Post Your Most Embarrassing GW Moment!

huh... learn something new everyday

Probably when i accidently allowed someone to buy an ecto off me for 5gold instead of 5k Q_Q

This list is gonna be long:

Before I had any idea that Rune traders existed I found a sup Arbsorb (the time when it was worth 100k) and since it used to have -75 hp on it, I traded it away for 100 g. Thought I was clever until I told my guildmates who were actually quite understanding: "I'm sorry pal but you've been fooled..."

I didn't read the manual My ranger made its way to Kryta and I complained in Guild chat: "Crap, these undead are tough! Even though my bow does (about Krytan damage) they only take 1 or 2 damage!" They then asked: "Impossible. What's the requirement of the bow?" "Requirement?" I looked at the bow. "6 marksmanship? Wtf! I have 2 marksmanship and the rest is in Smiting Prayers!!" I did do good damage with my bane signet though

I once used a wammo, classical with healing hands, and it actually worked pretty well thank you for asking! A guy came up to me and called me a noob, so I challenged him to a 1v1, however at that particular moment, I used a farming build instead... I didn't realise until after the fight and when I told the guy "OMG I HAD WRONG BUILD ON! AGAIN!!" He said: "Yeah right. Listen pal if you just can't see your own mistakes, then there's no way to convince you and I would just be wasting my time against you" *blush*

I went to cap Maw the Mountain Hearts elite (Feast of Corruption). I did very well and even made it there. Then I realised I didn't bring Cap sig... I went back, brought cap sig and went back there... I was W/Me >.< 3rd time's the charm.

"Mini Devourer? Wtf is that? I don't need such a thing!" *drops in explorable* "Right! Back to LA where... omg is that guy buying those for 50 k?" (PS: Yes, first years used to be worth that, since they were new at the first year lol)

Tons of times vs Dhuum, never killed him XD Although this is partly because I was always in a party with minimum 3 leavers and 2 flame kids who thought they could charge an Aatxe and solo it without Prot spirit on...

I got loads more, but this is getting too embarressing >.<

Probably when I almost fell for the "let me see the skin outside" scam with a crystalline sword.. god I would have felt stupid if I hadn't realized it as soon as I did and picked it back up.

Now this next one didn't actually happen to me personally, but it is probably the one thing I will always remember from GW. If you see this, (you know who you are!) I'm sorry! :P

This one night me and a few guild mates were on vent just running around UW for fun just killing things as we went along, then when we were about halfway through the mountains area, right after we had killed a group of behemoths -- someone runs up into the giant mass of traps to pick up some loot. Dies instantly. Everybody bursts into laughter. Good times! I swear every time I think about that I laugh, that was such a fun day.

lol I get ya

Happened to me as well, while helping a guildie.

Me: "Look, the bonus is rather easy. We'll enter the zone and some plants will start attacking us. Whatever happens, don't kill them, or the bonus is gone."
Guildie: "Got it, easy as pie!"

Then I run in, get hit by a Jungle Guardian and simply kill him without thinking. C+Space...

Oh, and I had my fair share of elite capping trouble too.

My main character (a Warrior) cleared Prophecies with an embarassing Warrior/Elementalist build. I used to bring Water snares such as Ice Spikes to hold aggro better... As soon as I could, I capped Water Trident as an Elite. Good times. Well, at least, he wasn't a Wammo...

going through factions up to gyala hatchery without knowledge of pulling -_-

was with a guildie finishing the rilohn refuge mission. (nightfall was my first campaign) i was a dervish and i capped smoke trap... from that centaur in that mission. i thought i could daze The Drought using the trap but there was no need, i fueled its demise anyway since my guildie just raped it with pain inverter.

not to mention that i had like a superior rune of scythe mastery, mysticsm, earth magic and maybe wind prayers on at once. and because i was a dervish, i died a lot, and was still wondering why. doing insane amounts of damage and felling 3 insects in a few swipes was fun though

i think i had an encounter with a scammer that would have asked me to drop a weapon. i find a gold spear that had a crap skin but i had no idea of weapon value. i think the guy was expecting me to have a voltaic spear but since what i had was worthless, he did not ask me to drop it. i had heard of the scam before so i might have known not to drop it anyway.

Haha, hilarious! I did the exact same thing when I was newb status. I found a whole new game when I did know about missions, etc.

Ahhhh ty for the post....I reckon I missed out on that one.

On topic.....When I 1st started GW, I almost quit b/c I couldn't figure out how to get out of GtoB. Yay for nvr reading any directions/guides/forums b4 diving in head 1st!

