Your bad Guild Wars habits

Ugh

Ugh

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2009

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by bubbaXzone View Post
Ugh i gotta go to bed
k :P

I tend to spam rupts when I don't feel like paying attention.

snodaard

snodaard

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2006

Holland

[Uni]

Mo/

I'm always running around with Ctrl and Alt pressed..
so I can See everything going around in town...

leetLoLa

leetLoLa

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2009

Pawn!

Who Are You [wAu]

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Valkyria View Post
Pressing N every 15 seconds o.O
i have that 2 lol XD

Selket

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

Grand Court of Selket/Sebelkeh

What If You Had An Outpost Named After You [slkt]

W/

Knowing that no one is good enough to play with me, so I just don't play.

Tharg

Tharg

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2006

Massachusetts

Omega Glory

Mo/

too lazy to change builds, so keep on playing with Discordway

AngeliqueSynner

AngeliqueSynner

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2008

Florida, USA

Sacred Storm [Strm]

N/

I tend to panic under slight pressure monking in low end PvP and heal/prot everyone but myself.
Very vulnerable to the "Get the monk~!" spike. >__o¿

RadaArashi

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2007

A/

Im guilty of multiple spacebar tapping disorder.

Even when there's a message appearing that tells me I don't need to in noob island.

... Specially when it tells me I shouldn't.

Swahnee

Swahnee

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2008

Italy

Mo/

I'm such a lonesome and misanthropic kind of person...i always end up bickering with guildmates and leaving guilds :P

oh, and i used to keep pressing alt to watch allies while monking, and then to press F4 to swap to another weapon set O.o

now i use X instead of alt

Sir Skullcrasher

Sir Skullcrasher

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

California

15 over 50 [Rare]

W/Mo

I do /dance on EVERY female characters I see in-game.. (don't know why I do it)

Also I pressed N too many time and I like to spend all my gold at one time whenever I got rich in-game.

I WaterGun I

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2009

Port Sledge Snow Cones [Cold]

A/W

I have this odd need to spend whatever signifigant amount of money I gain. I haven't been above 50k in 3 months ><.

luminoire

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

insulting people via team/guild/alliance chat, followed by "wc" even though i'm blatantly lying.

Arden Kindlecorpse

Arden Kindlecorpse

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2007

East Coast, Australia

The Apologetti [Soz]

I can't explain why exactly, but whenever I am chatting to guildies while in an outpost - I run.

In circles.

No idea why I do this, but must appear 'a little crispy around the edges' to anyone witnessing it. I only became aware I was doing this regularly when sprung by a guildy who happened to be in the same outpost (something along the lines of, "Uh Arden, what the hell are you doing?").

Oh yeah -- and my spacebar is just a smidgen over-used (read: driven into keyboard).

Sword Hammer Axe

Sword Hammer Axe

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2008

Look up.

Kurzick Conflagration Unit [KCU].

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by luminoire View Post
insulting people via team/guild/alliance chat, followed by "wc" even though i'm blatantly lying.
So you WERE talking to me!!! XD Jk lol

As long as names aren't mentioned you can get away with just about anything lol.

Darcy

Darcy

Never Too Old

Join Date: Jul 2006

Rhode Island where there are no GW contests

Order of First

W/R

I didn't think I had any bad habits in the game. But this thread made me more aware of what I do and, oh no, I'm also a NGH. Although, due to the small size of my guild, the G is more to keep checking my guild's faction total. For some reason, I can't seem to retain the info on titles in my head (even with my title hunter) and I keep checking my friend's list even when (at 3am) I know no one else is online.

I also seem to be a cheapskate in a way. I have hit 600k, but still find myself:

1. iding every white
2. using a Salvage Kit (the cheap one) to salvage materials
3. Putting off equipping a new hero until I see what runes I can salvage
4. almost never buying weapons or mods (again I wait for salvage)
5. farming armor materials instead of buying them

Do you think I can reform and break these bad habits?

TottWriter

TottWriter

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2009

South East England

Gorgutz War Band

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Darcy View Post
I didn't think I had any bad habits in the game. But this thread made me more aware of what I do and, oh no, I'm also a NGH. Although, due to the small size of my guild, the G is more to keep checking my guild's faction total. For some reason, I can't seem to retain the info on titles in my head (even with my title hunter) and I keep checking my friend's list even when (at 3am) I know no one else is online.

