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helldrik

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2006

Me/

06 Sep 2007 at 11:52 - 41

[skill]Lightning Surge[/skill], makes me feel like hit by a tesla coil (Red Alert anyone?

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[skill]Symbol of Wrath[/skill] It seems a painfully near nuclear bomb

[skill]Well of Silence[/skill] and [skill]Vocal Minority[/skill] reminds me how painful was a matrix scene :P

Marty Silverblade

Administrator

Join Date: Jun 2006

06 Sep 2007 at 11:59 - 42

I'm surprised noone has mentioned Disrupting Stab yet.

[card]Disrupting Stab[/card]

I lol when I see that icon

SotiCoto

Banned

Join Date: Jan 2007

Drazach Thicket

Temple of Zhen Xianren [Sifu]

06 Sep 2007 at 12:08 - 43

[skill]Leaping Mantis Sting[/skill] wins for me.

[skill]Restore Life[/skill] is a bit icky for a monk skill icon.

makosi

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

"Pre-nerf" is incorrect. It's pre-buff.

Requirement Begins With R [notQ]

Me/

06 Sep 2007 at 12:10 - 44

[skill]Fertile Season[/skill]

Omg the great outdoors hurts my eyes. Pain!

SotiCoto

Banned

Join Date: Jan 2007

Drazach Thicket

Temple of Zhen Xianren [Sifu]

06 Sep 2007 at 12:16 - 45

Quote:

Originally Posted by makosi

[skill]Fertile Season[/skill]

Omg the great outdoors hurts my eyes. Pain!

Lawlz.

Nowhere near as scary-wrong as [skill]Contemplation of Purity[/skill].
That baby looks SO messed up.

Matfei

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

Australia

None. Being a loner X-Fire: matfei1

W/Mo

06 Sep 2007 at 12:23 - 46

Quote:

Originally Posted by SotiCoto

Lawlz.

Nowhere near as scary-wrong as [skill]Contemplation of Purity[/skill].
That baby looks SO messed up.

Gawd you're tellin' me...

That baby's on a cocktail so potent it'd knock a Dolyak flat out.

Government Flu

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2007

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Paradoxa Zoloft Asylum [PXZ]

W/R

06 Sep 2007 at 12:53 - 47

Quote:

makes me feel like hit by a tesla coil (Red Alert anyone? )

I'm a big Command & Conquer fan. I've been playing Westwood's (Now EA's) series since the first one came out in '95. I'm level 18 online in the new one. (Haven't played for months though.) If you haven't bought it yet, it's a must for any fan of C&C. It's nothing like Generals was, which is a great thing.

Anyway! My selection of painful skills.

[skill]Magehunter Strike[/skill]
[skill]Seeking Blade[/skill]
[skill]Deadly Riposte[/skill]
[skill]Blood of the Aggressor[/skill]

A lot of stabbing going on.

SotiCoto

Banned

Join Date: Jan 2007

Drazach Thicket

Temple of Zhen Xianren [Sifu]

06 Sep 2007 at 12:55 - 48

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matfei

Gawd you're tellin' me...

That baby's on a cocktail so potent it'd knock a Dolyak flat out.

It might be contemplating purity, but it seems reluctant to act on it.

When my girlfriend first saw it, her immediate comment was: "Oh my god... what the hell is that?!"

nikkesen

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2007

guildless wonder

R/Rt

06 Sep 2007 at 13:09 - 49

These two are kind of painful...

[skill]Penetrating Attack[/skill]

[skill]Wastrel's Worry[/skill]

Jecht Scye

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Lucky Crickets[Luck]

N/Me

06 Sep 2007 at 13:48 - 50

Quote:

Originally Posted by helldrik

[skill]Lightning Surge[/skill], makes me feel like hit by a tesla coil (Red Alert anyone?

)

Command & Conquer ftw!

prism2525

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Among dead bodies.

The Republic of Sky Pirates

E/

06 Sep 2007 at 14:04 - 51

[skill]lightning Surge[/skill] C&C ftw!
[skill]mind shock[/skill] How did u guys miss THIS? Heck I reckon a lightning blast in your heat GOT to hurt.
[skill]burning speed[/skill] NEWSFLASH! Flames DO hurt!
[skill]Mind burn[/skill] Burn, baby BURN!
[skill]teinai's heat[/skill]see above.
[skill]searing heat[/skill]see above yet again.
[skill]steam[/skill]steam in your eyes is just hawt.

EotN skills:
Shell Shock: Shocking experience!
Earthen Shackles: Legs in lava (feeling warm inside, huh?)
Slippery Ground: Okay this doesn't hurt as much as having an axe thrusted in you, but still...

EDIT: can't believe i almost forgot this out: [skill]blinding surge[/skill] OUCH!

lucifer_uk

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2006

Nottingham, England

The Venerable Truth [TvT] The Venerable Alliance [TvH] [TvL]

R/

06 Sep 2007 at 14:21 - 52

[skill]Seeking Blade[/skill]
Oww... Just Oww.