My personal embarassing noob moment was back within my 3rd or 4th month of playing (back in 2006) when I was going to PvP and I thought I knew what I was doing because I had beaten the prophecies campaign. And I sat and argued with this guy. Granted, we were sitting in the AB outpost , but I didn't till a long time after that argument realize how terribly wrong I was.

My most embarrassing moment...
Probably when I had just started playing the game in Presearing Ascalon.

I completely ignored that academy mission and explored EVERY SINGLE area in Presearing Ascalon thinking I could find a way out of Ascalon.

When I finally realized i had to do the mission to get on with the game I did it and all my exploring progress in Presearing Ascalon was lost.

So basically I just a day's worth of exploring(keep in mind that I explored the same area more than once) and just lost everything.

That, or realize you forgot to equip (or evne purchase) an actual cap signet.

I still do that to this day. It generally doesn't take me TOO long to figure it out, but I HAVE gone and killed the boss and everything only to find... no cap sig equipped. Yea.

My first GW game was Factions. Nightfall was out, but still fairly new. The first time I got to Kaineng Center, I saw someone buying daggers for 100k+ with some mods listed. I thought I had seen some collectible daggers with those mods, so I excitedly gathered up my collector items and traded them for some Dirks with stats matching what he was advertising.

I proudly opened up the trade window and popped them in. Of course, he didn't care as much about the stats as about the fact that he wanted "Celestial Daggers." I didn't know what difference skins made, so I thought matching stats would be fine. Of course, he closed trade window, said "lol dirks," and zoned.

I was pretty mad and thought he was a douche, but I'd have done the same thing. Oh well. Newbness ftw.

A long time ago, I got an invitation by some friends to join their DoA team as the ER Ele in their (then-popular) cryway team. I had no idea how to play this, since I completely missed the point of the build apart from the bonds. I asked how to play it, but to my dismay nobody knew either.

For example, there was the skill Burning Speed - why on hell should I use this as a backliner, even lose my life by burning? Run faster to save my life?
Restauration Aura - as bonder, I take no damage, so what's the use?
Why bonds upon myself? I stay far away, I take no damage!
Infuse? I lose half of my life, and such an expensive skill!
Ether Renewal - such an expensive skill, such measly energy gain, so short uptime. Useless. (ha!)

So I gave out about 6 bonds - the required 3 or 4 on the perma tank and 2 or so on the 2 cryers who took the most damage, and let the BiP fuel my energy. I never used Ether Renewal or any of the other skills. Instead, I was constantly casting and removing the bonds to handle my energy. And I waited for that special situation where I should use Energy Renewal. But It never came.

Hey, we managed to beat the city in hard mode! It only took one hour or so.

I swore to never do this as ER ele again. I knew I gave the worst performance ever.

Months later, when I read some articles about the awesomeness (and usage) of Ether Renewal, I realized how bad and non-understanding I really was that evening.

But I also wonder why nobody else on the team could explain the point of the build in one sentence. In no time I could even have gotten a sup. energy storage hat and an enchantment-weaponset and realize the principle of enchantment-stacking with Ether Renewal.

accidentally going into a Fort Aspenwood match with my pve build (any char). I refuse to leave a match for any reason (i think it's rude!) but trying to do some damage without anyone realizing what a crappy build I have. It is very embarrassing when someone notices and starts calling me a noob. Hate it.

Telling someone off in a very neat and rude fashion, then attempting to talk to a friend with joke statements like "Hey sexy," but instead messaging the person I just raged at.
I quickly log off after that, and go watch T.V.

I do that pretty much every time I go to cap a skill.

Back when I started Factions was fairly new. I remember I was sitting in LA and some dude was selling daggers. I was like a lvl 12 warrior. I didn't even know Assassin's existed, so I asked if I could buy the dagger. I think he said something like 5k, which was all my money. I bought them, even though I was a Warrior lol. I ran outside of LA, tried killing some things. Didn't work. Asked some guildies 'what is dagger mastery?' got a reply saying it's an Assassin's weapon. I was all angry because I customized them and I was broke xD.

Also, I remember one time I was sitting in Yaks Bend. Was level 20 this time. Like 3 people were looking for runs to Beacons. I thought, being the nice person I was, to run them. Little did they know, I knew nothing about running lol. I took them through all the missions leading up to Beacons lol, they never left so I still assume they were happy with the service. Took up my whole afternoon >.<

I'm guilty of something similar - I was working with my alliance and doing this mission in HM. I decided to help out our team an popped a summoning stone shortly before we began the bonus section. Needless to say, it's very difficult to get your summoned Oni to stop wailing on the guardians... I apologized profusely, we went ahead and finished the mission and had to go back and run the bonus again and I was instructed to just "stay back".