The Biggest Jerk You Ever Encountered in GW (no posting names)

Well, I must say I am impressed. With my first character, I never did a mission without at least one person I knew: my husband, another friend or guildie.

You must have had great luck and good communication. I know there are good PUGs out there, but wading through the bad… I applaud you again for your patience and perseverance.

/raisehand

I did, actually. This was loooooong before I joined a guild and had any friends to play with on a regular basis. And I finished all the PVE missions start to finish in PUGs ... as a mesmer primary.

(Masochist or glutton for punishment? Same difference, really.)

haha thats me too ^_^ 7-8 months ago my 1st char & mesmer that too
finished all missions + bonus with pugs only for THK i got help from 1 friend & 1 gwonline member

I did all the missions and trips with PUG's. Well most of it. There were a few were some guildies helped out. I find it more enjoying, even though sometimes you want to stab someone for being stupid and wondering how they got this far playing like that.

/raisehand

Did most of the mission with random groups...as a Necro/Mes SS. Had lots of fun doing it, and no one really complained about me. I learned fast but now more frequently play the role of the healer in the upper levels.

Off-topic but yeah me too, was in a solo guild until I joined a proper one just recently. Did all the missions with PUG and most of the quests with just henchies...a sad little life I lead

Well I have just experienced a jerk. Not meaning to stereotype warriors, but in the last few attempts I have had at Thirsty River, they have either left during the game, or run in to trouble. (p.s. this topic makes for a great stress relief )

I was ingame with 5 others, and the first problem started arrising when the guy (who's name I wont repeat) started running into loads of scorpions, even after the sand giants were killed.

So we kill the first team and everything seems to be ok. Then we went to the second team. The very first thing he did, rather than hang left and take the nearest few out, he went straight in between the two teams, making sure he attracted the attention of all the enemies - so we literally had to battle 10 or so enemies at once rather than about 4.

Now by some absolute miracle, we lived. Because he was so intent on fighting, he had forgotten they would only ressurect, and they did, but we just managed to fight them off. So after that, most people down 3/4 of there health, the agreed plan is to stay in the safe area and regen - not if he had anything to do with it. I told him to stay back from the second group or he will get us all killed.

He responded 'only u died' (in the first battle) to which I replied something along the lines of 'because you attracted far more attention than necessesary'.

So here we are, most people just 1/4 of health left, still recovering, and him, being the seemingly little kid who just wants to attack things, forgets about the team's health and forgets about the enemy res time, and runs in to a bunch of enemies. At this point, after having 10 or so attempts at this mission, I am getting quite frustrated at this time and I say 'well now you've got us all killed' and his response was 'stfu' 'you talk too much'.

Now by some absolute miracle......3 players survive (including the idiot who generated all the monsters attention in the first place). Trouble is, no one has res signet, so we failed. But him being the warrior kiddo who just wants to fight things decided to run off into the next part of area (with 3 groups), run into a bunch of monsters and just start fighting.

Its a shame really. Even with a really good team, the mission is hard enough, let alone having leavers and people who deliberately generate attention.

..........and relax

I had one during the wintersday festival. In LA where you would collect the presents and get them to the child before the grentches would destroy it, there was a bug that had the grentches stuck behind a sign so there was no way for them to get the presents. This one guy figured out that if you did not give the present to a child then no more presents would spawn. He just ran around bragging that he had the only present. Great holiday spirit.

54 pages? Must be a lot of jerks out there. I'm glad I've only encountered a few. My pet gripe lately is the runners who don't bother to mention that they intend to run it (no matter what you had in mind) until you spawn into your instance, and proceed to do exactly that even when you beg for fighting instead. What a waste of time.

That's easily dealt with. Since they're not fighting, you're not really needed (Unless you're the one they expect to run for them - LOL), so just leave. But it's always best to be absolutely clear on what the plan of action is before entering the mission. I don't know how many times I've been grouped up with at PUG specifically with the understanding that we'd be doing the bonus before starting, but when it comes time to GET the bonus in the mission, they all decide they don't want it! I may sound like a jerk on this point, but I remind them that we agreed on doing the bonus, and that if we don't, I'm leaving. Most of the time we do the bonus, especially when I'm the Monk! The times that they (and it's usually only 1 or 2 in the party) insist on skipping it, I leave. (I'd never bail on a team after doing the bonus if that's all I personally wanted to do & someone else needs the mission)

so the other day i was test a ranger build in random arena. ( i told this to my teammates) and they were cool about it. so we were fighting and i was the last one alive so i went to rez the ele we had, and got intrupted (so the rez sig as to now recharge). then i was killed. so the ranger says, (Test Ranger B (thats what i called myself) u are a noob for not rezing us u suck

damn, this topic is down right awesome!

