Ranger Archive
Thread: Embarrassing deaths
JediInitate
Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:36 pm
#14
not bad heres one of my most embarrasing ones:
I was hunting on Dath for carn meat nice spawn.. using my rifle and Strafe 2( was rifleman that time) i had called a few more people to join in soon we had over 12 people on the hunt.. I was warned sevral times about Nightsister but thought they spawned by the stronghold olny.. Using /areatrack to make sure their werent any... I got on my bike 1000 S of the Science Outpost. Their see about 5 rancor then 1 more but it didnt look like a regular one, so i let it be.. So start strafeing and what do you know its a NS Rancor Tamer with her 2 Rancor... leaveing my bike about 200 m behind(Rancor love playing with Swoops) /burstrun and what do i see around my bike >.< Ill let you guess
All in all I didnt come out of it and was laughed at by my guild for a week after..
I was hunting on Dath for carn meat nice spawn.. using my rifle and Strafe 2( was rifleman that time) i had called a few more people to join in soon we had over 12 people on the hunt.. I was warned sevral times about Nightsister but thought they spawned by the stronghold olny.. Using /areatrack to make sure their werent any... I got on my bike 1000 S of the Science Outpost. Their see about 5 rancor then 1 more but it didnt look like a regular one, so i let it be.. So start strafeing and what do you know its a NS Rancor Tamer with her 2 Rancor... leaveing my bike about 200 m behind(Rancor love playing with Swoops) /burstrun and what do i see around my bike >.< Ill let you guess
All in all I didnt come out of it and was laughed at by my guild for a week after..
Message Edited by JediInitate on 10-17-2004 04:38 PM
Almagill
Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:17 pm
#15
Well, am going to update my Most Embarrassing Death to:
Tonight, after spending 8 hours downloading patched to get my TC installation back up and running, I log in, buff up, quick /tell to check there ARE still Rnagers around (given that I was about 3 hours late arriving) and am on the shuttle to Endor.
Bike out to the Northern wastes, but there's terrible rubberbanding, so I get off the bike and run a couple of k. Eventually I break out the brackaset and, like Laurence of Arabia (in MY head anyway) come riding out of the desert into camp.
Dismo'd just before entering camp as 'something' was aggroing me, turn, target and start spamming specials at a hanadak. Get a /join from Paks and half a dozen rangers open fire on my new friend...
Looked like an impressive firefight, cos from the point where I grouped onwards I was dead on my back spectating. LOL
"My Shortest Ever GRM"
Tonight, after spending 8 hours downloading patched to get my TC installation back up and running, I log in, buff up, quick /tell to check there ARE still Rnagers around (given that I was about 3 hours late arriving) and am on the shuttle to Endor.
Bike out to the Northern wastes, but there's terrible rubberbanding, so I get off the bike and run a couple of k. Eventually I break out the brackaset and, like Laurence of Arabia (in MY head anyway) come riding out of the desert into camp.
Dismo'd just before entering camp as 'something' was aggroing me, turn, target and start spamming specials at a hanadak. Get a /join from Paks and half a dozen rangers open fire on my new friend...
Looked like an impressive firefight, cos from the point where I grouped onwards I was dead on my back spectating. LOL
"My Shortest Ever GRM"
Vorpaks
Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:32 pm
#16
Almagill wrote: My Shortest Ever GRM"
I felt so bad, I was practically dying with laughter on my desk.
"Oh look! Here's Ken!"
"Oh look! Kens... dead..."
All these Master Rangers and not one thought to /rescue
GraySeven
Sun Oct 17, 2004 5:04 pm
#17
I'm on Naboo tagging a good leather spawn, running Fambaa missions out of Moenia. Doc Buff's and Brandy were all I had, since I couldn't find a buffing entertainer. A group of noobs were running Rebel missions in the same area and the soon-to-be Rifleman of the group was awed over the effect of my bantha drawing the Fambaa to it while I strafe2'd the lair (I'm capped on all xp, so I'm just in it for the dead bodies).
While not paying attention my Brandy wore out, my mind dropped to nothing and I got incapped and DB'd by a Borvo's thug that was in the area...while I was bragging that I hadn't died in over 2 months.
Irishbear99
Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:26 pm
#18
I was hunting NS on Dath with a new friend who is one of the best pvpers on our server. I hunt NS on a regular basis and almost never die. In fact, it had been several weeks since my last NS death, and that was from an elder with a stun baton. I managed to die not once, but twice, from (and yes, you can laugh too) a group of NS stalkers!!!! I can't remember the last time I felt like such a noob. My friend was quite polite about it and only made one crack....that maybe I'd better stick a little closer to him. 
