Curse

Fril Estelin · Jun 03, 2009, 06:47 AM // 06:47

Gave a mini (Ceratadon IIRC), Claws of the brotherhood and boose to a friend who returned the favor, gave a few little things to allies who needed them. I think helping newbies is the best thing we can do in the game, or in the Q&A section of Guru ofc. And giving a bit of our time to help on mishs/quests too.

Zodiac Meteor · Jun 03, 2009, 07:01 AM // 07:01

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Originally Posted by Regina Buenaobra

Like fenix, I don't give out stuff, but I do offer to help people with Missions and quests, and I do help with information. Sometimes I have stayed in districts for a long time just answering questions to newbies.

Wow! An open response by a reliable Arena-net member that keeps secrets about monthy updates (WTB Spoilers, I hate not knowing the unknown!)

Speaking of wanting answers, how many people are working on GW1? Are thier going to content updates like april anymore? Are you going to condiser suggestions? With all the people are working on GW2, I'm expecting a GTA3 to GTA4 kind of deal, a OMFG pure awesomesause on GW2. I hope you aim to please

On topic:

Myself, I'm very charitable. Yesterday (literally), I was talking to this guy buying a dragon sword (?). So I went off and bought a icy dragon sword at Droknars for 12k, come back, sold to him for 10k, along with a fiery dragon sword and green shields that were standing in storage. Grateful about giving him the extra items, we get on the topic of vampiric dragon swords. Not knowing about the traveler, I offered to help him get his claws. Sure enough we got to Nicholas and... Nothing good. I guess I was bored or something so we travel to droks and I give him 5 blue dyes, 5k, 200 iron ingots and 32 scales for his new Wvyern Armor to much his Icy Dragon Sword.

I don't know why I helped, and he is just one of the many. I don't know karma exsits or not, but I want my cookie!

headlesshobbs · Jun 03, 2009, 07:06 AM // 07:06

Sometimes I like to go in pre-searing so I can help people do some charr farming. I'll bet that puts a dent to a few gate monkies looking for their meal ticket!

upier · Jun 03, 2009, 07:09 AM // 07:09

A stranger's just a friend you haven't met yet.

Plus, handing out crap to the less fortunate helps in solving my storage problems.

tasha · Jun 03, 2009, 07:15 AM // 07:15

I don't give anyone any money, but rather if they're looking for an item I'll give it to them for free. If its an expensive item I'll ask for something I'm after in return (always of a lesser value, like a few lockpicks). I'll frequently answer questions from confused players in towns, and if someone is new and comes back to ask for advice a few times I'll tend to focus my attention on them more than others. Really it depends if those wanting stuff are grateful in receiving stuff.

BenjZee · Jun 03, 2009, 07:16 AM // 07:16

In terms of giving out gifts i find myself giving tomes to those who don't have skills. Even if the group fails in the first 5 minutes...
i tend not to give some weapons as it gets abused by newbs thinking theyre oh soo powerful

Elephantaliste · Jun 03, 2009, 07:39 AM // 07:39

i prefer to give advanced/experienced advices, it is more valuable and cost effective than just some k... ^^

Squishy ftw · Jun 03, 2009, 07:48 AM // 07:48

I give stuff to friends/guildies quite often, never to random strangers. I do help out random people if I'm bored but that's not by giving them gold/items.

LONGA · Jun 03, 2009, 08:03 AM // 08:03

Gave random people dedicated minis due to stroge limit and Im too lazy to do WTS , WTB WTT etc.

Lyger · Jun 03, 2009, 08:14 AM // 08:14

I generally only give stuff to my alliance and stuff. In the cases where I can't give something away, I tend to realise it's worthless and just merch it.

In my last guild, I used to give out 'newbie assassin packs'. It consisted of a Claws of the Broodmother, 5 assassin tomes and 5 orange dye, so the lucky assassin could dye his armour orange like Naruto. Sometimes, they'd get an elite assassin tome thrown in also. Depending on how the raptor farming had gone, of course.

Sierraa · Jun 03, 2009, 08:19 AM // 08:19

I used to be a super generous person, buying people armor, running them, only logging on to do stuff for alliance/guild mates who asked for help. I'd take in people new to HA and help them with bars, skills etc too.

Then it got annoying.

I buy good friends stuff all the time but not before I buy something for myself.

