Silly N00b Stories
By
Abysmalyxia,
Posted on: 2006-11-10 13:09 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
Thank you LightHouse, it seems to me that many have forgotten that at one point, they were noob themselves. It is sad really to see people putting down a new player who asks a simple question about the game and have their question answered by "read the forums" or "look it up you noob". I don't know what I would have done if I hadn't had a kind soul explain things to me when I first came to the game. It helps that there is not a HELP chat where people can go to have their questions answered without all the negative flavor; I have noticed that if a question is asked in HELP that there are actually people who will explain things without all the negetivity. I digress though. I guess I just wanted to say thanks for helping to remind that the only stupid question is the one not asked.
There's a difference between newb and noob. What the OP ran into was a newb, a new player. Someone that doesn't understand how the game works yet. A noob is someone that doesn't want to learn, doesn't want to listen, but behaves, often times, in a similar fashion to a newb.
Learn to figure out who are the newbs and who are the noobs, and do your best to help.
"A good Defender is the battle hardened Corpsman who will kill a Nazi with a tongue depressor while putting a splint on your leg, then hand you a fresh clip of ammo." ~Jock_Thompson
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I join a villain PUG. This was a low level team around level 10. The mission owner had their rep jacked to the max so everything was red or purple to most of us. So I made the suggestion that one of the corrupter should pull. So the fire/rad guy says ok he will pull. Guess what this guy uses to pull with? FIREBALL!!! 
I am like omg why would you pull with an aoe? The team ended up wiping. When we all got back from the hospital I pulled this time. Everything went well after that. I soon left after this mission was over. Anyone else care to share some crazy noob stories?
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I was on a low level villain PUG and the leader had his rep on the second highest. After 3 wipes I asked why a lvl 5 group should go on Relentless and he said "because it's the best." I tried to explain that it's only good if you can get through it quickly. If everyone wipes out on the first fight without a single kill, it's no good. You should wait until better enhancements make you strong enough to kill high level mobs. Well, he wouldn't hear it. "Relentless is the best."
Another team with the same villain, I got bored so I went to the closest mission and started mopping up. When it was almost cleared, I told the group that I was about to come out so we could reset, but it was a very low level mish (everything was grey to me, and I was the lowest level member) so it would probably be best for the team if I just cleared and we did something else. The leader got pissed and kicked me from the team instantly for "already killing before we're there!!!?" So then I /petitioned him for having the name Raistline Majere, a blatant ripoff of the Dragonlance anti-hero. So who was the A--hole in that story, him or me?
I went about 24 levels (to the first respec) on my first character, Earth/FF, without knowing I should take both of the single target shields 
. When I respec'd I switched out Salt Crystals 
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Noob stories?
When I first started CoH, it was my second mmog. My first was FFXI and I didn't understand that much at first. The first day I played City of Heroes, I started out as a gravity controller in Galaxy City and I heard someone cry out for help.
I freaked out and thought,"NO [censored]! Here is my chance to be a HERO! I've never been a hero before!"
I ran as fast as I could to the Hellion and wailed on him! Bam!!
Pow!
Kerplunk!!!
These sounds were running through my mind as I beat the living day lights out of the men trying to steal the woman's purse. Afterwords the NPC said ask me how she could repay me...
I stood there for a second wondering what to say, and instantly came up with the best reply ever.
"How about a date?"
Sadly, she ran away. I tried to catch her.... but I lost her down an alleyway. After a few more of these situations I realized they won't talk back. I honestly thought I was saving real players.
/e sigh on my level two controller. My first character ever in City of Heroes stories. I eventually learned the lingo such as herding, pulling, and "AMbusH!". I remember when playing FFXI, I tried talking to an NPC for 5 minutes before someone pointed out that they don't reply. I thought computer games were so much more advanced at that time.
<3,
Completely Oblivious.
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ROFL!!!
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Our sg decided to do the tf in firebase zulu against Ruluuka ?
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I believe that is Ruladek... One of the coolest AV encounters hero-side.
You were close
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Yeah thx, like i said we took a few to many hits to the head to remember his name that night 
Once, in the early days of CoV, two friends and I were partying with an EM stalker, right. She was pretty new to MMOs in general, so she's doing some scouting and reports that a couple of mobs are hanging out behind some crates, right.
So my girlfriend's like "oh OK" and hops her stone/fire brute self over the crates to, well, SMASH and lo and behold there's like three spawns of five over there. We... didn't know at the time how new to MMOs and online gaming in general the stalker was, so when she (the stalker) said "mob" we, you know, thought she meant mob, when in fact she meant mob.
