Huh, I didn't know I could do that! (What was yours?)Follow

i found out today that /time, tells you the server time.

My first rogue got to level 40 before i found out you could use swords ......

Learning that Distract works on players. I tried it once early on in a BG and didn't notice anything. So I figured it didn't work..... I learned differently here on these forums while looking for info on t5 raiding. Long after grinding all the honor I needed. /facepalm

That's the one that sticks out in my mind, though I've had plenty of "duh" moments. First time I grouped for an instance on my very first toon (a warlock) I kept clicking the summoning stone and not the portal. The tank couldn't figure out what was wrong. "Are you clicking?" he says. "Yeah" I say.... That's several minutes of dumb I'll never get back.

;)

Kept shutting down WoW to check this site, google, or thottbot. Didn't know that

ALT + TAB would flip windows...

I've been playing since January and I just figured this out about a month ago. :/

I also just figured out that, while checking the AH you can shift- click on an item in your inventory while the browse screen is up and it will put that item in the search box. Saves a lot of time. Yeah, I know about Auctioneer, tried it don't really care for it.

Pretty sure I read this here.

As a warlock, you can summon yourself, hearth, repair (or whatever), and then accept the summon. Comes in very handy sometimes.

Oh lord, so many things, I'm not sure I can remember them all.

1. Not knowing I could train Growl to any pet until around lv 40 (thinking the no points value on the list meant that particular pet could not learn it). I'm glad to see a few other people posting something very similar.

2. Not knowing that people in the LFG queue who have a group already and are LFM will show up a list of who else is in their group if you mouse over their name. I always thought, for some odd reason, the other people listed were alts they somehow were able to list via a feature I was unaware of.

3. Druid-related: not realizing the importance of maxing out the feral talent for reducing energy cost of Shred, or realizing that mangle would improve the damage of Shred.

4. Not knowing that getting too close to an opposing faction's main city would auto-flag me (learned that the hard way on my hunter in the 30s when I tried to enter Undercity).

5. Still not really understanding the usefulness of enormous, intricate macros.

Well that's about it. Not exactly in line with the premise of the thread but similar nonetheless and a complete expression of my total noobness.

When leveling up my first toon, my first toon way back in early 2005. I didn't know that when you open up your talents window, you could.....scroll down. I nearly crapped myself when I did this by mistake! Look at all those talents! /drool

Good times! lol

A friend of mine got his hunter to level 40 before he realized there was more than one talent tree to put points in.

I was well into level 70 before i realized that you could use cloak of shadows to AVOID getting hit by spells, rather than to just clear debuffs.



Edited, Aug 8th 2008 3:10am by FistoKlown

Not too long ago I only found out that you didn't have to type /battleground to talk in BG, but that /bg is sufficient.

Man, you have no idea how often I wanted to warn for inc in AB and typing "/battleground" wrong so it got capped and I was killed while trying to re-type for the 5th or so time.

The guild makes fun of me for that - and rightly so I guess >.<

I got all the way to lvl 70 before i realised there was a portal trainer in shattrath. Like id walked/flew all those mines getting into outland :|

Not to mention laughing at other mages who sheeped people not realising i could do it too

Edit : just realised a moment when i sheeped a tauren guard in STV. I laugh and run on before noticing ive been flagged. I stopped and tried to read what it said before two lvl 70's came and mowed me down. I had no idea why theyd done it until i entered undercity and the same thing happened.

Edited, Aug 8th 2008 9:36am by Alpyra

Mine wasn't so much a 'duh' moment as it is a "oh, that's cool!" moment. You can click on portals (stone, soulwell, table, summoning, teleport, etc) while shapeshifted. I would always drop flight form, click the portal to summon someone, the flip back into flight form. Mana saved, and all that. :P

Edited, Aug 11th 2008 2:18pm by Shamandin

couple people asked about flipping camera views:

go to the game settings menu (escape key by default) -> key bindings
scroll down to camera options
there it is, unbound by default.