Deimos Zargarda · Jun 03, 2009, 09:41 AM // 09:41

I usualy answer ppl´ s questions bout the game while everyone else mocks on them.

take_me · Jun 03, 2009, 09:43 AM // 09:43

It's quite hard these days to give items away (to strangers)....
Now I'd rather merch a weapon worth a few k instead of trying to find someone, because:
- Either that someone just turns around and tries to sell the weapon
- More than 1 will whisper me and I have to tell the others how "sorry" I am, that the item is gone.
- You will get whispered all the time by the person you gave the item

But for me charitable doesnt mean that you hand out expensive weapons or huge sums of money. That is easy and doesnt take a lot of effort..

Sometimes I just stand in town and answer people's questions, help someone cap a skill if he asks nicely, help out with a few materials for the first new armor, etc.

I don't give away money, at least nothing above 1k. In most cases just a few gold coins so that they can open their storage, or maybe a few 100 gold for a skill they really need

I give / gave away some Minis and weapons to friends ... but that's all...

faraaz · Jun 03, 2009, 09:48 AM // 09:48

This guy I know bought a friend FoW...I made my wtf (o_0) face.

EPO Bot · Jun 03, 2009, 09:54 AM // 09:54

There may come a time when i finally got enough of this game and give all my stuff away before rock n roll suiciding my monk. But not today.

Darth The Xx · Jun 03, 2009, 10:24 AM // 10:24

If somebody is getting abused in all chat, I tend to help them out with Q&A or if they are asking for builds/methods for missions and im bored enough I'll just run them through.Sometimes give out items though, never money.

As for what ppl have ever given me, the most I can think of is one guy was desperate for a luxon guest invite and he gave me 2 Z keys. Noobs I help out usually try thanks me by giving me all their money, usually in the 2k and under range, I just reject those, cus I know it'll screw them when they go to buy their max armour,, and I know I'll prolly just use it for something random like re-dying my armour.

Also I like to do those random quizes with like Z keys up for grabs or random green/gold items.

I also NEVER give to beggars, in fact I despise them, the dude standing in the corner spamming how he needs 14k for his primeval, I give them the go farm like every1 else treatment

Suridan · Jun 03, 2009, 10:28 AM // 10:28

Lol I agree with Chocobo, When I give things to newbies, they rarely appreciate it, but when they do they always decide to add me to their friends lists, and then constantly nagging about stuff in the game. I dont mind answering the first few questions but when theres 100 being asked one after the other, it gets slightly annoying

glacialphoenix · Jun 03, 2009, 10:50 AM // 10:50

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This guy I know bought a friend FoW...I made my wtf (o_0) face.

The boyfriend wanted to buy me a tormented shield outright; I refused to let him. (Well, I was fairly adamant about it up until I farmed 2k party points for him.)

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I also NEVER give to beggars, in fact I despise them, the dude standing in the corner spamming how he needs 14k for his primeval, I give them the go farm like every1 else treatment

Yeah - I can understand newbies wanting the 50g for storage; it's the people who expect you to fork out cash for their elite armour set (which they can jolly well save up for like everyone else) that make me go O_o.

Oh, but one of the nicest things I did see ingame was back when I first started playing; I was in a group with a warrior who was still in presearing armour around Yak's Bend, and was dying really rather fast. The group, puzzled by this, finally asked him what armour he was wearing, and when we figured out it was presear armour, we suggested he should get a better set.

To this end, the leader zoned back to town, and everyone chipped in a little for the guy's new armourset - a bit of cash, a couple of mats, etc before going off and finishing the quest with the surprised warrior.

Lonesamurai · Jun 03, 2009, 10:59 AM // 10:59

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Originally Posted by glacialphoenix

Oh, but one of the nicest things I did see ingame was back when I first started playing; I was in a group with a warrior who was still in presearing armour around Yak's Bend, and was dying really rather fast. The group, puzzled by this, finally asked him what armour he was wearing, and when we figured out it was presear armour, we suggested he should get a better set.

To this end, the leader zoned back to town, and everyone chipped in a little for the guy's new armourset - a bit of cash, a couple of mats, etc before going off and finishing the quest with the surprised warrior.

made a few loyal guild officers like that, catching them new to the game, helping them out and then getting them into my guild

being nice then getting a loyal guildie back is a great feeling

MithranArkanere · Jun 03, 2009, 11:10 AM // 11:10

I give out greens my heroes don't use.
First I offer to my guildies, if no one needs them, I go to some starting area and give them to level 5..10 characters.