What is the most embarrassing thing you've done or said as a new player?

Choosing the agility/strength 1h sword from the Scarlet Monastery quest on my warlock, and then dropping my tailoring profession to take enchanting so I could slap a red glow beast slayer on that bad boy.

I always remember some dude on the zeppelin telling me I was using the wrong stats but I ignored him because red shiny sword look nice.

I was buying shit vendor gear in the undercity for way to much "money" and had no stats... I thought armour mattered more than anything! Was about 30 before I realized my lock sucked because I uh.. had no stats?

Started my first character; a rogue. Ran around Shadowglen for a bit and found a gray chest piece. Was wondering why I couldn't wear it, then I saw "mail" in red letters.

Mailed it to my friend asking if he could mail it back so I could equip it.

I didn't know about chat channels, so I was answering people in general chat by just typing in say

My first character was a druid, and I tried to walk to Moonglade for the bear quest because I did not realize that I had learned the teleport to Moonglade spell.

And it didn't just stop after trying to get to Felwood and realizing I'd never make it because I was level 10 in a 40+ zone. I also walked back after many deaths and tried my best to walk up a waterfall in Darkshore that I thought would have lead to the route to get to Moonglade.

It took hours before I actually decided to ask in chat how I was supposed to get to Moonglade.

I got to level 30 before I found out about the extra action bars, I thought I had to keep my spell book open to use anymore than 12.

Ok here goes mine. I was playing hunter and learned how to use guns. Since hunter abilities had arrow icons on them, I thought I could only use them with bows, so I never used an ability with guns. Took me a misclick on an ability to realise that wasn't the case.

By some grace of God 13 year old me with my level 19 night elf warrior got into a Deadmines group... as a tank. I had no idea what a tank was. I had no idea what group roles were. The rest of the group kept complaining about me and asking me to please do my job but since I had no idea what I was doing, I said “I don’t want to :P”. One guy seemed to figure out that not only was I a noob of the highest degree but I was also a kid, so he started to defend me and help cover for me. I still think about that guy 14 years later and how he definitely kept the group from kicking me and being vicious to me. I mean, I also think about me coasting through the dungeon without a shield telling the group I “don’t feel like tanking” to cover up for the fact that I didn’t even know what tanking was... but uh, I prefer to think about the guy who made sure a random kid wasn’t bullied out of a group instead!

In vanilla, I played an Arms Warrior (still do), but the class description said I was a tank. Logically, I assumed all specs were tank specs and as such I tanked all dungeons with my twohander. I didn't even have a shield or used defensive stance because it'd mean less damage. Healers sometimes complained but most were as clueless as I was so we all just told them to git gud. I kept aggro by just doing tons more damage than everyone else. Easy when you have infinite rage from getting beat up, and Mortal Strike.

So that worked fine-ish for most dungeons, even Stratholme and such. Then my guild's raidgroup asked for a tank for Zul'Gurub one afternoon because their usual one disconnected. Of course, my first raid, hell yeah! First trash pack on our way to Mandokir; immediate wipe because I died in seconds. Prompt admonishment from the raid/guildleader. Confused raidtalk about what the fuck I was doing. I learned a lot that day and have (begrudgingly) tanked with a shield and defensive stance since.

as hunter, in TBC, I exhausted all my ammo. thought ammo is limited per character. So i deleted that char and made a new hunter, said to myself "since ammo is limited i will only use arrows when i absolutely need it " :D

First time in RFC in vanilla, I realised that pressing the dice after loot drop usually let me have it!! People even called my rogue a ninja. I thought ninjas are cool. I was 13 years old.

During TBC, as a young druid I was very interested to know what flight form looked like, so I found a 70 Druid in Thunderbluff and asked him to show me. He said it's only usable in Outlands, so I went to the bottom of the elevator into Mulgore, asking him to follow and show me. Guess I thought Outlands was another word for not in a city.

First toon Alliance warrior. Leveling was going fine. I got the guest to take the tram to IF. But I didn't read the quest text.

My solution. Swim along the coast from Westfall to Menethil Harbor. When I got there all the mobs just one-shot me. Turned into a corpserun to get down to IF.

I didn’t think you could repair gear, so when it went red I got rid of it (this was quite early in Vanilla)

Me and a friend queued in a dungeon, I read the tank description and was like "that's what I'd do irl!"

Needless to say I was kicked immediately along with my friend when we wandered off in cat form looking at some cool details lol

When I was young I used to only do leveling. Not even to max level but to like level 20. One character I was just running around and all of a sudden I got a skull on my head. It scared me so much that I deleted the character instantly because I thought I did something wrong and that my brothers account would get banned. Looking at it now, still seems weird to me that a random player just put a skull on me without knowing the consequences.

Back when I first started wow I remember running to a high level zone and seeing a horde orc ( I was alliance ) and I started trying to talk to him and he was replying in some foreign language, I asked what language he was speaking and he just kept speaking in this weird language.

I often tried to talk to the opposite faction. Then one day I learned its the game changing what they write cos they are rhe opposite faction.

Someone said "Hey!" At me because I accidentally stole the mob they wanted. I said, "hi", back because I didn't get it and thought they were greeting me lol.

I thought you had to balance stats. Had a hard time getting +agi and +sta as a mage...

In Vanilla I made a undead warlock. I was inviting everyone I saw to a group to go to the Undercity because I thought it was too scary to go alone. I then found myself taking the Zepplin to Stranglethorn, changed my hearthstone to Grom'Gol and found myself lost.

I was 8 years old :I

I used to have a "care-o-meter" macro which i copied from a guildie as it was a thing. It would "score" how much i cared. "Don't care --[-]------------------ Care".

Except that i did it in reverse. It actually mentioned that I cared a lot. I actually frequently used this macro and they always laughed more than when the other guy used his.

The worst part is that i never realized this until years later when I played on that character again and had a look at the macro...

My very first WSG I asked what I should do, grab the flag they said, so I went and grabbed it and asked “what next?”. It didn’t go well.

I was in holy spec, using a 2H, calling myself a tank. I didn't understand the concept of tank/healer/dps back in 2009. I was building my character as if I was a WC3 hero unit.

First character was an undead back in BC questing away loving life, finished all the quests in the area like a good little quester. I didn't see the path from tirisfal glades to silverpine forest, so me being the little exploring undead that I was decided to swim all the way around the northern part of tirisfal glades until I got to silverpine forest and was in aww at the level 9 mobs that I encountered after my 30 minute swimming expedition. Best stupid thing I've ever done.

Tldr: didn't know there was a path from tirisfal glades to silverpine forest. Swam all the way around

When I first started I made a druid. Casting spells as a dalance druid sounded really cool to me but so wss being a cat. So id just put a few points in balance here and a few points on cat form there thinking using both would be cool but it just made me more weak and I used to wonder why it took me so long to kill a mob.

Back in Vanilla, I made a night elf and dropped down teldrassil (I think that‘s the tree where NE starter zone is located right?) because I was curious, landed on a branch and died. Since I didn‘t know about reviving at the graveyard, I tried to jump down to that exact branch as a whisp but fell much further to the bottom of the tree, leaving me struggling and in the end deleting my character since I couldn‘t get back to my body…

Then after some time, I decided to try out horde and made an Orc on another realm. As I always created Night Elfs before and was used to a very crowded starting zone, I was shocked that the Orc Starting Zone was nearly empty. So as my duty of a good Horde player, I opened a ticket and even called Blizzard to tell them to switch other Horde players to that realm since it was a shame that the Orc starter zone is empty… I was 13 years old back then…

Back in early TBC I just started playing. Got a 40ish mage and I was poor as fuck. As in no money to level spells or buy teleport runes poor. I did SFK I believe to sell items. At that point I think the Gods of Warcraft took pity on me and 2 of the best blue twink items dropped. A cloak and a bow? The problem was I had no clue that twinking was a thing. Nor did I have a grasp on the economy. I did my calculations and I needed 6 gold or something like that for my spells. Thinking to make a quick extra buck and offered them in trade chat for 5 gold each. If I've gotten as many Tinder matches as I did whispers then I'd be a happy man. Sold the items, got my spells and got on. A few minutes later someone told me I could've gotten hundreds if not a thousand gold for them. Logged off, deleted my character and made a new one out of shame.

Ofcourse I've forgotten to send the 4 whole gold I had back to my new character.

I was on a trial account in 2007 at like 9 years old and asked a gnome Mage for a portal to this cool place Shattrath that I’d heard was really cool.

Queue me clicking on the portal for a minute wondering why I couldn’t go :( and the gnome Mage laughing at me

This was about 17 years ago but I remember a few things.

On my very first character I created a human. I grouped up with someone on one of the first quests to kill kobolds in northshire. After the quest I could not figure out how to leave the group and assumed I was stuck in this group with this guy forever. So I deleted my character and made a new one.

Additionally I didn't understand how chat channels worked and would reply to people talking in general chat using /say. I remember thinking how everyone was rude and never responded to me.

I remember rolling need on an item back in vanilla and got called a ninja, thought that was cool as well... ninjas are awesome let's be real, so continued to do so til I found out what it really meant..

As a new player in classic wow I was helping other players kill a mob because i knew how difficult it was and when I was lv 23 or something I saw this hunter and i thought he was doing a quest or struggling fighting a spider in red ridge mountain so I did what I usually do and joined in kill it, turns out he was taming a rare spider lmao I was just a paladin I didn't know what hunter did to tame or any other classes do but I can assure you he was very mad.

Back in 2004 I asked a human warrior on a horse in goldshire how to get mail. Fortunately he was friendly and only /lol 'd at me once before telling me to find the mailbox by the inn.

Made a whole PUG wait for me while I spent ~10 minutes pulling groceries in for my family, only to learn that I can only do the heroic version of a dungeon once a day.

In TBC I leveled to 70 and had never done a dungeon (prior to lfg). I did ramparts and was asked to soul stone the tank and I tried to trade it to them. I didn't know you could cast it on them. Not that bad but the group made be feel awful for not knowing as a 70.

Started my first character (BE), and after leveling through ghostlands I tried walking to the next zone, which logically was Eastern Plaguelands. Que angry yelling after 30mins of getting oneshot "HOW DO THEY EXPECT US TO GET THROUGH?"

Opened the quest log and read exactly how they expect us to get through. Que walk of shame to Silvermoon :')

Probably not rolling on gear. Someone in my guild rolled on an item once, not paying attention to what it was, and they said "You can't even use that armor type! Plus it's strength." This was probably the first time I realized classes had different armor types and about stats. I had no idea what my fresh hunter could use so I never rolled on gear. Only got gear if no one else rolled and someone was like, 'Hey, isn't this an upgrade for you?"

My first character was a hunter and I was so happy to get my pet. I trained a wolf and called him Wolfy. When he got killed by a mob I cried so much that I wanted to delete the game because I didn’t know revive pet was a thing.

I accidentally kicked someone from a group. For some reason I was the leader, and I typed /kick at someone, thinking it would be an emote saying "[me] kicks [other player]'s behind" or something, but instead it kicked them from the group!

Another time I had a hard time healing Stratholme, and when I came out I discovered why: I had been wearing my fishing pole instead of my staff. Druids had to be in tree form to heal back then, and you couldn't see your weapon in that form.

The boars around Valley of Trials (orc/troll starting area) were neutral, but you had quests that required killing them. Then, later on, the boars just before and around Razor Hill were hostile, despite looking very similar.

I took this combination of facts to mean that if you killed enough of a neutral enemy, it would permanently turn them hostile toward you, so I really went out of my way to make sure I never accidentally AoE’d them or anything. And I thought this for a long time. Idea was reinforced by some of the rep stuff like Gelkis/Magram centaurs later on.

When I was first starting to get the hang of things and try to socialize more I noticed that a lot of specs were abbreviated to 3 letters in conversation. I proceeded to ask around to group up for stuff claiming I was a "pro pally" because I'd not seen anyone say prot before and didn't for another 2 or 3 weeks. No one corrected me. I never found a group.

I didn't know I could Lay on Hands myself until around AQ40, it just seemed like something that would be too OP to allow so I never thought to try it, I did it by mistake and was flabbergasted. I miss 2006.

I don't remember my noob days, but I do remember learning in mop that BL meant bloodlust and that bloodlust=heroism.

I was shaman on alliance and I remember getting in a arguments over how I do not have damn bloodlust, and telling everyone to shut the fk up cause clearly they do not even know what spells shaman has, and I know everything cause I have thousands of hrs on it.

People would usually just ask me then to just use heroism INSTEAD, but no one ever thought of telling me that bloodlust=heroism and how what faction you are is makes the difference, I guess people just assumed I was acting stupid for laughs, no one considered the possibility of me actually being that stupid.

EDIT: I just remembered the super noob story of my 1st character. It was night elf hunter, I deleted hearthstone on it to open up more space in bag for items worth few bronze so I can "farm up" some silver, later I managed to get lost in the big a*s forest and just came to conclusion that there is nothing more I can do cause I do not have hearthstone so I just deleted that hunter.

I thought that brb was an insult and would promptly get offended and leave the party whenever someone said brb. I just couldn't comprehend what I did to hurt all these people.

Back in the early days of WoW when I first started playing I didn't know you could repair your armour. So when my armour durability ran out I just sold it and used all my gold to buy crappy replacements from vendors.

Warlocks have no interrupt idiot

To be fair the amount of Destro and Affliction Warlocks that don't use a felhunter in dungeons is shocking.

When i ran my first dungeon, ( RFC ), as a newbie, i pressed "Need" and won one drop. IIRC, it was just a malachite.I was happy because i won it and i rolled "Need" again for a Tigerseye. Won again.Then i said in Groupchat; "Oh cool! With "Need" i can win anything i want!"One other dude just did a ":)" and yeah..Now it's just embarassing. :D

EDIT: Early TBC.

I didn't know you could resurrect. So Everytime I died I made a new character until my friend came over and asked why I had so many dead character

A bit over 15 years ago, my cousin started on EU releae and I started like 2-3 months later.

I made an orc male shaman, my cousin who was a lvl 42 undead mage gave me 5 gold to start off.

I reached lvl 11 without doing any class quests or learning any new abilities and got to orgrimmar where he had shown me how the auction house worked.

