Curse

Effendi Westland · Aug 15, 2006, 09:28 AM // 09:28

me: lvl 20 w/a with health armor

Yesterday 17:10 Vizunah local
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Assassin alliance dude (lvl 17 with seitung armor) arrives at vizunah local, we get 6 henchies, team foreign reports its readyness, we enter from int.
Huzzah!! we teamed up with the foreign team and we're ready to steamroll.

Mhenlo dies.

Yesterday 17:14 Vizunah local
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We enter again, didnt team up with the alliance dudes :/
we got 8 bots, they have frenchies. The frenchies cant keep togo alive and we decide to give it another go

Yesterday 17:15 Vizunah local
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Foreign team got Welshmen this time, we got bots again, getting close to dinner, so we proceed

Yesterday 17:43 Dragons Throat
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Vizunah owned by 2 players and 14 bots.

Skids · Aug 15, 2006, 09:43 AM // 09:43

I have both my monks at Viz Sq. One is Factions lvl20 and other is Prophecies lvl20.

Reason theyre still there is that I am concerned that if I try to do the mission with PUG's Im gonna getslated for being a crap monk. Done the mission with my Ra, Wa and Rit as well as helped others a number of times and I know the slagging off a bad monk gets.

I havent played a healing monk enough and havent played a monk for so long that I've pretty much forgotten what to do when and to who lol.

Sol Deathgard · Aug 15, 2006, 09:46 AM // 09:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sekkira

I've spent literally 5 hours putting one group together for UW. 5 Hours, probably getting 1-2 people in our group per hour and noone leaving until we finally went in.

I've always wanted to go in and do UW without having to be 55/ss-sv, you make a team let me know, I can play any class.

sno · Aug 15, 2006, 09:59 AM // 09:59

I love how people don't seem to realize that the monk henchies are almost without fail better than pug monks. Sure, the other henchies could use some work, but the monks are spot on.

yukimura_gw · Aug 15, 2006, 12:59 PM // 12:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by Braggi

Did the monk actually confirm he was ready?

As a smiting monk I was lately asked to go healing. I said np, give me a sec to reskill and opened Inventory for weapon, Hero screen for attributes and the Skill window. Must have concealed the chat, because after redistributing, while selecting skills, I get a loadscreen and mission starts.

Ah well, three warriors in the group, enough said.

If this happens you can see me quit without a word as well. Let the impatient SOBs figure it out themselves.

Went smiting again and did it with henchies.

You can be sure that I ask everyone if ready or not. The monk
did confirmed he was ready. Some people sometime rage quit
my pug team because I want everybody to say they are ready.

And I said "Ready? Who's not ready? KK let's go!"

At "Ready?" I asked who's ready and waited and confirmed
everyone was ready.

At "Who's not ready?" I say that because some people
realize at last minute they did a mistake in their skills
and I usually wait 15-30 seconds at this phase.

At "KK, let's go" ill wait 5 sec before clicking
"Start Mission" to be sure because some will
say wait there.

So after that if he wasn't ready, you can't really
blame it on me.

Ventius Hozza · Aug 15, 2006, 01:20 PM // 13:20

how did the first monk know your GF was a girl?

did she go around the district advertising it or what?

yukimura_gw · Aug 15, 2006, 03:06 PM // 15:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ventius Hozza

how did the first monk know your GF was a girl?

did she go around the district advertising it or what?

I think he just flirt with any female character. My monkie
get a lot of whisper of "Are you a real girl?".

If I say "No", nothing else happen... but if you say
"yes"... Icchhhhhh

Paperfly · Aug 15, 2006, 03:13 PM // 15:13

In a fit of boredom, I bought a character slot and made an assassin. I mean, I'm a good player, so I thought I'd make one of those "assassins are really good if the player knows what they're doing!" that we hear so much about.

...Cue the usual problems finding groups. Plus of course there's the classic problem that I know I'm a good assassin (turns out I am, heh!

