Guild Wars: The Day it Rained

Well the other day, after a horrible experiance, I remembered all the "Post the biggest jerk" or "Post you're best Ascalon drop" sort of threads. So I had this idea..

Post about the day it rained on you in Guild Wars.


Well for me it this sunday night/monday morning.

I'd been working on a character in pre-searing. She needed to have the survivor title to fit the little (or should I say massive) storyline I have for my characters. Now I didn't want to leave pre-searing, but I didn't want to risk the Charr alone either. So at level 9 sunday night I entered the academy. WHAT WAS I THINKING!? Never enter on a weekend if you want the title, theres actauly PEOPLE in there. The teams were pretty even, except we had a level 5 warrior.

I managed to live through the whole fight, but the warrior died quite a few times. I don't blame him, nor am I mad at him, but our team had a lower score and the clock had hit 0:01. Now I have no clue if the teamslay that happens because of losing counts as a death, so I hit the X (Knowing my team would get a henchman in my place and do fine getting to Ascalon from there).

I logged back in to give it another shot, but now my character is stuck at some place called Ascalon Academy and it Err7s about .5 seconds after the screen starts to fade in. I tried on my other computer, same deal. So I sent in a bug report and appearantly i'm gonna have to wait somewhere between tommorow and 8 months for this to get fixed.

(In the matter of unaccesable characters I don't think the standard automatic message should cut it in this support system)

So monday morning when I wake up, WOAH AMERICA HAS THE FAVOR! So I take Acolyte Jin in the underworld. Our traps were just enough to get us past the Aataxes, but after that, the smites were easy pickins. Well to my luck, there was like a group of 15 of them dead in the center. I lured them all, and had them all in a nice little ball. I brought them all perfectly into the traps, and saw that one ACTAULY DROPPED AN ECTO FOR ME FOR ONCE! So I tried to pick it up. -suspended animation-.... BLINK! Apearantly the smites weren't really in the nice little ball. 2 were stuck on the wall, 4 pinned Jin down, and about 3 came by just to kill me after they had let their buddies eat the traps.

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so I sat there staring at that Glob of Ectoplasm and the Return to Outpost button... Wishing... That there was some way... to come back alive.

Then I noticed Europe had one win left so I jumped at the return to outpost button and started running toward the statue of grenth. Before I could reach the statue, Dwayna was struck by lightning, Balthazar was put out, Grenth and Melewhatshername stopped flowing water, and Lyssa was entangled in vines. Europe had done it again, but this time right before my eyes.


So I made this post today (after dieing JUST before all the trolls died from my traps near droknars and dropped me nothing because I was dead). I made this post thinking, maybe I'll feel better if I know I'm not the only one who gets rained on these days.

Note: I would create the survivor character in Cantha if it would let me use Tyrian faces/hair/skincolor.

wow pretty nice story


LOL you think your unluck? pshhhh one time i was in urgoz on my rit in trapper group (when spirit lord wasnt nerfed) and OMFG we got up to urgoz for my first time now i was really excited but my comp seemed to lag a bit like it let me move but skills wouldnt activate and they just keep looking like a vortex! after 20 seconds or so i couldnt move then after a small amount of time it stoped! (thank god, or so you think) we planted traps and i made my spirits and urgoz came and he was dead.........OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG
SHORTBOW DROPS FOR ME (the one i was trying to get for my ranger) i got to pick it up but im standing right on top of it.......ERR 7 STRIKES AGAIN so I log on VERY VERY frustrated and i pm someone in the group i was in "what happened?" he replys with idk i got err 7 too so i PM someone else same thing but then after couple minutes i go on guru i see SOMEONE FROM MY GROUP POSTED A PIC of EVERYONE in the group got err 7 and he picked up all 3 drops i pm him in game and same wtf what are the odds he says hacks


and you think you unlucky? pshhhh

whats a 7k ecto to a 50k bow

Rained...

At first I thought rain... As in, yesterday when I was walking in the desert it just started raining for a while in the game. I think I took one screenshot, but I'm not sure - it would be on the other computer if I did...

If you quit the PVP portion, you come back where you're fighting the NPC Grawl and then you're past presear...


