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Total Party Kill. Wipe. The big Party Eraser on the Guild Wars Chalkboard.

Most of us have seen them, most of us have experienced them. Let me regale you with a small tale:

No one I knew was on or available last night, so I left my Monk in Druid's Overlook and snagged my shiny Ranger parked in Frost Gate. Now, those of you who have played both know full well the difficulty a Ranger has getting a group over a Monk, so when I found a group almost immediately, I was pretty happy.

I joined the group and it quickly filled. There was me (L14 R/Me), a L11 Necromancer, a W/N of my level, and 3 W/Mo. When the lack of a Monk was discussed I sadly offered to leave, but two of the W/Mo stepped up to the plate and offered to heal while the W/N tanked. 'Excellent. We've already displayed outstanding teamwork skills and a willingness to do what is needed. This should be a slick run,' I thought.

We get in, and hesitant as I am about W/Mo healing, the W/N is pretty sturdy and I do pretty amazing damage with the sparkly gold bow my Monk got for my Ranger. Things died quickly enough the healing Warriors never got overwhelmed. I made sure to heal my cat and myself to keep my load off them.

Problems began to arise shortly, but they're problems I see in most PUGs so I didn't give it much thought. The party occasionally diverged down different paths and there were some passive challenges to the leader (one of the W/Mo) through 'Go this way' drawings and map pinging. The Necromancer had a habit of running off by herself to pick fights we had to bail her out of, and she died twice before we got to the bonus NPC, Rornak (who some people couldn't keep straight with Rurik, hence some odd map pinging when we tried to find Rornak at one point).

Anyway, after some confusion, we realize that we finally found the hidden path to the ballista Rornak needs us to use, but the party is split. A Warrior, the Necro and I are with Rornak on the path when the Necro runs down and aggros about 9 Dwarves and immediately runs back to where the Warrior and I are waiting for the rest of the party. We retreated in short order and let her die...not realizing immediately that Rornak was with her and was killed in the fight as well.



Well, we decide to press on and just finish the main mission, we'll get the bonus another time. The W/N was apparently only there for the bonus and dropped, leaving us short our best tank. Again, we thought we could handle it just fine.

We get the gears and hit two of the mechanisms and figure, 'Well at least we're home free on this one!"

So we are fighting for the last mechanism we need to activate and things are going okay when I decide to loot a white salvage drop between targets. As I do, I aggro a patrol. I am the only person at range and both of them focus on me hard.

I pop Unguent, cycle my dodge skills, and do my best to put them down. By the time I finished one, two people in the main group were dead and I was nearly dead. I didn't even shave off 15% of my second target's health before my beloved kitty, Josie, died, leaving my skills on an 8 second cooldown that proved my undoing.

The rest of the party dropped moments after I did.

So most of us have seen wipes, been present for them, and agitated over the cause of them...but how many of us are willing to admit to having caused one?

I caused one just the other day in the UW... on PURPOUSE. Our leader thought it would be a dandy idea to just bring 7 wammo's and 1 monk(me). lets just say They tanking the Aataxe, then me triggering quest = Instant Wipe. oh yea ^^

Wow, if it isn't another "How Factions is such a let down thread" we actually have a "woohoo! we died in a n00b mission in Tyria!" thread.

Who seriously cares?

Anet releases new chapter for a reason, so that people can buy them, they themselves can make some money out of it, and so that they can also slowly shelve the old content into obscurity.

Play some factions.

Well Life's a ----- and so there an example

I thought this thread was pretty funny.

One of the funniest things I ever did (I know my party members cussed me out for it) was during the Last Day Dawns quest.

We ran all the way from Yak's Bend to the Eastern Frontier to get 6 people to fight the titans at the end. I had already gotten pretty close to soloing the quest with my warrior, but I caught a ride on this party in order to get it done once and for all.

While we're running (which takes almost 30 minutes after you fight off all the Charr), the leader is constantly spamming "DO NOT RUN INTO ANY CITIES!!!" because of the glitch where, if you run into a city, the party is supposed to disband.

Needless to say, I'm sick and tired of his spamming that, once we FINALLY get through the Charr and are about to get to the Titans, I "accidentally" Leeroy Jenkinsed right into Frontier Gate. I haven't seen anyone get so edited by GuildWars in a long time. It was one endless string of -----.

