Anti-jerk: whats the nicest thing someone has done for you

thedeadwalk!

thedeadwalk!

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2006

Atlantis

The Ocean [quay]

I got a free run to Droknar's from a guy who was doing a test run, but ended up being completed by someone else in the group. It was fun. About half way through we all just started racing and had a good time.

Buttermilk

Buttermilk

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2006

Zealots of Shiverpeak [ZoS]

Mo/

I traded Eshekibeh's Scythe (worth=25k at the time) for a perfect Sundering Shadow Scythe Fortitude (worth=80k at the time). Probably unintended though.

A single "Good Monking" now and then is something I treasure a lot. You can't really ask for more.

Torikae

Torikae

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2006

UK

Rt/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Buttermilk
A single "Good Monking" now and then is something I treasure a lot. You can't really ask for more.
I completely agree - it always makes my day when someone takes the time to thank their monks.

I met the nicest guy on GW a while ago, when the Shing Jea boardwalk was re-opened the first time. I was playing as my new ranger, not even lv20 at the time, and he was in Kurzick armour - I must have mentioned that I'd love that armour for my ranger, because about a fortnight later he whispered me, had his guild leader invite me to their hall, and then he and another of his guildies gave me all the amber I needed for my ranger's Kurzick armour. It may not add up to that much money, but he'd been AB-ing for a while to get it all together for me and I was really touched

combatchuck

combatchuck

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Mo/

I've had some very nice stuff done for me. Given to me, too.

My guild leader bought me a Malinon's shield and a Superior Absorbption when I first started my warrior. At the time, that was like 170K worth of stuff.

When I first got my ranger (my first character) to post-searing, a guy gave me a really cool looking bow when I asked where I could get a decent bow. Little did I know at the time, he gave me a very valuable bow. It's a Req 8 Mursaat Hornbow, max damage, etc. I still have it, customized. It ain't goin' nowhere.

This last Halloween, as Lion's Arch was dying for the mad king, there was a guy asking questions and giving out prizes. I answered one correctly, and he gave me a gold Mursaat Hornbow and 10K.

These are the kind of things that make this community great.

SerenitySilverstar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by combatchuck
This last Halloween, as Lion's Arch was dying for the mad king, there was a guy asking questions and giving out prizes. I answered one correctly, and he gave me a gold Mursaat Hornbow and 10K.

These are the kind of things that make this community great.
Yeah, I came across something similar during Wintersday in Kamadan - might even be the same person, coz the MO is the same.

It's really heartening to see people getting into the spirit of the festivals.

I also like it when I get into random, everyday conversations with people. One sometimes discovers really interesting people, people actually living near you, or someone who adds you to their friends list, just coz you had an nice conversation!

liko

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Feb 2008

N/

Once i was joking around with this chick about getting a mini kuunavang when they first were released and she ended up giving me one for free! i was like wtf woot

The S H A D O W

The S H A D O W

Academy Page

Join Date: Sep 2007

The Last Offensive [RusH]

A/

Back when you couldn't find certain greens. For me it was the staff Bzaar Staff(I think). I Would go for bout 1 hr or so farming that 1 boss with A/E. I could never get it, or he would never drop it. But one of my friends who showed me this farm spot. decided to come along with me for about an hour or so. and farm with me, to get this staff. He got it and gave it to me. He's actually gave me so much stuff back then, like lockpicks for giving him a armor combination that looked nice . But unfortunately now he doesnt play much but i see him on Xbox LIVE some times:P

sibelang

sibelang

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2007

Nottofar Island

Sekai o Oni Moriageru Tame no Suzumiya Haruhi no Dan [SOS-dan]

to someone, who i meet over 1year ago at Bergen Hot Spring...
he was a WaMo lvl 17, asked me to run his warrior to ToA...
i was Monk tryin 55hp for the 1st time after about 1.5month playin using my friend account (ofc real life friend)
after 3times try, i failed.. and in the end, i gave him 2k.. so he can find a "real ToA runner" from LA...

after that we become kind a "friend".. did some mission and stuff 2g8er

it will be to long, if write all our story, but he was the one who gave me 3 unused CD keys...
and this bcome my own account till now ^^
he said he bought for cheap from amazon uk... zomg!

even i still dont know your real name nor your motiv...but i still have fun and enjoy playin this game after 1yr playin

and again.. big ty!

this account is no jokes!
and i still see him online and chatted with him sometimes ^^

StormDragonZ

StormDragonZ

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2008

New York

W/R

- Gave me a mini Charr Shaman helping complete both of the Prophecies "+15 Attribute Quests"... this occurred around a month after the first year minis were introduced.