and yes, I've had a N00by experence with a Jerk myself:

Me: WTB: Victo's sword!!! Whisp me!
n00b: Liek, WTF would you want with a sword? ur a bloooooooody monk!
Me: It's for one of my other chars
n00b: wot? OMG!!!! Can u capture Chars as Pets??? I waant a Bladey 1!!!!!
Me: No, I meant Char as in Character
N00b:WTF??? that makes no sense at all!
Me: Char-acter Character, yes it does.
N00b:u @$$hole!!! (sensoring curtesy of me) do You WANT THE *@#%in' SWORD OR WHAT?
Me: sure, how's 80K sound?
n00b:that's a &@#$in' rip-off!!! I could get at least 28592664154K (or something along the lines of that) for it!
Me: well fine, ty neway
Player n00b is ignoring you

... and the thing was, he was a lvl 20 Warrior


Thinking back on this, I'm just XD ing at it

I had an experience in CA where my team completely raped the other team but one w/mo was set completely to running and he just ran around and since most of us were touch it was hard to kill him and he just wouldnt quit....but of course teamwork prevailed and we cornered him in a corner wooot and dark aura pwnt him to hell.

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Gee... I wonder how he got to level 20 w/o realising what the abbrevation "char" means or that ppl can use more than 1 character in the game. How could someone not have such basic knowledge at such a level? /ponder

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Maybe he was being a jerk?
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otherwise, you tell me!

Meanest thing I ever did, was convince people in LA that Demonic Remains could be used to "summon undead pets". I convinced ONE level 20 W/Mo (He DID have an attitude problem, which helped my conscience somewhat), who proceeded to give me his whole armour set for ONE.
God, I'm a mean guy...

Ouch that's really harsh. I don't care how much of an ass he was being, that's way too harsh. =\

New player (right...) joins my guild.

We give him about 10k in gold, a max sword, max shield, runes, and a runes for free....cuz that what a guild does right???

Two days later guy quits the Guild, and has me ignored...

Gonna be awhile before we accept a new member.

Oh...plz don't take that wrong. Was not dissing on you in any way. Was just being a smartass about inexpierenced hi lvl players.

Couple of the bonuses are missing, but that's how I got my mes. through the game, completly random groups, got as far as doing the first of the defend whatever quests before realising, great northern wall isn't on my map for unknown reasons... it's since been done.

Thank you DABhand for a great story. Made me laugh a lot

An addendum:

Without dying a ridiculous amount of times due to someone elses stupidity.

Alright, I'll chime in...

So I had just ascended my third character, a W/E. I joined a PUG to leave from Destiny's and do the desert 15 point quest. I'd done it twice, and both times, I went south from Destiny's, around the east side of the big rock. Seemed to be a pretty direct route, and not hard for a party that worked together.

Well, the leader was an aggro-happy, poorly tanking fire ele. This guy managed to aggro way too many Losaru and get us killed immediately on our first two attempts. Now, I'm not a leaver. I'm just not. I think part of the fun of the game is finding ways to make a PUG work, even in the face of adversity. So we had a little talk about pulling and aggro, and we tried again. This time we killed all the Losaru, and were ready to actually start travelling. The ele immediately started running west, around the north face of the big rock, saying he thought it might be that way. I'd never tried that way, and for all I knew, it could be a good way. I told the group that I knew going south would work, but I'd follow west if they really thought that was best. No reply.

Anyway, upon encountering a few groups of Hydra, the party forgot all about our aggro lesson. The party survived, but only with much rezzing. Someone (smartly) left. At this point, the leader's buddy suggested that we catch our breath at Augury, and fill up the team. I suggested that most people would want to join in Destiny's, but noone seemed to listen.

So after leaving Augury , I said to the party that we needed to head back east, and then south around the rock. Noone cared. I followed the guys into the VULTURE DRIFTS, and announced that it was sadly time for me to leave the party, as I didn't have time to tour the whole desert. Then the leader exclaimed "But look at the green star! Look how close we are! We're right next to it!" He was talking, of course, about the "turn around you idiots" star on the portal into Vulture Drifts.

I left.

That just tops everything. How can anyone be that willfully stupid?

I just meat my first realy big Jerk. I was going with a PUG to Granite Citadel, we were mostly Warriors and Ranger, and there was some confusion with the way (someone allways tried to go in the footprint, for some reason). We managed to get there, but we all died on the last group, ecept two- one ran back, and one managed to get to the citadel, where he stod right befor the entrance.
(translated from German)
Jerk: I only go in if everone pays me 200g.
Me: Ok, we pay, go in
goes in ( because he was getting attaked)
Jerk: My money
Me: Hah, I lied
Me: stupid
Jerk: I report you
Me: Sure, do so.
PMS:
Jerk: I'll report you to the Game Masters
Me: and I'll report you
Jerk: They'll bann your account
Me: what you tried is forbiden
Jerk: What for?
Jerk: it's no
Me: blackmail
Jerk:so?
Jerk: Perhaps i didn't want to go in
(more threads of my account getting banned)
Me: So, if reported you know, we'll see hows account will get banned
IGNORE

We'll I didn't actually report him yet, but I guess I will. Most likely nothing will happen, but one can hope.

