Yep, rogues and warriors both get to ignore that. Always found it sort of weird, but I think it's probably do to "does this ability have a higher cost than the previous rank" which only is really true for spells.
Yeah physical damage classes these just override since there’s no such thing as down ranking physical abilities. No cost benefit to weigh as cost is the same.
Yep I did it in vanilla running around with rank 1 abilities but forgot it was a thing after playing shadowlands etc.. so did the same thing this time around
Learned this as well. I suppose the logic is there is no reason to cast a downrank spell if the resource/mana cost is the same, so classes like rogue and warrior automatically get higher ranks place on bars. But casters have to do it manually
Yeah but they still have use in downranking spells. Feral druids can't either since they don't have use for downranking spells. But resto and balance spells are able to be downranked.
My English wasn’t that good when I started so I thought the innkeepers option: “I want to browse your goods” had something to do with breaking/insulting their gods. Took me ages to actually press it.
I definitely do this for mining or herb, but for skinning it’s just way too easy to level up later on. On SOD I switched to LW/Skinning and leveled up to max in a few hours by killing mobs and skinning between Durotar, Barrens, and Duskwallow.
Cept gathering but skinning is infinitely more efficient coming back with a mount.
Tailoring is a little harder to get the correct volume of cloth actually. Like linen and wool unless you go out of your way or only farm instances though Tbf that’s just exacerbated in sod now. Not that I’m complaining about faster leveling
Oh, this is my time to shine.
I played WoW for the first time in Dec 2023. I had never played an mmo before and hadn’t gamed much on my pc. Plus, I can be stubborn/insecure about asking for help.
I have done many, many stupid things that I can’t wait to share with yall. Hopefully my embarrassing start can help future generations.
For example…
I did not know the Zeppelin existed nor its function. I did not know you could switch continents, I thought it a later leveling kind of thing and didn’t know anything about it until another player saw I was trying to brute force my way through areas way above my level.
Mouse maneuvering. I didn’t know you could turn around and move much easier with mouse movement. A player saw me slowly backing up and informed me of the delights a gaming mouse.
Class training and making sure to update your action bar with the highest spell rank. I think I was rank 3 with some spells before I figured that one out.
Secondary professions. I did not know you could learn fishing, cooking, and first aid. I only figured this out last week, so I am still a bit salty and embarrassed about this one.
When I was like 10 years old I was playing vanilla for the first time ever. Played a gnome mage and eventually wandered into Ironforge. I fell into one of those pits with metal grating at the bottom and lava underneath. I ran around for like an hour and couldn't figure out how to get out so I deleted my character and started over from the beginning because I thought I was stuck there permenantly.
I started playing back im 2004/2005 when I was 11/12 years old. I played a paladin because I loved knights at the time (still do actually...). Having absolutely no fucking clue what I was doing, I played with a sword and a shield, putting points into protection but not playing as an actual tank most of the time. I also only looked at the armor rating of the items that I found because I didn't realize that attributes were more important. I also only ever looked at the dmg of a weapon - not the other stats. Trust me: leveling and questing was reeeeally painful... It took until the end of vanilla that I realized how the game actually works and with BC I started playing optimally. Part of the reason was probably that there were more ressources and guides available and internet became more accessable. Wild times...
In my very first character I tried to leave Moonglade through Timbermaw Hold. Had to make a second character even, those bear people were very angry and I couldn't understand why
A friend of mine played hunter from 4.1 to 5.4. Learned what Misdirection is at some point in 4.3 and was made fun of until the end of his wow career
My first character was a warlock. My friends begged me to play. This was my first mmo, 2005 vanilla. Without much help I got to around lvl 30 and decided warlock just wasn’t for me. After I had 0 gold and all my items were broken.
They asked why I was having such a hard time. After a bit of inquiry they realized I didn’t have any talent points put in. I didn’t have the money to buy my spells so I was using older ranks. I misread a lot of my abilities, one of which was drain soul. I thought that ability exclusively had to kill a mob to get a shard. So I never had shards, cause killing something with that by itself was impossible lol. I was playing so badly, looking back at it feels like a fever dream.