With pitchforks, torches, and grenade launchers because I think they were Council or Sky Raiders or something like that. And hell, at the time I was playing my rad/kin corruptor and in fairly early levels, so all I could really do was fire up repel and run screaming + blasting in a pretty broad circle so brute 2, my girlfriend's sister, could drop things as they aggroed onto myself and the stalker.
Anyway, there's my newb story. Not really a n00b story, just.. miscommunication, I guess.
Oh and there's the time I was powerlevelling my fire/fire tank with a kheldian and six completely new players on invincible. That's not as funny though. Just... kind of tragic.
I've had some horror stories with n00bs, and I've also had some great experiances with newbies. Way to many to detail.
I thought that this was a good description of my experiences with players that aren't quite what someone would think.
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I just wanted to chime in that if you take the time to stop and politely help someone understand the tactics more, or are open to people who want to tell you about their own tactics, a lot of times you can make a good addition to your friends list. In short, ya gotta lub da newbs!
Of course, some jerk who plays like a fool and gets everyone killed and won't listen to anyone is certainly a pain. I usually play a bit more conservatively with a new pick up group to test the waters before I open myself up for the rollercoaster ride to Debt City
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I really wish people wouldn't use "newb" and "n00b" interchangably. There's a very useful distinction to be made there.
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I really wish people wouldn't use "newb" and "n00b" interchangably. There's a very useful distinction to be made there.
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...one that is not readily apparent to those not bathed in the internet's popular culture. My highschool literature classes failed to prepare me for such distinctions.
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Of course, some jerk who plays like a fool and gets everyone killed and won't listen to anyone is certainly a pain. I usually play a bit more conservatively with a new pick up group to test the waters before I open myself up for the rollercoaster ride to Debt City
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That reminds me of when I used to play FFXI. Someone got a group together in a level 20 area (myself included), but instead of actually preparing for mobs and giving healers time to heal and the like, he just kept running over to monsters and attacking. He wouldn't listen to anyone trying to tell him to chill out until the healers recovered, he just kept at it. Naturally, we all said "screw this" and left the party. I still remember his cries for help as we all left him to fight a monster.
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was just in the sewers... told a /elec blaster to pull... so he fires off electirc cages.
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Heh, I am a newb, and some of these "mistakes" I could have or may have made.
However, I had to laugh at this one though. Cages...
When I made my first toon, I was there in AP with a mission to defeat X number of Hellions in Atlas Park.
So I spent about a half an hour running around looking for Atlas Park. I checked out the little park with the lake near the town center, and all of the other little grassy areas, and then finally the office parks with statues. Surely one of them had to be Atlas Park!
I can't remember exactly when it dawned on me that the whole zone was Atlas Park.
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Yesterday I was playing a new controller on Triumph. I was lvl 12 at the time and heading to a mission in KR. I got a blind tell "Can I join you?". I turn around and a lvl 7 defender is following me. Okay, I invite him and SK him and we get through the mission okay and I ding 13. Then we are headed to Perez and he asks for the star. I've zoned so I can't see who he's inviting. He invites 3 people to the team. Two are level 7 and one is 9. I explained we needed other to sk them. The lvl 9 says I'm almost 10. When I hit 10 I'll sk one of them. We do okay until we get to one room with a pair of bosses that were lvl 14. I keep hitting one of them with confuse in the hopes he will take the other out. But one of the 7's just has to get in the action and argos the other boss. I then need to try to confuse him. The problem was that I didn't have confuse slotted up enough to keep casting it on two red bosses fast enough to keep them both confused. I should have just said no to begin with and not let us start the mission. I knew better. Sometimes we vets do noobish things too! lol
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It was a mid-40s team going after an AV. The Tank goes in to get the AV's attention. I dash off to the side as that's what I usually do so I have an unobstructed view. The rest of the team follows the Tank and attacks from behind him. The team immediately receives constant heavy damage and the heal capable players switch to auto-heal to keep up. No one seemed to realize that the AV is using a series of cone attacks on the Tank so being behind him was bad. After I tell them to move to the side, the fight goes a lot smoother as the healing players could participate instead of healing.
Teams are the number one killer of soloists.
This isn't really a noob story, just something funny that happened in my early days.
My two friends and I were running a mission at lvl 11-ish. I was playing my claws/regen, the two others were an Ar/Fire and a Inv/SS tank. I tell my blaster friend "You draw em, I'll intercept em." So, he launches an M30 at em. At that moment...I d/c just long enough for them to destroy us. He says to me "All I can say...nice intercepting!"
