N00b Stories

Haha... I bought a Black Dye in presearing one time for 25g :-d

Doing FOW over the weekend using my monk. We had 3 healer monks which I thought was a lot but didn't complain. Everyone was kept alive the whole time except for one death in the forest part. The griffons appear and all 3 monks are asking what do we have to do about the griffons because they are colored as allies and we hadn't done this mission before. Sure enough one of the W says (they're stupid don't worry about them) and no one else says anything. Go to fight the skeletons and 1 griffon dies which kicks you back to TOA. Same warrior says the usual profanities about monks don't know how to heal. He never seemed to notice who kept him alive the whole time or bother to mention that you had to keep them alive. Must of been his uber strength armor that did all the work.

i gi got a rune of major fire for 5 k

Thats me. If of course, you saw that from a monk. Its how i farm stuff with my 17 monk.

So I'm trying to sell a sword, stating all the specs and the price, and eventually I get this PM. He tells me he wants to buy, but I ask him if he has enough, and he freaks out asking where I am or something. I tell him my location and to chill out. He asks how much <-----(ARGH!), so I paste the ad and this ensues...




Yes..., skew me


BTW, he never paid up

Lvl 14 at Lions Arch: Can someone take me underworld or FoW?

Well, we've all got stories about other people's lack of knowledge, or silly errors. I think the OP though was looking more for personal stories of your OWN errors. Heres an example. I had been going to UW for smite runs with my prot monk in a small group for quite some time. We were on our umpteenth run for the night and I buffed up the tank I went with for the cows, or so I thought, Imagine my suprise when he comes down like a house of cards after aggro. Turns out I had not being paying attention and buffed the other party member instead. Not exactly a noob mistake, but Certainly an "oops".

2 Experiences to share, one by me, one by a monk, of all people.

Mine first, Ok so, I was doing Ring of Fire with Henchies (Why? Why? Why), and a Jade drops a Mursaat Hammer. I look at the specs and think 'Oh, it's quite good, I may be able to sell it for a few K (Please note: I have 0 money in the vault at this point). Anyway, I fail the mission, and go to Lion's Arch and begin advertising. I was looking to sell it for around 12-20k. I eventually sell it; out of curiosity I ask for a PC on it here (search for it if you like), and this guy tells me I could have got 200k for it. Lol(!)

The n00bish experience I have had with the monk was when I was LFG in Abaddon's Mouth. We have a group of 3, when a monk asks to join, so I say 'Sure, the more the merrier'. No-one else seems to want to join the group so I get Henchies, suddenly the monk goes into fits of 'No, not Henchies they're sooooooooooooo stupid', and 'You n00b, don't get Henchies' etc. eventually he leaves.

Discuss.

lemme think of a story for the hell of it...

oh yeah

some newb was spamming WTB MAX STORMBOW in yak's bend.
me: you have a lot of gold?
him: enough

I go over and hit trade, with my max req 8 Zealous Storm Bow of Fortitude +25.
He's like wow. he throws in 340g into trade along with a crap shield, some crap sword and some random crafting items, and a half eaten mass. i immediately close trade. He follows me and opens trade, saying what's wrong? Then he demands me to put the bow in. I laugh and close trade again, switch districts, and ignore him due to persistant whispers.

DO what I do; Barrdin Ash's 0 Gold Sell and have it be your sheild vs lazy eye's and lag when your going to the merchant.

Piken square people sell em but i prefer the non filled ones.

Yesterday evening I was playing with someone who was new to the game. I had 2 henchmen with me, 1 healer, 1 warior and he was like: cool, good team. After that we've beaten a couple of enemies he decides to take upon 5 enemies and keeps saying: we can easily take them. I'm like, don't do that, pick of one of the time. We survive due to the Monk henchmen and he's like: good healing monk...I'm saying, dude it's a henchmen...We move further and he decides: We've beaten 5 of these guys, lets take out more...I'm again, like please don't, remember we are playing with henchmen, just try and take on one or 2 at a time. Due to his low level he got killed first and me and the henchmen survive and he kept typing: Monk, why didn't you heal me??? You n00b, you should have healed me!!! Now rez me!!!
I'm again like, dude, your typing against henchmen, do you have any idea what henchmen are? Him: Henchmen, stop talking about that, I didn't even saw 1 (he was thinking the enemies were henchmen). I'm like: those 2 other players are "henchmen". They arn't human, they are here to help people questing and so...3 seconds later the fella disconnected...

