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fintor

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2005

15 Feb 2006 at 19:33 - 81

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lasareth

Demetrios the Enduring.... Willa the Unpleasant... For new[er] players, they are a nightmare realised.

oh how i hated those two until i made my r/me, now i rather enjoy them

but for me:
Avicara / tengu
any sort of pop-up creatures
ice imps

Shanaeri Rynale

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

DVDF(Forums)

Me/N

15 Feb 2006 at 19:45 - 82

Anything Dwarven, not because they are nasty but because they are soo dull. Oh look dwarf with a bow, oh look dwarf with an axe, oh look dwarf with a wand, oh look dwarf in a hat, oh look dwarf riding on an animal, oh look dwarf with a hammer etc etc

Mavrik

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2005

Alaska

15 Feb 2006 at 19:46 - 83

most Kryta area creatures... I can handle the mursaat in small doses as well as ice imps.

Groups of Titans... and them crumbling into other creatures... buggers.

labsenpai

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/E

15 Feb 2006 at 20:13 - 84

Agree on anything that pops-up or patrols.
Especially unpleasant when they pay you a visit on the Res shrine and won't leave till you have max DP...

My Sweet Revenga

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

R/

15 Feb 2006 at 20:58 - 85

PUGs are by and far the WORST monsters you'll ever run into. Some are nice and good. Others will just kill you on the spot.... Want to fail a mission in the most dramatic fashion possible? Most of the time, a PUG will be responsible.

Jetdoc

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Jul 2005

The Eyes of Texas [BEVO]

D/A

15 Feb 2006 at 21:05 - 86

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shanaeri Rynale

Anything Dwarven, not because they are nasty but because they are soo dull. Oh look dwarf with a bow, oh look dwarf with an axe, oh look dwarf with a wand, oh look dwarf in a hat, oh look dwarf riding on an animal, oh look dwarf with a hammer etc etc

Snow White is turning over in her grave.

My Sweet Revenga

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

R/

15 Feb 2006 at 21:06 - 87

edit: ugh, getting timed out during an edit post turns into a double post..... booo intarweb

fgarvin

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2005

15 Feb 2006 at 21:16 - 88

Willa...plain and simple

Chuba

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Finland

New Dragons [NDR]

15 Feb 2006 at 22:30 - 89

Scarabs, Devourers and the Maguuma Spiders (that chittering sound

)

Cjlr

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

SMS

E/Me

15 Feb 2006 at 22:51 - 90

Damn devourers. Every three frikkin meters in all of Ascalon has its own hive of devourers. And then in the shiverpeaks, you think, oh boy, no more devourers! But how wrong you are... they turn up again, and again, and again, and again...

Plus, I want to curse every time a titan spawns. I despise them. The last thing I want to deal with is some idiotic tripod growing a new buddy from his own corpse while I'm busy on his friend. I must confess, a good deal of my aggravation is because I sometimes forget about the spawn, but it's still annoying, damnit!

exodite

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2005

KISS

Mo/Me

15 Feb 2006 at 23:57 - 91

one thing that never fails to kill me is a warrior who thinks he can take on the world agros 8 different mobs starts dying and runs back to the monk with the mobs and wants a heal or 6

Andy_M

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

Worthing, UK

(Don't fear) The Beaver

16 Feb 2006 at 00:08 - 92

Monsters that appear throughout the game with only a slight name change and a different colour....Lazy programming at it's worst. Especially when they burrow out of the ground every 5 steps or so. At one point I thought I was playing one of the Japanese RPG's with random combat all the time.

Dentenko

Academy Page

Join Date: Sep 2005

Mo/Me

16 Feb 2006 at 00:27 - 93

Anything that pops out of the ground or falls from a tree is annoying. Spiders, scorpions, AUGH! THEY JUST MAKE EVERYTHING SO FREAKIN LONG! I was going to chuck the computer out the window. Jeezus.

This is what they need for those GORE ENGINE GORE ENGINE bugs.

100 gold in the merchant. Repels all Stupid things that pop out of the ground and fall out of trees for 1/2 hour until you complete the quest. Anything that pops out is automatically killed.

lol.

Turbo Wombat

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2005

Centeral Texas

Heros of Titans Realm

Me/

16 Feb 2006 at 01:46 - 94

Bugs and wind riders top my list.

