In Game Pet Peeves

*Wammo group leader, about to start a not-so-difficult-mission* "Ping skillz plz"

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when people cry wiki in pvp...seriously.

I think my biggest pet peeve in Guild Wars are just people with no common sense at all.

A few examples:

You're about to do Duncan on HM with a PuG. The group looks fine, and after repeatedly saying that we cannot get in if people have not done all four bosses, the door will not open. So we fight our way there in Hard Mode as not to die running, and when we get there nearly 20 minutes later, low and behold, the door is shut. Bravo. We tell the person responsable to just leave so we can get a new person. No one leaves.


Say you're selling an item in Kamadan, and you advertise it as a very nice item. With this in mind, some random person comes up to you and gives you the kingly offer in the Trade Screen of a worthless green, 130g, and a yellow and a blue dye. You decline, tell him it's not in his price range, he curses at you.


Say you're in the same situation, and in the trade chat, someone begins to spam guild recruitment. *This annoys me to no end*. They go to LA D1 and they recruit in the dang trade chat to get the attention of the sellers. Local chat is there for a reason.....




And little things people do, like argue in leet speak with multiple swear words per sentance when you can easily tell neither party is over seven years of age, or adults that think everyone under 18 should be banned because of the immature stereotype, or people that manage to "Agro Anyway".


I'm done here, too many to list.

To be fair, this can be really confusing. It's not enough to have "done all four bosses" - the first time I killed Duncan, I got the reward afterwards and figured, hey, now that I've killed all four bosses I can just repeat Duncan a bit. So I joined another Duncan group and we get to Slavers and the door won't open - and it's my fault. I figured, well, it must be because I got the reward last time so the four bosses aren't crossed out in my quest log.

I did the four bosses again, and then I killed Duncan again, and then I figured that I'd wait to accept the quest reward so that I could go back to Slavers and kill Duncan a few more times. Lo and behold, I went back to Slavers and the door was closed - because even if I'd killed all four bosses, I had already killed Duncan.

So actually, the requirement is, "have killed all four bosses, since the last time you killed Duncan."

I kind of wish this was clearer because after the first time I checked the Wiki and didn't find an explicit explanation of who can and cannot kill Duncan again. Apparently it's very similar to the DoA, but I don't do the DoA so that didn't ring a bell.

I admit that if you're doing HM you should have already done the trial and error to figure this out, but who knows how many other confusing conditions there are. It's more complicated than just, "OK, who hasn't killed all four bosses?"

People who say their skillsbars are good 'because they beat the the campaign with it'

What are you talking about? 'Noob' is a variation of 'Newb'.

People who don't at least say "Thank you" or "thnx" or "tyvm" or "ty" after a trade.

Mo/E's that have half of their skills dedicated to Fire Magic and say that the skills are there to "protect himself"

Assassins that say "I'll protect you" to players such as the Mo/E above..

The list could go on and on..

Q for Req
X is going Y (X is some nickname the person has)(Y is a profession or profession nickname or some verb)
PuGs
Leechers
Leavers
People insisting worthless items are worth 10s of thousands
Monks who think that it is ok to spam Offensive Spells when they said they are a healer/prot/hybrid or are not equipped to deal damage
Heros not listening to flags
People complaining about another person's build when they die, crying wiki
People who tell you not to kite or stop running
Xunlai Boxes unable to be seen
Beggars
Immature idiots spamming nonsensical perverse stuff in all chat
Forgetting to get bounty/bad bounty rewards like +20 Armor when you don't need it
People who randomly trade you
Telling a person to strip and dance
People who complain about being scammed, yet can't realize the "if it's too good to be true" or don't know how to gather information. Yes you were a new player and fell for it, get over it now.
Low levels in arenas (or used to be), which usually signify poor equipment and skill set up/understanding
Title Grind
Not being able to run in Factions, NF, or EotN (why do I want to do all the quests and missions again)
Idiots trading
People who leave the guild after a day
PvE monster KD chains
Anet fixing/changing stuff that wasn't broken to begin with
People leaving before you are set up
New players who pester you
New players who aren't grateful for help
Idiot scammers
Rubber banding
Lag (in general and the lag spike when first meeting the opponent)
People discussing serious issues in all chat, but don't know a damn thing
Tombs, inscriptables
Heroes not account wide
Equipping vampiric weapons and not swapping/countering with Mending
Leeroy Jenkins
Caps lock and excessive exclamation points
55 Monks in 8 man parties
Arborstone
Minipets (and all the stupid issues related to them)
Ducking out/afking and not coming back, or when they know they have to leave, but say it is an emergency anyway
Warrior dance
Penis in the radar
Chuck Norris, 300, or any overused joke
DoA
Hero AI stupidity
Suckups
Cash only, and keep getting whispered with item offers
Spamming (although it has gotten somewhat better)
When asked to show an item you already described, and rejected after showing
Text limit on Party Search
Stubbornness when it comes to improving your character
Offline/Away/DND telling you to PM
False elitists
Selling items in a mission
Stupid trash talk