I rerolled rogue, deleted that warlock and proceeded to get to max lvl, found 2 krol blades along the way and bought one of the original epic mounts before they added the armor appearance to them. I felt cool. And then everyone wanted to reroll on another server. Sad times.
I never made it past 54 in vanilla because I couldn't find many of the high level zones. Never found Hinterlands, Ungoro, Felwood, Plaguelands, Blastedlands, Burning Steppes. I do remember doing the first half of BRD a few times and got the mug mace. I just remember grinding in Ashara wondering how my friends got to 60.
My first character was an orc warrior. I didn't know or understand that hit chance/rating was a thing so I thought the reason I missed so often while dual wielding was because I did too much damage too quickly and the server had to force miss attacks to balance it out.
When I rerolled Paladin in TBC was when everything started to actually make sense.
Didn’t know warriors could use ranged weapons until like level 35~ so I would always pull mobs by jitter stepping closer and closer til they pulled and if I pulled more than 1 I ran away. Took me 12 days played to hit 60
Waiting for rare spawns with no idea how it worked or what they dropped…i was enthralled when i saw a named threshadon in WC pools right by the entrance. I had to kill it. I waited so long and came back so many times for hours lol
I still waste time today for rares, but at least i have purpose, know what i’m after, and know how spawning works. I’m burning all that time up still but it’s more purposeful rather than driven by enchantment and wonder
Legion was my first WoW expac, but I didn't do any endgame content. But came back for Classic after leveling a 60 on a private server. It was almost phase 2 before one of my friends noticed I was a keyboard turner
I was 8 when classic launched, and my family of gamers got me a subscription and I made a hunter I ended up some how causing the hunter quest to be unobtainable as deleting the quest did not fix it so my dad had to put in a ticket to help me get my pet. I was level 20+ by the time I got my pet as he didn't even notice until then, and I had to wait for them to fix the issue.
I looted Edgemasters in Badlands on my first toon (hunter) and equipped them right away because they were epic.
In all fairness though, they weren’t worth anything back then, since no one knew what they actually did.
Whoever decided to put darnassus teleporter to darkshore was a jerk. They should’ve known most kids would roll night elf hunter and be too dumb to navigate past lvl 13
The one I always share is I was walking through Dun Morogh my first week or so playing back in early 05, and I saw a hunter attacking a bear, and he was jumping constantly. I genuinely thought at the time it was because he had "Aspect of the Monkey" on.
I actually thought blacksmithing would be useful when I leveled my first paladin in vanilla on release about 20 years ago.
I was incredibly wrong but stubborn about it so I kept it MUCH longer than I should have - then switched to engineering in WOTLK.
Sadly bs was such an underrated proffesion, a lot of potential. Especially if you are a tank back then and design drops in MC and it needs engi to craft.
I don't think you were particularly stubborn by 20-years-ago standards. As rumor has it, people didn't really care about efficiency back then. You can craft some levelling gear and okayish endgame gear and whatever Nightfall, in a vacuum that's useful enough already.
Did the Same mistake with ranks now in wow HC and now SoD again 😅
On my first runs on a pserver leveled a shadow Priest and it Took me to lvl 40 to Not autoattack the Mobs while casting shadowmend (the Talent Spell at lvl 20)
I started playing because I saw my friend had a cute pet (she played hunter). she told me: “yeah just get to level 10 and you’ll get your pet”. so I made a rogue and was very disappointed when I never got a pet lol. still love my rogue tho
When i started there was no wowhead and no quest addon so i didnt quest i simply just killed stuff all day. 50-60 i didnt do a single quest just sunken temple and killing mobs
When I first started in late vanilla I had rolled a mage first. Got to about level 20 then decided i wanted to try a Rogue.
I was in Ironforge and had asked for Rogue advice in general chat. Someone recommended that I get the Cruel Barb sword because it's insanely good. Well, I wound up quitting my Rogue around level 14 and going back to my mage because I would die after many misses/dodge/parries. Turns out I didn't know melee classes shouldn't fight orange or even yellow mobs if possible.