I also seem to be a cheapskate in a way. I have hit 600k, but still find myself:

1. iding every white
2. using a Salvage Kit (the cheap one) to salvage materials
3. Putting off equipping a new hero until I see what runes I can salvage
4. almost never buying weapons or mods (again I wait for salvage)
5. farming armor materials instead of buying them

Do you think I can reform and break these bad habits?
Well I do most of those things (not quite as rich as you, but still... evey penny counts )

I don't see those as bad habits per say. More...economical. Possibly hard to understand from some people's perspectives, at worst, surely?

tmr819

tmr819

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2007

W/Mo

--Checking the LFG in mission outposts (always) and then (always) just going ahead and hero/henching the mission anyway.

glacialphoenix

glacialphoenix

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2008

Singapore

Royal Order of Flying Lemmings [ROFL]

Mo/

Quote:
I also seem to be a cheapskate in a way. I have hit 600k, but still find myself:

1. iding every white
2. using a Salvage Kit (the cheap one) to salvage materials
3. Putting off equipping a new hero until I see what runes I can salvage
4. almost never buying weapons or mods (again I wait for salvage)
5. farming armor materials instead of buying them
Eh, I'd say that's more of a 'this is how I hit 600k in the first place...' rather than a list of bad habits.

DarkRazzie

DarkRazzie

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2009

Lost in Tyria

MAGE

W/Mo

I CONSTANTLY rearrange my skill bar, or change skills out. I've stepped out of a town, then back in because I didn't like a skill (countless times).

Visiting the priest even though I have no points to spend LOL

Take my level 20 ele to Ascalon and solo farm salvage items from the little beasties (I do this anytime I am bored or waiting for someone).

Oh, and can't forget:
"Log Out" >>>> "Character Select".... (OFTEN) LOL

HigherMinion

HigherMinion

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2008

East Anglia, UK

Order of [Thay]

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by BenC777 View Post
I do that alot too.
I think we all did that in Thay... People get so annoyed quickly. Even got kicked out of a guild for criticising and suggesting skills.

What's the point in pinging our builds if we have no power to bend them to the team?

eeks

eeks

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

Sydney, Australia

Lubricated Volcano Love [Club]

Rt/Mo

* NGH..ing.

* Multitasking - Either smoking, eating, chatting on MSN, surfing the web or watching a video on youtube. At my worst, I whipped out my drawing pad and started sketching whilst healing in the FoW. Teehehehe. :3

* Going crazy with the camera whilst farming. I sporadically zoom in and out with the scroll button on my mouse. Kinda works against me, as I get a massive lag spike as soon as I zoom in on some action.

* Hoarding gold weapons and dumping them all on a mule's heroes, then getting utterly confused when I need a particular weapon.

* Buying armour for the sole purpose of enjoying armour mixes... Then realising I don't like the armour in the first place. Bought FoW for my ritualist recently, then raged when another rit ran past with monument armour, as it .. Kind of.. Looked nicer. >_>

* Never really changing my builds.

* Logging on, then instantly going for a snooze without logging out, if nobody's online. Come back to a bunch of guildies trying to talk to me. Same bad habit for msn. :P

I'm sure I have far more than that, but I can't think of any others at the moment.

Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkRazzie View Post
Oh, and can't forget:
"Log Out" >>>> "Character Select".... (OFTEN) LOL
Hahaha. Good times.

The Scorpion Knight

The Scorpion Knight

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2009

Quote:
Originally Posted by RadaArashi View Post
Im guilty of multiple spacebar tapping disorder.

Even when there's a message appearing that tells me I don't need to in noob island.

... Specially when it tells me I shouldn't.
Haha same here, I must press it some 10 times on one enemy lol.

Press N,G,H pretty often as well.

Aussie Boy

Aussie Boy

Alcoholic

Join Date: Mar 2007

Australia

W/

Bad habit of giving new players a kick-start in GW with whatever they need and if i have spares.
20k or a black dye or good weapon or mats for armor.
Reason it's a bad habit many keep spaming me for more stuffs days weeks later
and I never learn and still help the new players.

