The stupid things I've done thread

This is a thread where you can share stupid mistakes you have made so far. Hopefully other people can learn from these mistakes.

1. I got a purple salvage drop and used a regular salvage kit on it. Crap! You need expert salavage kits for those. My one purple drop to date, down the drain.

2. I bought 2 runes of holding (500 gold each) in Yak's Bend and upgraded my two 5 slot bags to 10 slot bags. That part wasn't stupid. I then bought a third rune of holding and tried to use it on my belt pouch. Doesn't work. Then I bought another bag and tried to put it in the pouch slot so I could use the rune. Doesn't work. Lost 300 gold on that.

3. **spolier** I aggroed the entire freaking Charr army in one of the main quests.

4. I am a warrior and I vendored hundreds of pieces of wood before I learned they are an ingredient in charcoal.

5. I dyed my newbie armor, not realizing how much dye sells for on the other side.

6. I failed to stock up on belt pouches in pre-searing, nor realizing how much they resell for in post searing Ascalon.

7. It took much longer than I care to admit to realize that the space bar is the attack button.

8. That little circle around your character on the mini-map? That's your aggro radius. Who knew? But guess what? Sometimes stuff runs over and pounds you anyway, even if they are outside that circle.

9. I bought Gwen a cape for 200 gold, not realizing she would give you the tapestry if you just keep handing her flowers.

10. You can't use bleed attacks on mobs made out of rocks. Makes sense, but that was need to know info I needed to know before several missions started.

1. Not realised that space is an action button until now.

2. Not realised that the circle was my aggro radius.

3. Used normal salvage kits on a couple purples and a load of blues.

4. Used a normal salvage drop on a yellow.

5. Dyed my nublet armour silver. Twice.

6. Filled my inventory with quest items and couldn't figure out how to get rid of them.

7. Rerolled my character because I couldn't figure out how to get rid of them.

8. Ran into the same problem.

You, sir, have just made my gaming experience A LOT easier! I would've made all these mistakes, and non of these realizations - for quite some time. This really helps me out Thanks.

Hehe, I like this idea. Here's a little story about something I felt greatly intelligent about.

I was trying so desperately to walk to Piken Square, and I had a quest that somehow involved Piken Square, so I had the little green arrow on my compass pointing the way. I'd fought a ton of Charr to get there, but the last portion of the area had several groups of them in close proximity to one another. So I decided to be stealthy and try to sneak by them undetected. This succeeded at first, but towards the end, I reached a somewhat narrow bridge with a group of Charr on the other side and another one nearby where I was standing. The green arrow on my map had become the little star that tells you you're close to said location, so I thought if I ran past them I could just run into Piken Square and be done with it. I took off running, my henchmen were completely owned, I barely made it across the bridge and past the Charr to the location on my map...only to find that it wasn't Piken Square at all, but a group of NPCs that I was supposed to help out. Turns out Piken Square was on the entirely opposite side of the area. I didn't survive much after that. I was really not ready to be fighting Charr like that...I certainly learned from my mistake.

1. Convinced my friends an all monk team would be awesome in PvP

2. Frogot to mention we shouldnt ALL be healing Monks

3. Rushed the enemy with no attacks other than our wands

PvE Side

4. Tried to Solo missions after LA with my Ele/Mes

5. (ill never learn about this one) I Dye EVERY armor upgrade to my liking, ascalon, yaks bend, LA, everyone i spent a ton of cash on Dye's and ill still do it again once i get new armor.

6. Completed the actual missions while my friends skipped them all till level 16 only to rush through the easy 2k exp reward missions for a quick fix to 20

7. Wrote this thread... oh wait i think this might have been the one smart thing ive done so far, learn from my mistakes!

First day playing the game, in pre-searing ascalon, got a black dye drop. Promptly applied it to my crappy sword. Sold the sword to a merchant.

^ nice story lol

and thanks for sharing your mistakes, I've already made a few of those myself (didn't realize they were "mistakes" until you just pointed them out) and hopefully I can recover before making it to Yak's Bend (*tries to cover up full set of orange dyed armor so nobody can see*)

Thanks for the adv i would of had to reroll again. The going to pre-seering before getting my sec pro was the dumb one i made. I wasnt paying attention - Ohhhhh new place already, thinks to myself ah i can come back here. Crap this sucks

once said "waiting a year for GuildWars in stupid"

You don't say?! (I should really read the manual).

hehe yeah I also just found out about that whole space bar attack button. And yes I use a regular salvage kit on my first yellow item ( son of a ...) . I'm slowly exploring post seared acarcon without making any more stupid mistakes. Now I just hoard all materials I find incase I need them for a part of something else.

The only stupid thing I have done is wasted every single one of my dyes. :P

hehe, technical term for the space bar is the "do it" key. No kidding, check your bindings.

heh great thread

Traded 6 Black Dyes for 2 Fur Squares...

6?!

Wow, you just made one person 6k richer.

1.) Ordered Guild Wars on a Friday without realising that the company I ordered from do not deliver on weekends or bank holidays, forcing me to wait four days. *Twitch.* If I'd ordered one day earlier I wouldn't be in this mess.

That's it for now, this post will be edited updated with dumb in-game things... If it ever arrives. =(

I keep rushing my salvage and forget to identify items, has happened more than I care to admit

I have no mistakes. I rock.

Holy crap Narc! Wish I coulda found ya when ya did that. Of course I'm beating myself up trying to find fur squares. Sadly... not finding many dye drops either! *sigh*

1. Buying my first expert salvaging kit and then immediately and accidentally selling it right back to outfitter/merchant for half the cost!

2. Unlocked a Minor Rune of Vigor (thankfully I still have it for PvP) and began salvaging normal *clutter* only to realize at the end that my purple item (wanted to get rune to add to armor) was missing! Realized I was in such a hurry that I salvaged that and got crap for it! *still slapping myself for stupid mistake*

Those are my two big issues and I hope that I can mention more as I run across them. So far I've been really good about keeping myself in check and making sure I do things right from here on out.

^^ First big mistake! ^^