I thought mailing gold to your alts was against the rules, so I’d write letters pretending they were other players as a cover.
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Back in WOTLK I had a recruit a friend buddy who used the teleport thing to bring me inside of the pink Netherstorm bubbles. He told me I couldn’t leave the bubble because there’s no oxygen outside and then “conveniently” had to go offline. I ran around forever at level 6 trying to figure out what I was supposed to do until he logged back on.
Edit: I still don’t know why I didn’t hearth.
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That if I explored enough empty buildings in capital cities, that I would find some secret treasure that nobody else knows about.
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Uhhh back when I first started playing I had no idea what a macro was. Somebody told me it’s where you can make your own spells. So I made the dumbest spells and wondered why they were not working. It was things like /cast berserker healing [heals Delvyngr for 5000 hp]
I still have them in my macros tab on my 54 warrior I haven’t touched since vanilla. That good ol days.
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Thought soulbound meant I could’nt unequip it
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I thought Rogues were a very hard class to play that only good players can master.
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That you had to log off in a bed in an INN to get the most rested exp…
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I played Gnome rogue, and loved it during vanilla. But my first 13 levels I thought intel was increasing my energy. LOL I had played d2 previously and everything was mana based. I got laughed at pretty hard when I figured it out.
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I thought Dustwallow Marsh was a very hot spot Horde only area but I wanted to explore so I hit cat form on my NE druid and stealthed literally all over the zone. They can’t kill me on sight if they don’t see me, right?
Bonus: I was on a PVE server.
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i thought dungeons were only for the ‘top-tier, best-players in WoW!’ …back in MoP, which is when i started. heck, i was so worried about that, i looked up tips for how to be a good dps (it had some ok tips, don’t remember them, except for ‘stand behind the enemy’.)
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Blizzard plays their own game. Being 100% serious on that too. The way how they’ve been handling the game balance and systems, I wonder if they even play the game enough to see the frustrations that comes with playing the game for extended hours and certain content.
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WHAT WAS A STUPID THING YOU BELIEVED AS A NEW PLAYER?
That I’d be able to play the game without being perpetually annoyed by the company.
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Maybe not as a completely new player…but…back in 05…16 y/o me with open mic thinking the mic had to be right against my mouth.
…yeah that changed rather fast.
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I thought that you had to be 21 or older to go to Brewfest. XD
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That you wouldn’t be able to PVP at all on a Normal server back in 2004.
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fake ID 
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I was so happy to save enough silver for some grey vendor gear. Thought it was pretty sick gear.
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Come to think of it ive actually seen people go to stormwind Inn bed to log off, maybe this is still a thing
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Started first account in late 2016.
That I’d be humiliated out of the game for being new and never be able to catch up. I seriously thought everyone would spot the newb.
Having no MMO experience prior, just watching people with 10 windows displaying stats and all made me feel like I was watching someone fly a 747.
I actually hid in Darnassus on my Worgen for a month hoping nobody would spot the newb.
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Didn’t know anything about the auction house so was saving every copper I made for riding. Guildies couldn’t understand why my warrior couldn’t take down a sickly gazelle until they realized I wasn’t spending money to level skills. D’oh!
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