
The Case of the Missinig Flasks
Friday, January 22nd, 2010Allow me expatiate upon my ordeal this week.
Shortly before Monday’s raid, I realized I had only 1 Flask of Endless Rage. Usually I get someone to craft some for me, but with the price of Frost Lotus at the time, it was cheaper to just pick up 2 on the Auction House for about 38 gold each. So I hopped onto my bank alt, picked up some Flasks.
I logged into Brajana and proceeded to head out to Icecrown to fit in a few dailies before raid time, and then headed to the Citadel. Monday was our night of Professor attempts, so I was pretty excited.
We mowed down the trash quickly, and found ourselves buffing at the Professor’s front door. I looked at my hotbar, where I recently removed a few unused macros and placed some other more often used things (like my Flasks). But what’s this?
Hmm, odd.
Now, if I had left them on my bank alt, Bagnon would have a little line saying something like “Tazdingo (Bags: 2)”. But as far as Bagnon knew, I didn’t have any Flasks anywhere, no alts, no banks.
Oh, I though to myself, I must have forgotten to get them out of the mail.
But there was no little “New Mail” icon on my map.
Oh, I must have opened the mail but not taken the flasks OUT of the mail. Silly me!
So I apologized and quickly hearthed to Dalaran to get them… but my mailbox was completely empty. What the heck?!
I must have left them in my bank alt’s mailbox! What a dummy!
So I apologized again, and quickly logged over to Tazdingo to find… an empty mailbox. Well, it’s clear I did buy them from looking at my gold reserves. Maybe I typed the name wrong when I sent them? Maybe they’ve gotten lost in the mail system? I opened a GM ticket and borrowed a Flask from another raider and went on with the raid night, confused and frustrated.
Wednesday comes around and we’re raiding again. I’d received a response from the GM telling me they couldn’t find my missing mail. After giving up and hoping “Brajan” or whoever I must have accidentally sent the mail to is enjoying their free flasks, I picked up FIVE new flasks and made sure I got them, had them in my bags and was ready to go at raid time. We did a quick Sarth 3D zerg (it was the weekly) and started heading to Icecrown.
That’s when I happened to notice I’ve got the Flask of Endless Rage (52 minutes remaining) buff. Confused (as I didn’t bother to Flask for Sarth), I look at my hotbar again.
…
BUT THERE WERE FIVE OF THEM!!!
And then it begins to click.
Although there clearly is no indicator of it, maybe that hotbar location is bound to something. So I put something else in that spot (a Red Rose) so that I would KNOW if I somehow hit that button (when it tells me “I can’t equip that with a 2H weapon!”).
Low and behold, we rushed into battle, I sent my pet in and… “I can’t equip that with a 2H weapon!”
Turns out that was the old location of my Hunter’s Mark + petattack macro. However, since that keybinding was set before I installed Bartender, it had no label on it.
Every time I tried to send my pet in to attack something for the last 2 raid nights, I burned a Flask.
/facepalm
I might also add that I took that macro off of my bar because in last week’s raid, I confused it for my just Hunter’s Mark button and sent my pet in to pull Rotface all by himself while we were buffing.
That macro is cursed!