One mistake I'll not make again
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Noob stories?
When I first started CoH, it was my second mmog. My first was FFXI and I didn't understand that much at first. The first day I played City of Heroes, I started out as a gravity controller in Galaxy City and I heard someone cry out for help.
I freaked out and thought,"NO [censored]! Here is my chance to be a HERO! I've never been a hero before!"
I ran as fast as I could to the Hellion and wailed on him! Bam!!
Pow!
Kerplunk!!!
These sounds were running through my mind as I beat the living day lights out of the men trying to steal the woman's purse. Afterwords the NPC said ask me how she could repay me...
I stood there for a second wondering what to say, and instantly came up with the best reply ever.
"How about a date?"
Sadly, she ran away. I tried to catch her.... but I lost her down an alleyway. After a few more of these situations I realized they won't talk back. I honestly thought I was saving real players.
/e sigh on my level two controller. My first character ever in City of Heroes stories. I eventually learned the lingo such as herding, pulling, and "AMbusH!". I remember when playing FFXI, I tried talking to an NPC for 5 minutes before someone pointed out that they don't reply. I thought computer games were so much more advanced at that time.
<3,
Completely Oblivious.
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Kind of reminds me of when I used to attack the Outcast when I was new- and kept stopping to try to apologize to the Bosses. .
Because I kept thinking they were attacking the Outcast minions, and I was kill stealing from them or something.
*doh* - Fortunately, it only took me about five or six time to outgrow that mistake.
I think.
- J
Still hate the visit Winscott mission- make it dropable, have it give actual exp or remove it altogether. PS- Down knows who you are.
J/ Wilde/ / AIL - Celebrating five years!
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You guys want to see some of the bestest stories ev-ar? This is the (un)official thread for stories of playing with newbs, n00bs, spazzes, crack-smokers, goofballs, and jerks, and even the occasional good PuGs too.
How to know you're in a pick-up group
Currently over 1,600 posts and growing.
Enjoy!
Edit: Just a couple of my favorites are from EvilRat on page 100, and JackONight on page 153. (at 10 posts per page)
I love n00b stories so long as they are done in the right spirit - maybe constructive jest? Anyway.....real n00b from the other night:
Lvl 41 tank in our team was being a bit .....odd.
Me: Wait here til the grp is ready
Tank: OK (then runs to stand in range of the mobs & draw fire)
Me: OK tank go herd some out please
Tank: OK (then runs into Room Of Death, aggro's 3 grps & stands toe to toe until we run in to save his rear end with 3 deaths in the process)
Me: Hey tank please be so kind as to pull that grp so we dont all go in that room.
Tank: OK (then stands in the hallway in LoS & uses Taunt and get shot at...a lot).
It was not all bad but kinda hard work when the guy was lvl 41 & struggling to read his chat window as well.
Couple more stories:
I brought my older brother into the CoH to which he is now addicted. One of the funniest moments was when I asked him about his slotting on his first toon:
Me: so what is your most slotted power?
bro: Oh I have Brawl 6 slotted!
Me: Huh?? Why????
bro: because it recharges the fastest!!!!!!
I also got my best friend into CoH. His highest toon is now lvl 33 blaster. Lots of funny stories about his learning curve but our favorite was this one...
He was about lvl 22, always ignored tells & never followed instructions from the chat window. So one night while we were playing & talking on Skype (he FINALLY downloaded it...)
Me: How come you dont respond to tells?
Him: Err...what are they?
Me: The yellow text in your chat window.
Him: Chat window? I dont have yellow text in it.
Me: You do have a window right?
Him: Oh yes but I dont see any chat in it.
Me: So you dont see this message??(i send a message)
Him: Oh yes I see it - above your head in the game
Me: not in the window?
Him: Only above your head which is how its always been.
Me: You said you had a chat window??
Him: Thats where I type so the message appears above my head in the game.
Me: Do you have a little blue arrow/triangle on the right end of where you type & if so, click on it....
Him: Oh yes i do (clicks it to expand chat window)....AHHHHH!!!!!!
He had somehow managed to minimise the chat window & never knew it. I had seen him annoy many team leaders by ignoring instructions
We did laugh a lot & my brother & I spend the next 3 months calling him Chat Boy. He has many stories like this but this was his 1st and best.
Everytime I see something like this...it bring back memories on an old post in which I was called the noob. I keep this chat log because it makes me laugh. It is all true, though heavily edited for content. Read this and try to find out what I did to deserve to be called a noob.