That's all for now, 2:24 AM

in HA when they say LFP blah blah...show rank pls, i mean wtf, how else are inexperienced players gonna get points if theyre not with an experienced team

people who tell others to 'hit alt f4 for the new xxx' that's just plain annoying.
there are many new people playing the game, telling them this if very elementary schoolish.
Like calling people names, that is for kids---not the age of the people who are supposed to be allowed to play this game.
And if you are an adult calling people nubs, noobs, etc...SHAME ON YOU! (caps intentional)----grow up and act your age, please.

^Prety sure its a safe bet that the people who say that 'Hit alt F4' are young immature little #@#$s

1) players who are rude
2) Players who cheat other players
3) bringing race, religions and politics into the game, anytime i see that, local chat will be off.
4) this often happens in town, players who, when other players ask a question, no one answers, when someone try to answers them at best they can, people start bashing them, saying their answers are wrong bla bla bla .... so why did no one answers when the question was first ask? why bash the players who try to help.

noob nub nubsauce newbie

hit alt f4 for a new gold minipet!!

Loot scaling.

People with their plx, u, lol, Q, tombs, inscriptable and other stupid things.

It taking at least an hour of spamming to sell something.

All the "lol 200g kk"-whispers when trying to sell something.

People only wanting req 9 and lower stuff. Shields, OK I understand, but with weapons, if it's your primary attribute you'll have 14+ in it anyway, so why demaning only req9?

HA elitism, how can a new player get rank 3 if < rank 3's are not allowed to join teams that stand any chance of winning...

No modest female paragon armor.

Obsidian armor. For most classes, it's ugly. I wouldn't wear it even if I got it free.

Black dye. Looks horrible on most armors.

*Slow sales are normal. No one's gonna fall to your feet everytime you post something up for sale.

*Req7-9 is the best. Who wants less Req #? Common sense.

*Elitism is in fact wrong and biased. You are absolutely right on that one. The only way to bypass that is to find an unbiased group and prove to them your skills. An infinitely better and rather obvious choice is HA with your guild (if you have one). If you don't, take the time and search around.

*Obsidian Armors: Some are in fact ugly. But I find some to be good, too. I have my assassin wearing FoW and it fits her theme nicely!

Psylocke Deadpool.JPG

*Black Dye: C'mon now... that's sooo untrue! You just gotta do your homework and plan ahead at finding the armors that do look good with black. Not everything looks good or bad with black, and the option IS there at your disposal. Freedom of choice!

Oh yeah this one for sure. I can't stand the effect technology has had on the English language. I asked a kid one time." Why do you type like that?" His reply was." Everyone does and it's cool." Cool? Cool?! If ignorance is cool then mental retardation must be the most awesome "leetest" thing ever.

I also hate people with wooden modems. Honestly if you still use dial up then you probably should not be playing an online game that isn't Flash animated. It's the information age people. Pony up that extra cash and get with the broadband or if mom and dad won't pay for it then tell them you'll cut yourself or whatever it is you kids do to get your way these days.

I also hate people in town who won't answer a simple question. Instead you always see."Go look it up on wiki noob." When nine out of ten times it would have been quicker to just type the answer.

Finally I hate people that quit mid mission because one non essential party member dropped. "OH NOES! TEH RIT QUIT I R QUITTING TOO!!11!!1!!" Yeah that bothers me.

Dunkoro. I completly hate him, he has a mind of his own and thinks he's a tank.

