awhile ago though, my blood pressure has recovered fully.

xiaotsu

Customizing every bow I've ever used on my ranger. GG me, I could've made a substantial bit of money, especially since I use like 3-4 out of the 20 or so <_<