I miss being a noob

[Aiphares]

I miss the old Astranaar raids with 40 lvl 15-20 guys and lvl 40 Astranaar guards that could slay the entire raid

[Torne]

I miss having to travel vor half an hour to a new ara because I don´t know the way and have no mount and actually ENJOYING the walk.
I remember travelling trough STV the first time and just thinking "Wow, this really is a jungle!"

[Deleted]

so I still remember most of this stuff and am not a total ignorant elitist who forgot how he started as a newbie too.

Lies. Elitists were never noobs. They learned every aspect of gameplay from the box alone. At level one, a hardcore player could already pug EGC.

/sarcasm

[ZaneBusby]

This is so true. I no longer have fun in this game. My first toon took over six months to level to 70, when I started playing early in bc. I had so much fun. Not knowing things, exploring this huge world. But now what? I created an alt and within 3 days he was over level 40. And I dreaded leveling - it was just absolutely boring. I know, I know, I could level slower. But I just can't. I just can't enjoy it like my first toon.

THIS. IN EVERY WAY. I still have fun, but it's not the same. I remember running round with my RaF buddy. We were such noobs, and explored everything together, and we found the most awesome sights (like when we found CoT, I told her to look at the sky), and levelled together. We did everything together... Then we hit 60. She got a boyfriend pretty soon after. I wanted to keep levelling together, and exploring shit, but her BF was like 'Dude, it's pointless. RaF stops at 60. She ain't gonna level with you anymore." That killed a BIG part of enjoyment in my game. >_>

I also took about 5 months from starting to hit 70. I then quit for 3 months, came back, got WotLK, and spent another 2 months levelling to 80.

Now I'm making a druid alt purely to farm extra emblems per week for primordial saronite for gold, (and will do the same with the new emblems in cata.) but I hate levelling it. It's not the same, because I level so slow. I've made it to 65 in a span of about 6 months, and haven't played it in about 2 months. I'd rather farm achievements on my main.

[Deleted]

I miss trying to level every aspect of my character lockpicking, skinning, leatherworking, first aid, fishing, cooking, all from level 1.
I miss Uldaman being the largest most epic instance I had ever seen.
I miss travelling to SFK with no mount, risking my life to get to the instance. What if the horde attacked me? :O
I miss chilling with my friends doing fun things that got you no where in the game, like naked runs and world PvP.

Now you guys have reminded me why I liked this game 5 years ago I suddenly realise I need to play something else till cata comes out. I play for all the wrong reasons.

heres to hoping Cata will bring that feeling back *raises glass*

[Zehroh]

I miss

buying 2 shields accidentally (very expensive for lowlvl) and saying to myself: crap I can't reload because you can't save in this game

for almost deleting my first char because I didn't knew how to unlearn a profession because I picked the wrong one.

when I bought auctions with bid first and then buyout.

when I flew over Burning Steppes and Searing Gorge and see those lvl60 questing. Woow hardcore area.

when my brother said: "Look at this" to see an epic mount.

Didn't knew how to use talents untill lvl 40

3 months farm for my Hide of the Wild

Being very happy to mine 2 arcane crystals from one vein. I needed those for the pala epic mount quest.

[Bitehattori]

I just remembered a lvl 40 warrior talking to me in some Unknown language to Stranglethorn Vale to be his healer at lvl 23.

[Deleted]

I miss when it didn't matter than I'm a noob clicker who can't raid and doesn't have all the uberleet achievements like everyone else
I miss messing up my camera at level 2 and walking around trying to get it back to normal and ending up in Darnassus and walking into a wall
I miss fishing in Auberdine with my first guildmate, cooking some fish and chilling under the moon on our little island in the sea
I miss when WoW was fun, an adventure - laughing as I stormed around Deadmines with some new FRIENDS and explored Westfall, not a care in the world.

Cataclysm can't bring it back. Nothing can.

[Izenhart]

This is so true. I no longer have fun in this game. My first toon took over six months to level to 70, when I started playing early in bc. I had so much fun. Not knowing things, exploring this huge world. But now what? I created an alt and within 3 days he was over level 40. And I dreaded leveling - it was just absolutely boring. I know, I know, I could level slower. But I just can't. I just can't enjoy it like my first toon.

That's called nostalgia, not missing something you liked.

6 months for leveling IS NOT FUN (and anyways, 6 months? were you botting grinding mobs in the same place forever?)

4 hours to run/sail from Org to UC to learn weapons's skills IS NOT FUN.


The only fun part about a new game is that...IS NEW.

Everything looks incredible, everything looks interesting.


Then, almost 6 years after, you'll come to understand that it was a very unfinished, unbalanced, boring and repetitive kind of play, BUT you can remember "the good 'ol times", so everything becomes "fun" to your eyes.

[friggo]

my first night of wow IF was attacked by hordes, i saw some of them running from gnomeregan and decided to call if out in localdefense (took a while to figure out how to) anyway after talking in it i noticed this symbol at the portrait and wondered what it was. Didnt take long until i learned that's the PVP tag.

