Reacting to dissapoint

we had a balanced group going through Urgoz. took us about 2.5 hours to get to the big plant himself, and we had 3 people log off along the way. The battel starts, and suddenly, the EoE ranger forgets how the boss fight works... they cannot seem to cast EoE in the right place, and it keeps getting blown up. long story short, we went thru a 45 minute boss fight, and everyone rage-quit.


my reaction: I sat and stared blankly at the screen for a while, watching Urgoz laugh triumphantly. Then I left ans joined a Deep group. who needs that tree anyway? =P

Worst ones for me was losing my first couple of survivor attempts.

First one had got a warrior up to about 300k, across from Factions to Prophesies, did the normal mode ascension fine, then attempted hard mode ascension (not realising there wasn't a second big xp boost for hm ascension) - and a few seconds later had a death.

Stared at the screen for a couple of minutes, then logged out for a few days. Couldn't get angry at anyone...I mean, it was a copy of myself that killed me!

Second try was with a Paragon. Had got through the Desert, did ascension in both normal and HM, and was doing the EoTN quests during a triple xp weekend. Had completed the Norn and was up to the last of the Char quests, when we ran into Rocktail.

Hadn't seen Rocktail previously...the life bond from my hero monk failed and PS had either just ended or been stripped (we'd been fighting nymphs when Rocktail ran in behind us) just as he launched a siege attack at me...and I went "WTF just happened?" - I had been hit for 2 shots of something like 260 damage each ... 520hp damage and an insta-dead paragon (from not-quite full health - was running around with ~560hp max)...

Again, swore a bit, and logged out for a few days. Felt extremely cross about insta-death uniques - but also realised that I really shouldn't have been taking my Para into an area I hadn't yet been with another char...even if it was a triple xp weekend.

Took about a week after that one before I could face logging in again

When stuff like this happens I do one of 2 things. Totally flip out and close GW, turn on some VERY loud music and play a game that's a little more violent. Or I remain completely quiet, close GW, and even though I'll be furious, I'll sit and try to figure out what went wrong if it's not already obvious to me.

Hard to decide which one happens more often.

The only time things like this happen is when I'm almost done vanquishing an area then realize I have some random quest that spawns a bajillion enemies that were clearly meant to be fought while in normal mode. Or when my party wipes because I was stupid and forgot to bring an interrupt for that level 30 Elementalist boss that spams Searing Flames on anything that moves.

The only other thing I can think of that causes that degree of frustration is when our guild splits up for the 1654621698th time and reforms 4 days later because someone took something personally that was meant as a joke.

I had a period in my life when i got VERY angry. I didnt play GW then but other mmorpg and when things like this happend. I usualy thru my headset out the window. =) Then I called my friend who was on the teamspeak explained what happend, said I be back in a hour have to buy a new headset.

One time i throw out my modem, couple of times i didnt throw the headset out the window just smashed it against the floor and stomped on it.

Oyeah, I kicked my computer in once..

But im much more easy now, thank you.

I just laugh if we get badly pwnt because its really funny to see 8 people die almost at the same time. I hardly ever get pissed of because its just a game and you play games for fun.

I just started doing hm fow a couple weeks ago (with pugs), and while most runs go okay, occasionally one will go wrong, but I don't really stress about cause hey, they're pugs, what do you seriously expect from them? The one thing that really pissed me off though was this last week, we were doing fine through the beginning, but someone took tower of strength even though we said not to before hand. The tower mage followed us, and, of course, got stuck. Now, usually, I've been able to get the mage unstuck with a vampiric weapon, but this time, he kept on following me but then running back into a wall. We spent half an hour doing this before we all quit. At this point i was a little disappointed, but I thought "eh, well, bugs are bugs". Got back to toa and noticed there was a new build, so i quit and looked at the update page to find out that the new build fixed the tower mage. Now, while this certainly was a good fix, having it come right after my only failure due to said bug was rather frustrating to say the least , so I just logged off for the day and drowned my sorrows in comedy.

