Thread: Lord of the Fails

Got a specific moment where someone (don't give out names!) did the biggest fail you ever saw while playing this game?

Right now though I'd have to say whomever has been altering the forums, causing the OP not on top of thread mess up.. But er,

I'm reminded of this one guy that quit after 7 levels because it 'Wasn't WoW.' 7 levels don't really show the game very much at all now, do they?

causing the OP not on top of thread mess up.. But er,

The OP?


I don't know I think you just listed a good fail (the forum thing) haha

Originally Posted by deaddove

I'm reminded of this one guy that quit after 7 levels because it 'Wasn't WoW.' 7 levels don't really show the game very much at all now, do they?

Well, but ... seven levels (even in this game, in which seven levels are going to take you maybe one or two days, first time around) was probably enough to convince him that yes, by gum, this wasn't WoW. Which it isn't. So if WoW was what he wanted, why, this wasn't what he wanted.

As the apocryphal Scotsman is supposed to have said, "It's good that we don't all like the same things, or think what an oatmeal shortage there would be!"

By the way ... I'm almost afraid to mention this, but I haven't had the forums foul-up on me all day today. (Shhhhh!) I've been carefully copying (ctrl-C) everything I post before I post it. Perhaps that is what's telling the forum gremlins that it isn't worth their time.

Happened yesterday. A kinnie decided he was going to start a new character. We saw him log out in kin chat then saw 'xxxxxx has left your kin'. We can only assume he deleted his level 43 character to make room for the new one.....

a long time ago i saw someone delete his 65 chars( it was in the mirkwood days) because he was done with lotro, and after some months when they introduced the char undelete, he bought them back :')

This happened with me when i was leveling my first char... He was a Champion... I was feeling all mighty and good because I was questing in the Adso's Camp and hadn't died yet. Don't remember the level, but it was probably mid 10s if I recall. One of the quests is to kill a signature NPC by the ruins.

I didn't have the quest yet, but another player asked if I could help him complete it. I thought why not... It will be fun to do my first group thing.

We grouped. He showed me where the guy was. I jumped in... If you recall the quest, the guy has a ton of adds by him. If you are doing the quest on-level you need to wait until the adds move off and he stays with maybe one or two. I didn't know that.

It was my first death in the game. And I learned that the Champion is not as might as I thought... :O)

It was my first epic fail. But I remember to this day.

Oh, just remembered another one... regarding deleting characters. I started playing a couple of years ago. I played for a few months and then stopped. I came back a few months ago and decided that instead of keeping my old chars I would level new ones. I went ahead and deleted all my old chars.

Once I did that I realized that I should have kept at least one char and transferred all the money and other expensive crafted stuff to him before deleting the other chars.

I lost a lot of gold and very expensive crafting mats. Huge fail.

I don't know if this would be classified as a traditional fail but this happened to me. I bought a pathed mount ride from Dolven-view to The Chamber of the Crossroads. Well as usual my ride just stopped. I log out, then back on, and when I return the ram does a 360 and falls off the bridge... needless to say I died, but not before falling for what seems an eternity! o _ o

Originally Posted by kxmode92

I don't know if this would be classified as a traditional fail but this happened to me. I bought a pathed mount ride from Dolven-view to The Chamber of the Crossroads. Well as usual my ride just stopped. I log out, then back on, and when I return the ram does a 360 and falls off the bridge... needless to say I died, but not before falling for what seems an eternity! o _ o

Oh, ouch. I remember 'way back in SoA beta, rent-a-horses had just been introduced, and mostly they worked okay. Except the horse from Duillond to Celondim, heading south toward the bridge, would MISS the bridge and head off to the left, fall into the river, everybody dies, oh the embarrassment. Took Turbine a few patches to fix that horse. But what the hey, it was beta.

I knew someone once that deleted a good 8 or 9 level capped characters in a fit of rage, said they were never coming back and started leveling again about pretty much a week later.

I remember, we were once raiding in Vile-Maw. One of the raid members (a dps-class) suddenly went quiet, then afk, then logged out. We get a new person. A lot of time later (we had finished the raid by then and were sharing the loot, if I remember correctly), dude #1 says in voice chat that he fell asleep. That was pretty amusing. Then next, he asks if he can come in for the loot anyway. That's when everyone's jaw dropped. There was long silence in the voice that and then the raid leader said "No".

That was pretty funny and weird at the same time.

I remember this one lone guardian I had a fiercy discussion with in the [OOC]channel of Lone Lands one day ...

