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The irony of calling people noobs.
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Spinkert
The first time I killed another player, I tried to loot them. Still makes me giggle when I think about it. D'oh!
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Quilan
When I thought I was awesome for murdering a level 70 horde with Rez sickness at level 50 during TBC
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nintendorichard
I got lost in both Stormwind and The Exodar. I still get confused in Exodar to this day.
I thought that Agility increased your run speed.
Whenever I would pull any mob, I would let it get to me, cast Flamestrike, and then Blizzard it until it was dead. I did that until Level 41. :)
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TrueBeliever
My first character was a rogue, when I learned pick-pocket I couldn't figure out why my rogue would always attack before I had the chance to pick the target's pocket. A friend told me you could select a target with left click, I had thought you needed to right click to select a target.
Not so much noob as just stupid, I landed precariously on a mountain peek in Icecrown to mine, I summoned my mount and leaped into the air to carry on, only to realise I had summoned my ground mount instead.
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Nipah
I remember telling someone I hadn't learned Curse of Recklessness on my Warlock because, ahem "Why would I want to make the mob stronger?". This was a few months after release running Deadmines with some other lowbies. Turns out I hadn't thought how useful a spell that makes mobs not run off and grab thirteen of their closest friends would be.
On the other hand, I was probably one of the first people to realize you could cook food using the fireplaces/fires/etc situated around buildings/inns in WoW... when a friend asked why I never carried flint and tinder, I just wandered over to the nearest fire and made some food. Blew their mind.
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Interest
The irony of calling people noobs.
Is the name-caller is usually a noob.
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wolfeyoung
First character was a hunter. Tigerstrike Mantle dropped and I equiped it...
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buzz3070
Not training my spells until i was 25.
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Tomblee
At my first Deadmines run i was the only one of the group in Westfall and tried summoning everyone by waiting for the 'summoning' cast bar to finish...
Took me another 60 levels to fully understand how summoning stones work.
Also, farming leather from wolves at level 10 to sell at a vendor and then buy all 4 pet cats in Elwynn Forest.
Good times.
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blademeld
If you guys want to read it, there's a thread from 2008
http://www.wowhead.com/forums&topic=14414/i-was-such-a-noob-when-i-started-i
It's 46 pages long.(##RESPBREAK##)8##DELIM##Gnub##DELIM##BRB reading 46 pages of hilariousness.
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SignupSucks
Noob != newbie.
When starting, everyone is a newbie, meaning one that doesn't know how to play properly because he never played before.
Noobs are players that didn't bothered to learn the game and still behave like newbies even after months of playing.
I'm going to be the villian here.
I don't know that your statement is accurate. While I agree that there is subtle difference between the two words, both frequently apply to the same individual.
I started playing MMOs back with Everquest. Now, that game held your hand a hell of a lot less than WoW, but I don't recall making some of the strange decisions or actions that I see regularly (or are listed in this thread). Not realizing your bags are full is one thing, but being stumped that you can't loot anything more because of it, really? Particularly egregious in this respect are deathknights, where you must have already leveled a character to 55 before being able to make one, so you should have some understanding of basic concepts. Maybe not concepts that come into play in groups - like threat management, efficient damage, management around CC - but you should certainly understand the talent system by then.
Weird stat priorities may be excusable, to a certain extent. There never was an indication as to what increases the effectiveness of your attacks (I think the biggest example would be arcane shot scaling with spell damage, back in Vanilla), but that mostly applied to hybrids. If a melee attack deals spell damage, does that attack scale with attack power or spellpower? Moreso excusable in very early Vanilla before spell damage/healing even existed.
So yeah, I get pretty annoyed when people waste my time by lacking a basic understanding of the game they've been playing for ostensibly a few months - or at least 85 levels. You don't need a massive math spreadsheet or spend six hours a week lurking forums to understand how to use the game's UI - it just takes a modicum of awareness.
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