I bought a pair of lvl 16 grey MAIL shoulders for 2h and like a 2h axe for another 50s when my cousin came back from afking he asked me where all my spells were and why I had a pair of lvl 16 mail shoulders in my bag and like less than 3g left, he laughed at what I told him and I ended up making a warrior instead, sent the gold to the warrior but deleted the shaman and forgot to send the shoulders and axe over.

This and I needrolled on the staff from WC as a warrior which made the shaman or druid in the group very mad (I think in classic warriors go for that staff as its the best option for like 5 more lvls, but noone knew that back then).

I made a Night elf rogue when I was a kid. i knew they could become invisible and stuff, and I didn't knew that you learn stealth (didn't know it was called stealth then) later and not from lvl 1, but I had shadowmeld. So I thought that I had to lvl up my "invisibility", so I ran around for a while using shadowmeld thinking the more I used it, the better I would get and the longer I would be able to walk while invisible..

I rolled need on a locked box because I wanted to level my lockpicking

I rolled greed on an epic boe that was a huge upgrade, but was coerced into putting it on instead of selling it - it was worth about 1000g on my server back then.

I got hacked and did not submit a second ticket just because the first gm said "we can't so anything." I dropped the game for 10 years after that

When I first started playing about a year ago I started a Worgen. I did the entire quest line got to teldrassil and the next quest tells you to leave. Now I didn't know how to do that. So I tried to swim to Kalimdor.

I am still a pretty new player and casual but that was one of the stupidest things I did.

Back when starting in vanilla, I did not know what mobs where aggressive or not, neither did I know that you should finish the quests at the starting zone before proceeding.

So at lvl 3 I ran through starbreeze village on my Nelf Warr because I thought the Furbolg were friendly

In wotlk I got kicked out of VoA for not doing my rotation because I didn't know what that was. Yes, I got to endgame without that knowledge. Next time I went in I won the Grand Black War Mammoth.

My healer kept saying los to me and I said I don’t understand Spanish

When I first started playing back when the game first came out, I had never played Warcraft before, just Starcraft. I only started playing because all my other friends were. I saw this guy running around with a cool alien thing with him, and told him that his Zergling was cool... It was a Warlock and it was his Felhunter ...

1st toon, Holy Priest. Get to Uldaman and think that mana burning mobs was an effective way to stop damage to the group.

Super embarrassing looking back now!!

I’ve been playing since late 2019 but never did keys and last week I said to a group of guildies “why won’t my key work? I’m clicking it in my bag and it won’t start”

Someone used the pickpocket emote on me in BC, in my second hour of playing. I flipped out and he put me on blast in IF trade chat. I felt very dumb.

I asked my dad where to buy a pickaxe or hoe so I could “farm gold”. Oh to be a kid again

Yeah. Basically i didn't knew back then what a quest was.

So i leveled up to lvl. 14 with only killing mobs.

I was very frustrated with fishing, because the profession window blocked half my view! I asked my guild why the devs would design something so poorly.

"Just drag the button to your toolbar."

"The what to the what?!"

I felt so dumb.

I started playing when I was 19 somewhere around phase 2 of tbc. Having loved warcraft 3, and the entire Arthas storyline, I decided to roll a paladin. My graphics setting were super low, so when choosing a face for my human I picked what I thought was "battle scarred." I load in, listen to the preamble about Humans, and was absolutely hooked from the first auto swing in Northshire. From there I continued on alone for months. I was terrible, but didn't know or care. I died all the time, but remained steadfast. I often felt very weak, but I figured, "nah it's just part of the challenge." Some time later around level 32 around Goldshire I was talking to someone about how hard everything seemed to be, and they asked me if I had been putting points into retribution. "What's retribution?" I say, looking at my entirely holy spec'd paladin. He then tells me to look at the tabs at the bottom of the talents window, and I died inside. I was a holy paladin, geared mostly like a prot paladin, trying to swing a 2 hander like ret for 32 levels.

Months later, I'm in a guild, and I'm a half decent healer. Wrath was coming out soon, and some of the guildies and I were checking out our new pre patch abilities. Having never really looked closely at my character, one guildie asked, "what's wrong with your face?" "Huh?" I said in bewilderment. "It's the battle scarred face." "There is no battle scarred face." He replied. Confounded, I tried to look up the battle scarred face online, and to my horror I learned that this entire time, my glorious, war hero paladin adventurer had the oldest old man face available. My graphics were so low and blurry that the details looked like badass facial scarring. Needless to say, I was very excited when Blizzard eventually let us change character features!

Bonus: I was genuinely angry at a mage in a dungeon for not healing because I thought all casters could heal...

Edit: my phone keyboard wants me to look like an idiot

I don’t know if I have any specific experience but I get really embarrassed thinking about how bad I was at the game until recently. I didn’t understand mechanics and normal dungeons may as well have been mythic raids for how nervous I got about everything. I’m pretty sure I was always bottom dps too... I also used to write my rotations on sticky notes because for some reason I could never remember them lmao so I’d be frantically checking them mid fight to make sure I was doing what I was supposed to

Was 13 or so when I played. Commented on the cool sword that the boss in Ragefire had to the LVL 60 that pulled me through and voiced my disdain that I couldn't get it.

Farmed the dungeon near ratchet for a whole and had the same guy in almost every group. So I whought we were buddies or something and I greeted him outside of runs. He just asked me what I wanted when I just wanted to say hello.

A friend of my cousins (whom the account belonged to) had a Tauren character named Throl. Edgy me made a new character one day called Darkthrol. What made it worse is that the name was a play on his actual real life name. I even messaged him "hey guess who I am" shit was awkward.

I thought everyone in General chat was a "General" and in charge of "Local Defense".

I found a cloth bandana on my mage in Scarlet Monastery with str and agi. I then meleed every mob and used only instant casts for the next few levels and played as a battlemage like the trash in SM. I only stopped when I invested all my money into a str enchant on a str sword for my mage and the enchanter asked what the helll I was doing.

I thought I had come up with a genius way to farm mobs in Wetlands on my mage back in vanilla.

I took the small amount of gold I had and bought plus arcane damage gear. I thought that if arcane blast did 50 damage normally and I got plus 50 arcane damage gear, I would do double the damage and level super fast.

I was super disappointed when it didn't work and I now had no gold.

This happened to me just last week and I've played since TBC.

Raiding - we get to Painsmith and I sat down on the platform to eat (food buff) before we start the fight. The first time I had stayed on the ramp as it vanished with the pull (insta death) so I was keen not to make that mistake again. So I'm eating and the spikes come up, my Moonkin form was suspended on the end of the spike skewered like that for a few seconds (minimal damage). Copped plenty of ribbing about chicken kabobs and all the tasty marinade flavours.

My first MMORPG was Perfect World Inc. where there was no falling damage. When I started WOW and ran my first dungeons, I would get kicked for repeatedly falling off bridges, ledges etc or jumping into them thinking they were a short cut. I quickly learned the fact that falling could be fatal in WOW, but it took my muscle memory ages to incorporate it.

On my first character, I picked Skinning and Leatherworking. Then I proceeded to turn Scraps into Light Leather and sell that to vendors in Crossroads, because for some reason I thought that's how you are supposed to make money.

As a young Night Elf rogue, I did what many new Night Elves did and... fell off the tree. I hit a branch on the way down and died. Hike back to my body, try to land on the branch again, missed. There was no "return to graveyard" button then (BC), so I swam aaaaaaaall the way around, ran aaaaaaall the way back to my body, jumped... Missed again. While I was swimming the second time, I noticed the fatigue pop-up when I was in deeper water. So, I sat there to see what would happen. Cool, I "died" again and was back at the graveyard! I clicked on the big angel lady (having no idea what would happen). And that's when I also learned about res sickness. (And promptly got my ass beat by a nearby cat.)

Asking my guildies for help to clear up the Deadmines dungeon.

As a level 70 back in BfA. Meaning I could solo it with ease. I still had the quest to do that dungeon from back when I did the westfall questlines and just kept it because I didn't know how to queue for dungeons.

When I was a new player back in Vanilla, I didn’t realise you could sell junk to a vendor. So I would delete it all to make more room in my bag. It wasn’t until level 13 or so that I realised my mistake.

First time I ever joined a dungeon I was under the impression that DPS was someone who did low dmg very fast, so me playing a mage just spamming fireball I told them I was a magewarrior cause in my mind that would equate to a mage that was there to do damage...

Vanilla on my Hunter. Got into an AQ raid and we downed the first boss. Everyone is hanging around chatting and I go talk to the NPC which I don't realize activates the next boss. Wipe ensues.

Somehow nobody noticed it was me but wow I felt stupid.

I did not know what "aoe" really meant.

I was, like, 10 or 11 when I started playing LoL, and am not a native English speaker. It had something to do with multiple targets, but in my mind, the e meant enemy. I don't recall, exactly, what I reasoned the phrase was, but I think something like "all on enemies"? It had no significant bearing on the game, so that was that.

In any case, once I started playing WoW, a year later, the term "aoe heals" confused the fuck out of me. I think it took about half a year till someone got the gist of my confusion and explained it.

I didn’t know how to add extra action bars, so I’d run around with my spell book open

Played my first mage to level 18 with starting gear. Dident know how gear equip worked. Learned new spells but dident put new ranks on my bars.

This was waaay back in the day when Vent was the voice chat of choice. My first time ever in a raid for Molten Core, my first time in Vent ever.

I didn't know Push To Talk was a thing and I sneezed. No idea anyone could hear me then I start hearing 30+ other "bless you", "holy shit that was loud", etc.

Learned quickly how to operate Vent.

When I first got the game, on the first character I considered 'serious,' I was obsessed with getting Stinging Viper from WC. I'd try to make groups with it on reserve. I think probably 14 at the very oldest. I never got it and also I was a Shaman so it barely mattered. I have a vivid memory of turning down a group because they wouldn't reserve it for me and later the guy whispered me that it dropped and the dude that got it rolled really low, and we argued for awhile and then he ended the convo by saying he was going to Olive Garden and signed off.

Coming in late, but my first death in WoW was standing in fire…

Although the fire was a cooking fire set by my wife under my first character I ever made.

I was in a random BG when I got a compliment about my healing. I replied something along the lines of "I just wish all the health bars would stay still and in front of me." The guy asked me where my "raid frames" were.

I was healing for probably about 6 months when I started in the middle of Cata without knowing about party or raid frames. Just using name plates. And usually being the top healer in the BG (for whatever that's worth). I'm sure loads of people died without getting a heal because they were standing a few feet behind me lol

When I was doing my first Lunar Festival on alliance monk in Kalimdor I landed in middle of Orgrimmar to talk to Elder. I didn't know it was horde city...and before crowd of horde players processed my stupidity I took my coin and was long into air lol

WTS [Robes of Arugal]

I was asked to help heal Karazhan (TBC). Was somewhat new to max level, Holy Paladin. I don't remember the reason, but I could only see my party's health bars, not the other party - I'm tempted to say Blizzard raid frames were not implemented yet, though maybe I just didn't know how to enable them (definitely did not have a raid frames addon). I ended up turning on friendly nameplates and having to click on people to heal them. Didn't go well.

Fast forward over a decade later, recently I accidentally toggled my UI off in the middle of a fight. I had set it to something pretty random, guess it wasn't random enough. So in the middle of a fight I have a completely UI-less screen. Thankfully it was a farm boss and we were a little heavy on healers - but yes, my numbers were terrible.

It's just funny, first was definitely a noob mistake, second was less noobish but way worse, lol. Raiding with zero UI is terrible. I changed it to a CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+W, will never mis-key that.

When I was leveling my shaman in classic I was healing lbrs, tank died on last pull before boss but we managed to not wipe. All good right? I Astral recalled instead of resurrecting and didn't notice since they have the same cast time.. Took me 20 minutes to come back.

I wasn't super well off as a kid, and asking my mom to pay for the game AND a sub was out of the question. I played a lot on a private server (v1.32) where half the things were broken or didn't work (i.e. stamina was pretty much the only stat that did anything).

Finally I met another kid who wanted to share his account, so we started playing a rogue. I was excited as all hell and around level 40 we found a group to do Sunken Temple. One of the first bosses dropped a rare ring with agility on it.

Due to either being used to the itemization not being all that important, or the sheer mindlessness with which I was proceeding, I rolled need on it, only to notice that it also had defense on it. The tank went off on me on voice comm for rolling on a tank ring (this was way before loot could be traded between players), eventually he put up with it but kept moaning about it throughout the rest of the dungeon.

Lo and behold, we defeat Eranikus and he drops Dragon's Call (that <1% drop chance epic 1h sword that has a chance to summon a whelpling to fight for you). Not to incur any more wrath from the tank, I pass on it. Partially because it was kind of a marginal upgrade too.

The tank lost his shit, full on calling me the worst human being imaginable- rolling on tank items but passing on DPS weapons.

So, yeah, after that I played solo until 60.

In early 2006 when I started, my naive 13 year old self thought <AFK> was this huge master guild.

As i was starting allll the way back in 2006 at the tender age of 12, WoW was my first online experience. Or my first experience with soft pornographic material, which female nightelfs definitely were for me at that time. Cue the first female nightelf who showed any signs of affection, or to be specific, she gifted me a couple of greens while questing together in Westfall. Needless to say i was madly in love with this obvious female player. Eventually i had to confess her my love.

Yeah he wasn't into that stuff.

Maybe not embarrassing but super frustrating. I started playing with a few friends and by the time I hit 70 they weren't playing anymore so I joined a guild and asked questions. I wanted to raid so I asked what to do. They said Heroic dungeons but looked at my greens and said just do PVP for the purples and we will get you into raiding when your geared.

Okay, sure. For an entire month I lived and breathed pvp with the occasional dungeon. Got into a Kara group in full pvp purples. We killed the curator but I died super early not knowing what raiding even was. They took a closer look at me and kicked me from the group. I asked why and they all said b/c you need dungeon gear to do raids. I explained what I was told and was kicked from the guild.

About a month later Wrath dropped and I was outside Naxx trying to figure out wtf it was on my new max level pally. A dude saw me just sitting there and asked why I was there and not in a guild.

I'm still in that guild today and have made dozens of life long friends b/c some rando guild leader saw a Newby trying to figure out why I couldn't enter Naxx lol.