Silmar Alech

Silmar Alech

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2009

Europe

Tom Son [TS]

E/

- I collect everything. I have 6 mules full of trophies and 6 more with everything else from runes to consumables, minipets, etc. Can't sell anything.
- I spam skills too often on recharge.
- I give silly or sarcastic comments to silly messages in public or alliance chat. For example, if someone asks for a rush 5 times in a row with no response, I feel urged to give some silly comment that there is currently no rusher and he should rush himself.
- If someone pings his build, I MUST comment it. Cannot resist. There is no build in the world (except my own) that cannot be improved by changing one or the other skill. This is an especially bad habit, since if I am together with my guild mates in Teamspeak, I start discussing their builds, thwarting their attempts to prepare for the mission. I usually get out of this by saying that I have to go to the restroom. When I get back, the discussion has vanished and we can start the mission. And the team mate uses whatever build he likes.
- If it is neccessary to fill up the team with heros, I MUST take mine. Nobody else has the appropriate builds, runes and equipment. I even talk other people into kicking their heros, telling that I only want to quickly examine one of mine and he can put his hero back afterwards. But I keep my heros instead.
- I painstakingly prepare a full H/H party for missions for half an hour. Read wiki, tuning hero's and my own builds and equipment. When I am finished, I decide to join a PUG without any heros, because it is more fun to watch the fellow players doing the unexpected.

AngelWJedi

AngelWJedi

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Sep 2008

orlando,florida

Society of Souls [Argh]

Rt/E

talking or reaching for something when i auto run then wonder why i get pwned by a mob. being to honest about a build someone posts to the point i get hushed by a friend. xD

Tastyy

Tastyy

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by Aussie Boy View Post
Bad habit of giving new players a kick-start in GW with whatever they need and if i have spares.
20k or a black dye or good weapon or mats for armor.
Reason it's a bad habit many keep spaming me for more stuffs days weeks later
and I never learn and still help the new players.
That's a very good idea. I always wanted to help the new folks over at Ascalon (post), but I never get around to do it.

When I first got GW, I was introduced by a guy who showed me everything. Bless him

crazybanshee

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2006

Look out!

E/

After making someone a decent offer of something, ie, offering to sell them something at the cheap end of market value, and having them try to lowball even further into the ridiculous, I'll refuse to sell to them even if they later accept my price. I just cba to deal with annoying people over a couple k.

bloodvayne

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2007

N/

I have a habit of not doing much, just letting h/h do all the work, only jumping in when it's a difficult group.
It works, and gets me thru HM no problem.... but then that habit sometimes sticks when I play with people lol

Eragon Zarroc

Eragon Zarroc

Atra estern?? ono thelduin

Join Date: Jan 2008

Madness Incarnate

[Duo]

W/P

spamming keys in pve until the skills goes of
cntrl pinging each indivdual target at least 3 times
spam pinging a target 20 times hoping the heros will listen better with repetition.
bloodlust distracting me from noticing people in my party have died.
fail at interrupts of any kind.
bull's a target expecting it to try running away after getting up from KD and it stands still.
use typed facial expressions everytime i type ;-) (guru problem as well )
etc etc etc.

Verene

Verene

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jan 2009

[SOTA]

D/

I tend to ping things repeatedly in attempts to get my heroes/henchmen to listen.

I also hold down ctrl a lot when running around (want to see what's coming and stuff), so I ping my skills a lot on accident, too.

Also, I just can't hold onto my money. I recently figured out that if I actually just saved up my money in-game instead of buying multiple armor sets and runing out every hero I get and farm for materials instead of buying them and not commission art in Nolani, I'd probably have close to a million gold. Instead, I'm lucky if I have more than 70k at any given point in time. Ah well.

DJCoastal

DJCoastal

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Mo/

- buying useless armor i don't need or will ever wear. >_>
- pressing the 'g' button to check whose online in the guild every 1-15 min... even when most of the time i'm not a guild. lol...
- getting distracted while in a fight
- auto running into mobs of groups
- over aggroing everything by auto running
- i'm a packrat... i collect everything that drops for me or stuff i find in-game (i'm running out of space!!!!! i have 25 character slots atm and everyone is pretty much full... )
- i talk to myself a lot in-game about stupid and useless things
- i like to hold down ctrl and alt a lot through everything :/

zhongzh

zhongzh

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2008

Temple of Ages

Mo/

I ping targets way too many times.
I hate picking up whites as im very lazy and cant be bothered to ID them later. (also because im scared of running out of space).
I watch tv while i play so i die a lot.

