The Egotistical Priest
An irreverent and opinionated discussion of the many classes
in the World of Warcraft gaming universe.
I too was a noob…
by Kwane
My intention on posting this is for the replies to be similar confessions of either ignorance (I did not know it worked that way, I swear!) or simply forget mistakes (mine will be the example there…trust me) or what have you. Shall we begin?
*Red faced and all* So we are going to run Uldaman once more to complete the gems of power quest. While waiting for my group mates to finish their preperations, I decided to see if I could solo Revelosh. It took me a few tries, some learning and tactics (kill the little healer first and fast, use War Stomp to interupt his heal, then focus on the boss next he hits harder than the other melee mob you get) and those learning trips meant some deaths. (druids still cannot vanish). We clear Uldaman and much fun is had by all. The consensus after is to move to ZA and since its moderately late we decide to just kill and not worry so much about quests.
The juicy part…
We have no trouble at all through the instance, even clearing the graveyard in one continuous pull (Vonyas mana regen stacked with an innervate is something to behold). Now we come to the temple. And maybe when the mobs at the bottom spawn I get a little cockey and pull ahead of time. And maybe we get them ALL and barely survive due to expert playing of my three comrades. And maybe we med up and the second waves of mobs spawn. And maybe I pull again…and again get them all. Only this time all does not go smoothly and we have a wipe fairly fast.
*sigh* Nope, that is not all. In fact it is not even the reason for the red face (hard to believe, I know).
We run back and head back to the temple. We finish clearing the trash between us and the bosses (lost our shot at finishing that quest, QQ). Bosses down and I charge in with a “but they aren’t even elite!” feeling in my head. And I die. FAST.
*Musters confidence*……..*Prepares admission* I never repaired from playing around in Uldaman…Who knows just how long gear had been breaking. I died so fast on the non-elites because my armor was at a grand total of 2% (per DurabilityFu). Needless to say that when I told the group a great many good deep laughs were at by everyone…well, everyone else at least.
Oh yes, it’s that good.
Posting a moral at the end as instructed by Vonya. No matter how long you have been playing and no matter how skilled you may be you, too can be a noob. Or Only you can prevent noob-fires.
April 26th, 2008
Just to point out, I differentiate between “noob” and “newb.” A “newb” mistake is one you make because you simply didn’t know better, or did something really stupid for which you *did* know better, but forgot about due to the alignment of the planets or something. A “noob” mistake is one where you don’t know any better, and honestly don’t care, or are too lazy to bother figuring it out.
This happened on my first character in WoW, a Restoration Druid (back when Resto was the only even remotely viable tree.) I was around about level 45 or so, I’d just finished the Noggenfogger chain, and was stuffing around in Gadgetzan. I’d quaffed some Noggenfogger Elixirs to stack the various effects, which combined with druid shapeshifting, were absolutely hilarious. Nothing like a tiny, tiny skeleton running up to a scorpid and having a giant bear exploding out of it.
This was all well and good until I decided I wanted to fly out. I go up to the flight master, open the dialog, select the destination… “Cannot fly while transformed.”
Oops, silly me. It’s hard to tell. Except I *wasn’t* shapeshifted. I tried again, nothing.
Then I realised it: I couldn’t use the gryphon until the Noggenfogger buff wore off! I tried mounting to get rid of it, but it wouldn’t let me.
So I sat there in Gadgetzan for ten minutes while I waited for the buff to wear off. Eventually, it did, and I flew out.
And as I was flying, I complained to a friend how silly it was that you could get a buff that would then prevent you from mounting or flying.
“…you realise you can right-click on buffs to get rid of them, right?”
That’s probably the most newbie thing I’ve done in WoW, aside from the standard “bought all my gear from the vendors since it was better than what I had, and even matched!” ones. By virtue of playing computer games since I was about five years old, I worked out a lot of my newbishness long ago.