Rockshot Devourers - I can typically deal with them, but on the times I don't want to and decide to run, I seem too aggro three more hordes while trying to get away from the original spawn. That, and when I finally am able to come back after shaking their aggro, they tend to hang around and guard that which I had originally intended to kill.

Scarabs (espically Jades) - Alone, they are just annoying... Too bad they travel in packs. Only creature I've ever seen use a Vamp Touch spike. My true loathing for these came to be while I was trying to complete the "Monk's Path".

Since there are staves and such of 'pruning' which deal +damage to plants, why the hell don't we have a mod of RAID or something similar?

Wind Riders (espically Storm Kin) - Pissed me off in Maguuma with their ability to REPEATEDLY interrupt anything with more than a 3/4 second cast, and finally made me loathe them when you apparently come across their breeding ground outside of Seeker's Passage. Why is it that these buggers have the tendency to bee-line it to your face from way out in East BumbleRED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO when your hands are allready full with their buddies?

Avacaria Fierces - (Ignite Arrows + Dual Shot) X 8 = Why do I even bother?

Other things that get an honorable mention -

*Anything with STUPID amounts of knockdowns
*Anything with STUPID amounts of snaggs/slowdowns
*Anything that cycles a single spell between members of the group to make sure you can't do anything on your way to the afterlife (Shock, Meteor, Malestrom, Cry of Frustration, etc.)
*Anything that does more than 100 damage per NORMAL attack (Bladed Ataxes, this means you)
*Anything that can outheal a group of 8
*Anything that rezzes
*Anything that has enough armor to put Fort Knox to shame

Lichtenberg

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Sep 2005

Mass Delusion [LARP]

16 Feb 2006 at 03:02 - 95

avicara/tengu
heretics
and anything with uber timed cry of frustration!

LifeInfusion

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

in the midline

E/Mo

16 Feb 2006 at 03:22 - 96

Things with monster only skills because I cant cap them.

This includes:
Fingers of Chaos (Grasping Insanity)
Giant Stomp (Tundra Giants, Stone Summit Riders)
Wurm siege (Wurms)
Spectral Agony (Mursaat)
Crystal Hibernation (Glint)

Two April Mornings

No Luck No Time No Money

Join Date: Nov 2005

Amherst College, MA

Scars Meadows [SMS]

Me/

16 Feb 2006 at 03:35 - 97

Stone Summit Heretics. FTL!

twicky_kid

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

Quite Vulgar [FUN]

16 Feb 2006 at 04:06 - 98

Any kind of Mesmers. I don't care what area of region they are always deadly.

lg5000

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2005

Australia

16 Feb 2006 at 04:40 - 99

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skuld

Dreadnaughts drift

morons who have parties of more than 50% warriors in the later stages of the game (how the hell did they get there playing like that)

and umm elitist pvp people

Having just done Abbadons mouth.. we had 1 monk, mhenlo, me as necro and the rest were warriors... tell you what, Willa went down a lot faster than I expected. The other mission where I like a lot of warriors is Thirsty river. I was playing monk and ended up physically exhausted watching the pace they (all 5 of them) were mowing through the mission.

BlackRecluse

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

[Dark]

W/

16 Feb 2006 at 04:50 - 100

Quote:

Originally Posted by Keyote

Spark of the titans can be very annoying when your caller says "I'm attacking Burning Titan!".

The single most annoying thing in the game: Willa The Unpleasant, thank god for interrupts.

(edit: ok I forgot glint

)

i agree 100% about Willa. oh my dear god must have sat there for 15 solid minutes. freaking invincible

Star Alfur

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

WoW. :3

PM if you need me.

W/

16 Feb 2006 at 06:39 - 101

Without a doubt, Stone Summit Heretics.

nitrile

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

16 Feb 2006 at 06:52 - 102

Plague, your post (page 2) was fantastic. Thanks.

As for me, I just hate finding the devourers all over the damn place. They're not really a challenge to kill no matter what I'm doing but they'll just harass you everywhere you go. They're like some annoying company that calls you up twice a day to ask if you want new, even more transparent windows. Popups are naturally the most annoying variety. You see your objective, think "I'll just walk over that way around those minotaurs", but no you don't have that privelige, and while you're doing that minotaurs come across to help. At least you aren't killing minotaurs starting in ascalon. They're a plague, across all of Tyria.

