The stupid things I've done thread
gabby2600
I always get a great weapon than accidentally sell it and run in to combat with somethng akin to a plastic sword.
Devil's Dictionary
Stupid things I've done?
I accidently used normal Salvage Kit on one then another purple Mind-Spark's garb without even identifying the second.
I formed a guild, payed 2000 for a cloak just to see if a black cape with a golden gryphon would look good on my mesmer.
I accidently used normal Salvage Kit on one then another purple Mind-Spark's garb without even identifying the second.
I formed a guild, payed 2000 for a cloak just to see if a black cape with a golden gryphon would look good on my mesmer.
Cult_Of_One
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Originally Posted by Warr
ROFLMFAO x 50
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Glad I made your day.
Ignotus
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Originally Posted by Sir_Sid
Guys. Don't hit me.
I had 10 Squares of fur, 20 regular fur things, and nearly 50 iron ignots, all from pre-searing. |
Also, FYI, I tried to sell my belt pouch to the two merchants in post-searing Ascalon and they only offered me 6g for it. If all of the post-searing merchants are like that, you are better off selling the worn belts and skale fins or salvaging them.
Zelkova
Oh boy, imagine my excitement when I find my first vial of dye. I don't want to dye just one piece of armor though, so I dye my crappy shield. Guess what color the dye was. 2 points if you guessed black. :/
Another character, and my first to go post-searing: First thing I do is check out what new armor is available. I buy the materials and start buying pieces. I have enough gold to get a complete new set. I'm happily clicking away but when I click on the chest armor nothing happens. I get mad and do it again. Try to close the merchant window and realize I have bad lag and can't do anything. The lag clears. Great, I now have 2 chest armor and not enough gold for the last piece to complete the set. Ouch.
Oh well, I'm still new. I'm sure I'll make plenty more stupid mistakes.
Another character, and my first to go post-searing: First thing I do is check out what new armor is available. I buy the materials and start buying pieces. I have enough gold to get a complete new set. I'm happily clicking away but when I click on the chest armor nothing happens. I get mad and do it again. Try to close the merchant window and realize I have bad lag and can't do anything. The lag clears. Great, I now have 2 chest armor and not enough gold for the last piece to complete the set. Ouch.
Oh well, I'm still new. I'm sure I'll make plenty more stupid mistakes.
Omega_2005
Going in a quest with the wrong skills. I was in absolute agony when I happened to put in Ice skills without any Atr points into ice magic, and I cast it away without seeing the damage I'm taking (I didn't use any healing spells at the time either...) 
SOT
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Originally Posted by Redfang
This is a thread where you can share stupid mistakes you have made so far. Hopefully other people can learn from these mistakes.
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I also had this snaffu:
When I got to Yak's Bend for the first time, I immediately headed out of town to try for some xp from something OTHER THAN damn grawl or devourers. I was made into hamburger by some gigantic ice dudes and a midget on a yak glowing purple...I was sooooo unprepared for the frozen north
Boubou
I did almost all the way to Althea's ashes.. to notice I forgot the damn jar in my inn !
Master Elyas
lol... im not sure i have done any stupid thing... hmmm... lemme think...
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eh... having trouble thinking... ive been up all night, and its 9:30am... arg
well, the only thing closest to stupid that ive done is on the quest where i gotta find Mhenlo... I bring Cynn along with me, and when i find Mhenlo, he goes and dies... stupid beastmasters... anyway, cynn goes "Your not dead! Well, you will wish you were when im done with you! Blah blah blah..."
anyway, he WAS dead, and the stupid mission wouldnt restart itself... so, im all like, dude... wtf?
yea, well, just about... 2 hours ago, my guild member says that there are 2 quests that have done that, and im all like... damn... wtf?
i press "L", and i see the damn button to get rid of the missions... im all like...
OMG! WTF?!
i tell my guildie about this, and hes like... omg... sadness...
but of course, we were both extremely tired, so we forgot all bout it...
well, i guess that is pretty stupid... but some ppl here have done some pretty idiotic stuff... who the hell dyes a frikken backpack? like, seriously... lol
and, im also a beta tester... so i guess i have some experience over u GW noobs
ooo! i have other stupid things 2 tell ya... i didnt do all the pre-searing quests.. :P
but, meh... i just wanna get to HoH so i can get a frikken sigil for my guild hall! so hard 2 find them!!! arg... typing hurts... 2 tired... gunna fall asleep...