- Gave me 20k gold when I needed it to get Legendary Skill Hunter via Signet of Capture.

- Gave me Tarnok's Longbow, Kormab's Prism and Murakai's Reaver for helping beat the final mission in Nightfall and Prophecies.

I'm sure I've had more than just these three, but they're the only ones that really meant something because I'm still friends with those who were nice enough to do these for me.

BodhiNightwind

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2006

United States

Stonewall Of Unity League [SOUL]

Mo/Rt

This thread is a couple years old and many pages long so i dont know if i've posted in it before but , when I read the title the first thing that popped into my head was when I was a newbie monk and this guy gave me a free newbie green. That was a huge deal to me at the time.

Plus I've met a few people in the course of the game who just hang out in newbie areas giving away free stuff and advice. I think that's really cool. I like to give them all my newbie greens and any really good starter gear I have at the time.
I get more inventory space, someone else who likes to help gets more stuff to help with, and the newbies get lots of cool stuff, everyone wins

Sleeper Service

Sleeper Service

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2005

CULT

waaay back in 05, during x-mas on my first toon at Piken square a random ranger gave me 10k to help me start off.

BodhiNightwind

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2006

United States

Stonewall Of Unity League [SOUL]

Mo/Rt

Quote:
Originally Posted by Shizuka Gozen
Hm, I get to Amnoon the first thing I see is "Running to Everywhere in the desert, Invite Self!" I got in, then the guy ran the whole Desert for free , he claimed to be drunk at that time..don't know if he even knew he was running for free.. well, I was still a noob so I thought that was nice
LMAO I think I got a desert run from this guy too!

pumpkin pie

pumpkin pie

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2006

behind you

bumble bee

E/

someone who offer to give me 32k if i give them 5k (could be 4k they were asking) now.

I am going to think this person is nice so that if he sees this he might think again IF infact he's trying to scam me.

Zebideedee

Zebideedee

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2007

55?? 57' 0" N / 3?? 12' 0" W

N/Me

On my first char I asked a Warrior for help with what runes & insigs to use on my Warr, he traded me each piece of his armour so I could take a screenshot of what he used then gave me 3 or 4 golds

ALF71BE

ALF71BE

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2008

In your fridge, stealing your pickles. for mah subway

R/

When I had first started with my warrior after finishing with my Ranger, a kewl mate from my guild gave me Kanaxai's Axe and Sword and gave me a couple builds, as well as insignia and runes suggestion.

Sparks Dawnbringer

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2005

Los Angeles

none

E/Mo

Someone gave me a black dye to take the Droks run and buy better armor.

Dallcingi

Dallcingi

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2006

USA

The Black Parades [死人死]

Mo/

Friend got me most of my mats for fow =)

[DE]

[DE]

Hugs and Kisses

Join Date: Oct 2005

Scars Meadows

Back in 2005 a guy ran me from Ascalon all the way to the desert (+desert tour) for free because it was a holiday.

darkmexican92

darkmexican92

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2006

R/

Hmm back when my Warrior didn't get deleted ( =[ ) I met some random chick and she helped me out with understanding with farming ssaki and taught me how to farm it and such, I told her I was saving up for 15k luxon armor, 2 days later shes PMs me and asks me hows it going and I say well ive made like 20k, minutes later we meet up and she gives me ALL the mats and gold for the 15k armor, she even let me keep the change =D *keep in mind this was when jadite was a lot more expensive*

HuntMaster Avatar

HuntMaster Avatar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2007

Around

Pillar's of Earth [ROCK]

W/

A week after I first started playing someone I had chatted with told his friend I had been scammed by my first guild, which was true. this person gave me a chaos axe (not very good but still!) and taught me a few things about the game.

I also got 100k from a friend I'v been gaming with for over 5 years who got gw so we could game together. He doesnt play much and decided to help me out with some plat so I could save time on farming and buy some stuff I wanted for my warrior.

The only other nice thing someone has done for me is another friend whom I met in ascalon, He helped me with a few missions when I first started and didnt want anything in return. Hes a nice guy and I still chat with him sometimes when we are both online at the same time.

Although I'd rather get helped or info than an item any day.

AshenX

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2008

Orange County, CA.

