Breakfast Topic: Noob moments
I've been playing WoW, and writing for WoW Insider, for quite a while now. So it came as something of a surprise to me to learn that I could hearth, after a fashion, when my hearthstone was on cooldown. You see, on a post of mine a couple of weeks ago, someone introduced me to the concept of "ghetto hearthing": get in a group with any random person, zone into an instance, and drop group. 60 seconds or so later, you're automatically teleported back to your hearth point.
The beauty of this is that Stormwind and Orgrimmar both have instances in them, so it provides very easy travel from those cities back to Outland, for those trips to respec or check the AH. Anyway, when I finally understood that I could hearth back from Stormwind any time just by popping into the Stockade, I felt like a big noob for having waited out all those cooldowns for the past year or two.
Have you had any big noob moments recently?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
8-30-2008 @ 8:05AM
Redgel said...
I went to put up a skyfire gem on the ah. on my server goes about 150g buyout. Next thing i know i get a mail saying a buyer has been found, payment 15g.
oO
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8-30-2008 @ 8:09AM
Feanora said...
Only a few months ago (and halfway through Black Temple), I discovered you could eat -and- drink at the same time.
-_-
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8-30-2008 @ 8:26AM
Dotixi said...
LOL...that's a loading screen tip!
8-30-2008 @ 8:28AM
Feanora said...
Indeed, that's how I discovered it...
8-30-2008 @ 10:18AM
Radiophonic said...
ROFLAMO! True nub moment.
8-30-2008 @ 12:09PM
obarthelemy said...
you can.. but really... you shouldn't. Especially is ladies are in the vicinity (true ladies, not gnomettes)
8-30-2008 @ 8:10AM
angellusEU said...
it took me till about level 50 on my first character to realise there was an autorun button, until then everywhere i went i had my finger constantly on the W button or both mouse buttons >.
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8-30-2008 @ 8:13AM
Jewbanks said...
if it makes you feel better I just learned about it recently aka months ago, but well after I should have... But im a mage so i dont care about hearthstones... silly silly hearthstones.
Speaking of the silly thinks I was on an alt and destroyed it and started flipping out to my little brother, the charter was only level 14, so I decided id ticket a gm and if they didnt fix it id reroll.. I just happened to be in an inn and went to vendor some greys and tada.. they give you new hearthstones
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8-30-2008 @ 9:51AM
jrb said...
that's also a loading screen tip! :-P
8-30-2008 @ 11:49AM
Tumnus said...
Wow... downmodded for racist/antisemitic name.
8-30-2008 @ 12:20PM
Jewbanks said...
If it makes you feel better im half jewish on my mothers side.. and my first intial is J and my lastname is Eubanks.. so its kinda just a play on my name...
8-30-2008 @ 8:25AM
Norwood said...
There's an autorun button???
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8-30-2008 @ 8:26AM
Jewbanks said...
its numlock ...forward slash also puts you in walk mode like npcs instead of running... I just mentioned the latter as I learned them at the same time
9-01-2008 @ 11:56AM
mauthbaux said...
If you have a mouse with a "back" button, you can remap the back button to be your autorun. I find it to be very convenient.
8-30-2008 @ 8:38AM
Krashnark said...
Been playing WoW from vanilla beta and I only recently learned you could hit alt and the arrow keys to move the cursor in the chat text box.
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8-30-2008 @ 9:32AM
mora said...
I have been playing for a year. I didn't know this!!!
I knew about the stormwind hearthing I also called it power porting
8-30-2008 @ 12:29PM
onslought said...
I had no idea about this either. + rep for you sir.
Guess there is a noob born every minute.
8-30-2008 @ 8:42AM
Jay said...
I found out not that long ago you can replace gems... Nobody ever told me until recently.
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8-30-2008 @ 11:43AM
Nick S said...
I was so embarrassed when I found out socket colors were optional... and poor, because I had to buy about 10 new gems.
That was a bit ago, though...
8-30-2008 @ 12:09PM
mora said...
Yeah I also had no idea that the gem color where optional. One day while posting in the forum someone let me in on it :)