Ill alway remember a story my friend told me when he started, he wad trying to invite a warlock to a dungeon and asked him if his friend wants to go too

His friend was a voidwalker

When I started playing around the end of BC, I didn't understand that RP was limited to a handful of servers, and just assumed every interaction with every other player was supposed to be in character. I was also extremely shy as a teenager, and the thought of having to roleplay as a character I hadn't put much thought into made me break out in a cold sweat, so I avoided talking to anyone for as long as I could.

The first time I grouped with another player (a warrior in Westfall), we got to chatting and I did my best to sound the way I thought a generic human priest should. Everything was going great, and I was starting to think I could get into this whole RP thing with enough practice. This wasn't so hard, after all!

Then the warrior asked me where I was from.

Shit. I didn't know any Warcraft lore. I didn't even know how starting zones worked. I thought maybe there were multiple starting zones for each race, and you could unlock more as you progressed through the game. I mean, the map was so big! Surely there had to be more than one origin story for every member of a playable race, right?

"Northshire Abbey," I typed hesitantly.

"No, I meant in real life," the warrior replied.

I silently closed the game. I think I waited like three days before logging back in again.

In Zul'Aman (cata version), there is this mob that is running away to call its friends when attacked.As a Frost DK, I was asked by the tank to "taunt it". Pretty sure that it would be better to grip it, I asked "Taunt ? Are you sure of that". When the tank answered with a yes, I used Dark Command. Obviously, the mob immediatly flew, called some friends, we died, the tank yelled at me for not using Death Grip and the other players left the group.

I was not exactly a new player, but that was when I understand how you need to explicitly voice your concerns when you are asked to do something.

I thought I queued as a healer, but accidentally queued as dps. About half way through the dungeon, I'm unwittingly casting shade at the guy who queued as healer correctly for doing less than 1k dps on a 15 mythic...

Then the hunter figures out what's actually going on, calls me out and I politely left to the group to go off myself.

I joined my teenage sons guild and his guildmates were calling me a MILF, I had no idea what that was and thought it was some kind of insult. I then asked my son what it meant, that was the embarrassing part, when he told me.

I "need" this for my alt.

Walked into an icc heroic back in 2009(?) with 0 defence gear

Waay back in WoltK when I started, I levelled my fury warrior from 1 to 80 using sword and shield. I figured if I had good defense I would survive better in dungeons, not understanding the point of tanks or dps, and getting snotty with people who would point out how ineffective I was being with my awful build. Thankfully someone whispered me after a very long CoS run, took me to IF and helped me put together a proper dps set and rotation but boy, for those weeks of levelling I was every dungeon-goers worst nightmare.

Way back in Vanilla, I had to be summoned to UBRS all the time because my Mario skills were bad

"Everyone here except for the druid? Ok turn into Moonkin form and fly up here!"

"I hate you all."

"Sorry can hear you all the way down there."

less than a week after I started playing back in BC, I was trying to understand all of the classes. I asked in westfall chat, whats the difference between paladin and warlock? they seem very similar.

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Also, my cousin wanted to play a class that casted a lot of magical abilities. I told him paladin lol. He really wanted a mage but for some reason I couldnt get all of the class names straight

Before Cata I once asked "Why are there so many druids in the Night Elf starting area?"

Made an undead as my first character back in Vanilla, couldn’t workout how to leave Death-knell, didn’t think about following the path, ended up lost in the hills for hours

I don't have anything too juicy because I was already an adult by the time the game came out and I wasn't able to get into it until a few years in, but I joined during Cataclysm and with my initial Shaman character I was just grabbing any Intellect gear I could, not making sure it was all mail for that sweet, sweet bonus.

My second character, a Tauren Paladin, ended up in a friendly guild who helped me with gearing and explaining a few things, and I also grabbed a guide for Cata (hey, I'm old school, I like my print guides, especially since I can browse them sometimes for nostalgia). Finally got back to playing my Shaman, brought him into that guild, but had to gear him up properly. Thankfully, Cata had a nice gearing system, so I was able to get him geared up for raiding pretty quickly.

Not the worst, but the first thing I bought on my rogue back in the day was an Ankh. They were great in WC3.

First starting playing when WoW came out. I hit level 6 and decided I was ready to fight the horde. So I ventured out to the nearest contested land (Westfall) to hunt horde. Only thing I did that day was make about 100 graveyard runs back to my body because I was getting one shot by mobs

Back in vanilla, did my first dungeon (deadmines) and I told my group “I just saw a horde in here and they were new like me, so we all freaked out for a minute. Good times.

Back in classic, you could type in /1 or /2something and then put a ton of spaces and type [Someone's name]: "Haha I'm gay" or something like that and people would do it to me and it took me months to realise I wasn't being hacked it was the time chat taking the piss out of me.

When I finally got my own account (used to play with a friend when at his house), I was running around Orgrimmar and wanted to go to Undercity. Found a high-level player and asked where the zeppelin flew from. Now, English is my second language, and I was quite young at this point, so my linguistic skills were barely enough to hold a conversation, let alone understand abbreviations. I knew a couple, so I said "ty" when we arrived, and she typed "np". I had only ever heard the word "noob" pronounced, so I quickly assumed "np" had to mean she was calling me a "noop" because I had no idea where I was going and had to ask for help. Looking back, she was very patient when I started arguing "No! No np!!"

When i entered my first arena fight ever as rogue i accidentally disenchanted my daggers because i thought i was putting poison on them

My favorite class has always been priest, when I was a young lad playing wotlk, I never cast pw: fortitude on myself because I thought the visual representation of gaining more hp meant it was damaging me or something.

My first character was a Gnome Warlock. I had heard that Elwynn was the best leveling zone and tried to figure out how to get there. I made my way to the Deeprun Tram only to see the tram leaving just as I got there. I waited for a minute and got bored, so I jumped down and started running. And running. And running. It took me ages to run the length of the tram, and I must have seen it passed overhead a dozen times.

Not embarrassing to me but was quite the story, back in vanilla so I was pretty young.

Watched this ghost wolf just go around killing players and npc. Had no clue at the time it could be a player. Dude never left his wolf form. So my friend and I went after thenwolf only to get one shot as well, night elf starting area mind you. By the end we probably had 10 noobs chasing/running from this wolf. We would fall back to the little inn where guards would come out to help us.

But eventually he started to kill em. Looking back I thought there were two of em...but quite sure the orc was the wolf and never noticed him shape-shifting.

By the end some max level mage came by. Either killed or scared off the orc. I thought the orc was some cheater/hacker for being able to kill players/npc and the whole shaman thing. Thought this mage was some GM who came and dealt with the cheater. He made it hail ice on a dead npc and thought it was some special revive ability lol.

So my friend and I went running off "we gotta get stronger!" Mentality after watching high level fighting. What a wonderful naive world I lived in

back in vanilla, somehow i got to a high enough level to do Zul’Farrak without realising that stats mattered (i had worked out that green or blue gear was better tho), and either Sang’thraze or Jang’thraze dropped for me, but i was a warlock and they were no use to me - BUT i had no idea about that and just thought it looked really cool - so when a melee class in the group asked for the weapon (they even had the other one that went with it) i refused to give it to them because i thought they were just trying to take away my fairly won sword

they were very mad but i stood my ground

a few months later i figured out what happened and i’ve cringed about it ever since

I was a tank in a raid. They asked me to join voice chat. I tried to talk to them through the microphone on my laptop. It did not work.

As a death knight in wrath, I thought intelligence was your main stat as you know you, use ‘death magic’. So I rolled on pally gear and got into many agruements until some guildies took me aside and linked me a webpage that showed what talent tree I should use and what gear I should collect…

My first character was a rogue and I only upgraded my weapons from the vendor. Got to level 40 before I couldn't afford any new weapons. Couldn't kill anything so I stopped playing.

I never knew you could repair broken gear and I also wasn’t sure what the red broken gear gage was but I knew it wasn’t good. My solution was to buy new vendor armor every time something broke.

Joined near the end of tbc. Played a shaman. During my leveling I always took gear with the most stamina on it. Hit 70 and I gemmed for stamina as well. My logic was that if I have enough health the healer won't need to heal me and can worry about others. Run Kara with my guild. Only use lightning bolt because idk. Years later my real life friends from the guild ask me wtf I was doing lol.

Fell for the old Alt+F4 trick. Was walking around in Durotar when overheard a few players at the gate. One said the if you spin in a circle a few times then press Alt+F4 you would get gold. Me being young and kinda new to video games, believed that lie and watched in shame as the game suddenly disappeared.

I first started playing at the end of MoP. Spent the first 30 minutes of gameplay trying to figure out how to activate the armor stands. Then the next 15 were spent on equipping my sword and shield. The worst is that I had to look up a tutorial

When I started playing in MoP I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. Started leveling my first toon, a ret paladin. Started doing dungeons around level 40. Was running a dungeon and got called out for being 1/2 in intellect gear. I’m pretty sure I defended myself with something so stupid to the effect of “but it has haste on it” That was a quick “Fartles has left the group” I will also mention I was 30 at the time…

I mean, I'm not a new player, and I still embarrass myself. Only a few expansions ago I got lost in Undercity for 4 hours, because I kept having a vague memory of needijg to find something there, and every time I made it to near the exits, I turned around to look again.

...After 4 hours, I remembered that what I was looking for was the exit. My guildies are never letting me hear the end of it.

I started playing WoW in vanilla. I was a wee lad and had only ever played Warcraft 3 twice in terms of PC games.

I first logged on and made a Tauren Hunter. I was so excited to play! I was messing around with the controls, accidentally moved my camera to face straight down and couldn't figure out how to move it back. I was so embarrassed that I asked the chat, got my answer, then immediately rerolled as an undead

I started in MoP and levelled a Pandaren Warrior to max without realising that’s specs and roles mattered so I would queue for dungeons as a DPS in tank spec and have no idea why people were mad about me being a DPS.

Asked what "dunno" means.. asked again on several "don't know" answers..a decade ago.

In TBC I made it to about level 30 before discovering talent points existed.

I also played a rogue. I was about 12 years old and genuinely afraid of dying in game and I got very irl nervous being in zones with mobs at or above my level. I stealthed everywhere, at 50% move speed, including the run from SW to booty bay.

I was new right at the start of BC and I'd made a Draenei Shaman and picked up mining and jewelcrafting. I understood enough about the game to know how those professions worked and to know how to make a guild, which I really wanted to do. I got enough signatures for a charter, made the guild, and then set about trying to get us a tabard.

I was maybe level 12, and spent my time mining copper in the kobold mine next to goldshire, as I'd realized that if I mined the copper, smelted it, and made it into a copper ring with JC, it would sell to a vendor for like 10s, which was a lot of money in my mind at the time. Soon the whole guild (all 10-15 of us brand new players) was sending me their copper so I could spam making copper rings to sell to vendors to build up enough gold to make a tabard for the guild.

By the time I had enough, I must've sold something like 300 copper bars worth of rings to a vendor. Months later I learned about the auction house and how it worked, and realized that a stack of 20 copper bars sold for 1-2g.

Needless to say I still think back to the sheer amount of wasted vendored copper rings and cringe.

First time I made it to kharanos on my first character I spent about 10-15 minutes trying to ask a guy some questions but he just wouldn’t answer me…. Took me another month to realize he was an npc.

Back in 2006 when I had made my first character I didn't realize wands were ranged. I would run up to mobs as my little gnome mage and proceed to wand them in melee range. Was a nice surprised when I realized I didn't have to be so close lol.

In beta I got a green bow drop from a random mirebeast outside Darnassus. When live launched I spent a good hour farming them, not realizing uncommons were just random and not tied to a specific mob.

When I first played beta in 2004 I thought WTS meant "what the shit" so when someone would say " WTS Light Leather " I'd be all like "pfff so? I find that stuff all the time, it's not rare"

Also the first time we did deadmines we had no clue about the mmo triangle so we went in without a tank. It took us hours and we only managed to beat VC because our druid kited him around the cabin while we killed the adds.

I was not a new player or anything, playing the game since years but there was a time I was trying to socket a spirit gem into my item as Priest. But I was failing to do so. I had other sockets on me working fine but this blue gem I was failing to socket!

I opened a ticket and asked GM that I can't socket gems. He tried a few gems himself and said its working fine and asked me to disable my addons and try again, which I did. I also restored the game, deleting WTF folders etc. No luck.

Then it hit me after a few days. The gem was not cut. My friends still mock me about this today.

I refused to put lifetap on my bar as a warlock. I thought it was an idiotic spell that hurt me and I couldn't see the point of it. I didn't make it out of Hillsbrad on that character.

In dungeons I would need on every item because I didn’t want to seem greedy by pressing greed.

I didn't know you could repair armor, and I didn't fully understand the game, so every time I died and got res sickness too many times I would go back to crossroads and buy more of the same armor so I wasn't in the red 🤦‍♂️

Back in vanilla I tried getting my money back from someone who sold me a "mainhand" weapon thinking I could dual wield them as a hunter.

I put +int gear on my warrior because I thought it would give him more rage.

First character was a blood elf (duh).

After finishing the ghostlands quests I didn't realize you have to click on an orb to get teleported to Undercity, so what my dumbass did was try and run through the plaguelands.

I thought the game was just hard at that point, and dried to find different solutions, so I started training my professions and threw dynamite at the undead.

Let's just say it took a lot of corpse runs to make it though..

I got stuck in Org in some stairs or something, my friends told me that I’d be teleported free if I typed “/y help I’m stuck” and obviously when I did it they then screen-capped it and laughed.

first time doing a Mythic+ in Legion I mistook a trash/miniboss for an actual boss and popped timewarp early

... now i read the dungeon journal.

Back in 2005 I was just starting to play WoW after some shitty free to play grindfest like MU Online, so I never have seen questing gameplay only grind one. So I started to play as a Night Elf druid and leveled to level 18 or 20 mostly grinding mobs and changing locations. Eventually I stumbled upon a class skill teaching in Darnassus and he gave me a quest for the fucking swimming form and that was like the first quest in took in the game. I found 1 item in the water near auberdine or whatever this village is called and tried to find a second item, eventually stumbled on thottbot or whatever the website was called and saw it was near the silverpine forrest in the other continent. So I went on the ship, traveled to stormwind and well... spend 2 fucking days going to silverpine forest dying to high level mobs all the time and respawning in the fucking corners of the map. After I have done this quest and got that shitty swim form I was devastated how bad it was and useless, so I decided to roll an undead mage, which I level to level 40 in 3 months in fire spec only to learn that I cannot kill shit in felwood at all. Luckely I saw another mage which was in frost just chilling and killing tons of mobs in a go so I spend most of my gold on respeccing and god, frost was a cake walk.

