What makes someone pro?

elektra_lucia

Banned

Join Date: Feb 2006

England

Leteci is [sexy]

Mo/

15 Oct 2006 at 09:34 - 41
Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesDonaldson
Broadband.

Seriously, even though GW runs brilliant on my 56K and I almost never lag, I seriously can't win in a PvP match. I don't play as much as most people, but when you spend months buying and creating a perfect armor set only to get hammered by a naked monk, I have to say the people with the faster connections have the advantage.
Ok, your post was mindly humerous but even so :

Quote of professional :

Quote:
1. following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
2. of, pertaining to, or connected with a profession: professional studies.
3. appropriate to a profession: professional objectivity.
4. engaged in one of the learned professions: A lawyer is a professional person.
5. following as a business an occupation ordinarily engaged in as a pastime: a professional golfer.
6. making a business or constant practice of something not properly to be regarded as a business: “A salesman,” he said, “is a professional optimist.”
7. undertaken or engaged in as a means of livelihood or for gain: professional baseball.
8. of or for a professional person or his or her place of business or work: a professional apartment; professional equipment.
9. done by a professional; expert: professional car repairs.
–noun
10. a person who belongs to one of the professions, esp. one of the learned professions.
11. a person who earns a living in a sport or other occupation frequently engaged in by amateurs: a golf professional.
12. an expert player, as of golf or tennis, serving as a teacher, consultant, performer, or contestant; pro.
13. a person who is expert at his or her work: You can tell by her comments that this editor is a real professional.
Now can you tell me, how your post had ANYTHING at ALL to do with that? Or maybe this is the RIGHT way to be? Yeah... I'll stick to this religion then =D.


You know when you're depressed, and you feel like killing yourself so the doctor puts you onto a shrink - and the shrinks response... Hey, I know how to make you happy. Let's stick you around in a circle of people who are ALSO depressed, and they can cheer you up (some how). This will really cure you. So one person talks about how his own son shot his daughter. Another person will talk abot how his dad, is his uncle, brother and father too... Well, these places obviously are great... I have an idea :

Why don't you setup a clinic for 56k users? It could be an online one too. Where you all sit around in a circle and whine about your 56k. It might work... That way, people won't have to get so off topic...

Professional - 56k Modem - Depression - Shrinks and clinics. There - We've come along way now.

JamesDonaldson

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Oct 2006

Merrivale, PMB, South Africa

W/Mo

15 Oct 2006 at 09:41 - 42
Someone can't take a joke :S

arcanemacabre

arcanemacabre

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Feb 2006

North Kryta Province

Angel Sharks [As]

15 Oct 2006 at 10:34 - 43
Someone peed in your cornflakes, didn't they, elektra_lucia?

Thomas.knbk

Thomas.knbk

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

15 Oct 2006 at 10:47 - 44
The guys from EviL were pros imo before they disbanded (still a shame, but they had little choice). Those are the only ones I think you can really call professional guild wars players.
A lot of people THINK they're pro. If you're making enough gold by forge runs/FoW farms/whatever to pay for your in-game expenses you're NOT pro. If you're making enough gold to sell it on Ebay an cover your real-life expenses you are pro, but I don't think those people actually exist.

Cuthroat Dibbler

Cuthroat Dibbler

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2006

UK

Lore School

Me/

15 Oct 2006 at 11:19 - 45
Quote:
Originally Posted by McMullen
Some people mistake being a pro with having their head up their arse.
and equally sharp....
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kha
Being dense enough to actually believe there's such a thing.
QFT... nuff said

Winsom

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Sep 2006

Mo/Me

15 Oct 2006 at 22:32 - 46
"pro" is professional = good enough at the game to get real money from it.

It doesn't mean you have grandmaster PvP skills because you might just be selling items and coin in auctions.

Also doesn't mean you are an Expert GW player because maybe you don't PvE as much as some others that know the maps, quests and other game aspects inside and out.

Spader

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2006

W/Mo

15 Oct 2006 at 23:00 - 47
someone that dosen't do any of the OMGWTHeck things that have popped up over the months here.

lets see there was at least one thread of monk pve complants that lasted about 12 to 15 pages... just going by that its almost impossible to get anything done to be pro.

fatmouse

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2006

15 Oct 2006 at 23:12 - 48
Who would have thought, some words in English can mean multiple things.

Pro is slang in gaming for good, it has nothing (necessarily) to do with earning money, stop being overly literal.

Jeremy Untouchable

Jeremy Untouchable

Wow Stole my freetime

Join Date: Mar 2006

Arkansas

None

W/E

15 Oct 2006 at 23:31 - 49
Pro= someone who reads guru all day

Captain Arne Is PRO

Captain Arne Is PRO

Banned

Join Date: Jun 2005

15 Oct 2006 at 23:53 - 50
A Warrior/Monk who can use ALL of these skills:

Frenzy + Healing Signet at the same time
Mending
Arcane Echo Mending
Echo Mending

Is pro.

Kakumei

Kakumei

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2005

Grind is subjective

learn this please

16 Oct 2006 at 01:57 - 51
Quote:
Originally Posted by ShadowStorm
When you say, "That's a Johnny," are you refering to one of the psycographic archtypes used to describe the 3 most common mindsets of the Magic: The Gathering playerbase? As in, Timmy, Johnny, and Spike? I'm just curious...
Of course.

Blackhawk

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2006

N/

16 Oct 2006 at 02:59 - 52
Quote:
Originally Posted by arcanemacabre
Someone peed in your cornflakes, didn't they, elektra_lucia?
Damn...Busted

Spirit Of Azrael

Spirit Of Azrael

Echo-mending Master

Join Date: Jun 2006

Service of Shadows [SOS]

W/N

16 Oct 2006 at 05:51 - 53
I'm a Timmy. I HAVE to have that massive, crazy, HOLY F$%@ Assassin combo. Even if it rrely works ^.^

Phaern Majes

Phaern Majes

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2005

Anywhere but up

The Panserbjorne [ROAR]

R/Mo

16 Oct 2006 at 05:55 - 54
All I'll say is if I had a plat for everytime a "PRO RUNNER" died on a run I'd be the richest player in GW.

Skids

Skids

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

UK FTW

R/Mo

16 Oct 2006 at 10:57 - 55
Quote:
Originally Posted by McMullen
Some people mistake being a pro with having their head up their arse.
QFT

I didnt bother reading any more posts once I had read this. It sums it all up in one scentence.

Kassad

Kassad

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

W/

16 Oct 2006 at 11:16 - 56
Quote:
Originally Posted by shrouded^god
What makes someone think they're pro?
Mending.

led-zep

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

16 Oct 2006 at 12:41 - 57
Quote:
Originally Posted by Zehnchu
And here I thought it was the one’s who couldn’t spell own3d right.
or pwnt

unienaule

unienaule

I dunt even get "Retired"

Join Date: Aug 2005

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

16 Oct 2006 at 15:07 - 58
I'd say that we've pretty much come to the conclusion that you should never invite anyone who says they're "pro," and if you fight somebody who says they're pro, you'll probably win. Then the arguing started about who peed in whose cornflakes, and it all went downhill. Closed.