Reminiscence your newbie days...

[Luciaz]

Do you guys ever recall the time when you first got hold of the WOW box?
The 1st you get to go online in the game?
Took hours browsing the servers, and modifying the way your character will look like in the game?

I did.

Whenever I ride my swift mechanostrider from city to city(Im too stingy to buy port runes or gryphon rides), I see monsters ranging from lvl1-20(like dun morogh, elewyn forest,westfall,etc).

They remind me of the time when WoW was shinier to my 1st toon,a gnome mage. I loved the foot tracks I made when I run from trolls in dun morogh. I went to SW by using a tram(I thought it was unridable at 1st).It was at Elewyn forest that I 1st got into a guild. And then I typed every emote available :P

I loved exploring while scrolling my camera to look at the clouds in the sky, so I usually end up in places I wasn't supposed to go, like Duskwood. I saw my guildie there in the map(I wanted to go to him and wave), so I went to Duskwood and saw lvl ?? wolves near the river banks. I thought they were lvl 0, so I went ahead and fireballed one. It resisted, and oneshotted me.
I got a giddy feeling when my screen went black and white for the 1st time because I became a ghost and that I had to go back to my corpse to rez.

When I lvled up to lvl8, I decided to stick to killing kobolds in the forest. I felt rich when I had 20 silvers with me. Then I saw this tower of azora, filled with dead gnomes??? And the chat was filled with Goldshire is underattack!x100
Horde raid, you got it!
So I went back to GS to see whats all the commotion about.

I saw hordies and allies in green names battling in the middle of GS, and I thought they were npcs playing out an in-game event.
The allies won of course. I clapped at them, and one of them gave me a buff and did an emote to me. Shocking!
I asked the druid sergeant "Are you GM?" because I thought pvp only happened in bgs and duels.:embarassed:

It was such an exhilirating experience.
Even TBC failed to give me the same wow feeling as the 1st WoW.
Now its all dingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingpurple!dingdingding....

Good times indeed...:cloud9:

So, do you reminiscence too?

[Topbananas]

To be honest, yes!

Every time I come through ironforge I have a peek out at where it all started when I had my gnome rogue.

You feel into the game more at a lower level :P

[Xandro]

The one thing that sticks with you the rest of your life as Alliance.....the very first time you meet Hogger, lol.

[Maticus]

I love to go back to where it all started, which for me was Elwynn Forest too. I still think of it as my main Character's "home", and I know every inch of the place, where every interesting feature is. It's such a warm welcoming place for newbies to start.

I remember I died a lot when I first started playing. I picked a Warrior because I prefer melee than casting, but there's no healing, so unless you can run away from an over-pull, you've had it :tongue:

Around level 10, I accepted a random group invite. The guy suggested we go to Ironforge on the tram. I just went along with it, but when we got there I hated it because I didn't have a clue where I was. As soon as he wandered off on his own, I left the group and Hearthstoned back to the safety of Elwynn Forest. I kept my HS set for the Goldshire Inn until I was well into level 30.

I didn't discover the Auction House until I was around that level either, I was too scared to sell anything on it because I thought I'd have to post the item to the auction winner, and I might forget and get myself banned lol. At level 40 ish I remember asking a Warlock what the difference was between them and Mages because I couldn't tell ><

I could go on for ages about the nooby things I've done, but I'll give someone else a go :grin:

[Twoflower]

Whenever I ride my swift mechanostrider from city to city(Im too stingy to buy port runes or gryphon rides), I see monsters ranging from lvl1-20(like dun morogh, elewyn forest,westfall,etc).


you do realise that while saving 5 silver for a teleport rune or a griffon ride, you also loose 20 - 30 minutes ? i bet you you can farm more than 5 silver in 20 minutes.

dont be stingy in the wrong place.

[Luciaz]

^ I use tele runes(emergency only, and it's 8 silver btw) when I need to go to the other side of the continent or from far south to far north.

But I mostly use the boats. Like from SW to Darn = SW to STV, then take BB boat to Rachet, then to Theramore, take boat to Wetlands, then take the boat to Auberdine, and the last one to Darn.:D

I dont like riding gryphons, bcuz Blizz made the flight path too long lol(think Kalimdor). Wish it would be as fast as the boat..:P

I was trying to be as thrifty as possible, thats how I got my swift ride in the 1st place.

Takes a while yea, but I like exploring on foot.
And if Im lucky, the monster blocking the road drops me a blue :O

"Grrr...stupid raptor blocking road to AB. Die, you vile reptile!!!!"
*raptor dies*
*loots*
"ZOMGCLAYMOREEE!!!"

[piscene]

I love seeing the mobs that were really intimidating when I first started, which I can kill barehanded now.

I had total strangers take me to do my aquatic form quest at lvl 16. I had never gone anywhere but darkshore before, and we travelled all the way through IF and SW to Westfall. It was amazing.

[Cirdann]

Back in Feb 2005, I remember a low level friend of mine (lvl 10-20) who once tried to walk on foot from Grom'gol base camp to Undercity. :shocked:
Poor guy didn't realise there was a Zeppelin connecting the two together. He wasted several hours, died numerous times and filled the guild chat with expletives.

Needless to say, he didn't get very far....

[ale81]

My most newbie thing I ever did was lvl My 1st toon my warrior 1-60 without even spending a single talent point didnt know they existed till I was in Brd and some priest asked me why I could gain aggro( also asked me why I didnt have a shield! LOL) Shortly after A great friend named Ysho gave me the low down on WTF not being a noob. And now what some 3-4 years later I'm in BT powening but now on my Lock I got my warrior to 70 and put it up on a shelf might play her someday pvp wise but I dont think I'll ever raid with her.:thumbsup:

[Twoflower]

^ I use tele runes(emergency only, and it's 8 silver btw) when I need to go to the other side of the continent or from far south to far north.

But I mostly use the boats. Like from SW to Darn = SW to STV, then take BB boat to Rachet, then to Theramore, take boat to Wetlands, then take the boat to Auberdine, and the last one to Darn.:D

I dont like riding gryphons, bcuz Blizz made the flight path too long lol(think Kalimdor). Wish it would be as fast as the boat..:P

I was trying to be as thrifty as possible, thats how I got my swift ride in the 1st place.

just set your heart stone to shattrath. this boat trip sounds like 30 minutes at least. eek.

of course i am a mage, so i am somewhat used to different standarts :D

[Lothaer]

i remember thinking fade was a pointless ability but these days i LOVE it saves my but alot, i also remember asking in trade (back when it was individual cities and not joined) when do i learn Touch of Weakness and the other priest racials. i play a NE Priest :)

[tagkc]

Ahhh - remembering the sense of awesomeness the first time walking into Ironforge.....

[Kojima]

Me getting the game was actually quite a spontaneous thing. A mate convinced me while I was on msn, since he already had a level 70 - which also meant my choice of server was predetermined.

I rolled up a lock, and was having a blast. I reached level 10 in no time, and at some point my mate told me to cast some random ability, which I didn't have. So he went, oh yes you do - it's a pet skill. My reply was "pet skill =.=". He laughed for 30 minuts, and he'll still mention it every once in a while. Even now, one year later.

Awh well, that time was a blast. Me and two of me mates, did synchronized stripteases in goldshire, it was hilarious.

