What really makes u "leet"

What makes you leet..

Designing your own skill bars for your heroes + all your other characters, then rape any area you travel to and never let anyone see your skill combinations!

Kind of like me, as someone who has unlocked all skills through pve, i love to create new builds, some of em do own, some of em stink but atleast im not a pvx copycat.

Spend half your life in a virtual world and you automatically become '1337'.

Having your picture taken by various photographers whilst holding up a large novelty cheque for $$$ in Taiwan or Germany.

I noticed you neglected to comment on the meat of my discourse, with your ad-hominem. To be expected, to be *SURE*.

Getting stuff done in the game. GWAMM, tiger, LDoA, gold trim stuff like that, there are many many excellent players in GW, but if they can't get anything accomplished they are not leet.

Calling somebody a "noob" definately makes you NOT leet.


It actually started with Protective Bond when you lost 1 energy and only 5% health when hit so didnt need the -50

Leetness? lol. Accomplishing things with friends is always great.

I always used to think people with titles and money were cool, but that perspective changed long ago.

My buddies make me rich. <3

The knowledge to put together a great build that was not found beforehand on wiki.

The skills to use said build to wreck whatever obstacle you may be facing.

The compassion to point out an obvious scamming prick or to run someone for free. To give away unwanted rare skins to a friend instead of tossing them to the merch. Truly. That is what it is to be leet in GW. A powerful guild? A rare skin? Black dye? Titles? None of them really mean anything. Skills, skillz and kindness make you leet. Nothing less and nothing more.

People are 'leet' because of who they are.
Achievements is pixels on the screen. I'm happy a former guildie of mine realised that and is now doing great in real life. I spend a couple of days in a foreign town while visiting someone I met while playing GW. This is what makes people great.

"I'm Weilding the Yakslapper"

Stand back and kneel to my leetness

What makes you leet ... like in real world, it's either fame or originality. If you can't be famous enough to satisfy your seemingly endless pursue for money and power, you can do what you want, how you want and don't care much about what people say about you.

Being leet today is being independent, having own opinion and knowledge on every subject, having own tastes and not blindly following modern trends or 'craze' in fashion. In GW reality, you would enjoy doing what you do without caring about your titles, how many points you got in what, how much gold and minis you have.

Setting priorities which always bring you fun in the end and reward in itself, priorities set by you, not by other people - that's what I would say is leet. For one person being leet might mean having high HOH rank, for the other exploring every possible pixel in the guild wars world, for the other one just hanging around in guild with friends and 'playing for fun'.

So, in your journey to being leet (which is a subjective and not objective trait, as definitions 'what is leet' vary from person to person), you have to ask yourself - 'what's important for me as a person when I play this game'? 'what's important for me as a gamer to achieve?' 'what really brings me fun?'. Once you know these, paradoxically, not easy questions - you will know what makes you leet.

Being leet is enjoying what you do no matter how others view you.

Be level 3 and have droks armour while playing in Ascalon Arena is leet.

Close, but not quite. It's being able to get stuff done in the game that no one else can that makes you leet.

Things like channeltanking top GvG and somehow making it work (Soul Wedding), keeping a team up for 28 minutes monking alone due to a DC against a top 30 guild (Tommy)...those are the things that make you leet.

Tom also channeltanked.

To add to your list:
Terror's ability to predict frenzies and call spikes on that target 30 seconds in advance.

Smgz going whole matches without getting hit by an arrow on a split.

The creation of the shove-crush-thrill no adren hammer bar (Smgz or Hex, don't remember).

EvIL's ability to win even though you knew exactly what they were going to run.

Also, this whole discussion is pretty useless.

Some other good ones that crossed my mind:

Turning a lost top 5 match after a VoD teamwipe by running through the other team on Warrior's Isle, blocking the door with four players and killing the undefended lord (EW vs. Te).

Effortlessly winning a 1v1 split in a $100,000 tournament and having the stones to tiger the corpse (Big McHugelarge).

Blowing up every single NPC simultaneously at VoD (iQ).

I remember watching a video of that. Goddamn hiliarious.

Thats about hit the nail on the head

Fow armor dyed black, blindfold, chaos gloves, tormented shield, req 13 voltaic spear, and a R9 tiger farmed from shitway makes one pretty damn leet.

At least that's what ninety percent of the community seems to think. You forgot the dread mask.

No way!!

