What is your biggest failure

jay02483

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2007

Ur face

Mo/Me

what is ur most epic fail u had in guildwars...

mine was just recently...getting all the way 2 dhuum...had 1 mobbeer leave then another d/c during dhuum...so many consumables gone...

sickle of carnage

sickle of carnage

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2007

Textual Harassment [kTHX]

Making a girl assassin with short hair.

Anakita Snakecharm

Anakita Snakecharm

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2009

The Shining Blade Camp

Nouvel Ordre de Phoenix [MJM]

R/Mo

I was making an attempt at Thirsty River with Hero and Hench. (I managed it on a later attempt.)

Everything was going well, and we had made it to the last room and killed the priest. We were about to go after the boss, and there were still some minions left. Then, my internet dropped abruptly. It took me awhile to load back in, and there was quite a bit of computer lag on both ends. Because I hadn't had a chance to change their flag pattern, the NPCs pretty much just stood there getting slaughtered rather than moving to a reasonable combat position, and my character was like a log doing nothing but absorb damage.

By the time I was able to get the game playable again, we had failed the mission because the player character and every NPC with a rez were dead, even though we'd already done the hard parts.

I said bad words.

kupp

kupp

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2008

The Shiverpeaks

[KISS]

W/

Beeing 10 enemies short of finishing a 400 enemies vanquish and hitting the 'close' button in the corner instead of the minimize. Good god, that stinged.

ddraeg cymru

ddraeg cymru

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2006

The Guardians Of Wales [GoW]

Mo/

Merching an item you need.
That is always fail.

When you get lag at the merchant and your mindlessly merching your junk and bam there goes that gold you were gonna sell for some nice plat.

-Ddraeg

Xsiriss

Xsiriss

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2008

I wasted 2000 hours on GW.

Oh and not buying a q7 inscribable short sword that I saw on guru auctions.

Sharkinu

Sharkinu

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2008

Romania

Smells Like Bear Spirit [Norn]

R/

Me(+3 heroes) and a guildie(+1 hero) to vanquish The Falls:
  • Started from Ventari's refuge
  • Running to Reed Bogs
  • Vanquishing Reed Bogs
  • Vanquishing like 60% of the Falls
  • Then I realised that all my heroes were on Avoid combat

Other time: buying many festival hats form the npc to find something to match with an armor mix. After I found a mix that I liked I started to delete the other festival hats and I accidentaly deleted my bandana.

Muwhahahahahaha Ha

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2009

A/

was in FoW and early on about 4 of us resigned cause someone took a quest. so went went on. about 2hours later, have like 3 more quests to do, and five people left, someone says they have to go and they bid there goodbyes.....after they left mission failed. the four of us had resigned already><

Absolute Destiny

Absolute Destiny

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2006

Oklahoma City

Forgotten Realms [FR]

W/

Buying a set of Elite Sunspear armor for my Ranger, taking about 1/4th of my bank account to do so (already had the materials).

....only to realize that Elite Sunspear Ranger armor looks like **** on him IMO.

It was supposed to be his first elite set, since I'd had him in max Istani armor up until then.

The lesson: Ya can't always visualize how a certain armor will look on a certain character.

Hopefully the Norn set I'm working on getting for him will look better, since it actually looks FUNCTIONAL.

Pony Slaystation

Pony Slaystation

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2008

Cardboard Box

Guilds are irrelevant. This... is...... BUILD WARS!!!

Rt/

When I first started playing Guild Wars, and I went through the Ascalon Academy mission, I quit playing for about a week as soon as I saw post-searing Ascalon. I thought I had messed up and gone to the wrong place.

Also, just recently, I was spirit-spam farming Underworld. After killing a group of Obsidian Behemoths, I ran in to collect my drops. Their traps killed me. I was talking with my friend at the time, and after he laughed at me, I said "Well, at least now I'll remember that they lay traps, and I won't run into them again". 10 minutes later, I did it again.

Golgotha

Golgotha

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Rt/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Absolute Destiny View Post
Buying a set of Elite Sunspear armor for my Ranger, taking about 1/4th of my bank account to do so (already had the materials).

