Curse

Kakumei · Apr 17, 2006, 03:50 PM // 15:50

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Originally Posted by Cherno

We were doing THK bonus yesterday and getting the party together, when someone asked what everyone's fame was. Quickly my response "Fame is unimportant in PvE" didn't hear any more about it after that and we went on to finish it up without any real problems.

Strange thing happening lately, I was helping someone out on an early mission with my ranger. Given he has a very silly name and very stereotypical, "Aimtrue Sureshot" but, hell, what's in a name?

So I get a message from like four people saying "Can you say your name outloud without laughing?"

I just start to ignore them and their stupid names. They just keep pm'ing me telling me how it is the worst name ever, even invite me to their vent server. Then they said that they were going to make a new guild in my honor so that it could be seen when they play in HoH.

So now everyonce in a while aparently one of them will just randomly pm me saying something stupid about it. I responded to them that I would love to see my name in the favor message and ask how their battle for favor is going (while Europe has held favor all day). The usually shut up for a while after that.

Then in a mission a day later, we go in and someone says "no offense, but that is the most stereotypic ranger name ever" I laughed and agreed and we all went on to have a good time.

It is amazing what people choose to fill their time with in these games sometimes.

Has it occurred to you that it might just be a bad name?

xuemin · Apr 17, 2006, 04:09 PM // 16:09

met a jerk just now in FOW =/ a shard dropped for but i didn't realise because we were running all over killing mobs since we got raped a bit so it rolled over. when we finish with the mob killing one of us goes to pick it up and another party member says 'hang on, that wasn't yours, you should give it to xxx' jerk is silent for a long long long time (apparently they were checking on drops log) after another long while, jerk replies 'they didn't pick it up so it's mine now' rest of party complain about how discourteous that is seeing as we were busy killing. jerk continues to deny being rude and doesn't even apologise and this carries on for the whole 2 hours or so that we're there. jerk even ended up getting 5 shards and calls the party leader gay/queer the whole lot.

i wouldn't have minded if jerk had asked if he could have the shard still or apologised, but to just slag off everyone for pointing our what their view was is just rude.

Excal · Apr 17, 2006, 04:16 PM // 16:16

This is more of a OMGZ! What a dork! story: Today in HA me and a guildie where looking for a blood-spike team, eventually I get into this Blood-Spike team but the leader wasnt accepting my guildie and I asked him why not and his reply was: "doe u hef ts?" My guildie invited himself again after me saying thats my guildie, and got rejected. The leader stays silent and I ask him why he isn't letting my guildie in. He says: "sftu nob or i kik u" I lol'ed and left. Later another necro Pm'ed me saying he took 5people and 3 hench in. Then us two and my guildie started another B-Spike team.

Lets try and keep things somewhat civil/polite/PC please

Cherno · Apr 17, 2006, 04:31 PM // 16:31

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Originally Posted by Kakumei

Has it occurred to you that it might just be a bad name?

No where in my post did I say it was a great, good or bad name. It is a name. The point, which you seem to have missed, was that people decide to harass people about it..continuously. Maybe I think your boards name is stupid. Let me be sure to log in everyday and send you a pm that says so, and start threads with your name calling it stupid.

I am a mature adult and don't let this kind of stuff get under my skin much and am perfectly fine just ignoring them and moving on having a good time in game. Just have to shake my head at their stupidity and move on.

Gonzo · Apr 18, 2006, 06:37 AM // 06:37

Well I've finally encountered a jerk.

I'm no PvP player, but I tend to do RA sometimes working out builds, I had a pretty decent one going and we were in a team of 1 W/Me (me), 1 Wammo, 1 monk and a mesmer. First four matches we won easily, then we encountered some resistance and well, I have to say I ran headfirst where I should not have run into. On this the monk said in all chat "Ruby sucks, bye" (my char name was Ruby). Which put me off of pvp for that day.

Dove_Song · Apr 18, 2006, 06:51 AM // 06:51

them<20: can you help us with this mission
me=20: sure I am a trapper they work well here
them<20: yay okay here we go
me=20: okay have you worked with a trapper before?
them: no
Me: it's important to be patient and stand where I tell you to and not attack until after they hit the traps
them: okay SURE
*15 mins later*
me: stand back please (35th time)
them: *sigh* there is no reason too
me: the reason is to finsih the mission
them: *various bitching*
me: alt+tab(I logged out before I could read the rest of it)

Silent Kitty · Apr 18, 2006, 06:57 AM // 06:57

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Originally Posted by Gonzo

Well I've finally encountered a jerk.