[savier]

When i was lvl 25 i took some rl freinds that had just started the game on a seasonal quest we got from IF so the others were tiny and we had to walk from IF cos most of them didnt have flight paths,. Lol We walked from IF to Ashenvale only for it to be the completely wrong place. It took hours to get there and the place i thought we needed was covered in 45 elites. So i was like 'i'll stealth in and scope it out and find what we need.' To which someone pointed out replied 'are you sure this is right , it seems silly that we can all get the quest at level 10 and below and then its covered in 45 elites' So anyway i had taken them to the horde one, which is hilarious and then i said and i quote 'enjoy the walk back' and heathed back to SW.

[malystyx]

This post made me think about the time that I wanted to get from Westfall to Menethil Harbor with my human priest. I had started a Night Elf Druid and really loved the scenery in Darkshore, especially compared to the bleak landscape of the Westfall area. Being such a low level, I didn't think I'd make it through the passage without dying a couple hundred times so I ended up swimming around the continent. Took me a couple hours of hugging the coastline but I eventually made it. Saw some neat areas along the coast including a couple of abandoned piers and villages. Don't believe I'll ever do that again though.

[Cerberus]

I remember being a bit confused by all these generals in my chatbox.. How did one become a general?

[Wintrow]

I remember being a bit confused by all these generals in my chatbox.. How did one become a general?

^^ wins the thread... for now

[pergolesi]

As a newby level 5 gnome I started down the road in Dun Morogh near Gnomeron looking at the scenery and suddenly I was attacked and killed by gnomes! I couldn't believe the betrayal! Gnomes killing other gnomes! It undermined my whole value system.

[Leord]

I remember the feeling of becoming lost in Sotmwind >.< Luckyily, the "m" button worked to show me the map =P

I remember being a bit confused by all these generals in my chatbox.. How did one become a general?
Haha :D

[Topbananas]

As a newby level 5 gnome I started down the road in Dun Morogh near Gnomeron looking at the scenery and suddenly I was attacked and killed by gnomes! I couldn't believe the betrayal! Gnomes killing other gnomes! It undermined my whole value system.

LMAO!

thats kinda funny >.<

[Zachariah]

Sadly, I was lvl 63-4 when this event took place...

I was wondering round Nagrand when I saw the elite Son-of-Gruul Gronn who walks around the giant diamond. I thought he was a world boss like Kazaak and shouted out his location, warning everyone and asking for a raid group...to be greeted by a richly-deserved chorus of mocking laughter and sarcasm.

Also, in one of my first BGs, the random raid-leader got bored and put up marks over all our heads...I of course immediately shouted at him to remove them, as I thought they made us easier for the other side to see...

[Maticus]

Sadly, I was lvl 63-4 when this event took place...

I was wondering round Nagrand when I saw the elite Son-of-Gruul Gronn who walks around the giant diamond. I thought he was a world boss like Kazaak and shouted out his location, warning everyone and asking for a raid group...to be greeted by a richly-deserved chorus of mocking laughter and sarcasm.

Also, in one of my first BGs, the random raid-leader got bored and put up marks over all our heads...I of course immediately shouted at him to remove them, as I thought they made us easier for the other side to see...

Now this is more like it, surely the most shameful confessions yet! Haha, brilliant! I've done things like this too, so glad it's not just me :grin:

[det]

Back in the days, Silverpine forest was my home....I remember being stuck around lv 17, couldn't kill the elites at Pyrewood (lv 14) or find ppl to help me.

Then somebody I knew from Diablo 2 and who I had a lose contact with found me, showed me the Zeppelin and Crossroads. Until then I thought as an Undead you can only get quests from Undead.

Finding the Barrens was the single biggest revelation for me :)

[stayclean]

I remember on my first character (a NE priest), I tried to resurrect a hunter that had feigned death :P

I think it was when I was about lvl 18 going through the darkshore quests.

[Omarus]

I remember
...spending my first hour completely lost inside Northshire Abbey walking into walls and not being able to find the exit
...being called an ninja for need rolling on BOEs in Stockades because i had the whole need/greed thing backwards.
...how happy i was when had my first 1g in my inventory no longer just silver coins...i was probably almost lvl 30.
...Rolling into Gadgetzan for the first time and clicking on the horde flighmaster and getting 1-hit.
...when i thought PST meant like the sound 'pssst' you make when trying to whisper to someone
...spending 100g on my first epic DESTINY and thinking i was the shizzle.

[Luciaz]

^ROFLMAO The exact same thing happened to me for the first three.

And another thing, the word soulbound and BoP can be very misleading for a new toon.
I didn't wear any gear other than the greys until lvl 30 because I was afraid that it would mean that I cant wear any better gear because it was bound to me, lol.

[Xlorep DarkHelm]

Do you guys ever recall the time when you first got hold of the WOW box?
The 1st you get to go online in the game?
Took hours browsing the servers, and modifying the way your character will look like in the game?

I did.

So, do you reminiscence too?

Let's see. First, there was the Beta. Ahh yes, the good ol days where undead were undead, shammies made everyone walk on water, and Booty Bay was constantly under siege. Then the game was released.

Me, I ordered the collector's edition, paid in full up front on the preorder. So that when it arrived at the store, I just walked in, asked for my box, and walked out (did the same thing for TBC too). Set up and started my hunter, the one class I pretty much intentionally neglected in the beta. I can remember when there were 60's on the Alliance on my server, but only 40's - 50's for horde.... The massive loot lag that plagued the servers for the first 6 - 8 months, all of the other fun as Blizzard scrambled to try to catch up with their runaway success. Ahh, good times, good times.

Didn't have to spend hours looking for a server, there was a lot fewer servers back then.

[Mentality]

In some ways I wish Id never played wow so i could start now and it would all be fresh. Elwynn forest music has more effect on me by far than any in the game as thats where i started my first paladin (which I got to 17 before reroll :P). That music just takes me to a place where I saw the game as a massive adventure that was so immense I could never full understand. Now I know it inside out - its good and bad at the same time =]

[Dhoum]

My first character was a Tauren Shaman (called "Dhoum" ... now on mothballs but I may play him again someday) and here are (some of) the dumb things he did:
In his teens he was given a quest to visit a Tauren in Silverpine Forest. Hilarity ensued as I had no idea there was a continent other than Kalimdor and proceeded to attempt to run to Desolace since that sounded like a place that Undead would come from.. To my credit I made it as far as the Charred Vale before being nuked by ?? elementals and harpies. Shortly thereafter some kind soul on General chat explained about the Eastern Continent and zeppelins.

On his first visit to Booty Bay he visited the Flight Master (his only experience of neutral towns being Ratchet) and was promptly one-shotted by the evil Dwarf and his two angry gryphons.

And, of course, when a Hunter mysteriously dropped dead in front of him, dear old Dhoum tried to resurrect him.

I do remember with a great deal of fondness those few months ago when everything in the game was a mystery. Thankfully there are still places I haven't been and an awful lot that I don't know, so there are still moments of both utter n00bishness and awed wonder ... and that's just the way I like it.

[ChaosInc]

My first real noob thing I ever did was try to get to IF from SW....

....not knowing the tram existed.

Needless to say, after a LOT of deaths through Searing Gorge, someone finally found me and asked "WTF are you doing here?" I'll never forget the moment when he told me about the tram. He was nice enough to walk me to the FP though (only lvl 10 I still know of to date that had that FP). I also smacked my RL friends who told me to go there, but neglected to mention it as well. They thought it was HILARIOUS. :laughing:

[Twoflower]

i remember thinking "cool, each new char starts with a 16 slot bag" and creating another char just to send my new mage some more bags... oh, WTF is "soulbound" ?

