Yes, tons of mistakes like consuming food and drinks at the same time thinking I'd get two buffs, not knowing what a decent build looks like and spending skill points into useless abilities, not knowing the abbreviations/lingo, not joining a trade guild early on, starting my own guild when I had no idea what they're about, not using sets, selling almost everything to NPC's to buy my first horse for 10k gold, running around/exploring (without a mount) to gain XP and level up that way, rather than do quests, the list goes on.

Full heavy, 2h in two slots stamina nightblade. My damage was pitiful.

Ghanima_Atreides wrote: »

Having a separate crafter for each profession; it made most sense that way, plus it allowed me to match them to each character concept...not realising that there would be motifs, and achievements which really call for One Crafter to Rule Them All.

I'm still suffering from this mistake to an extent. I consolidated my equipment on one character fairly early, but I kept my Provisioning, Enchanting, and Alchemy on other characters. Enchanting and Alchemy aren't a problem, but I've never gone back and tried to collect all the Provisioning recipes on my main crafter, because, ouch. I never would have consolidated all of those together, except of course, furniture.

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

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

This. I got to VR12 on a Breton Sorc Healer and only played in first person

Trusted "Play as you want" and made nord stamblade dps with 2H in heavy armor.
Now I fixed this mistake lol.

Split my attribute points evenly, not get a mount till I got one from the crown store (bless my ole lioness tho), use destro/resto in heavy armor as a dps, use the clannfear for a milennia, think that the "Volunteer" title was so cool and rare, and...my favorite. I tried to siege a Elder Scroll gate in Cyrodiil cuz I wanted the skyshard. Didn't know you couldn't damage em until I started using addons and could see the actual health bar value.

Listening to randoms telling me that necropotence was a good set to run with a templar...

On my first time in Cyrodiil, I picked up the scout brindle farm quest and snuck all the way from arrius to brindle farm, got the report and snuck back.
I was so happy I didn't meet anyone on the way (aka. managed to stay undetected) that I felt as if I had really accomplished something for my faction in the alliance war.

Didn't feed the horse for 2 weeks (almost died).

Played in first person for weeks - not in Cyrodiil but I hated 3rd person for a long time.

Bought Xivkyn style in the Crownstore and thought it was account wide - 5k crowns later I realized that it didn't.

Was one of the firm believers that closing all 4 pinions at dolmens gave a greater chance of something...

Ah yes and Nord stamBlade

Oh, I made so many mistakes, I can't remember them all...

I had no idea I can travel using wayshrines... I thought they are just for resurrection (yes, I didn't pay attention to the tip when I discovered my first wayshrine ). So when I needed to go to another zone, I summoned my brave 20% speed horse and rode all the way... When I accidentally discovered wayshrine traveling, I was shocked

I thought that shields work like this: if it says "absorb 10000 damage over 5 seconds", it will absorb 10000 damage from every hit I take during these 5 seconds... That's why I crafted 5x Whitestrakes for all my characters.

Also I thought that medium armor is the coolest looking gear in game, so all my characters wore full medium armor, with occasional heavy pieces.

All my characters had bow as second weapon, even "magicka" characters - cause I used that interrupt morph of Poison Arrow and had no idea that staves have interrupt ability too.

When deciding between two items with same trait to research, I researched the highest quality item cause I thought that if I research green item instead of purple, the trait quality I can craft will be lower

I was fishing at sea spot, and other player joined (he was veteran level). I saw a mudcrab nearby and interrupted my fishing to kill it (need to gather more leather for my Whitestrakes ), when I returned, the veteran player initiated trade with me and gifted me 100 worms and some divines item for research. Some time later I run out of inventory space and destroyed all those precious worms, like a clueless noob whom I was :'(

I had no idea I need different kind of bait for different water, so when I used some random bait at some random spot and got Used bait, I stopped fishing and went away thinking "It's very unlucky fishing hole, I will find other one"

I was selling unfilleted fish to merchant for 3 gold each and though that I will become rich like this. I also had no idea that fish can be filleted, so after I caught a few and went to cooking fire, I still couldn't cook any food which had fish ingredients - and I was so confused why it doesn't

I thought that health and health recovery are the only important stats in game (yes, in Skyrim I had all points in health ).