Joined my friends for a dungeon in BFA as I just started playing and they all have been playing for years. We wipe a bunch and toward the end someone says "we need more interrupts". I then asked "Whats an interrupt?". Felt pretty stupid but thankfully my friends explained it

When I first started I always used to refer to RFC arms Orgy caves. Genuinely didn't know what I was saying and I used to do that in /1 and /2 and mostly people didn't say anything but some people used to and got really angry and I never knew why.

Needed on healing mail when I rolled my first toon, hunter of course lmao. Also I didn't remove my ammo bag for almost a year after they took out ammunition. I remember thinking multiple times "gosh these arrows are lasting forever! :D"

Not me but my little brother messed up the Undying by standing in some ooze after the boss was down. We never got either nax title before they were removed lmao. In his defense, he was 10.

What does lol mean? This was my first online game back when the game came out. I got laugh at for ages 😂😂😂. Also I try to swim out to the other of the map... didn't make it.

I tried to solo dead mines because I didn't know it was supposed to be done in 5 and not just another part of Westfall quests

Back in vanilla, i think i was 13-14 year old. I liked to play ench shaman with 2h mace, but my guild wanted me to go resto for raids. I spent hours trying to skill my 2h mace every week after respecs

Ah and for raids, they told me to drop mana tide when they asked. That was my duty, i was literally jumping around in MC and not doing anything else. Good old days

I remember way back in the day i didn't know what the little figure showing your broken armor was for, or that armor was even able to be broken/repaired. Was in Sen'Jin Village just using my fists cause my grey axe was broken haha

Was talking about how bad my guild was to my friend during raid.

Unfortunately my response was not in the pink but in guild chat...

I started in Cata. I am a RuneScape player where classes don't exist. I started playing as a Druid. Every dungeon I queued I started rolling need for everything just because "I might need it later". Got kicked from a lot of parties for that untill my brother told me I was a dumbass and that I can only wear leather (technically cloth but mainly leather)

I had never really played an RPG and I was not used to the fight system. One of my first characters was a Undead warrior and I was challenged to a duel in the start area.

I kept jumping out of the way to dodge my opponent's attacks, not realizing it did not do anything. I ended up winning the duel however, so I thought I dodged very successfully, and I remember the guy saying after the duel "jumpy".

One of my first dungeons in WotLK as a DK. I was pretty trash. During the dungeon I got a whisper from a party member asking me if I only did 'white-hits'? I was like yea probably, as I had no clue what he meant. Got booted instantly. I haven't played the rest of the week.

I am now a Druid main but before that I started as a hunter in Legion with my ex boyfriend. He setup all my stuff and keybinds but I leveled up by myself until I got to legion content then he helped me get to max level. Well something I didnt understand was how BLOODLUST actually worked. Sooooo every time it came up I used it thinking it only effected me. So as soon as a LFR started I used it, or in a heroic dungeon I used it while just fighting a small group of trash. In raid I didn’t know why people where so mad until finally my ex saw me do it explained what bloodlust actually did. I felt so embarrassed. Because I had been doing that for weeks.

I attempted to solo a dungeon because I didn't understand it was group content after my brother said he'd help me clear it but didn't arrive yet. I did manage to kill a few of them but died several times

My first character was a paladin. When I was new (back in classic), I visited a stable and bought all the pet slots I could. I then spent a lot of time - a lot - trying to find out how to get pets for it.

First character ever, game was still classic pre naxx.

Bobwick the hunter!

Bobwick was a sturdy dorf, ran up and blasted every foe with his common rifle. However, as he grew in level that rifle started to suck more and more.

Went to Ironforge, went to every vendor looking for a new rifle. But these were either TOO expensive, or very high in level.

Bobwick did have a green axe however, a 2 hander! And man did it hit hard, harder than that common rifle.

From that point onward (to level 21) Bobwick beat the shit out of every foe using Auto-attack and what ever melee hunter skills they had at the time.

I re-rolled a warrior later.

When I started playing (13yo) I thought that "pvp thing" where everywhere and even between same faction.

I was heading to Goldshire to continue questing, far away saw a ton of players "doing a massacre" (neither knew about duels) and head all they way back, leveling just by grinding wolves and murlocs in Elwynn. Always hiding from those very powerfull allies that would kill me

My first character was a mage on a private server for BC. I got to lvl 70 in a couple of hours (the XP was insane there) and got invited to a raid. They pulled the boss and I saw everyone hitting the boss on melee, so I went and hit it with my staff. I got kicked from that raid

I used to be a Ultima Online player. So i had no idea you had to talk to a trainer to learn spells, i thought i had to find scrolls and place them inside my spellbook. So imagine my confusion when i couldn't learn any spell from "Scroll of Spirit" on my mage.

Didn't spec my druid at all for maybe 30 levels. This was back in Vanilla when there was way less hand holding and I was just a kid but it's definitely fucking embarrassing!

I started the game in June 2021. I made a rogue and played as Subtlety for the first 20 levels. I switched from Sub rogue to Outlaw while leveling. Asked my play group (all veterans since BC) where I would buy a pistol at since I needed one for outlaw abilities.

Back when I leveled my Pala as one of first characters, I noticed people laugh at "noob bubble class" so I decided to not use bubble to not be laughted at and shamed by other players. And ofc when I died in dungeon and somebody asked why i didnt bubbled, I said "I heard its noob spell and to not use it". That was probably lamest response ever.

In the early days of wow, water and food weren’t cheap or that easy to come by. My first character was a paladin, so I needed both. I was afraid that if I was eating food, drinking water would cancel out the eating, and the food would be wasted. So I’d sit and eat, then sit and drink.

My first character was a hunter. I knew I could wear mail at 40 so at level 10 I started saving like level 10-14 mail for that moment.

Worked out as you would expect.

Started as a warrior in tbc, think I was 12 years old and had no idea how stats worked. Pretty sure I had a bunch of intellect and spirit gear on my warrior

First time playing I was probably 12-13 I rolled a night elf warrior and died a few times. Looking back now I realised my sword and shield had broken but at the time I didn't understand why I couldn't equip them and why they were red. I thought my character had broken and went around asking people for help none of them knew or understood what I was crying about.

I had just bought WOW and rolled me a bad ass orc warrior. It was either late 2004 or early 2005. And I created a guild for “orcs” only. 😆 it actually worked but I think we were limited in healers. Just had shamans. Took my brothers and others in guild to convince me to open it up to at least trolls and Tauren. And then eventually undead..

Starting zone for orc and trolls, I die in the cave and cant find my corpse.. 30 minutes later still as a ghost I decide to log out and delete my orc warrior and start over.

oh man i can't even begin to remember bc it's been so long ago but i know I did a lot of noob things.

i only pvp now so i do remember how terrible i was at pvp when i first started but almost everyone was terrible at pvp back then so it wasn't as evident as it woulda been now. I played a night elf rogue back before people realized shadowmeld was OP.

I would trinket saps insta (since i was always getting found by human rogues). I never once used my gouge button, thought it was a terrible pointless ability. I would bleed targets and then blind the same target (the kill target). just overall bad lol.

I know i did a bunch of noob stuff in instances / while leveling too i just can't remember them off the top of my head.

I spent way too much money on a white quality item from a vendor.

I’m stealing your “is that a new guild?” line the next time someone asks if I’m mad, though.

Not new exactly. My guild's best tank, who has gotten CE and timed keys over 20 turned out not to know wtf the reagent tab part of a bank was. This was discovered in a run with his push group where he just kept repeating 'You keep saying reagent, I don't know what that means!' He'd just never unlocked it and put up with a full bank for however long that has been a thing in WoW.

When somebody asked my spec I had no idea what they were talking about and just told them where I spent my talent points.

wow vanilla, tank DM with arms talents

One of my group told me that I had to use a shield and one-handed weapons, I changed them, but of course I had no skill in one-handed weapons

after that, it takes so long to level up that I was still at level 45 by the time TBC came out

A classic, coming from Warcraft 3 I die a lot as a Paladin cause I thought I couldn’t heal myself but only others

Back in BC I used to be one of those players who would whisper raiders begging for free gold. After a few months of this I was able to get my epic mount. I was just a kid then with less moral standards.

I usually rolled as Alliance, but for some reason I decided to roll as Horde and troll people in Stromwind. I was in the chat, talking so much shit, thinking I was really owning them... turns out I was just chatting in the general chat for Horde... I really cringe at that, even now I look back and cringe.

I remember being in trade chat in stormwind and someone saying “don’t feed the trolls”

And I would ask “where are the trolls??”

(Thinking we are alliance.. we don’t have trolls?? Are we under attack)

But it was about trolling trade chat and I was like 12.

I only ever got gear that had a good armor rating. Why go for armor that has 1200 armor on it when i can have 1230 armor?

I also rolled on an agi dagger because i thought it was an upgrade and somebody rage quit the dungeon from it. One of the other members kindly told me "look for int gear for now."

As a new player i was something like 12 years old, so i would explore every random building in dun morogh and think i was the first person to explore some of these places. I also died and tried to spirit run from Dun morogh down to a graveyard in STV, but the spirit healer sent me back to Dun morogh.

Those things dont really embarass me however because i dont nobody to feel my pain with. However, getting far too triggered in xplay for being the last hunter to get my giantstalker shoulders was definitely cringy.

For quests where you have to "activate" a ride I actually didn't realize you had to do that twice. Once for a quest in the barrens where you had to ride a rhino thing and the other for Halloween flying the undead castle. I actually tried to chase other players as they started the quest. I actually flew through to enemy territory to try to activate the quest.

I also didn't know how to summon a player at a warlock portal. I kept right clicking the people summoning but not the portal itself. Got yelled at for a while for that.

When i first played i couldn't see well and i just followed another player for a weirdly long time. I was a kid but still. I think about it sometimes.

Back in TBC I decided as a fresh guildless feral Druid to offtank Karazhan in a Friday PUG. Everything went smooth and we cleared the raid. But as someone who never did much raiding besides the occasional pug in the end of vanilla, I didn’t know about lockouts and saved instances. So the newbie I am, I join another Karazhan bug on Saturday and the raidleader tells me my gear is a bit under the standard and I proudly proclaim, that I offtanked the raid just yesterday without issues. Needless to say, I was asked to leave the raid group and explained what a lockout was. I felt like an idiot.

When I started my first character, I got confused by "bind on equip" items, and I thought it meant I wouldn't be able to equip anything else on that slot if I equip that item.

Sooo, I decided not to equip any BoE item cause I didn't want to be stuck with low level items, and was just stuffed with white/grey items.

Some of my friends who already played for a while and who wanted to help me pex faster found out once I was level 25 or so. They were like wtf, and bought me a bunch of stuff from the auction house and restuffed me.

I wore only grey items for about 25 levels because I thought equipping a Soulbound item would bind it to my soul, making it permanently equipped...

The animation for ancestral spirit and astral recall on shaman used to be super similar. After a wipe in MC I ankhed and hit the wrong one since they were next to each other on my bars. So it just looked like I got up to rescue my guild, and then peaced out

Me (very new) - how does that guy have a dragon around his portrait?"

Friend (veteran) - he's an elite

Me - how do I become an elite?

Friend - .....

i thought you had to take turns at the bank… you know… like a real life bank 😭

i also didn’t understand passive health regen and i thought standing in moonwells healed me

I remember starting out as a Horde player, then I made a Worgen character. Didn’t really know where to go so I went to Orgrimmar. I did stop myself before dying but yeah came pretty close

More funny than embarrassing.

My first character was a Forsaken, and I was excited the first time I visited the Undercity. I was a big fan of Warcraft 3, so I was absorbing the scenery as I passed through the ruins of Lordaeron.

Then, as I was approaching an elevator, I just barely missed it. I was confused why the door slammed shut in my face, but took off towards a different one. I missed this elevator too, the door shutting right as I got near it.

I checked the map, saw a third elevator, and went for it. As I approached, a high level character rode past on their mount, boarded without issue, and again the elevator door closed by time I reached it.

So I concluded I was too low of a level for capital cities and did not return until I was around level 20 or so.

I didn't understand specs and didn't know about shadow priest so I ran around Ghostlands trying to kill mobs in disc spec and would have to ask my boyfriend to come and help me. Those two big monstrosities killed me a lot...

I also didn't know there was different armour types, so I saw a cool thing drop for my boyfriend and I asked if I could take it and he said "No it's mail" and I heard it as "male." I was like 'wtf there's gender specific armour?'

Both of these can probably be explained by the fact that WoW is my first mmorpg :P

One of the classics that I still do occasionally is accidentally spam someone with a whisper of my atrocious button slamming during a fight. Will wonder why nothing is casting, and then notice why on my chat bar. It's even more embarrassing when you go to erase it all and then accidentally send it.

Not as embarrassing as it could be, but on my first character, I was so excited about exploring the world that I was too impatient to wait until I had flying. I wanted to discover all of the zones, and the places therein, and if it had to be on foot, then so be it. I knew the world was large, but I severely underestimated it. I think I explored 4 or 5 zones around Elwynn before I realized how long it would take lol.

Picture this.

I'm killing Furbolgs in Felwood as a lvl 45 druid, trying to get items for the reputation turn in of Timbermaw. It's taking ages to kill stuff, one mob takes me a solid minute with lots of healing in between. I shift from elf to cat to bear, nothing's really working out good.

A lvl 60 druid walks by, stops and just watches me going at it. He's getting REALLY puzzled at what the heck is going on. He inspects me and notices two things. One, my gear is an absolute mess, it's a mix of cloth and leather armor, most are lvl 30 since I "enjoyed the look more". Then he checks my talent setup. My talent tree of Balance has all my talent points in it, but I fight in Cat Form. In my absolute noobiness of MMOs, RPGs, PC games, I never noticed other TABS in the Talent Tree window. But I really liked Cat form so I fought as a cat 95% of the time. :')

So yep, up until lvl 45 where I met my druid friend, I leveled putting all my talent points in Balance while fighting as Feral, and I only kept armor I liked the look of, over the stats it gave. :D

A guy made fun of my dps in my first warsong, I told him he was at zero dps and pretty bad. He was the healer

I’ll go. May 1st character was an Orc warrior. I lovingly named him WhompNoggin ( I thought it was clever). In any event I came to do my first dungeon. Mind you… i made the warrior just because I thought he was all powerful melee and not for the “tank” role. But hey first dungeon, let’s do this. I know i was the worst tank ever…. At some point we wiped and i had to run back to my body…. AND i got lost! So embarrassing. I didn’t know which way to go and all I remember at some point was someone in chat asked “Where’s Whomp?”.