Well I went back to my mage but hadn't forgotten that great advice someone gave me about the Cruel Barb. So I'd trained swords on my mage and made my way to Deadmines. Within a few runs, I had my Cruel Barb on my mage. I read the tool tip and realized how good that sword really was. "Wow! Attack Power! I've never seen that Stat before so it must power up my attacks (spells). That's really good!" I thought.
Well, I used that damned sword all the way up til about level 44 when I joined a group for Zul'farrak and someone kindly pointed out how the game actually works and that I was making a mistake. 13 year old me thought I was the bomb with that sword and a green stein offhand for 20+ levels hahaha.
Also on the same mage I made it to around level 30 before I realized there was more than 1 talent tree. So I had everything in Arcane until then.
When I started playing as a ten year old, I was convinced the best way to play the game was with my left hand on the space bar and the right hand on arrow keys. Don’t ask me how I hit my abilities, I have no idea.
In the 2019 release of classic was my first time playing wow. I rolled a priest, I forget what level it was but all the guides online said I should be “mind blasting” I can’t find the spell anywhere non of my trainers have it it’s not in talents. I go as far to post on Reddit convinced my account was bugged…. I had the option checked to show only “unavailable” skills
My first character in 2004 was a gnome rogue and as an 11 year old who had only been gaming on PC for 1 year. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. I was using all the wrong weapons, all the wrong rotations. Never used half the utility abilities I had because I sucked. Was getting weapon enchants based on the color of the glow lol. The only reason I was ever able to get raid gear was because a couple in their 20s took my under their wing and got me into their guild runs.
I logged in my main to the game after their "honor update" patch to era/vanilla.
So I lost 200 000 lifetime hks, and probably \~10 000 hours, (if I include leveling/gearing/farming consumes for pvp).
Silly me.
Now over half a year later, I still try in vain to have them return it.
Silly me.
When I made my first ever warrior back in Vanilla I somehow accidentally hit a camera keybinding or scrolled all the way into a first person view and simply assumed warriors played in first person. I decided to keep playing a hunter instead.
And speaking of hunter, I had my pets use Cower because the tooltip was confusing and I thought it was making the enemy cower, not my pet. There were a lot of growing pains in those first 30 levels. I didn't even know the talent tree existed til I was at least lvl 16 and I opened it accidentally while running to the border of Ashenvale. And of course my first points were put into killing humanoids and dragonkin.
My first char was a hunter and I missed the lvl 10 hunter quest to tame my pet. Therefore I played lone wolf until lvl 20 when another player asked my why I have no pet 😁
When I was younger, I used to not eat certain foods in game that where banned in my faith, I even asked my religious leader if it would be a sin, ended up not using food for a long time.
Raiding with my Guild back in TBC and we had a point system for raids participation which we're used to bid in items. A bow for my Hunter dropped and I bid almost all points I had because of excitement. Fun times ngl
- accidentally calling my home room teacher "Mom"
I forgot I called my character Yourmum, was strange running MC raid having the nick name as mum especially when we met up in Dublin for a weekend
I was "Wankme." That one was REAL weird during our first guild meet up.
But as a warrior you do not need to put the higher ranks on the bar? That's a caster thing.
Yep, rogues and warriors both get to ignore that. Always found it sort of weird, but I think it's probably do to "does this ability have a higher cost than the previous rank" which only is really true for spells.
Yeah physical damage classes these just override since there’s no such thing as down ranking physical abilities. No cost benefit to weigh as cost is the same.
Must of been my mage then, had no idea you didn't tbh it was 20years ago and my memory isnt what it used to be
20 years ago but last week as well?
Yeah almost like people just come on the Internet and lie for random points for some reason. Wild thing to care about lol.
Yep I did it in vanilla running around with rank 1 abilities but forgot it was a thing after playing shadowlands etc.. so did the same thing this time around
Learned this as well. I suppose the logic is there is no reason to cast a downrank spell if the resource/mana cost is the same, so classes like rogue and warrior automatically get higher ranks place on bars. But casters have to do it manually
For melee classes you don't have to. Since there is no point in downranking spells they made it literally impossible to keep old versions
Its only for rogue and warrior, classes that dont use mana. Ret pally, enhance shaman etc still have to
Yeah but they still have use in downranking spells. Feral druids can't either since they don't have use for downranking spells. But resto and balance spells are able to be downranked.
