The stupid things I've done thread

free4all

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Hmm waste skill points on buying skills from trainers when not 5 minutes later you learn you can get them from a quest.. (I've wasted atleast 5 skill points like this)

Maxiemonster

Maxiemonster

There is no spoon.

Join Date: Jun 2005

Netherlands

Mo/

Deleting my lvl 20 Elementalist...

aeronox

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

With my first character I got all the way to Lion's Arch WITHOUT doing any missions! That's right, I trekked the icy mountains with all the minotaurs and centaurs and godknowswhat, where many have not.
I do have reasons for not doing the missions (i had a friend who i planned to do them with, and he was inactive/restarted his char many times [by the time i got to LA, i was lvl 16 and he didnt want to quest with me anymore :'( ] ). When I realised just how easy and quick it can be to go Ascalon>North Wall>Fort Ranik>Frontier Gate>Surmia>Nolani>LA... rather than Ascalon>The Breach>Piken>Diessa(i missed Nolani and Grendich)>Ascalon Foothills>Travelers Vale>Yaks Bend>Iron Horse Mine>Anvil Rock>Ice Tooth Cave>Deldrimor Bowl>Beacons Perch>Griffins Mouth>Scoundrels Rise>Gates of Kryta>North Kryta Province>Lions Arch... i feel silly! But I did EVERY quest I came across in that time, so perhaps it wasnt such a waste after all... the XP i got could have been five times what i'd get in missions.

That's my stupidest thing. Also, losing a superior monk rune because i didnt expert salvage it.
More recently, I've gone to Aurora Glades, once again without doing missions. It feels more adventurous when I'm just exploring and killing (btw, I didnt use a map when i was crossing the mountains. i just kept going, not knowing where i was headed).

And i feel sooo jibbed that I did Galrath when it was only 500xp.
One time, after i did Galrath, i was questing with another group for it. We are in the last area, but in the earlier part of it with Troll things and Minotaurs. We have a fair DP by now. ... ... and a punk W/Mo decides he can 'run' past them into the next area. I told him there is no next area, this is the last area, but nobody listens to the pretty mesmer, do they? So off he goes, he got past the minotaurs fine... i'm yelling 'come bak fool!'... and he dies. The whole effort failed eventually

tomcruisejr

tomcruisejr

Banned

Join Date: Apr 2005

still wearing presearing armor in Elona. (yea i waited till i learned bout the near sanctum cay armor)

customized few gold items for character that i deleted

accidentaly selling good items in merchant

dyeing not so good items black and dyeing my armor black and bleaching them again.

Boubou

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

Quebec, Canada

L'ordre [LO]

Mo/W

It's not really me who did the thing, but that was quite funny. One of my guildmate tells me they need an elem for fissure, I said why not.. went to TOA and get in the group. First thing I say is don't start now, I'm putting skills on my bar (i was in a solo build), I had time to remove all skills except for Mending and Aura Of Restauration, I also had time to add Restore life.. and someone started the mission.

So basically, I can heal, cast mending.. and ahumm.. aura of restauration is pretty useless if you don't cast! I was feeling kind of useless

TheSmallKing

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Aug 2005

Heroes of the Septemagnus

R/E

so there i am, back in Lion's Arch after a satisfying and profitable day's questing. i'm your standard Conjuring Ranger, lugging bagsful of loot and packing my favourite max-dmg Shocking Longbow of Marksmanship.
So i roll up to the vendor, identify all the magical stuff in my packs and double-click on the first item, a non-magical wand. *hmmm* oh yeah of course you need to actually click in the trade window to sell stuff. stupid old me. *click, click, click, click, click* ok all done now to log out for the nigh... hey, why is there a non-magical wand in my hands where my Shocking Longbow of Marksmanship should be? and where IS my Shocking Longbow of Marksmanship.

little tip everyone: Double-clicking on an item in your pack or bag equips it to your hands, swapping places with your favourite (and, believe me, very expensive) equipped weapon. please, please, please pay attention at the vendor's.
needless to say that day's questing was rather less profitable than i had hoped.

Sagius Truthbarron

Sagius Truthbarron

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

Animal Factory [ZoO]

A/

Quote:
Originally Posted by aeronox
how easy and quick it can be to go Ascalon>North Wall>Fort Ranik>Frontier Gate>Surmia>Nolani>LA... rather than Ascalon>The Breach>Piken>Diessa(i missed Nolani and Grendich)>Ascalon Foothills>Travelers Vale>Yaks Bend>Iron Horse Mine>Anvil Rock>Ice Tooth Cave>Deldrimor Bowl>Beacons Perch>Griffins Mouth>Scoundrels Rise>Gates of Kryta>North Kryta Province>Lions Arch... i feel silly!
What? You go from Nolani to Yak's Bend then you have to walk to Borlis Pass and then do the mission and then do the Frost Gate and then walk from beacon's pearch to Lion's Arch, not Nolani to Lion's Arch
You make it sound way too easy/fast.


