Facepalm moment

[thinus]

So I bought dual specialization this weekend and my main spec is PvE so I setup a PvP spec on the second one on all 5 shaman. I go into some AVs and notice that my reincarnation doesn't pop anymore. So initially I just thought it must be on cooldown and once I get out of the BGs I forget about it.

Later on I am doing some quests and need to find something underwater. So I switch to my reagentless water breathing shaman but water breathing is greyed out and it tells me it needs a reagent. So now I am really suspicious and pop open my glyphs. Glyphs are empty /facepalm

I didn't realize you get a second set of glyphs to go with your talents as well.

[suicidesspyder]

Those are the moments when you say u had a brain fart. You just had your blue buss helmet on its ok many of us have done similar things lol.

[Volch0k]

Once I farmed toc normal for hours (Abyss crystals)

I did the hole run, zoned out to find out I couldt reset the instance - Just to realize that one of my slaves was still on mount inside instance, not moving the entire run.

/facepalm

[Ualaa]

The first time you experience this... you're like, why did that happen.
Hopefully you don't experience this a second time.

I've "thought" I had done the glyphs on a second spec for toons.
But in reality had only made a mental note that I had to.

Kind of sucks when you realize you should have known to do this, but didn't.

[thinus]

Once I farmed toc normal for hours (Abyss crystals)

I did the hole run, zoned out to find out I couldt reset the instance - Just to realize that one of my slaves was still on mount inside instance, not moving the entire run.

/facepalm

/rofl
That's like picking up a quest and not noticing one of your slaves got stuck on a pole somewhere and didn't get the quest and 3 or 4 quests down the chain you suddenly realize and you have to go back and do it all again.

[Malekyth]

I can't remember who it was, but awhile back someone posted a /facepalm where one of their shaman alts was constantly disenchanting a piece of gear, and only found out about it after re-farming it once or twice. That, in my opinion, is the all-time greatest. :)

[Iceorbz]

I was boosting recently doing SM runs, when I realized for like 4 runs one of my alts had not zoned in =/. So they were like a level and some change ahead of them, or clearning an instance for heroic daily and realizing one guy didnt have the quest or forgot to pick up the item =/.

[Gramzngunz]

I can't remember who it was, but awhile back someone posted a /facepalm where one of their shaman alts was constantly disenchanting a piece of gear, and only found out about it after re-farming it once or twice. That, in my opinion, is the all-time greatest. :)

haha I remember reading that post. He somehow accidentally hit a button that did disenchant, then hit a macro that targeted his trinket and his disenchanted like 4 trinkets before he figured out what's going on.

[Los]

haha I remember reading that post. He somehow accidentally hit a button that did disenchant, then hit a macro that targeted his trinket and his disenchanted like 4 trinkets before he figured out what's going on.

Oh I've soooo been there, up to the point the gm gave me the stink eye and told me to not do it anymore because 3 times was too many already :)

[sladet99]

I was on the Alliance airship collecting the daily quest and mounted up to depart. Only realizing a moment too late that I had ground mounted instead of flyers. Quickly reacting I hit jump and whipped my main around to try to keep the followers on the air ship. Only one went over the edge into the Bombardment. Wanting to see the fall of my poor mage I ran the main over to the edge, hit jump to perch on the edge and mistimed it. There went my main over the edge only to be followed by the rest of the team as they were on follow.

In case you were wondering it is a long way to the ground under those airships. ;)

[Raskaz]

The other day I was doing some quests on my five man team on ground mounts in Dragonblight and tried to cross the ravine near OS, completely forgetting that I am in for quite a deep dive - and so were my toons.

I actually had to laugh about it since like so many things, I should have known better.

[Eloxy]

PWNED
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/999/lolol2400.jpg (http://img404.imageshack.us/i/lolol2400.jpg/)

Oh wait..it was suposed to be me who made a a fool of myself? Never happend xD

[Ughmahedhurtz]

More facepalm moves than I care to remember were caused by those damned bridges and elevators in Thousand Needles. ARGH! http://ugh.scaredsheep.com/smileys/furious2.gif

[zenga]

Thousand needles was the first thing i thought about when I read the first posts. Can't recall how many times I fell from a high mountain. Thunder Bluff ain't much better. If an alt is stuck somewhere, I used to do a jump + forward on the alt, without turning broadcasting off ... = my 4 others jump from the mountain ... and when that happens 3x times in a row ...

[zenga]

Which reminds me to yesterday. I got me 5 flying mounts for the first time, so was all excited. Usually when I'm flying between towns I go grab a drink / smoke and when I come back my guys are just waiting for me at the airport. Now I was flying with my own mounts with auto run, got distracted and went for a smoke. To find my guys dead when I returned, as they crashed into some mountain and took a beating from a bunch of nasty mobs.