The funny thing is that the leader left and I completed the mission, directly from Frontier Gate, with 3 of the other party members on the next try.

Too funny.

Well since Anet wants money, I guess Ill go buy Factions..I mean..that makes perfect sense to me.

Ontopic..
First time doing THK on my W/Mo, with my brand new Drox Glads..so new it wasn't infused. We were doing fine, but Im pretty sure I was the cause of the wipe.

I have two "near-wipes" that I caused. First was THK clearing the fort, going up top before down to the main level. I was a little too quick on the C Space, and before I could call myself off, I had aggroed a bunch from the lower level. Our group was wiped except for maybe 2 and nobody knew what happened . I didn't tell them either lol.

The second time was in Factions, I think it was the Arborstone mission, where we were clear about not aggroing a certain group. But then there was a drop that I just HAD to have, and unfortunately as I bent down to pick it up, the mob entered my aggro circle and they were sure I did it on purpose, but I didn't. Oh well.

We finished both missions successfully, but we nearly wiped both times.

Hehe, reminds me of the time when I had a group of 7 55 monks and a ranger who payed for the run. He got 2 ectoplasm drops while the giant monk machine got none. Good times.

Lol, good story there, OP. :-) Better luck next time, and don't be too hard on yourself, I've been the cause of a couple of party wipes in my day.

I always manage to blame the monk, though. Shame you didn't have one handy in your group, it would have made the defeat easier if everyone could have just blamed him/her. :P

Well, it's good to know I have company. I just felt SO bad for stopping to loot a stupid Dwarven salvage armor that was stinkin' WHITE...I wanted to help the team leader try it again and would even have gotten my Monk to do it as a form of penance (she's done it), but it was bedtime. I just apologized a lot before I logged out.

So...I decided to confess here. =P Besides, wipe stories are fun.

lol this thread is funny. Here's my story:

was in The Deep with 2 guildies in a PUG group. Quite a lot of people had massive dp, and we got to the teleporting section. Everyone was quite bored by that point so i decided to agro ALL of the Oni. Group got completely wiped out and i was lmao. no1 rly cared tho they jst laughed about it.

Oh, I definitely have done that once or twice, didnt look at my radar and got stomped on by 16 hydras once..that hurt, lol, especially when you res and there are STILL 16 hydras on your behind (Perdition Rock).

Hey, if you have a decent party you apologize and try again, if you have *ssholes they start calling names. The latter is more common but the first is where you can make new friends.

Can't say I've ever been the cause of a party whipe of real people.. I probably did though..

There have been many occasions where I've thanked the monks for doing an incredible job keeping my rush-happy mesmer alife though.. the result of once again forgetting that this was a caster not a warrior.

btw, does anyone else have the problem of solo farming, then joining a pug and forgetting that your build is now a team-build not a solo build?

Henching is never having to say you're sorry...

hehehe

I'm quite sure i've caused many senseless deaths due to ignorance or sheer stupidity. If only I could recall them as a humorous anecdote. :\

I have many close calls, with wipes, somehow my teammates get out of there fast enough to rez us back. sometimes though they were not monks and you can get my point. One time I was the only survivor and I used my rez sig already

My first time UW trapping...lets just say i didn't know how difficult coldfire's can be if you don't path trap them...

Me monking THK with a PUG:

We had 3 warriors, 2 rangers, 2 monks and a SS. After discussing were not gonna do bonus, a WAMMO lights the torch. Middle of the fight, 2 WAMMO'S run out of the fort to fight. They die, and yell at us monks for not healing. Its me and 2 wammo's alive, last wave. Kings about to die so I heal him. While keeping him alive the WAMMO'S die because they were heroes. We lose, and the wammo's are bitching and whining cuz they died. This is what oine said:

Wyrmdog
I've done stupid things. We all been newbs. Bah, don't take it too close, just learn your lesson and get better.

Yeah.... I got to the RoF mission... Got my new glads..... Didn't do the mission for months and forgot I wasn't infused.... My mate (husband) railed at me in chat about my n00bness and glf REAL WARRIOR!.... My guildies just laughed at me as I repeatedly begged for forgiveness with TOTAL embarrassment. So KNOWING that their tank was not infused they dragged me to get infused within that mission XD Stupid doesn't begin to explain how I felt

You too, huh? Only, it was my Monk. With Ascetics. And I'm POSITIVE I was the cause of our wipe.