[Pisken]

My first char was an Undead rogue (he is actually 70 now) , but i diddnt really like the rogue at the start (i came from Diablo2 world and such) so i wanted me a Barbarian , said and done my first "serious" char went Orc Warrior.

Struggeld long and hard to learn the game (my rogue went level 2 or 3 so just had the basics) , when i was about level 14 or 15 i discoverd Orgrimmar gates , and went "oohh **** how big it is".... outside Orgrimmar there is a little farm with pigs or sheeps(critters) and i found it very amusing to "one shot" and kill all of them , made me feel very strong and "barbarian"

Suddenly *WHACKABAM* i died ... i went "oh **** what was that" ... ran and got my corpse ... and before my eyes a shadow thing dissapears ... and *HACKSLASH" i died again .... and i diddnt go even near that farm again... it took VERY long time before i realized it was a high level ally rogue was hiding on the critters so i attacked (by misstake first time to get the pvp flag) ganked me .... i really thought it was the farmer or something killed me on that farm :smile:

[waytofailself]

My first character was a lock on a pve server (back when locks were crappy, death coil was an instant lifedrain with no fear element on a 10 minute cooldown, etc) and I did a whole lot of reading and research about the game (I was an avid reader of d2.net, so this site was a natural extension).

Looking back, I actually kind of hate that I didn't do too many things. I used the map area of this site to figure out where I was going, and I used other sites for quest info.

I guess the biggest noob thing I did was take out the element of discovery of the game for myself. In a sense, I knew a lot of what was coming.

...however, it still was quite fun to trigger the Razorgore event with my eye of kilrog...twice. I thought it didn't create any agro!

[Metwell]

At lvl 16 with my NE Rogue I was in a pug with another NE (can't remember class). we had both dinged 16 while finishing a group quest and both ran back to train. I then announced I was gonna run to IF to collect the weapon skills from the trainer there. He thought that was a good idea so came with me. We caught the boat to wetlands, ran through to IF and then I said - there's more in Stormwind - wanna come with me for that? Sure he said. And so we ran. the whole way. Locked doors weren't a problem - we just followed someone through. there was a lot of corpse hopping involved and a hefty (at the time) repair bill because everything was red dmged. I couldn't believe how hard they had made the run. It was the next day when talking to RL friend that I found out about the tram. I thought he was kidding me at first. To this day I still look back at that run as both noobish and great fun (you kinda forget the pain after a while). IMO they shoulda mentioned the tram in the manual. :)

[Urden]

On my NE warrior, around level 21-22. I walked from Ironforge to Stormwind so I could train from the weapons master there. Took me several hours and I almost gained a level from discovering new zones. I find out almost 10 levels later, that a tram connected the two cities.

[Maticus]

Not sure if this counts, as it only happened the other day, but it's a classic noob event.

My mate and I joined a 2v2 Arena match. We're both new to Arenas, it was our 3rd match ever. While waiting behind the gates for the match to start, my mate thought it would be entertaining to dress his female NE Priest in the skimpy Christmas outfit he recently acquired, and do /dance. We both giggled for a few seconds, then the gates opened, signalling the start of the match. I run out into the Arena, preparing to fight the opponents, when my mate goes
"Wtf, I'm stuck", I asked him what he meant, thinking he meant his character was stuck in position or something. Turns out you can't change your outfit after a certain time in the Arenas. He Shadowmelded and told me to go fight, I still rofl when I think about him, standing there stealthed in a fluffy bra and pants :laugh:

Needless to say, he didn't last very long. Our opponents must have laughed almost as much as me!

Oh, and another couple of early days tales: I didn't discover the Autorun key until I was about level 20. I had a rare fire resistance Trinket drop pre BC off a random mob, sold it for about 3g on the AH and found out later it was worth more like 200g, as it was back in the days of MC, BWL etc >.< And I only found out in the last 6 months that Darnassus is at the top of a big tree (just thought it was further inland from the FP).

[Justinledwards]

Darnassus is at the top of a big tree

So that's what people mean when they say falling off the tree... (NElf hunter for 18 months). I seriously didn't know that. So the whole NE starting area, up to Darn, is a speck of soil in the world-tree....

[minister667]

Look you can see Ragnaros throught that hole in the wall...... nuff said

[caid]

Talking about noobs, i was once killed by a squirrel!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ZaxGreia]

In the first beta, my (and my wife's) first experience with WoW resulted in a couple humorous experiences.

The first one was part of the reason the "unstick" button was created - she got her little gnome caught under log for a good 3-4 days. She likes to RP a bit, so she started to send messages to general from "the log" while she waited for a GM to come help her get out.

Experience #2 was the best (still beta). She wanted to have her little gnome mage "live" in Darnassus, since it's pretty. We figured out where the boats picked up in Menethil (after that long and scary trek through Wetlands), and got on the only boat we could find - to Theramore. Once she arrived, she started jogging for the west coast, where we figured she could catch a boat to the island.

She ran through Duskwallow Marsh, the Barrens, and all the way up Stonetalon to the Alliance town at the very top. She didn't know any other flightpaths connected to Stonetalon, so she eventually hearthed. The best part was that she gained 5 levels only through discovery experience.

Eventually, she did make it to Darnassus - we found the right ship - and she made it her home. She got lots of odd looks, as she was the only gnome in Darnassus at the time. She was probably the only mage there too, since there are no mage trainers there ;)

[thorleader]

went from darn to IF to SW as a level 9 druid... didn't realize I had to go back at level 10 for the bear form... and didn't pick up any flight paths. And didn't realize there was a druid trainer in SW. (though I don't think I can do form quest through him)

[Xandro]

went from darn to IF to SW as a level 9 druid... didn't realize I had to go back at level 10 for the bear form... and didn't pick up any flight paths. And didn't realize there was a druid trainer in SW. (though I don't think I can do form quest through him)

I still haven't figured out why classes such as shamans, hunters and druids make the trip to SW so low. Yeah, maybe the zones are a little better (hate the elf zones terribly", but if you know good and well you'll have class quests early on, just stay there and do it, THEN come on over. Just an opinion.

[thorleader]

thus the noob part, my friend told me to becuase "I know all the quests here"

[Baboon]

On my priest, I didn't buy water because I thought it would be better to save the gold for more important things. So I spent a lot of time in Westfall waiting for my mana to go up.

I guess I had learned in Diablo2 that if you just kept playing your mana problems would go away, and tried to do that in WoW too.

[ZeN]

Dancing with a sexy nightelf female and getting stabbed in the back by her 2 stealthed rogue buddies ;(

[Loriel]

One of my most noobish moments would have to be when I first got started in WoW, way back in closed beta (late 2004, early 2005). I picked a Dwarf Warrior as my first toon, and I wasn't aware that the default attack ability is an on/off toggle. Consequently I ran around hitting the attack button every time I wanted to make a swing with my 2H axe, Diablo style.. Ofc I achieved little beyond turning my auto-attack on and off.

I also vividly recall my first BG, and I also remember panicking slightly while waiting for the doors to open (this was WSG). I tried running through it, jumping over it etc. Ofc people pointed and laughed at me, which I probably deserved :)

I have a friend who tried to get to Loch Modan at lvl 18 by "shortcutting" through Redridge and Burning Steppes, which was pretty funny. Well, at least the lvl ?? Elemental who 1-shotted him thought it was.

