Curse

tigernz · Jan 06, 2006, 06:32 PM // 18:32

Been a while since I had one to add (soloing tends to remove this problem

) but came across this one guy who really bugged me the other day during 2 man UW runs.

He was the 55 monk, I was playing SS/SV necro. About a third of the way through my net connection glitched out & I got d/c'd (it's been doing that a bit lately...grr)
When I got it back up and running I reloaded the game & PM'd the guy I was there with apologising and explaining what had happened.
I was called a liar and told repeatedly that I owed him a free run to the UW because I'd ripped him off.

Of course explaining everything didn't help at all and he then started demanding the ecto that had dropped for me because he "deserved it" after I ripped him off like that.

Found a new monk to go with and the same guy kept whispering that I owed him, that I was a scammer etc.
Eventually had to add him to my ignore list. Wouldn't surprise me if he then went around spamming in local chat in ToA about how I scammed him...

Back to soloing or only partying with guildies & people on the friends list for me I guess

Sallythekiller · Jan 06, 2006, 08:28 PM // 20:28

The biggest jerk I have ever seen in gw was during one of the easy shiverpeak missions. I believe frost gate. anyways, our party had just completed the bonus and had gotten to the part where you light the beacon with the blue torch when our party leader got a gold drop. we light 2/3 sides of the beacon, then the ele with the torch stands infront of the last one and says, "give me the gold." we're all thinking, this has to be a joke, but the ele starts dancing infront of the beacon. our fearless leader wound up giving him the gold and the jerk ele finally lit the beacon.

I think multiple members of the party wound up reporting him = )

LouAl · Jan 06, 2006, 08:37 PM // 20:37

I would have never given him the item...only reinforces that kind of behavior. What a loser (referring to the jerk of course).

I actually haven't met ANY jerks recently (Reason: Holidays?). The closest thing was a guy I grouped with had to go halfway through a quest.

It isn't nearly as much fun when there aren't jerks all over to laugh at.

Lim-Dul · Jan 06, 2006, 09:30 PM // 21:30

I've actually met a funny kind of jerk on one of my IDS farming runs.

Well - I've been playing my monk - I play all kinds of builds with him - lately I've been playing as a bonder in farming teams a lot. We couldn't find a healer in the Granite Citadel though and there were several bonders advertising, so we've taken one randomly. He/she (not sure - used a female char - let's call "him" a "she" from now on for convenience - nothing sexist about it). She said she'd just been on 5 farming runs and they were all successful, so we didn't investigate what skills she'd be using - since we were a 4-man farming party, a competent bonder is a must have. We were astonished by the fact that after we've left the Citadel she cast mending on everyone of us. Ehm... Well... I've pointed out that it seemed "a bit strange", but the so-called bonder said she'd know what she was doing and she'd cast all the bonds during fights. This seemed reasonable for me as casting bonds during fights is much easier, cause you get all the energy you need through your LifeBond-Balthazar's Spirit/Essence Bond combo and don't need to make your team wait for your energy at the beginning of the level for some time while you're struggling with your energy degen.

Shortly after that we got our Life Bonds (during a fight) but I noticed a strange thing: the "bonder
herself had no enchantment whatsoever on her - so no Essence Bond/Balthazar's Spirit. Well - she didn't say anything except for the usual "I know what I'm doing" mantra. The absence of Life Barrier started to bother me as well though - 4 people, 6 bonds + 1 or 2 (depends on your style) self-enchantments - every dork can maintain that even with a Blessed Sig if he/she hasn't heard of proper bonding with Balth's Spirit or Essence Bond.

Finally we made it through Tasca's Demise, though the fights were far from smooth with this "quasi bonder". We got to Mineral Springs and as you probably all know there's a quite large group of Tengu at the beginning.

We all died. Finally I asked her around: are you even using Balthazar's Spirit? Why didn't we have any bonds, only Mending?

That's the reply I've received, which precisely qualifies for the "jerk award":

Bonder: "I'm not using Balthazar's Spirit, because it's useless and with mending I can heal you from afar. I cast bonds only during fights."