He was disappointed with the lack of PvP in this game and was sure that "Lotro can't survive" if they wouldn't introduce PvP like in WoW. He suggested we have open PvP as well (run around and kill lowbies at your own desire) just because "Wow has that" and any game without such a pvp system will shut down within a few weeks.

I've tried to explain to him that we have the Ettens and you can spar if you feel like it, but he just kept on ranting. Other players joined in the conversation trying to calm him down, but all he said was "Wow has that, if you don't copy them this game is done for"

A few minutes after I put him on ignore a GM entered the chat channel and said that this discussion was now over and we should be nice to each other

Had a few too many beers and led a complete creep raid into the oneshotters. I was actually walking backwards and telling them 'whatever you do don't walk into the one-aaaaaaagrh!

Listen, ye gathered souls, to the story of the Fornost Mega Fail.

In days of old when Fornost was a challenging instance for Monkshood, I joined with a party of friends, voice server and all, and we went happpily Uruk-whacking into the instance.

In those days the only pet for a Loremaster was the good ol' Brown Bear. Whilst fighting a pair of Uruks, one of the fellowship said over voice "Monks, where is your bear going?". My mistake was not immediately dismissing or recalling said Bear, and actually looking around to find out where my bear was. By the time I realised that the answer to the question was "Nowhere good", his fat furry butt had already disappeared from sight. I hit recall.

Looking back now it seems like an age passed. It was certainly long enough for me to say the immortal phrase "I think it's okay, he's coming back."

Yes he was. Just not alone. I swear the lolloping fool had pulled every Uruk in Fornost, and was bringing them across the parapet and back down the stairs to play with us. Cue much screaming of "Run awaaaaay!" and a hasty retreat.

No one died, and whilst I received much abuse and the obligatory "Paw of Shame" in most of our fellowships for about a month after that, it was all good natured and I still play with some of them to this day.

2 things comes to mind, both had happened in Sammath Gul back when 65 was the cap.

1st - me... SG, approaching 1st boss, cleared the left side mobs in the room, got in position, activated the boss... and just when we started fighting I realised I somehow Tab-selected the Brute from across the room... it was the fastest wipe ever seen.

2nd - SG PUG, some guy brought his champ friend, fresh 65. We tried to explain how the bonepiles work... with no success... this guy activated literally EVERY bonepile in the instance. Never before or after that in the history of LOTRO did a single SG run took more than 3 hours...

Unnamed lvl75 champion:
"Wow, I just realized that Wild Attack gives Fervour!"

Another well-known player on my server refuses to wear earrings. I leave it open to anyones guess WHY.

Another gem (I wish I had saved the actual conversation, was too funny):
"Bah, you dont know what you´re talking about. You can barely do lighting T2. [my kinnies] SoandSo beat Saruman T2!"
"Um, it was proven that that was exploited."
"They still beat him!"

1) I did this one myself, a very very long time ago. Back when Sarnur first came out, i was deep inside in the troll area with a group. Just as we were pulling, i go to click my gather focus skill on my hunter and accidentally hit DF right beside it. Group had to train back to beginning to get me and fight our way back down into the depths.

2) another hunter in a pug of library wasnt removing poisons, we told him to remove our poisons as they appeared, and he never did. finally at the end it was pretty clear he had no idea he had a clear poison skill. and this was a 65 hunter when 65 was the cap. rest of group was like 0_0

When my runekeeper was 32 I joined a group GA to do Grimbark. The guard that was our tank for some reason thought he was a hunter. Not only did he start each pull with his bow but he would continually move back so that he was using it as his only damage generation. Total fail.

Not major fails, but embarrassing things I've done quite recently:

1. Selected "Return to Camp" in the middle of an instance instead of "Bright Campfire" (well, the icons do look very similar)
2. Selected "Desperate Flight" at the beginning of a fight instead of "Improved Focus" (I have no excuse for that one)
3. Used "Passage of Foes" to find the mob standing right behind me

I was running the arboretum in GA and had fought all the way to Grimbark. You know how there's a "door" made of tree branches leading to him that snaps open when you walk up to it? Well my 2 buddies walk through the door, I walk up to join them and... I can't find the door. It was right in front of me but I can't seem to find the trigger point to open it. I don't think the fight had started yet so it wasn't a case of being closed out. I ended up walking all the way along the corridor desperately trying to find it while my buddies get killed by the boss.