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eh... having trouble thinking... ive been up all night, and its 9:30am... arg
well, the only thing closest to stupid that ive done is on the quest where i gotta find Mhenlo... I bring Cynn along with me, and when i find Mhenlo, he goes and dies... stupid beastmasters... anyway, cynn goes "Your not dead! Well, you will wish you were when im done with you! Blah blah blah..."
anyway, he WAS dead, and the stupid mission wouldnt restart itself... so, im all like, dude... wtf?
yea, well, just about... 2 hours ago, my guild member says that there are 2 quests that have done that, and im all like... damn... wtf?
i press "L", and i see the damn button to get rid of the missions... im all like...
OMG! WTF?!
i tell my guildie about this, and hes like... omg... sadness...
but of course, we were both extremely tired, so we forgot all bout it...
well, i guess that is pretty stupid... but some ppl here have done some pretty idiotic stuff... who the hell dyes a frikken backpack? like, seriously... lol
and, im also a beta tester... so i guess i have some experience over u GW noobs
ooo! i have other stupid things 2 tell ya... i didnt do all the pre-searing quests.. :P
but, meh... i just wanna get to HoH so i can get a frikken sigil for my guild hall! so hard 2 find them!!! arg... typing hurts... 2 tired... gunna fall asleep...
Dumb Quixote
***SPOILER ALERT***
So I think I topped it this weekend. I was on the Fort Runik Quest with 2 pals and a pickup player, and being the obligatory meat shield I was tearing through as they provided me the healing, bleeding and hexes necessary to make our journey surprisingly easy. Well for some reason, when we get to the main part of the mission whereby the catapult must be manned to clear out the Charrs, I get picked to spin the wheel of fortune. So first time doing the quest... I couldn't see anymore Charr anywhere, and my necro party mate decided he'd head out to check out if there was something else to do to end the mission. The Monk goes with, as does the Ranger. Well, first off... let me say in the last game I played the "space" bar functioned as the "clear all windows" command. So while checking through my inventory and attributes and whatever else I could open as I was waiting... I hit "space". The computer heard: "DO IT!". So the crank - already pulled back - launched a fiery death upon my party. The necro and Monk fell immediately. The Ranger was down near full health, and I guess they also activated a rest of the Char to come over and say hello. By the time I got out to try to rez the Monk, it was a lost cause. And I'm pretty sure they are still laughing...
And me? I'm now nick'd "Trigger Boy" for all future adventures....
So I think I topped it this weekend. I was on the Fort Runik Quest with 2 pals and a pickup player, and being the obligatory meat shield I was tearing through as they provided me the healing, bleeding and hexes necessary to make our journey surprisingly easy. Well for some reason, when we get to the main part of the mission whereby the catapult must be manned to clear out the Charrs, I get picked to spin the wheel of fortune. So first time doing the quest... I couldn't see anymore Charr anywhere, and my necro party mate decided he'd head out to check out if there was something else to do to end the mission. The Monk goes with, as does the Ranger. Well, first off... let me say in the last game I played the "space" bar functioned as the "clear all windows" command. So while checking through my inventory and attributes and whatever else I could open as I was waiting... I hit "space". The computer heard: "DO IT!". So the crank - already pulled back - launched a fiery death upon my party. The necro and Monk fell immediately. The Ranger was down near full health, and I guess they also activated a rest of the Char to come over and say hello. By the time I got out to try to rez the Monk, it was a lost cause. And I'm pretty sure they are still laughing...
And me? I'm now nick'd "Trigger Boy" for all future adventures....
Eclair
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As far as dumb things done: I opened the large gates in Nolani, when the huge charr army is outside, and let the charr kill my entire group. BTW, actual way out, is the oposite of the gates. |
Luckily, we creamed the Charr throug the gates with my AoE spells =D
Willow
I liked Gwen. I don't consider buying the cape for her stupid. I'm still hoping I'll run into her somewhere post-Searing, all-growed-up.
Now with the mistakes:
*I bought too many runes of holding.
*Placed one of the candles in the early catacomb Necromancer quest. When the green stuff started killing me, I zoned out. I got a monk to help me out, and placed the other three candles- but the first one was gone. Luckily, I was able to talk to the trainer and get more candles.
