"Well, that was embarrassing."

I've had my fair share of embarrassing incidents playing this game. Mistells, hitting quit team rather than exit, accidentally aggroing the wrong mob.

But the one that springs to mind for me is while I was running the Sister Arlia arc in Cimerora with my well IO'd, lvl 50 brute. I had decided to do it on easy mode, -1x1, so I could coast along and enjoy the story. Second or third mission in, my complacency got the better of me. I had rescued Ghost Widow and she was following, helping me out. I decided to aggro a couple of spawns for giggles. Being the aggro magnet that my brute is I got ganked by 12-15 mere blue and white conning mobs.

As I lay faceplanted, I thought to myself, "Well, that was embarrassing. I'm glad I'm the only one who saw that."

So, my question to you is, have you ever had any embarrassing incidents while playing?

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I've had one or two "oops" moments.

One that sticks out - I was on my 50 soft-cap def SR brute fighting +0x8. Jumping into mobs left and right, laying out cold all in my wake.

That's until I come across a DE mish.

Running a tip mission with a couple of other players, as ever I charge off and jump into the middle of the spawn and before I can even get a foot stomp off, I faceplant. So I think "bah - no biggie, I'll just self-rez, hammer away my inspirations and be back in the fight."

Faceplant #2

At this point one of my teammates goes "Um you do know one of the DE pets buffs their accuracy?". A quick glimpse at my combat stats shows everything hitting me for 95%.

"Oh yeah....er......ok.....um......going to hospital."

Felt like such a n00b!

My funniest (for me at least) was on a LGTF. First mission, I was on my Invulnerability/Super Strength Tank and handling stuff just fine.

Yep you guessed it, got to Clockwork King, ran in threw taunt and was dead before it finished animating. Oh yeah, Invulnerability doesn't do well against psionic damage, guess I should have hit a purple and orange or two before doing that

A few days ago my buddy and I were trying to start a duo ITF. After begging folks to fill for us and promising it would only be a couple seconds of their time, we finally managed to get the 6 required. I set the first mission and thanked everyone for their help and began kicking....except instead of kicking, I quit team....d'oh! So I had to send them all tells again explaining my mistake and asking them to fill again. Needless to say we had some doubters in our ability to finish after that incident. For what it's worth we did finish successfully.

My entire teaming career is filled with embarassments like this. I have "Sorry." on bind.

I was drunk, on an ITF with my blaster and lived the whole time. I was ashamed.

Doing a Lambda run yesterday afternoon.

I was on Palrah, my WP/DB tank, who has his Alpha level shift but was just beginning to work on the other Incarnate slots. 'Jumped into one of the outside goon spawns without much concern... It wasn't even a huge one... No warwalkers, nothing that looked all that dangerous... and *SMACK*. Knocked flat on his butt faster than I could say "Holy crap, those guys hit hard. o_0"

I'm just not used to getting owned like that with Pally, even when I throw him at higher-level enemies. Granted, he's a WP tank and so not completely indestructible... I usually have a very good feel for what he can handle and what he can't... but it's been a long time since he really felt at all "squishy" to me.

Yesterday, eating Praetorian pavement? My poor tank felt about as tough as a creampuff.

Back when I was still rather new to the game, I joined in a Cavern of Transcendence Trial. It was a group entirely of level-appropriate folks, so we had decided to fight through the Tunnels for the XP. I was playing a /Regen Scrapper and still very much learning what I was and was not able to survive. So the team engages a group of Trolls, and I did what I always did, I jumped in as quick as I could to fight the single meanest looking guy there. I notice neither of the other melee-types was with me about a second too late, as I then learned that nobody survives the bombs down there going off.

Once the explosives and finished their job, the team mopped up the couple of survivors pretty quickly. The other Scrapper on the team hands me an Awaken, and sends me a simple tell: "r dum".

...I had nothing I could really argue back.

I have too many of these to recount them all but one stands out:

I was on my Brute Warmaster Mars. I was a relatively new player and was asked to join a RP SG with a very rich background and theme. So I'm the new guy running an arc with the founders of the SG and we're getting creamed. I stood over the bodies of the fallen, refusing to run despite them telling me to do so. I fought like a demon, used every Insp I had and won the day with about 25 HP left. Praise was lauded on me by my peers for my courage and skill.

Then as I hit Rest I realized that I'd accidentally dragged it over Self-Destruct instead in the fighting.

I survived the most hellish fighting in front of a great crew only to blow myself up.

Yeah, I lock my control bars now lol!

Great thread!

I had one last night. Fighting Rommy in the last mish of the ITF, I waited too long to hit my heal and faceplanted. Asked for a small yellow to make a wakie, and one of my team members nicely gave one to me. I then proceeded to combine yellows to make a GREEN. Arrgh, fat lot of good that did me.

If anyone wondered why I ended up hosping anyway after getting the insp I needed, no one asked--I was too embarrassed to admit what I'd done.

I've never been able to track down the post I made about it when it happened. But I was in Atlas Park on a lowbie and for laughs I decided to gank some of the hellions on the street stealing a purse. One ran and I chased him.

He ran though two others who aggrod on me, and I hit one, so they kept following. Then he jumped a wall into that warehouse district with the higher level clockworks. Long story short, I ended up dead with a group of enemies around me, thinking to myself, "Did I just get kitted to my death by a grey conned minion?" Answer: yes.

Very shameful. I was only level 7 at the time but still. Shameful.

I ran the Mender Ramiel arc on one of my level 50 characters and finished the last mission to get my Alpha Slot . . . and just as I was finishing, some buddies of mine announced that they were running an STF . . . Oh, goodie! I need Shards!

