Post your funniest story about playing with a noob:)

**Furrawn** · 08-23-2010, 12:15 PM

Originally Posted by FluffNStuff

I have had some good noob experiences lately. Been really enjoying the Swamps, and I always look forward to a groups first single file death march, which is pretty much inevitable and to be expected of noobs. Right after everyone respawns, I either wait up, or tell the first person to wait up and tell people it is time to regroup at a point away from the boss and take em together. MOST people are really willing to do this and fall in behind a leader, and the one or two that runs ahead just dies again and then joins up. I find if I try to help a group work together BEFORE the first slaughter, it never takes, but after that humbling experience, Noobs are ready to learn.

I've been playing in the swamps lately too. I love it when the newbies join and they just run off on their own. I explain teamwork and strategy.They die. Too far for me to Rez. I explain. They run off on their own again. They die. I explain. They run off on their own again. They die. I explain. They join the group. I explain about bosses. They run straight to the boss when they get near. They die. I explain. They die. I explain. They join the team in clearing crocs to the boss.

I lmao when they head off on their own. You see the health line zip to zero then shoot up cause they're spamming pots...
Then they blackline

lol

But, they come out of the swamps as good players- IF they ever go to the swamps again...

That's the thing, Royce... A lot them won't go back...
I think the mynas generation should have "I went to the swamps ONCE" on the back of the tshirt

**Snakespeare** · 08-23-2010, 12:30 PM

Furrawn, get this, I was running around in AO1 with my new build as a warbird, and using that Zombie's Saintly Shield. Well, it must have been a Saints fan who started msg'ing me asking where I got it and such, and offering me 2K to help him get one. What could I say? It's a pink from Swamps. You have to play it. He was asking what level, which boss, and I had no idea. I just played it a lot of times and it's the only pink I got from there. You can't go to swamps hoping for pinks. You have to do it because you like a challenge.

**FluffNStuff** · 08-23-2010, 12:46 PM

Getting together a post about this at some point today, but the basic idea is that Swamp's are the cure for the Mynas Generation. I really think there needs to be quests soon for the swamps, and they need to have really elite and NOTICEABLE gear that is not trade able. Even at 45, the current Mynas Generation could learn a lot from the swamps.

**Royce** · 08-23-2010, 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by FluffNStuff

Getting together a post about this at some point today, but the basic idea is that Swamp's are the cure for the Mynas Generation. I really think there needs to be quests soon for the swamps, and they need to have really elite and NOTICEABLE gear that is not trade able. Even at 45, the current Mynas Generation could learn a lot from the swamps.

Interesting idea. I agree Mynas Geners could learn a lot from the swamps, if they were willing to stick it out. I was in a game with my level 36 warbird, and a level 30ish mage in the swamps. A level 45 mage joins, either trying to help out, or looking for a voodoo doll more likely. The level 45 is somewhat helpful at first, but then when we get to the area where there is a large space with Frogmar in the middle surrounded by mobs on all sides, the obvious Mynaser goes straight for the Witch. We have not cleared any of the surrounding mobs yet, and this mage just follows Frogmar around the map as she flies back and forth, accumulating a huge following of crocs. At some point the mage realizes he has acquired more following crocs than he can handle, and he exits the game, leaving me and the other mage to deal with the huge group of riled up crocs. Mynas geners aren't just funny, they also ruin the game for others. I didn't care, I stuck around and finished the map (others eventually joined), but that other mage left after being clobbered by the croc army that the level 45 had trained. Who knows if that player (who seemed to be pretty decent from what I saw) will ever return to the swamps...

**kinawarrior** · 08-23-2010, 04:36 PM

Originally Posted by FluffNStuff

Getting together a post about this at some point today, but the basic idea is that Swamp's are the cure for the Mynas Generation. I really think there needs to be quests soon for the swamps, and they need to have really elite and NOTICEABLE gear that is not trade able. Even at 45, the current Mynas Generation could learn a lot from the swamps.

I fully agree, but I also think there are those that are so anti out of the box thinking that they are noobs.

I solo the boss run in swamps (I just kill the bosses and reset). Other's think that is just impossible and just laugh at the attempt.

Well, it's pretty easy, just a little time consuming taking around 20min to clear or so.

And I also have to agree with the noobs that want to rush. What happens is they were let into a successful rushing party, or just one clear, and they think that every class combination can do it...no way hoser. Each map requires a different setup. Level 1, 2, and 3, 2 45's can clear (can't quite solo that guy with no pots, will someday though!!!) The rest require bears, not all, but at least 2 or 3. The more you get, the faster it goes. And whoever says dex bears can't rush because they are not STR is just assanine.

