Your worst self-ownage???

...You MUST be shitting me.

*cough*cough*EBAYER*cough*

Your character name suits you.

Not all wealthy players are ebayers . And merching fow armor is worse imo

Who the GORED merchs Vabbian? Assuming they know what went into its creation, that they know armor can be salvaged for precious items, and that said precious items are worth a metric shit-ton more than merched armor, why in Grenth's name would they just merch it? My guess: because they bought an account with a bunch of goodies on it from some place like Ebay or purchased a crapload of plat, therefore they hadn't the foggiest idea of how much these things were worth or how handy they were to hold onto and/or had no idea the armor could be salvaged. If you throw all of that money at getting Vabbian, you should damn well be aware of what an immense goldsink that is. You should also look up Vabbian armor's appearance before crafting it, so you don't piss away plat needlessly on the gems for it.

And anyone who merchs FoW armor should be suspended from a high tree branch by their toes, covered with papiermache and beaten to a rosy red with splinter-ridden yard-long lengths of 1"x2" by kids hopped up on Mountain Dew and cotton candy.

Your guess? So you have no proof? I think some people forget that it's just a game... Not only that but if it's not your account that they merched Vabbian on, why should you care? Nice character name.

I'm with R2-D2 on this one about the Vabbian being merched. If you spent hundreds of thousands of gold on an armorset you don't just merch it for 5k without realizing you're doing something completely retarded.

But to get back on topic the worst I ever got owned was when I had an inventory of whites and started clicking the sell button rapidly and I accidentally merched my perfect zodiac shield. Least it was only req 10, and this was when zodiac shields were worth way more.

You salvaged 3 wood planks from Sundering storm bow of Fortitude

Game or not, seeing waste on this scale boggles my mind. Little wonder the economy in GW is so fragile and temperamental, we've got ignorant people turning a large gold sink into an even bigger gold sink with their lack of foresight.

When i seen this thread it reminded me of Kurt...but i can't for the life of me remember how exactly he did that....seems like it was something to do with wintersday but i don't remember........

Use Frenzy + Heal Signet with the pre-searing paper armor outside Camp Rankor (During a Drok run), I was instantly 007'd from ele mobs

its kind of funny i was getting a run and had only half of my build on my bar as a 130 hp dervish and didnt have it ended group wanted me to run the mission cause runner failed

now that i have read the funniest post ever, i can die in peace

and i've 3 times now used more than 10k buying keys because theres no obvious confirmation other than your money losing a bit. if your inventory isnt open, theres no way to "know" a key is bought, unless you (which i didnt when i was noobier) know that theres not SUPPOSED to be a confirmation thing

Most embarassing self ownage would be being overwhelmed by the snowmen in that Treasure quest in GW:EN. I know it's supposed to be Master difficulty level but still, these are freaking lvl 15 snowmen from the Wintersday festival. There was just so many of them and they were on me like Kobe Bryant on a hotel maid.

oh SNAP!
and you just gave me a farming idea. wtb HM gwen, tbh.

I think the Vabbi merch is pretty funny I've done equally funny/stupid things out of boredom, so I know where he's coming from.

Just recently I salvaged a gold Dual Gothic Axe for it's +30 mod, lost the thing, then remembered about Perfect Salvage Kits. I rule.

req 11 zodiac sword 15^50 and not selling it >.> (before hm)
and finally buying stygian daggers for 37k when 5 mins someone was selling for 25k,,,

Without the search function I can't find the actual post but I think he bought a ton of candy cane shards thinking they were going to be used for something special at the finale. When they weren't he was kidded pretty bad. But then, when the festival ended, it turned out you could use them for gifts so he made out ok after all other than a case of carpel tunnel from double clicking to open 1000 gifts or so.

Two stacks of dwarven ale, three stacks of firewater, and partial stacks of every other type of ale...

And decided I don't want to go for the title anymore.