^^ rofl that is absolutely priceless ^^

i was in henge of Denravi.

someone spamming : WTB cheap ranger armor
i whisper: umm you can't wear armor bought by others.
they say: yes you can.
i say: umm no you can't.
they say: shut up n00b.
they are now ignoring me...

Its bad etiquette to show players names.

this one left me rolling on the floor laughing

ok i was in tomb of primival kings looing for a decent group with my minion master

then i send a add that i'm rank 2(truth) and that i'm looking for a decent team with no other in it...

here comes along a 7 group inviting me...
as sooon as i accept they clikeed enter without saying if anyone rdy lucky i was.....

the computer i was using was a bit slow so i had like 15 secs more time loading than everyone else.....

AND WHEN I LOADED 5 PEOPLE WERE DEAD AND 1 HAD LEFT
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
what a bad team!!

My story isn't exactly a "n00b" story, but it was rather embarrassing and I felt very stupid afterwards. So here goes:

I've done my fair share of farming with my 55 monk and finally got all the Ecto, Shards, Vellum and more than enough money (planning to buy Wanderers Vestment because of the +5 vs. Elemental Dmg. and Ascetic's Designs for the rest). I make sure I have all the stuff in my inventory and look for a group that will take me to the Forgemaster in the Fissure. Now playing on the European territory doesn't help here, on top of that my guildies weren't up for FoW lately, so I had to go with PUGs. Needless to say it took me a few tries till I found a decent group. I landed up in a guild group with 5 ppl from the same guild - of which quite a few are on my friends list now. It was really smooth playing, except for that one warrior who wouldn't follow calls and had the tendency to rush. Well, it all went fine, we took our time and did the Army of Darkness quest and cleared the whole battlefield before taking on the Forge. At that time some ppl wanted to leave because it was rather late (going towards 1am I think), but I convinced them to stay by offering a bounty of one shard for everyone if they got me to the crafter (had 7 spare shards at that point from all the failed attempts).
So we fought our way through the forge, did the three quests (during which at some point close to the end the rusher left, not a loss I noticed much as we went on). Finally after we killed the last Seed of Corruption I was all like seeing stars and "Yay! I'll get my Fissure Armor!". I run back to the crafter at top speed, click on the items I want to purchase - and nothing happens. Then I realize I forgot to bring feathers and tanned hides. Boy did I feel stupid. Well, fortunately one of the other guys had 5 feathers and another one hat 15 tanned hides, which was enough for me to at least get the vestment and the arm tattoos, so it wasn't a complete failure. But still very frustrating. Here I am working towards and looking forward to buy that armor for weeks and then forgetting something as trivial as a hand full of common crafting materials...

LOL sounds like those who clear out Althea's Ashes mission only to have forgotten the urn in storage...

My biggest noob moment happened the other day. instead of using the id kit for a max gold ivory bow i found, i hit the salvage kit instead

The biggest one i was apart of was doing the Uw with a guildmate of mine. shes a smite monk and makes it very clear not to talk to the ghost and for us to not aggro everything. everyone agrees and the other warrior follows her up to fight the group and procedes to bring them back to us. we all die and go back. he forgot that he selected her (trying to put mending on himself) and went to go cast it on her. doh. ok 2nd attempt. same warrior says hey theres a quest here..............

I can think of 2 good moments when I first starting playing GW. The first was in Pre-Searing. I found a black dye(the only one I've ever found also), but of course at the time I had no idea how rare they were and how much they sold for.(which was around 1k at that time) So I come into the abbey and see people wanting to buy dyes, so I whisper to one saying I've got a black, and I'll sell it for a whopping 200g. /doh!!!!!!!!


The 2nd one would be on one of the early missions, (I can't think of which one right now) where you fire the catapults at the Charr. After we got the parts to fix it, we fired at the first group and BAM they went down. Well my friend goes running down there, and I didn't realize. So I was standing there marveling at the glorious catapult, and decide to fire it again. BAM!!! My buddy goes down. That was a great one.

