Curse

Ashley Twig · Aug 02, 2005, 08:11 AM // 08:11

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Originally Posted by elenna

My moment was when doing Dragon's Lair for the first time. After the cut scene with Glint, I ran over to see what those dragon eggs were. Oops! Luckily the party was just me, my husband, and henchmen. My husband's very forgiving.

Taking the egg simly starts the bonus, I think.
Even if you die, you'll complete the mission.
I've seen a lot of people logging off after being dead because they think, defeating glint is part of the mission.

My newbie moment happened last weekend in the ring of fire.
Since I had been doing that mission weeks ago with my ranger and hemchmen only (I think it took 3 or 4 hours) I was very optimistic.
So I joined a team with my mesmer and we always took the long way, with all the spiders and imps and lava baths etc.
And since the nice vizier always pointed out that we should take the long road, nobody ever doubted that it was the right way.
Lucky us, on one mission we had a rather rude but experienced monk who told us, that taking the short road (oposing the viziers suggestion) would be the better one.
We trusted the NPC (vizier) more than our own instinct and we had never tried the direct approach.

Xerphiel · Aug 02, 2005, 03:20 PM // 15:20

My noob story is a while back i was partying near druids overlook, me W/Mo a monk and some other people all around lv 16-18. Anyway The entire party got wiped out part from one guy. Anyway i ask the guy left to ressurect one of the monks, he first responded with no im on a quest which i found rather odd but maganed to persuade him to come back to us. Anyway the dead Monk starts shouting "res me.. ohh please res me" being as he was a monk i didnt have any problem with that. But then when he was res-ed i asked him to res me, he then replied with... I dont have resseruct. AT this point i responded with "why didnt you say and allow me to be resseructed" he replied with "you should have said".

I thought this was rather noobish as to plead for resseruction without actually being able to res the rest of the party.

Mavrik · Aug 02, 2005, 03:54 PM // 15:54

Well I decided to try and do riverside providance mission, heard it was fairly simple. Kill everything pretty much to complete the bonus. So I went there and this guy was calling out for experienced players to group with. I asked him what he ment and he said "experienced in the game and would not die." also I had to provide my own group, he just wanted to join an experienced group. Well I didn't bother cause he seemed to just want to ride on someone else's hard work. So I joined up with another group who wanted to do mission and bonus. Well we get into the mission and our leader did not want to do the bonus anymore and left as soon as we started to attack the towers. People started dropping so the rest of us decide to go and start over. Some of us from the original group, got back together again and guess who gets into our group? The guy looking for experienced players.

So we start the mission again, start attacking the first tower, killing the white mantel when all of a sudden the guy starts calling us all a bunch of noobs and drops from the game. Well screw him we all said and we "noobs" went on ahead and completed the whole mission without him as a 5 man/woman crew.

TheTim · Aug 02, 2005, 03:55 PM // 15:55

More of a whoops than a n00b moment.

I post things in the trade thread and get a couple whispers asking questions. Everytime I tried to whisper back to the person the game kept stating they were "offline". Then the person keeps whispering asking why I wouldn't answer their questions. ha... took me a while to locate thier toon in town and get them to join my team so I could tell them they were in offline mode.

Makes buying something kind of hard if no one can whisper to you.

Jetai12 · Aug 02, 2005, 06:50 PM // 18:50

i had that same problem!

Roc Rai · Aug 07, 2005, 02:35 PM // 14:35

Already posted here, but figure I should probably do some picking on myself for a noob moment...

Back when I first got the game at the beginning of May I joined a very nice guild. I joined and they already had a cape and hall by May 13th as well as a website with forums. Lucky me huh?

Well I'm reading the posts on the forums about how lovely our guild hall is a few days after I got the game. I just cleared pre-searing Ascalon doing every quest in the world because I didn't know that was the tut part of the game. I'm in Ascalon City (post searing) and I see our guild hall, but everything around it has fog of war. So I ask the extremely noob question, "How do I get to the guild hall? I see it, but it looks like it's on an island."

One of the more sarcastic people in the guild tells me, "Gather up the material and craft a boat." So of course me, the noob, starts salvaging everything for the next 3 hours from every Stone Elem, Gargoyle, and Grawl in sight for a chance to see our pretty guild hall. After I have a little of everything salvaged I ask once again over guild chat, "Ok, so I have some material, where do I craft the boat to get to the guildhall?"