Oh, and one time I joined a Luxon alliance. =P

yeah kurt had the last laugh
he bought either 100k or 1000k worth of cc shards
ended up turning a profit from all the gifts tho

Ahhhh man, nice one

more like -300 tops. Ever since dupes you can find armbraces for 100k+35e anywhere. Makes me pissed they didn't ban everyone that purchased one for 100k or less on the "DupeDay" because i've been in way to many groups where theres a person that has every DoA weapons skin on them. And I say "Wheres your FoW?" And there like "lol, cant afford it. ought my armbrace 5k each in ascalon"

I was with my dervish and starting Tihark Orchid and was wondering why the Skree were 1-shotting me

I then noticed I was still in my 130hp gear

Deleting my first mesmer... she had 15k virtuose... Deleted her because I needed space to try out the new faction game can you dig it? >.> shortly after we got to know we would get 2 extra character slots damn I was pissed!

Guess I'll spill the beans...

I made a new warrior when Factions came out. Was real into him and decked him out in awesome gear including a set of FoW.

Then I got bored with him, salvaged all his gear, and deleted him. He had to go because I was running out of slots and didn't want two warriors - and I missed my old Tyrian war.

Wasn't really a loss to funds, since there's nothing better to spend it on anyways.

Deleting my oldest character, a warrior with 15k Kurzick armor, Perfect Chaos Axe, Long Sword and his WHOLE inventory full with uniques like Stonereaper, Strongroot Shelter, Spiriteater and lots of bows.
Somehow I mistook him for a PvP character...

Then I traded a Hand of the Forgotten to someone but I was only showing it, somehow I clicked on accept trade and it was gone... At the time they were still like 80kish

And someone scammed a Amulet of the mists off me paying 30g instead of 30k, tho thats not selfownage actually.

The deleted warrior set me back about 300-400k i guess :S

#1. Set up Charr for death-levelling in Pre-Sear Northlands.... before the modifications to normal mode behaviour when HM was introduced. Had an almost perfect set-up with just one Shaman to get rid of before it could properly start.
Went to attack the Shaman.... Shaman kited. I chased. Shaman ran through the gate. I pressed back just after passing the white haze. Ended up back on the south side of the gate again.
I promptly Ragequit and didn't bother with my Pre-Sear character for several weeks after that.

#2. The point where I'd spent forever farming cash and materials... Alliance Battling myself half to death for Amber.... all to get 15k Kurzick armour for my Assassin.... and mis-clicked. I got the Infiltrators (+10 versus Piercing) rather than Nightstalkers (+15 while attacking) ... and was absolutely devastated.... UNTIL a particularly nice member of these boards came along and actually gave me all I needed to get a replacement. I had that Infiltrator's guise in my storage for months and recently sold it when the Insignia system became available through all campaigns.

#3. When I figured I'd try farming the Mantids outside Nahpui Quarter (in Waijun Bazaar) with my 55 Monk in Hard Mode.... since they drop the same stuff as Nahpui Quarter enemies (good chance of Celestials)....
I reckoned without about half of the whole damned mob having: [skill]Gaze of Contempt[/skill] ... I've never seen my monk explode so fast.

#4. The Req.9 Gold Inscribable Crude Shield that apparently is worth over 100k that I got while farming for Colossal Scimitars.... and merched. I only found out its value in retrospect. I've doubtless done it with loads of other golds too... but I have learnt. I'm still holding a few valuable Req.9 15^50 swords and stuff in storage.

#5. The three times (not once... not twice... but thrice) that I've rather dim-wittedly ran through the gate to the enemy camp in Alliance Battles and got hit with the -999 instakill. Nothing makes you feel quite so stupid as that. Admittedly, I have managed to lure no less than 10 people to their death the same way before.... so I'm not the only idiot out there to have done it. Possibly the only one who has done it three times though.




I might add others if I remember them later.

I do tend to pwn myself in one way or other on a regular basis though.