....only to realize that Elite Sunspear Ranger armor looks like **** on him IMO.

It was supposed to be his first elite set, since I'd had him in max Istani armor up until then.

The lesson: Ya can't always visualize how a certain armor will look on a certain character.

Hopefully the Norn set I'm working on getting for him will look better, since it actually looks FUNCTIONAL.
Norn ranger armor is the best armor in the game. You won't be disappointed.

Rekliss

Rekliss

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2009

[SMF]

Finding out that ecto's salvage into piles of dust; as do q10 gold crystallines.

Axeman002

Axeman002

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2008

A/Mo

1. ..making a ranger

2 ..2 foes left in spearhead peak vanquish 60% dp= kick ..i had just farmed a stack of dp remover at halloween but forgot to bring it...epic

worstnameevar

worstnameevar

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2008

Between Earth and Sky

The Thuggee[lain]

N/

I put 100k on a pvp character once, then promptly deleted the bugger.

Zahr Dalsk

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Aug 2007

Canada

Made the mistake of playing with retards who couldn't speak English during the Zaishen Mission.

Shit sucked, since even with chats toggled off, I could still see their retarded shit above their heads.

Tifa shadowheart

Tifa shadowheart

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2007

Bolton, UK

ShadowHeart Clan [SC]

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by ddraeg cymru View Post
Merching an item you need.
That is always fail.

When you get lag at the merchant and your mindlessly merching your junk and bam there goes that gold you were gonna sell for some nice plat.

-Ddraeg
Done this countless times, usually with ectos after 55ing uw, I have to have a non merchantable item on all my chars to stop me doing it now

UraniumJoint

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2007

I do this alot...Someone pms me saying they need "X" class for HA so I roll a pvp character and I always forget to put a sup vigor on...and by the time I realize it we are done ha'ing. ROFL

Eragon Zarroc

Eragon Zarroc

Atra estern?? ono thelduin

Join Date: Jan 2008

Madness Incarnate

[Duo]

W/P

wasted hours of my life on a game... ;-)

Luminarus

Luminarus

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Aug 2007

Sydney, Australia

Haze of Light [pure]

R/

Solution to not sellin g your gud stuff... put in xunlai before talking to merch. Also carry a book and put it in front of your armor/weapons.

My stupid thing... I deleted my legendary survivor paragon coz I got bored of her a week before they announced the account wide HoM.

The other thing I did was delete my old war and remake a new one with exactly the same face and everything with a different name because the old ones name was stupid a month before they brought out the name change option.

chowmein69

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2007

merchant 50 lockpicks

Charlie Dayman

Charlie Dayman

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2009

Trifecta Luminati [TRI]

W/

I ended up finding a q9 Clockwork off of Oola's Chest the first time I did the dungeon. Ended up merching it immediately after because I thought 400g for a gold item was a lot of money at the time. That and I didn't know anything about the trade scene

Bryant Again

Bryant Again

Hall Hero

Join Date: Feb 2006

Being warned about the "noob filters" in Sorrow's Furnace and getting killed by them anyways...

Also dyed my bags *plenty* of times. They're black not because I'm rich, but because I'm stupid.

AlsPals

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2007

Sellin hot stock tips for pro[fit]

Me/E

Ditto merchant. 100E went to TOA merchant in a fit of lag once.. The most consistent fail seems to be when I wanna go cap an elite skill, especially in a place like mineral springs, and either: A. Forget to change secondary to the elite skill or B: Forget to put in a cap sig altogether.

frostkisses

frostkisses

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2007

Wisconsin

Cerberus Guardians of the [GATE]

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by AlsPals View Post
The most consistent fail seems to be when I wanna go cap an elite skill, especially in a place like mineral springs, and either: A. Forget to change secondary to the elite skill or B: Forget to put in a cap sig altogether.
Such painful memories....This is my most consistant fail.
Most epic would have been zoning into a town during a 400 foe Vq......on purpose....because I wanted to remove death penalty....Yeah...I hadn't had my coffee that morning..Soon as I zoned, I screamed and slammed my head on my keyboard. Had to convince the dogs after that it was ok to come by me.

moriz

moriz

??ber t??k-n??sh'??n

Join Date: Jan 2006

Canada

R/

my epic fail? let's see...

i was playing AB with my ranger once, and i got into a situation that i couldn't handle. i was down to about 10 hp in my shield set, and a burning hit me. unfortunately, my shield set has -5 energy, and i didn't have enough to use mending touch. so without thinking, i swapped back into my bow set to gain back 5 energy, and immediately died because of the loss of +30 hp from the shield.

oops.