(I found myself in a mood to beat up on some villains, so I head to Siren's Call. Within a few seconds, I'm invited to a team. PvP zones are the only places that I don't mind blind invites. So, our team of 5 scrappers, a tank, an empathy defender, and a Warshade, along with other heroes, get into an all out street-war with the villains only slightly outnumbering us. One villain, who thinks his Assassin Strike makes him invincible, decided to unleash it on me. It hits, but I survive and am healed by our defender. Most of you know how much I dislike that attack, so I let loose on the stalker, beating him in 3 hits. Guess what happens a few seconds later?)
Stalker: noob
Me: Eh?
Stalker: did i stutter
Me: No....I read what you typed just fine. I fail to understand what I did to deserve to get called a noob.
Stalker: i saw your defender buddy there without her i would kill you
Me: And how does that make me a noob? Because my teammate healed me? Who doesn't need healing after an Assassin Strike?
Stalker: your just a noob u cant beat me without her im gonna AS the defender so she cant heal you
Me: Telling me your gameplan now? Now I have a reason to look out for you. The stalker will now become the stalked.
Stalker: o plese you cant see me
Me: *Please
Stalker: i cant wait to kill you
Me: I'm waiting.
(So the stalker appears again....but changes his plan a little. He executes AS on me again, but once again, I survive. Three of my teammates quickly deal with him, which gets me more tells.)
Stalker: see your such a noob you cant beat me alone
Me: And you know this how?
Stlaker: all i have to do is as you and then attack and then your dead
Me: Really? Care to place a wager on that bet?
Stalker: no just let me show you how fast i can kill you
Me: LOL....okay. Try again.
(Moments later, he again returns. The AS hits, so I pop a few greens before unleashing on him. He falls.....and the rage begins.)
Stalker: such a noob using insp
Me: Inspirations aren't illegal.
Stalker: Only people that suck use them in pvp
Me: No. Why would I not heal after AS? I'm sure you know how much damage it does. If I were a regen, then MAYBE I would have not used my greens.
Stalker: thats a lame excuse you should just quit pvp
Stalker: u need teammates
Stalker: u use insp
Me: None of these actions are illegal.
Stalker: noob actions
Me: No. It's playing it smart. Do you want me to not heal after your next AS?
Stalker: im gonna get my SG members so we can all as u
Me: Wow....a whole SG of stalkers against me? Am I that powerful? Am I that big of a threat to you?
Stalker: no u r lame i just want to do it so i can laugh at you
Stalker: so enjoy your wins while you can cause when we see you we will as you all the time
Me: Looking forward to it really.
Stalker: noobs like you ruin this game
Me: Again, you fail to explain what I've done to get myself classified as a "noob".
Stalker: i did already noob
Stalker: without teammates or insp u cant beat me so that makes you a noob
Me: I give up.
Stalker: thats right run punk
Me: I'm not running. I'm just tired of trying to reason with you. Don't talk trash.
Stalker i can say what i want and i can back it up punk
Me: And with you on ignore, I could care less.
Stalker: then ignore me
Stalker: please
(I update my ignore list with this stalker's name.)
Me: Problem solved.
(The stalker does return, with a corruptor and a mastermind, as opposed to the SG of stalkers he promised. Darn. I was looking foward to being hit with AS everytime I made a move.....LOL.)
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Many of the stories presented demonstrate Newbs, not Noobs. 
If those people learned from thier mistakes and they got better; they were Newbs. 
If they did not learn from thier mistake and rebuffed all constructive comments believing they know how to play thier AT; then they are a NOOB. 
Please remember the difference.
A Newb can learn and become a good player.
A Noob will never learn and will always be a bad player.
I met a Newb (not Noob) who did not understand about Enhancement Management.
We were in a group, she was a Stalker that could not hit anything.
Everyone was saying she was worthless since she was not really contributing to the battles. But I was the leader so I refused to remove her. I mean she seemed like she was trying.
I got a couple of good Damage and Accuracy Enhancments and I offered them to her. She said she was full and could not accept anymore until she visited the Quartermaster. I asked her what Enhancements she had in her skills.
She stated "Enhancements in my skills?" (I think I found the problem)
I found out she thought enhancements were Loot. To be sold to Vendors for Influence.
Once I helped her get some appropriate level enhancements into her skills, she proved to be quite competent and learned her place well.
The crowing acheivement was recruiting a vetern Stalker (low level Alt) who helped her refine her assasin skills. Now she is quite adept at being a Stalker.