Let's see.. One time I was about to try and run my guild to Droknar's Forge when I decided to go and buy some better running armor. Not paying much attention to what I was doing, I bought a chest peice and guantlets for the same armor I already had; though my current gauntlets had a major rune in them. *Sort of* wasted about 5k in total resources

Making a split second to decide if I wanted to delete my E/me and make a Mo/w, I wasted 9k and 12k worth of armor and who knows what else was on that character. Oh well, I'll make it back

Bingley Joe

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2005

Philosophers of Denravi

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sagius Truthbarron
What? You go from Nolani to Yak's Bend then you have to walk to Borlis Pass and then do the mission and then do the Frost Gate and then walk from beacon's pearch to Lion's Arch, not Nolani to Lion's Arch
You make it sound way too easy/fast.
Well you don't have to do very many of the missions at all -- I started walking my Mo/R at Ascalon City and he's about 4000xp away from lvl17 in Ventari's Refuge at the moment. The only missions I've done so far are Ranik, Northern Wall, and Surmia, and those only so I could be done with that part of the game (although I still have $%#@& Nolani ).

It's been a blast so far too - highly recommended! My map looks really funny though.. just this thin snake that winds its way through the blur.


Stupid Things: I've done plenty of stupid things so far, but my worst would probably be after I saw how cool some armour a warrior buddy of mine was wearing looked after he used dye remover on it. Thought I'd try it on my Druid's Armour, so I bought a bottle and put it on the chestpiece.

BAD idea. (with apologies to any of you who may be running around like that) It looks ridiculous. Some sort of snot-yellow Fauntleroy motif.

Well that was bad, but erm.... ... somehow I convinced myself that doing the entire thing might stand a chance of looking half-way decent. Used up all the rest of my money doing that instead of just buying a new chestpice. Yeah.

Puddin Tame

Puddin Tame

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

Wouldn't you like to know

Pretty Horsies Arouse Greatly

R/

Dyed my belt pouch black.... used dye remover on it....

mr-t

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jun 2005

England

I was standing in a swamp getting poisoned, thinkin it was some really long spell put on me, everyones shouting at me 2 move an i'm jus standing there wondering wht the hells going on.

Not realising you can use skill points

Thinking i can make a profit from buyin dye off the trader when it was going cheap, and selling it at a slightly higher price, ended up not working an i just had tons of orange and yellow dye in me storage.

trelloskilos

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

Guitarring Adventurers Society

R/N

I got lucky with a drop for a gold max dmg zealous shortbow, trouble was that it was "Of Charrslaying". I decided that what I'd do was to supplement it with the "Of fortitude" bowgrip from my equipped gold longbow.

One expert salvage and a pile of wood planks later, I spent the rest of the night beating my head against the wall saying "Stupid stupid stupid" to myself.

=HT=Ingram

=HT=Ingram

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2005

Anchorage Alaska

Haz Team [HT]

R/W

Not stacking my dyes. putting them in separate slots. lol I did sell off dyes a long time ago and had like 20 some black dyes. well back in the beta I tried to stack the dyes and ended up mixing them, and I never tried it again... so in the end I put each one ina separate slot. I found today they are stack-able. Major D'OH...

lol Oh well.. lol We all have our Blondie moments I guess...

Ashleigh McMahon

Ashleigh McMahon

Site Contributor

Join Date: Apr 2005

North East England

WoTU[Warlords of the Underworld]

Mo/Me

Umm..

The dumbest thing I have ever done was buying something for 9k, but I accidently put 90k in the trade.

Diarrhea

Diarrhea

Banned

Join Date: Jul 2005

Wisconsin-Good'ol hick state :D lol

Spirit of Corstar

W/Mo

u guys are nothing compared to me

Bought a shortbow -max dmg gold 15%^50'% for 220K-alrdy a rip, added 10/10 sundeirng stringand +30 health grip... sold the bow for 200K...

Bought 2 swords with +30 health pommels for 160K total, and got the hilts on both-hilts were fiery and icy..

Sold a 15-22 15%^50% Cleaver to trader thinking ppl dont like cleavers

Bought 15k armor for ranger and added superior vigor rune and quit with my ranger the next day

Spent 400K for a 14%^50% req 8 fellblade ..some might think good deal but few min later i saw someone selling 15%^50% for only 500K..

