Curse

bele · Jan 25, 2006, 10:41 PM // 22:41

Agree with Kook. I think there is the danger of getting used to such behaviours and to get down to their level . Maybe not a direct harassmet like you suffered, but i think i and many others just let them "pass" and do nothing.

My Jerk

It's not my biggest jerk for sure, but the last i remember. We are in ToA in a group. Not yet formed , 5 of us , and the jerk is shouting like mad (CAPS) . The leader takes a Ranger and the other cries OUT, and the poor leader just kicks him , although was nothing wrong with it (still 5 in group). I think that was too much for me, and got out of the group, even knowing how difficult as Me is to get in one. Anyway, don't think they'd go very far with such jerk in it.

Jas · Jan 25, 2006, 11:06 PM // 23:06

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Originally Posted by generik

Erm, just curious.. is there anything in the US law that prevents us from posting IGNs of these a**hats? Or is it just something in the EULA? (which I have zero intent of complying with anyway)

It'd be so great if we can build a directory of these turds.

It would really be great, but there's one problem I can figure out. When you delete a character, the name stays reserved for your account for only an hour and after that time it may be taken by anybody, and what if someone else manages to pick up the name of an idiot? He/she would get so much bad reputation for nothing. And what good would it be to explain "I just bought this game!"... who would believe that if a character with the same name had been harrassing someone the previous evening?

Toffin · Jan 25, 2006, 11:08 PM // 23:08

Here is my story... Last night me and another runner from our guild was showing our newest runner the run from Ascalon to the Desert. We advertised in Ascalon dis 7 for a lucky person to go with and to invite themselves. Once we had a person in the group we left. I received a PM from someone in Ascalon if he could go with. I politely said we were full and we can meet him in Yaks if he had it. He said sure... Upon arriving in Yaks he added to the group and I wanted to bring another person. So again I asked if anyone wanted to come along. PM's Galore... took the first person to invite themself and then left. Well the person I asked to meet us in Yak's as we were running was killed instantly by a couple ettins. He started talking about how they were raping him and etc... can not repeat what he said... We have a female runner in the group and she started to get upset about it because of the comments and told him/her to stop. I told her to let it go... We hit Ice tooth and he started it up again, but this time like how the priests rape little kids... Well this hit me hard having a kid of my own and of course she has a kid as well. I stopped the run and said to him one more time and the next town I will boot you from the group, you are getting a free run to the desert so keep the comments to yourself... After that he stated he was going AFK and I finished the run to the desert... Yes he IMHO was one of the biggest jerks. I did put him on my ignore list once the run was over.

Retribution X · Jan 27, 2006, 06:31 AM // 06:31

I met my Biggest Jerk today.

I was looking around to help some newer players, and see somone selling sword hilts. (they didn't specify)
Me: what hilts do you have?
jerk: Fiery sword hilts. They make your sword have flames on it and deal fire damage.
Me: Um, They don't change the sword, just the damage style.
jerk: are you idiot? or just Stupid?
Player Jerk is ignoring you.

What's up with ppl like that! ANet should make a law against that stuff.

Divine Elemental · Jan 27, 2006, 07:46 AM // 07:46

as i was grouping for tombs, my friend invited me to his party mostly containing r8+ when he used to be r8, so he invited someone I BET EVERYONE IN GURU knows.. so i was like hey sup, so we go in... so we get to hoh and i was a trapper... and u know who was a war, so i was in altar trying to trap. and suddenly u know who blurted stuff out @ me so i obeyed and traped elsewhere.. we still lost, you know who blamed me, so i was feeling so bad lawl! so there i saw him once again but he hit r9 now.. oh and hes r11 now btw >_> so when he hit r9.. i was r8, he rubed it up my face, telling me i should obey people to get that too.. lol
you all know him, so when he got his r9 i congratulated him... and he was like, Dont Congratulate People If You Dont Mean It!, so yea theres the biggest jerk right there, and almost everyone in guru thinks that guy is so leet sauce >_<
me him and grom used to group a few times too before he started hating me

moriz · Jan 27, 2006, 03:38 PM // 15:38

not so much a jerk story, but it's pretty funny. i just bought the standard leather gear for my ranger, and then suddenly:

jerk: YOU STOLE MY ARMOR!!!!1!
me: i am?
jerk: YES YOU ARE!!!
me: oh, ok.
jerk: MEET YOU AT TEH FIRE!!! OK?!
me: where?
jerk: MEET ME NOW
me: where?
jerk: WHERE DO YOU WANT MEET
me: why should i meet you?
jerk: TO SHOW THAT YOU STOLE MY GEAR
me: i didn't
jerk: YES YOU DID
me: whatever...

