What was the dumbest thing you did as a noob?
Lawliet Kira
>.> i asked someone where do you get seeds to farm weaponds
Solas
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Originally Posted by Mitchel
Probably putting Flare on my bar....for 1 week.
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then i realised i never use the bleeding thing so iditched it
prob getting scammed a nice bit....oh and tryign ever so hard to have a conversation with that frog in kama after iheard about a frog talking there><
Molock
Did a 2 hour farming run in UW and then, because I was so tired, sold all the ecto's I had accumulated to the merchant along with a gold weapon that dropped.
Also.. when I was relatively new to GW and had just arrived at THK. I was wielding a FDS because I thought it was so damn elite and while we we're defending the fortress a FDS dropped for someone else. I noticed that it was higher damage than mine (15-21 instead of something aweful) and begged the person to give it to me. It was white and had no dmg mod.. so yeah I looked like a real n00b.
I made a monk (my second character) in pre and when I got to Surmia mission and joined a group they all thought I was a healer. Of course I wasn't.. I used firestorm and spammed flare
Ya, well they told me to re-roll my character as an elementalist if I wanted to nuke.. I eventually did re-roll as an ele when Factions was released.
Also.. when I was relatively new to GW and had just arrived at THK. I was wielding a FDS because I thought it was so damn elite and while we we're defending the fortress a FDS dropped for someone else. I noticed that it was higher damage than mine (15-21 instead of something aweful) and begged the person to give it to me. It was white and had no dmg mod.. so yeah I looked like a real n00b.
I made a monk (my second character) in pre and when I got to Surmia mission and joined a group they all thought I was a healer. Of course I wasn't.. I used firestorm and spammed flare
Ya, well they told me to re-roll my character as an elementalist if I wanted to nuke.. I eventually did re-roll as an ele when Factions was released.
Molock
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Originally Posted by Kahlindra
I rage-turned-off my PC the first time I died because I thought I would be crap compared to everyone else because I had -15% health and energy.
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Haha, the good old days when I had to idea at all what I was doing!
twinkles21
The only thing i ever did when i was a newb was selling dye's to the merchant. In pre and in post and like 3 months later i realized there was a trader, and they pay more than 1g.
to think of how many black and sliver dye's i sold to the merchant
to think of how many black and sliver dye's i sold to the merchant
Zeek Aran
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Originally Posted by Avatar The Element
>.> i asked someone where do you get seeds to farm weaponds
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Kusandaa
Deleted my very first character - a warrior - at lv4, in post, after dying. I had never realized the game had henchmen.
Dyed my necro's starter armor silver, blue, green and purple. And while reading local chats and such, I found out silver was worth quite a lot.
Made my way through Prophecies as a N/E with Firestorm and Phoenix, along with other necro skills. Not sure I used Soul Reaping O_o. I had a fire wand and offhand for a long while.
Dyed my necro's starter armor silver, blue, green and purple. And while reading local chats and such, I found out silver was worth quite a lot.
Made my way through Prophecies as a N/E with Firestorm and Phoenix, along with other necro skills. Not sure I used Soul Reaping O_o. I had a fire wand and offhand for a long while.
Alias_X
Something with a black dye.
TheRaven
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Originally Posted by Diddy bow
I had a turning point too
 This screen shot just about sums it up Its acctually got a funny story to it this pic, the guy whose name i coverd offerd me a run to lions from yaks bend for some crappy shield i had, not soon after this screen he left xD. I said id report him and he came crawing back with the shield. I guess im a little better now  |
My dumbest thing? Hmm I wasn't too bad since I've played RPG's all my life. My biggest hurdle was learning the acronyms and nuances of the game.
I once asked what does MM and SS mean. (While playing a Level 20 Necromancer in a pug! Ouch!)
Factions was my first game and every time a Necro joined our pugs they were always asked the same question: "Do you have a flesh golem? What level?" I didn't know what that meant, but at the time I only had experience playing an Assassin and a Ranger so I assumed a Flesh golem was necro pet that would tag along with the group and was really really good to have.
Flash forward a few weeks and I finally make it past Minister Cho's estate and discover the lagoon area and the Afflicted. These guys drop "augmented flesh". I put 2 and 2 together and got 5. So that's where Flesh golems come from! I bet I need to collect a bunch of these to give to a collector someplace and presto I'll be able to make a flesh golem!!!
I hoarded those stupid augmented fleshes for weeks until I figured it out.