I'm no PvP player, but I tend to do RA sometimes working out builds, I had a pretty decent one going and we were in a team of 1 W/Me (me), 1 Wammo, 1 monk and a mesmer. First four matches we won easily, then we encountered some resistance and well, I have to say I ran headfirst where I should not have run into. On this the monk said in all chat "Ruby sucks, bye" (my char name was Ruby). Which put me off of pvp for that day.

Don't be silly. RA is like that.
I once joined RA and my party members just stood there, giving the other party a victory for free. I was the healer, so there was nothing I could do. I didn't even bother to heal, since none of them responded to my cries.
I am not bitter. Lots of people join RA just to see what's it like.

Gonzo · Apr 18, 2006, 06:59 AM // 06:59

Yeah, that's true. Normally I shrug it off. However once in a while I stop playing PvP for a while, or wait until guildies come on and do some TA, since we still play the game for fun and can handle losing.

bele · Apr 18, 2006, 07:59 AM // 07:59

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Originally Posted by xuemin

met a jerk just now in FOW =/ a shard dropped for but i didn't realise because we were running all over killing mobs since we got raped a bit so it rolled over. when we finish with the mob killing one of us goes to pick it up and another party member says 'hang on, that wasn't yours, you should give it to xxx' jerk is silent for a long long long time (apparently they were checking on drops log) after another long while, jerk replies 'they didn't pick it up so it's mine now' rest of party complain about how discourteous that is seeing as we were busy killing. jerk continues to deny being rude and doesn't even apologise and this carries on for the whole 2 hours or so that we're there. jerk even ended up getting 5 shards and calls the party leader gay/queer the whole lot.

i wouldn't have minded if jerk had asked if he could have the shard still or apologised, but to just slag off everyone for pointing our what their view was is just rude.

The same happened in one of my FoW runs but with a different end.
Jerk takes the shard, but one of our monks noticed it wasn't for him and told him to give it back or he'd drop.

The Jerk wasn't that jerk and after thinking it twice he gave it back.

wickedwonka · Apr 18, 2006, 05:42 PM // 17:42

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Originally Posted by Cherno

No where in my post did I say it was a great, good or bad name. It is a name. The point, which you seem to have missed, was that people decide to harass people about it..continuously. Maybe I think your boards name is stupid. Let me be sure to log in everyday and send you a pm that says so, and start threads with your name calling it stupid.

I am a mature adult and don't let this kind of stuff get under my skin much and am perfectly fine just ignoring them and moving on having a good time in game. Just have to shake my head at their stupidity and move on.

It's funny how some kids have nothing better to do with their time than to make fun of someones name. It's as bad as those know-it-alls who constantly criticize everyone elses builds. Just let people play the game and enjoy themselves. I can't see how your characters name should have any impact on how they play the game.

Commander Ryker · Apr 18, 2006, 06:04 PM // 18:04

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Originally Posted by Silent Kitty

The average newbie, who joins a TS, has no clue. Their conversation goes like this:

All I say is; Don't take it personally. If all moderators were so friendly as in this example, there would be no more communications left in the TS.

Maybe if you explained to them that they have to adjust it in TS. When you tell them the way that you do, they are probably turning down the volume of their speakers. We always walk people through on how to adjust volume and haven't had to kick anyone.

Commander Ryker · Apr 18, 2006, 06:09 PM // 18:09

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Originally Posted by coolsti

Here is a story about a guy who was a jerk only to himself.

My friends and I like to go to FOW or UW with balanced parties. So one day we were gathering a group together and needed a few more, including a couple of monks. For some odd reason, at least 3 of us, maybe 4, can't remember, were playing rangers.

So a monk joins our group and sees we have a lot of rangers in the group, as well as a necro, and assumes we are a b/p party. But we weren't. I was going with my favorite FOW build with 3 traps, throw dirt and oath shot, while the other rangers were going with various builds, some with barrage as elite. This monk then asks if we are b/p and I said no, I was a trapper. So then this monk, without asking further, assumed that all the rangers in the group were trappers, told us we were stupid to go to FOW as a trapper group, that it couldn't be done, that trappers belonged in UW, and then left the group.

