One of my first characters was a mage. I played frost. Eventually when I hit 70, I got into a raiding guild, somehow. I raided as frost, didn't even know what DPS was.
One of my first characters was a mage. I played frost. Eventually when I hit 70, I got into a raiding guild, somehow. I raided as frost, didn't even know what DPS was.
Way back in Vanilla, I had no idea how to split stacks of items.
I thought that Prayer of Healing was for your group only and resorted to flash and greater heal to heal people in other groups in a pug raid. Naturally, I ran out of mana very fast.
I started in September 2005, so around a year after the game officially released, and I made a bunch of noob mistakes (unfortunately, I can only remember a few atm):
- My first character was a night elf druid (because I loved night elves from Warcraft III) with mining and blacksmithing, which was totally pointless for a druid back then.
- I had no idea how to talk in general chat, I'd see people talk there but I had no idea how to respond. I finally asked a friend around level 30.
- I bought every new set of common-quality leather armor because I thought it looked cool. It didn't matter that it had no stats, or that I was constantly broke (it was tough to make money in Classic, especially as a lowbie who spent it all on vendor armor), because my character looked awesome!
- I abandoned my druid in favor of a hunter with skinning and leatherworking so I could make the dragonscale armor. I wanted that stuff so bad that I spent ~7 days /played farming turtles for their leather on the Tanaris shoreline. My guild was furious because they were waiting for me to ding 60 so we could start raiding (they needed a hunter for something, I can't even remember what now).
- I had no idea that your pet took time to eat food you fed it, so I would spam feed my pet. I often went through entire stacks of food trying to make it happy. I did this for a long, long time, well into raiding when my Hunter class lead asked why I went through so much food.
- I was jaded with "Kill X number of X" or "Collect X number of X" type quests that I leveled from 58-60 doing nothing but "Go talk to X" "Go back and talk to Y" type quests. I took something like 3 days /played.
I know I have more, but I can't remember them.
Last edited by noteworthynerd; 2013-02-04 at 02:27 PM.
Didnt really do that much nooby stuff. Watched my friends play wow for a couple of months before I started myself, so I knew pretty much about the game already.
I do remember running around in those lvl 44 epic gloves on my hunter, that used to give "increased skill with axes/sword" or something JUST because they were epic. ^^ (a friend gave me them, and it was mail, so why not?!)
Dont really know if this counts as a noob-move, but I couldnt find any more quests when I dinged 57, in vanilla. So I ran all the way to Tyr's Hand and started farming elites. If I remember correctly, I did nothing else but farm there for 3 days so I could ding 60. Good times, good times.
EDIT: Edgemasters Gauntlets, right?
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i made a holy/disc priest & smited my way to 60 in vanilla, i really didnt know any different back then lol
i wouldn't equip green gear because it was "soulbound". I thought it meant it would slow my character somehow (i'm not english motherlanguage). My Gear was all white stuff bought from vendors if i didnt get any random drop from mobs while questing
I had an all in one macro, unaware of things like gcd and cd's
I ganked low level players.
Now I can actually beat guys of my own level and I don't do it anymore.
First character was a hunter (and it's still my character!). I thought I was encountering a bug when I couldn't fire my weapon anymore, as I had not realized I needed ammo. I found the ammo slot after like... 30 minutes of tooling around, and then didn't know what to do with it. I thought if I bought a new gun from the vendor it would come with ammo.
So I used all of the copper and silver I'd made in the starting zone to buy a new gun and then it had no ammo and I was sad. :'(
I had a close friend on my pick up Warcraft after watching me play it back in 2005.
He purchased the game, and rolled a Human Warrior. He made it to level 52 after a couple weeks, and then he started dieing alot. He asked me what he was doing wrong, but I had no idea. The next day I was over at his house and I found out that he made it to level 52 without ever going to see a trainer to get new spells, or use his talents..
I still laugh about it to this day lol
I started 2006. I thought I can regenerate hp and mana from food while I'm runing. Realised I can't 2 days later.
Also my first toon was Surv Hunter, and from the talents that spec had back then, hunter was looking like half melee class. So when I ran out of ammo in dungeons I was going melee. Ofc people were mad and I was like "don't worrie, I'm Survival Hunter!" The funny thing was I was actualy doing good dmg and beating some warriors in avrg gear in duels (only in melee, spaming all CD's)
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First character was a hunter back in classic. Had the Nightblade drop while questing and equipped it right away because it was the first epic I had ever seen.
Sigh, this thread is amazing....
I remember leveling an Orc Warrior to level 7 spending every copper I made on vendor items that were "upgrades". And by upgrades I mean if they had more armor on them no matter if they cloth or leather of whatever. At level 7 I realized I could repair my gear but I had spent all of my copper buying new gear so I was broke. Promptly deleted that toon.
Next I made an Undead Warlock and got it to lvl 19. I remember getting my imp at like level 4 and was SOOOOOO EXCITED. At level 19 my imp died while questing and I didn't know you could rez is I just thought it was gone. Was so sad that I deleted that character as well.
Then I made a Night Elf rogue and at level 16 I did Warsong Gulch for the first time (you had to queue at the place in Ashenvale just to do the BG) and I remember seeing a hunter and thinking that I had to kill the pet before I killed the hunter. I was so amazed that I asked the next hunter that I saw if they could have any pet they wanted and he was like "Uhhhh, yeah what are you new to this game." So I got really excited I started my hunter which is my main to this day 6 years later.
I rolled a paladin to tank. Then I rolled on an int ring because it was blue. Felt pretty darn low after the group explained it to me. So I switched him to ret. Got a regular chewing out every time I rolled on a weapon... or strength mail/plate...
In retrospect, I just couldn't win with that paladin.
on my first toon, a warlock, i was using an agility dagger becasue it had higher damage...lol i would also start off in dungeons by using rain of fire til i was oom then run up and stab the mobs with my awesome dagger! fun memories =)
hmm in my first chest I found some black dye, and kept it for ages wondering how I could use it to dye my armour.
I kept my armour for aaaaaaaaaaaaaages cos it looked better than any other gear that dropped (this even included a Spirit helm on a Rogue).
I also originally thought that Ali names were all in green and Horde were in red, but I'd only played Ali at the time.. so only saw Horde with red names :/
BASIC CAMPFIRE for WARCHIEF UK Prime Minister!
I never knew what the talent tree was for until i started tanking SM back in vanilla. After that, I carelessly put every single point in the prot tree and thought shield slam and revenge were the coolest moves ever.