My first attempt at a ranger spike team:
My guild was running a punishing shot spike, so I decided to hop on. The catch: I didn't have Punishing so I brought Barrage instead. Oh, and Pin Down. I spiked with Pin Down...
The stupid things I've done thread
Deadlyjunk
Aeon_Prophet
300 hours of game time and only now finding out that spacebar is attack...lol
Here's mine: Wandering around in post-searing ascalon at lvl 9 wondering where my pet had gone too, going back to the place where he last died to res him only to find that he was not there, trying to get rid of the pet to tamer not working. (as he has to be with you to get rid of him)
Asking my guildmates why two days later, and was asked if I had charm animal equipped...
Here's mine: Wandering around in post-searing ascalon at lvl 9 wondering where my pet had gone too, going back to the place where he last died to res him only to find that he was not there, trying to get rid of the pet to tamer not working. (as he has to be with you to get rid of him)
Asking my guildmates why two days later, and was asked if I had charm animal equipped...
Swampgirl Inez
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300 hours of game time and only now finding out that spacebar is attack...lol
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Drake Ditheon
My first character was a Warr and one of the first skills you get as a Warr is Frenzy.
I loved Frenzy and how it upped my attack speed. I used it all the time. Though later on in the game I could not understand why I was dying so easily.
It finally took a guild member to tell me that Frenzy causes you to take double damage.....DOH!!!
Moral: Always read your skills thoroughly.
I loved Frenzy and how it upped my attack speed. I used it all the time. Though later on in the game I could not understand why I was dying so easily.
It finally took a guild member to tell me that Frenzy causes you to take double damage.....DOH!!!
Moral: Always read your skills thoroughly.
MrMoo
Ok, i believe i've done a thousand or so stupid things, alot of them i can't remember but they probably fall into the catagory of 'biting of more than you can chew'. I've done that alot with new characters but i've found it teachs you alot about how it works and how far you can go before you end up looking for worms...
Though the stupid things i still regularly do is waste an awful amount of money messing about with dyes, i've probably spent more than 20k in the last week mising and seeing what would look best, thats with out buying black dyes... (happily i've settled on a nice gradent effect for my monks tats now)
I've also accidently sold or salavged a ton of blure, purple or gold items - In one particular incident whilst rapidly clicking the sell item button i managed to sell a green item.... oppps.... I spent an hour in SF for that lousy item and then sold it for a mere 35g... Woooo! Only saving grace was it was flints artifact... so i'd prob not got much more than that after trying to flog it for several hours. I think i would of shot myself if it was Brohn's rod or something like that.
There is prob more things i could add but alot of them are the same kinda mistakes as the rest of you, except the space bar thing... I'd like to say it was because i read the manual but no... I never do that till months after buying the game (It's amazing what those things contain!! All that infomation about how to play the game! and i just thought it was there to make the game seem better value for money)
Yeah, so if i was going to pass on a tip it would be read the damn manual! Though i know you won't i never do.....
Though the stupid things i still regularly do is waste an awful amount of money messing about with dyes, i've probably spent more than 20k in the last week mising and seeing what would look best, thats with out buying black dyes... (happily i've settled on a nice gradent effect for my monks tats now)
I've also accidently sold or salavged a ton of blure, purple or gold items - In one particular incident whilst rapidly clicking the sell item button i managed to sell a green item....
oppps.... I spent an hour in SF for that lousy item and then sold it for a mere 35g... Woooo! Only saving grace was it was flints artifact... so i'd prob not got much more than that after trying to flog it for several hours. I think i would of shot myself if it was Brohn's rod or something like that.There is prob more things i could add but alot of them are the same kinda mistakes as the rest of you, except the space bar thing... I'd like to say it was because i read the manual but no... I never do that till months after buying the game (It's amazing what those things contain!! All that infomation about how to play the game! and i just thought it was there to make the game seem better value for money)
Yeah, so if i was going to pass on a tip it would be read the damn manual! Though i know you won't i never do.....
thelastunicorn
I was in the UW and got a ecto on the first group of baddys and there was one baddy left and everyone was alive.. thought to self.. ::just wait a sec... they'll be gone.. and then pick up ecto::... bad idea.... sat and looked at it for about 2 min.... and the last baddy left... who had 1% health left... killed us all in about 1.2 sec
... bye bye ecto....=(..... got a screenie.... but it's too big of a file to fit on here.... ::sob::.... I will NEVER wait till they're all dead to go pick up my good drops.... ecto, shard, gold item, etc.