So off I go to run the STF . . . and I noticed that I wasn't getting any Shards about half way through. I asked everyone else if they were getting Shards . . . everyone (who was level 50 and had the Alpha Slot) said yes . . . I just assumed I was being unlucky.

Last mission in, I decided to check in case I had missed any shards that had dropped . . . and I didn't have the Alpha Slot. "What the . . ." Then I realized that in my hurry to join the TF, I had forgotten to do the last little chat with the Mender where you actually GET the Alpha Slot. . . . My buddies on Ventrilo suddenly heard a string of invictives which are not my usual language . . .

I was on a TF.... not sure which one, it's immaterial, but this was about 2 years into my CoX gaming career, and i was feeling quite well versed in the intricacies of combat in this game. So, as the tank, i was spearheading the charge into mobs, near the end of the TF, as mobs getter bigger and harder, we finally encountered our first team wipe, mostly die to lack of coordination, or any sense of tactics. So, after everyone rez's or hosp's, and we gather near the mob for our second go at it, I jump into my self important, master tactician rant mode, and start bellowing (as best you can while typing) about our strategy, others following said strategy, not aggroing other mobs, playing to the strength of your AT, and so on and so forth. everyone else remained quiet, and attentive (so i thought), and with a final harumph, i turned and charged into the big mob........ completely forgetting to toggle on ANY of my armors...... i think the others where quiet cuz they saw i was unarmored, and wanted to see me faceplant like the jerk i was being. ah, humility, my frequent friend, why must you sneak up on me and smack me in the back of the head?????

Back when I had just over a year in the game (probably), I was jogging a new character to a mission in Kings Row down by the power substations. Off in the distance, I spot some strange looking NPC running towards me. They didn't fit the usual Kings Row NPCs, so I target one to see who they were. Ah, they're Freakshow, so it's someone's ambush. Since they were on the chase, I knew that they would be totally focused on their target and would ignore me. Feeling like the veteran I am, I figure, I'll nonchalantly run through them.

As I was passing between the Freaks, my character suddenly pivoted and put a foot up one of their butts!

I had forgotten that I had Kick on auto-attack and it triggered once I got into range of the Freak that I left targeted. Needless to say, they weren't pleased to be dissed by a lowbie.

It was in a different game, one with much steeper penalties for dying. A friend and I are trying to PL two of our other friends. They are both much smaller than us and so they have to stay physically behind us or get one-shotted.

One of them has to go afk, but we can't stop moving... he comes back and for some reason decides to run in a different direction.

"Dude, come back this way!"
"I'm fine, I got this, I got thi-"
**BOOM**
**Faceplant**
"Nuts."

Back when Going Rogue first came out, I was doing one of the Resistance Warden arcs on a Claws/Invulnerability Brute, and came across a proximity bomb. And somehow, my first instinct was run up to it and poke it with my claws. Then I see in the NPC chat something like "That's nitro, you idiot!"

Next think I knew, I was faceplanted, thinking to myself "Yep, I'm an idiot."

But the biggest "oops" moment that comes to mind for me was when my main BS/DA Scrapper was in his 30's, and I'd just completed the mission that awards the Nemesis Staff temporary power, and I was reveling in the fact that I now had a ranged attack to play with. Soon after, I joined a small PuG. I was still feeling proud and wanted to show off my new toy to my teammates. So I hit the button to draw it between spawns in a mission to show it to them. Then my character turned around and fired it right into a pack of enemies. A teamwipe quickly followed. My lesson for that day; ranged attacks are ranged.

Gotta go back to 2005 for this one.

It was my 2nd or 3rd day ingame. I zoned to Kings Row and as soon as I exited I saw this awesome looking player, Guy was huge! Had flaming wings and everything! I was fumbling around with right click, trying to read his bio when the Behemoth demolished my squishy blaster...

Still not sure how a COT Behemoth made it into the little exit alcove without being droned.


2nd place most embarrassing is one quite a few of us shared when we were new.

(Broadcast)ME: Are the trains broken? It won't let me click the door...
(Broadcast)Whole Zone: You standing at the exit aren't you? ;p

Oh yes, the Train exit, but before I ever rode a train ---
My first day, my first Character, about 16 months ago. My best friend, who sent me the 2 week trial as a gift, meets me at AP and begins the tour. 'Come see our base.' I follow him to the Blaster Statue. 'Jump up here and click the blue circle.'

After two or three minutes he finally says 'Jak? You coming up?'
I say - 'I can't jump that high.'
Him - 'Use the space bar.'
Me - 'I am #### ##, I can't jump that high. Guess I need to level up.'
Him (No doubt watching me bounce like a demented monkey and ROFL) - 'HOLD the space bar DOWN.'
Me - 'Oh.'
If you look up Total Noob in the dictionary you will see a photo of ME.

Also,
About 4 months ago. My SG is running all the Shard TF's. 2 hours one night a week. We do a kill most style and almost never speed, as we are leveling and want ALL the XP. We start the longest TF expecting to need 4 weeks to complete.
Week 1 goes fine. A few days later I was on the TF toon doing selling etc., and apparently joined something and pressed quit without thinking.

Week Two. Me - 'Uh, hey guys, why am I not on the team', etc. Appeal to GM - 'unrecoverable mistake, there is absolutly no way to add you back to the TF.'
So my guild mates have to play 3 more weeks shorthanded. They were very kind about it, and remind me NOT to QUIT the TF, EVERY TIME we start a multi-week event . Probably a good thing too.

Jak