Disclaimer: To those just seeing this now and didn’t participate in the raffle I will recap what happened. I hosted a mount weekend giveaway. I hosted this 100% on my own and out of my own pocket. Why did I do this? For fun and to generate positive community involvement. I gave a away “Alabaster Mounts”. All people had to do to enter the raffle was share a Noob moment they had. Anyone who did share had their name added to a list. At the end of the weekend raffle, all the names on the list were cut up and placed into a fish bowl. One was drawn at random. In this case Maizou was the character name drawn. So congratulations to her for winning a FREE “Alabaster Mounts”! I then met up with her in game to get her Battletag privately to “Gift” the mount to her. This was my 2nd event like this. I plan to do it again in the future. To all that participated I would like to take this moment to thank each and every one of you. It was nice some of those noob moments
With that said Id like to keep this positive thread going. So share your a noob moment you have had. We all have them at times. Please feel free to be as detailed as possible.
Grats Again to this Raffle’s winner Maizou
Also Grats to Brahmina last Raffles winner
Love that you’re doing this again. After all the negativity filling the forums with the 9.2 reveal, it’s nice to see something positive. My noob moment would be on the Kiljaeden fight, I didn’t see the clear walkway to the platform and just walked right off the edge.
I have a noob moment that’s kind of similar to yours. I had finished a warden tower world quest in Legion and I jumped off to move to the next quest. I somehow forgot I had used my bubble like a minute earlier, so I fell to my death. (Also, I didn’t know that blessing of protection could mitigate fall damage too.) It was so embarrassing because like ten people saw, lmao.
Oh wow, I have had so many noob moments in my gaming history. Noob moments are something I continuously have in an ongoing fashion. I’m not good at games lol… or life. lol.
For the sake of choosing a particular noob moment as my giveaway entry, I’ll say this. My first character back in Wrath was a warlock, and I leveled them to max level without ever joining any groups or doing any raiding… so when I joined an instance group for the first time at level 80 (max at that time), I had no idea what I was doing.
When I was asked for a soulwell and a summoning stone, I froze in what can only be described as complete oblivious ignorance. I had no idea what they wanted. I was accused of having bought my character. hahah…
I truly felt like a noob.
I still feel like a noob. I do noobish things pretty much on a daily basis.
Does this sound like you?
Hi I’m Tv’s Troy McLure, you might remember me from such quests as. Picking up dog turds,Me not that kind of Orc. And, Oh No! Another world quest needs your help!
I don’t know where I’m going with this but it was an ad about memory loss due to venturing into the Shadowlands and possibly some trips to Outland but before it was Outland.
When BFA started I picked Herb/alch as professions to make gold but it was not until shadowlands that I discovered you could see herbs on the mini-map because I had it turned off in the mini-map settings. So before I could fly I just walked around looking left and right and once I could fly I just flew real low and back and forth and I got decent at it and thought thats how everyone did it.
Then in SL one day I had a need to go into the settings to track humanoids and saw the track herbs option. Doh!
i started out in vanilla as a warlock, and knowing nothing about how the game worked… well, i did about what you’d expect. some highlights:
i purchased a white scimitar from a vendor in undercity. i used this all the way up to shadowfang keep, where i got a one-handed blue sword and used it instead.
yes, i was meleeing mobs
i thought life tap was the worst spell ever. why would i ever want to sacrifice my health for mana when i could just sit down and drink?
i was level 32 when i discovered that i could chain-cast spells. previously, i would cast a shadowbolt, then wait patiently for it to hit the enemy before i started casting another shadowbolt. i only figured this out because i accidentally pressed my shadowbolt button too early one time.
i thought gray items were useless so i never picked them up. i shudder to think about how much silver i passed up.
Cool! I appreciate people doing any ‘positive’ things in the community.
So noob moment…
I had a Tauren Paladin and went into the game with a diablo mind set, so I visited neighboring npc vendors to buy white gear… looking at stats and thinking ''yes… this has lots of strength, this will help me!"
On I went, leveling… buying vendor gear from other vendors that I’d see in the later cities along my journey.
My friend pops into the game and asks me if I want to go do a dungeon, I say sure… we party up and tells me to queue us up… ‘‘what’s a queue and how do I do this thing you want’’… so he tells me to give him lead and I go, ‘‘how do I do that’’ so after a while later we hop into a dungeon with my friend and another that tanked for us.
Several deaths later and frustrations aside my friend inspected me and started laughing asking why I was wearing white vendor gear… ‘‘Isn’t that what I am supposed to wear, I did that in Diablo for a while’’ he told me what I should of been doing and that I shouldn’t be buying vendor gear to wear.
One of many noobie tales I have from when I started in Legion
In TBC, 1st char was a rogue, I used to attack a lot with the ranged throwing knives, running around like a hunter. Then use a melee ability or two to finish em.
When I first started playing WoW in 2005, I made a dwarf, and died in a cave in Dun Morogh. It was my first death, and for some reason the game glitched and sent my ghost to the cave in Hillsbrad where the Alterac Valley entrance is. Being new, I just assumed this was normal, and I decided deleting the character and starting over would be faster than running all the way back to where my corpse was. I was terrified of dying again because I assumed the same thing would happen, and was very surprised when I died the next time and went to a nearby graveyard.
A week or so ago, I almost quit when I saw that you can craft any piece of legendary armor. I thought, what’s the point of even collecting gear if I’m just going to have all legendaries when I’m 60. Some kind soul on the forums let me know you can only equip one legendary at a time