Black Flag

R/

My first time in Hells Precipice our group had some disconnects but we reformed and continued only to face more disconnects. Finally around 3 AM we decided to push on despite having lost our monk player and all but 2 warriors, our monk henchie, and me (a noobish ranger). I was running an interrupt heavy build and was carrying rebirth as well as healing breeze : )

Anyway the warriors were both much more experienced than I but were our only real offense so they stayed on the front line and fought..and died periodically. Meanwhile I was interrupting as many as best I could while casting my heals : ) ....and rebirthing as needed.

In the end the four of us made it through and completed the mish. At the end of it all the group leader (who had been helping a guildie through the mish, as I recall, before the guildie DC'd--and still he stayed to help the rest of the team !) said, "nice work Ashen."

May sound lame but that compliment really meant alot to me after the three of us (+ our henchie of course) had been through hell together.

Spirit Of Azrael

Spirit Of Azrael

Echo-mending Master

Join Date: Jun 2006

Service of Shadows [SOS]

W/N

Going to Forgemaster wit ha PUG. We breeze through, clear out the Temple, and then halfway through defend the temple half the party gets dc'ed. APPARENTLY ANet decided to divide by zero.

OH SHI- (lol)


We're left with:
Me, the tank
HBoon Monk
Barrage ranger
2nd Barrage Ranger

We manage to barely scrape by thanks to the monk's excellent timing. We just barely make it out of clearing the seeds, and everyone grabs whatever FoW armor they're after (for me, a Helmet) - and I find out that two of the guys were just there to help out, they had no real reason to come (not guildies, or anything) but just because they felt like it. Hell, when I bit it one of them gave me a sweet or two to clear my DP.

Vengeful Spirit

Vengeful Spirit

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2007

Rt/

the nicest person ive met in GW is probably my guild leader, in the beggining of this game i went through quite a few guilds that just kind disbanded a few which i became the guild leader of somehow o.0, but i wanted a real guild so i asked in LA if anyone had a guild i could join and he pmed me saying that he had a guild that i could join and i joined and from then on he taught me the majority and the fundementals of the game (such as how to properly rune my armor) and on more than one occasion when i was looking for an item has simply given the items without a second thought and that is why I can say aslong as my guild leader keeps playing I will never leave my guild

viper11025

viper11025

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2007

02/18/05 (Pm me with the place, its a riddle)

A/

If anyones curious.
Old friend of mine who got banned, was the best guy in GW.
~~~
I was about to just give up on the game all together, my guild disbanded and my ranger was stuck at level 17 in proph, when rangers ment something, and well I bought Factions for the hell of it.Just too see if any changes were made to re-"invent" the game. Well, I found the assassin, and oh boy I had fun with him and he's my main, I don't care what they nerf, but onto my story.

Through some wierd turn of events, I meet Demon at the Zen mission afterwards he offerd me to join the guild, me and my new friend, Demon, started playing the game together for fun.

Since he helped me, I helped the guild members, hopefully people will get the idea, this games not ment to be played solo. Enjoy the time you take with people who help you, and people you help.
Speaking of that, i'm bored. So, you might see me playing around and helping or just farming. If you do, throw a wave or two.

~~~"If your handed a tourch, pass the flame!"~~~

P.S
I bought him another account, so he's back.
^.^
(Free of charge)

Courage!

Courage!

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2008

Australia

Mo/

i gave some random guy 100k

rkubik

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2006

Desert run for free was pretty nice since it saves you a lot of time. I gave a few people some stacks of Jade orbs during one of the events so they could get their masks. I thought that was pretty nice I hope they still have them.

cataphract

cataphract

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2005

Ashford Abbey

Hey Mallyx [icU]

Mo/Me

Makosi aka "Requirement starts with R not Q"

Met him in DWC ages ago while he was giving away ectos and greenies. I didn't want to take freebies and instead asked him for his farming build. From that point on he would show me a new area to farm and how to farm it. Also, he gave me a perfect-modded Stilettos when I was QQ'ing about not being able to find any.


There was a ranger guy called Sarwrax something I met while running to desert outposts for free. Some people gave tips, but this one was being funny the whole run and the whole team had lots of fun. He ended up giving me fully-modded Sai (which I later gave to friend asa) and my ranger's spider answers to the name Sarwrax to this day. Named him on that same run over two years ago.