Way Back while I was in beacon Perch mission there was this gay monk who picked up the Torch-thingy, but wouldn't light the the beacon. Then everyone starts yelling at him for beinf the biggest n00b/jerk, he begin to write profanity on the map. We got so pissed that we aggroed a bunch of shiverpeak guardians on him. WHen he died, we didn't rez him

haha i coudl have sworn when reading the first part of your post, it was me that did this, but it wasnt.

i was in droks and this dude had half platemail with like a red helm, purple chest, yellow gauntlets, green legs and red feet. so i said something like
"omfg dude you look freaken rediculous. what the hell were you thinking? you are an emberisment to warriors everywhere. does your freaken mother still dress you?" to which he replyed
"sorry i didnt know any better" then my soft side kicked in and i said
"HERE take this 500g and buy some dye of similar color and get the hell out of my sight!"

speaking of jerks this guys.... oh this guy.....

we doing great actually in a fow pug and we realize that we have 3 people in the group who have never been there before (i was rushed as eurpoe needed 1 win to get favor) so im keeping my cool and instructing everyone nicely on what to do so we dont get killed. well of course their is always one guys who knows everything. although he was not following calls, stealing aggro, aggroing multiple groups. i must have smoked just enough pot to not snap on his 4th or 5th time of directly doing the opposite as i asked him. some how i still remain calm and dont flip out (as i dont wanan freak out the newbs) we get to the priest and kill him and this puke picks up hte book. i say something like hey i need you to drop the book so i can hold it and tank. he says no. i say have you ever doen the book trick before? he says stfu. well by now im heated and he goes running in the direction to return the book. bent on stopping him i tell every1 to stay here and chase him down and agrro a group of beserkers and breakers on the way. well the newbs i was with followed me (i guess to see what was happening) and in the cluster we all got killed cept 2 nukers w/o a rez. long story short i hope this guys gets a massive tumor. not a malignit one just as long as its somewhere pain full like in his urethra

whoa! seriously... was he trying Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat or something? that description is telling me he was!

I had half a party full of jerks.

I had to go back and do the Iron Mines mission recently. I got into a group that wanted to do infusion and then mission only. I really wanted mission and bonus (already infused), but no big deal.

Before we start our W/E asks our N/W if she (female toon at least) was a MM. I didn't catch the answer but apparently it was something about could be or yes or something.

When we start I say "So....run past this first gourp and then fight the rest of the way?" I get no response. When we get closer to the first group I say "Running then or fighting?" Again I get nothing. At this point our W/Mo takes off running and just doesn't stop. Half the group follows into the first mob and start fighting in a half-hearted way. We have a couple deaths and eventually get people rezzed and far enough away that we aren't getting more aggro from the group, except one person who is dead in the middle of the mob. Our necro runs past the mob and rezzes the other palyer who promptly dies again. Eventually the Necro is there by herself fighting this group (and kinda holding her own), and the W/E says "so you gonna fight them all yourself or are we gonna keep going?" Nec says "I am doing just fine"

We finally get past that group and on to the 1st group of giants when the W/E starts spamming "I thought you said you were MM. You lied to me!" The 2 of them spent the next 10 minutes threatening to leave and chat fighting with each other. After a while I was sick of them and said "Good Crap, no one cares anymore lets just go."

By this time the W/Mo who started to run is dead and spamming to all of us that it is an easy run but he didn't bring any running skills, AND that we should all start running and he would show us the way on the minimap. After a few more chat fight exchanges the Necro leaves, and the W/E that had been fighting with her started running (presumably following the lines of the W/Mo).

W/Mo is still telling the rest of us that we should run. All of a sudden the W/E is dead. We all keep fighting and eventually get to the big long "T" shaped bridge where someone is writing on the sompass that we need to go right on the bridge (toward some Mursaat and where Blade Scout Ryder is held). The W/E is dead underneath the feet of the Mesmer Mursaat boss and everyone is following the lines and engageing the boss. I get the boss' aggro so that my team can run off (since I am infused). and then I run off, but not before my pet dies .

W/Mo is telling everyone to run and people halfheartedly fight/run past the griffons until there are only 2 of us alive. I rezzed the monk and told the W/Mo to stop telling everyone to run because, as a mesmer, I would never make it past the shadows alone anyway and we are almost to the Seer...

