I rolled a Mage but I didn’t know how to attack mobs. So I looked it up (I think it was in the game manual) and I found you could attack enemies by right-clicking them. So that’s what I did until level 10 or so. At some point my staff broke (from dying all the time) and I didn’t know about repairing it. I was literally punching Kobolds in Elwynn Forest because I didn’t know any better.
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I was 11 when I started, so basically anything and everything I did was an embarrassment.
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I did all of Teldrassil not knowing I could look up and down. Swimming…yeah. you mean drowning.
I flew all the way to the end of the eastern kingdoms from Silvermoon instead of taking the portal to undercity, waited about 6~ mins. Good times
Same. I had to try every class, even though Druid and Shaman were my favorites before getting in to Vanilla Beta, and I had to experience every zone. Combine that with friends new to the game inviting me in to their server, and it took a while to take off, especially when my closest friend started AND DIDN’T ASK ME WHERE I WAS! I had followed the game since announcement, so I knew a lot of things to avoid.
It wasn’t until the Death Knights came out that I felt any pressure to push a character to max. The only MMORPG character I had do that was a Theurgist in DAoC, where I was literally expected to run and maintain one support spell, and maybe pop off an occasional damage here and there.
Finally made a Death Knight and started progressing it to Northrend. Took a month off or two for City of Heroes (I bounced between them all the time), and when I came back, my account had been hacked some how and my highest characters had been drained of resources.
So, I didn’t max a character out until WoD, and I never attempted a Raid with people till I learned of LFR in Legion. Still haven’t tried to Raid with people on a normal level, that may change, though.
I did lots of nooby stuff. The first character was a warrior who I just used heroic strike rank 1 until I got to outlands.
I originally rolled a warlock.
I bought a white scimitar from a vendor and melee’d mobs to death until level 30 or so. Once I figured out how to cast spells, I would cast my shadowbolt and wait for it to hit the target before I queued up another shadowbolt. I thought Life Tap was a bad spell.
Oh, to be a newbie…
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The worst thing was being left alone by my friends when they logged off in Undercity and having NO idea how to get out (they had mage ported me in). I was too embarassed to ask in chat and spent an hour wandering around and around trying to find stairs until I chanced to see the elevator door opening in one of the alcoves. Colour me with the d’oh moment… (have always hated that place).
I’ve played classic so long now that each time I return to retail, I’m like, “Where’s my autoattack button?”
I wouldn’t buy all of the abilities. I remember I had limited silver and was choosing between “charge” and something else for warrior. Charge could only be used out of combat, so I figured I’d never need it. Literally never bought it on that character till the day I stopped playing it…at around level 20.
I based class strength on low level duels in Goldshire/outside Orgrimmar. I remember rerolling ret pally after seeing how easily they destroyed warriors…which had limited defensives at the level comparatively. That bubble!
On that same pally, I would buy white armor from vendors till nearly level 20. I didn’t realize people actually used the AH/the gear would be affordable.
All back in vanilla, true noob status.
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In one of my many many rerolls…
… I rp’ed the character very angsty and emo… so he never helped others with quests… gained xp just killing things…
This was back in Vanilla.
I think I gave up at lvl 10-12 ish.
Found the highest point I could and jumped off because the game I came from had no falling damage. I went splat setting up a pattern of me falling off things to this day.
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Wore every kind of armor on my hunter (first char) I wore cloth leather mail I was running around in a robe… if it looked like it had better stats I used it no matter what kind of armor it was or what kind of stats it had strength int or agil. Oh and since I didn’t know about transmogg I got a cape I like the way it looked and refused to change it for a long time. And of course the thing all Huntards did. Not turning growl off on my pet in dungeons. Tanks would say take taunt off huntard and had no idea what they meant.
Explains why you play priest now. Levitate.
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The first character I entered the world with was a rogue.* I didn’t fully understand that you could choose different races than the initial suggestion on the screen, and I wanted to be a human. When I clicked on the rogue, a human came up, so I went with that.
Oddly enough, she is the only original WoW toon from back then that I still have and play with regularly. Most of those old ones got deleted, but my first raiding toon still sits on her Vanilla server in her original Vanilla gear. My rogue is a 120 Outlaw, and I still keep her up-to-date.
Once I realized I could be a human mage, I switched. At the time, I felt like playing a fireball tosser.
On that rogue, which I leveled to 14-ish in Elwynn and Westfall (which took multiple days, by the way), I was wearing a combination of cloth items that I thought looked nicer than the other stuff I was getting as quest rewards.
I was a level 40 on the mage before I knew that professions were a thing, and I was even higher level before I realized that fishing and first aid and cooking were not professions.
First character I ever made back in vanilla was a Tauren shaman. I took skinning and leather working because I thought it was cool and fit with the native American feel that I didn’t want to waste anything from the beasts I was killing.
Because I was a shaman I felt like elemental leatherworking was a good fit. It was not. It was also horrible to farm gold as a shaman, but I somehow saved up enough for an Arcanite Reaper. Took me months of farming.
Omg this is me. However I didn’t start that early I played maybe in wrath or something because I was pretty young. I didn’t have a character at max until I met my SO on wow who convinced me to level to max in WoD.
-thought I needed all the heirlooms to level fast so… I saved all my gold bought a bunch of heirlooms and made new alts that never got to max until wod.
-queued as a tank as a belf dk and got called a blueberry and was kicked.
-tbh the rest is really a blur like I have no clue what I was doing at the start of wow but somehow it all started to click once I had someone to level with and soon I was a research obsessed wow player who had to look up everything to be decent at the game.
-I was also a keyboard turner for a long time and a button clicker
OMG… I just remembered…
I once made a guild and made my guildies meet to practice battle FORMATIONS… for like battlegrounds!
We’d be out in the world running in formation TRYING to make FLANKING movements. 
We did ONE battleground… we never met for formation practice again.
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Clicked abilities from my spell book and not the bar.
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That was such a long time ago and I was still young so my memory is hazy. I guess the one thing that will always grate on my nerves from back then was leveling a Paladin thinking they’d be great, Warriors with self healing. Only to be told that my only value was as a cleanse bot.
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