... bye bye ecto....=(..... got a screenie.... but it's too big of a file to fit on here.... ::sob::.... I will NEVER wait till they're all dead to go pick up my good drops.... ecto, shard, gold item, etc.
Hells Vengeance
I had Gold Chaos axe UnId (req. 8) in inventory and I was selling all the junk I had found in FoW when I started lagging so I kept on clicking sell because I was impatient and well it went through the line and bye bye chaos axe...
art_
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My first character was a Warr and one of the first skills you get as a Warr is Frenzy.
I loved Frenzy and how it upped my attack speed. I used it all the time. Though later on in the game I could not understand why I was dying so easily. It finally took a guild member to tell me that Frenzy causes you to take double damage.....DOH!!! Moral: Always read your skills thoroughly. |
dahlen
1. Customized an expensive Longbow back in the noob days. Could have sold it for 5k or more.
2. Bought the Stinger for 8k, and sold it for 3.5k. :S
3. Bought 5 red dyes from the trader, which made me broke. Seconds later a guy with 100 red dyes speaks to me. He was selling them for a much smaller amount, and I felt like a stupid son of a bitch.
4. Forgot resurrection the first time I went to the underworld. And this was with a 3 person trapper team.
Well.. Can't think of any other stupid mistakes at the moment.
2. Bought the Stinger for 8k, and sold it for 3.5k. :S
3. Bought 5 red dyes from the trader, which made me broke. Seconds later a guy with 100 red dyes speaks to me. He was selling them for a much smaller amount, and I felt like a stupid son of a bitch.
4. Forgot resurrection the first time I went to the underworld. And this was with a 3 person trapper team.
Well.. Can't think of any other stupid mistakes at the moment.
ColaManiac
bought sigil for 40k to my pvp char and tried to join to group and they said that i needed ele... i DELETED my pvp char with sigil and then made the ele...
then i saw that i forgot to put sigil to storage and started to panic... i went to the tombs and looked if the group was still waiting... nope it wasn't... and after 1 hour i saw that the group where i were going to join were defending hoh...
then i said good bye for my first 40k and went to sleep...
then i saw that i forgot to put sigil to storage and started to panic... i went to the tombs and looked if the group was still waiting... nope it wasn't... and after 1 hour i saw that the group where i were going to join were defending hoh...
then i said good bye for my first 40k and went to sleep...
dahlen
accidentaly sold my -50 hp icon to the merchant...
had to make the quest AGAIN! sooo boring.
had to make the quest AGAIN! sooo boring.
Francis Crawford
Frustrated by Spellbreaker, I made a Mist Form build in which I used water AOE against Blessed Griffons. So they gathered around me, and I froze them all ...
Two words: Smite Hex
Two words: Smite Hex
Francis Crawford
Oh, here's a biggie -- I was told, and long believed, that one should use an Expert Salvage kit on everything that's Highly Salvageable.
That one cost me thousands and thousands ...
That one cost me thousands and thousands ...
Queenie
1. Deleted my mesmer which had the Handsmasher on her
2. Sold my IDS for 20k *Biggest mistake ever*
2. Sold my IDS for 20k
*Biggest mistake ever*
Indian
During the Wild runes times
spent about 300k on runes, exactly next day runes prices drop to 5k-10k
didnt knew you could salvage back runes from your armor >< sold all to merchant
low-level character, maily was for storage, needed pvp char slot, deleted low-level did a massive dmg to me (250 ectos, 10 perfect hammers/wands n bunch of other stuff) gone with the wind....
until last month didnt knew wut CTRL + SHIFT + H does ><
spent about 300k on runes, exactly next day runes prices drop to 5k-10k
didnt knew you could salvage back runes from your armor >< sold all to merchant
low-level character, maily was for storage, needed pvp char slot, deleted low-level did a massive dmg to me
(250 ectos, 10 perfect hammers/wands n bunch of other stuff) gone with the wind....until last month didnt knew wut CTRL + SHIFT + H does ><
Ninjutsu Honor Code
Bought a hall for 60k next week it dropped to 20 -.- i left the guild.