I was wandering the Jade Sea, capturing skills to my hearts content, or my financial limit... And every monster on the sea wanted to magically aggro and chase me to the ends of the earth. I actually had the Ele boss that patrols in Silent Surf (that I hadn't gone near at all that time) stop in his patrol route, turn around and come fight me by the res shrine on the small island, it was insane. Oni both spawned and came a-runnin when not I nor my henchies were anywhere near their spawning location. Monsters that WEREN'T on the radar would start chasing me out of nowhere, it was the craziest day...

What's funny is, just before it started happening I said "I very rarely have any henchies die when I play my monk"

A few deaths and a handful of skills later I emerged from the Jade Sea with a newfound respect for the magic aggro bug (I had previously only seen it with monsters I had fought beforehand).

:O That really sucks!!

The day Factions arrived..GW has continued to go downhill since. NF brightened it up a little bit NF is far too easy.

Where are the dynamic weather effects...

im pretty sure akhilleus and black guinevere win this thread..

Now there is something I didn't explain. For the past few months i've been trapping with a friend, and the UW has been faithful with dropping him one ecto every time. When he killed the trolls at droknars he ended up with 5 more black dyes. When he was selling a puple dye in pre-sear, a random female nec just traded him a black dye for it. He was able to buy/sell over 6 HoD swords when they were big.

I've only been dropped 3 black dyes, the first was a whole 7 months after I started playing. The best deal I got in pre-searing was an orange and a yellow dye for 50 gold each. WHEN I GET DROPPED a purple dye its a BIG thing for me. I've been in an Underworld trap group, which I led, and lured, and saved us twice.... AND THE OTHER GUY GOT 3 ECTOS AND A GOLD STORM BOW!

Its a code violation for good stuff to happen for me randomly. Well in Guild Wars atleast, maybe if my actaul life sucked i'd get better results in Guild Wars.



Anyway, that said, i'd be pissed about that bow too, its just, I don't care much for greens so I can't empathise(sp?) with you.

Rurik broke them all by using his stupid rain horn.

/agree. Factions brought this game down...its stayed that way for a while now.

Why do people associate rain with bad fourtune? I love the rain...

since iway is pretty much dead, usa has no pvp power left haha

A few nights ago I went into hell's precipice wanting to cap hundred blades for my warrior. (which was long overdue by the way) I went in with henchies thinking i'd get my butt whipped. I got all the way to undead rurik without dying once when my connection went bad!! I, needless to say was not very happy at that moment.

5 Words:

Black dye ecto rubie err7

You do the math. :P

Actually, the worst day I ever had in Guild Wars was when I was forced to delete my very first character AMD ZEN because I wanted to make my monkey, Lord Sojar. SAD DAY... He had 15k hydromancers and 15k pyromancers.

so you are actually saying you had a gun or something pointed at your head to delete that very first char? Or was it a decision you made yourself?

Alright, here you go.. I was like WTF

The day I realised people like this existed... Depressing or what?

they've not even posted in it O_o

In the Nolani Academy mission. Stupid Rurik and that mouthpiece - it got my ritualist's beautiful dress all wet.

WTB Drycleaner, stat!

...................hey buddy come give me a hand with this easy Gates of Madness mission..............

Gather 'round, I have quite the story to tell.

After making TONS of gold off vermin (around 300k for one days work), I decided to take a break for the night and farm some more the next day. I hung around the Guild Hall with friends posing for stupid screenshots that we'd be able to put on the site. We then ran Hench-Way in HA for awhile, simply because we were bored. Saying good-night, I was swept away to my bed where I dreamed dreams to graphic for this forum.

Awaking the next day, I had a horrible cold. This got me out of school, luckily. I figured "Hey, I should go farm vermin. It doesn't take effort and since i'm sick I dont want to exert myself." Booting up the game, I see that we have a MASSIVE update. This is where I begin to get worried. Everyone is going nuts in the farming towns, but I just block out all-chat so that I could minimize my lag. I go out of Senji's, and begin the farming run. But wait, the vermin are RUNNING... and not just running, HEALING. It takes 10 minutes just to kill the first mob! A chill goes up my spine (which is mildly refreshing since at this point I have a fever) and I realize "You cannot farm melee with your warrior anymore. Bet you wish you hadn't delted that 55 monk now, huh?".

