Things you did when started playing WoW

[BlackSwanTheory]

Totally ran around in spirit gear on my hunter for a while, cause I noticed it increased my mana regen...

[XanderZone]

It took me a whole week to get to level 20 because I never picked up a single quest.
I'd wander aimlessly through higher level zones, being killed multiple times as a result.
I constantly asked fellow players where they got certain pieces of gear, that ended up being a common quest reward.

I was an idiot, but then again I was only eight.

[JDM]

I couldn't find food for my hunters pet and he kept running away....

[Kaleredar]

I ran around as a hunter. So... that invites any number of bad things.

I looked for gear with int on it (back when they had mana)

I took the talents that made your pet run faster, because it would kind of trail behind me when I was running from place to place and that bugged me

I jumped off loch Modan dam thinking that the area beneath was a "restricted" zone no one had ever been to before.

I would half-finish off an enemy from range, then run in and melee them down.

I thought the little Ironforge Airport area on the dun morogh map was supposed to be the entirety of wetlands in relation to dun morogh (cuz mousing over it said "wetlands")

I forgot to feed my first boar pet, so it ran away

I thought I would need group assistance to tame one of the level 11 white crag boars near the exit to dun morogh, because they were still a much higher level than me

I would keep grey/white items I couldn't use in my bank well into level 40, thinking I might make an alt that could use them at that level

I once successfully freezing-trapped a max level rogue that was skulking around ironforge... and then got owned

I would run out of my way to explore as many zones as possible, even if they were too high a level for me. For example, I wandered into Stranglethorn at level 15.

I held on to every green I ever found just in case I might be able to auction it.

I tried to run old Sunken Temple well into the high level 50 range.

I kept a quest for Mauradon until I was well into Outland


Ah, fun times...

[inboundpaper]

I ran out of arrows, a lot.

[dokilar]

i think the first time i went thru RFC i rolled need on just about every green that dropped. WoW being my first mmo i knew nothing about loot rules and all that jazz. i kept telling myself "well shit yea i NEED that, i may not be able to use it but i can disenchant it, or sell it"

fortunately no one got upset and actually explained to me how the loot is "supposed" to work. of course that system has been done away with i hear.

lot of the usual stuff, i had gear equipped that had stats on it that were worthless to me, agility on cloth, strength on the cloak, etc. etc. it wasnt until probably my mid 20s early 30s that i discovered those types of stats were useless.

[Auxis]

I alt hopped. Trying to figure out what class I liked.

I ended up begging my guild members when I hit 40 for gold to get my mount (I know, pathetic ).

I failed to understand that elites were just that. Elites.
So I died an awful lot trying to kill that skeleton guy in the eastern Duskwood Cemetery. ._.

[Noujou]

i feel remorse for when i was playing my warrior during the pre-wrath event that had the purple T2 pally armor look alikes... i had some pieces....but i vendored them like a idiot....i wish i didnt now



Also, back in BC when i was leveling my first toon (the aforementioned warrior)...I thought i was a tank simply because i was a warrior, and would go around telling people...i tanked in arms stance (i was a arms warrior)...i dont see why i need to use defensive stance, because this works for me :P

[KoolGuyDags28]

As a rogue,


I seriously loved the orc stealth animation so much I just pretty much never left stealth and explored every bit of the barrens, durotar, thousand needles, searing gorge, and sithilus until I learned the ability mutilate and saw the animation for it.



Good memories

[enchanted]

I started playing right at the very end of TBC when the wrath event was there and I remember going around in stormwind asking people what to do at level 8 in sw. Or when I reached 10 I saw these dragons that were attacking sw and I was like: I'm a hero so I should kill them easily just to later be 1 shot by them. Didn't understand the skull instead of a number in the portrait until I reached level 40 or so.

Another one was when I rolled a hunter I stacked alot of intellect so I wouldn't have to run out of mana (and I thought it was like my primary stat...)

The most embarrasing: When I had about 1g or so I was like: Damn! I can get whatever I want off the auction house as I'm rich and then just to find out that items went as high as 10k then I'm like oh... Anyway, before using the search feature I remember I browsed through nearly 300 pages of AH items just to find low level items and then I found out this level 5 dagger which was sold for 60 silver and it had attack power which I thought: That for sure should increase my damage for my bow and went on to buy it. Now for the embarrasing part is that when I opened my mailbox after searching around for awhile I saw on the mail: 30 days then I said wtf? 30 days just for a dagger? I closed my mail then and hopelessly kept waiting for 30 days until it actually disappeared and then learned that 30 days left until it gets removed from your mailbox...

[Asotcha]

My first character was Gnome Rogue and as soon as I logged in, I was dueled by someone and accepted. Realising I had no idea how to attack, I was trying to right click > attack him as I'd been playing Runescape for years beforehand. So I just ran around until I lost ):

Deleted the Rogue and made a Nelf Hunter who made it to 46, and melee'd most of his way there in strength gear.

My first game was runescape too

i began wow in tbc


The first night i played, i rolled my human rogue (still my main) and was just blown away by how beautiful northshire was. After i got aggro'd by the defias in the vinyard across the river, i ran back across the bridge and then went to the opposite bank--thinking that (like runescape) the monsters couldnt cross the water to get me. So i just stood there as 3 defias came charging at my face across that 3 foot creek. As smug superiority over the AI was replaced by knowing i was going to get my ass kicked, i remember thinking "You can Swim in this game?? awesome!"