I can live with imps, though they're no doubt annoying especially since mind freeze was increased to 90%. They have a purpose - snares are there to make you consider if you can win a fight before charging in because pulling back is made (more) problematic. It is quite annoying to fight pinesouls in the shiverpeaks though, in those mobs they're usually the last things I'd go for, and naturally you step on their barbed traps, kill them and have to wait about 20 seconds after the end of the fight to recover.

Avicara, Tengu - I hate dying to them. I hate Avicaras. It's that noise they make. It's like they're running around shouting about how they're going to eat your pets and use your hair and skin in their pillows - but worst is if you give them a chance and they will. The Avicara mobs are tough (especially the 6-12 kindle spikers in mineral springs, they eat henchmen for sunday dinner) and I give them a strange sort of respect. Across the 'world' mobs should be more like these - just quieter.

Bring on the Monk bosses. If you take a mesmer they aren't annoying.

Ninjutsu Honor Code

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

Holland

Sidon, Order of Assasins

R/W

16 Feb 2006 at 10:36 - 103

Must destroy all wildblowers raaaagh

Raptox

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2005

Huntington Station, NY

Une Annee Sans Lumiere [UASL]

E/Me

16 Feb 2006 at 14:26 - 104

Quote:

Originally Posted by Turbo Wombat

Scarabs (espically Jades) - Alone, they are just annoying... Too bad they travel in packs. Only creature I've ever seen use a Vamp Touch spike. My true loathing for these came to be while I was trying to complete the "Monk's Path".

Since there are staves and such of 'pruning' which deal +damage to plants, why the hell don't we have a mod of RAID or something similar?

Heh, good thing I read the whole thread. I was going to post this, too, since I just did The Monk's Path last night. Nothing like being swarmed by 20 Jades, eh?

Holy crap I hate those things!

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlackRecluse

i agree 100% about Willa. oh my dear god must have sat there for 15 solid minutes. freaking invincible

No interrupter in your party? KD warrior, mesmer, interrupt ranger?

Kriel Drache

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

Order of the Lady Renee

Me/Mo

11 Mar 2006 at 11:56 - 105

People. People in general. They themselves suck, but point out the flaws in each other while denying their own in the most profane, vulgar way possible. Yes, I'm a cynic. Yes, I work in consumer relations. Yes, I play Guild Wars, the online MMO. You find the connection.

Oh, and Forgotten Sages. They have one of the best emergency healing spells in the game: Word of Healing, and there is almost always another one around that comes over to see what the noise is about, thus granting the first one an almost god-like immortality. When I don't play as my Mesmer when fighting those things, I often wonder why I chose not to play as my Mesmer or why I didn't invite another Mesmer along for the ride. Then I bang my head against a tree. Several times.

Bleidd

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

E/Me

11 Mar 2006 at 13:07 - 106

1. Devourers of any sort. I swear every MMO I've played has one type of mob you can literally level from one to cap off of.

2. All those pyschic enchant shatterers/strippers/renders/smiters. Especially when they take a time out in the middle of a melee with my Warriors to turn and shatter/strip/rend/smite my enchants. Cause omg, my Earth Attunement was really kicking their ass!

3. Anything with Cry of Frustration. I've tried, and tried, and tried, but I'm no where near as fast and with as perfect timing as the mobs are. Is anyone?

WasAGuest

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

11 Mar 2006 at 14:42 - 107

Any and all foes that "pop" into the area as a sort of suprise attack. Includes, roaches (scarabs), rockshots and all their family, wraiths and all other "ghosts". For the soon to be released factions, I read something about assassins that will do the same.
None of these are very hard, they just annoy me to no end. When I see them, I often emit a "cry of frustration".

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kriel Drache

People. People in general. They themselves suck, but point out the flaws in each other while denying their own in the most profane, vulgar way possible. Yes, I'm a cynic. Yes, I work in consumer relations. Yes, I play Guild Wars, the online MMO. You find the connection.