Now, this monk missed an excellant opportunity to visit FOW with a really good and together party. We have done FOW countless times already, breezing through the various quests, without resorting to book tricks, and usually with few or no problems. Instead, this monk assumed we were hopeless losers attempting to do something he thought would be impossible to do.

I couldn't just let it go at that, so I whispered him that he was making a big mistake, that we have done FOW as a group many times before. Uh-uh, he insisted that we were stupid, that we were lying to him, that we were going to get killed in no time in FOW. I could only respond "but why would we lie?".

Well, we got another monk and had a great time with lots of shard drops!

Coolsti, I'll do FOW or any mission/quest with you anytime!

Commander Ryker · Apr 18, 2006, 06:18 PM // 18:18

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Originally Posted by Omega_2005

Odd, they take things like that seriously?? If I said "Running to Azeroth for 2k!" would I be having the same problem?

Nope, they'd be lining up to go, figuring it's a new place and they want to be the first to go. You'd also have people spamming to the same place, only cheaper then you. lol.

Commander Ryker · Apr 18, 2006, 07:01 PM // 19:01

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Originally Posted by Silent Kitty

Are you trying to be jerkish here?

No, not at all. Don't get me wrong, when pushed, I can out jerk anyone but I've read this message several times and I'm still left wondering, huh?

Cador · Apr 18, 2006, 09:14 PM // 21:14

Decided to do my monthly good deed. I went down and said to all the lower level people with my Invinci mes, or i switch out of shock war and wammo with them, my only condition is that they must fight some of it without me so they learn what to do, since its my invinci mes i drop my balth spirit spot and take rebirth its no biggie the monsters are weak.

Anyways, i go to TGNW and type "lvl 20 helping anyone who needs help with this mission and rest of ascalon, maybe shiverspeaks if time" well i get a group inviting i try to take a group that can fight it off on its own so when they do have to do some fighting they can. I took an ele a monk and one warrior ele. Well we get to the part of TGNW where i ask them to fight, it is where the grawls are facing the gargoyles in the tarpit. i told them to kill all of the creatures. well here is where it gets ugly.

W/e-Huh why do we have to fight you said running
Me- No i did not i said Helping
W/e-wtf its cuz you cant can you
Me-Nope its because i think you need to learn for yourself how to do this.
W/e-this is bs f***ing noob go /kill yourself
Me-gladly now if you dont plan onleaving ill be gone now(I had told monk and ele to meet me back in dis1)
W/e-haha nub running scared

Well we grabbed a new warrior and kicked butt through the rest of the missions even did frost gate with them.

Cador · Apr 18, 2006, 09:28 PM // 21:28

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Originally Posted by The Phantom

When the PvE tombs first came out, I was in the market for a Victos Axe. After a while of looking around in trade channel and a few districts a guy (Jerk) whispers me and says he has victos axe and that he will sell it to me for 115k (which was the average price at that time). So I agree but I don't have any ecto on me so I told him I'd trade him 15k first and than trade him the 100k and he'll trade me the axe on that trade. So (I realize I was noobish not to use ectos) I give him the 15k and than I submit my 100k and he just stands there for like 1 minute and doesn't say anything. So I say Submit the axe please? Jerks response: Oh it's on my other character brb.

I'm a trusting guy in GW but I wasn't that trusting so I say give me back my 15k first so I know you don't scam me, I'll re submit once you have your axe.
Jerk: Oh it'll take just a sec don't worry (logs off)

5 minutes later: Jerk has not logged on again yet and I'm still 15k down now
30 minutes later: same scenario, some friends showed up at my house so I decide just to log off and whisper the guy next time I see him on.