Srsly (OMG, seriously*). It is not "leet speak", it is called abbreviations. I bolded a word in your post. That is also an abbreviation. People who get off on one because someone said "lol" pisses me off. Choosing to type / speak with abbreviations doesn't show you have a lack of proper grammar imo <-- did it again

In no particular order...
-Leavers
- When someome pm you and then when you are going to awnser it says that he/she is offline.
-People tho think they are the elitist in all, specially in pvp but in pve too, and calls everyone ''noobs''
- Leet speak, its very dificuilt for me to understand a word of it because im not a native english speaker.
- Spam, with the trades, guilds, and the 'lfg' thing.
- Beggars
- People who asks for help and then they dont even say ''thanks''
- When you are selling something then someone comes and offer you items but not the gold you want for it.
- Seeing lots of people using black dye, just beacuase it is the most expensive dye it does not mean that it looks that great in every armor.
- Obisidan armor, it looks cool in some classes but in other classes it looks just ugly.
- (in this one i'm not triying to insult anyone, its just my point of view) I just hate when i see most of eles are always all in RED, with that RED hair (that in my opinion looks ugly and fake), and RED dyed armor, and i hate it specially when i see those all RED eles have one of the words ''Fire, Flame, Burning etc...'' in their names, comon eles are not just fire.
- People who thinks that some classes are usseless like assassins, mesmers, paragons... comon every class is useful for something.
I may have more pet peeves but i'm not going to post them all.

-pugs
-whiners
-people who expect free things form peopel that've played longer then them.
-spammers
-scammers
-jerks
- people who go to a pve/pvp area and b**ch and moan about how the other sucks
-The sterotype of "teh wammo" on any class
-people who degrade other aspects of the game (i.e. jade quarry etc.) jsut becasue they dont play it

maybe more but thats generally it

^^
This is my pet peeve.

Also when people get annoyed when I /rank in PvP arenas.

Sure, it's childish. But....just because I have one, and you don't...does this mean you should get bitter and fill my text log with childish threats and insults?

People telling me that Paragons and mesmers suck is up on my pet peeves list too.

My pet peeves?
Someone tickled my annoyance last night.

I was running a shock axe build (Been using in ra since factions came out~before I knew about pvx) and an assasin using melandrus resillience without any self condition skills kept nonstop calling me a noob.

Mainly because I was using pressure on another squishy while the other 2 people attacked the monk.
(Right thing to do, right?)

People who use their energy to whine about people / are abusive to people who ask questions (especially during holiday events) about things. Either answer the question or shut up! Not everyone was around last Halloween or Wintersday.

Mesmer (any class, really) hate in PvE. (actually I get a chuckle out of it now. A couple weeks ago a friend saw a conversation going on about how Mesmers couldn't get GMC title! I put on my GMC title, went to the town, and had a really good time setting everyone straight! Can't wait to finish the Vanquisher titles! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!)

lol wow how stupid can the community get?

My pet peeve...GW community

lol @ Malice
1. Mods that hate the GW Community j/k!

Actually I think what I cant stand is the guy that does this.

Seller: WTS "item" 25k!
Me: Ill take it
Seller: Just got an offer for 30k, wanna counter it?

Honestly - if your gonna sell it for x amount of gold and someone says they will take it, be honorable and sell for the price you advertised.

Standard low end trader practice. Just say no thanks, they'll PM you back within a few minutes and say the other guy pulled out.

It is Leet/Net speak. If you find the word "srsly" in ANY BOOK in the past 30 years, show me it. Show me it and I will pin it to my bedroom wall and dance in front of it every night in sheer admiration. And find me one person who actually uses that spelling who has never even been on the internet.

Oh, and can you do me a massive favour? Write it in your next English essay and pass it off as a commonly used abbreviation. I mean, it's not leet speak. You'll get away with it.

Trade spamming in local chat
I lost count how many times I reported people for doing that so much and I will continue to do so. Every now and then, you see someone doing that, you mention it belongs in the trade channel, then the spammer gets mad at you for saying it.

Special event question spam
"How do I get a mask?", "Where are the festival quests?", etc. Even if people in the town answers them, the questions are still getting asked repeatedly. Why didn't you see our answer the first time?

Beggars
Usually from those asking for as little as 30 gold. It won't hurt them to make their own money fighting monsters and selling drops. Sometimes, when a beggar is given the amount he asked for, he keeps begging for the same amount.

