Well, I missed out on this Wednesday just gone again, I can’t seem to get a win. However, the Pirates did, so that’s all that matters isn’t it? On Wednesday, the Pirates one shot every boss up to and including Festergut, however, there was a good part of the night spent on Rotface. Fortunately, on the last attempt of the night, he was beaten. Finally! Well done to everyone involved. This lead to us, on Sunday night, having plenty of time on Putricide. Taking plenty of time to look at and talk through the strategies, we spent a solid two hours getting through our ten attempts, but to no avail, with 41% being our closest shot. Having said that, we learned some very valuable lessons about the fight, and look forward to getting it down this week, or at least very close to it!
This week I was schooled about an additional feature to the game that I didn’t know had been introduced, by someone who had only gotten their first character to about level 60, no less! So here is my admission. I am quite bad when it comes to reading patch notes. Or, remembering them anyway. I know. Poor form. I tend to scroll down to the Paladin and Shaman notes, then scroll back up if there is still time left before the patch has installed. That, coupled with the fact that I don’t really like reading gaming manuals (shoot first, ask questions later), has led me to some fairly embarrassing situations. So here it is, what most players are unable to admit to, my list of my five most memorable misses and general noobness.
- At level fifty-four, I remarked to Oraacle how quickly she had manage to catch up to, and overtake my mining skill. She asked me why and I noted that I was always really “unlucky” and could never find any. As it turns out, my Dwarf-like nature had truly taken over and, in my thirst for shiny treasures, I had been leveling with Find Treasure turned on the whole time, because I did not even realise that there was a Find Minerals ability! At least I had a lot of Ice Cold Milk from all those Barrel’s of Milk.…
- Because I was a late starter in WotLK (having a break for a few months at the release of the game), I missed a great deal of the discussion and implementation surrounding the changes to Paladin tanking, namely the change to our main hand weapon itemization, which changed from high spell power maces, to weapons more suitable to Warrior tanking. The basic confusion about this lead to me avoiding instances because I had no clue what would be a good replacement for my Merciless Gladiator’s Gavel until I got my hands on the Red Sword of Courage, all the while living in blissful ignorance.
- As a low level player, I would constantly smelt all of my left-over ore (what few I had) into bars, thinking that I was increasing my profits and reducing wait times on sales as the other classes may not have decided to take mining, meaning that even if they bought all of the ores, they would still need to get someone Smelt them! Eureka! What a brilliant strategy! I, of course, had no idea that both Engineers and Jewelcrafters used the ore and that I would actually increase my profits and reduce my work load by just putting them up in their raw form (except for Smelt Bronze of course).
- The inspiration for this post when, only last week, a friend of my girlfriend’s decided that if her boyfriend was going to make her play WoW, she would at least like to play with her friend. Having a level sixty plus Horde Warlock on the same server as us, completely confident, I informed her that she they would either have to do it on a different server or pay for the faction change. She then sent my girlfriend a text informing her that Pinksparkles, the Draenei Hunter, was ready and waiting. What!? Bullshit! I hurriedly logged on and went to the character creation screen, thinking she had either made a mistake or was just a plain, big fat liar. But, dammit, she was right!
- Finally, the umpteen amount of times that I have rolled out of bed, fumbled my way to my PC to do my daily heroic and proceeded to go into a fight without turning on Frost Presence or Righteous Fury, or not applying Windfury and Flametongue to my weapons.
So there it is. Whilst I can appreciate that many of the Pirates (some more than others) could possibly point some more of my fopar’s please don’t! What are some of your more newb moments? What have you realised, forgotten or been laughed at for not doing?
I respect your honesty most WoW players don’t like to admit their mistakes but here are a couple of mine.
Having rolled a Paladin i never had any need to eat a lot of food but always had to drink a lot of water to restore mana. This being said i actually got all the way to Level 60 (Pre BC) before i realised you could actually eat AND Drink at the same time. O the hours i wasted lol.
Another example of a noob moment was when i was trialling with Gigantor. I stepped into Ulduar with them the first week and whilst i did not see every boss i was their for the first downing of Yogg. Having got my confidence up and with everything seeming like it was coming together a few weeks later during an Ulduar run and with plenty of experience under my belt We get to Mimiron and settle in for an easy kill. To be honest i had a brain fade in phase 2 and cut a little too close to the mines. BAM i blew 18 of the 25 raiders up and there was an almighty roar on vent saying “Who the &%()&$ did that”. I admitted my noob moment and everyone just took it on board likely with a shake of the head ( I am sure i heard some laughter as well) and amazingly and to their credit the 7 people alive managed to still get through phase 3 and 4 and down the boss. I seriously thought i was a goner at that point.
I am sure there a plenty more stories out there so bring it on
Alas I also didn’t know until well after I’d dinged 60 that you could eat and drink at the same time.
My first char I really had no clue – I was complaining at around level 20 that the game was too hard, and a friend asked if I’d visited a trainer recently – I hadn’t been since level 4.
I figured out that as a hunter I needed to stack agility… but when I dinged 40 and could wear mail armor, I swapped out every piece of leather gear I had for whatever mail I could find, regardless of the stats on it, and wondered why I couldn’t kill anything anymore. For some reason I thought the armor type was more important than the stats.
Good thing I’m not so noob anymore
Similar vein, but more recently. I realised having left the instance that I had completed the whole thing wearing my Weather Beaten Fishing Hat….
I don’t know if anyone realised (I hide helm), but nobody mentioned it…..
Eeek!
If you have ever read the tooltip for mages summon food\water it says that summoned item dissapear if you are logged out for 20 minutes. I always read this as they would dissappear if I logged out for 20 mins, so for around the first 2 years of being a mage I would constantly tell people who asked me for food or water that I couldnt as I was logging out shortly so there was not point.
I also share your pain of the early morning tanking, I get up first thing in the morning and with eyes half open stumble to the computer and log my warrior. I have a G15 gaming keyboard with settings for warrior and mage, and the default is mage. I also often log off in fury so need to change to my tanking spec, however generally forget to switch out of beserker stance. So my first pull is generally me running in, unable to taunt\thunderclap or get any sort of aggro and using whatever random ability is tied to my 7 key in beserker stance, and instantly losing aggo on all the mobs in the first pull to various party members. I can just imagine the other 4 party members feeling of dispare at getting another nub tank who has no idea of what he is doing
My noob moment was when i did VC and won cookie’s wand on my mage. Not realising that I can have a ranged and melee weapon at the time, I vendored the wand thinking I couldn’t use it. Not long after, I was complaing about having to use spells to do range stuff when Stircrazy says, what about using your wand. ‘What wand? I can’t use wands’ i say. You can figure out the rest!
When I levelled my first warlock I did several horrible things which I can laugh at now.
1. I only upgraded items if they had more amour on them. (this was until about level 50)
2. I NEVER used life tap, didn’t even key bind it. Why would you endanger your life for mana??
3. I levelled as destruction, using my succubus all the way to about 55. ^ without life tap.
(For non-warlocks, destruction is a mana-inefficient nuke spec only used at 80 at the moment, also the voidwalker is the tanking pet, succys die in about 2 hits and don’t hold any aggro whatsoever.)
“1. I only upgraded items if they had more amour on them. (this was until about level 50)” This is Blizzards fault! Stupid lvl 1-10 items that have ONLY armor.. pfft.