Little O B S I

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2009

United Kingdom

Cookie Rehab Clinic [LAME]

Mo/W

Merched 50e accidentally.

riceangel

riceangel

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2008

Floirda

[ASH]IGN: Tokyo Hina

W/E

sold mini oni for 150k

Obrien Xp

Obrien Xp

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2009

Canada

The First Dragon Slayers [FDS]

Heard a bunch of stories along the lines of "was new got a black dye, didn't know value, sold to merch for 1g"

I don't really have a fail other than not pouncing on lucrative farms when they were still viable but then again this means that I actually worked for my stuff. :P

oh, and dying bags. (it was just green but it was still a waste)

Lots of OH SH*T I MERCHED THAT!

Windf0rce

Windf0rce

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2007

Deleting a Legendary Survivor Rit one week before ANet buffed spirits and every group started to ask for a Rit. Doh!

Also deleted several characters due to looks. If only I knew one day I would be able to makeover them...

Chthon

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Apr 2007

My epic fail?

We reached the "bridge of doom" in Urgoz, and someone said, "that's the bridge." For some reason, it just didn't look right to me that day, so replied, "no, it's not; the bridge is longer than that." Then I stupidly ran across and got the team killed. Don't know what I was thinking.

I'm still teased for this sometimes...

AngeliqueSynner

AngeliqueSynner

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2008

Florida, USA

Sacred Storm [Strm]

N/

The worst one I have is from a long time ago.
I racked up a few deaths before I realized it.
I was in an outpost, I was about to make a new build for my elementalist as I was getting bored of that one.
I dropped my attributes to 0, took out all my skills, got sidetracked and left without anything.
I resigned, put a build back together and left again. 20 minutes and 30 or so deaths later, I realized I'd forgotten to set my atributes. >__<¿

Kook~NBK~

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2005

A little chalet outside Drok's

Natural Born Killaz

Nightfall was less than a month old (that's very important, as it is the key to the epicness of my fail), and as I'm working my way through Vabbi, I come upon a Sandstone Crag and a Shambling Mesa. They were the first of these critters that I've ever encountered. No biggie, they die like anything else. One of 'em dropped an Ele sword. "Ooh! What's this?" I think to myself. So I ID'd it and then equipped it. Took one look and thought "Who would want this ugly POS?" Merched it, only to find out the next day that I could have gotten 600-700K for the thing. /facepalm /D'oh /fail

Jinkies

Jinkies

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2008

Korea

Peace And Harmony [PnH] War Machine [WM]

Buying an Unded Greased Lightning for 2 Unded Vizu+500e.

Although this was years ago, when the price relation of zippy to vizu was alot different.. I will always regret not having those extra vizus now hehe.

Another fail was selling bunches of rare pets to buy z10 back when keys were 6-6.5k each.

Lord Bleyz

Lord Bleyz

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

Clan Dethryche [dth]

W/

About 4 years ago I deleted a character to make a monk capable of farming UW. I ran him through Prophices in 8 hours had capped several elites and had max armor runed up for doing 55 run in UW. Next day my guildies wanted to do some Tombs/HA went to reroll my Pvp character and deleted my monk instead.

Show Some Skin

Show Some Skin

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2009

Dead.