[zenga]

Or changing your keybindings ... what used to be the follow key is now the mount flyer key ... after taking off I wanna spam follow but hit the mount key ... 5x rip :/

[Seldum]

/facepalm

I was running around in wester plaugeland doing quests and not notiching one of my toons diden't have one quest. So I did the quest moved on and suddently coulden't understand why the toon was lower on xp than the others.... notiched it diden't have the quest. I had to run back and do the same quest again = sucked!

[Powerwar]

This is very old, but it's from when I was solo player and wow was just out of beta... lots of years ago.

1 ) As a lowbie undead mage I found the Scarlet Monastery guards. The skull level looked like a target to kill, so I just attacked.

2 ) With my warlock in Deadmines got kicked fromtwo groups because I was "ninjaing" all the soul shards.

3 ) When the soul link bug was around I enslaved all the demons in the balsted lands and became "immortal". Proceeded to wipe an entire horde raid that was doing Kazzak and then finished him. Too bad the hordes got the loot instead of me :(

4 ) I kited Hogger to the Undercity just to have a guard kill him :(

5 ) When I finished the internal quest on my warlock I just ran to the crossroads and droppen an infernal just to have it turn on me 15 seconds later.

6 ) Summoned doomguard and infernal in goldshire and let them on rampage just to see a horde raid going to SW oneshot them :(

[Kedash00]

about two weeks ago i was changing my macros to make them more streamlined and to add a heal in my dps macro so i could just spam lightning bolt/heal without switching to another button and i didn't put a comma somewhere and the only macro i had working correctly was lava burst....

So i went to take a siege factory and there was one warrior there and i lava bursted him down to like nothing, like 200 hp left if that, and tried to finish him off but my lightning bolts weren't firing, and he wiped my whole group before i figured out what happened.

I thought he was hacking in some way because he took all 5 of my toons down lol

[d0z3rr]

I've had various facepalms while multiboxing, but none of them amount to my biggest facepalm of all time:

Rolling a Night Elf Rogue on release day of WoW. HUGE mistake.

[Multibocks]

PWNED
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/999/lolol2400.jpg (http://img404.imageshack.us/i/lolol2400.jpg/)

Oh wait..it was suposed to be me who made a a fool of myself? Never happend xD

Nice, 2400 rated team and you kicked their butt.

[thinus]

So I was turning in some quests in Icecrown on this small ledge very high up on a cliff. When my 5 shaman came in to land an Alliance warlock quickly mounted up and flew away. I thought nothing more of it.

So as I am busy talking to the NPC the warlock comes back and attacks my group solo.

Pro tip: Do not attack people that can knock you back when you are standing on the edge of a very high cliff.

[mebben]

My usual /facepalm is when I'm grinding heroics, engaging a boss - just to notice that I have two-three paladins stuck somewhere else :P

[David]

Doing the quest where you have to fight the clone of yourself on the big mountain north in howling fjords.

There you recieve the slowfall buff. Did the quest, all 5 got completed, jumped down, 4 died :-)

[Seldum]

I had a macro facepalm in my first real instance with my team:

I used cast sequence with a reset=target.... on the first boss I died because the sequence ran out of spells and my dps just stood there doing nothing, lol

[Tight]

mmm I have more then ones forgot to turn on keybroadcasting in arena.. ^^ I was constantly getting verbally abused by other teams so i had to talk back a bit.. this was in late S2 i think and i was pretty new to arenas. well it ended swift. :P

[SideWays]

My facepalm moment happened yesterday when we(2x 5boxers) were wiping like 10 times at Grobbulus because of a nasty green cloud going off in the middle of the grp 1 sec after the toon had been infected..

Well we tried it till I realised I was dropping a cleansing totem everytime :/ Killed him after removing the totem -.-

[Bloodcloud]

My facepalm moment happened yesterday when we(2x 5boxers) were wiping like 10 times at Grobbulus because of a nasty green cloud going off in the middle of the grp 1 sec after the toon had been infected..

Well we tried it till I realised I was dropping a cleansing totem everytime :/ Killed him after removing the totem -.-

OMG, this reminds me of my facepalm moment in a "single player" raid when I wiped the raid by dispelling it on a mage whilst he was standing in the middle of the other ranged dps :)

[genocyde]

I had a new one last night. While playing around with interact with target and click to move for the first time.

I was doing the breaking the blockade quest off the zepplin in howling fjord, I clicked on the bomb to get the aoe targetting circle and I wasn't in range yet... I right clicked the ocean to cancel the item use and walked my whole team off the air ship...