Payed 15k for a run from ascalon to droknars forge with my level 2 necro, bought the collectors weapon/focii, got droknar armor.. deleted characterr- cuz i wanted a monk..

hmm lets see...bought a req 13 yes 13 .. 15%^50% fiery dragon sword for 350K..

sold a 13%^50% fell for 20K..
--------stupidest thing i have ever done-tip- dont pay for what traders are asking-check with vendor first-if its available, or ask a rich person or an experienced friend

Diarrhea

Diarrhea

Banned

Join Date: Jul 2005

Wisconsin-Good'ol hick state :D lol

Spirit of Corstar

W/Mo

only reason i did all those stupiid things was cuz i needed them badly...guys be patient..dis always happens to me i buy a 1-2 away from perfect thing -searched for 5 hours about, then 5 min later i find a perfect one for same -or alil higher price... BE PATIENT

Old Dood

Old Dood

Middle-Age-Man

Join Date: May 2005

Lansing, Mi

W/Mo

Since I have noticed that black dye is now around 20K I used mine a few weeks ago on my Droknar's Monk Armor (I had two) and then realized that it did not turn all of the armor black....only half of it. Now I look Black and Tan.

I also used my silver dye twice on the same foot armor.

Stoopid me....well it is only Monopoly money anyways.

yamyam of swad

yamyam of swad

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

south derbyshire england

Coffin Dodgers Unite [RiP]

W/Mo

once sold ele rune (major storage i think) for 75 gp later found out it was worth about 600gp.this was when i first got into post-searing with first char.


D`OH!!!

Fatalis

Fatalis

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

Riga, Latvia

E/R

Bought Guild Wars thinking there will be no grind. Now I know better.

Ashley Twig

Ashley Twig

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

germany

Guild Of Openhearted Deeds

R/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Fatalis
Bought Guild Wars thinking there will be no grind. Now I know better.
Contacted support, believing they'd actually support a rather easy realizable idea of mine

Vorkronor

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

Czechia, Europe

Drums Of Doom

N/E

Founded a guild early may, thinking it would be easy to get some quality people on board and hit at least 20 members after 3 months.

dansamy

Chasing Dragons

Join Date: May 2005

Lost in La-La Land

LFGuild

Mo/Me

Umm.....my guild is about 3 weeks old now and we have ~25 members, half of whom are "quality people".

Evul Fox

Evul Fox

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Aug 2005

Arizona

N/A

W/N

Somewut confused on my first days of GW, i had fun figuring out the chat box.... sort of

Here is a short conversation i had with one of my guildies.

Guildie: so where r u?
Me: beginner place, i just started this game
Guildie: awesome, so u like it?
Me: ya its coo i gueawdedddddddddddddddaassssswwwwwwwws111114244444 4
Me: i died

**we now know esc closes the chat box HURRAH!!

Diarrhea

Diarrhea

Banned

Join Date: Jul 2005

Wisconsin-Good'ol hick state :D lol

Spirit of Corstar

W/Mo

-----------------------------------ADDED-----------------------------------------

just today i bought two 15k glad armor-i didnt care much but it was pretty stupid- i mean 2 as in 2 of the same kind -only one piece the glove lol

wolfy3455

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

I beat hell's precipace with a group in which no one went below half health once, we joked around a lot and everyone knew what they were doing. Everyone was good natured as well, so we had a very rare kind of PUG.

I, being the idiot that I am, didn't friend's list anyone.

Legendary Battousai

Legendary Battousai

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

CA

[Ryuk]

W/A

1, Bought a 100k bow and then customized it, and now I want to delete my ranger, but I wont.
2, I brought Fissure Armor
3, I brough 3x 100k Swords
4, Told everyone about my invincimonk starting a craze
5, Ruined Underworld so now its impossible to find a monk for a party if I wanted to go there with a warrior.
6, Created a water elementalist, payed 10k to be rushed from ascalon to droknors and crafted 1.5k armor for her. the day after, i deleted her.
7, I replied to this thread for no reason.

SOT

SOT

Banned

Join Date: May 2005

East Texas

Quote:
Originally Posted by Fatalis
Bought Guild Wars thinking there will be no grind. Now I know better.
I find your ignorance curious

DFrost

DFrost

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2005

Ultima Thule

Legacy of Echovald [Echo]

P/

I'm an idiot. Because I wanted to experiment with a Mesmer in pre-searing I just deleted my E/Ne, which had barely reached seared Ascalon. But I remembered afterwards that I had transfered a rune of major fire magic and a rather expensive hale staff head to her, some other cheaper stuff too. Crap!

prinnydood

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2005

Prinny Bandits

R/N

A team and I got to Temple of Ages. I saw the ghostly guy and got interested...payed 1k gold to get teleported to the Fissure of Woe (I didn't know at the time) only to return because no one was expecting to go there, we only had 5 people, and no healer...goodbye 1k gold!

