In retail vanilla WoW, a month after WoW launched, me and 4 of my guildies were leveling in STV when we saw a ?? dwarf (well what we thought was a dwarf) chilling near the river. He started dancing with us and giving us hugs and then promptly killed every single one of us. In guild chat we were going crazy and thought it was some kind of hack or bug. We asked the "dwarf" why he's killing his own faction and he would just /lol and kill us all again. We kept trying to communicate and ended up with the same result. Death. We all decided one of us should make a ticket and steer clear of that dwarf for a while and level somewhere else. An hour later, a GM talked to me and told me it was a member of the horde using an item called the Orb of Deception. I told my guildies and we all couldn't stop laughing about it. That's the memory I remember most from my vanilla wow days. It's funny since all 5 of us had that same derp moment. :o
When i was newb on my first rogue toon some one was like "are you ninja?" and i was like "yes" ... cause i was a rogue and had no idea what ninja meant.... i only found out a week later.
When I first started during beta (around 7ish years ago)... I thought that parties were like guilds. When someone left the party when they were getting offline I'd be like "wtf, why did they leave? :l"
It was way back in TBC when I and some of my friends decided to join the WoW train...
I played undead rogue cause of the headbanging. Whatever...
...this guy in Undercity gave me a quest. It had something to do with Silvermoon. Oh well, blood elves, with their pretty, polished, artificial looking skin that never falls off. Jerks. So I packed my belongings into a thin (and very light) backpack, pulled out the map, located the city and set out... it was a terrifying journey... stinky plaguehounds, monstrous bats, giant translucent maggots filled with awful goo eating through my bones like they were paper...
I wish noone heard me swear when I learned that there is a portal between Undercity and Silvermoon. I noticed it a day-two later...
My first ever character was a night elf hunter. I spend at least 2 hours figuring out why my bow wouldn't shoot. Later my friend told me I needed arrows. Then I spend another 2 hours cursing until my friend told me I needed to put the arrows from my bag into the arrow-slot next to the bow :D ^^
When I rolled need on everything because I didn't know what I needed stat wise.
My biggest noob moment though is when I first got my chopper. I was floating in the water and some friends started screaming at me telling me the choppers rust and break if you leave them in the water for to long. So stupid me started to freak out and got out of the water only to find my friends laughing at me hysterically.
I remember the first time I made a warrior. This was before I knew about talents and how to play decently, so I had no idea what I was doing when I rolled tank for a dungeon. I was trying to tank a dungeon with an arms/fury spec using a 2h sword.
Needless to say, we failed horribly and I googled madly how to spec for tanking. Everything went fine from then on.
First character was a mage. I thought I was being clever when I filled my bags with mage water thinking I could sell it.
Actually people use to do that on vanillla,and on start of tbc,since it was pretty expensive considering amount of gold then and now.
It wasnt a bad idea.