Curse

Timey · Jul 30, 2010, 04:34 PM // 16:34

The first time I went raptor leeching I was like 'oh cool I can just sit here afk and get asuran rep' so I joined a group and then left the room for a few. Needless to say I probably went through a few rounds without actually talking to the bounty guy and actually getting any rep. When I came back the farmer had died, everyone else was gone (to the second shrine) and were yelling at me to zone. Pretty embarrassing u.u!

instanceskiller · Jul 30, 2010, 05:00 PM // 17:00

My most embarrassing moment...(and a really long moment it was)...was when I first started playing guildwars in the first week of factions release. I bought guild wars factions because I really liked the fact that they had assassins and it was free to play once you bought it (I was like 13, and my parents wouldn't have liked paying monthly subscription fees).

Anyways, I then played it for a while with my newly created assassin daily for about 4 or more hours a day. Shortly afterward, I heard how there was a much bigger region (mainland cantha) to explore once I got past the starter island I was currently in (Shing Jea). I heard it would take only a day or so to leave the island. Eventually, I reached the last little bit of the Island just before Zen daijun where you had to go to the aid of the teachers or something. It took me about a week to get this far due to me constantly dying... Due to how I thought the quest was so hard, I thought it must have been the last thing you had to do before leaving for the mainland. At the time, I remember pugging so much with lots of people for about 3 days before FINALLY completing it. I was wandering why so many people who were around the same level as me survived longer and why I kept dying. I also thought that most of the player base was horrid as I couldn't understand why so many people started leaving me before the quest ended and called me a noob...

So, when I did finally finish the mission ON MY OWN with henchies and luck, I was like, 'YES FINALLY!!!' but then I was like 'you've got to be joking...' when I found out that I still couldn't get to the mainland and that I had another mission to do, Zen Daijun. Thinking that no other quest/mission could be as hard and annoying as the aiding teachers from afflicted quest, I did it hoping it would be easy. It was not. I pugged a lot and died a lot. Most people left midway through the mission, though I do remember one pug attempt where we made it to the end but I kept death charging into the boss at the end and this monk had to keep rezzing me... and yeah...it really didn't help much...and they all left.

After many failed attempts I stopped for a couple days. When I came back on and continued to fail, I eventually found this one pug, which were quite err...skeptical... When we reached the end and our monk died trying to res me along with our only other non-res sig rezzer , and it didn't look good, they all became skeptical as to why I kept dying to say it in a nicer way...
One of them asked me what armor I was using and, not knowing I could craft armor yet, I said starter armor...they all left, but not without calling me a noob amongst other things...

So yes, when i finally found out about crafting armor...I was like...oh...that was an embarrassing 2-3 weeks. On the bright side...I finally made it to the mainland, in my new seitung armor, (which costed me most of my money)....before finding out you could craft max armor shortly afterwards

EDIT: I probably didn't help in giving assassins a better reputation than they had at the time.

Xiaquin · Jul 30, 2010, 05:23 PM // 17:23

I've done the wrong-secondary elite capping more than once (or leaving without a signet).

I remember one time I wanted to do this Z-bounty on all my characters. I grabbed my mule and jumped in a pug, last one for the day. I only realized when we started that I didn't have a weapon. I played almost the whole way unarmed, shooting fire bare-handed. I equipped the first staff that dropped and hoped no one had noticed.

I think the most costly embarrassment was the elite Kurzick mask. It clips out the back of my ranger's long, flat hair, and looks like I have horns. Completely wasted. Worse, I went into the HoM and when I put in my elite Sunspear (no mask purchased) I realized I could still display it fully. So, technically, I could have seen what I looked like with the elite Kurzick mask, if I had only known. Also, that clipping was shown on wikia images, I had only checked the wiki, which displays females with short hair.

Ka Tet · Jul 30, 2010, 05:52 PM // 17:52

Customized a Silverwing Recurve Bow during the first week of EoTN not realizing how much that skin was going to be worth.

End · Jul 30, 2010, 06:53 PM // 18:53

Probably last night...some old friends of mine and me decided to do urgoz...and ofc they all asked me to setup builds for them and their heros (which took ages cause they dont have all the skills unlocked xD ) and we spent probably an hour and a half setting up builds. Then we finally go in and are rolling everything. Then, we get to the room were you need necrotic traversal...and they just hear me on vent say "shiiiiiitttttt"...as of course...I had forgotten to give anyone traversal xD

Charlie Dayman · Jul 30, 2010, 06:58 PM // 18:58

I merched a q9 Clockwork Scythe because I didn't understand the trade scene back then, and 400g seemed like a huge fortune to me.

Also ran the Zen Daijun mission way back in the day and was trying to help this low level player out. I kept asking him if he was ready, but he never responded back to me. It was only after the guy left that I realized I had the team chatbox unchecked. I must have made him red in the face, because he was apparently shouting and swearing on the other side of the chat box.

broncomania · Jul 30, 2010, 07:13 PM // 19:13

Few to share..
1. kept putting enchants on a NPC for my first 55 or 600 characters and getting pawned..
2. ruining UW team by accepting wrong quests (com'on it's not that i'm the only ppl here done this b4)

By far the worst feeling as a healer... it's getting rez'ed by a warrior ... just doesn't seem right =(

Thanks, OP.. i like this thread!!

