Most of my engineering failures are pretty meh… but a friend asked me what the net thrower did, so I started a duel and he was running around like a fool so he could see it land on him… but it ran me forward next to him and netted both of us. “Uh, hi.”

I thought the backfire would be that you would end up wearing a fashion horror transmog instead of the outfit you wanted, and would get a debuff preventing you from changing the transmog for 1 hour. Lol.

I don’t think I’ve got any particularly hilarious engineering stories beyond the normal rocket boots/nitro boost failures. Though, using a “World Enlarger” and then riding a motorcycle with your full-sized friend is pretty comical to look at.

Damn, now I wish I’d made a “tell me your favorite malfunctioning engineering” post, that rocks.

Each of us minding our own business watching castbars play out over and over and over when out of nowhere KABOOM! ORC EXPLODES! I had no idea what happened. I swiveled my camera around, looking for some hidden enemy player or monster powerful enough do destroy a mighty 70 in one hit! Panic set in as nothing was immediately apparent, no guards went on alert, no red nametag to be seen or monster to blot out the sun. A second later, I got a whisper from the player asking for a rez.

“what the hell WAS that”?
“Goblin dynomite”

I didn’t respond other than to rez. It was a very long time before I found out what that was, the way he said it was so matter of fact that I didn’t want to sound like the ignorant noob I was. I still laugh thinking about the peaceful serenity of 2 people just crafting their wares out in picturesque Arathi and a suddenly explosive orc, followed by a mighty 70 sheepishly asking a lowly lowbie like me for a rez.