Playing the beta and trying to find the fishing rod vendor

I started to level crafts from the beginning so was able to craft my own gear from early on. Sadly I understood nothing of the set- and trait system. So I always just made myself non-set armor pieces with impenetrable trait (for PvE) - and the reasoning for that was that diamonds were the prettiest trait gem...

This went on until I reached vet levels and I learned about set bonuses and how traits actually work.

For the first few weeks after the launch I used heavy armor for my magicka sorc, because hey, more armor points!

I have so many to share. I have also been playing for a year (actually I started to play with the release of the Dark Brotherhood). Now I guess I could answer pretty much any question about the game, however this is how I started:

1. I used to play WoW and the class system / leveling works different there. I made my NB and I thought I had to choose a sub class, I had no idea you could level up all the skills at once/mixed. So I got to level 50 with my siphoning at 50 and everything else at 0 Fun fact: I was actually a stamina NB. Sweet old Noob times.

2. It took me way too much time to realise you can lock items to avoid destroying them by accident. I don't even want to admit how many good gear pieces I have deconstructed by accident.

3. Like I said, I used to play WoW so I thought you could only level up 2 professions. I remember having a real hard time deciding which professions to level up xD I ended up choosing provisioning and alchemy as those were the ones I had in WoW. When I discovered you could level them all I could not believe how much time I wasted.

4. Public dungeons and world bosses were a nightmare (note that before one tamriel you could solo a world boss if you had high level). I am a completionist and I simply could not bear having something not white on the map. I will never forget the first time I got into Vile Manse. I thought I would never be able to pass the first trash mobs haha. I actually used invisibility potions to avoid them, just to get to a boss that I could not kill. Now I could do this dungeon with my eyes closed.

5. I had no clue you could install add ons. That made the game more interesting as you can imagine how happy I was when I found a skyshard or a lorebook. I did true exploration when first started playing. However after installing the add on, the amount of stuff I missed was insane

Just to name a few.

By the way all these noob moments were possible because I decided not to join a guild until I discovered how the game worked by myself and play a bit Skyrim-style, enjoying the questing and stories. I actually first joined my pve social guild once I got to cp160 because I wanted to start doing dungeons. If I would have joined a guild before and actually ASK people, most of them could have been avoided hahahah

Playing Skyrim online. Just using heavy attacks to do damage untill round level 35. Finally defeating molag bal just to be destroyed by a pack of skeevers in khenarthi's roost.

Started fall 2014 as a pet sorc with resto staff and sword/shield, in heavy armor. It was quite a mess.

i've been playing since first beta. I remember when i logged in i was so excited. When I got to a crafting bench, woodworking i believe was the first one i stumbled across, i was so dam lost. i had no clue what to do, but then it all became clear

This isn't exactly a noob moment b/c I wasn't one at the time, it's just probably a little cringey. When I got crowned emp for the first time after thinking I'd never get it, I geeked out so ****ing hard and didn't talk about anything else for like a week.

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I still do this occasionally, and cuss myself out when I do, I think it's muscle memory taking over. But I did it frequently when I started playing. I'm standing at a wayshrine, and pull up the map through M, not by selecting the wayshrine, cause it's often quicker & easier than finding some of the wayshrines' hotspots, especially when mounted. I find where I wanna go, and I select it & go thru the confirmation popup. As soon as it goes into the hand-waving animation, I know that I'm unnecessarily paying for the trip, because I'm standing at the wayshrine, and I forgot which way I opened the map.

Rolldodge when it's doing the animation: it cancels it and saves you the money

We all have them. I've been playing since a month after release and just deconstructed a Necro lightening sharp (again) because I rush.

One of many. I had two lvl v16 before I learned the beauty of weaving/canceling...

The Intricate trait used to read "Increase inspiration gained from extraction by 9%"

I thought that meant wearing pieces of it would increase crafting XP from deconing other items. I would be sure to wear this intricate hat I found every time I would unload bags and decon.

I Feel like a noob when running vmol in the boss twins fight. I Understand some but not all of the mechanics, can someone explain please?

I took 50 purple set items out of my guilds guild bank to try them all on to see what the stats were for each set. I was going to put back all the other bits after finding the set I want...

Turns out that items get bound, the guild were not happy XD