for those like me who played vanilla on release without a lot of notes or info about what to do, i wonder how badly did you jack your first character up?
for me… i played a rogue.
got him to 40 something before i was like, this guy sucks… had to roll a new char and went to a new server too…
few months later, with a lot more knowledge, i decide maybe i could give rogue another try, so i log on my old one to mess around on him but first thing i did was check his gear and talents…
all his gear was strength based… hardly any agi and pretty much 0 stam.
talents were all over the place… say 12 in assassination, 7 combat, and the rest sub or something lol… i was like no wonder this guy sucked so much… i completely ruined him.
anyway, anyone else ruin their first character any more than that? or maybe went a long time doing something or not doing something that could have saved you a lot of struggle if you had known what you know now?
another thing i remember being like wtf… was learning about flightmasters after i was already like level 20 something… i ran everywhere because nothing or no one ever mentioned them, wasnt until my first dungeon run someone in the group said something about them
I played a holy paladin and was very young so I basically did a random character appearance and a stupid name. I then leveled to 60 because I liked the class so much and ended up being a red headed flat top human paladin with the angry face and no facial hair. Because of this I was very selective about the headpieces I would wear.
Edit: I also never changed from holy until blizzard broke rent paladins in the pre wotlk patch, so I levels from 10-60 and 60-70 as holy the entire time.
I leveled mainly as a holy priest because I liked to group and couldn’t afford constantly switching between that and shadow. There was more smiting going on than an entire page of MOBA streams on Twitch. I was so burned out by the time I hit 58 that my friends had to drag me to East Plaguelands to grind mobs until I hit max level.
Other than that I would spend an embarrassing amount of gold on stuff in the auction house if I liked how it looked as I leveled. This was well before transmog, I just bought inferior gear because it looked better. But I rocked it, ya’ll.
same with me on the rogue i mentioned earlier, i spent all my money at 40 on a ghost blade in the auction house instead of a mount because i thought having better gear was > then mobility
My very first character was a Paladin I took to level 50.
When I was in felwood I decided that farming mobs for xp/drops would be a good way to go, so I went up to timbermaw tunnels and started farming the hostile furbolgs. I’m pretty sure I got to 0/36000 hated with Timbermaw before I realized my mistake.
Rather than grind the XP back up, I just created a new Paladin because in all likelihood it would’ve been faster to start fresh. And thus, Laelanni was born.
that sucks, i quit playing after WoD came out so im not familiar with most of the changes in the current game… i do know that in vanilla an enhance shaman with a decent 2h can be a wrecking ball in world pvp though.
Was a Human Paladin on the server Alterac Mountains, chosen because I had dreams as a child of absconding my person into the wilderness to live as a mountain man.
Kept dying, so I would throw every talent point I got into Protection hoping to increase my ability to take damage. I also went after any piece of gear that had stamina on it, completely disregarding everything else including, and especially, intellect, because I thought it was the healer stat and I didn’t want to heal. Stuck with a two-handed weapon, too, because the damage numbers were bigger than one-handers, and for a long time I thought I was still able to block without a shield.
Frequently replaced green gear with vendor whites thinking they were upgrades, threw all my money at anything I thought remotely useful on the AH, pretty much only killed mobs to get experience because I thought reading was lame and questing requires it, and at some point I blundered into Durotar at about 24 and got raided by a bunch of lowbies for a few hours. I remember that very specifically because I had obtained my first polearm and a full set of scale mail armor from a vendor and was terribly proud of it.
Got somewhere into the late 30s or early 40s before TBC hit.
That was in April 2005 and I started December 2004 and I was playing like 8 hours a day. So over 4 months to get to level 54 or so. I didn’t even have target-of-target turned on lol.
My personal favorite was BC enhancement. The ability to use 1-handed weapons like a rogue but to cast spells like a caster made such a fun/unique spec at the time.
I played a hunter stacking stam and spirit because I liked having a lot of health. Around level 25-30 my friend told me that, since hunters use mana, I needed to stack int and spirit. Which I proceeded to do until level 62-63 when I came to the same realization and turned to the forums for help. Oh, they sure did help…
My first character ever was a tauren warrior. I pastured him in Mulgore 'till lvl 21, mostly because I didn’t know how to get out of there. Once at barrens I would run back to Mulgore out of fear of the dangerous beasts and giant insects, not to mention pig headed people. All of that parallel reality took me more than a month and a half to go through.
I still try to understand what happened. But I’m pretty sure something died inside of me by the time I get to Ashenvale