Dang click to move is gonna be a pain to get used to :)

[Jayne]

Was questing in the Storm Peaks just now... the place got a million phase zones I swear! Didn't notice that my shaman's stopped following while going through one, landed on my main and dismounted to enter a building... 3 shamans going doooooooown... doh!

[Raigirin]

I went to UK Pinnacle just now to grid some rep and got absolutely trashed by the first group of trash mobs,
I was like what?? normally i steamroll this,
then I noticed that I had forgotten to change back to normal from heroic, D'oh!

[Iceorbz]

I just spent 15 minutes looking through my bag for the Hula girl.. I was making the turbo-charged flyers for my Paladins.

I could *NOT* find it, flipping out uinstalling addons thinking that for some reason the bagspace was being hidden. Going through each slot and counting to realize i had the right amount of space.

---- I equipped it ---- ..... /FACEPALM

[zenga]

I was boosting enchanting today using a low level shield, wrist and chest equipped to macro the boost. Had dinner and when i returned joined a few av's. I can tank the alliance their general without a prob, just not today, 4 hits and we wiped. Tried again, wipe. Did belinda solo with my team and had to revive my tank, never happened before. Got so frustrated that i returned to boosting my enchanting, when i noticed i had still my lvl 10ish gear on :D

[Saoul]

Biggest facepalm for a while was speccing one of my shammie resto, then forgetting to train new abilities ran enough random heroics for a 100 emblems thinking that the healing was lack lustre and may as well keep the healer as elemental. Didnt notice the problem until running raid weekly, which we completed without a wipe. Now that all is trained up tank never gets below 90% :eek: Prior to that my three year old sold my enchanting rod, which gm refused to replace...

[Fizzler]

Oh god selling an enchanting rod one of my worst nightmares I feel for you Saoul, I can not imagine how much that cost to replace.

Everyone once in a while I will hit my Riding Mount button instead of flight. I quickly realize my mistake shortly after I step off the ledge.

My tank was out of phase with my DPSers. I would often park him mid-air while the rest finish up the phase quest. I would forget he is flying high and hit my flight macro which takes him out of form to plummet to his death.

[Crel]

Trying to WG, with argent lances.............

[Oathbreaker]

I can't remember who it was, but awhile back someone posted a /facepalm where one of their shaman alts was constantly disenchanting a piece of gear, and only found out about it after re-farming it once or twice. That, in my opinion, is the all-time greatest. :)


I did some macro changes way back in BC and accidentally DE'd both of my trinkets.

Only good thing out of the entire ordeal was that Blizzard restored the trinkets and let me keep the shards.


For those who want to know how it happened (to prevent more /facepalm moments)...
My nuke macros had /use 13 and /use 14 (trinket slots).
I was farming kills in Halaa and in between running around and gathering motes from the gas clouds.
My first bar on all of my toons is left open for their professions.
My Engineer had his mote extractor on the third slot of the first button bar.
My Enchanter had his DE spell in the same slot.

So after extracting a cloud, my chanter was ready to DE something. I went back to Halaa and spammed my nuke macro and instead of casting a spell he DE'd the trinket in slot 13. It wasn't until after I DE'd the second one that I knew something was horribly wrong. It was that time in which I actually noticed the DE graphic. The reason why I didn't see that I received a purple shard was because at the same time I was receiving the PvP tokens you get for kills in Halaa and it was scrolling my chat window. Had I not noticed the graphic, I probably would have went a long time without trinkets on my chanter.

So the rule of thumb is - don't put your DE spell on a bar. Period.

- Oath

[Seldum]

I had a facepalm moment yesterday.

Questing in Howling Fjord, and I was finishing up the "harpoon" quest where you have to bomb the village from the ledge. The next quest called "Spear surfing.." or something, sends you surfing on a spear, to the start village in howling fjord.

Well my main char did, and the rest was on follow.... and ran off the clif and died. I laughed at that.

[zenga]

lol seldum sounds very familiar, any quest like that where you have to jump on some vehicle/mount tend to end up with at least one guy dead cause he was on follow

[Seldum]

Yes, I have to be more carefull in the future hehe... the bodies landed on a steep slope which took me two tries in gost form to hit.... annoying but fun none the less.

[Pallarfo]

I also experienced the spear surfing deaths... and it's a long walk back to get there, since my toons couldn't fly then...

[thinus]

Yes, I have to be more carefull in the future hehe... the bodies landed on a steep slope which took me two tries in gost form to hit.... annoying but fun none the less.

This reminds me of the time where I forgot my full broadcasting on after typing in a macro at the argent tournament. I mounted and flew off and I wasn't paying attention to the alts. My main spotted a mine and I hovered and dismounted on top of it and then I wondered why all the clones didn't drop down as well.

Yes, I went cliff surfing as well looking for a good place to land to rez.