*Forgetting that Norton Antivirus virus scans my computer everyday at noon, and that I have barely enough ram to run GW as it is.
For like three days in a row, Norton would boot up right at noon, and GW would get laggy and unresponsive. I died everytime that happened, during a critical fight.
Norton Antivirus now autoscans at 10 am, which is usually before I get up.
Now with the mistakes:
*I bought too many runes of holding.
*Placed one of the candles in the early catacomb Necromancer quest. When the green stuff started killing me, I zoned out. I got a monk to help me out, and placed the other three candles- but the first one was gone. Luckily, I was able to talk to the trainer and get more candles.
*Forgetting that Norton Antivirus virus scans my computer everyday at noon, and that I have barely enough ram to run GW as it is.
For like three days in a row, Norton would boot up right at noon, and GW would get laggy and unresponsive. I died everytime that happened, during a critical fight.
Norton Antivirus now autoscans at 10 am, which is usually before I get up.
Redfang
I have been busy doing more stupid things since my original post. 
This one is now my favorite.
*** SPOILER ALERT ****
I have been reading this website and others to see where certain skills I want can be found. Several that I truly crave can allegedly be gotten in the Temple of the Ages. So, I check out this website's handy dandy map, find where this Temple is, and off I go.
For hours I slog through zone after zone, getting tooled on repeatedly with just me and the henchmen. But I finally get to the Temple whoo hooo! Then I discover that none of the NPCs will sell me any skills or give me any quests. Bah.
Being the persistant sort, I keep clicking on anything and everything there. Finally, either from something I did or something someone else did (you did read that spoiler warning I hope), I find a ghost next to the warrior statue. I click on him and wooot he talks to me! He wants a donation of 1 plat ....
I give the guy 1 plat and presto magico I am teleported to a zone to test my courage. The zone is full of swarms of level 26 mobs. I am level 19 and I don't even have my little henchmen. The swarms beat me like a tied down circus monkey. A message flashes that I failed and I am back in the Temple of the Ages. Clicking on the ghost, he wants another 1 plat. Not this time cowboy.
Thus concludes my heroic journey to The Temple of the Ages.
This one is now my favorite.
*** SPOILER ALERT ****
I have been reading this website and others to see where certain skills I want can be found. Several that I truly crave can allegedly be gotten in the Temple of the Ages. So, I check out this website's handy dandy map, find where this Temple is, and off I go.
For hours I slog through zone after zone, getting tooled on repeatedly with just me and the henchmen. But I finally get to the Temple whoo hooo! Then I discover that none of the NPCs will sell me any skills or give me any quests. Bah.
Being the persistant sort, I keep clicking on anything and everything there. Finally, either from something I did or something someone else did (you did read that spoiler warning I hope), I find a ghost next to the warrior statue. I click on him and wooot he talks to me! He wants a donation of 1 plat ....
I give the guy 1 plat and presto magico I am teleported to a zone to test my courage. The zone is full of swarms of level 26 mobs. I am level 19 and I don't even have my little henchmen. The swarms beat me like a tied down circus monkey. A message flashes that I failed and I am back in the Temple of the Ages. Clicking on the ghost, he wants another 1 plat. Not this time cowboy.
Thus concludes my heroic journey to The Temple of the Ages.
catharsis
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Originally Posted by Marus Varrus
Kind of related -- last night I teamed up with two rangers and a ele (I'm a war) to tackle the Ashes quest out of Piken. we were all 10-12 level so figured we were in pretty good shape without monk. Spoiler----------------------------------------------
. . . . . . . We were are killed and the rez portal plopps you in the temple zone tough togh rez area. We are died so often we all had 60% DP but were killing two or three charr each time so were slowly making headway. Well been chugging at it for half an hour like this and had managed to kill of thre or four total mobs. When three of the four of us were killed and the fourth guys was still standing he says "Wow I just noticed we are close to a portal let me go through and we will all lose the DP" and starts running. The three of us lying there dead are screaming for him to stop and not go out of the zone to no avail. Then he realizes its just another zone not an out post or town so we all keep the DP and have to zone back to start the crap over again finally did it but WHOA that was the dumb. FUnny thought we rezoned back in and he says "oh sorry guys my bad" |
Oh, man... the EXACT same thing happened to me, only we had a monk and we were already at 60% DP when our monk as sole survivor fled the map. We were all resurrected automatically when the zone changed, which is nice... but unfortunately everything else had respawned.