Tyla
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Originally Posted by Kusandaa
Deleted my very first character - a warrior - at lv4, in post, after dying. I had never realized the game had henchmen.
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that one reminded me....
i deleted my ranger at lvl 2 in post-searing thinking i f'd up my character
Gwmaster
i think that the dumbest thing that ive done was when, i created my first warrior, i was a wammo and one day, i got into an uw group (before 55 even existed), and we managed to get to the Horsemen area, the problem was that i was dying every 2 groups or so, and then i started to read my skill descriptions for some reason and saw : Frenzy : you attack 33% faster but you take double damage....yup...i didnt know frenzy caused 2x damage xDDD hahaa
WinterSnowblind
I bought a customised Fiery Dragon sword for 2k.
I'm glad they added in the warning, to prevent new players missing details like that.
I'm glad they added in the warning, to prevent new players missing details like that.
7hir7een
My first character was an assassin. I do believe that's the worst mistake I've ever made.
I used to run flare on my ele for a long time in the beginning, just because it was spammable and I felt like I was accomplishing something.
I still feel like my ranger is a noob. I don't know if I'm doing it wrong or I'm just too used to playing ele
I've also sold a couple of things I didn't mean to (wait, where did that +30 shield go... damnit).
And I'm still semi-afraid to go PvP because I haven't really done it before and don't like getting bitched at for sucking lol
I used to run flare on my ele for a long time in the beginning, just because it was spammable and I felt like I was accomplishing something.
I still feel like my ranger is a noob. I don't know if I'm doing it wrong or I'm just too used to playing ele
I've also sold a couple of things I didn't mean to (wait, where did that +30 shield go... damnit).
And I'm still semi-afraid to go PvP because I haven't really done it before and don't like getting bitched at for sucking lol
Darkobra
I didn't know how to salvage runes from armour. I lost superior vigors when they were around 90k. Back then, I was fighting for money to get max armour.
Vargs
What's with all the flare hate? Starting a brand new fire elementalist with no unlocks in prophecies, there isn't much else to take. Everything else has considerable cooldowns, what else are you gonna do while you wait? Spam flare, clearly.
It also has pretty good minimum damage compared to a lot of other spells, making it decent at low attribute levels. Fireballing a single enemy for the same damage damage as flare would have done at twice the mana cost and then autoattacking with your staff for 7 seconds (while throwing in a meteor/firestorm every half minute) really doesn't seem as effective in comparison. AoE damage is pretty poor in Ascalon anyways, there's rarely more than 2 mobs together at once, while plenty of them keep a healthy distance between each other since they're so few in numbers.
I don't support anyone who's level 20 with a decent amount of skill unlocks using flare, however.
It also has pretty good minimum damage compared to a lot of other spells, making it decent at low attribute levels. Fireballing a single enemy for the same damage damage as flare would have done at twice the mana cost and then autoattacking with your staff for 7 seconds (while throwing in a meteor/firestorm every half minute) really doesn't seem as effective in comparison. AoE damage is pretty poor in Ascalon anyways, there's rarely more than 2 mobs together at once, while plenty of them keep a healthy distance between each other since they're so few in numbers.
I don't support anyone who's level 20 with a decent amount of skill unlocks using flare, however.
Volitar
I didn't realize henchmen existed and I made a trip from Ascalon City through Regent Valley and arrived at Fort Ranik. I didn't know where I was going but the monsters were giving me a hard time. I thought henchmen were people as well since at the time they had full names such as "Alesia Baptiste." I soon learned otherwise.
Buster
Kept forgetting to put a form of rez on my skillbar in pve.
KANE OG
I tried to be nice during the Wintersday event.....again. Stupidest fookin thing I ever did.
KANE
KANE
Darkhorse
Mo/E, Maelstrom. gg.
DOCB22
back when Prophecies first launched, I thought for the longest time that an items req. met you had to have that many skills learned. crazy I know. I didn't figure it out untell I got to LA
acidic
i bought gwen
genofreek
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Originally Posted by The Mountain
I was a good n00b and read the first GW manuscripts before playing: "Need one more player in your party? Hire a henchman" (106). I didn't use hench for a week b/c I thought I'd have to pay for them to join me.