I used to train weapon skill to max after every time I leveled….. As a priest…. Not with a wand, but with my staff.

I thought I was being really clever, since “what would happen if I ran out of mana mid fight? The. I would be useless.” I also had no idea that wands existed in the game. It was a real game changer when I found one.

I used to cat RP in Warsong Gulch back in Wrath

I'm sorry. I didn't know what was going on it was like an instinct to cat RP.

Grinded mobs instead of finding new quest junctions in Vanilla before I realized zones had multiple questions hubs. As a holy priest because respeccing was expensive. To me. I could barely keep up with the cost of water/food and repair bills.

I leveled unarmed on my priest just in case and all I have to show for it is a feat of strength achievement.

In my first ever raid, which happened to be Zul'Gurub, in 2009, the Swift Zulian Tiger mount dropped. Having no idea what it was and with other people going crazy in the chat, I passed. My guildmate immediately asked why on earth I'd done that and I said I didn't need it.

After finally getting it 2 weeks ago from the bmah for a cool 10 million and farming all these years for the gold, it certainly feels embarrassing now.

My first Paladin was the biggest note of misunderstanding back in early WotLK. I was new to the game, and had played it mostly on my own before some friends found out and we all got together. We were to run a few dungeons, and decided on Wailing caverns, where I would be the healer.

I show up with a mix of Agillity leather, strength gear and a grey 2H sword and specced in Protection. After many a hearty laughs and jests, I slowly learned why the game felt so incredibly hard for me, lol.

Did the headless horseman dungeon for the very first time, on my first toon, and the mount dropped. I just thought “oh neat”, and never mentioned it. Next day I was playing with my husband (who’d been playing wow for years), and I mount up, and he freaks out. I just go, “what, is that rare or something?”. He wasn’t impressed.

I didn't really get into the game until TBC, and rolled a Draenei hunter. One of the first pets they have you tame is one of the cats from that area. I didn't know you needed to feed them food, and it would always make the schwoom noise of entering stealth after combat. So I saw it would fade out, and the unhappy face on his portrait, so I thought the noise meant that he was sad. I was distraught trying to figure out how to make him happy.

To this day, I associate the schwoom enter stealth noise with that stupid unhappy face lol.

Wow Vanilla was my first mmo and I came from Diablo 2. I was 12 and when I arrived in wow, I didn’t pick up any quest, ran away from the spawn point to explore the world and got killed by wolves non stop. I raged quit because the wolves were hitting me from 3 - 5 meters away because of bad internet and complained that the game was garbage to all my friends. I didn’t touch the game until WOTLK and played until 9.0.

I would always stop attacking enemies and click my own character before using any healing spells. I didn't want to accidentally heal enemies after all. Took a misclick to realise that's not how it works.

Edit: I was also playing disc priest without realising it was a healer spec and not dps. I also constantly inturrepted my own casts by running away from the mobs, because I didn't want to get hit. Yea, I struggled a lot.

So I played WoW in Wrath at a friend’s house, but I never played it as much until Cata when I had my own laptop. That’s the first time I hit level cap

So a guildie was out in Storm Peaks and saw the TLPD. She already had it so she mentioned in guild chat she’s happy to get one of us the mount. Our GM and I took her up on the offer and she mass summoned us. We killed it

I won the roll.

But I felt bad enough about outrolling my GM on the Twilight Drake in OS25 the previous night that I traded them the TLPD reins...not knowing the gap between how easy/hard to come by those two are

He quit in MoP and I’m still here without ever seeing it 😭

Christ, can I make a list?

Back in tBC, I was tanking on my Paladin. For some reason, I couldn't keep threat for shit. While back then, the Paladin had really cool taunt (Righteous Defense: you cast it on a target and it caused the mobs attacking that target to attack you instead), it still wasn't enough.

Back then, the Paladin had a spell called Righteous Fury which increased a Paladin threat and you kept that up to tank. So, it was up and still nothing working. Until I realized that I forgot to update the macro to put the highest rank spell on. Back then, spells had ranks and I was using a lower level rank to tank. :\

To this day (14 years later, mind you), I still have some guildmates that bring that up.

I wouldn’t put on greens because they were ‘“soul bound” so I thought that I’d never be able to put on anything else in their place! I also saved up so hard for the white dagger available from the vendor in Teldrassil that nobody sane ever buys anything from lol

(This is in the days when hunters had a ranged weapon spot + melee weapon spot which made us piss off everyone else. Good times!)

I also tried to heal my very first time as a paladin wearing strength gear. When it was pointed out it wasn’t healing gear I said “well, I have to level too!”. I was such a noob. I got kicked when I couldn’t find my way back to the instance (one of the many Scarlet Monastery entrances)

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Seeing in trade chat "5k for bags", whispering the player that I'd buy one, and naively trading them 5 gold. I got cussed out for wasting their mats and time. :( I didn't knowwww

This one is quite recent. I attacked halkias in halls of attonement without killing the third shard. I just forgot. I’m the tank.

As a Warrior, in TBC, I stood in front of basically every single enemy up until I got to doing Heroic Dungeons, when a Warlock flamed me for it during a Mechanar HC run.

Played my class completely wrong! I used to play on a wow classic private server(was also part of its development team), I started official version at the near end of Cataclysm. The game was completely different than the classic and I was playing my paladin completely wrong.

I literally for the longest time didn’t know you could eat and drink at the same time. I would literally drink until my mana was up then eat.

My first character was a tailor and once I started needing wool cloth I did the only sensible thing I could think of. I ran around Loch Modan killing every sheep I could find. After doing this for hours and getting nothing I was pretty pissed so I was happy when my friend invited me to my first instance group ever.

Thats when I saw it. The answer to my problems. An ELITE sheep! I attacked every single sheep I saw in that dungeon hoping to get wool cloth. My friend finally lost his shit after a few wipes and asked why I was breaking poly. Poly? WTF is that? I'm killing sheep because I need wool, I told him.

I was also a mage.

I started playing wow when i was about 12 and i had a really tough time saving gold because i always spent it on dumb shit in the AH.

Anyways, the first day i reached 10g i was super excited, and thats when a really cool paladin came to me and said that he could double my gold if I gave him all my gold and 5 minutes.

The guy juste said « lmao » when i gave him all my gold and DCd. I didnt speak english very well back then and i just waited an hour in SW Inn hoping the guy would reappear, just as he dissapeared the first time.

I then cried about it to my dad who also was also playing around that time and he laughed his ass off at my retardness and gave me 10g with a valuable lesson; dont trust strangers online.

My dad was just super loaded because he didnt like the game per se. He had a level 1 naked gnome who spent all day trading on the AH and making money.

It took me a loooong time to realise I could run back to my corpse instead of having to accept resurrection sickness every time I died...

Paid for a subscription.

Levelling up my first character at vanilla, elve hunt, from begin to end of teldrassil, with a staff, knocking around and dying to achieve quest.

At least I had a very good staff skill stat.

I used the spear on the first mob during the hook boss in necrotic wake in an 18

Not stupid on my part, but I was only allowed thirty minutes on the computer a day. That included turning it on, so it took me over a week of just sitting in front of the computer waiting for it to download, getting partially through, then turning it off again. When i finally got in I played to level 20 then realized there was a subscription and I didnt have any money so i didnt play again until i was in college, at the end of wod.

Got the quest to do Shadowfang Keep dunegon. I slowly ran all the way there and tried to solo it. I died so many times my weapon broke trying to pull 1 enemy at a time. Eventually gave up being confused.

I started playing when I was ten years old. I was bored and I had a loose tooth. And I told everyone in the main chat channel about this. Lmao.

I thought stamina was everything so all items, healers, tanks, didn't matter, if it had more stamina I was rolling

Rouge

The first server I every played in was Moonguard back in WoTLC. So many regrets....

In Vanilla, I got lost on the way from Deathknell to that little outpost next to Brill in Tirisfall Glades. Ended up near the Bullwark somehow, the mobs were all red/skull level. Didn't know about Hearthstone. Deleted character.

Wearing gray gear for plus def

Leveled as ret at the end of tbc and would use a shield so I would take less damage.

Got to 80 and tried healing. Was trying to get spirit gear as my friend who was a druid used it for mana regen.

Back when I started in tbc I played a warrior. I thought the game was bugged since the mobs didnt take for example 100 dmg that my character sheet said I would do. I knew about armor existing but I mean even basic mobs have pretty high armor so I didnt connect the dots that the difference would be so big.

I mean how exactly would only my character be bugged in a mmorpg game? Thats probably the dumbest thing I thought back then.

Fell asleep during antorus.

Tanked in final fantasy so I thought wow tanking would be similar so I pulled hogger's entire room and died immediately, kicked just as fast. Good times.

I quoted Borat in a Karazan raid in original BC and got guild kicked. I apologized and was let back in, with verbal punishment.

That I'd Tank WC in battens chat during classic/tbc because I thought I could because I had a shield.

When group finder first came out, I queued as a tank and thought that tanks were suppose to deal huge damage quickly. Nope, you suppose to take the damage.

"wow, paladin is so good" *makes palading as a very first toon*

I was VERY confused about what heirlooms were, and thought they were just really really really powerful items

Also didn’t know about how old raids worked, assumed you need a group for them

It my was first ever dungeon, RFC I believe, and each time the Need/Greed loot window would pop up I'd click Need. Why? Well, I thought it would give it to the person who needed it most. After I was booted one of the party members whispered me to explain my mistake.

I played as a hunter back in tbc (still main to this day), but I'm pretty sure that I might have been nooby that I could of pulled either alot of mobs without the tank, or needing loot cuz huntards.

An embarrassing moment to me was I got kicked out of the guild for being offline for too long and cried about it, not realizing I could get back in moments later.

Nowadays with being out of a guild makes you realize what you can do by looking at guilds with the best time for raiding and what not. Also rolling on a dead end realm doesn't help that much either.

My older brother and his friends played WoW before I did, but I liked to watch them and ask plenty of questions, I was around 12yo or so. The Lunar Festival was coming up and they were looking at a screenshot of the boss "Omen". At the time I didn't know much about the game, other than what they would tell me. I was asking them the usual questions about the boss and they told me that he spawns in Moonglade but warned me that if he kills your character that your character dies forever and is deleted.

I wholeheartedly believed this and made the resolution, "Well, I will just never go to Moonglade."

Back when I started (I think this was open beta) I learned skinning and leather working on my hunter. I kept getting ruined scraps, and thinking that I ruined it I kept censoring them :P took me forever to make my first armor

I am expecting rogues to be honest/embarrased and post here about how they would gank people doing pet battles in MoP.

In vanilla i lvled my pala from 1-60 on nothing but auto attack and seal of command. Didnt start using concecration and judgments untill after max lvl. I think i was still among the first 200 People on my server to hit 60 while starting a week after launch. I didnt knew any better and the game was like crack

Chain lightninged the groups in advance, to help the tank pull.
Tried to heal in enhance spec, because I had a heal spell. (prior to free multispeccing)

Playing a warrior in TBC, I hadn't really payed any real attention to the specs and what they were designed for, I just took whatever sounded cool from whatever tree, ended up mostly arms. Trying to run one of the hellfire dungeons but struggling to find a tank. I bought a shitty shield from a vendor, equipped it without changing my spec and declared I was now a tank, genuinely believing that was all it took. It became a recurring story in my guild after I became one of the officers to rip on me, but also to make newbies a little less embarrassed about asking what they thought were stupid questions, so it ended up being used for good at least.

My first dungeon i went in as a tank paladin. Before this is had never played an MMO and played games that taking on lots of enemies alone was no big deal. During questing i couldn't focus on multiple mobs and would easily die to two things. So my first dungeon as tank i was pulling mobs one and two at a time. I accidentally pulled like 6 things and when we got through the pull i started apologizing profusely. The healer was like "what? That's the fun part!" And that's when I clicked. Realizing the fun part is doing normal pulls and maybe even a little challenging pulls.

A looooong time ago in some dungeon my group was strategizing how to go about a specific boss, I don’t remember which one. The leader who was directing said that I, as a dps, should do something. At the time I didn’t know what dps meant so I typed “I dont think I have dps”

This was back in wrath, the first I've ever been max level. Someone was forming a group for obsidian sanctum. I asked to join and the leader wanted to know what dps I could do. So I looked at my bow and told him the damage that it did. Something like 1700.

I had no idea what dps meant but that made the most sense to me at the time.

Was like 11 or 12 when Vanilla came out. Had been playing diablo 2 leading up to its release.

I remember going into Iron Forge and asking in General if anyone had any free stuff. Didn't know the concept of Soulbound at the time. Was used to D2 where you could pass gear around willy nilly. Plus D2 has Free Stuff games all the time.

Fortunately someone PMd me and gave me some spare bags and a green 1h notched sword of the X. Little did he know, I was an altaholic and likely was playing a new character a couple days later.

I believed the terminology of loot system meant how hard I wanted something :

Need = I could use that (but doesn't matter if I don't get it).
Greed = I really want that (because it's essential for me).

So everyone was angry with me because I keep rolling need on things that were just for reselling etc and I kept losing my rolls for the things I actually need.

Thankfully it was just in Deadmines and finally understood midway through my second run.

I started a new human character on Moonguard. I went to the Goldshire inn to get one of the first quests. The guy that is by the bookshelf on your left when go into the inn you know? Well there were a lot of quest givers over there but they each had the the same quest every time. Well I leveled to 50 and my unarmed skill maxed in half an hour.

When I first started playing I didn't know that stats mattered and I was looking for gear with the highest armor. I started killing mobs to try to save up silver and went to the leather vendor in darnassus and bought up all the white grade gear. I thought I was a badass with all the matching gear. I didn't know that the auction house was a thing.

4 hours in “how do you save?”

Been playing for a while but needed to go to dinner. Was scared of shutting down and losing progress. Couldn’t find save game anywhere and nobody would tell me how. Was stuck there.

