My first mistake and biggest regret was to give up on my orc warrior to play Alliance with friends. I left those stinking pink skins as soon aa my friends abandoned the game and never looked back.
Second mistake was playing sword combat rogue with a dagger in my main hand. I thought I had to keep the dagger since backstab couldn’t be used without it, not realizing I didn’t need to use every single ability available to me. I corrected it when someone pointed the mistake out to me, around level 40.
Third isn’t a mistake so much as a ‘noob moment’. I was just getting started on my orc warrior and almost done with the valley of trials. I went in the cave to complete the last quest, to kill the cultist and take their medallion. I run around killing things until I am suddenly attacked by some orc warlock. I didn’t understand why a member of the horde could attack me and didn’t wish to engage in pvp but fought back to avoid dying. Took me a few extra seconds tp realize that wasn’t a player, it was an npc and my quest target.
All of this. I blew too much gold on gear that I could have done without. Gear that meant nothing at 60; I took to long to get to 60 due to alts. And I burned lots of playtime doing stuff instead of leveling right away.
I was the epitome of a huntard for the 1st 20 levels. Then my first deadlines group showed me the light. I learned to control my pet very well by the end of that dungeon lol. And how to kite. And how to LoS casters. And how to get the pet to kite tank with getting aggro on him and slowing the enemy as me and my pet ran from the mobs we had on kite. And… So much more. By lvl 30 I had killed the bad habits and perfected the basics of being a good hunter. But the title huntard had already spread like wild fire for the class as a whole and it was not easy to find a group.
Oh, I just remembered my biggest epic noob fail moment of Vanilla.
As a hunter I leveled up Mining and Blacksmithing, because “Hunters can wear mail at level 40 and blacksmiths can make mail. So I’m gonna level this up and make me some awesome mail gear when I can wear it, who cares if I can wear leather from leatherworking now… leatherworkers make leather, not mail. Blacksmithing is what is going to be best in the long run.”
Edit: Even once I realized the mistake, several months later at level 60, I didn’t unlearn it because all the time, effort, and money I put into it. Nope, I stayed a Miner/BS on my hunter until Wrath launched and they no longer had any decent agility mail you could make with BS for leveling.
This happened too me.
Oh i’m going to play my rogue, oh my rogue will be an enchanter because I have stealth i’m going to spend all my gold and money in leveling enchanting on him buys from ah.
I ran on foot all the way to 60 or near 60 until I farmed gold in un goro.
Yeah I don’t want to waste gold that is my big number 1.
As a level 20ish human, I’d seen a few elf players around. I knew that they’d come from Teldrassil so I decided to visit.
I made it to Menethil, found a boat, wandered around Theramore for a while, then headed into Dustwallow proper. One level ?? crocodile later, I couldn’t shake this feeling that something was wrong…