EmperorTippy

EmperorTippy

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

I replaced a +10 energy staff head on my first gold drop with a +10 health staff head.
(+10 was the max for insightful staff heads when the game was realesed)

Now I'm willing to offer 5KK for 1 of them (+10 energy staff head). Thats a starting bid of 5KK for it.

Celdor Nailo

Celdor Nailo

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

Mo/E

My very first character was a ranger and I remember going to the area where Ranger Nente was giving the quest to get a pet. When you enter the area where he can be found you immediately find some devourers and other similar bugs. Well I wasn't sure if I could take on the 3 or 4 beasties I saw so I started carefully walking around the area trying to avoid all the mobs. I did this for a long time including a lot of back tracking because I didn't want to fight 2, 3 or 4 bugs at a time.

Eventully I ended up in a corner and couldn't move in any direction without putting a mob in my aggro circle. So I remember saying "ok, here we go" thinking I was about to fight a group of devourers. Well, the lead bug walked into my aggro circle and, of course, kept walking. The other bugs did the same thing. Nothing attacked me. I remember being very confused.

So, of course, I could walk straight to the Ranger and not a single mob bothered me. What a waste of time sneaking around like that. I felt like a schmuck.

Fatalis

Fatalis

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

Riga, Latvia

E/R

Quote:
Originally Posted by SOT
I find your ignorance curious
Thanks for the gratuitous remark.

Mountain Man

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

N/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by dansamy
Umm.....my guild is about 3 weeks old now and we have ~25 members, half of whom are "quality people".
It's that other half that bothers me.

neoflame

neoflame

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by EmperorTippy
I replaced a +10 energy staff head on my first gold drop with a +10 health staff head.
(+10 was the max for insightful staff heads when the game was realesed)
... >_<

I've never done any of those "oops extra 0 in the plat box in trade window" things... just keep all of your gold in storage and withdraw some only when needed.

Two things I've done:

The first was having a character run to Droknar's (for free, but still), buying two pieces of 1.5k armor, then deleting him the next day without spending all of his skill points. :/

The second was deleting an experimental presear character, before transferring him to Post-Searing and the storage... with two black dyes on him. :/

Xue Yi Liang

Xue Yi Liang

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

Northern CA

Outlaws of the Water Margin

Mo/Me

The dumbest thing I ever did:

I sold a nice shield to another player. Then, for some reason, I mistakenly thought he had canceled the transaction. I was pissed because we had talked for a while and I had to change characters to get him the item. I started hounding him and then started cussing him out for ignoring me ...

... when he finally responded he was baffled. To my surprise I had his money and he had the shield all along. I apologized sooo much for being an ass.

Xue Yi Liang

Xue Yi Liang

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

Northern CA

Outlaws of the Water Margin

Mo/Me

OK - I just thought of another dumb thing.
Got a little too chatty just as the fight got heavy. So my chat spilled out:

Xue Yi Liang: Yeah, I heawwwwwwwwwwwddddddddddtttttttt

Omega Complex

Omega Complex

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

Arlington, TX

Well accidentally salvaging a gold item to get 24 piles of glittering dust will defintely make you never ever keep your identification kit next to your salvage kit.

And accidentally hitting enter just as your about to go into battle, just to make sure people know you are going backwards and strafing left by spelling out "sssssssssssssssaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"......-.-

Xue Yi Liang

Xue Yi Liang

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

Northern CA

Outlaws of the Water Margin

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Omega Complex
Well accidentally salvaging a gold item to get 24 piles of glittering dust will defintely make you never ever keep your identification kit next to your salvage kit.
Well 24 glittering dust is better than 4 wood - which is what I got from an accidental salvage. lol

Cartoonhero

Cartoonhero

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

Sooner Nation

Mo/

i was at the merchant in pre sear, selling off crappy stuff for money. at this point i had found my first silver dye, and was very excited...then i got click happy and sold it to the merchant for 1g... >_<

i also accidentley basic salvaged a purple armor instead of identifying it...byebye rune...

im sure i'll do more stupid stuff, but thats all for now.

Than

Than

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2005

Texas

UGLY

Me/N

I think this qualifies as pretty stupid:
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=21579

Charrbane

Charrbane

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

Canada

W/E

I don't know if this was mentioned yet as I didn't read all the comments but Im so used to using Sprint with my Warrior that sometimes I try to use it when running through town.