Guild recruitment spam
There's absolutely no reason to say your recruiting message every 5-10 seconds. We saw it the first time!

Spamming <whatever> at least 2-3 times quickly
This is perhaps one of my biggest peeves. Why do people do this?? You only have to say it ONE TIME.

People who can't take a simple hint
You got a guy asking if anyone has a certain item or whatever. Constantly, with no responses. After a few minutes or so, if no one has replied by then, that means "we don't have it". Occasionally when this happens, I make the simple gesture of saying something like 'since no one is answering you, it means we don't have one'... then they get ticked off at you because of it.

PvP'ers in PvE, insulting those in it
There was a PvP player recently in euro LA, spamming "PvE are scrubs" or something like that. If you don't like PvE, then stay out of it.

People that refuse to spell out words completely
You know the ones... those who abbreviate almost every other word, just because it's faster to type. No, it's not faster... it's laziness. Plain and simple. It's "anyone", not "any1". "please", not "plz". Just to name a couple examples.

gz for grats. its like saying jiz -.-

Let's see:

- People selling/trading Rune Scape gold/accounts. (Go Play RS and leave us alone!! )

- Panhandlers, specially on Droknar's Forge

- Doing something (anything) in HM and getting #$@#% purples in EVERY chest I open.

- Killing a group of 7 - 8 monsters in hard mode and only getting a crappy white item O_o

- People that when I BiP them are spamming their Energy bar (again) 2 seconds after. BiP lasts 10 seconds FFS!!!

- A person spamming WTS X Item, you PM him for a price and he answers back "OFFER".

Or worse; when YOU spam "PM me your offers" and having someone who says "how much for item?" -_-.

I've got some more though...

- Necros being MM/SS, nothing else; rest is a noob build.

- Mesmer, paragon and assassin hate.

- PvE vs. PvP debates (IT'S NOT THE SAME GODDAMN MECHANICS! I've got a good one for this... I was in FoW with 2 monks, none wanting to go prot 'cause "PvE was easy and FoW was easy". Midway, they were almost yelling that each other should have gone prot).

And the most annoying one is...

... People who don't listen to directions, eff up and then blame you. And leechers fall in the same category.

1.. People that waste their entire life on getting titles and play only gw instead of having a social life...


O_o thats me

People who dont respond to PMs. ALWAYS when I am buying/selling things I will send someone an offer and wait.. and wait.. and wait for a reply. If its a bad offer, could you please just type nty? (or "no thank you" for those of you who hate abbreviations ) It drives me up the wall that people think that they are so far above me that they dont need to respond to my message.

/endrant

worded the way id like my response to be

The community.

Beggars.

Purples from locked chests.

Stupid people spamming emotes.

Great Temple of Balthazar, AD1.

Random Arenas, AD1.

Stupid edrama.

Usually it's because the person just got to town and didn't SEE the question/answer. But I do concede that there are those that are impateint and ask over and over without giving anyone a chance to answer.

SPAM SUCKS!

My massive hate is '^^'

At the end of every line a german says, there is always ^^

WHAT THE JELLY IS IT MEANT TO MEAN

It kind of bugs me when people don't say anything after you helped them through a mission. No thanks, gg or anything, and just leave. I usually PM them and say "you're welcome!" when they do that.

People that try to be all big and tough by trying to offend someone by calling them XXX "insert faction here"



I use blood ritual on my nuker heros, works well, but they never us it on me, and they use it on the monks that are only missing 1 energy

Players that think that Owning a town in Cantha is way more "leet" then being ranked 1 in HB or GvG

Flamers that get me into trouble with the moderators of this site.
Anyone who thinks that Dishonorable Hex is good.
Emo's who /report others out of spite & malice.
RAing with bafoons.
Grouping with people that don't even have an elite skill so far into the game.
Rangers with more than one preparation and no stances, or with healing breeze.

Not trying to apply for your first. But I don't actually understand why people dislike it. I like it! Since before it nearly every RA team I was in was just full of leavers. Now that they can't grief the rest of their team I'm happy.

But, I actually have one to add since today. People who tell you that you need to "l2p" when you say you're having some trouble in a specific area... I can't help it since Asura areas in EotN really give me a rough time D:

Oh and let's not forget the people that ask for help, and don't mention what they need help on. Then when you ask what they need help with they don't respond.