My noob moment was:

having a kickass fellblade in my inventory (was switching some stuff)
going to the merchant to sell of some junk i found out in the field, and becoz i was hasty, i accidently sold the fellblade for 300 coins or something...

i was randomly invited into a group in Tombs, and i was like, wat the hell i'll join. i asked wat their build was. they kicked me and said they didn't want to waste time :P

I wanted to cap shield of deflection with my monk a little while back so i entered a group at the ring of fire mission.
Doing my job and healing some hurting people when boom! I was dead in a couple of seconds.
People started screaming at me because i wasn't infused and when i checked, i realised i had my farming armour on.
Luckily for me i always carry spare armour sets with me.

Heh, I think every Ranger has done that at one stage :P
Including me.

Not sure if the following qualifies as n00by, but it was kind of scary:
Guy: Hey babe, if you strip dance I'll give you 100g <-- At the time, I didn't know by taking of all your armour you reveal your character in the "underwear".
Me: Ummm... What are you talking about?
Guy: Just take off your clothes and dance for me hottie, I'll give you some cash if you do
Me: I think I'll be leaving now
*Hopped Districts*

i never get these ppl, why don't they just download some porn?

Yeah, why offer money when porn is free? :P

My noob "period" on this game was when i begun with my Ele.

Did presearing and begun doing a few missions in Ascalon until i found it was pretty impossible for me to do them.

In fact, was taking just 1 Henchman all the time. Took a while to realize i could take 3

My first time doing Iron Mines was a fun one. We had a group of 8 PCs, and about 6 of us were not infused at all. Now this was back when you could only get one piece infused at a time. So we get to the Seer and do the quest, and get a piece infused. Now, this is where the fun begins.

One of the 2 warriors in the party is fully infused, and he goes running off to fight Markis. He knows we aren't fully infused, but he goes anyway. So being the good teammates that we are we followed him. We took out the surrounding groups of Mursaat, and then got up to Markis and his Jades. It starts getting rough, and the moron dies. And then of course this is his statement: "OMFG YOU n00bs!!!!! UR NoT INFUSED!!!!" After a few more idiotic statements, he leaves.

The funny thing is that we managed to fall back and rez the others that had died, and we killed Markis. It was great. I whispered him to tell him that we had beaten Markis without his worthless ass.

"Ask me if I care n00b!!!!"

Had a very embarrasing moment in the Dragon's Lair today. My mesmer succeeded in backfiring himself, more or less.

He had Backfire cast on him, and obviously not thinking, I had him cast Shatter Hex, target self. He did about 160 points worth of damage to himself, dropping his health below zero (as he'd already taken serious damage).

In a word, OOPS.

the only noob story I can contribute is this one. I was doing Thunderhead Keep with my friend and he got a W/Mo into our party. I thought " not the best choice since I read so much about how idiotic W/Mo's can be on this forum, but I suppose it's better then nothing" We started the mission well, the warrior called targets, waiting for us to catch up and I thought that I was wrong about this guy...until we hit the city. Then he seemed to forget that monks and nukers needed energy to work. He plowed through hordes of monsters, killing them group by group without any regards to us. When I told him to wait for the monks, the reply was " shut up". Hoping to keep us alive from crazy hordes, I told the team to stop healing him and the monks did. To rub it in my face, he kept saying how he was healing himself and taunted me about it. Sadly, he managed to stay alive. At this point, one of our monks left and the noob ran in a different direction from what groups normally take. We followed him for some stupid reason and I watched him fight two groups of monsters. My friend was smart enough to stay behind with the king and yelled out to us that a patroling group was coming. We couldn't go back without agroing them, so we were trapped. When that group hit us, the noob was yelling " who did that!" and we all told him he did. Eventually we were getting killed and we called him an idiotic noob and other insults and left. Amazingly this is the first and only time I had such an idiot in my group.

these are the n00b experiences that i have seen, probly already mentioned, but i couldn't be botherd reading all the posts

- (your a monk in PvP) there is a warrior attacking you, he's still attacking you though his whole team is dead and doesnt know about it, once he realises he just quits.