Me: "But that's not the point of a bonder - Balthazar's Spirit can give you almost infinite energy with Life Bonds - and your Protection Prayers don't seem high either. You should be able to maintain more enchantments permanently. Even Life Bonds with Life Barriers."

Bonder: "Stop telling me what to do. I know what I'm doing! You're just dumb and rushing into danger all the time!"

And she left.

Weeell - as a side note - the tengu at the beginning of the Mineral Springs can hardly be avoided. =) I may also qualify for the "naivety" award for keeping her for so long in our party and ignoring SO MANY signs of incompetence. ;-)

Mending-bonders FTW!

P.S. I SEEERIOUSLY doubt that the above mentioned bonder had been on 5 successful IDS farming runs in small groups.

The First Attacker · Jan 07, 2006, 01:04 AM // 01:04

I remember doing a mission with some n00b N/W who thought he was a warroir and kept dieing - yes he used a sword and shield, no necro skills. He then pmed me saying for me to heal better (being on my monk account). After he finnished throwing a few fits I left him dead on the floor and we did the mission.

Lim-Dul · Jan 07, 2006, 01:20 AM // 01:20

Ah yeah - I remember an E/W doing about the same thing. You CAN make a decent E/W hand-to-hand combat build, but there was nothing decent about the forever-dying, insulting us for not keeping him alive, newbish and rude jerk.

draugr · Jan 07, 2006, 01:22 AM // 01:22

Latest jerk encountered:

Abaddon's Mouth Mission, we have gone to the end and are killing the last three ether seals that essentially end the mission. Our real Mo is a very weak healer and our E/Mo has been taking up the slack.

We hadn't discussed doing the bonus or not and the E/mo and a Ranger want to do it but have been outvoted. They decide between them to let the rest of the team die so they can go back and set up the bonus, then rez us thinking we will be gutless enough to stick around and complete the mission, totally against the rest of the team's wishes. We had a leaver midway through so we are shorthanded as it is.

They run off and leave us fighting the main battle with only the weak monk healing; we all die but them. Once it becomes apparent what happened I leave the team immediately because id rather spend another hour doing the mission again than letting utter asshats get away with stuff like that.

I imagine they completed the mission without me because the honest (but gutless) players probably stayed around and waited for rez and swallowed their pride.

IMO, when faced with tardies like this all should leave the team so they don't benefit from their bad act.

Tarkin · Jan 07, 2006, 02:00 AM // 02:00

One time i doing one of the last missions, in the harder part, my mouse broken... lol... the fight are intensus... and i still stopped back from fight... lol
i use arrows to move back from fight... and open the mouse and begin to fix it... and lots of good itens start to drop to me... golden... purple... the leader ask for me... wheres pega? what him doing? (i cant say that mouse broken)lol... well i use arrows and use the broken mouse to get itens... lol and someone say "look pega is run around and getting drops..." "RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO" "lamer" "kick him" "kick" lol...
Everyone make a big mistake sometime... or a funny crazy thing...

chris_nin00 · Jan 07, 2006, 02:08 AM // 02:08

Tarkin,
What does that story have to do with the biggest jerk?

Just kidding, just kidding.

Oh, its my turn to say the baddest jerk huh?
Mmmk,
Ok,
uhhhhhh...

I'll come back later

Morangen · Jan 07, 2006, 03:16 AM // 03:16

I dont remember any one player that was worse than another, but I can tell you what my least favorite player type is.

The players I dislike the most are those who are intolerant of other players. People who get mad at others because they are not playing a certain profession "correctly", or those who get mad at those who take a character between 15-19 into the lions arch arena (or something similar). Personally I dont think there is a "right" way to play this game. If a player wants to make a monk and give the guy a hammer and go attack stuff with it then great (as long as he doesnt go and aggro everything). If a player wants to play in one of the competition arenas with a character between 15 and 19 then let him. If he is good at it then he will learn how to use his skills to help the team, or he will get sick of always being dead and try again later.
I dont know how many times I go to try something new and some know it all starts telling me all the wrong ways I am playing the game. Arena net made the game to be flexible and to give us as players a great deal of choices and for our characters. When it gets to the point where people can only be on the same team as a battery necro instead of a necro without any set build or a trapper instead of the average ranger or something like that then personaly I think the players need to stop playing for a while.

