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IPlayGuildWars · Oct 17, 2005, 10:23 PM // 22:23

I've never really noticed a really nice guy(or girl).
I've found lots of courteous or nice people, who say thank you and such, civilized people who behave nicely.
I've met people strike random conversations saying "I love your name" when I'm on "I Play Guild Wars", and we'd have nice chats.

I've had people run me for free, but not a really outstanding nice person.

Don't get me wrong, I still <3 nice people.

Cjlr · Oct 17, 2005, 10:41 PM // 22:41

Jerks are fascinating.

Nice guys are boring.

There was this one time, though, me and a couple other people met in Yak's Bend (each our first time through) to do some the the quests there... We had a great time, and by the end of the afternoon, we had gone all the way to the Gates of Kryta and back.

Plus, when we got to Beacon's Perch, we decided to investigate what "that other door" led to... Us being levels 12-14. We actually killed a couple of the first mobs in Lornar's, and I got that max fire wand I've been using ever since.

Conclusion? That story wasn't all that interesting. Stories about jerks, meanwhile, draw plenty of attention. Like kawaii_bat said, people are far more likely to share bad experiences than good ones (or stuff to that extent).

TheGuildWarsPenguin · Oct 17, 2005, 11:10 PM // 23:10

I can't think of any that were especially good.
Sometimes i get maybe 1 free item from someone from my guild.

Ednemak · Oct 17, 2005, 11:19 PM // 23:19

Some guy offered me 100k to run him from Forge to Copper, I took him to the front of copper alive and told him to keep his money and I had to go run an errand

100k is really generous man, he offered me 50k when I gave him the heads up that I had to go when I told him a few mins before I actually left

I didnt take

Mumoto · Oct 17, 2005, 11:40 PM // 23:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cjlr

Jerks are fascinating.

Nice guys are boring.

There was this one time, though, me and a couple other people met in Yak's Bend (each our first time through) to do some the the quests there... We had a great time, and by the end of the afternoon, we had gone all the way to the Gates of Kryta and back.

Plus, when we got to Beacon's Perch, we decided to investigate what "that other door" led to... Us being levels 12-14. We actually killed a couple of the first mobs in Lornar's, and I got that max fire wand I've been using ever since.

Conclusion? That story wasn't all that interesting. Stories about jerks, meanwhile, draw plenty of attention. Like kawaii_bat said, people are far more likely to share bad experiences than good ones (or stuff to that extent).

Jerks might give more fun in some ways, but they can cause problems and annoyance when they're part of your party.

Leavers are particulary annoying, most of the time 1 leaves and the rest follow, leavers are also annoying when you're working on a quest and some of them leave and you have to do it all over again with a different party.

Thieves in FoW/UW are also annoying because sometimes valuable items drop and when you're dead at that time, they'll wait till the 'Reservation' goes away and take the item and res you after.

I don't think those kinds of jerks are really fun to me, I don't think any normal/nice player would be pleased with these kinds of experiences.

Believe me, because some jerks ruin it ... others will act that way too.

lg5000 · Oct 18, 2005, 01:05 AM // 01:05

The nicest person... would have to be the one who was giving away un-id'ed runes at one of the missions, thought that was real nice of him.

Other than that, the guy who appologised to me after the 'heal, monk' thing when I pinged my energy.

pyrohex · Oct 18, 2005, 01:08 AM // 01:08

An ex-guildie of my former, former, former, former guild sold me two un-id'd Monk superiors for 1k each.

Kool Pajamas · Oct 18, 2005, 03:47 AM // 03:47

One time I went into random arena with my level 16, just to see what reactions I would get. I was expecting a bunch of "Noob" calls, but no one said anything. I told them they were so nice

I left after that so I didnt drag any teams down again.

Another time was when some random level 20 offered to help me with quests when I was level 3 fresh out of pre sear. He did about 7 ascalon quests with me.

Sir Panzerfaust · Oct 18, 2005, 05:35 AM // 05:35

The nicest person I met was a level 20 who wanted to do the bonus for The Great Northern Wall mission and said he would help with mission, so it was him, this other girl and me and when we were almost finished with the bonus and the girl left with 2 pieces of the armor we needed for it. After that I thought he was going to leave, but he stayed and finished the mission with me and even gave a max dmg. bow.

Lag Hell · Oct 18, 2005, 05:43 AM // 05:43

Wow...great thread, reading these gets ur spirit up ^^

monk muffle · Oct 18, 2005, 05:50 AM // 05:50

the nicest person i met was by the name of Reclaimer Il i said im in dorks with monk but im drianed cause i bought my warrior his new armor then he says meet me at our guild hall so 30seconds later he syas ill give u some money he then gives me 40k i bougth that set and he was so nice i left the guild tho cause there rank was N/A

huh · Oct 18, 2005, 06:01 AM // 06:01

And here comes one to dampen our spirits.

Leaving after the person gave you 40k?
Doesn't sound very nice to me.

P.S. Please try to use some punctuation next time.

Sagius Truthbarron · Oct 18, 2005, 06:12 AM // 06:12

I made a thread awhile ago about charities that you have done ingame. Perhaps if YOU want to talk about how nice and fantastically made YOU yourselves are, I suggest you post in there.. This thread is about "The NICEST people you've encountered on GW!" if I'm not mistaken, and not "How NICE you are and the people who had the privilege of encountering you!"

Someone sold me two max damage Mursaat Hammer for only 2k. I still use one of them, though I've since crafted one with 4%+ extra damage.

One person gave me a smiting rod, several Ele runes and 1k for being level 1 in Droknar's Forge on my E/mo.. Not out of awe, mind you, but becuase I was explaining to people who were the simple manner in which I made there at level 1.