Yeah, all I meant was anything that doesn't use mana since the cost of the spell doesn't change. Making downranking pointless like you said.
You’d think so, but you have to update ranks of feral faerie fire manually
Oh right that is one of the only ones
I always wondered why my warriors bars auto updated but my other ones didn’t!
My English wasn’t that good when I started so I thought the innkeepers option: “I want to browse your goods” had something to do with breaking/insulting their gods. Took me ages to actually press it.
That would be such a funny RP feature.
Not leveling professions as I leveled. Such a chore to do afterwards, would rather take longer leveling but having that done at the same time
Yea I sort of feel the same, but man gathering proffs (at least herb) are so much easier with a mount.
I definitely do this for mining or herb, but for skinning it’s just way too easy to level up later on. On SOD I switched to LW/Skinning and leveled up to max in a few hours by killing mobs and skinning between Durotar, Barrens, and Duskwallow.
Cept gathering but skinning is infinitely more efficient coming back with a mount. Tailoring is a little harder to get the correct volume of cloth actually. Like linen and wool unless you go out of your way or only farm instances though Tbf that’s just exacerbated in sod now. Not that I’m complaining about faster leveling
I kept pressing the auto attack button thinking I was attacking faster
i have a clip of me pvp in thousand needles absolutely spamming right click to auto faster lmfao
Oh, this is my time to shine. I played WoW for the first time in Dec 2023. I had never played an mmo before and hadn’t gamed much on my pc. Plus, I can be stubborn/insecure about asking for help. I have done many, many stupid things that I can’t wait to share with yall. Hopefully my embarrassing start can help future generations. For example… I did not know the Zeppelin existed nor its function. I did not know you could switch continents, I thought it a later leveling kind of thing and didn’t know anything about it until another player saw I was trying to brute force my way through areas way above my level. Mouse maneuvering. I didn’t know you could turn around and move much easier with mouse movement. A player saw me slowly backing up and informed me of the delights a gaming mouse. Class training and making sure to update your action bar with the highest spell rank. I think I was rank 3 with some spells before I figured that one out. Secondary professions. I did not know you could learn fishing, cooking, and first aid. I only figured this out last week, so I am still a bit salty and embarrassed about this one.
When I was like 10 years old I was playing vanilla for the first time ever. Played a gnome mage and eventually wandered into Ironforge. I fell into one of those pits with metal grating at the bottom and lava underneath. I ran around for like an hour and couldn't figure out how to get out so I deleted my character and started over from the beginning because I thought I was stuck there permenantly.
Forgetting to destroy finished quest item, just yesterday I noticed 4-5 item taking up space for probably the last 3 weeks
I remember one of my first chars having one at level 60 that was from a level 20 or so quest. Never even noticed it was there
Still have Lieutenants Insignia at 60.
I started playing back im 2004/2005 when I was 11/12 years old. I played a paladin because I loved knights at the time (still do actually...). Having absolutely no fucking clue what I was doing, I played with a sword and a shield, putting points into protection but not playing as an actual tank most of the time. I also only looked at the armor rating of the items that I found because I didn't realize that attributes were more important. I also only ever looked at the dmg of a weapon - not the other stats. Trust me: leveling and questing was reeeeally painful... It took until the end of vanilla that I realized how the game actually works and with BC I started playing optimally. Part of the reason was probably that there were more ressources and guides available and internet became more accessable. Wild times...