Bought a gladiators armor in the beginning.
Bought a customized fire sword in the beginning.
Pissed off a guy and got reported, accidentely met him again he was still pissed.
Buy altheas ashes everyday for 3k for 50 ashes and give them away for free pretending its a drug you can snort.
Bought a gladiators armor in the beginning.
Bought a customized fire sword in the beginning.
Pissed off a guy and got reported, accidentely met him again he was still pissed.
Buy altheas ashes everyday for 3k for 50 ashes and give them away for free pretending its a drug you can snort.
Loralai
One of my first trips to UW was with a large group, some friends, some just pick-ups. We had a solo monk with us, fortunately we all knew ahead of time that she was such, and pretty much just stood back waiting to pick up drops.
Well, in the midst of a heated cluster, I started worrying about the poor monk, all alone, with no help. :/ You can imagine...yes, I threw healing hands and about 2 other healing spells, all which seemingly upped HP. Needless to say, the monk was not pleased, being that she was fighting smites at the time. It threw off her game and next thing you know she was dead.
I felt like a child when I fessed up during the interrogation afterwards that it was me who did it, and not one of the others.
Well, in the midst of a heated cluster, I started worrying about the poor monk, all alone, with no help. :/ You can imagine...yes, I threw healing hands and about 2 other healing spells, all which seemingly upped HP. Needless to say, the monk was not pleased, being that she was fighting smites at the time. It threw off her game and next thing you know she was dead.
I felt like a child when I fessed up during the interrogation afterwards that it was me who did it, and not one of the others.
Toll Booth Willie
700 hours into the game before i realized "r" makes you run.
Didn't realize till this thread that there is a rune that makes your storage bag go from 5 to 10 slots >.<
Didn't realize till this thread that there is a rune that makes your storage bag go from 5 to 10 slots >.<
Sniperz53
Ohh do I ever have good mistakes for you guys, some of these were just so big that I just laughed about..... Some of these are my brother as well and I will point those out XD
1. After farming UW for days and collecting nearly 50 ectos my brother was cleaning out his inventory at the merchant and you guessed, clicked one too many times and made 300 gold for 50 ectos XD
2. While in presearing my brother found 3 black dyes while I was at work, still a noob at the time he decided to make his armor all black!
3. Got my warrior to level 14 in presearing
4. Deleted my warrior 2 days later
5. Got trapped in a stupid crack in the stairs on my way from ascalon to the desert just outside grendich.
6. Salvaged a beautiful gold staff (perf cast mods and recharge) for a +5 armor upgrade
7. Payed 20k for a run through thirsty.... I was frustrated as hell on that mission
8. Ran myself to Copperhammer mines with my warrior and henchman, took me 5 hours and several deaths past 60%dp to finally get there.
9. Customized my IDS
10. Bought a set of 15k glads armor, forgot I had bought the gloves and feet so I bought 2 sets
11. Fought through last mission to cap 100 blades, got to Rurik, rushed in and everything killed me... total time 1.5hours down the drain
12. Farmed over 1000 candy canes....
13. Spent all ym time collecting SoA axes
14. Danced naked in every town in the game, only to further lower myself buy begging for moneyXD
Hope you guys have enjoyed these
1. After farming UW for days and collecting nearly 50 ectos my brother was cleaning out his inventory at the merchant and you guessed, clicked one too many times and made 300 gold for 50 ectos XD
2. While in presearing my brother found 3 black dyes while I was at work, still a noob at the time he decided to make his armor all black!
3. Got my warrior to level 14 in presearing
4. Deleted my warrior 2 days later
5. Got trapped in a stupid crack in the stairs on my way from ascalon to the desert just outside grendich.
6. Salvaged a beautiful gold staff (perf cast mods and recharge) for a +5 armor upgrade
7. Payed 20k for a run through thirsty.... I was frustrated as hell on that mission
8. Ran myself to Copperhammer mines with my warrior and henchman, took me 5 hours and several deaths past 60%dp to finally get there.