- 150k for 30hp sword pommel and 30k for 29hp (seen it somwhere)

- in ascolon distric 1
n00b: selling my armour 500g
me: you can't sell armor
n00b: really?, i had no idea, ok thanks man
--===i move to ascolon distric 2===---
same n00b: selling my armour

- This is mainly when Sorrow's furnace was added (this is in droknars forge)
player 1: where is sorrow's furnace
player 2: where is that new place
player 3: can some one tell me where sorrow's furnace is
all said within 5 seconds of each other

- scenario (pre-searing, doing behind the wall quest)
me: dont attack the charr
player 1: ok
(player 1 is dead after attacking the charr)

- not really a n00b thing, but i like doing it, buying lots of dwarven ale, and drinking it while doing thirsty river (really fun if your actually drunk in real life )

- another scenario (doing anything, your a monk)
me: my energy is 0 of 52
me: my energy is 0 of 52
me: please dont charge in
(after we're all dead)
warrior: why didnt you heal me

- this is my favourite (even though you know that they are new and shouldnt know, its still funny)
- person in pre-searing: what does dye do?

In LA Arena's I was looking for some fast paced PvP so I entered. After loading there was a female mesmer in our team.

She continued asking, "Have rez?" and no one said anything because well... It was a little inconvenient at the time. She didn't do anything and just stood at the starting point of our team and as we started getting killed she started with the big talk spamming, "Thats right, you deserve everything you get". And all I said was, "That's right" and then it was over because she just stood there talking crap asking if we "Have rez?".

Later on after a few more battles, I saw her again in one of the districts running around. Feel sorry for anyone who was unfortunate enough to be given her in their team.

Tomb of Primeval Kings:

"IWAY Group looking for more"
"IWAY warrior looking for group"

et cetera.

Great thread! I too am familliar with the agony of typing "wwwwwsssaaI cant move!!" and the GUI spam when I forget to press enter before typing..

Anyway, I had a pretty bad moment of noobness a while ago. I had been wondering what the number and icon above some players in outposts meant for some time. Afraid of making a fool of myself by showing my newbness to the more experienced players, I tried to ignore it the best I could. Finally, I was in a decent group with mature players, and desided to ask what it was. After a "lol" from all the party members, they told me. I can understand the "lol", seeing I was in Thunderhead Keep at the time.

I also ran into a case of "noob/leetness" the other day in the arenas. My team had been winning for 24 rounds when the other ele had to leave as it was getting late (I played the other ele, and we also had a mesmer and a monk). When he left, he was replaced by another player. This player rushed to the other team while we were going over the last part of the tactics, and got spiked to death. While dead, he started yelling the usuall "omg, you're all noobs!!11", which is to be expected. But, he also managed to say: "you guys couldn't win a single round in here!! NOOBS!!" then he left. After a quick laugh, the three of us managed to win the round after a pretty intense battle, and the emtpy slot was once again replaced by a random guy/gal. This guy, who turned out to be the best caller I've ever grouped with, made sure we won 7 more matches before calling it a day.. Oh the irony..

That's truly astounding. At least 90% of the pug PvE groups I join have at least one such person in them. Sadly, this percentage doesn't improve as you reach more difficult areas. Like today, with a few different groups trying to cap some skills on Perdition Rock. We go out, and I'm frantically drawing on the compass trying to show them what we need to do to avoid getting owned by the patrols. Apparently no one knows what arrows mean because they charge in and we get owned. So we get rezed by the portal, and rezone to lose the DP. So now I tell them to wait, and describe in detail what needs to happen and they respond in the chat, seemingly understanding the situation. Again I draw on the compass when it's time to fight... you guessed it... same results. Some people never learn. Anyhow like I said that's the kind of garbage that happens with 9 of 10 pugs I've ever been in. Fortunately most of the game is easy enough it doesn't matter.

Ha! You think that's bad, I distinctly remember what I did with the dyes I got pre-searing with my first character. Yep, I used them on some crap items to make space in my inventory for stuff worth more than a mere 1 gold. I can't remember what all colors, but I know one was silver.