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What were your newbie mistakes?

NorthernNightmare
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So I saw someone was looking for a dps
I offered to join
I wasn't aware what trials were
They didnt specify a level

They were cool and let me help out, it was fun xD
I'm now about CP 130ish
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What newbie mistakes have you made?
  • NeroBad
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    I was searching for flaxes, and often mistaken corn flowers for flax from far away, but when I saw it is not flax I never bothered to pick them. I think I missed around 50-100 corn flower, back then it would trippled my money if I sold them in the zone chat or a guild.

    Also I was against Addons at first,I thought they will be buggy and dangerous. Now I play with 10+ addons
  • Oreyn_Bearclaw
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    I played in first person for about a year...
  • Zoal_AUG
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    I believed that snipe is indeed a good dps skill!!!so is heavy armor viable for dds !!!
    what a disappointment... :D
  • Esha76
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    Nord magplar created wayyy back at launch.

    At VR12 she even successfully healed my first ever AA run.

    Still have her and will never delete her.
    "There is no moisture in your angry stares." - Laughs-at-All
    "I don't know why I bother guarding you horrible people." - Orama Sadas
    "Scales here is about to have a really bad day..." - Valeric
    "Just tell me what you're doing here before I turn your heart into a tomato..." - Sereyne
    "Break those rocks! Dig those ditches! Why??? Because I want you to!!!" - Ifriz the Unraveller
    "There are worse masters than I. Far worse." - Molag Bal
    "I humiliated the Daedra in Mehrunes Spite." - You, when turning in a specific Undaunted Daily.
    "I'm not finding YOU very pleasant!" - Adla the Brewer
    "Old Ri'hirr likes his birds slow and stupid!" - Old Ri'hirr
    "When things get dirty... Oh, I get so flustered." - Meredil the Archivist
    "Too many Argonians about these days..." - Davon's Watch Guard back at launch (though I think this one has been removed from game)
  • geonsocal
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    I played in first person for about a year...

    oh, that *** had me laughing out loud...
    PVP Campaigns Section: Playstation NA and EU (Gray Host) - This Must be the Place
  • geonsocal
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    I can't even remember anymore...

    probably trying to make my breton a stam blade, and, my redguard a mag blade...

    cuz, it would help balance the character and all :o
    PVP Campaigns Section: Playstation NA and EU (Gray Host) - This Must be the Place
  • Aurielle
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    I used to diligently split my attribute stats evenly.
  • LordLomax
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    Using a sword and board stamplar
  • zaria
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    Was it HoF?
    And yes you was lucky most kick <cp160 exception is late night runs especially nAA as you need 12 players and if doing the craglorn trials some tend to drop off.

    Well my noob level was back at launch, remember not being able to get past first trash in fungal normal.
    Grinding just make you go in circles.
    Asking ZoS for nerfs is as stupid as asking for close air support from the death star.
  • jlmurra2
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    I split my attributes equally between magicka, health, and stamina. That did not work out well. I also tried to level up to become stronger. That did not work either.
  • VaranisArano
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    I used to think I was making gold hand over fist selling Columbine for 20 gold apiece.

    Then a kindly guuldmate sent me my Columbine back with a nice note saying I should consider using this add on called Master Merchant...

    I owe my current fortune in ESO to that guy :)
  • Lord-Otto
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    Trying to make a destro/resto mag DK Pyromancer work. So much wasted time... Makes for a good crafter, though.
  • geonsocal
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    LordLomax wrote: »
    Using a sword and board stamplar

    hey now...I have a SnB stamplar...

    his other bar is actually a destro staff...believe it or not - it actually all works :#
    PVP Campaigns Section: Playstation NA and EU (Gray Host) - This Must be the Place
  • geonsocal
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    B)
    Edited by geonsocal on June 28, 2018 11:09PM
    PVP Campaigns Section: Playstation NA and EU (Gray Host) - This Must be the Place
  • WhoThenNow7
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    Lord-Otto wrote: »
    Trying to make a destro/resto mag DK Pyromancer work. So much wasted time... Makes for a good crafter, though.

    I main a destro resto magdk for pvp. It absolutely kicks ass. I can help you with gear and skills if you want to DM me.
  • WhoThenNow7
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    Lord-Otto wrote: »
    Trying to make a destro/resto mag DK Pyromancer work. So much wasted time... Makes for a good crafter, though.

    I main a destro resto magdk for pvp. It absolutely kicks ass. I can help you with gear and skills if you want to DM me.
  • DenMoria
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    I don't think 13.4K is too bad for snipe, especially with stun. What do you want for level 9.
    Zoal_AUG wrote: »
    I believed that snipe is indeed a good dps skill!!!so is heavy armor viable for dds !!!
    what a disappointment... :D

  • TheLoremaster
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    Play DPS with that bar
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  • LordGavus
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    I thought dots were a waste of time and my main attack was hard casting frags. So bad :D
  • Tryxus
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    I believed that Kuta was used in Provisioning (it sounded like a type of cookie)...
    "Stand strong, stay true and shelter all."
    Tryxus - Guardian of the Green - Warden - PC/EU
  • Loralai_907
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    It took me forever to get my researching done, because I forgot all the time.