9. Customized my IDS
10. Bought a set of 15k glads armor, forgot I had bought the gloves and feet so I bought 2 sets
11. Fought through last mission to cap 100 blades, got to Rurik, rushed in and everything killed me... total time 1.5hours down the drain
12. Farmed over 1000 candy canes....
13. Spent all ym time collecting SoA axes
14. Danced naked in every town in the game, only to further lower myself buy begging for moneyXD
Hope you guys have enjoyed these
antialias02
In pre-sear, one of my very first drops was Black Dye.
I promptly used it on my vest. (This was back in the day, before the prices had stablized, so I'm sure you can use your imagination as to what it might have cost in post-sear). I've never had another one drop for me, ever.
I promptly used it on my vest. (This was back in the day, before the prices had stablized, so I'm sure you can use your imagination as to what it might have cost in post-sear). I've never had another one drop for me, ever.
jciardha
My guild, while in FOW, because none of us had a clue:
"Hey, what's a Wailing Lord?"
"It's red."
"Kill it!"
" ... hey, why's it not attacking us back?"
The beating continues.
The Wailing Lord drops dead. So does the entire party.
THEN we go back and check our quest log and note the big huge warning in red letters: "DO NOT HARM THE WAILING LORDS."
D'oh!
"Hey, what's a Wailing Lord?"
"It's red."
"Kill it!"
" ... hey, why's it not attacking us back?"
The beating continues.
The Wailing Lord drops dead. So does the entire party.
THEN we go back and check our quest log and note the big huge warning in red letters: "DO NOT HARM THE WAILING LORDS."
D'oh!
DevilStick
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Hey how about this:
Yer at the Merchant and your game is laggin a bit. You know you have that Godly Uber 1337 Max Dmg H4XOR weapon in your inventory. Your inventory is also full of a buncha sellables. So yer clickin along.....get where I am comin from? Suddenly, you arrive at two sellables and your 1337 max weapon. You are starting to lag and think perhaps the game didn't record your intent to delete so you click the button three times. Or maybe you made a mistake. Next thing you know is you see 1 pop away, two pop away and then ...NOOOOOOOOOOOO three pop away. OMG  Remember, be gentle when at Merchant or you will loose your stuff. |
Of course, I started doing this because I once sold a new kit (forget which type) back to the merchant...
Oh, I made the "delete your PvP mule character" mistake. Lost a huge stash of collector items. Not so bad, except I think I had a couple of bleached shells.
Dave83
Freinf gave me a 9/10 raven staff, sold it to the merchant by mistake
VGJustice
Just recently, I decided that I wanted my PvE healer back, and I figured out how to make it still work just the same for PvP. Next time I log on, there's a little message that says "The new classes will be available for PvP use from the 20th til the 22nd".
I found a sudden and unreasonable hatred for A.Net. Wost timing ever >:(
I found a sudden and unreasonable hatred for A.Net. Wost timing ever >:(
Carla Witchblade
Went to solo Galrath and forgot to put any points in sword, using my "run build". Neither one on us could kill the other.
Josh
Actually hit Post Reply to this topic...lol...
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So this isn't spam;
Made a PvP Character temporarily, put my Galigord's Stone Staff on it, deleted it later by accident forgetting it had it on.
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So this isn't spam;
Made a PvP Character temporarily, put my Galigord's Stone Staff on it, deleted it later by accident forgetting it had it on.
Sir Skullcrasher
was going through orozar farming run when i got an gold armor which turned out to be sup healing rune. I was low on golds at the time (got like 1k) thinking that i can make some profits out of this run (zero greens but bunch of gold items). I head back to town.... (i'm dead tired so yeah...) buy myself a salvage kit *note salvage kit.. not expert* and id the armor. And i got .... 4 woods from that armor. I looked at my savlage kit thinking "hmmm expert salvage never do that.." than behold its a regular salvage kit.
There goes 10k for me.
There goes 10k for me.
Queenie
I *foolishly* dyed my black areomancer armor blue *crys*
Nawt wearing my areo armor till its black again >
Nawt wearing my areo armor till its black again >
AxeMe
Months ago, when I first started the game, I took my PvE character to a CA arena. Before entering I changed some skills around and (I thought) the weapon.
Turns out, I entered the arena with no weapon at all equipped. I remember standing on a bridge believing that I was fighting and not being able to understand why nothing was happening.
Turns out, I entered the arena with no weapon at all equipped. I remember standing on a bridge believing that I was fighting and not being able to understand why nothing was happening.
