What do you remember about being a newbie?

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I read this post on miss elf's blog, which starts off "I was thinking about being a new player again today, and the stupid things I did."

Which got me thinking about all the stupid things *I* did. Ah, the good old days.

• I never knew who could tank, or heal. I knew that everyone could do SOME kind of damage, but I also figured that because I could heal and tank, everyone could heal and tank. Hence me whispering mages, "Can you come tank stocks? Or heal?"
  
• I also thought that being a tank meant you did the most damage. I never understood why anyone would just want to pew pew from afar. Wouldn't you want to do as much damage as possible? Why doesn't *everyone* tank?
  
• When I was level 9 or so I spent all of my 5 silver on a crossbow from a vendor. Then, I spent awhile killing mobs and turning in quests to get more money, so I could buy a quiver. And arrows. Then, 25 seconds later:

Me: "WHY WONT THIS WORK."
Pete: "Oh. Yeah, druids can't use bows or guns. No wands either. You can only use certain weapons."
Me: "....."

• I didn't understand that you gained rested xp over long periods of time, usually when logged out. I remember questing with a buddy and being like HOLD ON WAIT. And then running into an inn, sitting there for 6 seconds until I got the "You feel rested." message, and then running back out. "Ok - I'm good to go now!"
• I didn't know what talent points were until Pete kindly showed me at level 18ish.
• I was always so amazed that people knew where to go when they were in Stormwind. They'd say "Meet me at the bank." I'd wander aimlessly and end up in Old Town while they wondered, "Where the hell is she going?" Eventually I learned that I could ask the guards where to go. Joy!
• When I wanted to go from Darnassus to Stormwind at level 20 or so, I took the boat to the Wetlands. I proceeded to spend about 2 hours corpse jumping through the Searing Gorge and the Burning Steppes. Once I made it as far south as I could go, I realized that there was no way to get over the mountains and into Elwynn Forest. Then, I found out about Ironforge and the tram.
• I had such a hard time getting used to hitting enter before typing anything else in guild chat. Now, I do it whenever I'm talking in gmail or on AIM.
  
• When I first saw a bear dancing around (it was probably Aidiah or someone, the guild was outside ZA about to go in ^^) I thought it was the coolest thing EVER.
• I figured out that you could run by clicking both mouse buttons at level 55 or so.
• My very first time in Alterac Valley, I had NO idea what I was doing. Everyone is yelling to loot the dogs, and then people are saying DON'T loot the dogs, and then people are calling each other names but then laughing, and then they're saying don't cap Frostwolf, and I'm like, who are you calling a Frost Wolf and why would you cap him?! I also didn't have an epic mount, thus lost crusader's aura pretty quickly, and got incredibly lost in the middle of the battlefield and died many, many times.
  
• Turns out I used to suck pretty hard at battlegrounds in general. I used to heal in battlegrounds by hitting shift-tab to tab-target through all my friendly targets. Once I tabbed over to someone who had low health, I'd stop, look at my keyboard, hit 4 for lifebloom, nod to myself in satisfaction, and then keep tabbing around.
• I thought that Wild Growth was a party heal for the longest time. =P
  

So what do YOU remember about being a newbie?

IS AVERNA STARTING A MEME? Oh my god, I think she is!!

And as such, I shall tag a few blogs of my choosing!

Ice from Druid Main (you can find her post here)
Lance from A Bit of Lance (you can find his post here)
Keredria from Tree of Life (you can find her post here)
Luthvian from Polymorph: Pwny (you can find her post here)
Kae from Dreambound (you can find her post here)

And yes, you guys should be tagging other bloggers. =)

For anyone one else who wants to jump on this bandwagon - feel free to drop a line in the comments, write your own post, and I'll link to you!

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