Trigear · Jan 27, 2006, 11:00 PM // 23:00

I just tried to get a group together at Gates of Kryta to take my level 11 monk through the mission and bonus. we got two monks, so i thought we were off to a good start, and we had a nice, diverse PUG going, and then this lvl 20 w/n joined, so that looked even better. high level tank and lots of other skills = hopefully fairly easy run through, right?

well this cowboy says he'll only play with us if we'll let him do one thing first, but he won't tell us what and immediately the leader starts the game. i had a hunch I knew what he was doing, and i was right: immediately he ran around to where oink is, around that building to the hidden area with the swarms of undead. I just spent all of yesterday farming there with another character, so i wasn't afraid of the mobs, and we had a fairly easy time of it... and as soon as we clear that area, he leads us on a wild goose chase, claiming he knows where we're going. we fight through some smaller groups of undead, and then he gets to another larger group of them, aggros them onto us, and then drops on us all of a sudden. Just like my hunch.

I can't figure out what he wanted out of that. The drops aren't that good even for solo farming, the key to that area is how quickly you can get through it, lather, rinse, and repeat. with a full group of six, his drops even worse. on top of that, the monsters give no experience at lvl 20... every thirty seconds one random monster gives my lvl 20 +32xp... when I'm soloing. so he wasn't doing it for the xp. Also, since we didn't even start the mission or bonus, he didn't get that out of it either. I couldn't figure out any practical reason why this guy would do that.

The only thing I can think of is that he did it just to be a jerk. waste our time, jerk us around, get us lost, and then aggro a mob on us. no gain for him whatsoever. i wouldn't mind normally, as I'm usually pretty mellow and upbeat, but I had a small window of time to do this mission. i had to run off to work in less than an hour! this jerk wasted my lunch break for nothing!

funnily enough, after some waffling we organized ourselves and then beat the mission rather quickly. Easiest run through of that mission yet for me, the drakes and undead didn't stand a chance.

Teufel Eldritch · Jan 29, 2006, 01:07 AM // 01:07

Not the biggest jerks but...

The 2 wussy Monks that left our Tombs group after finding out that the Necro's weren't batteries. We didn't even get to the very first bridge before they asked the Necros if they were batteries. When they found out they weren't they called the team(& in particulary the Necros) n00bz & ragequit.

A skilled Monk DOES NOT NEED a battery. Batteries are a helpful boost to a skilled Monk but a crutch to a unskilled Monk. If you are a Monk & can't function without a battery...you suck. Quit Monking.

swiftygem · Jan 29, 2006, 11:41 AM // 11:41

I came across the best PvE PUG I've ever been in, we did Riverside province with bonus without a single death, and it was only lvl 17-19 characters. So we did Sanctum cay as well, but had to retry it because we only did the bonus. So in the outpost, we waited for a 6th player to join, finally someone came and we were happy we could start. Just before we loaded the mission, he had a nice comment on how he hates noobs who rush into mobs.
Well, I spent the first few minutes explaining to him why he should drop the damn scepter to give us monks extra energy.....and he kept explaining to me how it's fine, that he's an ele and he doesn't need hands. Then he started rushing into mobs....

Our leader told him politely not to rush, he said "shut up" and that's when it all started. All the way to the Vizier animation, we were arguing with this kid, he tried to threaten us with the fact that he will die and we will do the mission for him.....omg what a tragedy! Though you forgot about all the XP you'd get from fight dude.

So I finally put him to Ignore list.
At the end, he at least tried to mess up the mission for us by rushing to the dock, triggering the waves of enemies at Vizier. But we made it easily, 2 warriors and 2 monks. What a loser.

coolsti · Jan 29, 2006, 12:36 PM // 12:36

Again this is not definitely about the game's "biggest jerk" but I think the story is funny enough to include here.

We were doing the Thunderkeep mission yesterday with me playing my necro character, equipped as curse/blood with Spitefull Spirit and 3 HP degen curses. In the group was a Mesmer with the usual long-distance-kill hexes. There was no elementalist in the group, but we had 2 monks, an MM necro, a Warrior and a ranger. After clearing out the city I and the Mesmer proceeded to kill all at one of the two balconies before entering the fort. We did this easilly, me casting spitefull spirit and the health degen spells and the mesmer doing her thing. In the meantime our brave Warrior made a rush to the door to the city and kept yelling for us all to go over to him so we could get into the door.