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I also thought I could stop the Searing. When the storyline progressed and I went post, I thought I'd done something horribly wrong. Fortunately someone nice set me straight before I could panic and delete my character. :P
pumpkin pie
silliest thing i've done is completing the Galrath's Quest with -60dp, at level 17 too if I remember correctly. And that's not all, I start the quest from lion's arch with a team of 6. Didn't know temple of ages exist yet, and I also did not know you can sneak past foes, failing to understand the very important "agro circle" top right circular radar map thing, if you don't know :P~
So basically, I kill everything that stands or not stand in the path between me and Galrath... i think that took ages... and the ressurect shrine is not close by... !!! not just one map... if you have also kill everything from Lion's Arch to Galrath, you know the pain.
This is also why, this character will never be deleted to restart a new one for the survivor title, IT IS A SURVIVOR CHARACTER if you can kill Galrath using 5 hench + yourself from lion's arch. *shudder* Alesia ...
So basically, I kill everything that stands or not stand in the path between me and Galrath... i think that took ages... and the ressurect shrine is not close by... !!! not just one map... if you have also kill everything from Lion's Arch to Galrath, you know the pain.
This is also why, this character will never be deleted to restart a new one for the survivor title, IT IS A SURVIVOR CHARACTER if you can kill Galrath using 5 hench + yourself from lion's arch. *shudder* Alesia ...
vojnik
Didn't know runes existed until about level 18, at which point I spent a lot of my money (back then) on sup mesmer runes... me being a nec
YornStar
I was a pro rager.
I used the hammer a lot, just because it dealed more damage than the sword or axe. Later I discovered the power of shields. lol :P
oh, and GuildWiki solved a LOT of my newb problems.
I used the hammer a lot, just because it dealed more damage than the sword or axe. Later I discovered the power of shields. lol :P
oh, and GuildWiki solved a LOT of my newb problems.
deluxe
Selling ecto's to merchant and thinking: "Nice! 250g :P" I don't remember if the material traders were already in the game at that moment though.
Also, putting black dyes on random stuff to see what it looks like... having no clue they were around 15k at that time.
Also, putting black dyes on random stuff to see what it looks like... having no clue they were around 15k at that time.
Alvarez
When I first started I saw all these characters with capes and I thought they were spiffy. I had no idea how you got them and I didn't want to ask - didn't want people yelling "newb" at me, hehe.
I assumed that you received a cape after winning the little PvP pre-character battle before going to post. So I lost - didn't get my cape. Deleted the character and started over again... and again.
Oh! Also buying a white non max damage Chaos Axe for 3k+.
I assumed that you received a cape after winning the little PvP pre-character battle before going to post. So I lost - didn't get my cape. Deleted the character and started over again... and again.
Oh! Also buying a white non max damage Chaos Axe for 3k+.
Bankai Shadow
Up until yesterday.
I was running 2 Majors and a Superior on my Ranger, because I thought surely the extra...4 damage to my skills would suffice for the health I was bombing.
;-;
I was running 2 Majors and a Superior on my Ranger, because I thought surely the extra...4 damage to my skills would suffice for the health I was bombing.
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gnome
what the hell was i thinking...^^
1.firestorm on my 1st char (ranger -.-)
2.wasting hours in ascalon city saying 'why is it snowy in here but all desertish outside?' it was xmas when i bought it =P
3.being scared of henchmen
4.using a sword on my monk coz it was purple and i got it out of a chest
5.playing rage-smite on a monk...with heal party as my only heal
6.buying every single armor i could lay my hands on.
7.thinking a sword was good coz it had the word 'precious' on it
8.being scared of anything above lvl1 in pre
9.selling 7 dyes for 100g in pre coz i couldnt work out how to take out stuff from the trade window (2 of which were silver )
10.feelin bad coz i couldnt make 500g a week for a guild i was in (they needed a gh)
11.hating the fact i couldnt give this wand to my monk coz i didnt no about storage
12.getting stuck on d'allesio seaboard (omg)
13.not knowing how to dance...i ended up running round in circles around the people having the random pre-parties u see
^^ weren't we all so good in the old days
just a short ty to my 1st gw friend princess of dragons who taught me everything about prophecies and gave me my 1st gold wep =D, and who got me off the noob list.
cheers!
1.firestorm on my 1st char (ranger -.-)
2.wasting hours in ascalon city saying 'why is it snowy in here but all desertish outside?' it was xmas when i bought it =P
3.being scared of henchmen
4.using a sword on my monk coz it was purple and i got it out of a chest
5.playing rage-smite on a monk...with heal party as my only heal
6.buying every single armor i could lay my hands on.
