Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

I still have my noob moments. Like dying at a dolmen on my CP600 toon, surrounded by low lvl players just because I never once bothered to look at my hp bar.

Been down that road more than once, too.

I recall when I first started playing that I did make my main a hybrid build. She was an Argonian magicka based Templar using dual wield skills and medium armor. The character wore at least 5 Magnus' Gift pieces for the longest time, until I finally maxed her crafting and learned how damage in this game actually worked.

When I made my first Sorcerer (who used to be a Breton) a long time ago, I chose the Crystal Blast morph and actually used that for quite a while until I grew a brain and switched to Crystal Frags. I now cringe when I accidentally hard cast it.

I also made my healer a Nightblade, but that doesn't seem to matter nearly as much anymore. When she was just a baby character, she wore medium and light armor, and had dual wield on her main bar with resto on the back bar. Nowadays she runs destro staff main bar and resto back bar in full light armor.

I'm also guilty of getting rid of/destroying valuable items when I was new because I either didn't have the inventory/bank space, couldn't use it, or just didn't know it was actually valuable. Dwemer motifs, Perfect Roe, things like that... Sometimes I wonder how many new players now find an Aetheric Cipher or Aetherial Dust and destroy it, not realizing how valuable they are.


Most recently, though, I caused a full group wipe in a normal Sanctum farming run. I still have roll dodging left on the default option (double tap to roll), and sometimes the game thinks I'm roll dodging when I've only been holding down the key to move. That happened in that Sanctum run, and I rolled straight into one of the holes while we were looting the side rooms. Already an awkward mistake... But it gets worse. For whatever reason, I was stuck in combat, even though we weren't fighting anything. So there I was, the only tank in the group stuck dead at the bottom of a pit. Somebody in the group -and I can't remember who- suggested that *everybody* follow me down, since, y'know, everybody dying ought to reset combat... Right?

Apparently not. I watched helplessly as the entire group threw themselves down into the pit with me. I was crying with laughter, especially when we realized that we were now all stuck in combat and unable to resurrect. This happened a month or two ago, so I can't quite remember how the issue was solved. Either somebody relogged and was able to res, or some of us left the group while others remained to keep the instance going.

I now refer to that as the "Lemming Incident."

Eagerly sprinting and jumping out of the first opening that leads to the broken pathways in Vaults of Madness (2 platforms of so before Grothdarr), expecting to land in water. This was recent, though.

Crafting set armor for my friend who was brand new to the game, I gave him my pants by accident and because of boe we couldn't switch back. Two noobs, a dark elf wearing dark elf armor, but furry Nord pants - and vice versa. My friend went to the bank to get gold to buy him a horse, came back and she was like, "Why are you guys wearing each other's pants?"

Making the lowest level person in group the crown so the dungeon would scale to their level and be easier than overland mobs.

Mauin wrote: »

Most recently, though, I caused a full group wipe in a normal Sanctum farming run. I still have roll dodging left on the default option (double tap to roll), and sometimes the game thinks I'm roll dodging when I've only been holding down the key to move. That happened in that Sanctum run, and I rolled straight into one of the holes while we were looting the side rooms. Already an awkward mistake... But it gets worse. For whatever reason, I was stuck in combat, even though we weren't fighting anything. So there I was, the only tank in the group stuck dead at the bottom of a pit. Somebody in the group -and I can't remember who- suggested that *everybody* follow me down, since, y'know, everybody dying ought to reset combat... Right?

Apparently not. I watched helplessly as the entire group threw themselves down into the pit with me. I was crying with laughter, especially when we realized that we were now all stuck in combat and unable to resurrect. This happened a month or two ago, so I can't quite remember how the issue was solved. Either somebody relogged and was able to res, or some of us left the group while others remained to keep the instance going.

I now refer to that as the "Lemming Incident."

Why don't people put things like that on Youtube?

One month into the game and my first time in Cyrodiil. I took the Cyrodill tutorial quest and at one point the NPC asks me to go and repair a siege weapon by equiping a siege repair kit into one of my quick slots.

I couldn't get it to work. I spend the next hour yelling at the screen why this game was so stupid and that I exactly did what the bloody NPC was asking me to do.

Only to realize MUCH later that I had to stand close enough to the siege weapon to repair it.

These are all great and entertaining stories. Thanks for sharing. The sad part is that this is a huge and glaring testament to how bad the game is at explaining even the most basic things.

Putting all my attribute points into health when lvling my tank thinking more hp=win as a tank lol. Man did it take forever to kill things wit no damage output whatsoever lol, on the flip side I never really died to anything.

First time I went to the sewers, long before one tamriel with its level scaling, I looked at the weird guy wearing flags and thought "I can take him."

When i started on xbox all i did was pvp so my build was the typical 2h/bow build. I remember seeing these sweet helmets and wondering what were come to find out they are monster helms and they drop in dungeons. I took my 2h/bow pvp build into vet dungeons figuring i did good damage in pvp so it should be the same....


Hhhahahaha i didnt get a monster helm until they intoduced the vendor for them in pvp.

First time in Cyridiil right out of beta, me and a few Argonian peeps decided to swim to a target area... the inhumanity of it...

I still have daily noob moments but I do look back at when I first started playing the game and shake my head a bit. I took a long break shortly after launch so came back to a number of characters build in complete ignorance of the game. Some of my high points:

-Only using one skill bar....bow. I must of been thinking to myself, "What is the point of two weapons? My bow is good enough!"

-Spreading my attributes evenly even though I was a stamina user. And wearing a mixture of armor with no enchants at all that I had made early on.

After playing for months with a dodge-roll build, the dodge fatigue just being added, I went with my sorcerer in Cyrodiil, no shield stacking, no max magika build(just what I had from leveling) and the first thing i tried to do agaisnt my opponent was to dictate range with dodge rolls (by reflex).
Needless to say, after the third dodge roll, my stamina bar appeared full (because of lag) but I din't understand why it didn't work no longer and why I couldn't break free for the stun.

Putting on a full set of inspiration gear thinking it would improve my crafting faster