Extraordinary or Unusual Feats

If you're like me, you've tried and done just about everything in Guild Wars and more when you're bored. I've started having more recollections as GW2 creeps ever closer. I've done some things that I'm proud of or ashamed to admit. There have been a lot of memorable moments while I've played this game. These can be feats of skill, determination, or sheer boredom. Most of mine pertain to PvE. A few examples are:

* Soloing Shiro with a hammer warrior with sabway. Only thing changed was Spoil Victor on the MM and disabling the rest of his skills. Shiro glitched halfway through when I did it, haven't been able to replicate it since.

* Spent 4.5 hours vqing Easter Frontier on my Warrior and a friend playing a Monk using Signet of Judgment and two heroes. I had forgotten to drop the titan quest. We survived only because Xandra had 59% DP and used Death Pact Signet for kamikaze attacks with Protective Spirit.

* Cleared City HM with R/A without any consumables. It took numerous attempts to learn how to ball, pull, kill, develop techniques, and follow intricacies. I spent more time on it than I care to admit.

* Came up with the idea of running through Prophecies with a new guy with a new start. Started a new Mesmer in Prophecies and ran myself to Sactum Cay with just henchmen, 4 hours total. I never touched the Xunai Chest once. I regard it as a prime display of my knowledge of the game.

* I participated in the golem party in spelling GW in Gunnar's Hold. I was overjoyed when it was tweeted about. Have to thank the guy who handed out those tonics.

* Cleared Foundry HM without any cons.

* I grinded Jade Quarry almost every night to reach the max Kurzick because I enjoyed playing it. You end up feeling like you carry your entire team on your back through each win. I've never done a single FFF, which gives me pride in doing it the "old school" way. You remember those close 10-9 games where you win or lose by a few seconds and the friendly rivalries that develop during a match.

I know people have their own little feats that are more exotic than this or more on the relaxed side. It can be soloing topk with a sin solo with daggers before the nerf or flare spamming the Master of Healing to death. It doesn't even have to be something particularly hard, time-consuming, or challenging; if it's memorable or something that you're proud of, it's worth hearing.

I would like to know what fun and exciting things you guys have done over the years, perhaps so I could try them too!

I won a monthly.

Kinda.

i pumped my elly's health to 5,000+

I vanquished Easter frontier as well, it took me 2 hours.

First I had to destroy the mountains of ham, then topple over the three cheese macaroni, but not before throwing my biscuit into the cranberry sauce's enemy territory.

Then the green beans said you'd better run and hide but then my friend canned yams came and joined my side. After unbuckling my 38 belt I solo'd the entire crushed pineapple pie.

I got 1,151 gold for it.

@IronSheik: I am simultaneously confused and hungry...

@OP: I once became invincible in the Zaishen Elite thing. I know it's happened before to other people, but the difference was that normally you can't deal damage back. In this case, I was the only one of my team left alive (I was a trapper) and the full ele team was rezzed and alive (they kept spiking down Frozen Soil). I thought we were going to wipe for sure, ad my other 3 teammates had /resigned. They were bugging me to, also, until I noticed I wasn't taking any damage, and the eles were neither wanding nor casting. I've become "invincible" in this situation once before (against eles in ZE), but I'm always unable to damage them also (the bug apparently works both ways). So, thinking we were boned anyway, I decided to start having fun and I tarted dancing, /taunting, etc while laying traps just for kicks. Meanwhile, the eles were just spazzing back and forth and casting Glyph of Energy. My teammates were pestering me to resign also, thinking I was just stalling, when I moved a bit by accident, and suddenly all the traps I'd set for kicks went off, downing half of them. Normally, the invincibility glitch ends when you move, but it didn't for me. They weren't even wanding me, though they did cast some Heal Areas after the traps went off. By this time, they were mostly out of rezzes (they'd used all their sigs), so when one died, it stayed dead. It took over 15 minutes, but I finally killed them all. Keep in mind that all of my other teammates were dead and cheering me on for 14 of those minutes. One of my teammates captured the whole thing on video, and he'll be putting it up on youtube. It was one of the most epic and hilarious things I've ever experienced in this game.

So these are going to seem minor to most people, but as a still fairly new player, they're a big deal to me.

I learned to run the E/Me vaettir farm build (with a few eventual tweaks of my own). Why is this a big deal? Because mentally I have an extremely hard time successfully running any build that relies on such specific timing of casts. It's why I can't run an AP build for the life of me. It's actually a problem I've had with certain game mechanics my entire "gaming life," so I definitely had a sense of accomplishment when I figured it out.

Another one - after unsuccessfully trying to run multiple gimmick builds on me/heroes to do Glint's Challenge... ones other people can apparently AFK while using - I finally created a team setup that lets me consistently do the entire challenge without any of us dying. Granted, I can't AFK it... but honestly, AFK'ing anything holds no interest for me, so I'm good with that. It just felt good to be able to find the combination that works for me/my playing style.

Finally, with the help of a poster here directing me to a tutorial thread, I FINALLY figured out how to use those damn Wurms & the skills! I used to hate it when I'd have to do anything that involved my skillbar being overwritten... now I find I look forward to each VQ that involves Wurming. Now I just gotta do the same with the Hearts of the North thing. LOL

@Iron Sheik - that made me LOL!