[skill]Ferocious Strike[/skill]
Try letting your cat scratch you down there, I bet you would be feeling it for a few days!

pingu666

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2006

guildhall

[DETH]

06 Sep 2007 at 14:23 - 53

Quote:

Originally Posted by SotiCoto

[skill]Leaping Mantis Sting[/skill] wins for me.

[skill]Restore Life[/skill] is a bit icky for a monk skill icon.

restore life reminds me of jacko :\. and when i was utterly n00b back in the day

jon0592

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

N/

06 Sep 2007 at 22:16 - 54

Hmm out of these fine selections I have to say Ranger, Warrior, Elementalist, a few Rt ones and a few 'sin ones are the most painful... especially that poster who posted those 2 rit icons where the guy is being stabbed from the middle and from the right (don't have a Rt, don't know the skills)

Bale_Shadowscar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2005

Manchester, England

New Dragons [NDR]

06 Sep 2007 at 22:22 - 55

[skill]Ebon Dust Aura[/skill]

I've got dirt in my eyes! I'm bliiiiind!

[skill]Blood is Power[/skill]

[skill]Precision Shot[/skill]

[skill]Awe[/skill]

[skill]Onslaught[/skill]

Vnewbie

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2005

Canada

R/

07 Sep 2007 at 00:56 - 56

[skill]Life[/skill]

Think about it for a second. A guy is gouging you with his bare hands.

jon0592

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

N/

07 Sep 2007 at 01:25 - 57

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vnewbie

[skill]Life[/skill]

Think about it for a second. A guy is gouging you with his bare hands.

Well, that's life.

Age

Hall Hero

Join Date: Jul 2005

California Canada/BC

STG Administrator

Mo/

07 Sep 2007 at 01:30 - 58

Quote:

Originally Posted by lyra_song

whats funny is a lot of skill icons faces are Anet employees....

I would gather this would be Gaile[skill]Migraine[/skill] after reading The Guru posts and 2 others I forgot are [skill]Mind Freeze[/skill] and [skill]Maelstrom[/skill] Darn Ice Imps.

placebo overdose

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2007

N/

07 Sep 2007 at 01:32 - 59

Quote:

Originally Posted by Henchman

Why can't we just have skill icons with butterflies and pink flowers?

hahaha [skill]Fertile Season[/skill] kinda of flowery

SPIRIT OF THE SEA

Banned

Join Date: May 2006

07 Sep 2007 at 22:07 - 60

[skill]Poison arrow[/skill]

My Sweet Revenga

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

R/

07 Sep 2007 at 22:21 - 61

[skill]Flame Trap[/skill]
Flame Trap. A picture of a wammo holding up a jerry can and pouring gasoline on himself. Now that looks masochistically painful.

??Ripskin

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2006

Mo/

08 Sep 2007 at 00:02 - 62

[skill]Tripwire[/skill]

It's not exactly the most painful, but it'd still hurt like hell, and it still makes me lol.

Jumping Is Uselss

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2005

-... . .... .. -. -.. / -.-- --- ..-

08 Sep 2007 at 00:22 - 63

[skill]Eviscerate[/skill]

ouch my arm

Terra Xin

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Mar 2006

New Zealand

Me/R

08 Sep 2007 at 04:01 - 64

I see an arm... ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Screw the pain, you don't want this thing growing in you :S

Stolen Souls

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

08 Sep 2007 at 05:42 - 65

[skill]Barbed Trap[/skill]

>.>

arcanemacabre

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Feb 2006

North Kryta Province

Angel Sharks [As]

08 Sep 2007 at 05:57 - 66

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stolen Souls

[skill]Barbed Trap[/skill]

>.>

Ow Ow Ow Ow

yeesh, the worst part is that one spike going right through the heel.

chowmein69

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2007

08 Sep 2007 at 05:59 - 67

Magehunter strike...

Saphrium

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2006

Granite Citadel

Post Searing Ascalonian Merchants

N/Me

08 Sep 2007 at 06:18 - 68

Hands, fingers and center of your feet are the nerve points, those hurt the most.

arcanemacabre

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Feb 2006

North Kryta Province

Angel Sharks [As]

08 Sep 2007 at 06:49 - 69

Quote:

Originally Posted by Saphrium

Hands, fingers and center of your feet are the nerve points, those hurt the most.

Oh, it may not hurt the worst at the moment it happens... I'm talking the next day kinda pain... that joint, and any broken/shattered bones near it - ouch.

Besides, the worse the pain - the more the endorphins are released and ease said pain. So the most painful injuries end up hurting less than "not-as-painful" ones. Still, the overall damage and recovery from said damage makes me cringe the most. I'd rather have wood splinters in my fingernails than my kneecaps shattered, as an example.