Cut to 2 weeks later: Jerk is online. (price has dropped dramatically so I gave up and bought an axe cheaper, now I just want my 15k back)
Me: Hey, you have my 15k and I'd like it back
jerk: wtf are you talking about!?!?!?
Me: (patient) remember you tried to trade me your victos axe but you said it was on your other guy after I had submitted 15k of the 115k for it.
Jerk: Oh yea, well I can't give you back your 15k
Me: (figuring he spent it) Well why not?
Jerk: The price of the axe has decreased and I've been waiting for you (he was lying all my guildies were watching to see if he was online and we never saw him on) so I could sell it. Now the price is 70k so I can't make that big of a profit. YOU ripped me off (Oh, so I ripped him off now huh? he took my 15k).
Me: It's your own fault for not selling the axe after you scammed my 15k, so if you'd just give me back my 15k we could just leave this all behind us.
Jerk: Screw you, I can make like no money off my axe now! You caused me to lose 45k off it because I waited for you!
Me: (explains the entire situation again)
Jerk: stops talking to me
Me: gives up and never talks to him again.

And I'd still like to have my 15k back XP

if you really want 15k whisper me in game

IGN Alleras The Brave

Tois · Apr 19, 2006, 11:58 AM // 11:58

Well this isn't really a jerk, but is stupid... and is me!!!

Went into FoW over theweekend with a decent group. Just done the first quest when i noticed it had started to rain outside, I had to get the washing in so did a quick 'brb' (not attacking at the time) and ran out to get it.

Well got back to my pc and everyone had gone, so double clicked on someones name and started running off. In the meantime I thought it would be polite to respond in what had happened, so was typing a message when I suddenly looked up and was running through the middle of loads of baddies. Turned out everyone had run off to get a chest, loads of ba guys so they just went around them, I of course took the most direct route... half the team promptly died as I bought loads of agro through, took 5 minutes to get rid of it all and rez everyone. I was promptly saying sorry every 5 sec. Felt awful. Everyone was OK about it after and had a good laugh and we carried on and did very well (was a good group). I'm still sorry guys!!!

Chest wasn't worth the effort anyway and that manoeuvre is now called a Taffy...

Pi_Numurian · Apr 19, 2006, 12:02 PM // 12:02

I bet these jerks who claimed to be really good, but sucked and their excuse was lag. I laughed

coolsti · Apr 21, 2006, 10:20 AM // 10:20

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Originally Posted by Cador

Decided to do my monthly good deed. I went down and said to all the lower level people with my Invinci mes, or i switch out of shock war and wammo with them, my only condition is that they must fight some of it without me so they learn what to do, since its my invinci mes i drop my balth spirit spot and take rebirth its no biggie the monsters are weak.

Anyways, i go to TGNW and type "lvl 20 helping anyone who needs help with this mission and rest of ascalon, maybe shiverspeaks if time" well i get a group inviting i try to take a group that can fight it off on its own so when they do have to do some fighting they can. I took an ele a monk and one warrior ele. Well we get to the part of TGNW where i ask them to fight, it is where the grawls are facing the gargoyles in the tarpit. i told them to kill all of the creatures. well here is where it gets ugly.

W/e-Huh why do we have to fight you said running
Me- No i did not i said Helping
W/e-wtf its cuz you cant can you
Me-Nope its because i think you need to learn for yourself how to do this.
W/e-this is bs f***ing noob go /kill yourself
Me-gladly now if you dont plan onleaving ill be gone now(I had told monk and ele to meet me back in dis1)
W/e-haha nub running scared

Well we grabbed a new warrior and kicked butt through the rest of the missions even did frost gate with them.

Why don't you just do them ALL a favor and let them play the game without your uber-help? They will cope, they will learn how to survive and succeed without you and be better off for it.

Sounds to me like you are one of those many GW players that are so bored that you need to entertain yourself by helping people through the game in the low levels - and thereby ruining the game for them. That you encountered the reaction you did instead of gratitude is perhaps fitting.

Cherno · Apr 21, 2006, 12:32 PM // 12:32

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Originally Posted by coolsti

helping people through the game in the low levels - and thereby ruining the game for them.

It all depends on how you are helping them. This guy is doing it the right way. The warrior who goes to TGNW just to rush in and kill everything before the rest of the party has a chance to attack is the wrong type of "helper".

He is trying to teach and mentor, nothing wrong with that.

When I play the lower levels I try to set my attributes low so that I am not quite doing one hit kills.

It might also be worth it to help people out on the more difficult missions. Prior to Nolani (which some people have problems with bonus) there really isn't a need to any help. Start out maybe at borliss pass because people screw up that bonus all the time.