Phenix1050
Mon Oct 18, 2004 4:09 am
#19
Vorpaks wrote:
Almagill wrote: My Shortest Ever GRM"
I felt so bad, I was practically dying with laughter on my desk.
"Oh look! Here's Ken!"
"Oh look! Kens... dead..."
All these Master Rangers and not one thought to /rescue
I doubt we had time to rescue him at all. I was literally typing out "Hi Ken" when I saw him join the group...i ended up having to finish the thought with "...bye Ken" after seeing him get killed as I was typing Hello.
Arkangil
Mon Oct 18, 2004 5:53 am
#20
Took a contract to try and track a krayt for someone. Since they wanted to try soloing it, and just wanted a wp, I didnt bother buffing, went out to the graveyard and started my work. As Im riding around I see a red-con. As a master swordsman, with a bit of efford I can take out a red con, and since tracking IS the most boring thing you can do, I decided to take a minute for myself. Of course, I hadn't bothered using my tracking to see what it was, nor had I bothered to even tab over to it.
Since I was unbuffed, I assumed the red con was just a dune lizard, or dragonnet, or something other than a krayt, as it was mid-afternoon, and by then most krayt spawns are already dead. And after learning my lesson while I was a noob on dantooine from a piket, I put my swoop away.
I think you all see where this is going......
Canyon krayt stomped me out like I was an ant to an elephant!!
Normally I wouldnt be embarrassed by getting killed by a krayt, but its the fact that I was tracking them, and using all my ranger tools at the time, that kills me!!
Oye
Master Ranger/Master Swordsman
Bloodfin
Calculus_Entropy
Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:36 am
#21
I am also guilty of the spamming-specials-when-brandy-and-ahrissa-wears-off death. My next most common death has to be charging into a group of nasties when I have my Doc nearby (to heal me), but he is otheriwse occupied. 
OOM
Mon Oct 18, 2004 8:00 am
#22
For me it was attacking Stormtroopers... I had been purging the countryside of imperials for alittle whilewhen I came upon a small group of Stormtroopers. I thought "No problem" and started attacking - for me that involves charging with my pets then pulling out to fire my pistol. For some reason it was taking a long time to kill them. My pets were going down so I throw myself into the fray hoping to re-directthe fire... I die. My pets survive. 
Why did it take so long to kill the Stormies? My pistol condition was at 0. I was doing a whopping 1 point of damage. First and last time that ever happened.
Cheers,
Aitwexoeth
Fodder650
Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:53 am
#24
Fred thats just embarrasing but when I was a midlevel fighter I used to hate them.
Oom remember to check your equipment before going out
Oom remember to check your equipment before going out
Oreet
Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:54 am
#25
guess it's my turn.
my main character is a TKM/Ranger. i'm used ot taking out most small things like nuna's and chubas and whatnot in one hit. i got into the JTL beta. i made a character who was master shipwright, master artisan, master architect, with some tailor and droid engineer (NOTE: absolutly NO combat skills)
i placed a house outside Kaadara to use as my crafting center for making ships and equipment. one day as i walked to the house from Kaadara i spotted a Nargalatch Cub. I thought, awww, look at the cute little kitty. forgetting that i can't kill it in one hit, i walked right passed it, and it incapped me really fast. i forget if it DB'ed me or not, but just an incap from a Nargalatch cub is pretty embarassing for a seasoned Ranger.
on a side note, the Nargalatch Cub con'ed RED for me.
Phenix1050
Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:10 am
#26
Okay onebeautiful sunshine-soaked afternoon outside of Kaadara I decide to head over to a lovely young females house. I was pink at the time, so I wore lots of clothes and armor. So I arrive and am promptly get /tackle-/tickled. After getting up off the ground, I notice she's taking on some Rogue Faambas. Being the uber-leet BH, I pull my LLC, and promptly go to work. Get aggro'd do fine...healing myself a bit here and there. I end up switching weapons and for some unknown reason, my hands slips over to the "bleed" button. So the creature incaps me...fine. Lovely thing is I was feeling REALLY good that day and I pop up...instantly. Bam, second in-cap. Short timer, too. So of course the creature is still bleeding and though my female friend has been plugging away with a T21, the creature is still alive when I wake up again. Promptly, the bleed hits, I try to run and /heal...but to no avail. Boom, tripple incap, quick trip to the Kaadara cloning facilities and got scanned by a Stormie coming back out. Luckily I was neutral at that point, but still...