) but there's no way short of a Defender of Cantha title that I can convince everyone else of that. So I developed two tactics to compensate:

The first one is for those occasions where there's genuinely a lot of groups being formed, in wich situation it's about drawing attention and impressing. The former can be achieved via non sequiturs - my usual opening line is "'sin with excellent table manners looking for a group!", followed by "'sin LFG who actually puts the *apostrophe* at the start of "'sin"! Great value!" The latter is a little harder. The easiest way to show off is to answer any novice questions in general chat in your best friendly grizzled veteran tone, but you may need to start up a conversation on tactics. Try to sound well-informed and impersonal - whatever you do, don't start talking about how underappreciated Assassins are, you'll just sound desperate!

The second one is for when I'm getting frustrated at the rooms byzantine GLF requests (I've gotta start keeping track of some of the wierder ones!). It's not unusual for half a dozen 'sins to be in there with me in the same boat, which helps. I post the following:

"Starting a henchway. Anyone who wants to come along and scrub it up with me and Sister Tai is welcome to join!"

...I usually end up with 3-4 (human) player teams, which is enough to make the experience social. It helps that I'm a good player (you're going to have to take my word for this

) and can generally carry a team through a mission. It's more laid back than your average PuG, and even when you're saddled with absolute imbeciles there's a kind of sick fun in having to work for two and maintain a friendly demeanour.

My favourite experience so far has been showing a competent ranger, two healbots and four Leeroys how to manage aggro through the "back way" in the Gyala Hatchery mission. Like herding puppies; it was really quite enjoyable as long as I controlled my temper.

Michel Longshorts · Aug 15, 2006, 03:58 PM // 15:58

Quote:

I think he just flirt with any female character. My monkie
get a lot of whisper of "Are you a real girl?".

If I say "No", nothing else happen... but if you say
"yes"... Icchhhhhh

Hrm... Guild Wars = Adult Friend Finder?
Erm. No thanks.
However I have encountered a few of these people with my female characters before(I myself being a male)... lets just say I have had great fun ruining their innocent minds

Little Tip for you Yuki:
I usually wait a maximum of 10 minutes for a PUG. I will not filll a party with everything I can possibly get(some players do this and fill the whole team with warriors). About half of the time I am lacking monks so I will take a healer henchman and a spirit henchman.

Note: Henchman are computer based AI. They probably have a lot better reflexes than most players do. That makes them ideal for healing.

As for advice to getting through a game with just yourself and your GF... I usually go out helping guildies by myself and with henchies. I use one of two tactics.

Lazy Monk Henchway
This has made my monk skills poor but it works wonderfully. Lead a hench team with your monk. Bring healer henchy, spirit henchy and heal party. All you have to do during the mission is keep hitting stuff with your wand (this directs the henchies who will follow what you attack) and occasionally patch up everyone's HP with Heal Party. Sometimes slow, but it works.

Minion Wrath
Play a Death Necromancer and a standard hench team. Make loads of minions. Usually as you are the first person to wand enemies the minions will go in before the henchies and tank most of the damage. Just dont forget to keep making minions.

Hand of Ruin · Aug 15, 2006, 04:28 PM // 16:28

I have found that above all else, the most arrogant, moronic and worthless people I have ever met in Guild Wars, have all been monks.

Silent Kitty · Aug 15, 2006, 05:20 PM // 17:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Michel Longshorts

Note: Henchman are computer based AI. They probably have a lot better reflexes than most players do. That makes them ideal for healing.

Just a pity that the healer hench is often to busy tanking and forgets to heal.

Bad Apache · Aug 15, 2006, 05:31 PM // 17:31

I really support the idea of posting names of griefers such as the monk you encountered, with proof of his/her actions ofcourse.

I would love to make "The List" which would be a word document constantly filling with names of flamers, racists, general idiots, and shere dumbasses.

yukimura_gw · Aug 15, 2006, 05:33 PM // 17:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by Silent Kitty

Just a pity that the healer hench is often to busy tanking and forgets to heal.

She also forget to heal if you lose health to Degen.
Died a lot of time only "bleeding".

Superdarth · Aug 15, 2006, 05:55 PM // 17:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by yukimura_gw

I think he just flirt with any female character. My monkie
get a lot of whisper of "Are you a real girl?".

If I say "No", nothing else happen... but if you say
"yes"... Icchhhhhh

Aye,when you get that question you know whats going to happen.

If youre girlfriend says shes a real girl tell her to lie and claim to be male.

Unless she likes cyb0r that is...