[Game]

Rt/

-Making a survivor char and trying to attempt to get it maxed, only to delete after i was about 200 more pts to max survivor. I didnt like the name

-Accidentally trashing my obsidian gloves a few mins after i got them. I always liked obsidian armor for mes so when i got a bds i sold it and someone gave me a armor run. After i got the armor i went to my gh to do Slavers with guildies but wanted to dye my armor so i did. I have mostly all armor on my mes and dyed them all black because i like it . I bought some 1k gloves a few days before to match a certain armor but i was rushing so i could do dungeon with friends so i didn't read properly and i trashed my gloves to only notice a few hours that they were my obbies

-But i think my biggest failure moment was when i left my guild that i was in since i started playing. I met alot of people there and they taught me everything and it was what made playing the game worth it.

cosyfiep

cosyfiep

are we there yet?

Join Date: Dec 2005

in a land far far away

guild? I am supposed to have a guild?

Rt/

just this week.....bought new armor for my monk.....thought I had changed (had low level stuff on)...and salvaged it..only to find I salvage the new shoes I just crafted.....it was late and I should have already been in bed, serves me right.
like now---waaaaaay past time I should be playing (got my new shoes today and made sure 3 times before I salvaged the old ones)....wont do that again.

Iotan

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2006

Time Is Running [OUT]

Me/

I was flag running right when Factions came out and was running up to the stand. I wanted to be ready to fight once I capped so I weapon swapped to my staff set to put up attunes. Well it just so happens this also drops whatever you are carrying. Unfortunately my guild didn't really learn from this, since we ended up repeating the error in the Factions playoffs against Rift which probably cost us the match-up.

Deviant Angel

Deviant Angel

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2006

On a boat!

Homeless.

Mo/

Nothing too major, but I did merch one of my r8 zodiac hatchets... I also merched a 19/19 fire straw effigy shortly after factions was released. Both were the result of merching with lag. I still wish I had that offhand even if it wasn't perfect!

...and then there was that moment of stupidity when I just had to have a minipet after they were added to the game. 50k for a jungle troll definitely wasn't the best investment, but Bubba is still one of my favorite minipets... even if I've gotten several of his worthless friends and family for free since then!

Davros Uitar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

Fool Wolves

W/Mo

VQ of Sunqau Vale - my BHA Ranger/Rt and 3 hero necros. Early on I lose a necro and I wait for hero to res. Nothing. I check their bars and only one has res - the one that died. Doh - ok - no problems - just soldier on, and when I wipe we will be back to full party after res. Turns out that we didn't wipe - just went slower. On the 2nd last group I lost another hero. Me and the last hero tackled the last 3 kappa - he died but I lived.

I am standing there with the VQ finished thinking wow I am great when I looked at my bar and it dawned on me that my skill 8 was "Flesh of my Flesh".

Talk about epic red face lols.

The other one was my warrior who loved his +5 energy sword so much (woot - 25 energy ftw) that he customised it to make 20% more damage. Sometimes I pull that req 8 Zodiac sword out of storage and stare at it and wonder at how dumb I was .

Yasmine

Yasmine

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2007

The Lost Souls Of Jugdement [KJCD]

Hmm, the most epic fail was when I was running a HB monk in an ursan group against duncan (was before the ursan nerf ofc). It was my first time doing duncan, pple asked that one of the monks adds Protective Spirit. I say ok, I will. I add some point in the prot line, put in the requested skill and we go in. After we did all the dungeon and got to duncan, swapped spirits, one of ursans laying dead near duncan, the sv/swap necro asks to cast PS on her and tells she will ping when it's running out. I cast, she dies and asks me why i didn't put PS on her? I reply I did, we retry: same result. Then I realize the skill she is asking for is protective Spirit, while I brought and have been dutifully casting Spirit Bond... We had to do it the direct way after all.
I got some fails with the traveler. The first one when he was collecting herrings. I was too lazy to farm so I just bought the fins (or whatever it was) required to get herrings from a collector then ran to the collector: the char I was on wasn't a great runner and I was close to death when I got there so I fastly pressed the exchange button and got my ele 5 pairs of non max krytan gloves... I sometimes also merched the collector item traveler required either the day before he moved or just after buying them.
Another fail was at my first survivor. A guildie wanted to show some new weapons to us and to do so he started a scrim. I asked not to fight as I was on a half naked (was changing armor just then) survivor. Meteor shower hurts.