Just remembered another one... running around in a town half-naked after trashing pant after salvaging a worthless rune

Ludichris1 · Jul 30, 2010, 07:33 PM // 19:33

Thanks for all the replies; I read them all

Interesting moments lol

Selling an item that was worth way more than what u got it for I don't think is embarrassing, just really really really really really really really annoying

Frodo_lives · Jul 30, 2010, 09:43 PM // 21:43

Well I started in Pre and leveled my Ranger to 17 IN PRE!!!!! IT TOOK three Months!!!!! Then moved him over to post.... and I was soo Noobish that I needed Help on the first few missions....at level 17...level 20 peeps would say You need help!!! Then I told them I just moved over form Pre they then told me I should have kept My char over there as a perma Pre cause it is soo hard to level up in pre..... I wasted three months of my life leveling up in pre to move him to post ..... Now I can get to level 20 in about 2 hours after creation.... and now I have 5 accounts and like 43 chars...

But I still love Pre it was my home for so long....

kagenuma · Jul 30, 2010, 09:51 PM // 21:51

Ill share aswel:

1.when i started playing gw factions... I wanted to do some quests but it seemed so hard kill all the foes by myself. So i tried to add some players to my party by clicking on everyone around.
Finaly, someone joined!!! Weee. I was so happy and excited. My first team m8. So I started to chat a little,"how are you?Wanna quest together" ect. 10 mins later - he didnt answer. "Okey well...fine. If u dont want to talk... Lets go!" Outside, I realized it was a henchman npc >.>

2. My awesome super deluxe uber cool Warrior with sword and offhand. "FFS why dont u have a
shield?!" "Oh cmon please, I dont need a shield, I need ENERGY!"

own age myname · Jul 30, 2010, 10:08 PM // 22:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by broncomania

2. ruining UW team by accepting wrong quests (com'on it's not that i'm the only ppl here done this b4)

Done that too, don't feel bad lol

Quote:

Originally Posted by kagenuma

2. My awesome super deluxe uber cool Warrior with sword and offhand. "FFS why dont u have a
shield?!" "Oh cmon please, I dont need a shield, I need ENERGY!"

Lol, I used to think that too xD.

Commander Kanen · Jul 30, 2010, 11:26 PM // 23:26

When i first started playing after factions launch i was shouting " WTB Wand mods " ofc back then you couldnt upgrade wands. oops.

Luminarus · Jul 31, 2010, 01:04 AM // 01:04

Remaking my 3 year old, r2 koabd warrior with customized r8 15>50 weapons etc, because he had a terrible name, a month before they announced the name change update.

I was so pissed off!!!

Ludichris1 · Jul 31, 2010, 01:22 AM // 01:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by kagenuma

Ill share aswel:

1.when i started playing gw factions... I wanted to do some quests but it seemed so hard kill all the foes by myself. So i tried to add some players to my party by clicking on everyone around.
Finaly, someone joined!!! Weee. I was so happy and excited. My first team m8. So I started to chat a little,"how are you?Wanna quest together" ect. 10 mins later - he didnt answer. "Okey well...fine. If u dont want to talk... Lets go!" Outside, I realized it was a henchman npc >.>

2. My awesome super deluxe uber cool Warrior with sword and offhand. "FFS why dont u have a
shield?!" "Oh cmon please, I dont need a shield, I need ENERGY!"

hahaah that first one made me do a literal LOL XD

To Chicken To Die · Jul 31, 2010, 09:08 AM // 09:08

about 62 months ago when I just bought GW I deleted toons about 15 times when I was in Yaks bend because I was not statisfied with the second prof. Untill after 1,5 month or something someone said that I could change the second prof later in the game.

Takeko Nakano · Jul 31, 2010, 11:13 AM // 11:13

Levelling up in pre-searing by killing monsders, wondering why it was taking me so long to get somewhere and then realising that I hadn't done any quests.

Most costly was buying a perfect vamp string (old days before greens, etc) at a good price, adding it to my perfect gold bow and hoping to make lots of money. Only later did I realise that the bow had no damage bonus.....

Pieraz · Jul 31, 2010, 12:04 PM // 12:04

It took me a while to understand how to start prophecies missions

Einherj3r · Jul 31, 2010, 12:32 PM // 12:32

When I found out Anet is just milking the PvE scrubs after they released Nightfall. It's embarrassing because I already bought Nightfall.

Mintha Syl · Jul 31, 2010, 01:52 PM // 13:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pieraz

It took me a while to understand how to start prophecies missions

Me too! When I first reached the northern wall I don't know how much time I spent looking around and talking to every single npc to find out what to do. Then I gave up and moved to make the secondary quests. Only after that I returned and found the "enter" xD So I think I did almost every single Ascalon quest+exploration before doing the first mission

Neky · Aug 01, 2010, 12:40 PM // 12:40

I finished NF with 2 chars and then i bought the complete collection, went to Factions and spent 2 hours trying to start the Vizunah Square mission...damn those buttons are small.