    I thought it would be a fantastic idea back in the day to turn my stamDK (Bosmer) into a mDK just based on some crazy youtube videos I saw of a dude soloing trials with one. It didn't stick, and I was late to the party anyway

    Deleting alts. Worst idea of them all. Without fail, I would some time later make another one of the previously deleted builds, and have to level it all over again. So no more. What I have is staying. And I have 2 accounts now so that helps.
    PC-NA - formerly, mommadani907Guild: Weeping Angels - Co-GMTwitter: @ Loralai_907 several Alt accounts....CP 1700+
    Active characters:Fauna Rosewood ( Bosmer Stam DK - Master Crafter/AD)///Loralai Darknova (Drunken Zombie Bosmer Stam Sorc - PvP/AD)Lilith Darknova ( Dunmer Mag DK - Master Crafter - PvP/AD)///and roughly 1billion alts
  • Clansman2013
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    Spending a fortune teleporting all over the place, rather than just teleporting to a guildie for free and then using the shrine to go where i want.
  • DamenAJ
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    Making toothrow and twice born star gear legendary....

    I still keep them, just in case...

    Also didn't realize you could teleport to wayshrines for free from other wayshrines, so I did A LOT of running around for like 3 months.
  • Itacira
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    Didn't understand that teleporting from shrine to shrine was free, so always paid for teleportation anyway and didn't bother reaching a shrine
    PC/EU - PVE 2H stam orc petsorc (meta, what meta?) ww - terrible dps - mediocre player - fun times - free ww bites to whomever asks so don't be shy if interested
  • imredneckson
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    So I saw someone was looking for a dps
    I offered to join
    I wasn't aware what trials were
    They didnt specify a level

    They were cool and let me help out, it was fun xD
    I'm now about CP 130ish
    wenzjWZ.jpg


    What newbie mistakes have you made?

    Thought wearing all divines in PvP was a good idea and well it wasn't ... at all ... . Also tried joining a group for a dungeon and well I wasn't as good of a DPS as they wanted so they insulted me till I left. Didn't make the mistake of entering a group dungeon for at least a good 2 year and I didn't want to go back in one if people were going to act like that.
    Legions of Mordor Guild Officer
    Member of the GvG Community

    Dunmer NB - Merser Frey (DC)
    Dunmer DK - Akaviri Battlereeve (DC)- http://orig05.deviantart.net/7ecd/f/2016/013/b/f/you_***_kill_by_eso_picture-d9nrz0q.png
    Imperial Templar - Knight of the Blood Oath (DC)-
    http://orig00.deviantart.net/5ba3/f/2016/115/a/0/jesus_beam_ftw____by_eso_picture-da09ecj.png
    High Elf Templar - Aurí-El (AD)
    High Elf Templar - Teutonic Honor Guard (EP)
  • runagate
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    Played a stamblade. In PvP.

    For those of you who didn't play since launch you have no concept of how ludicrous that concept is. Honed the bloody hell out of my concept of camera angles and exploiting them, group tactics and strategy. I wore green Shield of the Valient armor:

    (2 items) Adds 1206 Max Health
    (3 items) Adds 4% Healing Taken
    (4 items) Reduces damage taken from players by 5%.
    (5 items) Reduces the cost of Break Free by 40%.

    Ludicrous. Picture a magicka warden trying to duel a necropotence pet mag sorc wearing no set armor and you'll start having an idea of how pathetically underperformed. No one had much idea how any stats worked. Back before stats and such were multiplied by 100 to show how much small bonuses had an effect.

    Also, someone talked me into wearing an all Intricate set of gear while deconning for the inspiration boost. Needless to say that's not how it worked.
  • runagate
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    double post
    Edited by runagate on June 29, 2018 12:12AM
  • D0ntevenL1ft
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    I didnt want to play with any buffs or debuffs because i thought they would waste time and lower my damage... So i only used damage making abilities.
  • Ragged_Claw
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    Too many to remember really. I stubbornly stuck to the Vampire's Kiss set and even golded it out because I thought it made my vampire stronger. Levelled up provisioning but didn't use food, thought it was pointless and didn't have the bag space to keep ingredients (pre craft bag days). Deconstructed stuff that I had no idea was valuable and/or could be researched (bag space again). I too distributed my points equally, thinking I was going for a 'balanced' build and then couldn't understand why my DPS was awful. I knew nothing, I was hopeless. Four years later, I'm still pretty hopeless, so I try to be kind to new players, but I've yet to meet one who is quite as useless as I was :smiley:
    PC EU & NA
  • Davor
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    I kept on restarting and making a new character and deleting the ones I wasn't using. After 4 years just finally got to level 50. Wish I knew how easy it was to respect and kept my character the very first time I made him.
    Not my quote but I love this saying

    "I would pay It for support. But since they choosed we are just numbers and not customers, i dont mind if game and zos goes to oblivion"
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