Your World of Warcraft Noob Mistake! (51 replies to this topic)

On my very first raid ever, my first boss was Alysazor....

I have just seen a feather on the floor. Thought: "Yeaaayy flyiiing".

A hell no! Fire caw in yer face XDD

In Vanilla WoW I was leveling my main, which is a warrior. I started tanking in the Scarlet Monestery and continued to do so until about level 50. I tanked with a two-handed axe, and just sunder armored and taunted XD.

I didn't even know about tanks when I first started playing wow. Well I guess I knew they existed, but I didn't understand proper group comp when running dungeons. I ran dead mines a few times with 5 dps, or 3 dps + 2 healers. I remember doing Zul Farrak one time with 4 rogues and a priest.

I don't think I really learned how to put a proper group together until about half way through leveling in BC when higher levels friends couldn't tank with their hunter pet for me anymore (I started playing a few months before the xpac, and never hit max level in Vanilla)

Edited by Storm, 09 May 2013 - 06:50 PM.

Back during vanilla we were doing MC. All the trash was starting to respawn. So I stealthed back upto the boss on my druid. Back then we didn't have anything but a battle rez. I accidently rezzed a rogue. Thus making my raid wait another 20mins.

Edited by Rabb, 10 May 2013 - 05:48 AM.

My very first wow day (not long ago) I died to a beasty tiger in the undead starting area and as everyone knows it's debuff free to speak to a spirit guardian thing and resurrect yourself if you are under level 10 (since there's a massive message on screen that tells you this). Well, what it didn't tell you was.. where this spirit guardian person is (was right in front of my face but with no nameplate as far as I remember) and as a noob I ran around in this wonderful spirit world looking for my corpse or an npc that was named spirit something (I can't remember the name). An hour later I got extremely frustrated and uninstalled wow . Luckily though a friend reinvited me and showed me how to resurrect properly few moons later, since then my corpse run has not reached that 1 hour mark yet fingers crossed.

i decided i wanted to level a shadow priest, so i went to the character creation screen, spent about 10 mins setting up my features and name etc, get into game, spend another 10 mins setting up my UI and addons, do the first couple of quests on my way to the mailbox, log out, mail heirlooms, log back in, and then it dawns on me i had rolled a mage........my guild made shadowmage jokes for about 3 months...i just saw cloth on the character screen and forgot to check

Edited by Tielo, 10 May 2013 - 09:25 AM.

I made a few mistakes while levelling for the first time.

I remember being around lvl 45 when some one I had grouped with said "lets mount up and go to X".  I said I could't as I couldn't learn riding as I had filled my two profession slots already.  I thought riding was a profession because when I tried learning it at around level 10-15 (already having two professions) it said I couldn't.  

Also, I had been playing for about 7-8 months (a few weeks into Cata so I was lvl 85) before I realised I could sell stuff to vendors.  Before then I had been deleting unwanted items or storing them in my bank.  As soon as I realised I could do sell crap and get some gold, I went and cleared my bank of all my old soulbound gear.  :-)

Trying to heal in a dungeon as resto shaman in full agility gear and no mouse over macros.

Took me about 2 years to get over the fail shame and try healing again!

During Vanilla I remember spending tons of time surfing the auction house for that ONE particular robe that looked gorgeous on my Night Elf Druid - regardless of stats. After I took a break and came back when BC came out to find my Druid wearing miscellaneous agility, intellect, strength stats, I won't lie it made me facepalm a little bit.

OMG Noob mistakes! I probably have dozens! I played Warcraft 1, 2, and 3 but was very hesitant to get on and actually play with other people. I took the plunge in January '09. I had never played any online game or MMORPG, so I was as clueless as they come.

1) Leveled my Priest as Holy - took me 6 months to get to 80.

2) Tried to raid the day I turned 80 - did ok for a bit until a RL started asking me questions about my "PoH and PoM and CoH" usage. I was like "my what?". He was actually very polite and just said they wouldn't be needing me.

3) Ate food that was a quest item.

4) Ran in from a wipe in ToC - we were on the part when there are a gazillion Hordies opposite us and you fight them all - and I thought they were my guild and happily ran directly into them, of course pulling them. I didn't hear the end of that for a long time.

5) My friend told me to ask in trade for a port. I had never taken a port and didn't know what it meant, but I did what he said. Someone answered, I paid him and then just stood there. Didn't even see the portal let alone know I should click on it. He called me a retard and logged out. Unbelievably, I was truly offended!

6) When I joined my current guild, in our first raid, I kept asking for a Mage Table in chat - like 5 times. Then I got pissed and said "Ok - I have asked really politely for a Mage Table like 5 times! Give me one now!". Turns out, they had been putting them out the whole time but we were running so fast, and it was 25 man, that I hadn't seen any of them. So embarrassing! That one I didn't live down for like a year. It became a running joke because a guildie named Ent had shown me where the last one laid down was, so it was always "Uh-oh! Ent isn't here! Tal will never find the table!"

7) Switched from Horde to Alliance, and kept dying when I tried to go to set my hearth - turns out that I was running to Two Moons instead of the Alliance one out of habit.


Anyways, I did find many wonderful people eventually who schooled me and helped me on my way. I am forever greatful  to them and am always trying to pay it forward

Edited by Taldryx, 10 May 2013 - 09:11 PM.

I was very drunk the day I decided to pick up the game and my very first toon was a nelf hunter. From 1-60 I believed that autoshot was a button to spam to shoot, armor rating was the only number that was important on gear, and that steady shot was a waste because it had a cast time.

When I first started I didn't know what instances or even elite mobs were so me and a friend tried to two man the Deadmines because we had a couple of quests in there that needed done.

Also just about the same time in Sentinel Hill there were a few Horde killing the NPC's, and a few Ally got one of the Horde down to about 2% HP so me being the noob that I was I figured one of my Warlock dot's would be able to kill it right? So I cast and see MISS on my screen and it flagged me and I was instantly killed.