Of course the ultimate Anti-Pwn... the most beneficial mistake I ever made.... was when I first went to fight the Doppelganger, and accidentally ran in there with my Shadow Form running build. For a while I couldn't understand why I was doing no damage to him.... until his health dropped to about 40 and I one-hit-killed him.
If I'd actually engaged my brain, I would have equipped a tough build (not knowing how the guy worked) and actually got my arse handed to me.

ROFLZORRS, that happens to everyone playing AB at least once, look at it as an initiation rite ^^.

Selling my first batch of unid golds, armor included ;(

had someone wisp me back later saying they found a Sup Vigor on it (13k at traders ;( )

1st few days of the game found a r9 gold crystalline sword out of a chest(before keys ) in elona, but mod was 19%vs hexxed... I was a Wammo... I scoffed at it... I sold it to some lucky guy for 5k... then I died a little inside about a week later lol

Hmz, not too much, but I sold that 'useless' -50hp cesta to the merchant because it seemed so worthless. (No, I never heared about 55hp monks when I played my first char through Tyria.)

I once sold a rare dagger for 10K... the guy then told me it was worth 400K

When I was new to the game and found a sup vigor, got scammed and sold it for 1K to a guy..then found out it was worth about 90K (The good old days when sup vigor was worth something)

I stripped a sword for the mod, the sword was worth way.. way much more.

Cast [skill]Aura of the Lich[/skill] and [skill]blood of the master[/skill], when I was at 200/480 HP

Here are two of my worst examples:

1. Deleting my original, 9 month character. He was the very first I created, and I deleted him for absolutely no good reason, with all of his armor and weapons still on him. Furthermore, just a day before his deletion, I got him brand new 15k armor.

2. Attempting to reconfigure the 9 month character's replacement after a few months of gameplay, I look at the wikipedia to figure out a unique combination of 15k armor, but proceed to screw up, so I end up salvaging a few 15k armor pieces, and then deciding I liked them anyway so I re-buy them. An 80-90k armor set ended up costing almost 200k.

And to top it all off, I salvaged the helmet part after getting an obsidian helm three days later.

Ahh yes, I set up an Earth Ele hammer warrior for RA, I put all of the green hammers I owned. Was about a dozen of them. Deleted without thinking when I needed another PVP char rolled. Thankfully it was hammer's and not something that tends to sell for alot, but spent ALOT of time getting them via Tombs and Sorrows.

Spend lots of money and time on my 55 monk. The next week (before i cap SoJ), introducing the AoE escape to foes

And what precisely is wrong with that?

Now it allows you to tank ridiculously HUGE mobs of melee monsters at once because only three of them will be attacking you at once, and you can keep one of them pinned there by attacking him back.
Without the AoE scatter, Gates of Kryta Hard Mode farm wouldn't be feasible.... nor the uber Skale mob in Fahranur The First City (HM).

Didn't realize how much perfect zodiac staffs were worth.

Salvaged 3 for their best mods.

I disagree, gates of kyrta HM is a pain as a 55 monk anyway, and it is possible and faster with terra tank ele.

On topic, my worst self ownage is probably when I didn't know how to salvage runes from armor, and got not one but 3 superior vigor runes on armor and merched them all (when they were ~90k)... the good thing about this was that i didn't know I had just lost a potential 250k for a few weeks, so I didn't beat myself up about it

Deleting my first character, was a mesmer with 15k Enchanter, forgot to take runes of the armor and a few weeks later something called "first birthday" mini-pets started to appear.

Forgetting cap sig, having the wrong second profession while capping and selling wrong items (black dye for 1g) to a merchant have happened, but don't think they are as bad.

1. buying a mini devourer for 56k
2. selling a white dye(first day) for 2k
3. buying 6000 charr carvings the day after wintersday(dont ask why but paid off last year)
4. going into a rit spike group , equipped template, didnt see attributes were nt set, 13 damage

selling req 8 plagueborn dags for 1k
(yet to try this....but...)frenzy usage in ab while running to enemy base defender with charge!!