7.thinking a sword was good coz it had the word 'precious' on it
8.being scared of anything above lvl1 in pre
9.selling 7 dyes for 100g in pre coz i couldnt work out how to take out stuff from the trade window (2 of which were silver
)10.feelin bad coz i couldnt make 500g a week for a guild i was in (they needed a gh)
11.hating the fact i couldnt give this wand to my monk coz i didnt no about storage
12.getting stuck on d'allesio seaboard (omg)
13.not knowing how to dance...i ended up running round in circles around the people having the random pre-parties u see
^^ weren't we all so good in the old days
just a short ty to my 1st gw friend princess of dragons who taught me everything about prophecies and gave me my 1st gold wep =D, and who got me off the noob list.
cheers!
lundis
When I was on the mission between pre- and postsearing I noticed this guy Stefan standing next to me.. I whispered him asking where he was from.. He never replied
I traded my black dye for a r13 GOLD truncheon.
Then I had no problem with the game until I reached the desert. I couldn't understand why I sucked so much, so I made a wammo instead. Now I know why, it wasn't me sucking, it was the game getting harder (and never having a monk in party)...
I traded my black dye for a r13 GOLD truncheon.
Then I had no problem with the game until I reached the desert. I couldn't understand why I sucked so much, so I made a wammo instead. Now I know why, it wasn't me sucking, it was the game getting harder (and never having a monk in party)...
Kusandaa
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7.thinking a sword was good coz it had the word 'precious' on it
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Lord Xeshm
Buying a non-max purple FDS for all the life savings I had at the time (approx. 10k) because I saw Rurik had it and I wanted to have the same one!
Shadow Spirit
Playing N/E and trying to do everything. Minions, Fire, Blood Degen, Water and Necro Curses, You name it-it was on my bar. All with 0 points in Soul Reaping, it seemed useless.
I was in the desert before I figured out what Soul Reaping did...
I was in the desert before I figured out what Soul Reaping did...
Miss Puddles
not buying upgraded armor for my first character until yak's bend.
i kept seeing the same looking armor at every crafter and thought it was really the same. then someone informed me about armor levels and why i was probably dying so fast everywhere i went...
i kept seeing the same looking armor at every crafter and thought it was really the same. then someone informed me about armor levels and why i was probably dying so fast everywhere i went...
Darkhell153
I made a N/W build xD
great sir s
my friend, fresh out of pre, used to run from outpost to outpost. like he would leave the outpost, then run through the explorable area to the next town because he didnt know you could map travel ;D
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-Bought my brother a nonmax FDS for 2k (about a week after release)
-Beat Prophecies with armor from the desert (who needs 10 extra AL?)
Edit: Oh and thinking that Presearing was the entire game. -_-
And... not thinking quests were important. My first day of GW i ran around swording everything to death on my necro and dying valiantly to those level 2 river skales.
-Beat Prophecies with armor from the desert (who needs 10 extra AL?)
Edit: Oh and thinking that Presearing was the entire game. -_-
And... not thinking quests were important. My first day of GW i ran around swording everything to death on my necro and dying valiantly to those level 2 river skales.
iridescentfyre
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Originally Posted by Arkantos
I was a pro W/E flare spammer. At least I thought I was...
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Coloneh
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Originally Posted by Cale Roughstar
When I first played, I was the most rootin-tooting-flare-spamming-shield-wielding-aggro-gaining-ele in all of Ascalon!
Eh, I leeched a few missions, think I left in the middle of a mission to get a haircut... lol. Those were the days. |
anyway, I made my nuking ranger and couldnt figure out why expertise didnt reduse fire storm.
I also sold a 15^50 jade sword for 50k. D'oh!
Sir Pandra Pierva
Not knowing that e storage game me a huge energy pool on ele
Trying to put monk runes on my ele to make him a pro healer
Making a W/R and bitching cause I didn't go monk for healing breeze
Running a ranger with 3 sup runes.........I really wasn't thinking that day
Not buying new armor till I got the desert, I still had the starter armor.
Thinking droks was the final area of the game
Thinking sins were pro tanks
Using an FDS on my ele cause he was a fire ele, and using a close up ele
forgot my nuker ranger as well/
Trying to put monk runes on my ele to make him a pro healer
Making a W/R and bitching cause I didn't go monk for healing breeze
Running a ranger with 3 sup runes.........I really wasn't thinking that day
Not buying new armor till I got the desert, I still had the starter armor.
Thinking droks was the final area of the game
Thinking sins were pro tanks
Using an FDS on my ele cause he was a fire ele, and using a close up ele
forgot my nuker ranger as well/