Forum post of the day: Rookie Mistakes
by Amanda Dean 
Jun 17th 2008 at 2:56AM
Kemmeua of Emerald Dream decided to share some WoWhead love on the official forums. (And by the look of the WoWhead main page it needs a little love.) He shared some rookie mistakes that players have made. For example:
- Didn't know there were different Zeppelins, thought it was a triflight system so that if I stayed on long enough it would take me to Tirisfall then to Grom and back to Durotar was on there a long time.
- Didn't know they people were yelling at me to TANK better, I thought tanks plowed things and that's what I was doing
- Saw alliance in crossroads and thought, "OMG," so I go an whack 'em and get camped for a day yelling for help.
- Didn't know how to talk to people.
- Saw a hunter with dual weapons on a Kodo and thought "WOW!"
- Saw a raid group forming in Kargath for MC, asked them if I can join, getting told I cant roll with the big dawgs at 43.
- where do u get liferoot if you can't herb? stupid quest giver.
I remember the many mistakes I made with my first character. My boyfriend had been playing WoW a while and convinced me to give it a go. A few days after I picked up the game he went out of town to visit a friend for a long weekend. I thought I'd impress him by leveling up on my own a bit. I rolled myself a Warlock and set off on my own adventure. I had managed to level to 17, but then I learned that I was doing it all wrong:
- My gear was all broken because I didn't know you could repair it.
- I trained only Demonology spells because I had no idea there were other green ones below the red.
- I had gotten stuck in the Undercity and finally ported out, since I couldn't find the door.
- I had no idea that I had 8 talent points to spend.
Some how I made it through all that muddling, though that Warlock is only level 40. There will always be more to learn, but I've got the important stuff down. What rookie mistakes did you make?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 7)
Jack Spicer Jun 17th 2008 3:27AM
1) Sent group invites to anything that moved
2) Did train Shadow Spells, because I didn't want to be an "evil priest"
summerty Jun 17th 2008 8:51AM
Or even sent guild invites while you are on your bank-alt trying to go through your mail!
sasha vukelic Jun 19th 2008 2:27AM
beat this: i kept throwing out things out of my bag if it wasnt usefull...
Pål Jun 17th 2008 10:26AM
Not really a mistake, but I was thrilled when I had made my first gold piece, around level 20 or so.
As for actual mistakes, I remember trying to find a tribal leatherworking trainer (I was level 25 or so), because that one could make some BoE items, and the BoP ones didn't interest me as I was a Mage... anyway, I looked up the questgiver on Thottbot, and set out to find him. I don't remember the specifics, this was a couple of years ago, but I travelled through areas that were intended for people twice my level. i did, however, find the guy eventually, and when I did it turned out I had looked up the wrong faction's trainer.
Jalalaman Jun 17th 2008 3:28AM
I was level 8 or so on my Tauren Hunter, and saw another Tauren flying towards Thunder Bluff on a Wyvern. Naturally I told my PUG mate that I "couldn't wait to be high level enough to fly one of my own".
How disappointed I was when I found out flying mounts weren't in the game at that time...
NeSuKuN Jun 17th 2008 3:29AM
My Hunter thought that he could capture as much pets as he wanted, then realized that you can have only one at a time and 2 parked in the stables. I stood in darnassus for an hour yelling ' GIMME BACK MAH POKEMANS!'
NeSuKuN Jun 17th 2008 3:31AM
BTW I don't play a hunter anymore, I became frustrated for not being able to have every freaking pet available xD
Selly Jun 17th 2008 3:35AM
The very first char I made was a priest. I got it to 14 and then left her be for at least a year.
I came back to her only to find out I had a priest mace of power(or some such, it had AP on it rofl), level 5 gear and all my talent points to spend and 6 levels of training.
It took me a few levels to fix her up but she's now level 31 and appropriately geared and talented hehe!
Jack Spicer Jun 17th 2008 3:39AM
Oh, I forgot my biggest rookie blunder.
As a priest I was doing 50% of my damage through melee. Probably due to poorly itemized gear that gave me a limited mana pool - and my refusal to drink.
Anenome Jun 17th 2008 3:45AM
I didn't know about the tram from Ironforge to Stormwind, so I tried to run through the Badlands... at lvl 14. Right before I gave up I was able to take about 3 steps before being murdered after each corpse rez. Finally, even rezzing at the Spirit rezzer didn't help, as it aggroed a nearby enemy who ended up camping me at the rez point :O
Avey Jun 17th 2008 6:26AM
I didn't know about the tram either, and swam along the coast from Westfall the Wetlands. Took half an hour :|
Cremean Jun 17th 2008 11:11AM
I am also one of the many who didn't know of the tram. When I died I stayed dead and ran all the way to the Elwynn Forest spirit healer, boy did I think I was smart. When I used the spirit healer, he put me back in the badlands. :-(
That was on my dwarf hunter who made it to level 17, then was sold of to make my mage.
Gimmlette Jun 17th 2008 11:39AM
Is it true that in the very beginning, there was no tram to SW from IF? If so, how did one get there?
I remember running into "Lag-Forge" for the first time and my computer sort of giving up. I think I was level 15 or so before I made it all the way around IF and then, it was another couple of levels before I said to myself, "I wonder where this goes?" I had a couple of quests to turn in in Stormwind but couldn't, for the life of me, figure out how to get there.
Talent points? What are those? What do you mean I can sell these greens I can't use in an "Auction House" and get more money? This nice guy here will take them. I can eat AND drink and I should? But if I stay in one spot long enough, the bars regenerate on their own.
Oh yeah, I look back and cringe. But, in a way, I kind of miss that wide-eyed innocence of all the things you could learn.
darian Jun 17th 2008 12:06PM
Originally the tram was supposed to take you from SW to Darnassus and back. That's why it's East-West and goes underwater.
Then Blizzard figured out that since Blackrock Spire stood between SW and IF... yeah.
Deusmortis Jun 17th 2008 1:01PM
Another proud swimmer here. Westfall to Menathil, and eventually on to Southshore.
I've embraced my swimmer heritage, and many of my characters swim from Theramore to Gadgetzhan, and the run south to Booty Bay is much less dangerous, if you head west and swim it instead.
nolls74 Jun 17th 2008 1:43PM
i did the "fun run" from IF to SW on my first Nelf hunter. I also tried climbing up the mountains to get from Darkshore to Moonglade...
Another fun one looking back on it now, was that once i discovered the money sink that is the AH....i had this strange OCD-ness about buying new gear every 2 levels, just like my skills. Yah he was lvl 33 by the time i scraped him and had 2g to his name.
jbodar Jun 17th 2008 3:51PM
Swimming is always the answer, esp on a PVP server.
Orbit Jun 17th 2008 3:49AM
When I first died, I though I could go explore everywhere in death and I ended up in Felwood, not knowing where I was, so I rezzed and freaked when a ?? tree killed me in one hit. Man I was confused.
Summer Jun 17th 2008 3:59AM
First characters my husband & I made were night elves. By level 17 or 18 we both needed to get the fishing book from Booty Bay. That was the longest, most painful run of my life going from Stormwind to Booty Bay in the teens... we literally were dying every few steps in STV till we were finally able to spirit rez outside Booty Bay. Imagine my reaction when I discovered that Rachet had a boat to Booty Bay when I was in my mid-30's.
cjshrader Jun 17th 2008 9:00AM
I did the same, only I couldn't have been above Level 10, and someone told me the easiest way to Kalimdor was through Booty Bay. So I made the walk. It literally took me hours to make, only later to learn that if I'd just gone a little west and ran past a few level 30 mobs I could have made it no problem.