There's probably a lot more than this, but it's all a faint memory now. You can only try something for the first time once, and after 3 years you've pretty much seen it all.

[Luciaz]

You know, after all these talk about how awesome WoW was(its still great), it makes me wonder if the WOTLK is gonna give me the exact same wow moments. It seemed like a rather enormous patch than a real expansion to me :(

Pwning Mr.Smite>>>>>>>>>>>>>pwning Arthas

[HandofDread]

The one and only thing I do miss from noobdom is the feeling of awe I got when first entering a new region or capital city. I own/played every Warcraft from Orcs vs. Humans to Frozen Throne and it was awesome to finally walk through many of the major points of interest that began all the way back in the early days....

[Twoflower]

Talking about noobs, i was once killed by a squirrel!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hahaha :) that s gold :) how did you manage that ? ^

[frimley]

You know, after all these talk about how awesome WoW was(its still great), it makes me wonder if the WOTLK is gonna give me the exact same wow moments. It seemed like a rather enormous patch than a real expansion to me :(

Oh I think it will; its easy to look back at it all with rosy-tinted spectacles, because back then everything was really really new.

I was getting a bit jaded on my shammy recently, been 70 for a while, so I rolled an alt, and it brought back all the good old-world memories, about starting out and finding my way in the world. But then my alt's just gone through the Dark Portal, and now I'm remembering how awesome TBC was too - the sheer expanse of HFP, the sky ... the sky in HFP is just something else, and my first sighting (or sound actually, followed by ground shaking, and then sighting of a fel reaver - wtf!).

Hats off to Blizzard - WoW still fills me with awe after all this time.

Oh - and nubbishness; like a lot of people on here I started as alliance and have a tram story - I wouldn't travel on it when I first discovered it because I couldn't find an indicator board telling me where it went to and I was too scared of getting lost ... :ponder:

[Eileithyia]

I remember with my 1st toon (Orc Warrior) and I just hit lvl 18 and started to think I was immortal. At the time my cousin was playing wow and he /w me to say he got a quest to go to WC.
Not knowing what a dungeon was then (or even Elite,) I in my new found imberness suggested I will help him. As we made our way to the cave I was biging my self up saying this will be nice and easy with 2 of us, I saw a raptor and charged in only to get floored again and again and again. I could not work out why I had lost my ability to kill mobs.

I also remember my 1st time tanking in SM and one of the group members /w me and told me to go defensive and equip shield. After the 1st boss I /w him back and said I’m going back to my 2h axe as I do more dmg /shame
After a few more minutes I was left wondering why my group all hearthed out and left me on my own. /cry

[Tikki]

I'm still a noob after a year and a half of playing.

My most notable "fool me once" moments were -

# Swimming from westfall to the wetlands, because I thought that was how EVERYONE did it.

# Swimming around Darn for over an hour trying to get back on land- then realizing what a hearth stone was for.

# Getting crushed by the Undercity elevators

# Trying ALL the green items I picked up on.

...there's so many more. I find there's just so much you can learn in this game that you're always learning...

[SamuraiJack]

had an autolooting mod that bypassed the questions about loot if you had already done it...managed to ninja loot twice. Fortunatly my guild was okay with it since it was my first raid...eheh,,,eheh...

[Morollan]

I was level 30 or so on my second toon, having hit 60 on the first, before I found out about autorun. The hours I spent pressing the up arrow!

[xDarkDrifterx]

Yelling at a guy in Deadmines for "ninja'ing" a chest (this is before they changed it so that the whole party could roll on the contents). The "chest", was the chest on the ground with the gunpowder for the cannon to open the door to get into the last area of VC. lol

[cantspellwrothsiht]

Let me regale you with the tail of a noobish Nelf Druid!

I had played Warcraft II, and a bit of Diablo I. But this was really an all new experience for me. My foolish pride, and not wanting to appear to be a noob, would not allow me to ask those in general how to do things…so the following ensued…

First – I didn’t know you could sell your junk – I kept tossing things to pick up new things – and of course was broke!!!.

Second – I couldn’t talk to the guy on the steps who gives you a quest. It took me forever to figure out that I wasn’t standing close enough. I had clicked on him so many times, that he kept telling me to go away!...lol

Third – I didn’t know you could repair your items – or that they could break! My staff broke, and all of my armor was red. I was fist fighting krell for pocket change to repair and train (once I figured out how money worked and could sell stuff!...lol) It took me 3 days to make it to level 5!!! A feat that now takes me about 30 minutes on a new toon…lol

Fourth – When I finally got to Darnassus – I was impressed and inspired. When I went through the pink mist – there was a bonfire and a scary dwarf!!! (Summer fest 06) I ran back through the mist afraid to continue with my leveling!...lol

My first trek to IF was with a 22 warrior chaperone – who was kind enough to offer his ‘superior knowledge’ and protection – I was level 9. I did take the tram to SW, which was under attack at the moment, and because it was soooo smoky in the dwarven district, I thought it was an all out server assault!...lol I got scared and scrambled back to my comfort zone of knowledge – hearthing back to the Nelfs!...lol

I now have 19 chars, two accounts, and love playing my lowbies and my 70s. I still run into brief moments of uncertainty when I encounter new things in raiding or instances, but it doesn’t send me flying back to Darn!...lol I “tree-up” and send my meat-shield to ravage the pending threat!...lol

[Super Sneaky Steve]

I think I've had an extended noob period, since I never joined a guild till I was 70 and tuned for kara. I also haven't checked any WoW sites till this one.

I remember selling an epic(lv60) tailoring pattern to some guy for 10g and thinking of how bad I ripped him off lol

Back in the day when I was asked to heal as a teen paladin I didn't realize that I wasn't supposed to fight too. So I'd go in there and start fighting guys then I couldn't get a heal off. Everyone was pretty pissed :D

[Xlorep DarkHelm]

You know, after all these talk about how awesome WoW was(its still great), it makes me wonder if the WOTLK is gonna give me the exact same wow moments. It seemed like a rather enormous patch than a real expansion to me :(

Pwning Mr.Smite>>>>>>>>>>>>>pwning Arthas

People tend to remember the good over the bad. There was plenty of bad to go around:

When WoW launched, the hunter and paladin talent trees were untested, those classes were somewhat incomplete. Pallys even whent through a complete overhaul on their mechanics within the first couple patches. Warlocks were mostly unplayable due to bizarre mechanics they had at the time (but rogues and shamans were easily two of the most overpowered classes in the game back then, amazing how the tables have turned). Druids were masters of nothing -- they were substandard tanks, offered very little in the line of DPS, and were out-healed by everyone except for pallys (who were for a while some of the worst healers in the game).

As far as the system worked... there was massive database problems that resulted in the wonder and joy everyone knew as extreme loot lag, which was a constant problem for months while Blizzard rewrote WoW's database mechanics from scratch (Christmas and New Year's was canceled for Blizzard in '04). Now, some people may have experienced some smaller version of this loot lag even now, but trust me, it doesn't compare. When you are stuck unable to do anything because you are looting a single item from a corpse, mine, whatever, and it takes up to 15 minutes for each time, that was bad. When the loot lag was causing a cascading failure for all database queries, making mobs not be loaded (because the query to find out what mobs were around was being blocked by the looting), that was bad.