But thats just me. I know its not a specific player but that kind of attitude can be found in many players who play the game (and in any game, but thats just how it goes).

Note** Now I realize that there are times when specific character types are EXTREMELY useful, especially when farming, and doing high level runs like the UW and other areas.

XtrmEend · Jan 07, 2006, 03:30 AM // 03:30

lol, he was offering Thorgalls green ivory bow, I was offering 7k.

jciardha · Jan 07, 2006, 06:19 AM // 06:19

Last night in Ring of Fire:

"What kinda mez are you?? You don't use backfire! lolololololol"

This comment came from a R/Me, who wielded a holy rod and protection icon, and was dropping chaos storm everywhere, causing mass aggro as she would chase after the fleeing mobs, and drawing other mobs our way in the process.

Just a tip from a mesmer who does all the Fire Island missions for fun (at least 30-40 times by now): Backfire is worthless in Ring of Fire and Abbadon's Mouth. Chaos Storm has always been worthless, even before the AOE change.

KurtTheBehemoth · Jan 07, 2006, 06:33 AM // 06:33

Announcement: WTB all that stupid Candy Cane crap that people though was gonna be worth a lot but now can't give away.

I saw this coming. When Wintersday started I was very curious about how the Guild Wars economy would change and for how long. When the collectors started offering candy canes and Wintersday weapons and shields I thought, "Geez this stuff is fun to play with but gets old after a few minutes."
About 5 days into the wintersday patch I was sitting in Nolani Academy and saw a group of people buying Gargoyle Skulls for 150g and Charr carvings for 50g.
Being the conservative person that I am I decided to make my money off of the skulls and carvings because it was immediate. I would go to Piken Square and buy the items for 20-50g a piece and then sell them back to those idiots in Nolani.
Well, Wintersday is over now, and I made an easy 200K. But, if you go into any Ascalon district all you will see are those retarded candy cane horders trying to hock their now useless investment to anyone they can.

WARNING: DO NOT BUY WINTERSDAY ITEMS BECAUSE THEY ARE USELESS.

Sol_Vie · Jan 07, 2006, 06:58 AM // 06:58

I was getting ready to go to FoW the other day (we were patiently waiting while America took HoH). The war in our group asks me "Do you have BIP?" I say no, I'm an SS necro, but I do have BR. For about five minutes after that he's flaming me with these general things: "What use is a necro without BIP? Can't charge the monks. Noob" etc, etc. I calmly explained to him that SS does a lot more damage than nuking, and I have BR so I can keep the monks pretty well charged. The ranger finally stepped in and more or less said "Let's act as a team.'' To which he promptly shut up. My guildie was in the group as one of the monks and we were having a side convo in the guild chat... It's idiots like that who make me just mind boggled as to how they got this far in the game.

generik · Jan 07, 2006, 07:45 AM // 07:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by KurtTheBehemoth

Announcement: WTB all that stupid Candy Cane crap that people though was gonna be worth a lot but now can't give away.

I saw this coming. When Wintersday started I was very curious about how the Guild Wars economy would change and for how long. When the collectors started offering candy canes and Wintersday weapons and shields I thought, "Geez this stuff is fun to play with but gets old after a few minutes."
About 5 days into the wintersday patch I was sitting in Nolani Academy and saw a group of people buying Gargoyle Skulls for 150g and Charr carvings for 50g.
Being the conservative person that I am I decided to make my money off of the skulls and carvings because it was immediate. I would go to Piken Square and buy the items for 20-50g a piece and then sell them back to those idiots in Nolani.
Well, Wintersday is over now, and I made an easy 200K. But, if you go into any Ascalon district all you will see are those retarded candy cane horders trying to hock their now useless investment to anyone they can.

WARNING: DO NOT BUY WINTERSDAY ITEMS BECAUSE THEY ARE USELESS.

Candy canes are definitely not useless. I have yet to see a PUG where we can get to the mesmer mindblades without having a huge DP.

Bloom · Jan 07, 2006, 07:54 AM // 07:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by KurtTheBehemoth

Announcement: WTB all that stupid Candy Cane crap that people though was gonna be worth a lot but now can't give away.

