GW Urban Legends

You're an idiot for using Heal Area on your minions. Kidding :P (yeah, people saw a sarcastic reply coming, lol... >_>)

Yeah I remember getting yelled at for using Heal Area too. Couldn't change their mind at all. Thought it was funny more than anything though x].

Oh and I had a nuker using Firestorm on purpose to break aggro, as "individual monsters are easier to kill". Doubt he realize that the foe monks had same range as allied monks... and that it's actually easier to kill stuff in a mob anyways. Especially coming from a nuker. -_-.

I have heard a rumor that there used to be free chests in the Southern Shiverpeaks that would drop Elite loot and such...i don't believe it tho. Also someone said they had an unconditional weapon...but i think they are just dupers

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Sorry for the confusion i was just being "urban mythy" i do realize that the above did happen...but to new players it would seem as if its a myth....etc was just making a joke :P

You guys should make yours meow too.

The Arid Sea chest had unconditional drops (though the chest was removed within a few weeks of guild wars release) and in Dreadnought Drifts there were two chests that always spawned and dropped lots of rare loot. It's true

there used to be damage +15% unconditional weapons that would drop from halls chests.

I have an unconditional +5 energy longbow, non-inscriptable.

+5 unconditional energy isn't that rare is it? Made a barrage bow from one

i think it was meant as unconditional damage. instead of 15%^50 it is just plain 15% extra damage...no conditions.

Well i heard theres this myth that Mesmers are bad!!!
And people actually believe in such crap. LOL

This is a fun thread. Let's see, what's some that I've heard.....

1. I think the strongest most persistent Urban Legend is at the beginning of FOW. DO NOT TALK TO RASTIGAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't count how many times I've heard that one. Most people believe that as soon as you talk to him, he immediately latches onto your group and leeroys everything in sight.

This isn't true. He won't leave the starting point until you kill one of the Shadow Rangers or Abyssals. At that point he'll run and join you. At that point, I usually hear non-stop griping from the group leader. "Which %$#@ moron talked to him???" The only legitimate reason I can think of not to talk to him at the beginning is to prevent the first mob from accidentally killing him.

2. Hmm, this is one that I believed for wayyy too long. I thought the UW portal in Lornar's Pass would allow entrance to the UW even if you didn't have favor. (And yes there is an UW entrance in Lornar's Pass. Tried convincing my guildies for a month that it really did exist!)

3. You cannot change your 2ndary profession in Nightfall until you reach the Chantry of Secrets. This is another one that I hear all the time. Yes you can!! Geez, people, have you never stepped into the Command Post????

4. "WAHHH!!! That warrior in my team just got a 2nd gold drop and I haven't gotten any yet!!!!!!!" He's running a HACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EVERYONE REPORT HIM NOW!!!!!!

5. This is one that my guild is helping to perpetuate. Click on the guards in Heroes Ascent 100 times for a free fame.

6. And of course everyone's all time favorite urban legend, the legend that is so persistent, so old, so popular and will forever appear in every online game that has ever been made and will ever be made..............

do you know what it is?

you've seen it!

you may even have spread it!

Have you guessed yet?

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"Press ALT-F4 for free fame/a million gold/bone dragon minipet/ gwen mini pet/free unconditional gold chaos axe/an ecto/a stack of ectos!!/ free piece of obsidian armor/unlock all heroes and all skills on account/etc etc etc etc..

Not saying ur wrong, just pointing out fact / idea behind their nonsense.... the longer they live the more degen they receive...

from http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Minion , for those who will say im wrong

Anyone ever hear bout how since runes wont "stack" that you can only get bonus from 1 run at a time..... ya had to convince a few newblets that their guild leader was wrong... conversation was about expertise, wilderness, marksmanship runes, their guild leader told them to only put 1 of them on total (as in just marksmanship) because he thought that "not stackable" meant that you could only have 1 attribute type rune on at a time, and placing another on would remove the prior, even if on different piece of armor.

Guilty.^^

This is one of the few pranks I've ever pulled in an MMO. In GW I used to do it to the guys constantly spamming "where do I get my hat?" during Festivals.

Thats just hilarious, I don't have any stories that absurd and funny though.

Good thread.

Does everyone know about the "exploint" in the Gyala Hatchery mission? You know, the "back door". Following the right path you can not activet the turtles movement and kill all the Kurz from the end of the mission forward. Making keeping the baby turtles alive a very simple matter.

Well, I can remember after this was discovered every new build would bring a string of claims that they closed "bug". I belived it the first few times and would go to the mission to test it. Always did work. Still does.

Every Halloween someone will say "Go talk to the Mad King for extra prizes!!1!". Also, that shouting "Pick me!" will actually make the Mad King pick you. I never did it and was chosen twice in a row. :P

[QUOTE=max gladius]Not saying ur wrong, just pointing out fact / idea behind their nonsense.... the longer they live the more degen they receive...
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That where this belief may have started because people were keeping their minions alive for so long that the degen rate would just go through the roof. There have been many times where I am running around with ten minions and they all drop in the first few seconds of combat becaue I kept them alive too long. Fresh kills, fresh kills.......

One of the legendary beliefs is that a req 9 weapon deal more damage than a req 12 weapon, even if you have 12 points in the weapon's attribute.

There is a secret cow level.......muahahaha

Gwen's secret dye stash in the Devourer Cave in pre-searing. (give her a thousand flowers or something like that to open).

Post-searing Ascalon is growing back.

The Icy Dragon sword is real. (oh, wait, it is? Just proof that what once were false rumors can become "reality")