I miss my first dungeon experience, as most alliance players it was DM. The whole instance felt so awesome, especially Mr. Smite and his "You landlubbers are tougher than i thought. I'll have to improvise!"

my borther told me about this dungeon in barrens, so me and a friend who started at the same time as d did ran through stv at level 20-25 and then tried to 2 man it... didnt end to well.

i miss my first raid, which was ZG.

i miss the feeling of getting my first epic, it was the sword from sunken temple.

i miss the feeling of finally upgrading my 60% mount to a 100% mount, it's so fast!!!

i miss doing the scholomance part of my charger quest.

i miss running around spamming "looking for enchanter beastslaying".

god i miss being new to the game

[poldera]

i miss being lvl 32 on my hunter trying to kill raptors from behind the arena in STV while having red armor all over due to not knowing i could repair

[Scifix]

The game looked way more epic when i knew what nothing actually was, ah the old days

[The Ogdru Jahad]

Wow this topic really hit me, its been so long since I felt this way about any game. WoW was the first game that I was ever really a noob, and I missed the adventure of it, I miss finding out new things, I miss not having mmo champion, so I'd actually find things out myself in the game world.

*I miss the adventure
*I miss my first time seeing an instance portal, and standing outside it, and in guild chat explaining how I think I found a new secret cave in the wailing caverns, only to have it explained to me what exactly an instance was
*I miss trying to tank bfd as a troll warrior in + intellect gear and being called bad and having groups leave on me
*I miss picking out new gear only because it had more green numbers, even if they weren't relevant to my class
*I miss my first time going into cat/bear form, and just sitting in ratchet for an hour turning my camera around my character at awe at how cool my form was
*I miss going to thunderbluff as the only major city I knew of and only selling weapon greys to weapon vendors, food greys to food vendors and so on
*I miss when I was using a lvl 10 bow at lvl 40 and met a hunter with all the cool BC pets and being jealous
*I miss asking people in crossroads how they got a ravager and dragonhawk, then trying for hours on end to get to the draenai starting zone at lvl 14 to tame on, only to find out, I don't have BC installed
*I miss being in durotar on my first character, coming across a warlock a couple levels higher then me and asking him what class he was. He said warlock and I kept asking him what class he was, not knowing warlock was a class, and instead thought warlock was like, a sub sub class or something
*I miss killing those harpies for hours on end in durotar, even when I outleveled them, just so I could keep finding those treasure chests to get the stuff out of, thinking that they were rare
*I miss not knowing how to use the AH
*I miss sitting in wailing caverns fishing in the dark waters thinking I might catch something really cool and rare
*I miss being a hunter that only picked my weapons by what I thought looked coolest, which was why I only used duel wield swords, and axes at the time, or w/e it was that you could use.
*I miss my first journey into orgrimmar, where I was afraid to go into the cleft of shadow
*I miss getting my first shoulder pads on my warrior and thinking I was the coolest kid in town
*I miss setting up instance runs by advertising looking for tanks and dps and healers, not this new lfg shit
*I miss the magic
*I miss not worrying about the gear my character has
*I miss my first guild, which I was in for all of my BC career before I sort of moved on from being a noob and adventure player who enjoyed the game, and became someone who just wanted to raid, so I left the guild and turned into elitist scum like I am now. This game has lost its touch, and I doubt I will ever feel the same about a game ever again.
*I miss the way this game used to be.

[Deleted]

i miss Silithus being a dead zone
i miss 40 man raids
i miss being crept up on by devilsaurs
i miss trying to kill things i know i could never
i miss ganking at xroads
i miss being rank 14 and therefore a no lifer
i miss pvp videos being awesome
i miss not being able to pug anything
i miss classic gear
i miss mismatched chars
i miss using thottbot XD
i miss there not being a website which tells you how to play the game to your best capabilities (epileptic jerks)
i miss people not knowing what theorycrafting was
i miss being a warrior tank in vanilla, which was really the only tank
i miss tanking being hard
i miss playing wow for fun

[Trickname]

farming raptors in wetlands for 5 levels becuase I didn't know Duskwood exsisted.

[Tviksas]

tip:
start playing completely new game.
you will feel the same

[Deleted]

i miss running around spamming "looking for enchanter beastslaying".

wow i 4got about this! The day I got beastslaying on both my weapons (1st char was a rogue) best day of WoW ever! XD

[xlord]

The sad part is that when You start playing WOw and getting a little more eliete, you actually notice that each game has the same basics and it each game has classes that separate in to tank/dps/heal. That the end game is about gear, and gear is about caps, and caps are about maths, and that the world you so loved to explore is just a quest hub where you get max five different types of quests. I will never see MMO-s other way than this...

maybe you should try eve online:P
thats a whole difrent game, and you could say some ships there can be like tanks and other can be like healers, but its still completly difrent.

but then again i feel your pain

[Deleted]

I wish I could enjoy EVE. I like the idea of it 100% but in practice there is just far to much time doing nothing or waiting for something to happy for me to have fun on it.

[Lotharion]

This game will never be new again.

Cataclysm will refresh a lot of the land, but the classes, and big chunks of the game will still be the same.

You have to play a game you've never played before to get the new feeling back.