haha, reminds me of the first time I saw a succubus. I thought it was a player and I was asking how to be one. Thought it was some kinda special edition thing.
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I had come from Diablo 2 where everything was mana based, all skills and abilties. At least on the characters I played. When I was leveling my Rogue, I bought some Intel gear thinking it would boost my energy…
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Shortly after I hit max level for the first time in Wrath on my first main, a DK (I was about 14 or so at the time), I started saving up badges to buy gear. I ended up wanting to buy a helmet, but I didn’t properly understand how stats worked and noticed that a tank helmet had more strength than a DPS helmet (though I didn’t recognize that the tank helmet was meant to be a tank helmet or that the DPS helmet was meant to be a DPS helmet) and bought the tank helmet because it had more strength.
Shortly after that I went into a group for Trial of the Crusader, and we were having trouble getting a tank, so people in the group said “Make the DK tank, he’s got tank gear on” and when they specified they meant me, I told them I was a damage dealer, and so they ended up telling me about how some of the gear I had on was tank gear.
That was my crash course in figuring out stats.
My favorite story.
Joined wow via the 7 day trial they used to offer in emails. Got massacred by a Son of Arugal elite in Silverpine Forest.
Signed up immediately just to get stronger and kick this “boss’s” booty. Imagine my surprise when I learned what elites actually are.
“Tanking” Wailing Caverns and not knowing about threat or sunder armor. Imagine my surprise when I actually started using the skill and the mobs didn’t suddenly ignore me.
Not knowing about flight paths in zones i had never visited so the old old old questline that involved going to Badlands from Arathi for a quest to summon the titan elite i mounted both ways.
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I ran the entire length of the Deeprun Tram because I didn’t realize there was actually a train.
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I got RaF’d and picked a Blood Elf while my friend was alliance, resulting in this conversation
“Dude, where are you?”
“Eversong Woods?”
“Seriously?? how did you get past the guards?”
“I spawned here. I’m a Blood Elf.”
" Facepalm "
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This is commitment 
Loved it.
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Also, I needed on tank gear a lot because i thought that if it had the option, it was an upgrade for me. Didn’t understand what a main stat was.
(I was on an Arms warrior at the time)
<— Receives quest for Succubus, requiring the hands of the dude in Silverpine and the heart of some dude in Wetlands. Loot hands from the guy after spending nearly an hour, with all his Gilnean Refugee buddies aggroing when I attack him.
So, now I need Wetlands. Pull up map, zoom out. Oh, it’s over there south of Arathi. Try to enter Arathi, and find that the mobs there are way higher than me (me being 20, and the mobs being 30+). Anyway, looking at the map, it looks faster and/or safer to just swim there. So, I get to swimming, which takes ages, and learn about fatigue by dying to it once. I then see that there are high level naga along the shore of Arathi and murlocs along the shore of Wetlands, which I do my best to avoid (die a few more times). I finally make it to Wetlands, in the NW shore by where the raptors and sunken pirate ships are, only to find out that I am outleveled by mobs here, too. So, I am searching for this guy everywhere in Wetlands, getting killed every 100 meters or less. I swear I searched 90% of that zone.
Cut to maybe 3 or 4 hours later, when I learn that you can search the internet (Thottbot, probably) and find out that he’s basically at the south end of Thandol Span, and if I had braved the roads through Arathi, I would have found him hours ago. lol
Next up, at 30, the Felhunter book quest. Run in and try to loot the book, die to murlocs. Try to pick off murlocs, die to murlocs. Wait until someone else aggro’s murlocs, run in, they die to murlocs, I die to murlocs. I think I ended up just grouping with someone, or probably several someones, to evict all the murlocs.
Also did the standing on water as a ghost, and can’t figure out how to get under. This was at Blackfathom Deeps, and I literally could not figure out how to get back to my body.
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Coming to WoW from Everquest, we just dove right in to killing everything to get xp. We didn’t find out about the quests until a few levels later.
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On this character, I was excited to build my very first shotgun … then was a sad, sad man when I found the weapon trainer.
I got the quest in Stormwind’s Dwarven District to make a delivery to Loch Modan, and didn’t know the Tram was a thing. So, I tried to go overland. Ended up in the Burning Steppes, where my aggro radius could be measured in light years. Oh, the pain…
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I picked up a skin of shadow because people said it was a quest item.
My very, very first character was a nelf hunter, since that was what came up on the character creation screen after I logged on. I miscalculated a jump and fell off the tree in the starting area.
My DPS warrior had a shield because I thought it was cool.
I walked into EVERY open building in the major cities just to see if I would find some secret treasure.
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Almost forgot, I installed the game in Jan 2005, hoping to be a Human Hunter. Not available. No prob, I’ll just be an Undead Hunter. WTF? Oh well, Undead Warlock, it is. I just really like pet classes.
Then, when they finally made them available, they are:
Same. I was playing SWG, until SOE decided to steal everything from WoW for NGE, which included removing the CH class, for some reason. 
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I would sell my own gear to be able to afford to repair other pieces of gear or to be able train skills at my class trainer.
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I came from SWG as well. The guy that killed that game is now the president of Blizzard.
Think about that for a moment.
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after my first week of playing vanilla and having almost 0 coin, just a few silver, I had a gold nugget drop from a Kobold and I thought I hit the jackpot, spent hours trying to figure out where to cash it in, told my friend we are going to be rich, finally I worked my way to Sw and tried to sell it through trade chat just to be informed it was worthless vendor trash.
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I thought that I needed to click my mouse to make a swing. I played Diablo 2 a lot before that. I played that way quite a bit before realizing that my character would swing a weapon automatically.