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Every WoW player has at least one WoW fail story. Here is my best one. What is yours?
My first character was a Gnome warlock because @JoeMagician was playing a warlock when I first saw WoW at his family's house on Thanksgiving in 2004 and it looked very cool.
By the time I got to the point where I could quest in Westfall, I wanted to go there instead of whatever the Dwarf/Gnome equivalent is (I honestly don't remember anymore).
This, of course, meant taking the Deeprun Tram from Ironforge to Stormwind.
I saw the ticket windows in the station and I assumed that you had to pay to use the tram, so I waited at the windows... for a while.
When a ticket seller never showed up, I assumed it was bugged... so I walked the length of the Deeprun Tram.
That was the first of several WoW fails I committed in the early months of my adventuring in Azeroth.




This one is short and truly a tale of noobness :p. Back when my hunter was a tiny little draenei in Ashenvale, I spent about two hours stuck in one of the barrows because I kept on going in circles and forgot my hearthstone was a thing. I got so frustrated I didn't pick the game up again for a month. I felt slightly vindicated when they added the stuff to guide you through those later.
This is a great one! Thanks for sharing!
Oh god do I dare share? In my defense it was like the first week of vanilla, and my only experience with MMOs was City of Heroes, which is a very different structure when it comes to gear and such. So I was playing a hunter, and I was at the end of the starting area for the dwarves, in the final fight with the big Trogg down int he cave. Suddenly my screen starts flashing "Put more ammo in your paper doll!" WTF? It's like 2 am, I'm in the middle of my first big fight, things are flashing, my character is yelling, and I'm dying. Basically, everything is horrible. I died. I tried waking my husband up to get him to explain the paper doll thing. He was very confused, and i don't think he actually woke all the way up. This led to a fine tradition of me forgetting to buy more ammo before heading into instances. >.< Thank god they did away with that. (I just found a stack of ammo on one of my older, rarely played characters about a month ago.)
I took my level 10 dwarven hunter out to the Barrens (so much death through STV) to tame an oasis snapjaw. Got out there and discovered they are level 13 minimum. No worries, I will kill things and grind lvls and skinning. ... For whatever reason, I didn't have my skinning knife. So frustrating. But I got my turtle! 12 years later he is still my main pet.
Oh there was the time when I pulled a whole instance with my brand new death knight because I wanted to see what summon gargoyle did. Turns out it came in through the top of Hellfire and brought everything down with it.... Oops.
I nearly choked on a sandwich laughing at the Death Knight story! Thank you for sharing! AMAZING!
I can't believe you found an alt still carrying ammo omg. Also getting your level 10 dwarf to the barrens back then-- you REALLY wanted that turtle.
I am a total packrat. It's ridic. And yes! I love him. His name is Oliver, and I am a little sad his page doesn't say best friend anymore. Like sure it wasn't a mechanic that came up much, but he was my best friend!
I remember getting a Horde character of mine to The Deadmines back in Vanilla. Holy hell, that was a hike!
I have a similar story, I was a Gnome Warlock and saw a friend was in this place called westfall. Decided I wanted to go there, problem was I had no idea the deep run tram was a thing so at level 11 I walked all the way there through the Badlands, Redridge, ect. I felt so cool, untill during my exploration of Stormwind I found the tram.
I thought the "subway" was a joke! I managed to corpseflop through Redridge, but when I got to the canyon with the imps that were level skull to me, I figured there had to be another way. a guildmate took pity and showed me where the tram station was. I took the tram from Stormwind to Ironforge, then flew back (for whatever reason), and was looking down at the level skull lava spiders and thinking "... and I was going to walk through that!"
I'm impressed with the folks that actually made the trip!
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lol oh no! I maybe have a nekkid macro that strips my character of her gear in the event of falling to her death. Saves on repairs. It's also good for parties.
my first time in Arathi Basin was... confusing. I wrote a (don't worry, G-rated) fanfic about it: https://archiveofourown.org/works/447932