note on what you mentioned about the keybinds – I did a complete rework of my keybinds at about, oh, level 65 or thereabouts (it’s been a while) – and my leveling came to a screeching halt – so I can sympathize a bit there. Now, I tend to make small, gradual changes – and put similar spells in the same keybind on different characters. (For example, Frostfire Bolt on the mage = Wrath on the druid.)

I think my biggest noob moment (or noob months, even) was when I decided to go 10/48/3 right from the start as I leveled…I probably could have gone so much faster with a leveling spec. And then, of course, I decided NOT to take Improved Scorch. Silly Vel.

But I digress. This was a wonderful post, loved reading it. Brought back some great memories of the old noobly days. =)

@Zupa, Arioch, Luthvian: There was a time… long long ago, where you didn’t raid as anything but cookie cutter fire spec… but things did change, and one day I will admit is it better than fire… just not today

@Klepsacovic: Ohh yeah.. I think I was 67 before I respeced for the 1st time… because it cost so much gold… ohhh 5g, that isn’t too bad…

@Arioch: A great post! See we were all Noobs once (or twice or…)

@Larísa: Back to the fire… love it… why be a Noob when you can burn all objectors?
lol Brethren = Males only hunh… so what are females… Sistern (Cistern?)… No you have been generous enough over time sharing your misconceptions… I dare say you will be haunted by that little red man for a long time to come…

@Luthvian: Ohh yeah Frost/Ice Armour…..

@Rhii: Ohh Ohhhh… that’s a killer, but easy to understand. Actually it wouldn’t amaze me if people only ever spec into Frost (from memory the default talent tree displayed)… Still it used to be particularly painful tracking down the “available” skills, glad they put in the filter so I don’t have to use a mod to do the same thing.

@Uncle Nooblus: Isn’t it great having friends like Nim… I bet he doesn’t just remind you once either… it would be constantly… he probably twitters you throughout the day just to remind you…

@Kel: Ahhh, so I wasn’t too far off the mark with the single tree deception… it’s great when there are nice (gentle) guys out there to set you back on the correct path…

@jong: Yep, temporary… but I wasn’t going to take the chance (or do something real stupid like read the tooltip now was I).

@Euripedes, Kel & Arioch:
Re: Noob-guard.

I finally remembered the minor details…
Actually it was on my Gnome Mage that I did the Gnome guard… but watching a Tauren Hunter pump the air would have been cooler..

The bars actually changed based on target type, so enemy targets gave me combat bars, friendly targets gave me “friendly bars”, and no targets gave me “noob-guards”… well eventually.

Initially, every time a mob died (and of course with 3.5 second casts, I would be mid cast), my bars would swap.
If I wasn’t paying close attention, the next think you know I had ported back to Ironforge.

So I fixed the problem, but this meant that after nearly every kill, I would be jumping for joy, and expressing it loudly. Now when you are fighting 6 mobs per pull, 6 cheers can either be quite funny (or after the 2nd or 3rd pull) quite annoying…

Still, I think I got more laughs that insults…

An one more FTW!.
The very first time I created a character, I was left standing there wondering what to do… for like 2-3 minutes.
I had managed to turn my character around so I didn’t see the guy with the big ! sitting over his head (and let’s face it, I wasn’t going to read the hint text now was I!).
Finally someone nearby said, just go see the guy with the quest…

Hmmphhh and some people say WoW is easy mode

That would have been… interesting… to see.

dismiss is a temporary thing?

My first character was a rogue, but the mistake I made is general. I only trained talents in the first tree and didn’t notice the rest until a complete stranger asked me why I didn’t use dual wield. I was ashamed, but most of all I was happy and exited when I went to the trainer and saw all those new abilities waiting for me.

(Thank you, Mr Nice Guy wherever you are. I’m sorry I lied to you when I was explaining the reason behind my unusual choice of weapon. Frankly, I was trying to hide the fact that I had no idea what you were talking about.)

~Uncle Nooblus
(Sylus)

Oh dear, my favorite noob-ly memory is the fact that when I leveled my first mage I didn’t know I could train more than one skill per visit to the trainer! So I carefully chose one thing from the list of green trainables every time I went… When I was level 16 I was still learning skills I should have had at 4 or 6!

Great post! reminded me of a noobish mistake I forget to stick on my post… somehow, the fact that Frost Armor and Ice Armor are different spells escaped me until something like… level 79. I was wondering why my armor only gave 200 bonus armor when I’d just learned a new version. then I checked my spellbook. whoops!