Well. I started playing WOW when my then BF had a lot of lvl 60 characters. He spent hours boosting me through content with his Warlock. The pace was relentless and when I demanded a break at about 5am one day he became cross and said “I’m doing this for your benefit and gaining nothing from it” I replied “You’re looting soul shards I’ve seen it”…
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Today I topped my normal noob errors by equipping my evoker with 3 pieces of warbound cloth armour, thereby making them no use to anyone but Cousin Slowhands. I’m not a noob, but I sure do make a lot of careless errors…
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Soul shards were consumables back then, you could loot them and sell them on ah for a hell a lot of gold. You got played.
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In Vanilla a friend and I stumbled into something called “Ragefire Chasm” under Orgrimar.
It was full of elite mobs and we had already learned that those were not killable by one player alone.
But, hey, we were two . . .
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Oh I’ve got plenty… Must be about 19-20 years ago early vanilla days, wow was my first mmorpg and general experience in that sort of traditional set up (tank, dps, healer). Begrudgingly starter playing it because there was no sign of WC4 in the horizon. Anyhow here my 2 top noob stories:
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My first character was a warrior, I hadn’t realized that autoattack was, well, automatic. I use to spam 1 (default location of the autoattack button back then) and was very confused about how heroic strike worked, basically button mashed and hoped for the best. Must have been halfway through the barrens when I realised that you just press it once and heroic strike automatically upgrades your next swing. Took me a few levels after that to figure out that you don’t even need to have autoattack bound to any key and you can just right click a target…
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So I had no idea about the 3 major roles, and being a warrior I was often asked if I could tank, to which I always said no as I had no idea what it was. Back then you had to buy all your spells right, and they were expensive too (at least for a noob like me) so I had to pick and choose what I would learn because I was broke.
I remember reading the description for taunt and thinking to myself “why would anyone on their right mind want an instant aggro ability that does 0 damage, I ain’t learning this crap”. Same applied to many other protection spells. I think it was in Diremaul (so lvl 40something) where the tank just left the group, and one of the dps just said “dude just tank for us it’s fine” and I was like “ok how does that work?”…
In hindsight, I’m wondering how on earth did I play so many dungeons all the way up to Diremaul, and never noticed “hmmmm seems like all the mobs reliably target this particular tough guy only”…
Probably when I bought a Warden Staff from the AH for my noob mage. I think it had 200 armour or something. People kept /w me saying “nice staff mate” etc etc I was proud as punch till I found out
I got those whispers when I gave my rogue some intellect. At the time I figured he should be well rounded with a bit of strength too.
I said the same as I had no tank spec and no idea about tanking, but guildies used to make me do it by putting Tricks of the Trade on me, running into packs and casting Fan of Knives. I had no idea what was going on, and the repair bills were horrendous.
A couple of weeks ago I asked on Reddit if elemental shaman was meant to be played in melee because I absolutely had no idea, never played shaman before.
I mean why have a 1h and shield, and a melee skill, if you’re not melee?
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I’ve been playing since around 2005 so, like the rest of us veterans, I have more than a few blush-worthy stories to my name.
My first character was an Alliance rogue, on reflection not a good choice for someone who had previously only played Star Wars Galaxies as an MMO. However, i did have a few good guildies who I’d played that game with before WoW, and they were a lot better players. These guys would usually drag me around in their 5 man teams, basically doing everything as a 4 man with me there just for the comedy value. That part I usually carried out very well.
Every Saturday night for a couple of months we would all make sure we had levelled to the next dungeon in the levelling cycle, so we could have a crack at that. Levelling was much slower in those days and none of us had time to grind. I struggled to keep up but just about managed to get to the minimum level for each week because I knew I’d miss out otherwise.
Anyway, one of the last ones we did before they all out-levelled me was SFK (Shadow-fang keep). This was in the early days of WoW, so it was the original version of the dungeon, before they revamped it for Cataclysm. Now one of the annoying things I used to do a lot on this silly rogue was bounce around and somersault all around the place instead of just walking like a sensible player. Often this got me into trouble with mistiming - meaning more mobs to deal with than expected. In those days we used CC and pulled packs very carefully, remember.
Anyway, we were doing ok for a while and got to the point in the dungeon where you go on the ramparts and are at the top of the castle, outside of the main building, but still within the dungeon. You can see the outside areas of WoW at this point, but you are still within the dungeon itself, so it’s probably just textured. We had just fought off a couple of those big birds that attack at that point and I started bouncing around on these walls towards the next mob.
“He’s bouncing around again. Watch that idiot fall off the wall!”
Yeah, I did. And also fell straight out of the instance and appeared in the graveyard outside.
I was hopeless with maps and navigating around all of WoW back then so they literally had to work their way all the way back to the start of the dungeon, avoiding all the mobs that they had managed to avoid on the way in, just so they could pick me up and get back on with it.
Naturally, we had made slow progress. So we came back in just as all the mobs in the dungeon started respawning.
I was not popular.
Hey mate I hope they answered you but if not the shield is handy for armor and little block value but other than that its for stats and same for the 1h mace 
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When I first created a wow character in 2005, I was not very old, and I did not speak English. I created an Orc, as you do, and inevitably died not long after character creation. The screen goes gray, and I am teleported to an unknown location. How does one revive? I did not know. I opened my 4-disc keep case for WoW, pulled out the pamphlet, and asked my parents to help translate in hopes it would explain how to revive!
We did not succeed that day, and World of Warcraft was put back on the shelf for another time. Some months later, I gave it another shot, and if memory serves me correctly, my character had auto-revived - problem solved!
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I’m gonna choose a situation I think would not happen today 
My very first other player disrupting my gameplay situation.
So it’s autumn 2008, I play one of my first characters in the starting zone for troll & orc…
Kinda busy navigating and all that when another player comes along, I believe a max level. He puts /follow on me and keeps sending invite to his guild without any message.
I decline a few times, wanting to ask what’s up but I haven’t figured out how to use chat yet. After a while, getting tired of having that guild invite pop up in the middle of my screen constantly, I accept thinking “whatever I’ll join your stupid guild just stop”.
Upon joining he promotes me to guild leader and leaves the guild. I asked my then friends what to do about it and back then it was as simple as a /gdisband command.
So you did not loot the guild bank first ? 
There are probably so many I have but my memory is bad. My most recent example would be doing one of the allied race quests not long after returning to WoW after a long break. I was killing mobs for ages until I actually read the quest and realised that I had to use an item on them first 
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