LostKitten

LostKitten

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Nov 2006

Eternal Haven [AioN]

Mo/

First off I want to say this thread is a wonderful way to snap out of the funk that is known as jerkitus. Anyways My guild is full of amazing folks we try t o help out one another when we can. One gave me the Bison Cup to help me out when I smite CoF with him. The real reason I'm posting is to toot my friends horn. She started off as just another CoF runner in the beginning but now she's a really nice friend. Today she was trying to farm a couple greens for one of her friends and I happened to have one that she needed and asked if I could tag along to help get the other. We were talking through the umpteen runs to try and get Rien's Sacrifice (which never drop the stingy jerk) and I mentioned I was debating selling my ecto or getting the other 17 so I can get my Chaos Gloves. She told me to keep plugging away and get the other 17. Well a few runs later she said brb and I went off to try again to get the green. She pm's me that she's back and I told her what was up. She said that she needed to deliver something and that she needed me there. Well I map back to Matuu and she opens trade and lo and behold there's the last 17e I need. I am so grateful for that I try a couple more times to get the green give up and head to Kaaning and just buy the offhand just to try and pay back a fraction of her kindness. People like her makes me happy to play GW. I say we need more people like that and more stories!

AriBalifor

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2008

E/Mo

My allies in the now-defunct alliance I was in...fantastic people. Threw me a birthday party for my RL birthday that resulted in my having to create a new mule.

When I started going for a green wep I really coveted, so many of them helped me farm the area overandoverandoverandover trying to get the stinkin' thing. Eventually, after lots of non-success trying to get the stupid boss to drop the thing, one of my allies surprised me with it as a gift. I LOVED that weapon, just for that reason.

Same with an expensive mini I wanted - I scraped and saved for ages, helped along here and there with little donations as gifts from allies (just in the 500g-1k range, but it was so kind), and selling me ecto cheap to go toward the purchase price. Eventually, I was halfway toward my goal, and an ally whispered me that he'd found a great deal that was about what I'd saved so far. I got my mini, and my ally got a little donation toward his obsidian armor fund as a thank you.

Oh! And when I was a little noob running around the Shiverpeaks, saving for my first set of 15k, my then-GL surprised me with the money and mats for my gloves. I was boggled - that was the first really, really kind gesture from an ally/guildie and it made me really happy.

Paying it forward - I spent a lot of time nuking for allies that needed help in missions - often more time than I spent on my own stuff. Also offered up weapons, mats and cash whenever needed.

This kind of thing is definitely an antidote to the jerk behavior. Love it.

Konig Des Todes

Konig Des Todes

Ooo, pretty flower

Join Date: Jan 2008

Citadel of the Decayed

The Archivists' Sanctum [Lore]

N/

Well, I must say that this thread has made me think that there really are nice people in the game. Sadly, most people who are ever nice to me later became a huge jerk *usually, they either joined my guild or vice versa and someone ended up getting kicked/leaving*. I suppose the nicest thing a person has done without becoming a jerk later one would be one person giving me some builds to improve my necro back when I was a newb, then helped me kill Glint when that was actually tough*long long long time ago*.

Trub

Trub

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Mar 2006

Sitting in the guildhall, watching the wallows frolic.

Trinity of the ascended [SMS]+[Koss]+[TAM]=[ToA]

I have to admit, there are MANY good hearted players in GW.
When I joined my guild..I was the low dog on the totem pole sort-of-speak.
A few months went by, with me laying low...when someone in the guild found out I love bows.
Next thing I know...ALL the guildies would bring me every skin imaginable of the bows offered in GW!!!!
My collection is magnificent!
Thanks SMS guildmates..I love each and every one of youz...*HUGZ*

Tender Care

Tender Care

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2008

Blackwater Park

MpF

P/

Actaully nobody did something nice for me, but i did many nice things for many many peeps.....e.g.: Droks runs for few money, running missions for free, give away things i don't need cos i'm too lazy to trade....give away elite tomes to a friend...trade an armbrace of truth for a shield i wanted which avlue was actually less than armbrace....and yesterday when i was in Chantry of Secrets with my 130hp derv i kneel in front of Grenth and eneter the UW; there was another derv over there and he whisped me: are u going to have some fun in the UW?? i replied i was going to solo some aatxe for ectos and he saked if he could join.....i said ok and resigned...he did not have any idea of UW and it was his really first time he went in so i said he should just watch and learn from what was doing.....i begin killing the aatxe, but no ectos (this was the 5th run in the day and i hadn't got an ecto so far)..last aatxe drop an ecto for the other dude o_O when he was just standing over the spirits and watching
He pick up the ecto and ask me: What is this???
ME: an ecto...it's worth 4,8/5k and as u said u needed money u are lucky....
HE: ok thanx.....
ME: you should drop it or make 50/50 as actually i did all the job and u did actually nothing, but take it anyway...
HE: thanks dude!!