There was no high-end instances for a while. Well, I think there was Scholomance. Then, there was Stratholme. Later, Blackrock Mountain was opened, and BRD and BRS were implemented. It took a while before the first raid instances were added, and people were in an uproar that there was "nothing to do when you got to level 60". Then Onyxia and MC were added finally, and people were a bit more relaxed. Dire Maul also was added, along with Mauradon, in order to fill out some more dungeons at different level gaps.

PvP consisted strictly of world PvP, rendering, on a lot of servers, Tarren Mill as being unplayable (or Southshore), as hundreds of people were constantly fighting in Hillsbrad Foothills. While cool, it would often overload servers and cause Eastern Kingdoms to crash. In fact, Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms were very prone to crashing, I think it remained that way until the 2nd or 3rd hardware upgrade.

Because of the extreme popularity of the game, the servers were simply overloaded. Blizzard actually pulled WoW off the store shelves for a few months -- no new accounts were added, because they couldn't even support what they had... and they were adding in new servers constantly. To prevent the servers from crashing due to the surge of players, Blizzard implemented the server queues -- a limit on how many people could play on a server... and for some servers, they quickly had 4-digit queues. There was an uproar from people who had to wait hours just to finally be able to play WoW. The queues still happen now, but nowhere near what it was before TBC.

Battlegrounds -- when first implemented, they were specific to a server. And, seriously imbalanced servers resulted in obnoxious battleground queue times. By obnoxious, I mean on my server, the Alliance side had potentially a 5 - 6 hour wait just to finally get in there. The horde was a bit shorter, but still it was a couple hours, because there just wasn't enough horde jumping into the battlegrounds.

And then... the Battlegrounds themselves took a lot of time. AV took potentially 3+ hours to play. I think partially because people wanted to spend enough time in the battleground to make the queue time make some sense. Plus, there just was other objectives people were doing.

The old honor system rendered it impossible for anyone except those who could play 8-hours a day 5-days a week minimum to be able to get anything decent from it. It was just plain ugly. The new system frees that up, but it produced a new set of problems that you just need to go check out the PvP and Battleground forums on this site to see some of them. Personally, I think that for all the new problems, it still is a far cry better than the old system.

And the list goes on. People eventually get a sort of haze over their memories over the bad times in WoW, and the better things remain clearer. The result is the "rose-tinted glasses" effect when people reminisce.

[Fundin]

My two earliest noob memories:

1. When I first entered the world (opening day, Dwarf Hunter). I saw all the chat running by in general; people asking questions, giving answers, etc. I needed to find something so I asked... by pressing enter and typing my question. Of course, that went right to /say. I was getting all pissed that no one in general was responding to me. Some other noob probably laughed at me in passing when he saw in /say, "Dammit, why won't you people answer me?!"

2. Very early on, there was a leaked alpha client. I managed to get my hands on it (SSHHH!) before the server code guys even had mobs implemented. So everyone just ran around trying to kill each other with level 1 rusty swords. No one knew the combat mechanics and we only had auto attacks (iirc). Everyone would try to move back and forth and twitch fight like in a close quarters fps fight. It had to look hilarious. I actually thought, "HAHA!!" anytime I saw that I dodged.

[cyradis2003]

I rolled a gnome rogue for my first toon because she was so adorable. I spent the first several levels jumping everywhere I went because it was so cute ... my friend finally told me he would stop playing with me if I kept it up.

I remember being level 8 or 9 in the starting area and unable to level farther, we didn't know about the tunnel.

I didn't know how to use chat and would answer whispers in /say and then wonder why they weren't answering me again.

I didn't use a talent point until about 30 because I was too scared that I would be stuck with it (like diablo)

There are so many noob things I did, I drowned a few times because I couldn't figure out swimming, I got stuck on small out crops of cliffs and had to jump to my death more than once because I couldn't get back up or safely down. I didn't know what the dragons around mob pictures meant and would try to solo elites many levels higher because "I killed a 21 before"

My moment of awe was Stranglethorn Vale ... So beautiful, so cool, like Indiana Jones!

[kvlar]

I stopped playing my first hunter at level 32, because I thought my pet sucked. I would get two shots in and then the monster was on my like stink. Never knew about :growl :embarassed:until after I leveled a Shammy and Rogue to 60. I just thought I sucked and stopped liking hunters for a while. Now i have 2 70s.

[DrOsmius]

Going to the boat in Menethil and waiting *forever* for it to leave...yeah, the static boat in the middle that never leaves.

[Janfader]

I started off in the undead place (yes near Undercity)... just can't remember the name of it. I played my undead mage for a few weeks until the ganking really became an issue and plus my RL friends were on a different server. Then I went to the Alliance (my biggest mistake) on a PvE server...

As I pass through the lands around Undercity now as an Alliance - escourting guildies to SM, I always think about those few weeks as my Mage. Although I did go back over the past years a leveled him to 70 along with a druid.

When I get back off this business trip, I plan on playing my horde guys again on a pvp server.

[xDarkDrifterx]

Yelling at a guy in Deadmines for "ninja'ing" a chest (this is before they changed it so that the whole party could roll on the contents). The "chest", was the chest on the ground with the gunpowder for the cannon to open the door to get into the last area of VC. lol

Posting this in the thread before that was pointing me to this thread . . . lol

[Tormaigh]

Going to the boat in Menethil and waiting *forever* for it to leave...yeah, the static boat in the middle that never leaves.

lol, Yea I guess that was my worst noob move. Plus you couldn't get back off and my hearth was on CD.

But the best memory of WoW comes from my very first toon, a human warrior, and playing in the starting area. Thats about as big an area as one of the sections in Diablo2 which was the last game I played like this.

Then finally finishing all the quests and getting sent to Goldshire. As I started out of Northshire and headed down the road I had no map discovered and I couldn't see the buildings yet. It felt like forever to get to Goldshire, and to think that was just down the road a little.

[Xlorep DarkHelm]

I started playing an an Orc Hunter. Once I got him up in the 50's, I made a Dwarf Hunter. That poor Dwarf Hunter suffered, her entire life, with the problem that since I had an Orc Hunter (and Tauren Druid, and an Undead Warlock) much higher level than her, I was far more familiar with the Horde quests, and more specifically, with the locations of the Horde towns. This caused her to regularly go marching right into the *wrong* towns all over Azeroth. I think she must have tried to march into Grom'Gul Outpost in STV about 80 times, because I wasn't paying any attention to what I was doing, or which character I was on.

Now that my Orc, Tauren and Dwarf are all 70, and I've been mainly playing my Dwarf... I have accidentally flown my Orc straight into Alliance towns in Outland... I guess turn about is fair play.

Not to mention that since my Orc and Dwarf are two completely different specs, and require two completely different ways to play them successfully for me.... switching between them gets sometimes confusing. I'll play my Dwarf for a while, switch to my Orc, and get him killed (because my Dwarf can melee well, and my Orc can't). Or, I'll play my Orc for a bit, and then switch to my Dwarf, and get her pet killed (since my Orc's pet is quite powerful, while my Dwarf's pet is a glorified extended DoT).

this reminds me, I need to update my forum avatar to better reflect the way my two hunters look any more...

[xyle]

I've been playing for a while now, but I still have my lovely noob moments that supply entertainment for everyone around me every now and then.

A while back, someone loaned me an account so I could roll a Horde char on my server and join some guild with people who knew my Ally char. So there I am, having fun in Horde guild chat and levelling my little Undead, when I decided it was time to visit UC for the first time as Horde. This was after about 2 years of playing already, so when I mentioned in guild chat that I was lost and I need someone to tell me how to get out I got teased quite a lot. Somehow my Alliance friends got wind of this, so it's not like the teasing stopped when I went back to my main.