Introverted Dimensions

Introverted Dimensions

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Silmar Alech View Post
- I collect everything. I have 6 mules full of trophies and 6 more with everything else from runes to consumables, minipets, etc. Can't sell anything.
- I spam skills too often on recharge.
- I give silly or sarcastic comments to silly messages in public or alliance chat. For example, if someone asks for a rush 5 times in a row with no response, I feel urged to give some silly comment that there is currently no rusher and he should rush himself.
- If someone pings his build, I MUST comment it. Cannot resist. There is no build in the world (except my own) that cannot be improved by changing one or the other skill. This is an especially bad habit, since if I am together with my guild mates in Teamspeak, I start discussing their builds, thwarting their attempts to prepare for the mission. I usually get out of this by saying that I have to go to the restroom. When I get back, the discussion has vanished and we can start the mission. And the team mate uses whatever build he likes.
- If it is neccessary to fill up the team with heros, I MUST take mine. Nobody else has the appropriate builds, runes and equipment. I even talk other people into kicking their heros, telling that I only want to quickly examine one of mine and he can put his hero back afterwards. But I keep my heros instead.
- I painstakingly prepare a full H/H party for missions for half an hour. Read wiki, tuning hero's and my own builds and equipment. When I am finished, I decide to join a PUG without any heros, because it is more fun to watch the fellow players doing the unexpected.
You could have just said that you have an elitist attitude and saved yourself the trouble of typing all that up :P

-I never group with anyone unless it's for a dungeon or something.
-I tend to call people out on blatant lies, stupidity, etc.

Jaskaran

Jaskaran

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2007

YOU PERV!!

Order Of The Unyeilding [Aura]

R/N

1.Tend to use a toucher a lot in RA...Ewww.
2.Tends to piss off people.
3.Tend to go on my main and wear my beginner armor and beg even though im a level 20 with full obby..
4.Tends to wear full obby and beg for gold from low levels in ascalon..(for the fun of it)

Barrage

Barrage

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2008

A/

I tend to leave the game for 1-2 months in the middle of titles >.>, doing it again starting tomorrow,,,, Modern Warfare 2, oh how you draw me to you.

Hyperventilate

Hyperventilate

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2007

Somewhere in California

I Gots A Crayon [Blue]

Me/Mo

I spam the space bar while I'm attacking an enemy. It doesn't matter what my profession is, caster or melee, there I am, spamming away.

I purposely turn off tips when I make a new character because that, "You're repeatedly hitting the space bar!" message pisses me off.

I'm also determined to piss off everyone in Tyria: one Ascalonian at a time. I don't think my desire to perma troll is a bad habit, though. Sometimes (Oh so very rarely sometimes), good comes from it.

BigDave

BigDave

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

Manchester, UK

The Sapphire Rose [TSR]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Hyperventilate View Post
I spam the space bar while I'm attacking an enemy. It doesn't matter what my profession is, caster or melee, there I am, spamming away.

I purposely turn off tips when I make a new character because that, "You're repeatedly hitting the space bar!" message pisses me off.
^^ This

I just can't help meself.

Red Intensity

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2009

Death's waiting room

Rt/

I:

- Over heal with my ritualist in PvE.
- Develop tunnel vision when a specifically annoying person keeps harassing me.
- Repeatedly press the space bar.
- Attempt to interrupt 1/4 sec spells cast by mesmers with 40/40 sets when I'm using a ranger too often (1/10 I hit them).
- Spam Natural Stride on recharge.
- Collect the fanciest warrior weapons, even though I don't use my warrior too often.
- Predict what combination of classes the enemy will have and how quickly we'll lose to them in Ft. Aspenwood, and I'm usually right.
- Predict how quickly we'll lose in FA/RA/JQ based on the classes on my team.
- Quit any RA battles when there's too much anti-melee on the opposing team (may as well, I don't stand a chance in any case).
- Spend more time watching GvG battles than playing PvE.

Akaraxle

Akaraxle

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

Italy

E/

Trollin' ANet.

Chocobo1

Chocobo1

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2007

New Zealand

CoA

N/

I have a bad habit of expecting my team mates in RA to be somewhat competent.

Ferminator

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2009

D/

-Hitting disciplined stance followed by guardian on myself.
-WoHing party members above 50% health.
-I'm part of the N G H club too.
-Sitting in Kam/Gtob for too long.
-Hitting R, type a message and forget that I'm still typing and start spamming aaaaaaaaaa trying to move.
-Making too many characters cause I just want to try EVERY profession.
-Purchasing too many skills cause I just HAVE to try every build that is pinged in ac.
-Using my touch mouse instead of my desktop mouse.
-Saving up 50k then spending it on ToTs......
-Start up timer for JQ and open up firefox. I once afked the half the mission by accident.
-^RA too.
The list just goes on!