What were your newbie mistakes?

NorthernNightmare · June 2018

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

What newbie mistakes have you made?

NeroBad · June 2018

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 · June 2018

I played in first person for about a year...

Zoal_AUG · June 2018

I believed that snipe is indeed a good dps skill!!!so is heavy armor viable for dds !!!
what a disappointment...

Esha76 · June 2018

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.

geonsocal · June 2018

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

I played in first person for about a year...

oh, that *** had me laughing out loud...

geonsocal · June 2018

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

Aurielle · June 2018

I used to diligently split my attribute stats evenly.

LordLomax · June 2018

Using a sword and board stamplar

zaria · June 2018

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.

jlmurra2 · June 2018

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 · June 2018

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 · June 2018

Trying to make a destro/resto mag DK Pyromancer work. So much wasted time... Makes for a good crafter, though.

geonsocal · June 2018

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

geonsocal · June 2018

WhoThenNow7 · June 2018

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 · June 2018

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 · June 2018

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...

TheLoremaster · June 2018

Play DPS with that bar

LordGavus · June 2018

I thought dots were a waste of time and my main attack was hard casting frags. So bad

Tryxus · June 2018

I believed that Kuta was used in Provisioning (it sounded like a type of cookie)...

Loralai_907 · June 2018

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.

Clansman2013 · June 2018

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 · June 2018

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 · June 2018

Didn't understand that teleporting from shrine to shrine was free, so always paid for teleportation anyway and didn't bother reaching a shrine

imredneckson · June 2018

NorthernNightmare wrote: »

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

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.

runagate · June 2018

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 · June 2018

double post

D0ntevenL1ft · June 2018

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 · June 2018

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

Davor · June 2018

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.