Another time was just a few months ago. My Hunter hit its 20's or 30's (can't remember) and I was whining to my friend that my pet can't keep aggro off of me. So he says 'Maybe you should upgrade his Claw/Bite or whatever dps skills he has.' And I'm like 'What? My pet can learn other skills besides growl?!' Yeah, I know I suck. :shocked:

[TimeBeing]

i recall finding the first person in Brill that could tailor bags for me. So i could get 4, 6 sloters, was so excited.

[Davemetalhead]

Started a week after the game was released in Europe - I had taken no notice of the game upto that point, I just hadn't been interested in an MMO at all.

My first character was a Troll Hunter that I eventually got to the dizzy heights of level 17 before I started a NElf one. I remember seeing Org for the first time, and feeling overawed by the sheer size of the walls. My PC at the time wasn't too good, so I was fairly near the entrance before the walls were drawn in.

I didn't spend any talent points because I was so used to D2 and didn't want to waste them. I'd decided to save them and do some research first :smiley:. I remember feeling incredibly proud when I got to my first gold piece at around level 14.

Spending ages in the cave at the Troll/Orc starting area, trying to get to the end boss by jumping up on the rocks below him. I thought it was incredibly frustrating and unfair that we had to be so precise with our jumps to get to a particular quest mob - wasn't until I eventually killed him that I discovered the direct route to him by running out the cave that way ...

I think it took me a week to get to level 12, playing a 2 to 3 hours a day. I remember seeing my first attack on Crossroads, and my PC lagging soooooo badly. I don't think I used the AH at all on that alt, I just sold everything I could to vendors. Didn't have any professions, primary or secondary.

The game was, and still is, a thing of wonder.

[Tort]

I remember my first character (who is still to this day my main), a Tauren warrior, and just being flat out awed at the absolutely beautiful landscape of Mulgore. I remember killing my first humanoid character (those little goblins guarding the wells in Mulgore), it dropping one or two copper, and me completely freaking out because it was money!!! I remember looking out over the hills, valleys and mountains from the top of Thunderbluff and wondering how the game could be this detailed.

I remember finally, after several days of questing, leaving Mulgore and heading into the wild, unknown, and much larger Barrens and realizing my adventures had just begun. 2 years later and heading into Black Temple, and I still love this game.

[aurebor]

Thinking those flying gryphons were so cool, and couldn't wait untill I got my own controlable flying mount. Boy was I upset, guess I will have to wait for lvl 70ish.

Thinking that lvl 73Elite NPC on the horse outside of SW was a person, and wondering how I could become an elite and lvl 73, when I knew the lvl cap was 70....wasn't untill the third or fourth time I realized him still there that he had to be a NPC.

Taking the tram from SW to IF, and getting off and thinking everything in IF was huge and the dwarves looked mean, figured the outsides of IF were for a lot higher levels and said forget this, and headed back to SW.

Did a 2v2 arena at low lvl 20ish cause it seemed like it would be fun, and then the doors opened up and I couldn't see anybody, so I started running around, and then this lvl 29 rouge two-shotted me. I bet the guy I got paired up with was just shaking his head.

This isnt my noob moment, but I cast eyes of beast and started jumping up and down with my pet next to this guy that was fighting a mob, and he said "dude your pet started attacking me". I couldn't stop laughing.

[cyradis2003]

More noobness I have remembered!


/1 Help!! 4 Allies riding up Gold Road just ganked me!!! I wasn't even flagged!!!


I also remember getting lost around Hillsbrad and winding up on the path up to Sepulcher. The guards killed my pet and I was flagged at that point.

I sat despondently on the road not knowing how to get back to allie territory (I didn't know about the M key before that day) 2 big hordes rode along and dismounted in front of me. I was sure I was going to die. I made the /lost emote and they patted me and pointed back along the road towards hillsbrad. I must have looked supremely pathetic for them to let a Nelf go.


At 59 on that hunter my friend was in a Strat group (his 2nd one) and I asked if I could come too because he was complaining about needing 1 more DPS. He said "60's only, but I will ask I guess" They of course let me in because lets face it, Strat is no big deal and they had run it a million times. I was so nervous that I would mess it up because he kept saying things in guild like "watch your aggro, you are too small for this ... keep that pet leashed or dismiss it! etc etc."
I wound up saving the priest with my pet and trapping and the 60's told me I did a great job. :-) First instance since Mara.


First time attuned to MC ... I jumped through the window .... ungrouped.

[Dakiter]

I made my characters on a RP server following my rl friends. I rolled an undead lock and was running around learning everything. I get sent to UC for a quest and I am absolutely amazed at the detail and and size. After a bit another player comes up to me and asks me my professions and I thought it was an rp thing so I started into some thing about being a shop owner in my prior life etc etc. That when he started laughing at me and whispered "No what do you make?" I think the silence told me all he needed to know and he explained the whole profession thing to me. The memory makes me shake my head as I run through UC sometimes.

[Kaldresh]

Aside from everything everyone's already said... my best noob moment ever:

Was at the hubby's brother's house and he was playing WoW. I'd heard of it, but was pretty happy with Diablo2 and others so paid it no mind. I walked up to the screen and was like "ooohhh what's that?" "ooooh look what he just did!" and after harassing him for about a half an hour, decided to purchase the game. So on the way home we stop at Game Stop so I can pick it up.

Unfortunately for me, no one had bothered to clue me in that Warcraft and World of Warcraft were two different games....

After loading game and going 'wtf is this' and subsequent run to Game Stop for correct game, I settled in to be amazed. The whole house plays now and I still do incredibly noobish things. My kids just shake their heads and say "here Mom, let me show you...."

And yes, it would have been nice had someone mentioned the autorun key which I just discovered last week. lol

[volencia]

Back in Feb 2005, I remember a low level friend of mine (lvl 10-20) who once tried to walk on foot from Grom'gol base camp to Undercity. :shocked:
Poor guy didn't realise there was a Zeppelin connecting the two together. He wasted several hours, died numerous times and filled the guild chat with expletives.

Needless to say, he didn't get very far....

I did this when I was bored, created a l1 belf, and ran from there to BB, only took about 3 hours walk and lots of deaths, it was actually fun but wont do it again.

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I remember my very first char, a dwarf hunter, and boy I had a hard time finding those damn boxes in the start area, look in the snow the quest said, and so I did.. I asked people, they said the same thing, it actually took me several chars to realize they where in the troll camps >.< And... I remember the talents was a totaly blurr, I ha NO idea what I was doing, I picked a bit this... but those boxes is something I laugh about today :D I killed that dwarf hunter at l19... hehe

[zodiac66]

I had one of those today. Oh, this tops newbie chat.

I am currently playing a horde toon and one of my guildmates wanted to know where to learn tailoring in the outlands.

I replied Honor Hold. OMG...it took me a bit to figure out my mistake.

They all laughed and understood that my main toon is Alliance.

[Marlous]

I too had a noob encounter in the SW-IF tram. I was exploring IF, and found this strange swirling barrier in Tinker Town. Upon entering I had no idea where I had ended up, and thought it was an abandoned railway station we simply had to explore. So I set off, choosing one of the two tunnels and running along the ledge. From time to time I see a series of cartlike things pass by, and think it's a nice added scenery. The same goes for the part where the tunnel is crossing a body of water, and I marveled at the dolphinarium-like view. A lot of time passes, even though I try to speed up things by occasionally using Sprint, and after what seems like ages I finally reach the end of the tunnel - I was incredibly bored by then, because other than the bit with the water I didn't find anything interesting or meet any NPC who'd tell me what to do here. Utterly pointless area, imho.