About the love of negativity.. Look at the news. Do you see them talking about the nice, new community center that was just build and how nice it is and such? Nooo. They want to talk about the guy who got hit by a car, and the guy that got shot, and the little kid that died, and the house that caught on fire, and the gas leak, and the earthquakes, and the like.

People love hearing it. It's like Rome meets Reality TV

Or is that Guild Wars..?

Silent Wandarer · Oct 18, 2005, 06:54 AM // 06:54

nicest ppl on gw r on my friends list

Eripens Vitae · Oct 18, 2005, 09:07 AM // 09:07

The nicest person i ever met was in my first guild, and i was at ring of fire with my first character, a mesmer, and he gave me a bunch of mesmer runes for free, he and some other guildies helped me do ring of fire, which failed so many times already, and in that mission, he found a rare illusion magic staff and he gave it to me unidentified for free.

Pyrea · Oct 18, 2005, 01:12 PM // 13:12

I met some really nice people yesterday whom I ran from Yaks to Sanctum (stopping off at all the usual places on way)

Initially I charged 500g for that whole run but as I was running and chatting, decided to just do it all for free cos they were all very nice, patient and friendly.

They still gave me loads of gold, some nice runes and one one gave me the -50 Focus which I needed for Monk

Thanks Eni

After that we all teleported to Beacons where I gave them a last free run to Droks.

They are on my friends list now and will definitely stay there

Yesterday was one of the best GW days I have ever had (and I play a lot)

Then later I switched to another warrior build and met Bud (with his L20 Necro) and did Althea's Ashes.

Just goes to show you that you definitely meet nice people in GW.

(And just previous to that while at Yaks, I picked up another group who were totally the opposite, telling me to GO GO HURRY LETS GO NOW ... I left that group in a tick)

So Eni, Bud, Mag and Denji: was a terrific party

Pyrea

Snowman · Oct 18, 2005, 02:28 PM // 14:28

I dont think a person that gives away stuff is a nice person at all... they feel pity to those who they give their charity too.. they arnt being nice, they feel sorry for them!

Giving money or items away does nothing for the person your giving it to in any case, I would even say that it takes away some of the enjoyment of playing the game, the chances are these lucky players will simply grow bored of the rpg much sooner.

Nice people are those who tollerate newbies, and help them to become better players by example. People who take the time to explain why certain things work and certain things dont... people who actually help improve peoples knowledge of the game by offering good advice on skills and character builds.

No ammount of money or items will make a player better at guildwars.

For example,

In the early days I struggled to be any good in team arenas, I would get into a team.. lose straight away, then I would be kicked.. or worse, everyone leaves the team. I knew it was because I was n00b, everything seems so hectic that I didnt have a chance to learn anything.

I eventually managed to get into a team which was very good.. in fact without me they could have probably won the games we did, but each time we lost one, they would explain to me how I could have better helped by suggesting different skills.. etc... this was the first time I played solidly with a good team for several hours, you learn so much more when this happens.. you become more relaxed, more confident, you become aware of what you can and cant do and you become more aware of the skills that the enemy is using, and more aware of what is happening in the battle feild as a whole

if it wasnt for the fact that some nice people took the time to help me then it would have taken me LOTS longer to become a skilled pvp player, and I would have probably become bored with the RPG and moved onto another game.

Actually nowadays I enjoy the handicap of having newbies in the team... lol, you get fed up of 30+ consecutuve flawless wins eventually and need a challenge

boxterduke · Oct 18, 2005, 02:29 PM // 14:29

I usually do nice things to people like run them for free here and there or if someone that wants a few iron or feathers, then I just give it for free since its a pain to get only 4 iron or 3 feathers.

But I got 2 NICE weapons for people the other day.
One person I know from other people and I playd with him just once, he came up to me and gave me the Yakslapper.
The other one I think he is from this site and prolly saw my thread that I want to buy bortac's bone staff. He just pmed me and gave it to me for free.

I think if you do nice things then you meet people that do nice things to you also.

Pevil Lihatuh · Oct 18, 2005, 02:45 PM // 14:45

I'd say the nicest I've met was a good few months ago. Two stories actually:

With my Ranger, I'd just reached Dragons Lair, and decided I'd have a go at PvP there. I'd had the odd experience in random arenas, but no more than maybe 10 matches. Anyway, this team of people all from the same guild as each other, and using TS, let me into their team. They were really patient with my lack of experience, gave me suggestions on my build each time we lost, and just generally didn't moan about how I wasn't on TS or anything. Had a great hour of pvp with them, won some, lost some. Good fun.

Second one is with my monk, also a few months back. I was about level 7, just gotten to Fort Ranik. Figured I'd go for the mission, and grouped with 2 other people, and Alesia. I was fairly new to the healing game, but they were both new to guild wars full stop. First time: I didnt heal well enough and we died at the bonus. Second time: we died at the catapults. Third time: we made it through! Not once were there any 'omfg you meant to heal us!!!' or anything else. We waited for each other, worked as a team and had a good laugh.

oh btw, gotta disagree Snowman, some people may give out free stuff coz they feel sorry for 'newbs', but not all of us. I do it if I see someone who needs it, simply coz its going to be useful then, rather than disappear into the traders backpack. It's simply called trying to be nice and help people.

Jetdoc · Oct 18, 2005, 02:51 PM // 14:51

I found that the BEST thing to do for someone is not to give them stuff for free...it's to charge them a ridiculously low price.

Free generally is equated to charity which is generally equated to pity. Cheap will leave them feeling much, much better about themselves because they will (1) have the feeling that they EARNED that item and (2) will realize much later on that they got it for a steal, which will make them appreciate it all the more.

One of the best things anyone did for me was in Yak's Bend after I first started - he sold me a 15 armor, -1 damage while enchanted strength shield for 100g. I still remember that shield to this day for that very reason...