So we kept dying and spawning and dying and spawning only to make incremental progress.. At one point, we were averaging like 1-3 Charr Martyrs dead per colossal party failure and respawn, so it took a good 20 mins to get the ashes
Mountain Man
My stupid thing: I had a nice staff that increased my spellcasting speed. While shuffling my inventory, I double clicked another staff without realizing that this equips the item. I then proceeded to hurriedly sell all my extra items to a merchant without really looking at their descriptions only to realize too late that I had sold my nice staff by mistake.
On a related note, this thread brings up an excellent point, and one of Guild War's shortcomings: no comprehensive player's guide. The manual is nice and thick, but half of it is a story and the other is basic information. Is there a comprehensive player's guide somewhere so we don't have to go through the frustration of learning the game by trial and error?
On a related note, this thread brings up an excellent point, and one of Guild War's shortcomings: no comprehensive player's guide. The manual is nice and thick, but half of it is a story and the other is basic information. Is there a comprehensive player's guide somewhere so we don't have to go through the frustration of learning the game by trial and error?
Kris_Tof
The dumbest thing I have done is dye my armor Black in post-searing, then bought a dye remover because I didn't like it, and cleaned it up...
At least my armor was black for about 1 minute...
At least my armor was black for about 1 minute...
Tala
Got a good one. Traveled all the way from Nolani with my hencies to do Althea's Ashes. Made it there. We're all DP 60%. We're taking out one shaman per total party wipe, then coming back for another.
I'm there. I'm at the star. I'm at her ashes.
Whoops...I left the darn urn in storage because I needed to make room from a quest I did the previous evening.
Sigh...I'm off to spill some milk and cry over it now.
I'm there. I'm at the star. I'm at her ashes.
Whoops...I left the darn urn in storage because I needed to make room from a quest I did the previous evening.
Sigh...I'm off to spill some milk and cry over it now.
Teufel Eldritch
Choosing Necro as a primary
Accidently salvaging a kick ass Holy stick
Accidently salvaging a dye
Accidently salvaging a kick ass Holy stick
Accidently salvaging a dye
DarkZeus
Got naked in presearing and accidentally sold my pants to the merchant.
relientK_fan
I tried to solo at lvl 4 as Wa/Mo... in post-searing...
femto
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Got naked in presearing and accidentally sold my pants to the merchant.
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scorp121
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Got naked in presearing and accidentally sold my pants to the merchant.
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Only stupid thing I can think of would be buying that cape for Gwen and also dying low level gear.
Manderlock
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Originally Posted by femto
thought you couldn't sell customized items
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You can now.
DarkZeus
I must've dropped them outside of Ascalon City. They point is that I lost my pants in the stupidest way possible and started my character over again.
Jade
I had a buncha things on my reanger/necro, nuthin special but stuff I would've liked to have kept for my new character. I had my r/n in post-sear and thought he sucked kinda bad so I thought I would start over with a ranger/monk. I did, but I deleted my r/n before making the new character. The stupid part was I didn't drop all my cool stuff into my stash BEFORE making my new character. Now, if you all will excuse me, I'm gonna go slap myself again.
Sublett
Hmm.. now this isn't completely GW relevant but.. it's atleast the stupidest thing i've done this week.. Posting on the Guild-Hall forum. Let me just say "Wow", and i'll never do that again.. That much stupidity summoned up in one place was just too much, sad to say really..
Uhm.. anything else.. uhm.. I did the standard "took salvage kit on valuable blue item", though I'm glad it wasn't a unique one Still though, this has happened to me twice... and the risk is large :P They should make the salvage kit look GREEN, then you can tell the difference..
Uhm.. anything else.. uhm.. I did the standard "took salvage kit on valuable blue item", though I'm glad it wasn't a unique one
Jaide
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Originally Posted by DarkZeus
Got naked in presearing and accidentally sold my pants to the merchant.
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Mountain Man
This wasn't my goof, but apparently it's possible to salvage quest items for the Northern Wall's bonus mission. I was in a group last night, and when it came time to complete the bonus mission, my teammate said, "That's stupid. You shouldn't be able to salvage quest items." We went ahead and finished the main mission, and the whole time we were high-tailin' it away from the Charr army, he kept apologizing for screwing the bonus mission!