They were nice enough to forgive me that, so we try it again. No problems with the door, but during the fight I realize that my bear is off attacking the beehives instead of the boss, so we end up failing the challenge.

Felt like a total noob for days.

Running a GS daily, a few of the group had never done it before. At the final boss. Those of us who knew the run carefully explained about the Devoted and adds, and how to just concentrate on the boss.

Pull starts and things go south immediately, one or two deaths or something. The rest of the group tries to reset, but the off-tank just sits there hitting the archers, then the Devoted.

We all start yelling in chat to run back to the start, not to kill any of the adds, stop dpsing, etc. The off-tank doesn't respond and continues to hit the devoted. I start spamming tells to him to reset, to no avail. Devoted's hp starts dropping and we're all yelling 'til eventually we fail the challenge.

Off-tank finally looks around and realizes he's alone in the room and asks why we failed the challenge. We explain to him what happened and ask why he wasn't paying attention and he just says, "Oh, I don't watch chat, it's too distracting..."

Originally Posted by Vilan

...I realize that my bear is off attacking the beehives instead of the boss, so we end up failing the challenge...

Bears. I swear they should come with a health warning.

1) A friend was passing the time fishing while a GB Sambrog group is being gathered. The instance begins with him as the tank, he charges into the first group of mobs wih his fishing rod held high and wondered why the group wiped.

2) This is one of the AI fails. While running around in the orc cam in NW Lonelands, I opened fire on an orc across a gorge spanned by a large bridge. The orc runs straight at me, misses the bridge and plunges into the gorge. Sometime later he makes his way back up to his original position. I shoot again and the cycle repeats.

3) I have on several occasions relized halfway through a boss fight that I'm still using my DPS LI's/Instrument, which is why we weren't doing so well.

My video card decided to overheat on me minutes after killing that grim boss in the 16th hall for my RK legendary trait. My PC was down for 2 days & my kinmates were not too happy because it had appeared to them that I had just ditched the group & logged after the boss.

Also had a hunter wipe the group 9 times while trying to do a quick run of GS. I was so mad I didn't play for 2 weeks after that.(I don't hate hunters or anything, just that one guy)

Two weeks worth of my own daily fail = trying to suavely pick up the wind-blown envelopes in under a dozen attempts, or at least, trying to keep my chases to under half a mile...

Originally Posted by Gripn

Not major fails, but embarrassing things I've done quite recently:

1. Selected "Return to Camp" in the middle of an instance instead of "Bright Campfire" (well, the icons do look very similar)
2. Selected "Desperate Flight" at the beginning of a fight instead of "Improved Focus" (I have no excuse for that one)
3. Used "Passage of Foes" to find the mob standing right behind me

I think hitting Desperate Flight by mistake is kind of a hunter rite of passage. The first time I did this, I did not even know how it was I ended up at the rez circle. My duo partner, who also has a hunter, suspected that I had hit DF, and I realized that I had. So now that skill has been moved to a much more out of reach spot on my quickbars.

Originally Posted by deaddove

Got a specific moment where someone (don't give out names!) did the biggest fail you ever saw while playing this game?

Right now though I'd have to say whomever has been altering the forums, causing the OP not on top of thread mess up.. But er,

I'm reminded of this one guy that quit after 7 levels because it 'Wasn't WoW.' 7 levels don't really show the game very much at all now, do they?

It took him SEVEN levels to realize that he logged into the wrong game?? Get this man a heat and a drool cup ASAP!!

Originally Posted by Nymphonic

I knew someone once that deleted a good 8 or 9 level capped characters in a fit of rage, said they were never coming back and started leveling again about pretty much a week later.

ROFL. Yep. Someone on our server did that, too. In fact, he was the leader of the kinship I was in at the time. That was a short-lived stay.

Leveling my alts, questing, taking rewards, having fun on my "RK" then realising my Burg didnt need the Light armour I took >.<
Oh well, new quests, new rewards

Oh, oh my personal fave: Was on my cappy and spent atleast 30-40 sec trying to find Battle-Frenzy (Champ Skill) In the skill list -.-

I've got a few...

- I was in an instance with group and we all ate food right before we pulled the final boss. Sounds fine right? Except I accidentally ate the fesitval food that transports you to a random location in the world drunk with no pants. They pulled the boss and I got a loading screen and woke up in the fountain in Bree...

- After they added the "safe passages" out of GV in the moors I was a moors newb leading a group of moors newbs. We decided to take the safe passage out of GV since creeps were camping GV. I could have sworn I read that the safe passage was designed so you could jump down to safety at any point along the path so I tell everyone to follow me. We all jumped down off the passage and died... DOH!

