<p>You know you're a Newbie when...</p><p>1.  You get killed by a city guard when asking for directions</p><p>2.  You forget to turn on auto-consume food and drink</p><p>3.  You keep asking people where the guild hall is, but you're not in a guild</p><p>4.  You wonder what happens when you hit the space bar while flying on a griffon over hostile territory</p><p>I know these are not THAT creative, but it's a start...</p>

<p>you know your a noob when you don't know what a body pull is.</p><p>there was a lvl 80 guardian that grouped with my buddy and my buddy told him to body pull the mobs and that guy asked what a body pull was.  My buddy kicked him outta the group then got a new tank</p>

<p>...you don't know what rendering distance is and run around practically blind for nearly 30 levels.</p><p>This, I did.  In EQ1, my first mmo.  I had no idea rendering distance existed on my options, and I was always wondering how people could be talking about these things I couldn't see waaaaaaay out in the fog.  I figured they just had better gear than me or something.</p><p>So sad.  lol.</p>

<p>you know your a noob when you buy an expasion when your only level 15 <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/0320a00cb4bb5629ab9fc2bc1fcc4e9e.gif" border="0" /></p>

hmm... I have tried thinking about this for several minuets now and I cant recall having any good high quality noobie moments in this game... For me it was all just a matter of learning the mechanics and I was fairly proactive about that. Now back when I was playing Dark Age of Camelot around 02.... now there I had some quality noobie moments *grin* Turned out those gates wernt simply leading to the fertile leveling grounds after all!!! (someone will catch the reference lol).....

<p>(EQ1) When you target an NPC and attempt to type /hail (also a newbie move, as I thought you typed all the commands out) but miss the slash and type "H A", which is followed shortly by "LOADING, PLEASE WAIT..."</p><p>The above scenario happened no less than 200 times...</p>

<p>You roll a brawler</p>

<p>.... when it take you 2 weeks to figure out what the bells are for.</p><p>way back when EQ2 started and there were lots of quests all linked together in the city suburbs it took me 2 weeks of running and zoning through every city section/suburb to get from one end to the other before I realized that this handy little bells on the dock of each suburb actually did anything.  EverQuest will forever be called EverRun in our household.</p>

<p><cite>Thunndar316 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>You roll a brawler</p></blockquote><p>I am guilty of this one. But in my defense, I rolled my brawler within 30min of the servers opening on launch day, so I really WAS a newbie.</p>

<p>When you don't understand the concept of AoE spells and you carelessly blast away. This wasn't such a problem for me in EQ2 but when I first started playing Final Fantasy XI I was a BLM. I was in a Valkurm Dunes party and leveled up and got my first AoE - Stonega. It was my highest damage spell, so I let it rip. I hit a ton of linking IT++ leeches (equivalent of red^^^) and proceeded to get my entire group owned followed by some nice level down animations and sound effects.</p>

<p>you can read a thread like this and find some useful tips. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" />    Auto-consume food you say... *makes mental note*</p>

<p><span >"4.  You wonder what happens when you hit the space bar while flying on a griffon over hostile territory"</span></p><p><- Only found this one out yesterday after 60 levels.</p>

<p>Another from EQ1 -- When you try out your brand new bard song at the entrance to the city, then wonder why those guards just killed you.... (first AE song, and it took 2 tries to realize just what was happening lol).</p>

<p><cite>duffer0330 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>You know you're a Newbie when...</p><p>1.  You get killed by a city guard when asking for directions</p><p>2.  You forget to turn <strong>OFF</strong> auto-consume food and drink</p><p>3.  You keep asking people where the guild hall is, but you're not in a guild</p><p>4.  You wonder what happens when you hit the space bar while flying on a griffon over hostile territory</p><p>I know these are not THAT creative, but it's a start...</p></blockquote><p>Fixed it for you. I don't know any veterans that have auto-consume on. It is a waste of food and drink.</p>

<p>You have a froglock with the word: frog or hop somehow worked into it.</p><p>You have a Ratonga with either rat or cheese in the name.</p><p>... a kerran with 'cat', 'kitty', 'puss' in the name.</p><p>Those are generally failsafes for finding someone new to mmo play.</p>

<p><cite>Thunndar316 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>You roll a brawler</p></blockquote><p><span style="color: #993366;">You roll a plate tank.</span></p><p><cite>Rahatmattata wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>When you don't understand the concept of AoE spells and you carelessly blast away. This wasn't such a problem for me in EQ2 but when I first started playing Final Fantasy XI I was a BLM. I was in a Valkurm Dunes party and leveled up and got my first AoE - Stonega. It was my highest damage spell, so I let it rip. I hit a ton of linking IT++ leeches (equivalent of red^^^) and proceeded to get my entire group owned followed by some nice level down animations and sound effects.</p></blockquote><p><span style="color: #993366;">Oh god, the memories.</span></p>

<p><cite>duffer0330 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>You know you're a Newbie when...</p></blockquote><p><span style="color: #993366;">You forget to set the exp > AA sliders back to 0 in order to level up.</span></p>

