I will make the same mistakes again, why break the habit of a lifetime. If i have learnt one thing from my mistakes its that i do not learn from my mistakes
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Not killing an undead mage or rogue
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You know, this was pretty much me as well (started out on a hunter).
I hit Stonetalon at level 17, I hit 1k needles at level 24, and I went to STV at lvl 29. I was sent packing in all three places, and came back later 
I also forgot to learn pet skills for quite a while. First did it when I got annoyed my pet couldnât keep aggro with growl and thoguht âwait, doesnât it have more ranks?â.
I guess if I had to add another one, it would be: Not investing in bags early on.
I honestly ran around with like a total of 34 bag space or so until around level 36. Thatâs the backpack + 3x 6-slot bags. Now I have the backpack and am decked out with runecloth bags, and I no longer end up skipping loot because I donât want to go back to a hub before completing a quest etc.
I made too many mistakes to even count on my first WoW character. I was absolutely clueless about everything. I didnât even understand the stats. I just equipped anything the looked like it had higher armor values to what I was wearing.
I had no comprehension of how to spec my character, and just cherry picked anything from all three trees that sounded like it might be useful.
Learned Leatherworking, but didnât really get how to level it, it all seemed too complicated and too much like hard work, so I just left it and never bothered to level it up.
Had skinning, but just vendored the leather, because I thought the auction house was only meant for super-uber-hardcore players and not something I could ever see myself using.
Didnât undertand the chat system, how to respond to whispers, how to switch channel. I remember seeing people in General Chat talking to each other and I assumed that the word [General] in front of the text messages referred to some kind of military rank. I remember thinking âMy God! That guy is a General! He must be one of the super-elite players on the serverâ
When entering Teldrassil after leaving the starting area, I noticed that guards had PvP on their name cards. I remember panicking, thinking Iâd chosen a PvP realm instead of an RP realm by mistake - thinking âOMG Iâm going to get killed by enemy players as soon as I leave the town!â.
In short, I was a clueless noob in every sense of the word, but I was filled with awe and wonder at this massive, mysterious world I was in and absolutely loving every moment of it.
I now know Vanilla WoW (at least the non-endgame content) like the back of my hand after levelling over 15 characters prior to Crapaclysm, so there are few surprises.
Obviously I wonât be making any mistakes such as the ones above⌠but in some ways I wish I could have my memory wiped of all things WoW-related so that I could make them again.
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Love your attitude.
Itâs ineffective for sure, but if you find it fun then itâs certainly not the âwrongâ way of doing things. One could argue that as long as you find an activity fun to do, you are doing it right.
As for the topic:
(subtext; I did all of the below the first time around)
- I will not buy white items from a random vendor because it has more Damage pr Second or higher armor values.
- I will not spend precious gold on training EVERY skill available
- I will finish questlines, even if they start out green or even grey. If not for the XP, at the very least for the story and the gold.
- I will start using talents at level 10, not level 30
- I will try to keep weaponskills at a decent level, so I donât have to catch up hundreds of skillpoints when i get a new type weapon as I level
- I will not attempt to stable my horse at the Stable Master
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That is one of the secrets of Classic WoW questing. The people who often complain that they run out of quests donât know this secret.
There are scores of quests that can start out green, or even grey, and end up yellow or even red at the end of the chain; you just need to have the right knowledge of the zones, and the quests within, and that knowledge only comes from experience.
The other thing is that green quests still give plenty of XP, and doing green quests alone is far more efficient then just grinding. Iâve seen so many people ignore quests because theyâre green, and then complain that they are forced to level by grinding mobs.
The other secret of Classic WoW quests is to hop frequently between zones and continents, doing two zones of equivalent level at the same time - such as Ashenvale and Redridge, Tanaris and The Hinterlands etc.
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Playing as paladin -.-
I did quite a few things
I wanted to learn Staff skill and on my way to Thunder Bluff I some how managed to get into some high level zone getting killed every second that guy got deleted
Running about for 20 levels with no talents
Thinking a Warrior would be this 2h sword wielding machine of death al a conan
I am sure there is more
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#Metoo
#NeverAgain
I laughed heartily at this. So happy to know I was not the only one XD
- Playing a melee hunter.
- Going to zones too early.
- Not using the AH.
- Spending gold on the AH for minor upgrades.
- Spending gold on white items.
- Spending gold for respecs pre-40, like it matters.
- Picking Tailoring + Enchanting on my first char.
- Doing useless loot quests.
Mistakes I still do:
- training all of my skills (although I am not a collector of pets, cool trinkets or whatever, I am a collector of knowledge - I canât help it).
- buying recipes I donât need (check above).
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Take the free transfer to a low pop server to avoid queues. Dragonfang never grew like other servers, and at wpvp is close to none existant, and dungeon groups canât be formed outside of prime times. Not worth at all
Play a hunter.
There it is ladies and gents. The most idiotic thing uttered on these forumsâŚ
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Rolling a druid before wotlk.
Not picking gathering professions.
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Hm, good question! I actually chuckle at myself quite a lot, each time I repeat the âmistakesâ now, that I also did in Classic, such as sing Rip on Elementals and the likes. I guess I consider it part of its charm 
Oh man thatâs terrible lol
Pass loot for other people who would also need, just because Iâm too kind. I did it many years and now I feel likeâŚfk it, I let others be better equipped than me and had nothing from it. Now is my turn, and Iâm greedy (needy) as hell.
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Canât repeat a mistake if you never played the game.
People tend to get mad at me for not knowing things itâs like the idea that somebody never played before is beyond comprehension.
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Playing a paladin