But because she came from a MMORPG that relied upon Loot rather than skills; she did not immediately realize what the Enhancements were for.
And honestly.... How many people actually read the instructions or read the tutorial?
Seryphim : Virtue : Empath/Archery Defender
Fueur-Engel : Virtue : Fire/Thermal Corrupter
I come across many more newbies than noobs.
I will start with something I did during the first week of getting COH. I had never teamed before and found myself in PP. I was exploring the area when I got invited to a team. It was a multi level cave mission and we finished the mission pretty fast. After completition, I was trying like crazy to find a way to climb up the levels to exit the mission. A kind member finally decided I had suffered enough and informed me of the click mission complete to exit. I wondered how they got out so fast! 
My latest encounter with a newbie was in my 20s with my new Corr. He was a MM and I noticed his bots were not doing the damage I had seen other bots do. I have only tried a MM once so I am by no means an expert on slotting. His problem became clear when he mentioned that 6 slotted flight didn't seem much faster. The team was breaking up but no one said anything to him. I sent him a few privates asking him his slotting. He was not aware of ED and was confused on what some of his enhancements did. After a 15 minutes conversation and him reslotting his powers, we tried a mission together. There was a huge difference. That 15 minute conversation resulted in a global friend and many missions together.
So I say, before anyone writes someone off as a noob, try talking with them. Sometimes they just don't know any better. Besides, I am pretty sure most of us have done something in the game (when we first started playing) that we would consider newbish now. I know there are childish or annoying players out there that refuse to learn. I am glad I haven't crossed many of their paths.
**Guardian is the cookie capital of CoX!**
50 Fire/Rad Corruptor ~ 50 Dark/Rad Corruptor ~ 50 Rad/Dark Corruptor ~ 50 EM/Elec Brute ~ 45 Mind/Psi Dominator
Many Villains under 40. All of my Heroes are retired.
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I join a villain PUG. This was a low level team around level 10. The mission owner had their rep jacked to the max so everything was red or purple to most of us. So I made the suggestion that one of the corrupter should pull. So the fire/rad guy says ok he will pull. Guess what this guy uses to pull with? FIREBALL!!! I am like omg why would you pull with an aoe? The team ended up wiping. When we all got back from the hospital I pulled this time. Everything went well after that. I soon left after this mission was over. Anyone else care to share some crazy noob stories?
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Actually, in some circumstances, Fire Ball is excellent for pulling.
It's a very fast animation, not very high damage (it has a lower BI than Flares), and repops quite quickly.
Why pull with an AoE? Pulling a single target often leads to a trickle of aggro. Mobs come at you one at a time. Sometimes that's preferable. But to take maximal advantage of AoEs, you want a group that's relatively tightly grouped. Using a fast AoE like Fire Ball allows you to pull an entire group together, tightly.
If the point of pulling isn't to reduce the number of enemies in a group -- but instead, to pull one group away from potential chain aggro, and you can survive a full spawn, AoE pulling can often be preferable.
I'll grant that in the OP's example -- L10 probably precludes the survivability criterion. But AoE pulling is perfectly survivable, given good teamwork, and skillful use of LoS.
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My favorite was a long time ago, in I3 I think. Was on a pug, ~level 15-18 in the hollows, on one of the missions of kill all critters in the cave (igneous, I think). Well, this one blaster has over agro'd stuff and died inspite of my tank taunting and attempting to agro control throughout the mission. Celarly, he lacked any idea of tactics or pulling for limited agro.
Anyway, this blaster almost caused a team wipe, and tempers were climbing. We got to a large round room with tons of critters. This blaster said "watch this" and went flying into the area, triggered the alpha, and ate an obscene amount of boulders and ranged damage. It was enough damage to likely wipe the whole team 3 or 4 times over, as he agro'd like 4 separate spawns.
Over team channel I asked "wow, was that on purpose?". The reply was "no."
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OMG, I think I was on that team too! Actually, I've been on that team a couple times. For some reason, people with fly like to go into those huge cave rooms, fly to the top, and then drop right in the center of the four groups of mobs. Guess they wanted off the team, cause they all never come back from the hospital and eventually get kicked from the team.
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Our sg decided to do the tf in firebase zulu against Ruluuka ?
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I believe that is Ruladek... One of the coolest AV encounters hero-side.
You were close
"A good Defender is the battle hardened Corpsman who will kill a Nazi with a tongue depressor while putting a splint on your leg, then hand you a fresh clip of ammo." ~Jock_Thompson
Repeat Offenders, TNT Profile, My little hero