Enough people get rezzed that we quickly kill the remaining griffons and then everyone starts running again. With everyone running I decided to also and ended up being the first to the Seer.

We went on to fight Markis, 2 of his Jade Armor gaurds and all the Mursaat/White Mantle that were near because of some bad aggro (again), and somehow we finish the mission.

This story wasn't as much about someone being a jerk (although the Necro was for sure) as it was about what can happen when people act with all the stupidity they can muster.

I actually felt dumber after that mission.

I am very angry today... i never stolen no one, and never be scanned for no one...
But today i ask to trade with a guy bortak's bone claw by my gordac's needle...
Well i think that needle have more value that claw... (what u think about this guys?)

Well he ask me to put more 10k... i say no... and he acept the trade... well he start to screen and say i liar... that i dont give needle that i give a purple staff...
I say scrool u dude u will see i give u needle, but he say i liar...


I am veryyyyyyyyyy angryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, no one have the right of say a liar or scanner... angry i very angryyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Well this isn't the worst thing someone has done.. but I thougth it was odd, rude, and funny enough to post about.

I have been doing some ettin runs out of betleton (ya ya, like a million other Wammos I was taking a breather between runs and put my char on "/sit" which is more like kneeling on one knee.

Anyhow, I come back in the room while making something to eat and some guy is standing RIGHT in front of me, crotch to face. I kinda wonder WTF but I go back out to finish my food. I come back 5 minutes later, and he's still standing there! It was only then that I could see what he was trying to imply.. (Oh, did I forget to mention he was naked?). Lord knows what he was saying and or dances we being performed when I was AFK...

I didn't want to confront him so I just logged out to do some surfing while I eat.

i had someone do that to me the other day Whiplashr.

I left my female Necro in International Frostgate whilst I went to do some housework, again I put her in /sit which is basically kneeling down. When I get back there are two warriors with their crotches against my face, doing that stupid warrior "thrust" dance. I felt like saying something scathing, but instead just mapped back to American districts before they got too much pleasure from it

My biggest yerk ever moment was yesterday at pikens..

I bought a few ashes and began to give them away for free saying this line (its a quote from the movie "Blow" or the song "Pure") "Giving away altheas ashes for free! This is grade A 100% columbian cocaine ladies and gentlemen...discoshit!
I recieved loads of pms that mostly started with LOL and asked if they could have one, when i noticed a guy in fow armor a warrior of course I looked at his guild shortcut next to his name [----] i have seen their guild pick on people ever since ive met someone of their guild, i had trouble with them before so i asked if the jerk from that day was still present he said yes. i asked can you pass on a message for me, he said sure

Me: Blow me
FoW warrior: Well i see that you obvious have a problem with them and calls some of his friends.
Group starts provoking and itimidating me.
Jerk 1: How sad that your dealing drugs in a game you underaged kid.
Me: its a line from a movie wich you probally havent seen -.-
Jerk 1: Keeps ranting about drugs is bad, that i should get reported wich they do to everyone they meet.
I had 2 of them onignore already but they would probally shout and provoke on me too.
Me: You guys are the saddest lot I ever saw you need 5 people to pick on one guy Friendly guild recruiting my ass
after 30 minutes of argueing with them they start undressing well at least some of them and start having a big dancing orgie beeing very lame to me they start crsing because ive barely cursed wich ive seen some other totally flip out on them when they did the all on one on them start spamming capslock ans stuff. They actually think that they are guildwars police and should put everyone on their place using reporting trieng to display their power this way.
Me: be my guest report me it was definetly worth it.
Then they start actually using profanity and shouting the f*ck you code.
Me: Noone needs your Holycrapigotadevourershovedupmyass guild picking on everyone. then they left and i continued giving altheas ashes and made a lot of people happy

well you kinda started it no?

oh well nice quote

yeah "Hello there" woulda been better than "Blow Me"


EDIT: But I do so their point somewhat, all we need is a nine year old playing the game at pikens when you said that and a curious mother looking over his shoulder..

It woulda been letter of complaint to Arenanet straight away also with her pals and probably parents group etc etc

lol yeah i think this is another case of "they were jerks so i'll return the favour"

I've been harrassed like this as well, oddly enough usually when I'm on my male mesmer. Go figure. This is why I now idle in a hidden spot of Henge of Denravi, international district. Henge International is empty 99% of the time, which suits me fine.

i had a random pm the other day in LA
otherperson:nooob ....ha ---- u balck --- bithce
me: hello having a good day?
although it was short i think its hilarous how he didnt pm me back rofl

thats the best thing to react to things like that, ignoring is another one

I don't know any jerks. I always leave the area when I discover a person I no longer wish to interact with. =P