Sweet baby Jesus?
Was this you ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbcctWbC8Q0




The last time I felt disappointed with this game wasn't when I lost my ass survivor while brawling at 800k yesterday (I just deleted the guy and made a new one) - it was a few days ago when i completed Cyndr (or whatever that guy is called). It is such INSANELY bad PvE design - that I just lost the will to continue. So I just quit the thing and let it cool down a bit. And I pretty much only finished the story because I needed to unlock HM for brawling.
I kinda have no desire to go through Gwen again ...

It happened to us when we went for UW or FoW clears, but well bad things happen (including bad preparation!). The solution was simply to try again the next week-end! Time heals all wounds.

It's been so long since I've failed in Guild Wars that I can't remember. I probably yelled obscenities at my screen and went back again for more until I got what I wanted. Failure in life is another story.

When I'm in a group in FoW that fails, it's because someone did something to annoy me. It could be something like map pinging or map penis drawings which result in my aggroing and intentionally destroying the run. If I'm in a group with cool people, fail from over aggro doesn't exist because as soon as it's about to happen, I've already headed in another direction, prepared to resurrect. I haven't encountered failure in Guild Wars for a long time, or the light of day outside my home.

A tactic which has finally stayed with me after many, many failures is, look at your compass, then, look at whatever else you need to. Repeat this every few seconds. This is similar to driving in heavy traffic, to keep people from ramming into you. Also, read up Guild Wiki.

I'm just sharing a couple of hints in hopes of helping the 1% of the Guild Wars community that doesn't annoy me that use this site.

lmfao someone got me on cam before i quit drinking!
the dramatic animal links there are the best ever

10 mins ago I crashed at the last tower at Riverside mission and the game dropped me out when trying to use their excuse for a reconnect function. What I did then was closing the game and starting to read Guru... lol

The idea with the beer sounds good too, though.

Go shopping and buy myself something nice. Like the groceries and other fun stuff.

While mine isn't nearly as bad, but it was in that pain-in-the-ass NF mission. We got all the way to shiro and the lich, killed the lich, and then a few of the idiots on my team decided that they would "distract" him. They failed. What a waste of an hour and a half.

Go in again with Ursan and clear it within an hour.

Then stop playing for six months.



That's what I did.

It's silly to get mad at stuff like that, especially if you're in a group I do get kinda frustrated at myself if I kow I've been stupid though, or if I'm just not doing something well enough andget the feeling I'm hitting my head against a brick wall. If that happens I'll log, or go do something I'm much better at in game.

A good way to avoid wipes in places like that (with no res shrines) is to make sure at least one of your party knows to run like hell, out of the agro, if you get swamped. That player should bring rebirth...lol Always helps.

You think that's disappointment? Well I was doing an FoW clear on my monk, HM. Ursan run and we were at 1 hour and 20 minutes. Well some guy went to get the griffons and it was the last quest we had to finish. One of the griffons ran to us after we took the quest so we had to bring him. Well someone aggroed a group of shadows, I didn't see what happened only seeing the griffon charging in to get these shadows. I put a heal on him but he was under 10% health left (I couldn't run fast enough to him) and we lost.

That's disappointment.

Whenever I'm disappointed, i log into TF2 and backstab random brits.

I tend to go do something else for a while. Frustration and anger make the game no fun to play, and temporarily make me more of an ass than usual.

What did I do when the party was wiped because a twit guildie likes to see the giffons die when your at 10/11? I ate curry and left big skid marks in me white undies for the maid to clean which she wasnt so happy about, but hey thats married life for you.

Was doing UW with a team last week I think, and we got to to the reaper of the twin serpent mountains, then the ghost triggered and got blown up from all the traps. I was annoyed but I had fun and the team was great.

I also lost a leg survivor 100k from max due to a d/c. I was annoyed but just didnt play the char for a few months. Now my para's my fave char.

Sometimes I get angry if someone does something on purpose after we tell them not to, but meh really. Get much more angry in PS games. :P