<p>You see the tower in Antonica, climb up and wonder what its for....then are too chicken to choose from the list that pops up.</p><p>(From when you had to walk to the edge of the tower and a list would auto pop so you could choose a destination.  It took  me a few goes before I was brave enough to just click one )</p>

<p>here is a EQ1 one for you.  You know you are a noob when you think a bard can use a 2handed axe.</p><p>I had a bard come up to me I was a lvl 15 warrior with the axe of iron back and this bard asked if I had bard weapons for the axe of frost.  I told him I had the axe of iron back and traded it to him for the better axe.  Once he realized he couldn't use it I ran off.</p>

<p>My very first toon, I was doing the city citizenship quest and fell off a porch in Graystone Yard. I had no idea how to "jump". I stayed there 2 days, doing a /petition and everything. My family would come and look at me sympathetically. Finally, my brother happened to mention had I tried hitting the space bar.</p>

<p>Thanks for catching that mistake Ranja!  All of the replies so far have been excellent!!  I can't wait to read more newb stories!!</p>

<p><cite>Gipper@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>My very first toon, I was doing the city citizenship quest and fell off a porch in Graystone Yard. I had no idea how to "jump". I stayed there 2 days, doing a /petition and everything. My family would come and look at me sympathetically. Finally, my brother happened to mention had I tried hitting the space bar.</p></blockquote><p>Gipper I had the same thing happen to me in the mages tower in Qeynos (back when you had to collect your body after you died).  I fell off one of the ledges and died stuck in a wall.  I had no way to reach my corpse so I had to /petition to be rescued!  I felt really stupid...</p>

<p>...when you group invis through Chardok and then harvest a shiny. (I didnt do that, but saw it)</p><p>...when you are a druid that loots a blue buckler with towershield appearance and then want to show your guardian how easy HoF tankage is on a linked group of  yellow^^^. (/me is guilty but SOE fixed the appearance <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> )</p><p>... when you enter Chelsith still the teleport hammer equipped...</p><p>... when you go to Bonemire for some skydiving with friends and then, while falling down, recognize that you are on the wrong alt without evac</p>

<blockquote><p>... when you enter Chelsith still the teleport hammer equipped...</p></blockquote><p>HAHA Our healer did this and went *poof* on our first pull... made for an interesting fight.</p><p>... running up to Holly Windstalker (back when she was a badass) to ask her for a quest.</p><p>... missing the teleporter pad in the Qeynos Mage Tower and falling to your death.</p><p>... listening to the troubie (who was tanking) during the first week of play while out in Archer's wood "Its a [Removed for Content] deer, how much damage can it do?" before he agroed a ^^^ Hart.</p><p>... solo pulling one of the antelopes in Thundering Steppes and then getting zerged by the little bleeters from hell.</p>

<p>When you double post at the forum :p</p>

<p> . . when you ask "wuts the best class?"</p><p>Man, if I had a plat for each time someone asked this . .</p>

<p>So many from EQ1...ahhhh memories.</p><p>I used to get hopelessly lost (so I thought, I was actually usually close to Felwithe anyways) and die in order to get back home (to my bind point).</p><p>I wondered when it was going to be daytime in Greater Faydark.</p><p>The first time I clicked on a PoK book I thought I had been transported to some hostile zone and freaked out.  Invised and snuck around, trying to avoid the guards.</p><p>Dying in Lesser Faydark (hey, what's this place? I wondered) and then dying 3 more times trying to find my corpse (I hate brownies).</p><p>The very first mob I aggroed, a Crushbone orc...I ran around in circles until I died, hoping he'd leave me alone.</p><p>Not knowing about gamma settings and wondering why it was always pitch black wherever I went.</p><p>Being a magician and having no idea I had a pet.</p><p>Rolling a druid cause I wanted to be able to turn into a wolf.  For funny raid moments, use feral pack + MGB after a wipe...teach you not to die on raids <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>In EQ2...forgetting to rebuff the float type buff and jumping off of something only to go splat.</p><p>In my guild's hall they used the teleporter pads to make one area way up in the sky.  I just put the gnome shoes on and got the glide effect, which I am so not used to.  Glided off the edge and splatted right in front of the guild hall door as my friend was zoning in.  /tell [Removed for Content] did you just die?</p>

Oh so many nice memories ... some of the more recent smart actions: Getting Feign Death as a SK, trying it and still die (fail) ... then remove the button because you dont know what it does ... and only remember you have it 3 months later after you learned what it should do. Joining a group and after a few deaths remembering you have your tradeskill items on ... Joining a group and tank and after a few deaths finding out your still in offensive stance with offensive gear ...

<p>When you reach level 24 on 3 chars then discover something called grandmaster spells <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/499fd50bc713bfcdf2ab5a23c00c2d62.gif" border="0" /></p>

<p>when after playing on a PVP server and listening to your group members saying "so and so" is on recent and thinking that they have a special add-on to tell them.</p><p>/recent ftw</p>