I sent a gray-quality 2h broadsword that dropped off a murloc to a warrior i quested with in elwynn at the time who was a couple levels older then me--he actually wrote me a letter saying that it Was an upgrade over his current weapon. I didnt realize that it was an awful weapon until way later and wondered exactly what he was using before that lol

in my early 20s in my first guild (was in it till ulduar) the GM (42 night elf hunter) and his second in command (40's night elf shadow priest) were running a few of us through deadmines. I had avoided instances staunchly up until then because i thought that if i died id loose my gear and the contents of my bags except for 3 things. The two older characters bantered about weapons and upgrades they knew about but i didnt understand at the time--but a green quality sword dropped and i said 'well Thats a really good upgrade right there' to seem worldly x) The priest spit soda on his screen and our gm laughed for ages (this is confirmed because somone was on voice chat with the priest at the time and Heard the noise)


Also around this time i was taught how to pickpocket by a rogue in his 40s and he couldnt believe i hadnt done the poison-making quest by then---i didnt realize i was a scrubby rogue until later after id done both those things---


With a warrior friend id made, we both liked to travel around higher level areas then it was wise to be in. we liked to call it 'cheating death' and learned all the best ways to sneak into zones. one of our first--and scariest--adventures was going to tirisfal glades, because it was so close to the undercity and we'd never been near a horde capitol. We were always getting chased by guards and he wasnt even able to ride a horse yet. So we stuck to most of the outlying countryside just exploring, when we found really powerful elite guards standing by a mysterious walled in area that we couldnt see or get into no matter how we tried.

We decided that it had to be Orgrimmar, because it was so well protected. We stood there in awe for several minutes, feeling so badass that we discovered 2 horde capitals in one day.

[Dom]

I put all of my gear on my action bars.

I went in with the WC3 campaign hero mindset and chose gear to balance all my stats.

It took 5 tries, but I soloed Hogger at level 9. I did all kinds of theory crafting as to the order of abilities I should use to beat him. I didn't learn until after level cap how infamous he was.

While leveling in Westfall, I followed the coast to STV, and got one shot by a level ?? croc. I thought level ?? meant that it was extremely hard to kill. I ran back to Westfall believing STV must be where all the end game content is.

I went all the way to level 67 as a paladin specced in holy, with mostly ret gear, calling myself a tank. I thought just because I was a paladin, that by definition I was a tank, since paladin's had divine shield in this game and in WC3, so obviously it was a tank. I thought all druids, priests, and shamans were healers as well. And that warriors were just tanks like paladins. Once I realized my error after I tanked The Blood Furnace as a holy ret tank and got called out on it, I went back to the trainer and put every single point into the prot tree from them on. Like a true noob, I got to level 80 specced 0/71/0.

While I was leveling in some random guild, I saw people getting achievements for heroic dungeons and thought they must be really good at the game and I couldn't wait to do that too.

While aimlessly flying around the ATG with nothing to do, some random guy asked me if I wanted to tank for his guild. I was quite surprised by this, as I didn't really know what I was doing. I found myself in their alt raid with several veteran raiders who had been playing for years, and none of them noticed my lack of enchants, gems, or terrible spec. With no addons and no keybinds, I actually managed to not screw up throughout the entire duration of ToC 10 man. When giving fight explanations to me, he was telling me to do this thing called "taunting." I thought about that for a couple minutes, pretending I knew what that meant. I then realized that it was probably that Hand of Reckoning ability I took off my bars because it barely did any damage and thought it was a useless ability. After clearing it, oh man did I think I was a bad ass.

I eventually got sick of ToC and Ony's Lair, I didn't get to do anything else. I can only imagine the poor souls that did ToC 4 times per week back then. I quit for 4 months and came back, running in several fail ICC pugs. If at any point I messed up, I pulled the ethernet cable and left because I thought they would all rage at me.

Fun times indeed.

[BHD]

>>>>>>> meeting the first horde>>>>>

i think i was around lvl 25 i was running from mobs and i died alot..i end up swimming in water away i hub on a boat and there was a blood elf fishing on it.


i knew she was horde but i thought she could understand me , so i said PLEASE HELP ME i want to do this and that...

so he replied in orcish ( zugg ohg moka) something like that

i said to her (thinking she could understand)..WOW i was about to die and now i am in a boat with someone who don't speak English

That is just priceless

[Zarc]

... was being clueless about the fact that one could spend 8 years playing one and the same game..

[Deleted]

soloing deadmines was quite impressive yup

[Elim Garak]

As a hunter I used my bow only to pull mobs so I could finish them in melee. I also decided to not buy any trap skills as I was low on gold and saw no purpose in traps.

[Xerkx]

First day I played WoW I was level 7 and someone was attacking Falconwing Square. I thought it was just a boss or a quest didn't realize it was an alliance I started hitting them and thus learned my first experience in PvP.

hahaha same happened to me in durotar at San'jin village or whatever. Back in 2005...There was this night elf hunter standing there, and I also thought it was a boss you had to kill for a quest or something

[Axelond]

Accidentally hit the RP walk key and had no idea how to turn it off. I was RP walking and doing quests for probably 2h before I logged out and I had no idea how I did it or how it fixed itself.

[Poysonivy]

Think I explored a lot with my NE Druid in my begin days. Prowling my way through the bushes trying to avoid all the red mobs along the way.

Later I rolled a Frost Mage and started to blow the buggers up.

[Deleted]

Duel wielded Phantomblades on my hunter :P (cause of those bloody rogues)