Here is the funny and pathetic part: I told him to wait, it was far easier if we clear out both balconies first. We already killed everyone at the first balcony and were about to do the second one. And his reply? No, we don't have any nukers in the group, so we cannot do that! I was so angry I answered "but I AM a nuker" which I was with SS of sorts. Our MM necro answered, no you are not, you have only curse spells.

Why are some players so darn misinformed about what the various character classes could do? I could understand if the MM necro never saw SS in action before. But what about HP degen skills? What about a Mesmer's ability to do all sorts of long distance damage? A party without a nuking elementalist means no "over the wall killing" is possible? And, uh, so tell me guys, what happened to the first balcony group? Did they go home for lunch?

Heh heh. Playing with Pugs is just a laugh sometimes.

saphir · Jan 29, 2006, 03:38 PM // 15:38

i would read about people who were griefed by running jerks in random arena..
never thought i'd meet a real one lol

but this was during the pvp event and i was trying out the new chars, and forced to use a free acct since mine was full of pve.

i was playing a rt/me, and this ranger on the other team mostly ran around w/ storm chaser, dodge, whirling and ungent after their party died. we had 2 rt/me, an assasin and a necro. chased him around for about 5 min but weren't set up to kill a runner.

anyway, it's not really a jerk, but more of a pathetic jerk lol
an attention wh0re that couldn't hold up to his promise. i really think he needs more love and attention from his parents. the poor guy couldn't even last 31 minutes.. and he claimed he could outwait us. i just went to work in photoshop heh

1st screen @ 24:24 (after about 5 min of chasing), 2nd screen @ 31:14 when the poor guy just couldn't handle the neglect anymore

Mod Edit: Please make sure to block out the complete name, not just half the name. You also had missed the complete name in one of the screenies. Please ensure when posting screenies to block out the full name and all the names in the screenies. Thank you.

Kevlar · Jan 29, 2006, 04:53 PM // 16:53

My issue: The One True Tombs Expert. This is his credo, and multiple people have lived up to it (all based off true stories). Tell me you haven't met this guy before:

The One True Tombs Expert will not have started his own group, but he damn well will know what the exact build of YOUR team should be. 'you a tank? YOU NUB! why u not stance tank? GS, WS, WY, IWAY, BLT? hey, is that someone from my own class? what do you have? oh, really? that elite? ...well, mines better.' He will intimidate everyone into picking skills - and play styles - they're not used to. He will stop speaking English about 2 minutes into the team formation to discuss constructing esoteric, unnecessary builds. And that's just the beginning.

The One True Tombs Expert will grow impatient with any slowdown and question every movement the tank makes in aggroing. He may scream that his timing or pacing gets thrown off by these perceived slights. (I had one screaming at me yesterday Rainman-like about his '20-second nuke'. That's about as useful to me as throwing two poodles at the enemy as opposed to one.) Stereotypically, the One True Tombs Expert is a Necro, but he can be pretty much any support/ranged class or even one of the tanks.

The One True Tombs Expert will draw, IN FU*KING CURSIVE, 'popups' on the map to obscure your vision. While he obviously knows the locations of these popups, he would rather make himself heard as Nancy Sketchbook than actually take less time in typing it in.

The One True Tombs Expert, after getting fed up with your blind feeling-out of the minefield that is a cursive-encrusted landscape of popups, will break rank and charge ahead to investigate.

The One True Tombs Expert will die in about 3 quarters of a second.

The One True Tombs Expert will laugh as popups surround your group and you, unable to set your blocks, die holding off the enemy so the team can retreat.

The One True Tombs Expert may get away with the PUG not noticing he did it and he'll blame you. If not, he will call the team out as the worst ever in his storied history of running Tombs 283 times. Flawlessly.

In his underwear.

...In his character's underwear, too.

The One True Tombs Expert will cause one or more of your team members to quit. He will feign surprise. He will spark inter-and-intra-guild fighting.

And finally, as you drag his bloodied, annoying carcass across the Darkness' threshold, he will raise his middle finger in his last ounce of strength and say 'victo's... give it to me. nub. *hrrk*'

Sk8tborderx · Jan 29, 2006, 05:13 PM // 17:13

Quote:

A skilled Monk DOES NOT NEED a battery. Batteries are a helpful boost to a skilled Monk but a crutch to a unskilled Monk. If you are a Monk & can't function without a battery...you suck. Quit Monking.

Quoted for truth.