In wrath a dude was buying "valor bracers" for a lot of gold in trade chat (badge gear, a couple of pieces were BoE) when i opened up the trade window i found out he was looking for max level gear, and not the bracers of valor (warrior dungeon set) i had laying around.

Not super embarrassing, but something I still remember. I started playing in vanilla, and my first dungeon was WC. The tank made a comment on how a chest usually spawns in a certain spot, but it wasn't there. I didn't have an understanding of what instancing meant, so I said "oh I saw a group go in front of us, maybe they looted it".

I started playing when I was super young in Vanilla, and back then agility/strength were basically the same thing for most melee dps/hunters. So when Cata released and I went from a paladin to a DK, I thought agility was still a good stat for them (spoiler: it was not by that point) so I built full agility on him and did abyssmal with it, mainly because I was tanking :D Blood DK with agility.

Running around with Lionheart Executioner as a Ret Pally

Back in 2009 i my very first dungeon i missed my priest AA in mob.

I said: wow, this game expects me to aim?

As a new player joining a raid going from Westfall to attack grom gol (it was in the first weeks of vanilla). The bulk of the raid was formed of people like me around level 15-20, needless to say stranglethorn crocs proved too much of a challenge.

But the really embarrassing thing I did was as a returning player (I stopped after BWL), halfway during wotlk. I was leveling an undead mage and wanted to do SFK. Obviously as the former Vanilla player I started typing "Mage LFG SFK" and after an hour without any answer I figured the server was dead and paid a transfer. Only to realize shortly afterwards that the LFG tool was a thing.

My 1st time in Stormwind, I was level 10, asked a guard where the mage trainer was. After I trained I wanted to go back to goldshire to make my way to Hogger. I couldn’t find the exit. I couldn’t for the life of me remember where I came in from and was far to embarrassed to admit I was lost to ask for help. After about 20 mins of running around stormwind looking for anything that seemed familiar, I jumped in the canal to drown myself, knowing if I died, I could go to a GY and take res sickness.

I also made noob mistakes like:

• Leveled as fire, and farmed raptors for eggs to vendor at 44s a stack instead of doing a frost aoe grind for so much more.

• Took second wind from our healer in BRD Because I thought MP5 warranted a mage taking the trinket. After I explained, the group laughed about it, healer was still a bit salty.

• In that same BRD group, I also looted the entire 7D chest. I thought everyone had their own items to loot from the chest, so thought the heal mace and leather helm were my items… so I took them. I tried to explain but this time after just taking the trinket, my group was not impressed and kicked me out.

Me and my cousin started playing same time during vanilla . I was a night elf he was a human. I ask in chat Whats the closest city to meet at and I'm told ironforge. So at whatever early level I head there, dieing a million times but finally reach there. My cousin heads from sw to if, we had no idea about the tram haha. He did same as me walked all the way there. Still cracks us up to this day

I was playing a mage and had gotten into a Deadmines group. I'm watching the other caster in complete amazement, as they seem to be getting their spells out a lot faster than me, despite being the same level.

So right out in party chat, I ask, "How did you get the faster fireballs?!"

I had no idea that wands were even a thing and yes, it was just a fire wand... 🤦‍♀️

I tanked dungeons as Fury Warrior while leveling up in Wrath. It was often hard, my party members were rarely happy, and I used Heroic Strike as my main attack ability with Bloodthirst not even on my toolbar. I was very bad.

And I definitely thought Greed > Need. Greed is a sin, of course greed is stronger than need!

I remember being a lvl 12ish human warlock or paladin back in vanilla walking into Stormwind and finding myself as asking these 60s where they got their mounts. I don't remember what they said, something about Eastvale Logging Camp? I had no idea what that was and didn't end up getting a mount until maybe BC when I was old enough to understand what I was doing wrong in this game.

Not me but a friend of mine. Brought him to raid for the first time. Everyone realized he was new when he asked “should I time warp during bloodlust so they stack, or spread them out?”

my first char was a ud war named kittymaster. i was level 10 in tirisfal when i came across the zeppelins for the first time, i ran on the one going to org (had no idea at the time) and thought about how cool it was. it started to take off and i got scared because i didnt know where i was going or if i could come back, so i jumped off and landed on top of the brill inn and died. back then i thought your soul had to make it back to your body, like standing on top of your body to res. i walked around the inn as a spirit looking to see if there was any way to get to the roof, i went inside and went upstairs to look as well and i even saw the message to res but i thought it wouldnt do anything since i wasnt on top of my body.

so i deleted the char.

When I first started I was an enchanter so I didn’t have to pay anyone. That’s relevant because no one would have the opportunity to stop me from enchanting my gear with agility for the extra crit. Issue with that consent was I was a mage.

I fell for the /afk trick in a BG and lied about falling for it to my friends in discord 😂

What are keybindings? You mean I don't just click all my spells?

When I started I had no concept of the roles' actual jobs. In particular tanks regarding aggro and damage reduction.

Me, being the total noob I was, queued as tank for a dungeon, with no clue as to what was expected of me. All I knew was that "warriors are tanks", "OK!" I thought, "I'm a warrior! A FURY WARRIOR!"

No one in the dungeon said anything until after we wiped the first time, then I got lit up and left.

We made fun of one of my friends for playing a druid. Now guess what my main is. #fullcircle

I was playing a newer alt and finished a raid boss. I wanted the one item and asked for it and saw the text say who it was given to. I got mad and yelled that it was ninja'd and I had asked for it.

It had been given to me. I just didn't recognize my own alts name.

My first spec was 15/15/21 or something like that as I hit 60 on my warrior and I played with that for a while. I liked conc blow because it stopped things from moving. anger management was great because I was a tank and swapping stances to charge/hit defensive things seemed part of the job.

I remember being 14 playing TBC ans someone said they would mail me smth. I gave them my email address.

Well you know how night elves turn into spirits/Wisps when they die?

Yeah. I thought the spirit stat made me run faster when dead as a wisp.

Because I was collecting every spirit stat on my Hunter i died a lot...so it made sense to me.

It didnt help not having English as my first language and being like 11 or 12 at the time.

The one thing I remember very clearly was when I started in MoP and got into pvp, I remember getting all my conquest items and slowly getting bis geared, but I couldn't help but notice that other players still had more hp than me, and I assumed HP = gear so as smart as I was, I started gemming all my gear with stamina gems until I had similar HP to fully geared pvpers, and I didn't realize what I had done wrong until my experienced friend pointed it out and laughed at me.

I started in 2006 with an Undead Warrior. It was only when I got to lvl 60 which was the cap back then that I learned about tanking and threat.

During Wrath I remember I was playing DK, my 2nd character after my original Mage and I'd somehow gotten to raiding ICC as a newbie with him and my incredibly overpowered guild.

I can only assume that they thought I knew what I was doing and was working on changing it, since nobody said nothing. Due to real life stuff I had to stop for a few months, when I came back I wanted to try a new class and levelled a Druid, figuring out the game details much better this time round on a different server with some friends.

I logged my DK at one point as I was curious of the Cata changes to him, only to my horror to find I had a single piece of plate on him, and a mess of everything else in mostly Mail (Intel!) and Leather, with a few Cloth bits. I realized my "this seems useful/cool" greedrolls apparently had worked very much against me for the duration of my DK's playtime xD

A lot has changed since, my game knowledge and time in general, but I'm now that one guy who can and will spend multiple hours helping you figure out the game if you show to have no idea what you're doing as a newbie :P

With my first character, back in Vanilla, while doing Wailing Caverns, we found a chest. I had no idea you were supposed to roll for the contents so I just... got everything (it was only potions, but still). The group started asking why the hell I had done that and I panicked and said I didn't know what I was supposed to do. Fortunately they were understanding!

Also, even earlier than this occurence, I was doing my very first dungeon, Ragefire Chasm. My bags were full so I dragged the items in the bars around the screen being completely sure it meant I was cleaning my bags.

go, 11 years old me...

When I started in tbc I didn't notice the tabs at the bottom of skill tree window, so I thought every class has one skill tree and your role in combat depends on the talents you chose.

I was a druid tank at the time and the tooltip of the moonkin form said "While in this form the armor contribution from items is increased by 400%, attack power is increased by 150% of your level and all party members within 30 yards have their spell critical chance increased by 5%". So naturally I thought this is a new tank form: I get more armor, more ap and buff my casters, perfect!

But I didn't get that far, about lvl 30 I was tanking a dungeon (I think it was Razorfen Kraul) and the healer commented "this would be easier to heal if you'd be in tank spec" and I didn't know that meant, I chose every balance talent which sounds tanky to me so I answered "Just wait until I have my Moonkin form!". Literally everyone in group chat laughed and they explained to me that there are 3 talent trees and Balance is for range dps, not tanking

Free stuff pls?

I started playing WoW last August on a WOTLK private server. I picked up a lot of WoW lingo during my time there.

Started playing retail last November and wasn’t active in a guild until March of this year. They used a lot of terms that I wasn’t familiar with, but picked up a lot as I went.

My GM would say he was popping “meta” every couple minutes. Now, I thought this referenced a classes meta damage/tank/header ability (think League of Legends usage of meta). I thought this was just retail slang instead of saying the name of your ability in the heat of the moment.

One day in a dungeon, me, a Frost Mage, says “I’m popping meta” whenever I use Icy Veins. GM says he doesn’t like how I’m trying to be a Demon Hunter. Me, wildly embarrassed, tried to explain my stupid train of thought lol.

Sadly I wasn’t new to the game but had switched to a new server. I had also picked up engineering on the new server. I noticed there was an auction npc in the same spot every day. I made a comment in the chat about how nice it was on this server that someone placed this auction bot here every single day…

Luckily nobody called me out on it. It wasn’t until I did some reading about engineers that they have access to this special auction npc in cities. 🤦🏼‍♂️

In Vanilla, I asked where I could level my First Aid further at like level 30, I was pretty desperate for it being a warrior.

Anyway, so here I am, corpse running in Eastern PL at level 30 looking for a first aid trainer because I had got Stratholme and Stromgarde mixed up.

When i did my first dungeon, ragefire chasm, the group died and i left the dungeon while in spirit and was stuck in durotar. Instead of using my hearthstone because i didn't know what that was, i decided to walk in spirit form all the way from durotar to teldrassil, only to have a friend ask me what the fuck i was doing and telling me to use the hs.

Trade chat: Looking for 1 more tank, Gnomergon

Me: /w I can tank, invite me, I’m level 33.

Party leader: You’re a hunter.

Me: Yes, my boar can tank.

first char (still my main) in 2005. me and my work buddies decided to do Gnomeregon and we got to that hallway with all the robots and down below is another long hallway full of dwarves. It was my first tanking run so I had my hunter friend doing the pulling cuz he'd been there a couple times.

My dumb question - 'Can I do a pull?'

My dumb ass pulled a dwarf instead of a mechano strider and the took off the other direction. I didn't think anything of it but 2 ppl were hearthing and I started yelling at them cuz we weren't going to finish with 3 ppl. TLDR about 200 dwarves AND gnomes came up and destroyed us all.

This is still one of those things that I remember when I'm just about to fall asleep and keeps me awake.

I started playing during vanilla. My best friend got me into the game, and he was a really active player who had a guild full of people he was friends with. I didn't get to play that much because I was in college, but he played constantly. So I was a member of his guild, but outside of a few MC runs I didn't play with them much.

My friend had gone away for the weekend, but I was doing quests when I got a whisper from the guild leader asking if I wanted to do a raid (I BELIEVE it was Ahn'Qiraj, I can't remember though). I said sure.

Raid was going fine, and we managed to down this one boss we'd been struggling with for a while. Everyone was really excited. Now remember, back in the day you didn't have all the tools we have now, like rolling for items. So the raid leaders were talking amongst themselves to see which player was owed which gear.

I took a look at the boss' loot and I saw a quest item I knew I needed. I assumed, "oh, it's a quest item, I need to grab it". Like, I assumed everyone who needed that quest item could grab it at that point.

Nope, it was a singular item, so when I grabbed it, no one else could have it. People FREAKED. One guy was screaming over vent saying I needed to be kicked out of the guild. Other people were saying they'd waited for months for that item. I just felt SO bad.

Thankfully the guild leader was super nice and more understanding of my stupidity than the other players. He and I talked and I said obviously if there was a way to hand over the item to someone else, I absolutely would. So we messaged a GM, they basically said we were SOL and we couldn't give the item to someone else.

My "punishment" was I had to spend the next two Saturdays farming whatever item Warlocks used to create healthstones back in the day (it was a long time ago and I'm old, I can't remember).

My best friend still talks about it to this day. I still feel bad even though I'm sure no one else involved remembers it lol.

I didn't know how to use the player trade UI properly, so I told a fellow player on my realm to just keep the Elixir of Dexterity (or something like that), and I exited Undercity.

This was during ye olden days of classic, by the way. Think the other person was too bemused to respond for awhile afterwards.

I started playing during MoP as a Pandaren hunter. I wasn’t familiar with the roll system, so on my first dungeon I rolled need on everything including intellect items thinking it would make my character smarter. My group asked me why I was rolling on those items, and I said I needed them so why not. Got kicked out after that, but my clueless self kept rolling on everything until someone explained what stats meant.

In Wotlk when I was still a wee lad learning to play the game and my warlock, I used a bunch of dkp to outbid a healer in Heroic Icc25 for a ring with spirit on it. 😀

I used to think lmao was calling someone a “lame-o” and then of course rolling need on EVERYTHING

My first character was a rogue and all my gear was +int because I thought intellect was probably good.

I've got two:

Twig of the World Tree on a balance druid with firey enchant. Damn I wanted that glow. (Vanilla)

Gnomer. Brother running us through on his 45 rogue and I'm on my mid/early 20's druid. I have engineering as my prof. Also, guess who has a remote? We get to Electrocutioner 6000 and I think to myself how smart it would be to jump the boss to his death! I do this and my brother looks at me and says I messed up. I was laughing my ass off but I didn't realize the boss didn't die. Needless to say, we had a WHOLE ARMY on that pillar with us soon after. We all died. You can't do that nowadays but back in vanilla you definitely could. Fun times!

Started at the end of BC as hunter, and geared my hunter with mp5 gear to restore mana :)

I trusted someone who said they'd enchant my armor when I was level 5 and then they logged off with all my gear

Didn’t believe the rumors about goldshire in RP realms, many jokes, and xpacs later in MoP I made an alliance toon just to walk to gold shire and see what the fuss was about.

