Facepalm moment

[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

[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