But, I'm proud to say it took 3 shots of Spectral Agony to bring me down. Take that, Mursaat!

I can't remember a party wipe that was solely my fault, but I have definitely gone into RoF with portions of my necromancer's armor not infused, with predictable results.

in a FOW B/P party, as we entered, we decided to aggro the group on the left and to not touch the one on the right before the left one is done. I, being all adrenalined, hit space bar and barraging at the wrong group... yea, we beat some records at fast whiping...

well...... they made me pay for the next run

FOW group, our mes thought he could tank because he had DISTORTION :0

after he died 3 times, he got like 3 shards in a row. He died again. I decided that this guy didnt deserve crap for drops because he complained about inadequate healing. So... I aggroed 5 mobs and said "LOOKIT MEEE I CAN TANK LOLZ" I got some angry PMs for the next hour. I didnt bother no ignore him because i found it so ammusing.

I cannot tell you how many times I have done something similar... However I usually manage to pull out before the damage gets done... and I think me and my bro have you beat on time... We just went down there cause we had never been (just me and him being newbs) and got killed so fast!

Agreed.. doesnt hurt the pride half as much if ppl accept the apology and try again

I was doing Aurora Glade with my E/Mo late one night. Teamed up with a Warrior and a Ranger, rest of the group was hench. Being the weekend I'd had a few glasses of the old vino thinking "Ah, this misshhh is a walk 'n the park, eashy peashy *hic*... *more wine*". So we proceed throught the mission with no problem, me merrily yattering away to them and finishing off my bottle of wine, when we start approaching the final area. I'm saying "just get the crystals in place, forget the white mantle, blah blah."

War - "F*** that, I'm killing everything!"
Me - "Stop! Wait a minute"
War - "WTF?"
Me - "Don't attack them, we'll fail" (with much drunken typoness)
War - "What then?"
Me - "Well we have to place the crystals... blah blah"
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*Mission failed. Your party was defeated etc etc.*
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Me - "Oops..."

As you can guess, this was followed by much profanity and name-calling from the others. The ranger continued to rant at me in whispers to which I responded in pretty much the same silly ranting manner. I decided that was going nowhere, promptly apologised to him and wished him luck as he was doing the mission again. He came back and helped my ele through the mission and I ended up talking to him into the early hours of the morning.
Sometimes it's nice to just own up and say "yeah, my fault, sorry" instead of trying to argue the point which I initially did.

Oh, I also learned it's not a good idea to drink and play Guild Wars

Thanks, Ira, I'm hoping I did. Still, I should have known better than to loot during a stinkin' fight! /self-flagellate

Oh, and Tryll? I played with a really drunk Monk once. I was starting to wonder what I was doing wrong when she told me. She said her husband insisted I know so I didn't think she sucked. hehe

lol, that actually happened to me just the other day. Got a new set of Factions armor, didn't even think of getting it infused (forgot all about infusion it's been so long). Went back to help on a fire isle mission (forget which one). The second after a Jade hit me, I remembered that fun word "infusion". We always use vent to chat, and the roar of laughter in my ears was defeaning.

The best wipes are those where someone, anyone says "Ooops" just seconds before a small river of red dots flows over the group.

What makes it more fun is when no one screams and yells about it. It's when everyone gets a laugh and keeps going or tries again. Good way to build friends and have fun.

OMG dude, OOPS happens in our guild so often -_- Rarely do we take it badly, usually we just deal or if it was so amusing it couldnt be anything else - we LAUGH! And I have met a few pugs that can just laugh it up. Great people!

hehe "Ooops" are awesome. Often means a great night of fun game play and laughter.

There I was, Monking for a group doing Dunes of Despair (I had just hit level 20 at the time). Before we started, I had to redo my skill bar from Smiting (my Henchie build) to Healing (my PUG build). I grabbed rebirth instead of ressurect. (Can you see where this is going?) So we get to the pedestal and get the Hero up there, and then the trouble started. One guy gets spiked and dies, too bad he was the only one carrying a rez sig. I hit rebirth, lost my energy, and that was that.

I'm a MUCH better Monk now!!!

Vizunah square. 2 minion masters. me being one of them. one gets spiked down by an ele boss and some lightning orbs
his 10 minions instantly turn against me (cause i'm standing in the middle of them tyring to heal area).. 2 dead minion masters 20 masterless minions...

yea.. rest died pretty fast