Needless to say it ended up with me attempting to be seduced by a big fat neck bearded man named Nathan.

in deadmines, i was quietly getting mad at the mage for casting flamestrike and blizzard on top of the tank, which made my life healing the party more difficult

it was humbling when i learned that player AoEs didn't harm allies (contrary to the RTS), and that the flamestrikes were actually from mobs

when classic was still fairly fresh, I was the group leader for a some level ~20 dungeon. We were only missing a tank and I spent an embarrassingly long time doubting this shaman in my whispers telling me that they could tank it.

For some reason my brain was like "shaman tank fuck that". I've played wow for a really long time, but never really grasped that tank classes are sort of irrelevant at low levels.

Thank god the dude was patient cuz eventually I invited him and the run was smooth as fuck.

I was playing my first toon, a druid. Just enjoyed doing cat stuff. Was struggling in the Raptors in the south barrens. I was 31 or something. Work friend came over to see my druid and see how i was enjoying the game. He walked up to me and said,” what did you put your points in inside your talent tree” i said “talent tree? What’s that”. I then learned i had a talent tree and multiple specs and bunches of points to place

(This was in WoD times) When I reached level 60 in Un'Goro Crater, I was confused by the sudden lack of breadcrumb quests. My dad told me I needed to go to Outland to continue levelling. Thinking that the Dark Portal was the only way to reach Outland, I ran all the way back to Theramore and took the boat to the Eastern Kingdoms, and got massively sidetracked by all the low level quests there. I thought it was fun, but it took me forever to reach the Blasted Lands. Many years later, I learned that there was a mage portal to Hellfire Peninsula in Sillithus the whole time, meaning my retail-style wetlands run was entirely unnecessary.

Wanted to do different dungeon roles in inappropriate specs I guess and not knowing the whole point of specs until that point

I knew how to use /commands like /sit so I assumed that pressing the / key was the only way to type anything. I used to press the /, then backspace, THEN type whatever I needed to. Finally asked a random person if there was an easier way and they said "uhhh, the enter key??"

Life changing moment honestly.

I made it as far as Zul'farrak as a melee hunter in vanilla WoW. I even saved up money to get the Scorpion Sting and Phantom Blade to dual-wield, because I thought that was just so cool. Someone told me in that dungeon that I actually do more damage just being ranged, and I retorted that I always melee'd. Needless to say, I started actually using my bow around level 47.

I also played a retribution paladin. At level 56, I was lucky enough to find the Skullflame Shield from a Lieutenant drop in Alterac Valley. I looted and equipped it immediately with a healer mace. As a retribution paladin. I stayed that way until Burning Crusade's release.

I didn't equip green items because I thought soulbound items meant I could NEVER get rid of them

I thought intelligence would make my character smarter. I was a warrior.

Put on a cloth hat because I didn’t have a hat yet. I was a warrior.

Tanked an entire dungeon and did terribly. Couldn’t hold aggro and couldn’t figure out why. I was out of prot stance. I was a warrior.

A few friends talked me into playing in early Vanilla. I wanted to make a Warrior but my buddy was like, "Bro make a Shadow Priest, they're OP" so I was making my undead character and called him up... "Hey man, I see Priest as a class but I don't see Shadow Priest listed anywhere..."

Then as I was playing, I went to my class trainer and was like, Lesser Heal? No, I'm trying to be a Shadow Priest not heal, I'll pass on that... Shadow Word: Pain? The damage from that is so low compared to Smite... I'm not gonna spend my silver to train that...

In my first battlegrounds I thought my Taunt would work on players ._.

Rerolled from Undead to Orc because when I tried to take the Zepplin to meet up with the Troll player I was going to play with I got on the one for Northrend and it said I needed Wrath of the Lich King.

Before I knew what I was doing I am sure that I had invincible’s reins drop for me because a friend suggested I run old raids and dungeons to learn my rotation...I destroyed it when I ran out of bag space....because it didn’t have a gold silver or copper price in it so it was obviously worthless

I had a 40ish gnome warlock (my first toon) with a phantom blade cause it looked cool. Decided lock was boring so I rolled a Tauren warrior and had no clue what rage was or how to get it, and I misread it to begin with and thought it was "Range" and not rage so I kept back pedaling yelling "HOW FAR DO I NEED TO BE!?" Until the mob disappeared. I was trying to heroric strike.

Vanilla on the cusp of TBC: Leveling a balance druid in Wetlands, mid 20's. I was stacking agility thinking it'd make me more agile and increase my run speed. It… did not

Started playing on private servers since I had no money for a subscription.

Nothing was scripted properly. I tried going from Eastern Kingdoms to Kalimdor by swimming all the way. Fatigue didn't kill me and I reached a point where the game glitched and I couldn't move. I couldn't be teleported or summoned either. The GM had to change my coordinates to get me unblocked.

My first raid I didn't know any mechanics so I started DPSing before the tank a couple of times. The group finally told me to stop using my spells so I started hitting the boys with my staff.

I thought that you had to finish every quest before moving to another zone so I did them and didn't level as quickly as my friends.

Once joined a dungeon as a healer, but I was a Shadow Priest. I thought that priests can heal regardless.

My first character was a night elf balance Druid. I didn’t understand stats, so I just wore whatever had the most green numbers on it, even if it was cloth. I never did dungeons, because I thought they we’re only for elite players, and when I hit 80 I was confused why I didn’t get the quest to kill the Lich King. Because I guess nothing says quest mob like being pretty much everywhere in the expansion. Oh I also killed shitload of deer in moonglade because I thought it would be easy levelling

When I first started playing as a Warrior in BC on the Azuremyst realm I tanked through a lot of dungeons without a shield it wasn’t until I was around level 40 someone said I should full spec prot and use a shield for me to consider myself a “tank.” I think most of the people I ran dungeons with didn’t know themselves either or I’m not entirely sure why it took that long coining myself as a tank to be told I’m not really a tank.

In BC I saw my first blue drop. I was a hunter and the item was a shield and I got so excited I instantly needed on it. Ended up winning it and immediately kicked from the group. Still feel about it to this day

I once told a druid tank in deadmines that he was wearing the wrong gear since it was leather heirlooms. I thought all tanks wore plate.

In my defence, I was like 10 years old

My friends I've just met asked me for a BL/TW. I had to find it in my spellbook. Then I went into dungeon as a frost mage with zero idea of rotation. I was sure that my playstyle was amazing. After last boss, someone told me to look at my rotation and I just attacked them for no reason xD

I wanted a range attack as a pally in vanilla, and I saw the trainer for them was in darnassus. So I walked to menethil, get off the boat, and proceed to try to swim to darnassus. After eventually making it, I learned that day that paladins cannot use bows.

I started a lock mid tbc. I new warriors got plate at 40,hunter and shamans got mail etc. My friend told me locks got leather at 40 so I started needed all the leather in zf because I would need it at 40...

I also used to think the father away I was the more likely I would be to miss spells. So I would run into melee before casting shadow bolt...

As a brand new NE hunter, my NE druid father challenged me to a duel, this man was raiding Onyxia, smol child me was like "yeah!!!"

My own dad... Yeeted me off a bridge that led to the FP to fly to Auberdine, and laughed.

I didn't know squat about Druids or Typhoon.

I queued to be a tank for low level dungeons but didn't actually tank. I just thought tank = hey I get a bunch of health, so why not? The people with me were nice though and explained what I had to do lol.

Not myself but a buddy of mine when you're trying to get to the cave above WC you run up the mountain, well my one friend was behind us so he ran the mouth of the cave where we were handing in quests and proceeds to ask us how we got up there. My other fri3nd without skipping a beat says " just type /climb" and from then on a meme was born

I was like lvl 10 rogue in cataclysm and i tried to equip a plate armor. The game throwed the error: you don't have the skill to equip that item( or smth like that) so i spent the rest of the day looking in Stormwind for a trainer that could teach my rogue how to wear plate armor XD

Way back in vanilla I was too young to even have my own account, but everytime I went to my grandma’s (she was a hardcore raider) she let me play on her account. I had a low level warrior that I somehow got to darkshore. After this I now realize I was constantly killing gray mobs and selling greens I got to buy vendor gear with more armor.

Back in the day during Vanilla times, me and my friends leveled to about lvl 10. At that point all of our gear were broken and we couldn't figure how to fix our gear....so we just decided to create new characters and start a new.

The same time my friend tried to have a serious conversation with an NPC, asking it directions.

We also dissed our friend for now leveling his melee abilities....he was a mage.

i was a priest and a warlock put a soulstone on me. i died later in OG by falling and could use the rezz from the soulstone. i was amazed and assumed that this is a thing that priests can do, so i kept asking in /2 where i can buy soulstones for priests. it was in 2007 and i just hit max lvl to my defense.

Shit, how am I supposed to remember the dumbest things from 15 years ago :( I only remember "competitive" dumb things like rolling on "wrong" items (aka. it's better for someone else but it'd also be upg to me).

I do remember the weirdest thing. In 9.0 my vdh alt joined something like +16 PF. Someone linked my trinket and asked wtf is this? It was haste trinket with +int proc in it. I had no idea how I had it, I play a lot of alts and I don't remember all my gear. I couldn't figure out how I had got it. In the end I can only imagine I asked if I could have it from someone earlier in the season, and they gave it to me thinking I needed it for ilvl. Well, I did, but I didn't read it through.

Got kicked from that group lol. It's just funny in a sense to be having sort of +int gear as dh when doing as high content as +16 keys. Not saying that's super high, just that it's understandable people are extremely wtf'd by how you have ended up in that situation. I had def used it for months.

When I first started playing I ran around org asking how to save the game

Some guy got me to do /afk in a bg cause he said it would let me level up to max

I started as druid and skilled all trees so I would reach all different druid forms because I thought "awesome, so I can do EVERYTHING at once!" lmao. Also I only wore things with agility and strength because I thought intelligence was unnecessary, only being fast and strong mattered. Yeah that didn't work out thaaaat well though.

To be fair that was my first RPG ever I think back then.

As someone spending most of my time on an anime platform back then, my chat only consisted of cringy smileys like ö.ö ^{3^} ~^w~ yeah you know, the terrible 90s emo weeb kids stuff. Thinking about this physically hurts tbh. Shoutout to all the players that didn't just kick me for this

I leveled my first 10 levels with the camera staring 90% into the ground, I could just barely see where I was going at the top of the screen. I called my friend to ask him how he was able to see stuff, and he taught me how the camera could be moved around holding left click

Buying grey vendor gear when leveling

I won the epic 1-H sword from ST, had a chance on hit to summon an emerald whelping, on my paladin that was specced ret. I decided to use it exclusively all the way to max level.

Don't worry I was literally the only melee person that could use it in that group.

As a mage, I thought that you needed to use counterspell AFTER a spell was cast to lock that school of magic. Needless to say I didn't have much success and I ended up simply giving up using the spell, thinking it was broken. Realised I was stupid the day I timely hit counterspell midcast by accident against an ogre mage in Arathi Highlands...

OOF.

Way back in the BC era, my first run of deadmines, I rolled "need" on everything (that may be an exaggeration) because "greed is bad, I don't want to be greedy." Wound up with a pile of junk, and I'm surprised they let me stay through the whole thing.

My first toon was a Tauren druid just before TBC came out.

I didn't like being in shapeshift form so I would just hit stuff with my staff instead of using bear form. Thank God I was lvling with a friend because it took a long fucking time to figure that out

I remember following around someone asking if I could buy their heirloom shoulders because I thought they looked really cool and considered shoulder armor "high level".

Mind you this was WotLK when shoulder armour was a little less common at least but still a massive noob moment haha..

First app to my first raid guild said, "I'm a fast aura switcher"

I wasn't new at the time, which makes this even more embarrassing.

I got the Agility Quel-Thalas sword on my Death Knight since the "Damage per second" was listed at like .2 higher than the Strength version.

That's right, I threw away the chance to get one of the best weapons at the time by prioritizing a completely irrelavant "stat" (if it can even be called that) over my class's primary status.

Never did anythign too embarassing from being a total noob (at least nothing I can remember), but what happened several times in my life in dungeons and once during raid was falling asleep right before pull while waiting for countdown.

Moral of the story is do not go raiding after u didn't sleep for like 26 hours.

I only joined WoW about a year and a half ago so I'm still a bit of a noob but not as noob-y as I was for the first three months I played. Highlights include, but are not limited to:

-not realizing I would outlevel some zones at certain levels and that I was supposed to move on to different zones (so I was killing mobs/questing in kalimdor somewhere and was confused as to why I was barely leveling)

-wearing crappy low level gear because it looked better, and because I didn't understand the concept of transmogging stuff

-trying to solo dungeons (Zul Farrak was a pain in the ass but somehow I didn't die?)

-hoarding every piece of gear I ever received because my noob brain apparently thought I'd need rings from BC/WOTLK zones someday

-queueing as tank, healer, and dps despite only being geared for dps and not knowing how to do anything else

-asking for help with low level quests (redridge/westfall) in guild chat instead of local chat

-hoarding all the boe gear because it was all the same main stat but had different secondaries, and I had no idea how any of that stuff worked or what it meant

Back in vanilla, my new toon got rabies. As an infectious disease specialist, I said "welp, that's probably not curable in this game" and deleted my character.

I thought anything involving trolling was about the race aswell. I thought armor was the most important stat. I tried to ask a group to let me tank on my rogue since I was the highest level in dungeon finder group. I thought aggrro was comletely based on who hit the mob first so I asked them to let me go first. I would need because greed sounded like a bad thing.

I remember when I was a noob I used to walk everywhere because I was too poor to afford a taxi. So my friend gave me some gold so I could use the taxi.

Also I remember doing a heroic in WotLK and getting a purple 1h. So I threw out my old green 2h and used only 1 one hander. My guild gave me 72 hour notice to get another 1h or be kicked from the guild.

This was not me but my friends younger brother in original WoW around 2005. He had a rogue and was with a guild he was pretty young at the time I think like around 12 years old. His guild got both Del'Rends to drop at the same time. The guild had it in need or greed. They were telling everyone to pass but he didn't have his earbuds in listening. So he thought "Oh I need those." So he rolled need and got both of them. They were upset at him but realized it was accidental. No hard feelings in the end.