I look around at the place I ended up, and see it's the exact same as where I come from. Sheesh. Then another player appears, and I decide to watch him - he's a fair few levels higher than me, surely he'll know what to do here? And sure enough, after a minute I hear a clank and see those weird carts again.. and the player stepping on one and disappearing into the same tunnel I had just emerged from at high speed. o.O

When I left the tram area on that side, and realised that I was no longer in IF but in SW.. I was in awe. I was about to share my most recent discovery with everyone in general, but thought better of it because probably everyone knew about it. I did enthusiastically tell my (equally noob) boyfriend about this amazing tram, though.. only to find him already knowing about it and laughing at me.

[swaldman]

I remember my first time playing WoW. I had a brand new lvl 1 shammy on my girlfriend's account. I did a newbie quest that wanted me to collect x "pristine hides of somethingorother". After the first couple of kills didn't give any drops, I started to think "ah! They have to be pristine! That means that I can't rip any holes in them with my axe!"; I then spent time trying to kill them by spellcasts alone so as not to damage the hides.
Of course, they still didn't drop.....

[Luciaz]

More memories...:

When I was good enough to lvl around Westfall, I really wanted to go to Kalimdor and see Darnassus. I didnt know there were boats in Menethil Harbor and that I thought that you can only go to back and forth from one continent to the other by teleport if your lvl is high. So I thought I'd swim from the coast to the other while I'd go and watch tv cuz it would be a long swim. You all know what happened next....>.<

I was too afraid to use the AH cuz I didn't know how the system works, that I somehow might f#%& up(it happens in trading in other MMOs) during putting up my items, scared of scammers, scared of being ripped off, and scared of numbers...:P

I really wanted to drink booze but for a newb they seemed really expensive at the time. I finally got to purchase them during the darkmoon faire(darn cheap booze they were) so I spent lotsa silvers to see how drunk a toon can get.The effect was friggin' awesome!:O
It was also the 1st time I forged a friendship with a veteran warrior from a huge guild.

He whispered to me how I got a chicken pet(it was the only free pet for a newb:P). I told him to go to the chicken farm in Westfall and everything. So he thanked me and went there asap. I continued with the DF funs. A few minutes later he came back, summoned his chook in front of me. We chatted, drank booze, played with our chooks, steam tonks battle, threw balls at each other(and other unsuspecting players), and the lot.

Then the next day, he sent me gold in mail! I pmed him asking "Dude? Why did you send me gold?Don't you need them for repairs or epics or whatever?" He replied that for a lvl 70 gold is common to him and that he sent me some to help me with my journey in WoWHe also said that should I ever have any gold probs, he can give some to me..:O.I thanked him a 1000 times. Yea he helped me with runs, and getting my mounts when he's not bz with Kara or other raids.

Up till now, he's my best friend in WoW, even though we're not in the same guild(he kept pestering me about what i thought about the guild i joined).
Darkmoon Faire was the best event to me at the time :cloud9:

Right now we're spending time in Outlands, Im still in my old mechanostrider while he keeps flaunting off his amazing white griffin(doing stunts and all that).



Btw, was WoW really that bad in its pioneer years?The loot problem and things?:O
When did WoW start to become stable?

ROFLMAO at Marlous' situation.

[Xlorep DarkHelm]

Btw, was WoW really that bad in its pioneer years?The loot problem and things?:O
When did WoW start to become stable?

About 6 - 8 months after release. Around the time Blizzard actually wanted to release it. Vivendi kinda pushed them to release WoW, because before that, Blizzard was costing Vivendi a bundle to make WoW but not giving any revenue. It was bad enough that Vivendi was trying to sell off their games department (including Blizzard) for a relatively cheap price (looking back now, after WoW has launched). A *lot* of company execs are probably kicking themselves over not buying Blizzard when the buying was good (and possible).

When I say Christmas and New Year's were canceled for blizzard for 2004, I'm not kidding. The developers were really overworked for a while, putting out the fires that all sprung up (and it didn't help that one of the datacenters a set of servers was located at got taken down by a tornado, if memory serves). It was cool, because WoW was so fresh and new, but at the same time, Blizzard was quite literally caught with their pants down.

To give them credit, nobody could have possibly anticipated the popularity of WoW -- before WoW, I think the absolutely highest population MMO on the market was Lineage 2, weighing in at 2 million accounts, but the vast majority of those were actually accounts at internet cafe's in Korea where people could log in and play Lineage 2 -- and weren't actually personal user accounts in the same way that WoW's tend to be. I think Blizzard was hoping that they might get 200k users in a year or to. They got that within 1 - 2 weeks after launch in North America.

Another thing people really were upset about was Blizzard's "staggered launch dates" -- they did not launch worldwide simultaneously, there were months between launches in each region (NA/Oceanic, EU, China, Asia). However, the end result was the US ended up basically being the guinea pigs as Blizzard went insane fixing things, *then* it was a little smoother for other regions, they got better each successive launch.

[Bloodroot]

When I first started playing WoW (a month or so after Beta first came around, not BC beta but the original beta). I hadn't read anything about the game and this was my first MMO experience (had played FFXI for a bit but never indulged in it), I first rolled a pali -- that is my noob experience... haha, j/k j/k (seriously, I <3 my pali)

1) I had no idea how to get to Ironforge... pretty much didn't even know it existed, saw it on the map but paid no mind to it. Back in that day, Ironforge was the only city to have the AH in it. So I never even visited the AH until lvl 30 or so, until a friend of mine said he'd show me the way. I remember that first ride on the tram I was blown away at the coolness of it (since then I've become jaded about it). I also remember being soo stoked when I bought the White quality Claymore from the weapon vendor in SW (saved up for it for awhile, didn't make much income seeing how I vendored every single item that otherwise would've gone on the AH for much higher).

2) not knowing much at all about the talent system and proper talent builds, so I had my talent points all over the place. Eventually though, by level 40 or so I got the hang of everything.

3) At one time I had thought that lvl 35 was a high lvl, I saw in Elwynn forest every lowby freaking out at 2 horde terrorizing ridgepoint tower and me thinking I was a high lvl went in and charged at them and was killed with one earthshock from the Horde Shaman. Horde were a huge mystery to me, I thought that they could understand me, I didn't know I could play both sides on a PvE server (also never rolled one on any other server.) so I was nervous with any horde I ran into up until late lvl 40's. Hell around lvl 20-35 I believed that all horde were NPC's or controlled by mysterious beings irl. Something along those lines.

4) oh yeah, also I remember running ZF and consecrating all of the CC'd targets and the group had gotten pissed and cursed me out and left the grp and spamming in general chat that I was a noob. i don't blame them in the long run, but their demeaning attitude as if I had ran over their pet dog irl was a bit over kill.

5) An ally rogue who jokingly went around saying "/e has pickpocketed 1g from you" I had thought he actually could steal gold from other players, I was about to report him (and tell Blizz how unfair all that was) until I noticed that no gold was missing. *was soo gullible*
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Eventually I had become a talented player, and a great healer and was given class leader for a BWL//AQ40 guild. Also ended up getting Warlord on my Orc hunter, so let it be known to all the people starting out on the game, don't be so hard on yourself for being a noob you'll learn to be pro (or semi-pro at least) with a little blood, sweat and a few tears.