- The first time my raid group ever fought the blind one in DN our raid leader thought the strat was that everyone should group up in a tight ball for the first phase of the fight. If you've ever fought the blind one, you know how that worked out... The whole raid passed the eyeballs to each other and died in about 3 seconds. To this day it is still the fastest raid wipe I have ever seen.

Originally Posted by GreyArea1966

Bears. I swear they should come with a health warning.

I haven't played my Bear since I got my Lynx. I remember trying to do the old Great Barrows, Long Long Ago before they changed it any, with my Bear in tow ... and he was so long in the spine that he got stuck in the little twists and turns.

My first and last raid lead. I'd been with my kin for a while and helped out around the place but only ever as a grunt. But one day in SG...

Raid Leader: Dang, I have to log. Emergency.
RL: [to me] You're the senior kinnie so you're leader now.
Me: Umm...
RL: /logoff
Everybody: [to me] What do we do?
Me: Umm. Kill the mobs?
Player1: You don't sound very confident...
/wipe
Me: Er, sorry about that. Let's try that again.
*still on the same group of mobs
/wipe
*still on the same group of mobs
/wipe
*still on the same group of mobs
/wipe

The moral: Seniority does not equate to ability.

We did eventually finish the instance. Luckily everyone thought it was hilarious, but I was mortified at the time.

Got my woodworker up to a high enough woodworking level to make my minstrel a new instrument. Great! Made him the best possible instrument and mail it to him.

Log in on my minstrel, and retrieve the mail. Go to equip the instrument and realize........I've just spent 10 levels as a minstrel with NO instrument at all......

We were running Foundry the other day, and the poor Guardian didn't speak the best English. We ran into the first boss, and the person managing the levers could not get the Guardian into place. The levers decided to glitch up and only the adds could drop mats. Plus, our two rune-keepers got a bug and eventually it was me, the Guardian, and the boss (thankfully we had two big heal over times). Somehow we managed to beat the boss!

Keeping names out of this of course but I remember, while I was playing, there was this one mmo company that refused to put the TP version of their RoI expansion on sale or permanent discount. Even now, 8 months after it's release it's still priced at the full $50 TP price. It'll likely still be $50 in TP when their next expansion hits for $50.

Again, I'm not gonna say who that was, but that's pretty fail in my book.

Rift - final boss, getting ready to go in and my hunter, being a jeweler had tons of hope tokens, so after explaining how things would go down the raid leader says, "Widoch, I'll say 1, 2, 3 go and you pop a token and we'll run in and start."


1...
2...
3...

Go!


Widoch DFs....



..bugger, wrong button.



And that was the last time DF was near anything important on my skill bar.

Well, there was that one time when I fell off a cliff in the Trollshaws and landed on a couple of roleplayers during a particularly intimate scene.

*Excuse me while I just hobble off ...*

Originally Posted by YellowBird

Well, there was that one time when I fell off a cliff in the Trollshaws and landed on a couple of roleplayers during a particularly intimate scene.

*Excuse me while I just hobble off ...*

rofl! thanks for making my day ..

Back in the days, when first.age.lvl.60 was the best weapon in the game, you could only get one in exchange for some 'nimrodel'-marks. Wich happened to look very similar to platin-tokens, wich where dropping from mobs like aniversary tokens do now.

I bet he wasnt the only one, but we all had a good laugh when our kinleader told us he just destroyed a stack of those
nimrodel-tokens cause he wanted to get rid of some platin tokens. ^^ Month of constant raiding where rendered obsolete within a splitsecond.

My DF is now by itself too, after at least one incident.
Once I was fighting in Haudh Nogben one-on-one against a signature beast. Things weren't going so well, but I stuck it out as long as possible in case I got lucky. I didn't, so I used DF, only somehow I died on the rally point. I'm not sure how. I think I had some sort of wound effect, which must have continued to hurt me even after I escaped.
When I was around level 16 I took down a few level 20ish boars east of Bree, which gave me somewhat of an inflated ego. I was in the Chetwood and I spotted a signature warg. I thought "He's only level 20 . . . the fact that he has more than 1,000 morale must be an anomaly." I got totally pwned. One of these days I'm going to go back there and get revenge.
I've heard that it's a bad idea to rez out in the house in Bree with all the cats. Someone I know rezed in again and found that there were two people in there already. The profanity filter caught some of the emotes, but it was still a bit scarring.