Lea Black
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Originally Posted by Redfang
I have been busy doing more stupid things since my original post.
This one is now my favorite. *** SPOILER ALERT **** I have been reading this website and others to see where certain skills I want can be found. Several that I truly crave can allegedly be gotten in the Temple of the Ages. So, I check out this website's handy dandy map, find where this Temple is, and off I go. For hours I slog through zone after zone, getting tooled on repeatedly with just me and the henchmen. But I finally get to the Temple whoo hooo! Then I discover that none of the NPCs will sell me any skills or give me any quests. Bah. Being the persistant sort, I keep clicking on anything and everything there. Finally, either from something I did or something someone else did (you did read that spoiler warning I hope), I find a ghost next to the warrior statue. I click on him and wooot he talks to me! He wants a donation of 1 plat .... I give the guy 1 plat and presto magico I am teleported to a zone to test my courage. The zone is full of swarms of level 26 mobs. I am level 19 and I don't even have my little henchmen. The swarms beat me like a tied down circus monkey. A message flashes that I failed and I am back in the Temple of the Ages. Clicking on the ghost, he wants another 1 plat. Not this time cowboy. Thus concludes my heroic journey to The Temple of the Ages. |
Master Elyas
roflmao! ive never heard of that place b4! what lvl were u?
what lvl were the monsters?
where the hell was this place?
i wanna goooo!!!
what lvl were the monsters?
where the hell was this place?
i wanna goooo!!!
Arri
on my R/W I got this REALLY cool sword, and I thought *Hey, this character isn't that good anyway, I can give this sword to my new warrior!* and guess what happends...I forget to storage the sword...>.> yep, it's happend to me uhh...once?....twice?...no wait...Three times.
Master Elyas
oh... my... dear... god...
that... would... suck... ASS!!!
thats never EVER happened 2 me, and i hope 2 god it doesnt in the future... well, ill never get rid of my character, so yea...
after PvE, PvP will come, and ill pwn u all with my Fiery Dragon Sword of Deathbane... although, i dont want the frikken Deathbane... i want swordsmanship!! WAAA... ism...
that... would... suck... ASS!!!
thats never EVER happened 2 me, and i hope 2 god it doesnt in the future... well, ill never get rid of my character, so yea...
after PvE, PvP will come, and ill pwn u all with my Fiery Dragon Sword of Deathbane... although, i dont want the frikken Deathbane... i want swordsmanship!! WAAA... ism...
DarkZeus
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Reading this made me snort iced tea up my nose. Thank you for a delightful evening.
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Jaide
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I'm glad that I was able to make a beverage go through your nasal passage. Enjoy.
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dansamy
*sigh* Add me to the list of stupid noobs. I picked up a blue shaman garb (I think) last night. Id'ed it. Got a big box on screen that said something about some kind of rune......promptly salvaged said item into 5 bolts of cloth.
femto
I actually thought I had a chance against Glint
Jaide
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Originally Posted by dansamy
*sigh* Add me to the list of stupid noobs. I picked up a blue shaman garb (I think) last night. Id'ed it. Got a big box on screen that said something about some kind of rune......promptly salvaged said item into 5 bolts of cloth.
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At least you're unlikely to make the same mistake twice.
Lasher Dragon
I tried to run through the map area called "The Falls" the other night, figuring there had to be a town or at least a warp in there somewhere. Oooops.
Have you ever been poisoned by Maguuma Spiders while being chased by a pack of around 20-30 Jungle Trolls? Not pretty. My friend took some screenshots of the bitter end, if I can I will try to post it in here when I get home.
Have you ever been poisoned by Maguuma Spiders while being chased by a pack of around 20-30 Jungle Trolls? Not pretty. My friend took some screenshots of the bitter end, if I can I will try to post it in here when I get home.
dansamy
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Originally Posted by DarkZeus
Got naked in presearing and accidentally sold my pants to the merchant.
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Amelia
wwwgeek7
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Originally Posted by DarkZeus
Got naked in presearing and accidentally sold my pants to the merchant.
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Back in the January BWE (my first), I accidentally got naked and it was at least thirty minutes later before I figured out how to get dressed again.