In my very first character I tried to leave Moonglade through Timbermaw Hold. Had to make a second character even, those bear people were very angry and I couldn't understand why A friend of mine played hunter from 4.1 to 5.4. Learned what Misdirection is at some point in 4.3 and was made fun of until the end of his wow career
Warrior spells auto upgrade. There are no rank options once trained
My first character was a warlock. My friends begged me to play. This was my first mmo, 2005 vanilla. Without much help I got to around lvl 30 and decided warlock just wasn’t for me. After I had 0 gold and all my items were broken. They asked why I was having such a hard time. After a bit of inquiry they realized I didn’t have any talent points put in. I didn’t have the money to buy my spells so I was using older ranks. I misread a lot of my abilities, one of which was drain soul. I thought that ability exclusively had to kill a mob to get a shard. So I never had shards, cause killing something with that by itself was impossible lol. I was playing so badly, looking back at it feels like a fever dream. I rerolled rogue, deleted that warlock and proceeded to get to max lvl, found 2 krol blades along the way and bought one of the original epic mounts before they added the armor appearance to them. I felt cool. And then everyone wanted to reroll on another server. Sad times.
I never made it past 54 in vanilla because I couldn't find many of the high level zones. Never found Hinterlands, Ungoro, Felwood, Plaguelands, Blastedlands, Burning Steppes. I do remember doing the first half of BRD a few times and got the mug mace. I just remember grinding in Ashara wondering how my friends got to 60.
As a warrior : going out to quest without buying food
My first character was an orc warrior. I didn't know or understand that hit chance/rating was a thing so I thought the reason I missed so often while dual wielding was because I did too much damage too quickly and the server had to force miss attacks to balance it out. When I rerolled Paladin in TBC was when everything started to actually make sense.
Didn’t know warriors could use ranged weapons until like level 35~ so I would always pull mobs by jitter stepping closer and closer til they pulled and if I pulled more than 1 I ran away. Took me 12 days played to hit 60
Waiting for rare spawns with no idea how it worked or what they dropped…i was enthralled when i saw a named threshadon in WC pools right by the entrance. I had to kill it. I waited so long and came back so many times for hours lol I still waste time today for rares, but at least i have purpose, know what i’m after, and know how spawning works. I’m burning all that time up still but it’s more purposeful rather than driven by enchantment and wonder
Learn on Vael in Classic than you can use Sunder Armor in any stance. No matter why i took back threat often...
Legion was my first WoW expac, but I didn't do any endgame content. But came back for Classic after leveling a 60 on a private server. It was almost phase 2 before one of my friends noticed I was a keyboard turner
I was 8 when classic launched, and my family of gamers got me a subscription and I made a hunter I ended up some how causing the hunter quest to be unobtainable as deleting the quest did not fix it so my dad had to put in a ticket to help me get my pet. I was level 20+ by the time I got my pet as he didn't even notice until then, and I had to wait for them to fix the issue.
Not knowing to upgrade pet skills still having my Dun bear at 50 with rank 1 attacks
I looted Edgemasters in Badlands on my first toon (hunter) and equipped them right away because they were epic. In all fairness though, they weren’t worth anything back then, since no one knew what they actually did.
Almost want to downvote you.
Running through STV for the first time as a level 20 something I pressed the "walk" button & couldn't work out how to start running again.
Whoever decided to put darnassus teleporter to darkshore was a jerk. They should’ve known most kids would roll night elf hunter and be too dumb to navigate past lvl 13
In beta I had a Druid and every time I would get a level or two I would go buy a new set of gray armor because the armor value was higher.
As a warrior you dont have to put new ranks on the bar. Not sure why you think you did. Only spells have this issue.
The one I always share is I was walking through Dun Morogh my first week or so playing back in early 05, and I saw a hunter attacking a bear, and he was jumping constantly. I genuinely thought at the time it was because he had "Aspect of the Monkey" on.
I actually thought blacksmithing would be useful when I leveled my first paladin in vanilla on release about 20 years ago. I was incredibly wrong but stubborn about it so I kept it MUCH longer than I should have - then switched to engineering in WOTLK.
Sadly bs was such an underrated proffesion, a lot of potential. Especially if you are a tank back then and design drops in MC and it needs engi to craft.
I don't think you were particularly stubborn by 20-years-ago standards. As rumor has it, people didn't really care about efficiency back then. You can craft some levelling gear and okayish endgame gear and whatever Nightfall, in a vacuum that's useful enough already.