This is so far my favorite post. I laughed so hard. I used to work in, uhh, customer[cough] relations as well. Never again... I enjoy how some people go out of their way to make the game miserable for anyone but themselves for no reason other than to do just that. Such pleasant people in the world today. lol

Toben_Hexx

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

Guardians of Shadow Pass

Me/N

11 Mar 2006 at 14:47 - 108

Scarabs, Devourers, and most of all, Aloes.

Why?

Cuz they're LAME ideas for enemy types. Maybe giant bugs would be cool, and bu giant, I mean big as houses. But Aloe? C'mon, people make lotion outta that!

Oh, and titans, they look like crap, and were not at all the 600foot tall dudes whose head you could barely see in the clouds.

QuixotesGhost

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

11 Mar 2006 at 15:34 - 109

Mindblades, by far.

X of Thulcandra

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

Sector 001

N/A

W/

11 Mar 2006 at 15:42 - 110

All of Post-Searing Ascalon for me. I was overcome with joy once I completed every quest and mission on one of my characters, leaving it to burn behind me.

natus

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

Denmark

11 Mar 2006 at 15:51 - 111

Lava imps, a bazillion meteor showers...hurray ;E

Cottage Pie

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2005

Birmingham, England

Taking Aegis

Mo/Me

11 Mar 2006 at 20:57 - 112

I once DIED to aloe husks in presearing, a long, long time ago.

Plague your post made me die of laughter,

Fantus

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

11 Mar 2006 at 21:17 - 113

1. Avicara
2. Avicara
3. Avicara.

4-10: Everything that's cowardly enough to run (as in run, not kite) away from me with more than half their health and no AoE damage dealt.

Tyr Sangreal

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2006

Kansas, USA

The Ethereal Guard

W/Mo

11 Mar 2006 at 22:52 - 114

I heard someone say they hate Worms...I love Worms. They just need to drop better.

CyberNigma

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2006

San Antonio, TX

W/R

11 Mar 2006 at 23:35 - 115

I would have to say that the bane of PvE for me is when I come across some lone creature that is mixed in with other completely different creatures just because of the devs paranoia of repeating Diablo II/LoD. For example, a lone Dwarven Heretic in a mob with Blessed Griffons. A group of Blessed Griffon mobs with a single Avacara fierce in there. Is there some kind of avacara alliance or are these guys just traitors that managed to make friends with the griffons?

My bane would also be creatures that are created/placed in order to screw up solo builds/bots. I guess this would include the random scarabs/devourers and the 'ninjas' we see coming in Factions. I'm obviously not a bot (unless this is the Matrix or something). I'm not a big farmer either, but seeing things like this kinda break the illusion of being in a virtual world for me. Maybe I'm just too much of an old school RP'er or something. At least they came up with a story when they added the new scarabs/queen in the desert. I can buy that.

Oh, and I just love to kill Imps :-)

Queenie

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2005

11 Mar 2006 at 23:35 - 116

Ice Imps, devours, Doylaks, Jade Bows/Armor and the mursaat.

Sister Spice

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2005

UK

Dracos Paladin

Mo/

12 Mar 2006 at 00:38 - 117

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jas

For me there's two groups of monsters that I really HATE: Imps (no matter what kinda imps) and Tengu/Avicara.

Both tend to have a strange skill to kill me, no matter what level, which profession am I. Even if the group I'm in is all lvl 20's, there's always one Tengu beating the **** out of me

Oh thank god
Im not the only one this happens to

I can't tell you how embarrassing it is for me when I go for a nice stroll in Kryta and the little monsters kill me

Spice

MinaDrakul

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2006

Houston, TX

Arcane Nexus

N/R

12 Mar 2006 at 01:54 - 118

The birds....*shudders*

They love to torture me. No matter what I am, no matter the level, they seek me out and torture me to death. *shudders* I've learned to avoid them for the most part though.

Ice imps are annoying too, but not as much as birds.

Harmony

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2006

Houston, Texas

Arcane Nexus (ANX)

R/Me

12 Mar 2006 at 01:59 - 119

two words..maguuma spiders!! *shudders* I abhor them!

MMSDome

Raged Out

Join Date: Sep 2005

12 Mar 2006 at 02:08 - 120

anything skeletal in FoW besides the rangers and warriors. They all suck!