Raptox
This is site related, not game related, but whatever:
Anyone wanna guess how long it took me to find the "View History" link in one of my auctions?
A HALF HOUR.
Anyone wanna guess how long it took me to find the "View History" link in one of my auctions?
A HALF HOUR.
Two April Mornings
bought sigil at 100k
sold purple 12^50 crystalline cuz i thought it was a common weapon after my first FOW run
sold purple 12^50 crystalline cuz i thought it was a common weapon after my first FOW run
Evil Hypnotist
Entering the Academy at the end of pre-searing and spending 10 mins trying to talk to my team before realising they were all henchies..
I didn't find Sardelac Sanitarium until after I had completed the game! (i wanted a dunce hat for my character to wear after that)
Also spent an hour and a half clearing snake dance trying to find a boss to cap an elite skill from, found him, killed him, realised I had forgot to equip the cap skill signet. noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
I didn't find Sardelac Sanitarium until after I had completed the game! (i wanted a dunce hat for my character to wear after that)
Also spent an hour and a half clearing snake dance trying to find a boss to cap an elite skill from, found him, killed him, realised I had forgot to equip the cap skill signet. noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Mavrik
I have done a bit of what others have.
I dyed my starter ele robe silver (which looked cool) and wore my starter armor to piken square. I didn't know there was collector armor.
I didn't realise when you died in Post Searing, you got DP and I couldn't figure out why my health was going down.
I didn't realise exp , gold and drops were shared to henchies. Here I was lv8 and getting no drops, little gold and little exp for the longest time.
Thought someone selling black dye for 1k each (back in the day) was a scam when the merchant was buying them for 1g
Thinking on it now I should have bought all the black dye he had.
Spending money on expert kits to salvage runes only to get 25g for the runes (used to be more before they changed it) and not realising the identified unsalvaged item sold for more.
Got my first scam from a necro claiming she could run us to droknar. I don't feel to stupid though... she fooled 4 others
Got "trapped" by Gwen and henchies before and had to start mission over.
Sold all my ice lodestones, unnatural seed (or what they are called) mergoyal skulls and spider legs I had collected to a merchant before seeing someone WTB (listed everything I had just sold for more they I got)
Salvaged a gold drop instead of identifying it... why I leave those two kits side by side is beyond me... got 2 steel ingots though lol.
bought 2 15k gloves for my Ele... thinking I had bought only one but couldn't figure out where my 30k went.
I dyed my starter ele robe silver (which looked cool) and wore my starter armor to piken square. I didn't know there was collector armor.
I didn't realise when you died in Post Searing, you got DP and I couldn't figure out why my health was going down.
I didn't realise exp , gold and drops were shared to henchies. Here I was lv8 and getting no drops, little gold and little exp for the longest time.
Thought someone selling black dye for 1k each (back in the day) was a scam when the merchant was buying them for 1g
Spending money on expert kits to salvage runes only to get 25g for the runes (used to be more before they changed it) and not realising the identified unsalvaged item sold for more.
Got my first scam from a necro claiming she could run us to droknar. I don't feel to stupid though... she fooled 4 others
Got "trapped" by Gwen and henchies before and had to start mission over.
Sold all my ice lodestones, unnatural seed (or what they are called) mergoyal skulls and spider legs I had collected to a merchant before seeing someone WTB (listed everything I had just sold for more they I got)
Salvaged a gold drop instead of identifying it... why I leave those two kits side by side is beyond me... got 2 steel ingots though lol.
bought 2 15k gloves for my Ele... thinking I had bought only one but couldn't figure out where my 30k went.
ravenwolf77
accidently sold green cane (gorrel) to merchant
Pinna
Bought Female 15k platemail...
*shudders at the ugliness*
*shudders at the ugliness*
Araman123
Deleted a Fully fissure armored monk with over 1.5mil xp, all monk skills including elites and every monk green with about 80k on that character by mistake (was drunk and realllly tired) - gg
Harmony
Oh man..too numerous to mention!
1. Getting black dye in pre and promptly putting it on pre armor only to get a blue dye about 5 minutes later and redying my armor over the black 'just to see how it looked'
2. Selling the weapons I was using at the time (no joke!). I didn't realize that the ones you did not have equipped but in your weapon sets were still in your inventory and so I got 'click happy' selling stuff to the merchant. I looked down..weapons...poof.Gah!
