Newb Stories and Newb Levels

[Nasanna]

Just yesterday I figured out that on this forum, instead of going to the main website and looking at the top of the screen for the most recent posts, I could just click the "show unread posts since your last visit" and see ALL the posts I'd missed, instead of the 8 most recent ones.

[fiere redfern]

Two days ago:

Tanking reg UK on my DK (har) in a random pug group - couldn't for the life of me figure out why I couldn't hold aggro off a hunter who was doing only 100 dps more than I was. To add insult to injury, these weren't even the off-tank mobs - they were the ones I had marked and was currently hacking away at. Frustrated, I logged and took a nap since I'd only had three hours of sleep the night before.

Woke up later on and logged onto my DK to discover something kind of important - I'd been tanking the entire instance in blood presence.

/facepalm.

[Arcdelad]

its alright...rock dps's in frost presence all the time and its pretty bad too lol

[Vengeance]

On our first Thaddius25 kill...I forgot to re-equip my staff and did that fight with about 2500 ap and 1.50% crit less...

[Nasanna]

I just realized after 65 levels on my warrior that you can use Intercept out of combat if you have the rage for it. I had figured it was an in-combat ability only.

[Avelandra]

If I only had a nickle for the number of times i've gone into an instance with my fishing pole equiped.

I'd be rich.

[fallingleafs]

it wasn't until level 70 that I realized I could use shadowmeld in combat, I assumed it's only use was so I could go bio while I was questing! 

[Tolwen]

it was Leafs, they changed it in a patch

[Hugh]

I done so many noob things on my mage and i know others have done them also, was in a kara pug one night and we did a clear and group asked for a port me already sleepy from the lack of, teleported myself instead of opening a portal, and they got pissed and kicked me. and then when i was a lowbie bout 20ish i had a group ask me to sheep the target and i told em i didnt do that cause it gives the target health back so i didnt and then they explain and i was like ahh, so later on we was fighting a mob in sfk and got the mob to like 20% and then i sheeped him cause i though at this point they couldnt hurt us and it healed him all the way really fast and then had a group ask me for food and i didnt know i could even make it til like lv 58.

[Tolwen]

lol Hugh, i've done that port thing to some of our guildies as well....I swear they look the same!!!

[Liege]

Ok so i have had my share of Noobish moments, but where do i begin...I guess I can start with this one...I was on my warrior and doing a quest from SW to EPL, where you have to kill the "traitor"...there was a BE Pally and a BE Mage standing next to the guy i was supposed to kill...the quest told me "raid" quest, but i didnt think anything of it...i walk up and attack the guy i was supposed to...not only does he summon adds, but he was flagged for being a Horde NPC, so i flag, and get dropped in about 2.5 seconds, the whole while getting laughed at by the Blood elves lol

[dharq]

Ok, so being an old beta player  , mine's from way way back when...

My first day I'm in the beta, I roll up a NE druid cause I mean seriously, what's cooler than being a bear or a cat, right? Well, I'm wandering around Teldrassil, hunting those weak green spiders over by Starbreeze Village, and I didn't realize you could slip down the branches that hang out there if you aren't careful... Well, I wasn't.

I spent about 20 mins trying to figure out how to hop down the tree to get to where my corpse landed... What's a spirit healer?

Oh, and more recently... we're in OS 25, I'm noticing I'm having a hell of a time not pulling aggro from Arc.. I'm taking a ton of dmg, and not quite sure what's going on.. Then I get this tell from Arc.. um, are you in frost presence?... Sure 'nuff. 

[Tony]

It's been a while since I pugged a group. Today I was on my hunter and decided to try BRD. The group sat at the stone a dueld for 30 minutes before we started. I can tolerate some stuff, but this really took the cake for me. The tank would go afk, then res the druid healer that was tanking in his place. After 3 or so deaths, he came back, and the following took place. Wookyman is the tank.

[06:55] [P] [55:Daszul]: ill give you 5 g if you can hold aggro
[06:55] [P] [59:Wookyman]: ok lol
[06:55] [P] [55:Drewuh]: me?
[06:55] [P] [55:Daszul]: anyone
[06:55] [P] [55:Drewuh]: naw 5g is nothn
[06:55] [P] [59:Wookyman]: i can do that
[06:56] [G] [80:Brymahr]: brd not goin so well?
[06:56] [P] [55:Drewuh]: dks get money fast
[06:56] Your target is dead
[06:56] You have no target.
[06:56] [G] [55:Daszul]: not really
[06:56] [P] [55:Drewuh]: hwlp help
[06:56] [P] [55:Drewuh]: aww
[06:56] You have no target.
[06:56] Spell is not ready yet.
[06:56] You have no target.
[06:56] Spell is not ready yet.
[06:56] Your share of the loot is 1 Silver, 7 Copper.
[06:56] Your target is dead
[06:56] There is nothing to attack.
[06:56] You have no target.
[06:56] There is nothing to attack.
[06:56] [P] [59:Wookyman]: yay i did it
[06:56] Your share of the loot is 4 Silver, 64 Copper.
[06:56] Sneekyrogue receives loot: [Relic Coffer Key].
[06:56] You receive loot: [Elemental Fire].
[06:56] You receive loot: [Dark Iron Residue]x8.
[06:56] Your share of the loot is 2 Silver, 79 Copper.
[06:56] You have requested to trade with Wookyman.
[06:57] Catsz receives loot: [Relic Coffer Key].
[06:57] Trade complete.
[06:57] [P] [55:Daszul]: now do it again for free
[06:57] You receive loot: [Dark Iron Scraps]x4.
[06:57] You receive loot: [Runecloth]x4.
[06:57] [P] [58:Catsz]: lol
[06:57] [P] [59:Wookyman]: sry guys i gtg

I actually paid this guy cause he did what I asked. We were standing in front of the final boss, and he left the group. Love it!

[Apolla]

-At one point, I took a rogue's advice on DPS and gemmed for hit.  Not good
-Learned that about 2 weeks ago you can click on the ready check button in the raid window
-I actually thought spamming piercing howl in defensive stat would of kept me on top of threat =/
It's kind of funny how much you learn along the way, maybe that's why I tend to be very nice to newer/less experienced players.

[fiere redfern]

Here's a remembered one from my days leveling Fireheart:

I was 40-something and running Sunken Temple with a decent group of players. Up until this point I had never had need to use my soulstone, so when the healer asked for it, I was excited. "Don't worry," I said, "I've got the stone all set." Mind you, the stone was still in my bags. If the healer were to die, I thought the stone would be used like one would use the Gnomish Jumper Cables - apply to the person while they are dead, and POOF! One living person, coming up. Needless to say, the healer eventually did die, and I targetted the player, all excited (I get that way when using a new ability, it has nothing to do with the fact that they were dead, I swear), clicked the stone, and then... "Invalid target".

Boy was I embarrassed. Popped the stone on the healer after they ran back and didn't say another word the entire run.