**Kurlz** · 08-23-2010, 11:40 PM

well, the swamps USED TO BE the cure for the mynas gen...im off to see just how easy the new swamps are, wish me death, as im hoping the crocs are still at least a tiny bit of a challenge

**kinawarrior** · 08-23-2010, 11:45 PM

Ya, wondering how easy they are now...

**Cascade** · 08-23-2010, 11:45 PM

You know what? I just came up with a brilliant idea...every time a player joins my game I will check their kills and ask them if they power lvled in lvl 3 if they have low kills and they say yes I will most likely boot them because I don't need myna gen people on my team because we will fail.

**Furrawn** · 08-24-2010, 06:19 PM

Originally Posted by Cascade

You know what? I just came up with a brilliant idea...every time a player joins my game I will check their kills and ask them if they power lvled in lvl 3 if they have low kills and they say yes I will most likely boot them because I don't need myna gen people on my team because we will fail.

Yeah, but if you do that then those mynas gen players lose the chance to play with a great player

Maybe give them a chance. If they're jerks boot them, but otherwise maybe let them play once with you just to learn

I know you're one the best PL players...

P.S. I mean level 40 - 45 mynas gen... Not the tots...

**Ibmk** · 08-24-2010, 06:30 PM

Some noob at lvl 2 joined my game and said
Hello!
So i booted him from the party.

**Furrawn** · 08-24-2010, 06:59 PM

Originally Posted by Ibmk

Some noob at lvl 2 joined my game and said
Hello!
So i booted him from the party.

Lol lol
Don't you love that? Or they'll join and say: don't boot me.
Why don't they don't realize that if they have to say "don't boot me," they're going to get booted!

Or the level 1 tot who tries to sell oasis pinks. What? Why? How?

**Ibmk** · 08-25-2010, 02:41 AM

Someone sold himself as a slave to me so i took him to ao2 and told him to solo it. He died about 600 times then he gave up.

Good entertainment

**KingFu** · 08-25-2010, 03:03 AM

Hmm, OH! One time, there was a random level 45 in our party, and he didn't know rarities yet, somehow, so I asked him for one item he got, and after that, he gave me everything he got, he even gave me a Thoth buckler! He was wearing Sandy Robes, oh, and our archer died, and the archer asked for rev, and he asked the person for rez, and he said "What's rez?" and we said "Revive" and he said "K? How do I do that?" It was so funny!

EDIT:
IBMK made me think of another. So, it was me, and my friends farming old school (clearing) and once we got to a D'Jinn a level 30ish joined, we told him, if you can solo D'Jinn without our help, we will let you stay and give you 200K, he said, OK!, he then died about 200 times from D'Jinn and finally said "Can I get half for trying?" hahahahaha

EDIT:
Oh, today I was asked 6K to buy a white level 44 desert fire crossbow, need I say more?

**FluffNStuff** · 08-25-2010, 10:07 AM

Was playing in the Mynas Swamps yesterday with my Lvl 34 InteliSwamp Bear. There was a 34, a 20, a lvl 45 Mage (which I felt sooooo bad for) and a level 7, yes SEVEN. And the seven died a bit, but not NEARLY as much as you would expect. So the level seven pm's me and asks if I can give them some health potions. I literally burst out laughing.

**Furrawn** · 08-25-2010, 10:20 AM

The Mynas Swamps?
OMG... Love the moniker! Love it!

**Kalielle** · 08-25-2010, 10:21 AM

I joined a random map 4 rush group yesterday with my lev 45 pally. After the first run the most powerful members left and we were joined by a lev 45 int mage in a brown robe, and a level 30ish bird in a vanity hat. At which point the only bear in our group, a lev 45 who was leading, says: "OK, let's go!". Oh, and we were also supposed to be skipping djins. I don't like to leave a group at the last moment in the middle of a fight/rush no matter what, but in this case I really think I should have.

Anyways, yes we all died very quickly.

**kinawarrior** · 08-25-2010, 11:24 AM

Speaking of brown robes...I've been seeing more of that recently. I figured it was just not a lvl 45 item, but I got to thinking...what level is that? like 8?

**Kalielle** · 08-25-2010, 11:42 AM

There are level 39ish to 44 armors in that color, with names like "desert robe" and "sandy plate." All junk - they give a lot less armor than a good robe that level. Never paid much attention to them either. But yes, I've been seeing them a lot too these days. Even had to wear one on an alt for a short while, after I respeced and suddenly found myself without anything in my inventory for that level, haha... That was embarrassing.

**Snakespeare** · 08-25-2010, 11:54 AM

The very name, Sandy Plate Mail, sounds itchy. Poor itchy bears! There aren't any trees to scratch your rump against in the desert, so what do you do? Use a cactus?