Worst. Day. Ever.

The first time I henched my way up through Dreadnought's Drift I managed to kill Maw the Mountain Heart, but since I hadn't known he was there or what elite he had I didn't have a sig-cap. Looked him up later and decided to go back to get FoC.

The first time Devona gets stuck on a pebble about halfway up Snake Dance. Tried everything to get her unstuck, but she wouldn't budge. Okay, fine, go on without her. Almost to the top of Snake Dance I get stuck between a group of giants and a hoard of trolls. Things go bad, everyone dies... Everyone except Devona, who's happy and healthy standing on her pebble and laughing at us -- Aurgh!

So I start over. This time things go better, no henchies stuck on pebbles, or any such nonesense. Make it into Dreadnought's Drift, fight through the four Dolyak Riders healing each other nightmare, and make it to Maw's spawn. I'm tossing spells, his health is dropping, everything is going well, then suddenly it all stops. Everyone just stands there, Maw looks vaguely embarassed -- or, at least, as embarassed as a frost wurm boss can be. Then the inevitable comes, 007, licensed to kill my fun. I contemplate placing the keyboard through the screen at hypersonic velocities, but am fortunately stopped from trying by the intervention of loved ones and a well-timed shot of thorazine.

So I start over... Again. This time things go even better. I get through Snake Dance fine, make it up through Dreadnought's to Maw's spawn. Send him to the mists and cap an elite that I've not once used.

The character that got FoC from Maw that evening has Tyrian Grandmaster Cartogropher, of all the titles I've gotten it's the only one I'm truly proud of. I'd love to get it on more of my characters, and after doing it once it'd be a lot easier the next time, but the thought of going through all of that yet again is just too daunting. Hours spent fighting up through Snake Dance and Dreadnought's, just to end up having wasted your time because of an 007? Nah, never again...

dude it's been raining on me for a while, like everytime I do all the work and some other rich little ebayer gets the green..

Last weeekend, the weekend i wasn't able to participate in the double faction because of lag/other driver problems...

Couple of months ago, at forgemaster. I dont know what it was, either error015 or error7, but when i got back in the game i didnt have my ectos or my fow. GG

The e7 at ascalon academy happened to one of my chars as well. Just try logging in once every day. After a few days I got it to load and was able to finish presearing.

What happened to akhilleus? i heard about that guinevere person getting banned but nothing about akhilleus.

I believe he had his account hacked aswell.

if he wants to tell us, he will. my personal 'rainy day' was when i was getting my fow armor; we had just finished the last quest and were going back to the forgemaster. i decided to cherish the moment, and decided to take some before and after pics. needless to say, after i took a couple pics, there was a server-wide err7. bleh

Alright my experiences aren't much since I don't PvE as I used to. But I remember----PvP experience)...I got in this really nice dual smite group, and it was my first time playing a thumper in HA, I normally played Ele but I gave it a go. So after racking up some large portions of fame (During Double Fame weekend) We made it to HoH. My first time, there I couldn't believe it! I took some overloadage of screenies, but its HoH and a first time. So we end up killing a nice balanced and the other team didn't really do too much. So we won, and my parties name went out. Well, I realized I was in a European Group, and I wanted to farm later and it'll take a bit for America to win it back. But, I saw a cegeistel sigil (forget how to spell it lol) under my name. Woah! Can it get much better? Large Ammounts of fame and now a sigil? Well, god must've seen something he didn't like from me. So, I err 7'd Oh god. Well I tryed to find my group again. Well they didn't try to find me, because they were holding halls for a while longer. And then....the same day- I was in RA....Me (thumper which i developed a passion for) , a rather pushy monk, and 2 sins. Well 1 sin couldnt stop going ramboing in so he died quite a bit
But, we got far
7 wins, Aweomse! 8, ,9! Yes! Then 10th game. The over talkative sin pissed off the monk. The monk rage quitted at the start of the battle because of the aggro Happy Sin. Well maybe, Just maybe the other team will quit in generosity because of our 10th win and our monk quit. Well they didn't believe and I lost that gladiator point which would've been my 25th (Lord ,why)

My worst PvP day.