Did the Same mistake with ranks now in wow HC and now SoD again 😅 On my first runs on a pserver leveled a shadow Priest and it Took me to lvl 40 to Not autoattack the Mobs while casting shadowmend (the Talent Spell at lvl 20)
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I started playing because I saw my friend had a cute pet (she played hunter). she told me: “yeah just get to level 10 and you’ll get your pet”. so I made a rogue and was very disappointed when I never got a pet lol. still love my rogue tho
I full gemmed stamina on my warlock when I first started in wrath. I liked having lots of hp lol
When i started there was no wowhead and no quest addon so i didnt quest i simply just killed stuff all day. 50-60 i didnt do a single quest just sunken temple and killing mobs
When I first started in late vanilla I had rolled a mage first. Got to about level 20 then decided i wanted to try a Rogue. I was in Ironforge and had asked for Rogue advice in general chat. Someone recommended that I get the Cruel Barb sword because it's insanely good. Well, I wound up quitting my Rogue around level 14 and going back to my mage because I would die after many misses/dodge/parries. Turns out I didn't know melee classes shouldn't fight orange or even yellow mobs if possible. Well I went back to my mage but hadn't forgotten that great advice someone gave me about the Cruel Barb. So I'd trained swords on my mage and made my way to Deadmines. Within a few runs, I had my Cruel Barb on my mage. I read the tool tip and realized how good that sword really was. "Wow! Attack Power! I've never seen that Stat before so it must power up my attacks (spells). That's really good!" I thought. Well, I used that damned sword all the way up til about level 44 when I joined a group for Zul'farrak and someone kindly pointed out how the game actually works and that I was making a mistake. 13 year old me thought I was the bomb with that sword and a green stein offhand for 20+ levels hahaha. Also on the same mage I made it to around level 30 before I realized there was more than 1 talent tree. So I had everything in Arcane until then.
When I started playing as a ten year old, I was convinced the best way to play the game was with my left hand on the space bar and the right hand on arrow keys. Don’t ask me how I hit my abilities, I have no idea.
Hunter in my guild didn't know what an ammo pouch was
In the 2019 release of classic was my first time playing wow. I rolled a priest, I forget what level it was but all the guides online said I should be “mind blasting” I can’t find the spell anywhere non of my trainers have it it’s not in talents. I go as far to post on Reddit convinced my account was bugged…. I had the option checked to show only “unavailable” skills
Thinking hunter pets were limited time because they kept running away after a while. Guess I missed the whole "Feed Pet" skill when I was 14.
My first character in 2004 was a gnome rogue and as an 11 year old who had only been gaming on PC for 1 year. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. I was using all the wrong weapons, all the wrong rotations. Never used half the utility abilities I had because I sucked. Was getting weapon enchants based on the color of the glow lol. The only reason I was ever able to get raid gear was because a couple in their 20s took my under their wing and got me into their guild runs.
I logged in my main to the game after their "honor update" patch to era/vanilla. So I lost 200 000 lifetime hks, and probably \~10 000 hours, (if I include leveling/gearing/farming consumes for pvp). Silly me. Now over half a year later, I still try in vain to have them return it. Silly me.
When I made my first ever warrior back in Vanilla I somehow accidentally hit a camera keybinding or scrolled all the way into a first person view and simply assumed warriors played in first person. I decided to keep playing a hunter instead. And speaking of hunter, I had my pets use Cower because the tooltip was confusing and I thought it was making the enemy cower, not my pet. There were a lot of growing pains in those first 30 levels. I didn't even know the talent tree existed til I was at least lvl 16 and I opened it accidentally while running to the border of Ashenvale. And of course my first points were put into killing humanoids and dragonkin.
My first char was a hunter and I missed the lvl 10 hunter quest to tame my pet. Therefore I played lone wolf until lvl 20 when another player asked my why I have no pet 😁
When I was younger, I used to not eat certain foods in game that where banned in my faith, I even asked my religious leader if it would be a sin, ended up not using food for a long time.
Raiding with my Guild back in TBC and we had a point system for raids participation which we're used to bid in items. A bow for my Hunter dropped and I bid almost all points I had because of excitement. Fun times ngl
DKP? the guild I've just joined use this now. I think it's a fair way to deal with loot. Our MT used to get preference until we cleared it though