But as Maticus said, when you first start the game, that ignorant bliss and the amazement at any little thing that I am now jaded about is sorely missed. Aww, those were the days. I've been playing for quite some time now and I am proud to say that I am indeed pro. =)


(aha, yeah plus when I very first logged on (was late at night too after the demo DL finished) and the menu that asked what type of server i would like to join, I had chosen normal but when it asked me if I'd like US or oceanic server I didn't quite know what it meant... I thought to myself "Hmm, I live by the pacific ocean so I should probably choose Oceanic". Soo glad I'm not that gullible and dense now. ) Also was blessed because I met some really cool people on the Oceanic server I was on. A couple who have become friends outside of WoW when I visited Australia last year. Along with an American I met (who made the same Oceanic mistake as me :P) Who was shipped to Iraq years back and he became a close friend and mentor for when I had join the USAF.

Happy gaming folks.

[frimley]

oh yeah, also I remember running ZF and consecrating all of the CC'd targets and the group had gotten pissed and cursed me out and left the grp and spamming in general chat that I was a noob

When I first rolled it was on a new server, and early enough in the game's history that there weren't any rerollers on it - so it was pretty much a lvl playing field, and general chat was filled with conversation (not Barrens-type chat) with people actually helping each other.

It was awesome to see the first players getting to 40, and getting their mounts, and your comment about ZF reminded me that the height of uberness back then was seeing someone that had a carrot on a stick because it meant they'd been to ZF! :laughing:

[moopy]

But as Maticus said, when you first start the game, that ignorant bliss and the amazement at any little thing that I am now jaded about is sorely missed. Aww, those were the days. I've been playing for quite some time now and I am proud to say that I am indeed pro. =)

The amazement factor was a huge early driver.. The first time you saw a player with a mount.. the first time you saw the moon over the shimmering flats. All those "firsts". Great stuff :-)

[Therasil]

I have to say that all of the "magic" in WoW is gone after so many years of playing this game.
Sometimes I wish I could go back to that time where I could go to a new area and be amazed by all the new things that I encountered.
These days it's all just a grind for levels and items. =(

[moopy]

Therasil,

Sad for you. I still had a "ZOMG! Run for your lives!" moment the first time I saw Reliquary of Souls spinning, heck I still got a thrill the first time that I saw the bridge to Lady Vashj finally unlock after a lot of hammering on SSC. I'm jaded, but still get a kick out of this sort of thing- and am looking forward to the Sunwell 25 man for the same reason. Sorry that you're too jaded to enjoy it, though- wish you could get the same reaction :(

[frimley]

I have to say that all of the "magic" in WoW is gone after so many years of playing this game.
Sometimes I wish I could go back to that time where I could go to a new area and be amazed by all the new things that I encountered.
These days it's all just a grind for levels and items. =(

Out of curiosity, Therasil - what keeps you still playing? I understand that it doesn't have that shiny newness anymore, but like Moopy, I still have moments of total awe. Maybe its just the social side of it for you now?

[moopy]

Ah, that's what I meant to ask, but forgot.. Is it habit? Social?

[Xlorep DarkHelm]

I have to say that all of the "magic" in WoW is gone after so many years of playing this game.
Sometimes I wish I could go back to that time where I could go to a new area and be amazed by all the new things that I encountered.
These days it's all just a grind for levels and items. =(

It is a shame it is like that for you, but I'd suggest maybe stopping playing, at least for a while. Don't do anything drastic like deleting your characters etc., as that never goes over well, but taking a break, for however long you want, get away from the game, so then if you ever want to return, you have a fresh perspective might be good.

Honestly, I've been playing WoW for about as long as Bloodrot mentioned.... since the original beta. And the game still holds the same awe and excitement for me now, as it did back then.

[Therasil]

Out of curiosity, Therasil - what keeps you still playing? I understand that it doesn't have that shiny newness anymore, but like Moopy, I still have moments of total awe. Maybe its just the social side of it for you now?

Don't get me wrong I still enjoy the game a lot. I'm not a hardcore player, so I haven't seen most of the endgame content at all. I haven't even done Kara once, even though I'm attuned.
I have been playing since the public beta, with a couple of months breaks in between.
Of course there are still new things that look cool and new encounters that game play wise keep me interested, but it's just the overall feeling of the game that is completely different from the first few months that I was playing.
Even with the release of TBC I didn't get that feeling back.
This might also have something to do with the fact that this was the first MMO I have ever played.
But now that I've been playing for so long, all the new gameplay and social aspects of the game don't have such a big impact on me anymore.
So I guess in the end what keeps me still playing this game is mostly that I like playing games with other people together. I still get a lot of satisfaction out of finishing a heroic that I haven't done before, for example.
Oh well... hope I get to do Kara soon. :ponder:

[zorbaz cobblehoof]

right now, im patching my 1st real wow..
i had a test-acc a year ago: of course i became paladin o_O
i did a lot of weird things- like runnin around like a crossdresser on a rp server- of course it got me flamed.
but what i really wanted to tell is my personal train-story:
after i found the acces, i hesitated a bit 2 get on it- since i didnt know
where it would take me...
when i finally got the guts n jumped aboard, it seemed that it would take
4ever until it got me somewhere...
so i decided 2 jump off-
it was a long walk back;P
and dont yall dare to tell me something about those stone-thingies...

i was a noob back then-
and happily will be now...
if that damn patching ever finishes;

[snowieken]

Minor thread necromancy, but I just encountered something that reminded me of a newbie thing I did back in the days.

My hunter found a Searing Blade when she was level 24, and equipped it because well, it had about two more DPS than the sword I was currently wielding. In my defense, there was no such thing as a twink at the time, mainly because there was no such thing as a battleground either.

The thing that reminded me of this, was the following (and this is more painful): a guildie of mine just found Deadman's Hand on her priest (definately not a twink) and equipped it because of the stamina. I never encountered this item on the AH before, but I can only imagine what it must be worth to level 29 twinks...

[Davemetalhead]

The thing that reminded me of this, was the following (and this is more painful): a guildie of mine just found Deadman's Hand on her priest (definately not a twink) and equipped it because of the stamina. I never encountered this item on the AH before, but I can only imagine what it must be worth to level 29 twinks...

Not much - it's BoP ...

[snowieken]

Oh! That explains why I haven't seen many of those. Strange, could have sworn it was BoE when she linked it to me. Oh well... :wink:

[bloog]

I rolled a night elf rogue. At this time there was no AH in Darnassus and training skills was relative expensive. When I hit level 8 I could not afford to buy new skills, despite looting every gray item. My starter weapon quickely became useless, no new one to be found. Some quest provided with a sword. It required me to travel to stormwind. Also I didn't have 10 silver to train.

At level 25 I left Ashenvale behind and went to Ironforge. It was a long trip by road. Gold and weaponry became more available. The grind to 60 remained. The realm was littered with rogues, finding an instance group was sheer impossible.

At level 60 I enrolled in a guild. We raided stratholme and scholomance and still wiped. Backstabbing dragons in UBRS was unpossible, noone actually tanked. Healers were rare. So I started a healer and I liked it. My rogue made money, my healer grew up fast.

Whem my healer hit 60 I switched guild and mains. And still is my main in full T6. My rogue is level 62 now and I CBA to play further with him.