I saw this coming. When Wintersday started I was very curious about how the Guild Wars economy would change and for how long. When the collectors started offering candy canes and Wintersday weapons and shields I thought, "Geez this stuff is fun to play with but gets old after a few minutes."
About 5 days into the wintersday patch I was sitting in Nolani Academy and saw a group of people buying Gargoyle Skulls for 150g and Charr carvings for 50g.
Being the conservative person that I am I decided to make my money off of the skulls and carvings because it was immediate. I would go to Piken Square and buy the items for 20-50g a piece and then sell them back to those idiots in Nolani.
Well, Wintersday is over now, and I made an easy 200K. But, if you go into any Ascalon district all you will see are those retarded candy cane horders trying to hock their now useless investment to anyone they can.

WARNING: DO NOT BUY WINTERSDAY ITEMS BECAUSE THEY ARE USELESS.

I agree about the various weapons and shields but candy canes themselves are far from useless.

antialias02 · Jan 07, 2006, 08:07 AM // 08:07

I was in Tombs tonight looking for non-IWAY builds when I saw a guy advertise for Nukers. Well, I have this really really nifty and energy-efficient fast-casting fire-nuking build that guildies and I use from time. I figured, hey - Shutdown Mes isn't working for me, why not go fire nuker?

So I rebuild my Me/E and I hop back into the district, and the discourse went something like this:

Him: "WTF? I Wanted a nuker!"
Me: "Oh, but this is a nuker. I promise!"
Him: "You can't be a nuker without being an Ele. We need an ele."
Me: "No, really, I've used this build like a thousand times. I know how it works."
Him: "Well, this isn't the normal nuker build. I've made a few changes."
Me: "No, I mean MY SKILLSET. It's a nuking bar, I promise!"
Him: "If you're not an ele, we don't want you."

By this time, I was fed up. I told him if he didn't want me, I'd go somewhere else. (Though naturally, I couldn't, cause the rest of the place was full of IWAY.) But this really flattened my night in terms of PvP. (You'd think the guy would've at least heard of an Echo Nuker... gah.)

VGJustice · Jan 07, 2006, 08:42 AM // 08:42

Went to help a friend of mine with a 5 man SF farm team. I knew a bit about it, so I could help her form a group. Trick is, I'm using a Ranger with Barrage and Life Bond, so we're not doing it completly normal. We get a stance tank (he was used to Griff farming, but he picked up the Gear trick fast enough (not like there's anything to it)) and we get this supposed MM into the group. Conversation as follows:

Jerk Mm: omg what's that ranger doing here?
Me: I'm subbing Nuke
Me: using Barrage
Jerk Mm: wtf try again when you wanna farm right
<Jerk Mm has rage quit>

I'll grant him that a Barrage Ranger is more than a little strange in SF farmin groups, but that was downright rude. Good thing we were still in town :P

Dave83 · Jan 07, 2006, 12:50 PM // 12:50

Yesterday I was host for an abaddons mouth party. So as you do, I was spamming what we needed 'glf blah blah'. So this guy wants to join and i say 'Sorry we have two wars'. He was'nt so much rude to start with but he was persistant so I said 'Look im telling you man we dont need another tank'. He kept self inviting.

Then he says *characters name* sux. So now I just dont reply. He says this person sux and that they did last mission with them but they quit. So i reply 'Yes you have said three times'. Then he says 'hey *other characters name* is a quitter as well.

The dumbass didnt realise the other character was a guildy as well and i knew she hadnt just been in a mission and quit so i say 'stfu you liar, she is a guildy. Be quiet n00by Mcn00bson of the clan McN00b'. Then he says 'You suck my guild rating is 800 - something or other. I bet yours is 2500 - something. I say 'probably, we dont do pvp' simple as that. So inevitably he starts swearing at me. I type 'laterz' and set him ignore.

megalomaniac_mutant · Jan 07, 2006, 01:21 PM // 13:21

him: givin away 20 candy cane shards to the first one who opens trade window
me.yeah right
him:seriously

*i open trade window*
*i get the shards*

me:thx

*sell them at 200g a pice*