Leeching yr way to do this is sooooo un leet

i guess your attitude towards the other players and overall personality makes you leet (e.g. gaile gray, daniel frozenwind e.t.c.). i'd say players with a positive and friendly attitude are the best!

i think my r12 makes me leet

Making scrubs rage makes ME leet!

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Please no one take offense to this... its a joke....


People who are leet are A**holes
People who are noobs are leet
People with the word "Derv" anywhere in there IGN think they are better than you and swear a lot.
People With "Sin" or "Assassin" In their IGN are horrible players.

You're either noob, or you're leet, or you're a noob.

Not painting my armor black like everyone else?

Chaos gloves, black obs armor, blindfold, Tormented weaponry, Voltaic Spear, BDS, dread mask....did i forget anything?

No I think you named it all. Well okay maybe the Mask of the Mo Zing...I don't know.

Leet = zrank of course [shoots self]

I love the 'special' people who flash this...you lot are deffo very l33t.

@ Champen... took you long enough

This thread was cool, i feel leet now

For those who want to know why i feel leet:
1. I fit this description 85% of the time
.. dont know every skill in and out, and i have my no brain/noob moments (then i lol'ed) ... which i compensate with some brilliant strategy at times like Ebone escape to a monk under presure to take agro, then die, which gives the pug team the time to kill everything while still being healed, to then pop a candy on rez, dust off and ready to go for the next...

2. Although my name isnt linked to a build i have run my build basically from the very beginning and have only seen it get stronger with new skills added, a cursing necro with a pet, 1337 hexes i love thee ... and yes i ran this build through almost all the campains, only slightly adjusting if needed, and evolving if the opportunity arose...

3. I played RA allot, untill i met TO strong PvX builds, upon taking a look there i wrote a bit on PvX about how to construct a RA skill bar, unsure if anyone ever benefitted from it, but atleast it did not say which skills to use, just how to go about making a build, didnt put my name on it though (appart from the discussion section), think its the only thing i ever added to a wiki, i rather use(d) my own builds, and didnt want to spoil a big part of the game/fun (for me atleast) for others ...

4. Ohw and i have a wallow (infact i have 24 mini's, they are so cute , recently aquired some leet armors, after running around in black dyed droks scar with fanatic gloves/boots with gold trim for ages..

5. 1 c4n r340

6. I have an ever lasting rabbit tonic ! which means that when ever i am bored i can pop out my Gwen mini, turn into a rabit, and RP being a Mini Pet's pet

7. Most proud though i am of never having quit a pug; only ever resigned a couple of times (in pvp RA) under high presure, if you are going to loose, might aswell go down fighting !!

8. Most memorable moment of being confronted with leetism, being shown two bars, one awfull with Rez sig, and one decent bar without a rez.. to then ofcourse point the best bar to be the one with the Rezsig, upon which the person left my group, and how very glad i was, because the first time she would have died, she would have probably called us all noobs and rage quitted anyway ...

Oh dear...

I detect no sarcasm either

This.
I lol'd

yeah sorry about that ... just add it where you feel its appropriate ... though wait, that is my post, it wasnt meant to be sarcastic it was just asserting to certain things mentioned to be leet, plus some things i found 'leetish' or i dunno, perhaps i should just goto bed

From wikipedia:
''In sociology as in general usage, the elite is a relatively small dominant group within a large society, having a privileged status perceived as being envied by others of a lower line of order.''

So if we want to apply the above to GW, it's important to know there are two different games within the game: PvP and PvE. Both have their own 'large society' and both have a small elite group within that playerbase.

So the question is what gives you status in both formats? In PvP I would say skills, ladder ranking (in a decent ranking system *cough*)

In PvE I would say titles, skills (knowledge about all that is to know in PvE and not only theoretical but also how to play in teams etc.) and status symbols. Ofcourse an item linked with status can decrease in status as more people get it. The same goes for titles. If for example 10k players have GWAMM from a total of 300k PvE players, then GWAMM is still Elite. But if half the playerbase has GWAMM, it loses its elite status.

Well, it's actually quite easy, read carefully:

Not caring at all about being leet.

See? I told you, pretty easy.

Not caring about "leetness" is leet. The "cool" people don't care about how they are perceived by others, they just have the self-confidence required not to need the group camoflage. And they feel bad for the wannabes who run around looking like clones of each other.

A shield set composed entirely of torments.

Im not really feeling the envy there.

Elitism has to be from a persons own perception. I guess for me gwamm has lost some of its value, I envy pandas.

Having Champen on my flist makes me leet