I solo farm pretty much everything with my Ranger...

After 3.75 years, have never used a farmer type gimmicky build, done that yet?

Nothing amazing to most, but I decided to just take a look at Domain of Anguish.. never having been there. I had my standard VQ set of heroes, no "way" builds that I know of.. and unfortunately my poor Merc Hero Dervish, Lisette. I had no intention of actually "doing" anything, just wanted to see what the mobs were like.

No cons, combs, candies, DP items or summons. Somehow, I managed to clear City of Torqua, Kill Lord Jadoth and his pals, and somehow clear the next place and kill the Dreadspawn Maw or whatever it is. Lisette died about 20 times, I lost count. My main tactic seemed to involve running and screaming a lot. I didn't die myself.. and managed to get my r1 survivor on my much killed Ranger finally.

The most epic part of this was.. I had not taken the main quest, so, none of it counts lol.

i got rank1 survivor without a secondary, and without boxing/hammers etc

I want to get rank1 again, but just (or as near as possible) just from festival quests

won 87 consecs in the snowball arena...

used the AB exploit to get 5 elite eles

Got stuck in a wall in fort aspenwood.

impersonated a gatekeeper and had someone fall for it.

reported over 40 JQ bots and got most banned.

Doing Eternal Grove hm on my spirit spam rt with a full pug group before the days of heroes and the huge spirit buffs. We struggled to make it to the last wave with the 2 bosses but surprisingly, we managed to keep all tree singers alive even though everyone in the group sustained quite a bit of dp. When we made it to the last group however, everyone in the group was slaughtered except me but I had no res. Fortunately, as my team charged into the two bosses whilst they were coming down, I got time to recoup by running back to where the tree singers were. I then realised that someone had made the juggies stay at a seige turtle area and I would not have been able to get them all back in time, so I just started setting up spirits spaced out. One person called us all "OMG (censored four letter word)ing noobs" and left. Everyone else just started cheering at me and though it took a while, I managed to kill one boss and most of the mob and by this point everyone was just like "omg we're gonna make it" and "lol at the guy who left" and stuff. Finally, I beat the annoying self healing rt boss and we ended up getting masters reward. That was the most extraordinary feat I ever did in gw and was amazing being the sole survivor and beating a whole mob or two of afflicted with 2 bosses.

Anyways, after some in the group were like "omg I love this team wanna do the next bit together?" and most were like "sorry gtg" we all left and I afk'd at Vasburgs for about an hour or so? When I came back I think I was looking at armors or merch or maybe going to storage, I saw the person who left our group earlier materialising with another pug. I felt really happy

wow how did you do that?

just asking because some guildies once tried to boost a war's health but they only got it to like 2,400

Symbiosis + a ton of enchantments ...

Probably my most memorable achievements in GW are pioneering hero builds. I put together the final form of spiritway before the 7H update (at least, if someone else did it too, we did it independently) and am so far the only person to post a Foundry HM 7H + no cons clear using a caster primary. I've achieved some very fast times with heroes (8:07 Raisu HM @_@), and I am also the first person to post a UW HM 7H + no cons clear. Pioneering 7H in UW was very memorable, although it wasn't really fun. Spending 30 minutes just to get to Plains and failing within 3 minutes after, repeatedly, was extremely annoying. Even worse was spending over two hours just to get to Dhuum, and then wipe in the first minute. But hey eventually, I finished.

I played Jade Quarry Kurzick side too to max my Kurzick title, and I forced more wins than I care to count playing a dedicated turtle killer ... I've even squeezed wins where Luxons had Green + Yellow most of the time. Since I maxed out Kurzick title I haven't bothered with JQ however: Luxon side JQ is incredibly frustrating, not only with bots, but also with map disadvantage.

I landed the top RBR score on the Friday night that the arena was first released and held it for a few hours into Saturday. The time it lasted was maybe more a little more than ten hours.

Ive never ever used a farmer type gimmicky build ;p
And I've been to UW maximum 8-10 times...

First and foremost was my team (Dragon's Den) winning 5th place at the GenCon 5K Arena back when ArenaNet used to come to GenCon. Still have the nice (empty now) $75 gift card they gave to me and each of my team members. There are even pictures on the Guild Wars site someplace.

Second, Finding out the Henchmen leveled in Beta! I decided to go exploring and was deep into the undead areas West of Lion's Arch when I noticed a few of my Henchmen had leveled. That took a lot of time and perseverance to go that far with such a limited character.

Third, Leveling out of Ascalon Arena in one shot. I started as a Level 5 and our team just kept winning and winning. There were some really close games but I finally got leveled out of the Arena.

I got Shiro stuck in a wall while doing Gates of Madness (I was holding back him and the Lich while my friend captured the Shrines). That was pretty amusing and certainly made killing him easy - he neither moved nor attacked at all.

These are more unusual than extraordinary:

1. I got the chance to go to ArenaNet for Community Day.

2. I participated in the Guild Wars Championship Tournament.

3. I led a mega-guild that at one time held House zu Heltzer while also being one of the most active GvG guilds.

I made some fat stacks of ectos.