Once I asked in some trading guild to link me gold VR16 jack - and all I wanted to know is how much resistance it offers The person who linked me it tried to help and said "you don't lose resistances, you lose damage if you don't have at least gold weapons!" I answered "yes, I need to upgrade my weapons at least..." while I had no understanding of this and no intention to; I just wanted to increase my resistance numbers

First two days I made huge mistake of silently disapproving thieves and murderers of innocent NPCs. I thought that I will become rich doing honest work like crafting and gathering. Then I decided to just check what is so attractive to thieves, and just peaked into first random container. I saw a single item worth 40 gold - and it was huge money to me back then ...Next day I already had few extra mule characters, and bought my first brown horse No way back

Thinking I am ready for Cyrodiil after pathetic tutorial... The tutorial sucks I was so ashamed when people were sieging the wall of some keep and I was also sieging... the postern house. Nobody told me and some other people who also sieged this target to stop and that it's useless. I only realized it after the door was destroyed and the wall kept standing If some more experienced people guided us random noobs there, the keep wall would go down much faster.

I was extremely scared of PvP, and thought that Cyrodiil is full of hidden enemy players everywhere. So in good old Haderus when enemy gates were opened while I was sneaking between delves, I bravely sneaked through half of the map to enemy gates... Literally all time in sneak It took long time and I was lucky the gates were not closed in the meantime.

My stamblade has resto staff leveled to 50 - cause of wild times when my 5x Whitestrakes, 3x Death wind, random healthy jewelry with health recovery enchants and almost evenly split attributes turned every simple fight into long battle So instead of reevaluating my "build", I equipped resto staff as second weapon, and those pathetic shields and heals made me little more sturdy (this didn't make fights easier though).
Her progress:

1) proud to finally become VR16 Hmm, where do I put this final attribute point?..



2) after some random player in Craglorn suggested me to focus on 1 stat and max my damage, I started with just reallocating my attributes first... So little improvement, but at least first step in right direction I didn't have a chance to say "thank you" after all, but if he ever sees this, he will recognize the stubborn heavy armor nightblade werewolf who wouldn't be playing to this day if not for that little advice



3) even more improvement



4) Clockwork DLC release, in my budget PvP gear though It is also not perfect (1x Kena, 1x Veli, 5x Hundings, 3x Agility), since I either kill fast or run out of resources and die, but it's godly compared to what she was long time ago



5) Summerset release, in her PvE materials gathering gear



Also back when she was Whitestrakes user, some people from small trading guild invited me to CoA II as dd... I was everything I don't want to meet nowadays: bad gear, clueless about successful abilities, 2h/bow Wrecking Blow + light attack spammer on mob packs at daedroth boss. Our poor, poor tank and healer, they didn't expect this :'( I also had Shadowy disguise and used it (it removed burning dots and reset mobs aggro ). I don't know how we got to Ash Titan, but after lot of wipes, out of desperation I tried last thing: I bravely sneaked behind him and opened the fight with my gloriously weak Wrecking Blow It's the thing I will never forget.

I thought that having a different character for every craft would be smart, because then each would only put a few skill points into that and leave the rest for combat. (I didn't take into account that motifs and research aren't shared and now I have constant relogging to do if I want a full set of equipment)

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

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

I played in 3rd for about hour. It felt like I was cheating so I don't do it anymore.

I was never a Newbie in ESO, but I can remember in my first MMO, Dark Age of Camelot, I just couldnt figure out the concept of hitting something at maximum range. I never encountered a mechanic like that in another game before (not in that importance anyway).
And since in DaoC you couldnt cast when you got hit by melee, it often ment my death if I didnt utilize max range.
My girlfriend at the time had to show me how to do it ^^