Mr. Sarcastic was still online and I think if he could have died from laughing he would have. I'm still working on living that one down 3 months later throughout the entire guild.

SisterMercy · Aug 07, 2005, 07:19 PM // 19:19

A few recent ones for you and then a gem:

1) I started forming a party, and was getting a pretty good turnout -- a monk, 2 warriors, a R/Me I knew -- and I invited a friend, who was already in a group of 3. I wanted the monk and an ele, but accepting meant adding a 3rd warrior. OK, fine -- not the variety I wanted but I could compromise. Once in, the warrior says "dump the necro and get another W." The only necro, of course, was me (the party leader).

2) My Blood Necro also joined 2 recent parties for FoW of note. In the first, while grouping, the party leader said not to use anything which targets corpses (so no Well of Power / Blood) because another necro there had dibs. Then he asked if I had Blood Ritual. I answered that I was carrying Blood is Power, the elite version of Ritual, and explained that it had instant recast and was not restricted to touch. He booted me from the group and messaged publically "don't team with Sister Sin, she can't follow instructions"

3) In the other Necro / BiP party, I ended up having it out with a monk in the group who didn't understand the skill. Of course, it's a sacrifice skill, so I give up 1/3 max health in order to feed some pretty massive energy regeneration to the healers. I always make sure I'm over 2/3 health when I do this, so it's not life-threatening unless I'm instantly hit by a meteor shower. Finally, he says, "seeing as how u wont stop droping your health, I'm not healing u" (or something like that). So I proceeded to not feed him any energy. One tough battle down the road, he starts pinging "My energy is 2 of 42" "My energy is 4 of 42." The other monk, who likes to team with me regularily, was kind enough to ping back "I have Blood is Power on me" "I have Blood is Power on me." Even the warriors were laughing.

So we got through that skirmish, he agreed to heal me again, and I agreed to help his energy crises. Next major battle though: "why u droping u health u so dumb...."

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Originally Posted by bobrath

...and since you hit R before opening the chat window you begin to run towards the mobs, your mini map disappears, your friend list pops up, followed by your inventory, hero screen. and all you want to do is close them fast so you can click in the opposite direction....

Welcome to my still-occurring newbie moments. If you see me run straight into a mountain and try to mash my face into it, you'll know I'm trying to type.

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Originally Posted by Jaythen Tyradel

... Tried to further explain the "bar" that was next to the 2 was platinum. The necro asked how do you get platinum....

Anytime I see these what is platinum questions, I always have to throw in, "I'll buy your platinum for 50g" for laughs. Enough so that some tell me the joke is getting old. But it did trigger the most memorable newbie moment I've personally encountered.

I let that quip fly once in Old Ascalon, and in a few moments, I had a trade window opened up. At first, I thought it was a typical random trade attempt, so I messaged the person saying "what is it you want to trade?"

Him (in the general chat area): "How do I trade u my platinum?"

This was shortly after the update which provided seperate windows for gold and plat, so I was able to instruct him to type a one in the box with the bar beside it. He did and offered it, and I was still in shock, thinking there had to be a catch. I offered my 50 gold.

Poof. Accepted. After a second or two of realization, I messaged him: "Would you like some more gold? I'm giving some away." Another trade window opened. I submitted an offer of 950 gold and told him to offer nothing.

Poof. Accepted. Him (still in general chat): "What u do? U took my gold!!!"
Me: "But you got your platinum back."
Him: "How u do that?"

I left the district and still don't know if he ever worked it out.

I took a screenshot of the last part, but it must have been before I purged the folder, because I can't find it.

TheGreatBoo · Aug 07, 2005, 10:50 PM // 22:50

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Originally Posted by Trucker

Can I have some money?

Can I have some equipment?

-T

Yeah, I would ask an experienced player in game to help you out and he may give you some cash as well. But yeah, being new to the game lists you as a new player, not a noob. A noob is someone who continually does stupid shit because he doesn't/can't learn and is basically a moron.

PhineasToke · Aug 08, 2005, 02:02 AM // 02:02

Noob:
used by those whose sole purpose is to inflate their ego while failing to acknowledge their own faults. This game went live April 28th 2005, and 3 months gives some of you reason to wear the badge of "noob, oh no not me?" There are stories of ignorance, lack of empathy, and "mine's bigger than yours" here. But few acknowlege that too often, they were noobs being laughed at by images of themselves.