3. One of my first characters was a wammo. Well, it was great; I was officially known as the 'lost chick with the hammer'. I had no clue how to 'target next' and so when someone would say 'attack monk first', I'd sit there running my mouse over every monster trying to snag the 'monk'. The battle raged on and I stood there looking like an idiot or running around helplessly trying to find the 'monk'.
4. Ah yes, the elusive circle around me on the map. What was that? oooohh aggro circle; how about that!
5. Trying to make minions or soul feast from the 'big rocky things' aka stone elementals and dying in the process.
6. Underestimating the power of a mesmer. They rock; hands down!
7. Being one of the most vocal 'monk bashers' around. I died; stupid monk..must have been THEIR fault! Mine?! What do you mean?!!! Nooooooo; I am the godly 'insert profession', you are just a monk who can't heal!! And then..I made a monk.......'nuff said.
I'm sure the list could go on and on; but these are some of my most memorable. Cheers!
Edit: just thought of another real biggie.
Got to post; hurriedly equipped my dear little necro with all the superior runes I could find..except for super vigor because it was way too expensive. Took me awhile to realize I only had 80 health..hmmmm.
1. Getting black dye in pre and promptly putting it on pre armor only to get a blue dye about 5 minutes later and redying my armor over the black 'just to see how it looked'
2. Selling the weapons I was using at the time (no joke!). I didn't realize that the ones you did not have equipped but in your weapon sets were still in your inventory and so I got 'click happy' selling stuff to the merchant. I looked down..weapons...poof.Gah!
3. One of my first characters was a wammo. Well, it was great; I was officially known as the 'lost chick with the hammer'. I had no clue how to 'target next' and so when someone would say 'attack monk first', I'd sit there running my mouse over every monster trying to snag the 'monk'. The battle raged on and I stood there looking like an idiot or running around helplessly trying to find the 'monk'.
4. Ah yes, the elusive circle around me on the map. What was that? oooohh aggro circle; how about that!
5. Trying to make minions or soul feast from the 'big rocky things' aka stone elementals and dying in the process.
6. Underestimating the power of a mesmer. They rock; hands down!
7. Being one of the most vocal 'monk bashers' around. I died; stupid monk..must have been THEIR fault! Mine?! What do you mean?!!! Nooooooo; I am the godly 'insert profession', you are just a monk who can't heal!! And then..I made a monk.......'nuff said.
I'm sure the list could go on and on; but these are some of my most memorable. Cheers!
Edit: just thought of another real biggie.
Got to post; hurriedly equipped my dear little necro with all the superior runes I could find..except for super vigor because it was way too expensive. Took me awhile to realize I only had 80 health..hmmmm.
Big_Iron
1.) First time I did FoW, I let a Shard sit for too long not realizing it's value, letting some monk pick it up.
2.) Bought a plain vanilla Eternal Shield (Armor 16, but no mods) for 12k cause I thought it looked cool.
3.) Selling dyes in Pre to the merchant for 1g ea.
2.) Bought a plain vanilla Eternal Shield (Armor 16, but no mods) for 12k cause I thought it looked cool.
3.) Selling dyes in Pre to the merchant for 1g ea.
FeroxC
Found a max dmg furiouse sword of fortitude somwhere near lions arch.
Was trying to pay 5k for thorgalls stone smasher he wouldnt accept so i chucked the sword in after comparing the damage to thorgalls.. he smiled and accepted.
Buying 5 deldrimoor steal ingots for dragon boots instead of 5 scales.
Died my rams hammer black only to find it only changed the handle color.
Was trying to pay 5k for thorgalls stone smasher he wouldnt accept so i chucked the sword in after comparing the damage to thorgalls.. he smiled and accepted.
Buying 5 deldrimoor steal ingots for dragon boots instead of 5 scales.
Died my rams hammer black only to find it only changed the handle color.
Charqus
hmmm
1) sellin a stack of 11 black dyes to trader
2) tryin to salvage every rare crafting material to its lowest form... dont try it lol its BS
1) sellin a stack of 11 black dyes to trader
2) tryin to salvage every rare crafting material to its lowest form... dont try it lol its BS