Take the quest and go for the grasps....the dude move and they come to me, they interrupt me and they kill me.... he had no res.......well..i think i could actually scam him and offer 1k for the ecto as he had no idea of the price or value..after 5 runs i was getting tired of wasting money for nothing but he was so a nice guy..XD

Deadly Chaos

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2008

The X Viles

N/Me

Well.. i think i have several nice ppl in GW..
at first, the normal friend things you do for eachother..

But the thing i enjoyed most was when i was doing foW HM with an ursan group.

At an early stage of the game.. (before the tower!!) the other monk got disconnected.. so i was on my own.. I had my Glimmer (arcane mimicry) build on. And i kept the whole team alive throughout the mission.. (BIG Thanks to the Warrior who brought BLood ritual!)

While we gotten further in FoW they complimented me on my healing
and at the end they all said i did great.. added the BR warrior so we can do FoW more often. Best thing of this story is that some ppl laugh at me for using the glimmer build... Too bad they didn't see that run..

Rexion

Rexion

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2007

[Luck]

E/

I've been collecting greens and golds for a guild event I'm hosting. One day I was sitting in Kamadan and just asking in All, "Anyone willing to let me take any unwanted greens/golds of their hands?"

One guy came up to me and said "I have a few." He ended up giving me 12 weapons.

I Name Unbekannt I

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2007

n/a

Mo/

once i was doing FoW with a pug, long time ago, at the beginning of gw
i was monking, was also having a bit of a rough time. anyway, one of the warr's mouse (his name was Slithery Stalker) was broken, so he couldnt pick up any of his drops. Anyway, i thought it'd be unfair if they were just stolen by some other player once they're not reserved anymore, so as soon as they were "free" i picked them up and gave them to him later.

Anyway, dont mean to glorify myself, because this is was happened:
we became good friends later on. i went on to pvp, he did a bit of both, though also primarily pvp. somehow he was able to get 90 ectos (i assume through rather excessive farming). anyway, he decided he didnt need the ectos, and gave them to me oO (this was at the time when ectos were worth about 15k each). Unfortunately, he quit soon after that. He was definetely the nicest guy i'd met on gw, but he seemed to be having trouble in rl. hope it worked out for him.

another bunch of nice ppl were the players in the pug that got me my fow armor (using the ectos from ol' Slithery). We went in with 8 ppl, 4 ppl left right at the start, leaving me as the only monk with 2 eles and 1 warr.
We were lucky as hell that we made it to the forgemaster (ofc i had mentioned that i wanted to get the armor). We even completed all the quests needed, and i got my monk fow. It ended up they only stayed to help me get my armor, a very unusual thing nowadays, since everyones just interested in their personal gain....

Dronte

Dronte

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Sep 2006

Got nice stuff from a few mates before they quitted GW (even though it'd have been better if they stayed).
Also, keep getting loans from active friends is great as well so I'd say thanks this way as well.

I also like ppl who say "nice healing" or stuff like that in RA etc.

Im Unbreakable

Im Unbreakable

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2008

North Carolina

[TYTN]

W/R

i dont know if you guys are familier with the pre guild [TYTN]? im the leader of it. weve held alot of partys where we give things away to locals for free, minis, runes, charr bags, dyes and gold. so far weve given an estimated 2.5 million in pre away to ppl but to the point. after such an event someone gave me a kuunavang in pre for free as a ty for all the hard work

vandevere

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2007

The Great State of Denial

W/Mo

I had just created a new Ranger in NF, and was tooling about in Kamadan, when I was invited into a party by another, Level 20 Ranger.

This Ranger proceeded to drop a Green Bow, and told me it was mine.

I didn't ask for it. He/she merely gave it to me, sight unseen, and completely un-asked for.

Of course I said thanks...

StormDragonZ

StormDragonZ

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2008

New York

W/R

If it was This Longbow, then I can understand. Otherwise, plenty of people are nice in Guild Wars. I'm one of them myself.

Koudelka

Koudelka

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2007

England

The Khaotic Empire (TKE)

Me/Mo

Proof that people aren't: I was in Saltspray Beach discussing Yaoi with another player when a total stranger told me to "shut up, fag". Nice going, though. I hope that their friendship is more than simply material.