Ooh! One other springs to mind. Although my Hunter is the only character I’ve ever bothered seriously levelling fishing on, I used to love it on my Druid. Eventually she hit the skill cap, and I learned from Thottbot (which I had just recently discovered) that I needed a book that was only sold in Booty Bay.
Now, I’d never been to Booty Bay at this stage, and I saw that in order to get there, I had to go through a *higher level zone* DUN DUN DUNNNN. Somewhat scared that I’d never make it through, I decided on what, at the time, seemed a rational course of action.
I swam.
I went to Westfall (which I knew the way to after a long, painful process when I did the sealion form quest,) jumped in the ocean, hit sealion form, pointed south and turned on auto-run.
I can’t remember how long it took. Far too long.
That’s not the newbish part. The newbish part was not bothering to get the flight path before I teleported back to moonglade; d’oh!
April 26th, 2008
sinister striking with a dagger rogue. . . level 52. . .
April 27th, 2008
Aggro range is different depending on your level! My friend and I had level 4x mains, he was the tank and I was the healer, and we wanted rouge twinks (lvl 19). He was taking my rouge through Dead Mines but I (as a level 1x) kept getting him killed - he knew why but I didn’t have a clue - I was just going through deadmines like we always did to farm gold (with both mains). He kept telling me to watch my aggro, and I kept shrugging it off believing he didn’t know what he was talking about. Ever patient, he devised a demonstration for me: he took position at the edge of aggro range near a semi-circle of mobs, told me stealth up to the exact same position, and then cancel stealth. [PoM smack on top of the head], lesson learned!
I also remember playing with all the health-bars over everythings’ head for weeks, no one knew what I was talking about in the guild and I failed to find any answers on the web, then I learned it was the ‘V’ key (and its various modifiers - shift or control). That was an annoying few weeks.
April 28th, 2008
A long, long time ago, I decided to try being a Night Elf rogue. As all you Night Elf rogues out there know, there’s a pickpocket quest that requires you stealth out onto this branch to get to a satyr and pick his pocket. Well, at the time, said branch would graphically disappear, giving me the illusion that the satyr and I were walking on air. I couldn’t see where I was going, and I fell. The problem with this fall is that you fall on the outside of the tree trunk of the giant Night Elf tree. I died halfway down the tree trunk. At the time I didn’t know you could rez at the graveyard, so I ran my wispy self back to that branch, and figured I’d click resurrect as I fell past my body. Next thing I know, I’m a wisp at the BOTTOM of that tree, because I had been falling too fast to rez on the way down. So now I have to run all the way around the tree to where the FP is (its like a 5-10min run), go thru the teleport thing, then run back to my body from Darnassus. Fun.
I did it again.
Still not sure what made me think to try again, but I did, and acheived the same results. A really long run around a giant tree. When I got back the second time is when I found out about graveyard rezzing. Incidentally, I also found out later that if you run your ghost out to the deep part of the water where your fatigue bar shows up, that bar will still show up when you’re a ghost, and you will die of fatigue as a ghost, and the game will transport your ghost back to the graveyard.
Don’t fall off that tree.
April 28th, 2008
Uh, I’ve been known to heal instances with my Pox group with my fishing pole equipped. Well, last night, I helped out on the Ring of Blood as DPS…..with my fishing pole equipped instead of my Sonic Spear. Whoops….
April 28th, 2008
@Iratio
I had the same problem with the nameplates, and not knowing how to get rid of them. This was a week or so after I’d gotten my own copy, and in the end I figured I must have screwed up something or corrupted the game somehow. Deleting my SavedVariables.lua file didn’t fix it, so I ended up reinstalling the game.
I used this “fix” twice before I found out what the hell was going on. Sometimes, I’m amazed at the little tiny things that are hidden in WoW that you just never get told about.
April 30th, 2008
Temple + graveyard + Uldaman + broken gear + _ZA_ doesn’t compute to me. Maybe you meant ZF?
April 30th, 2008
@Mizu
You caught me! I messed up again. Yes, that should totally have read as ZF.