Dodo The Extinct · Jan 29, 2006, 05:20 PM // 17:20

My most memorable Noob experience :P

I was playing in CA with my spiker, and I was having lots of fun. I was playing in the amnoon arena. So, I was fightning when I was badly damaged by a Life Transfer, so I had to run away with 11 health to try to save my but. (heal sig). But, a fire ele came to try to finish me off. So he ran to face me. His first move was Firestorm...Which I ran from. But then I died when he attacked me. Then he ran back and said "NOBODY CAN OUTDUAL ME!". After the match, I whispered him, just telling him what I thought about the match. Anyways, it ended up with him telling me how uber firestrorm is in Comp Arenas, and how "Always pwndizzles noobs" with it. After that, I shook my head in disbelief and turned off the computer.

KANE OG · Jan 29, 2006, 08:51 PM // 20:51

Here's a story:
Wandering around Ascalon... jerk says, "What town can I buy bags in?" I tell him right here at the merchant. He then proceeds to tell me that my mother and father were never married, that I'm a liar, and I that I like receiving attention from other men.

I tell him there are TWO merchants in Ascalon, and he needs to see the other one to buy the bags...... (silence)..... then, "Oh. Thank You".

LMFAO

Jack Lost · Jan 29, 2006, 11:13 PM // 23:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by KANE OG

Here's a story:
Wandering around Ascalon... jerk says, "What town can I buy bags in?" I tell him right here at the merchant. He then proceeds to tell me that my mother and father were never married, that I'm a liar, and I that I like receiving attention from other men.

I tell him there are TWO merchants in Ascalon, and he needs to see the other one to buy the bags...... (silence)..... then, "Oh. Thank You".

LMFAO

LOL

Ado · Jan 30, 2006, 01:30 PM // 13:30

This didn't happen to me but to a guildmember. He wanted to sell a great shield (+30hp always and -2 while enchanted req 8 tact) and one guy said we would pay 50 ecto. Guildmember does the trade and later goes to FoW to get his last piece of armor. To his suprise he didn't have enough ecto. He looked at his inv and saw that he had traded the shield for 50 mursaat garments (nearly same shape as ecto). Being scammed for 5k or so is already awfull, but 400k? No screenshot or ign however, so there's nothing that can be done.

Rabid Weasel · Jan 30, 2006, 04:06 PM // 16:06

Shame there isn't a place to post scammers names.. My guildmate had one last night on a droks run (puts up anti running flame proof vest before you all start). It would also seem this guy was scamming quite a few people as there where a few people in Beacons euro english dist 1 last night cursing his name.

Surely these scammers realise that sooner or later they will get banned. I mean if enough people report them, surely A-net has to do something???
Anyway, i'll prob get told off from this forums admin, but if you are bored and wanna send this scammer a few interesting PM's then PM me ingame.

pearhk · Jan 30, 2006, 04:23 PM // 16:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ado

This didn't happen to me but to a guildmember. He wanted to sell a great shield (+30hp always and -2 while enchanted req 8 tact) and one guy said we would pay 50 ecto. Guildmember does the trade and later goes to FoW to get his last piece of armor. To his suprise he didn't have enough ecto. He looked at his inv and saw that he had traded the shield for 50 mursaat garments (nearly same shape as ecto). Being scammed for 5k or so is already awfull, but 400k? No screenshot or ign however, so there's nothing that can be done.

wow that scammer must farm mursaat alot !

Tijger · Jan 30, 2006, 04:32 PM // 16:32

Ah, had a nice one a few days ago in new UW.

PUG party assembling, I join as a tank and the leader does a shout for a trapping ranger and lo and behold, a ranger joins our ranks which comprised of 2 monks, 2 tanks, ele, necro, trapper and a mesmer. This would clearly not be a trapping team, I'd think, right?

So, we go in after ample time for everyone to set their skills and after 2 mobs of grasps and scythes he exclaims "I hate these mixed groups!". No one pays attention, probably thinking like me he was talking about the enemies. Not so.

At the next section (under the bridge) he starts on how he's a trapper and cant work with a mixed group, so I reply a bit testily "then you arent much of a player, this was obviously not a trapping group". Oh boy..I shouldnt have said that...the kiddie got really upset and started shouting in caps at us that he was ranked (meanwhile standing around doing nothing with grasps and scythes all around us thanks to his rather bad aggro skills), he added that if we were so invincible (no one said we were) he'd like to see us get to the next level.

We clear the level and at the start of the next one he runs out, aggro's 2 patrols and the grasps and scythes, everyone dies ofcourse and he's laughing.

A real team player that one...