… what was the noobiest most embarrassing thing you did?
I got a few:
- I grinded Elwynn Forest gnolls for cooper and silver so I could buy that white (common quality) gear off the vendor…
- … still remember my friend who, ahead of me ran Deadmines for the first time and was like: “Dude!.. you gotta check this out. This is where the good gear’s at!”
Me: “Nah… I’m not ready for that place yet…”
- I wore cloth robes on my warrior cause I thought it looked cool… was going for the Jedi/ Auron of FFX look…
- In PvP, I didn’t use all my skills… I thought: “Oh… I need to keep some tricks under my sleeve to… I dunno… surprise!”
Good times… good times
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Couldn’t figure out how to go underwater for a quest objective.
Accidentally figured out how to go underwater and couldn’t figure out how to get back out.
Couldn’t get back underwater to retrieve my body.
Didn’t know what talent points were until level 40.
Once I did, I put all my points into ret but used sword and board because seeing numbers more often felt like I was doing better dps.
Tried to tank because I had a sword and board.
Got kicked from a group for trying to tank.
I’m sure there’s many others, but those are just what come to mind. 
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I was just coming off of Runescape when I started playing and some of my Runescape habits lingered longer than they should have. In Runescape you usually have to grind NPC kills to gain combat levels and I made the mistake of doing that for a bit in WoW. I wasted a lot of time killing countless NPCs and not doing most of the quests.
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I never made any mistakes. I’m perfect in every way.
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Showing up late to a Kara raid by a guild that I still don’t understand why they invited me, got lost in Kara while they were downing bosses, then they asked who I was.
I got embarrassed, hearthed out, /gquit then started leveling alts and didn’t touch that character again until Wrath.
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I didn’t do ANY level-appropriate group content from Vanilla through Wrath. Except battlegrounds, which convinced me that I did not want to do group content with WoW players.
I am shy, overly-sensitive, not competitive but cooperative, started the game in my 40s, am female, and am not able to hit keys on a keyboard without looking at my fingers (I also cannot hand-write without having the pen turned so I can see the letter formation…it is a brain thing). So I had good reasons to not inflict myself on any group.
HOWEVER: Nice players coaxed me into trying in Cata, and I discovered that I can do the easier group content without being a big liability. Heck, by just sincerely trying hard I am superior to a fair number of players in easier content because I never go AFK and stay in my lane.
So that was my very, very long mistake. And I made others . . .like getting a new weapon and not knowing that weapon skills were a thing. LOL!
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Hmm, had major alt-itis, well still do really. Started in Vanilla, didnt have a max level character until Cata.
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I remember standing in the auction house at lvl 20 in vanilla when some dude asked why I had so much intellect on my warrior gear, I responded I do not want a dumb warrior lols, I wasn’t in a guild yet or ever read any instructions.
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1.) I’d click on re-agents in my inventory instead of the actual spells that required the re-agents. Note: Clicking on the light feather does not activate slowfall when jumping off a cliff…
2.) Made a human mage, swam from Westfall all the way up to Menethil, took the boat to Auberdine, made it to Darnassus, all because I wanted to have a human character quest in Teldrassil for some reason. Then learned there was no Alliance mage trainer anywhere in Kalimdor (at the time) and I’d only ever be able to cast one Rank 1 spell unless I traveled all the way back to the Eastern Kingdoms. (Deleted that toon in shame.)
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I’m sure I made dumber mistakes, but it was nearly 15 years ago so the worst I remember was “armour rating is key”. I only looked at armor rating for gear, whichever had more armor was whatever I wore. If a grey chest with zero stats had 1 more armour point than a purple chest loaded with stats, thats what I wore.
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My warrior was a spirit warrior… cause I was a Jedi warrior!
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I was created on Day One of WoW. I had no idea what an MMO was, just that I loved WCIII and the open betas were fun. I had no idea what I should be doing to kill things, so it was all trial and error. I remember meleeing a lot with my sword. Cloth armor could have agility or strength on it back then so I wore it. Lots of high stamina cloth too, that was my thing so I wouldn’t die all the time. It took me a good 3-4 months to reach maximum level. It was very painful, and I came out of it not really knowing so much how to do maximum damage, but I was great at not dying.
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use the arrow button to get to skills on the 2nd bar lol.
then my brain clued in we could have multiple bars up
I only had the base game during WotLK.
So, idk, I guess Tanking (with a shield and Tank gear and all) as primarily a Ret-specced Paladin? But it wasn’t really THAT nooby. I still had some points in the Prot Tree, Ret had that AoE (seal? aura? I forget) which was nice for threat/damage, and we’re talking level 60 content when level 80 was the level cap, so it worked just fine and no one had any complaints.
Other than that, idk. I feel like I always had an okay grasp of how to play the game. I wore my proper armor type, I used hotkeys from day 1 (because its labeled. It’s right there. I will never understand how clickers started clicking). I knew how to quest. I found groups for dungeons just fine. I’m sure I wasn’t “good” at the game, but I had enough of an idea of what I was doing to not make a fool out of myself.
The noobiest thing I can think of was just exploring everywhere because the world felt so HUGE to me at the time (my only previous MMORPG experience was F2P Runescape in like 2006, and F2P Runescape back then was even smaller than it is now). Like, I jumped in the water in Westfall and just swam all the way up the western coast of EK just to see what I would find, since I hadn’t uncovered the map yet. Found a couple little things along the way, but my god I was excited when I ran into Menethil Bay/Harbor, because I DISCOVERED something! Of course it’s just another quest hub, but at the time I had no idea it was there, and I had just found it. So that was nooby as hell - BUT I wouldn’t say it was embarrassing.
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I vendored a purple because it wasn’t for my class and it turned out to be worth several thousand gold, which was like millions back then. I forget what it was though… something for casters.
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I remember going to Deadmines for the first time, it was early Wrath. I didn’t have a clue what was going on. Someone told me to stay behind the bear. I thought it was someone’s pet. My jaw dropped to the floor when they popped out of form to heal in between pulls.
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From WotLK thru like WoD I literally never hurt for gold or felt like I needed to farm it because I would just occasionally end up with a BoE worth enough gold to let me coast for a long time. Partially because nothing I saw as “necessary” costed very much, admitedly. 1-time enchants and raid consumables were cheap as hell until Legion, so selling 1 or 2 current world or raid BoEs lasted awhile.
I spend a ridiculous amount of time crafting 1h maces for my Priest thinking it would help me do l33t damage.
But in my defense, don’t give Priests an AP buff if they weren’t meant to melee 
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I was a melee balance Druid.
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Didn’t wear helms 'cuz I was a Tauren and they looked stupid 90% of the time. Kept on playing gimped like that until someone told me I could just hide my helms in the settings menu (this was back before Transmog was a thing).
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