He then wanted to swap to be a dagger rogue instead. Once he got two blue daggers he sold both of the swords to afford a fiery enchant on both of his new daggers.

I had been playing for a couple of years. Wrath of the lich king came out, leveled to 70 and all that, got in a dungeon group, got there, started the dungeon. The tank was using a 2H instead of 1H and shield. I was the healer. I started to complain and asking the tank why wouldn't he change to tank gear. DKs were a new thing.

I got a good one. When i played for the very best time, one of my friends was helping me trough the recruit a friend, so i was just following him around. When we get to lvl 30 or so, i realized i was playing a shaman, not a mage.

I remember so clearly. My first day logging on like 15 years ago. Someone whispered me asking if I wanted to join their guild and I responded “are you a real person?” They responded “why wouldn’t I be?”

Back in Vanilla, I decided on playing a priest. I played alone and every time I levelled I'd go looking at my spells to see what was new.

I got Fade pretty early on, which said something about reducing threat. I thought it meant I could cast it and sneak past mobs so, yeah, I was running for a long time as a solo priest and casting Fade on cooldown.

I walked up to those floating whisps in darnassus and started talking to them thinking they were dead players trying to find their bodies. Fml

I started playing with a friend in highschool in vanilla and I always pestered him to constantly run me through dungeons so I could get all the gear just because I thought I needed it to do well haha. He got annoyed pretty quickly haha

When i got my first green item as it said [bind on equipment] i tought it was a valuable item and leled in all grey until i learnt that they were not that valuable.

Asking if someone could help me.

This was years ago so the small details are foggy but pretty much playing through WotLK and saw a lvl 82 character. In disbelief I excitedly announced it on chat. People were flipping out asking where and I told them. That's when the chat filled with laughter and insults.. it was an NPC.

First toon was a night elf rogue. I started right after the initial AQ release. I came across a hypnotic blade in SM (which I unknowingly ninja looted) and used it all the way up to level 60. Having no clue it was terrible for rogues. I just thought it looked cool.

As a warrior in vanilla I never did the quest for d stance until like lvl 55 because I didn't know it existed. I was not a good tank sorry to all my mara runs

First character ever, orc warlock. Didn't buy a spell past level 10 or so, didnt use a single talent, never summoned a pet all until a friend of my older brother saw and showed me how to.

I would spend literally all of my gold on the auction house, even if the item was only +1 better stamina or intellect than mine

I wanted the sword Butcher i think it was called, so s friend and i spend an entire weekend farming SFK because we thought it dropped from tbe boss....the butcher

Vanilla was rough on me

I started n late BC and leveled alone. First day that I could, I made a death knight. Same day I ran a dungeon on that brand new DK and rolled on a pair of +INT legs. I won, and “stole” them from a pally. I guess he wasn’t too mad. A couple years later we got married and 12 years later, he still gives me crap about stealing those legs.

When i was new many years ago, i thought loot worked in dungeons like it did normally, first person to hit the mob gets the loot, so my first dungeon i kept running in front of the tank on bosses and random trash to get the first hit so i could have the loot

Not sure if its emberressing but atleast pretty dumb. My first char was a warrior, made it the day tbc came out, so I got it to level 25-26 something and my friend said: dud why are you leveling a warrior its such a pain to level ( and yes it was but I had put alot of time in to it, cause I didnt know shit really) so yeah, I deleted that mf and made a rogue lol.

I ran around begging for gold as a kid lol

Okay so way back in early vanilla i started playing. My first ever online game, and i was about 10 years old. I quickly got the hunger for gold and my big brain child logic was like: "hey those NPC's are computer programmed, maybe they can give me gold if i try to tell them i should". I ran around Goldshire typing in /s telling them to give me gold to see if it worked. Because i chose same server as my friend who was already playing i was on a RP server, so people must just have thought i was doing some wierd RP thing. To this day i still feel silly for even thinking it might work.

I've experienced second-hand shame, and the worst was in a guild where the GM had a "girlfriend" who was actually a dude roleplaying a girl.

Jesus Christ, it was so bad when that blew up... I felt ashamed for our GM, but also for the dude duping him, and for being a part of it playing with them and downing bosses with them.

As for something I've done... Um, not sure if it's embarrassing, but when I was new I figured that white armor, WHITE, as in armor COLORED white, meant belonging to the "good guys". So, I wore anything white. Leather, cloth, whatever the quality and stats.

I went like that for quiiiiite some time until a friendly veteran gave me some advice.

I used to drag my armour to my spell bar because I didn’t know how to equip it…… I also didn’t know how to sell things back to the vendor so I would just destroy it

My first dungeon was Deadmines waaaay back in 2006. Everyone kept saying wait for “Pat” and midway through I told them I didn’t think “Pat” was going to join us. 😳😳😳😳😳

I started playing this game right before shadowlands released I was pumped to run my first dungeon the one with the drunk monkey stuff I asked what mechanics are cause I was new, got kicked was embarrassed and sad. 😔

Asking in /s how to get out of SW, while I was standing right in the middle of the trade district...near the entrance.

Choosing tailoring on a hunter...I wanted to make dresses I guess.

The first character I created was a hunter. At one point I dismissed my pet and completely refused to use one because I was certain it was stealing my experience and making me level slower. Great times

When I first started back in the day. In a dungeon one of the DPS told me to 'drink this' it ended up being an ale and I had to tank the rest of it with my screen spinning. I thought it was a buff or something beneficial.

Oh god, I just remembered. The first like year I played I wouldn't loot anything I wouldn't use myself. No grey vender items. No boes that weren't upgrades. Nothing. I must have passed up on thousands of gold simply to avoid managing my bag space.

I was so bad (as a new player) in MoP that my friend told me to gem all stamina so I wouldn’t die while he carried me in arenas.

I used to take whatever was pretty to me without understanding the stats, I didn't know what they meant for awhile, and only used the "appearance" as to take or not something. I remember playing feral with no agility whatsoever and fully running on intelligence. But hey, did I look nice, at least I thought.

I used to think high level content was unachievable for common folk like me and you needed to be somewhat special and dedicated to be geared, so I always watched high level geared people in awe. I used to never get past my gearing phase and never did a raid. Been playing since Vanilla, been mainly a bear tank running simply dungeons. Started doing mythic + and my very first raid only by BFA. Yes, I liked my comfort zone.

Also, Rp in Goldshire. God...

All these anecdotes are making me so nostalgic. I just wanna experience WoW for the first time again.

Lol I love this, I started recently and did not know any acronyms that WoW players use. I’m sure I’m looked stupid a few times.

My first dungeon. Warrior. I set myself as the leader without knowing it. Didn’t understand why everyone was yelling on me to to pull enemies. And i got a mace that was better than my other weapon So i equipped it. And a paladin i think used the rest of the dungeon to talking shit about me. Fun times. Not very strange why it took some years after that for me to get into wow.

I have a good one, but I might be too late to the party. I got into my first Molten Core group, right around the time Burning Crusade was releasing. I was maybe 13 years old. It was a giant pug and we were all on Ventrillo (a voice chat software). The raid lead or someone of the sort said, “wait for sunders”, which basically meant before we dps the adds down we need to wait for the warriors in the group to all use sunder armor.

I had no idea what that meant, and I was trying to fit in or be cool, and since I didn’t know what it meant I heard “wait for thunder”, which somehow I got to “wait for lightning.” So here I was saying “wait for lightning, wait for lightning” making no sense at all over the voice chat to thirty or so other people.

Tradet invincible to my dad since it’s „dropping every run“. Didn’t know better because it dropped in my first run ever.

Back in early WOTLK.

“What do you mean you can’t heal? You’re a priest.” - to a shadow priest.

So I first tried playing wow in legion. I only played for about a month. Got as far as mythic plus 4 and I tried a lfr one time. Logging in to that character again in shadowlands I found that I had about 28 inventory slots... total. I didn't even have all the bags I could have and one of my bags was a 6 slot. I think I only used bags that I picked up while questing

In Vanilla when my Nelf warrior's armor broke just outside the starting zone I just deleted him and made a new char that didn't wear "heavy" armor. When it happened again (on a priest I think) I just made a Human thinking that the race was the problem. Hoo boy.

I started playing WoW in vanilla at 9 years old. I didn't know what the word, "duel" meant. I got challenged and accepted thinking it was a group thing and started killing undead. Fun fact: My first death was in the starting zone seconds later.

Hadn't played since legion, was out in kyrian zone. Asked why the alliance tags were grey and if it was a warmode thing. Got abused for being a noob for a solid 40 minutes.

Not me, but my friend:

Way back in BC, his mom (then an avid wow player) got access to the beta. Said friend was allowed to use it too by sharing her computer, and somehow he managed to (on her character) get into a raid group for Zul'Aman.

Being curious about the new content, he decided to go and get a closer look at the boss's model for more detail. This, naturally, face-pulled the boss before the group was ready, and it was very quickly a wipe.

I levelled as a shadow priest first time round. I remember being in a dungeon and thanking the healer every time they healed me, lol.

Also in my first ever raid, I was told to keep a mob silenced or feared, can’t really remember what, so I did absolutely no dps and just sat and watched until I had to silence/fear it again lol

I didnt know what a hearthstone was, got lost in deep run tram, unstucked out.

Didnt know how to teach my pet growl, was a melee surv hunter til about 20 in red ridge. Boy vanilla was fun.

Was like 11 years old, made a night elf warrior got him to level 12 (big achievement for me back then) which was the highest character I had only to spin him around and realise he had a moustache and 11 yr old me REALLY didn’t want a character with a mustache so deleted him. To be fair don’t think barbers were a thing in vanilla.

Came from runescape, so classes were a new thing to me. I was level 30 something in a razorfen dungeon wielding a staff and wearing robes as a warrior with like 13 unspent talent points before someone said anything or helped me out. I started at the end of BC.

Back in BC when I first started playing, it was the first time I had been online for a server reset. I panicked when I saw "server shutdown 15 mins" and asked trade chat shat it meant. Someone said it meant the server was being deleted with all the characters. I was upset, I had worked so hard to get level 20 or 30 something at that point.

This has very little to do with any gameplay, but when I was 11 or something I was in my first guild. Two members were in a relationship and I asked, trying to be.. funny? ‘’Is she good to kiss’’. Whole guild got mildly upset. Nothing bad really, they knew I was young and basically just all told me not to ask that. So the story isn’t really that special but I still remember that, it really stressed me tf out

I had gotten my first alt to max and was doing a dungeon. Someone asked me to interrupt the add and i informed them that "hunters don't have an interrupt". Lmaoo

I’m new to WoW in the grand scheme of things. Started playing a hunter three years ago, my fiancé gave me a crash course on the basics.

A couple of real big derps.

I didn’t realise you needed to be with a vendor to vendor your grays for gold and was just deleting them. He thought that was hilarious.

Was wondering why my spells weren’t working - either my pet was dead or I had swapped my ranged weapon for a hand held weapon, happened all the time.

My stupid thing was done today.. I didn't think I was still a new player, but apparently I am.

I was running a random heroic dungeon as a healer, and the tank left mid run. We requeued, but there were no tanks around so I just switched to guardian and continued on with the dungeon. I'd pulled about 20 mobs when a new tank joined the group, and the game automatically switched me back to my restoration spec without warning. The new tank wasn't actually there, I was in my resto spec (with guardian gear), 20 mobs were pulled, and I had no mana.

Lesson learned.

As a kid and new player I barely spoke English. I played a hunter and would just mash all buttons all the time. Other players would berate me all the time but I didn't understand why. Also I didn't do quests for a long time. I thought quests were too complicated. I still remember killing spiders in Redridge for hours on end.

I remember as a kid who didnt know any english constantly asking for my parents to tell me what I had to do for quests. Other than that I remember jumping off of Teldrassil and dying ofc. Aimlessly wandering around the ocean in wisp form while crying and trying to get to my body. That morning only grandma was home, so for couple hours until my dad came home I was in tears, going around that tree thinking how I will never see my character alive again. My dad had a good laugh, and I now that I think about it.

First day of Vanilla I somehow managed to toggle the walk/run key and didn't know. I WALKED EVERYWHERE till level 30ish when I joined my first guild and they asked me why I was walking everywhere in a dungeon run. After toggling run back on finally I was so pissed off at myself.

When I first started, my friend asked me if I wanted to dps-ranged or melee, heal, or tank and I said “yes”.

Shaman it was

I burned to death in Ironforge

Be me, a level 30 warrior lurking on forums just started out not knowing what is what. Didn’t have gold to buy anything including learning to ride mounts. Whispered a guildmaster whether i could join his guild and if he had any tips to make gold. He sent me 1k and i was so appreciative i sent him back 2k as thanks in about 3 weeks after i did all side quests and farmed herbs to vendor (yes vendor - didn’t know about auction house then). GM told me he spent more on repairs in raid that night that the 1k he sent.

Another time i joined a mythic key and there was a quaking affix. Didn’t know what it was (cue newbie player) and stacked on the tank wiping the group. Safe to say neither the tank nor the group was very happy about that.

When i started wow first i was playing warlock and i took engineering as i thiught it would be cool. Iater realised i can build a gun and wanted to do that so i can use it. I build it couldnt use it then i searched for the gun trainer and marched all the way to thunderbluff just to realise warlocks cant use that

I ninjad the judgement helm as well as lots of other shit i didnt need on my rogue for giggles back in classic

equipping molten core items on my priest back in mop

When I first started raiding in eternal palace I saw that someone has mythic 15 gear from mythic plus.

I thought I meant that they cleared mythic raids 15 times to get that and I wanted to become a good enough player to do that.

Well now I do 18s while they are stuck at 12s so I guess I am the better player now.

HOLY FUCK THIS GOT DOWNVOTED: guess I should not try and vent about being better than my old GM after trying to sabotage my future guild prospects.

I used to support blizzard. company of rapists.

I could imagine a troll saying "you mad bro?"

Shadowlands is a great expansion

You were simply following instructions

This Isnt exactly noob moment since i had been playing with my dad for years beforehand, But in early wrath i started playing solo. So i made a DK and qued for dungeons, somehow group finder gave us 5 DK’s. And me Being Young didnt realise DK meant death knight, i only knew DK as an abbreviation for Denmark. When the group commented On 5 dks i thought they were and spent 15min trying to write Danish to them

Wanted to learn how to tank nowadays