Weezer_Blue · Aug 08, 2005, 02:06 AM // 02:06

Well, I've been playing since October 2004, and others have been following this game since the first E3 (before E34E). n00bs!!11one. (jk)

derrtyboy69 · Aug 08, 2005, 02:14 AM // 02:14

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Originally Posted by chaos dragoon

not sure if this counts as a noob story but here it is anyway. i was doing the thunderhead keep mission.right before we kill dagnar or whatever his name is,we all clarify that no1 is going to light the beacons.right when it starts,nt saying his name but wish i could,picks up the torch.we all start screaming DROP THE TORCH!!!!he says y? and continues lighting the beacons.then he runs out and draws a mob to jalis.when he dies he said "we lost because you guys r n00bz suxxor!!!!!one!one"then he left.

thats odd... i beat the mission with a PUG, lit the torches, got the bonus and we didnt lose one single guy. mabye because the crossbows killed 50% of the enemies

TheGreatBoo · Aug 08, 2005, 02:14 AM // 02:14

I've been here since world preview and betas. haha. It was awesome back them. Especially after the betas were over. Gotta love the fun things they did to end em.

derrtyboy69 · Aug 08, 2005, 02:23 AM // 02:23

alright heres mine:

i was starting a new PvE monk, so that i could solo UW. i got into ascalon, then got lvl 15-16 partners fro the missions until i got to yakes bend (i ended up soloing nolani academy, cause the warrior quit) well from yaks bend, a guildmate ran me to LA. i made my way to bergen on my own, then hired a runner from there to get me to ToA. she rushed right through the mobs and never bothered to avoid ANY of them. soon i realized she didnt know what she was doing, so i trailed closely behind her. eventually she died, and i ran my lvl 10 monk all the way to ToA. she didnt make us pay out of embarassment

TheGreatBoo · Aug 08, 2005, 03:44 AM // 03:44

Eh why even bother hiring runners. If you've done another character, chances are you can run. I ran my monk from ascalon to sanctum cay and picked up every mission and town spot except for riverside. It's what happens when you're bored and anti-community I guess.

Arturo02 · Aug 08, 2005, 03:50 AM // 03:50

I tried talking to the henchies in my party when I did the get out of pre mission for the first time. lol I felt like an idiot after.

TheGreatBoo · Aug 08, 2005, 03:52 AM // 03:52

Haha I talk to empty partys all the time. It's fun to try to get the henchmen to open up.

Axle_Fieshe · Aug 08, 2005, 04:20 AM // 04:20

I was trying to find a guild, and I got into one with a rank of over 6,000 and most of it's members hadn't played in a while, so i left straight away. I found a better guild with a better rank, and then one of the officers of the guild I had left started lecturing me about how it was bad that I didn't want to "earn" the rank of the guild, and just wanted to join a guild so I would always win (the new guild's rank still wasn't that great tho). It was fair funny, I just let him yell at me while I kept playing. He eventually got bored and left tho.

johnnylange · Aug 08, 2005, 05:16 AM // 05:16

Here's a story that'll make you laugh. Today I was working accending my second character, my monk. Thirsty River is one the most group problematic missions for accending. Ok so i'm this group and one of the Warriors starts running off (appartently he's running to ghost hero to speed things up...

) The rest of the group is getting mobbed and i'm trying to heal everyone as fast as I can. One ele dies, then makes the comment "I hope you're a healing monk" I tell him you were getting mobbed. (Btw i'm using divine boon along with Orison of healing so i'm healing for well over 120)

So here's the really funny part... The Warrior makes it to the hero no sooner after that, brings a whole mob of devourers with him, in the cinema scene you can see them attacking us, someone doesn't skip the cut sceen right away and when he finally does two people are already dead, and I just leave game.

Back in town I make an new annoucement for a group that isn't a bunch of dumb a**es one guy from that group whispers me saying that i'm a idiot noob, blah, blah, blah. I just tell him that only noobs would do something stuipid like that and whatever else I said.

Later on me, a guy from my guild, a ranger, and fill-in henches beat that mission and got the bonus on one try. I should have just done that the first time...lol. Well, I finished accending and got through Dragons Lair...

Axle_Fieshe · Aug 08, 2005, 05:24 AM // 05:24

that same thing happened to me with the devourers, cept we killed em

seraphite86 · Aug 08, 2005, 05:29 AM // 05:29

I love this one.

When monks blame other monks for not healing them.