Goofy things you thought when you were new to the game.

When I first started playing, I worried about catching civilians in the area effect of my powers (playing a blaster, of course) - so I would carefully try to aim in such a way as to avoid catching them in the blast.
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When I first deployed Trip Mines, it was in an office building with civilians running around in terror. I was afraid they would run into the mines and set them off prematurely, thereby ruining my carefully laid trap. Imagine my relief/surprise when one of them did and... NOTHING happened.

I had Burst slotted with 1 acc, 1 dam, 1 rech, 1 end red, and 1 range....It wasn't until the late teens that I found out I could put more than one of each enhancement in a power.

I hover-sniped my way to Silver Bullet....thinking that only Warwolves (ie. the bosses) counted, because that was what the badge text said.

My very first character, a blaster that made it to the ripe old age of 12, had 4 slots in Rest.

I had to use it every time it was ready, and waiting for Rest to recharge was one of the reasons I nearly abandoned CoH early on.

"There's villainy ... and then there's supervillainy. The difference is performance."
-Doc_Reverend

For a game that is highly touted for it's costume/look customization options, there sure are a lot of hideous looking characters running around.

Actually, I'm still thinking about this right now. Never mind.

- That Wentworths was a live auction. As in, I would stand there, with my wares, and tell everyone what I had. They would then say, to me, what they were willing to buy it for. I went past it and saw a pile of high level characters in there, so I figured that's what they were doing. Being new to MMOs, I didn't want to be taken advantage of, so I sold everything I could to vendors.

After a few months, I figured I would give it a shot. I went in, and said something like, "I have three Regenerating Flesh salvage", and someone said something to the effect of "I'm proud of you". I walked out, and avoided Wentworths for another few months, before I figured it out.


- My wife and I both started a trial together. I finished my character before she did, so I loaded into Outbreak first. I noticed there was text in the chat box that said "You received Mutagen". So I told her to look around for it when she loaded. She loaded and said "It says I received Throwing Knives". So we spent a few minutes looking around near the beginning to see if I could find knives, and if she could find mutagen.

- I joined a team a few days after joining, and they were in Perez Park. I remembered seeing a park in Galaxy City, where I was, so I walked around until I found it. And waited. And waited. Someone said, "Banana, are you coming?" And I said "I'm here. Where are you guys?" And someone said, "Banana, we're at P Park". I told them I am at the park, but I can't find them. Someone said something disparaging about my being new, and I apologized for slowing them down and I quit. The team leader re-invited me and gave me guidance to get to Perez.

- I joined a team in Croatoa, and there were two warshades on the team. I had read that they were unlocked by leveling a character to 50, so I knew that. They looked almost identical, with just slightly different colours. I thought this meant that warshades were locked to a specific costume. It wasn't particularly a nice costume, so when they came up in conversation, I said "I don't want to be a warshade if I have to look like that". The leader took offense, and kicked me from the team. I later ran into a warshade that looked completely different, and it occurred to me why the guy was angry.

- Yes, I, too did the Yellow Line thing, where I wait for my destination to appear, and tried to enter through the exit doors. I also thought that the "Exit" button after completing a mission was telling me to exit. So I would run to the entrance. IT was a few nights after, when I was on a team that someone said, "Banana, are you running to the entrance?" I thought he was sarcastically asking if I was running, instead of walking, and I said, "I'm trying to get out as fast as I can. I have sprint on".

Thank you, Champion.

Not slotting AoE for accuracy as they'll take have damage if I miss anyway.

Avoiding freindly teammates with my AoE attacks.

The one I remember:

I thought that you could only place enhancements in empty slots, or combine them. I didn't think you could overwrite them. So I was level 20 or so with training origin enhancements still in some slots and thought I had to get a respec to get rid of them.

City of Heroes was my first MMO. As a minty fresh newbie, I often found myself running around with a group of folks, and then one would say something like "Wait a sec, bio break."

I thought, "Wow, these are some dedicated roleplayers! They're stopping in the middle of a mission to write updates to their character biographies."

Yeah. I know.

When I first started I was told by a player that if you do the tutorial in Outbreak, you level a lot faster than you would if you skip it.

I believed that for a long time.

Lisa.

At first I didn't even know there was a Train, so when I finished my starter contact in AP and he sent me to King's Row I diligently studied my map, and set off for KR on foot.

Getting through Skyway City as a noob on a level 5 was hard. Imagine my chagrin when, upon arriving at my contact in King's Row, she immediately sent me to The Hollows.

@Oathbound & @Oathbound Too

CoH was the very first online game I ever played in my life, so I went into it knowing NOTHING. On the second day of getting the 'feel' of this new experience I was invited to team with a high level toon. I was thrrilled that someone wanted me as a team mate! I was ported to the highest building in Atles...and promptly kicked from the team. I ran around the top of the building, looking for a way to get down, but alas, there was none. I figured if I jumped, my toon would be destroyed (die) and I would have to create her all over again. After 15 minutes of debating, I decided to jump. (I sure coulldn't do any playing from a skyscraper.) When I hit bottom, I was left with 1% health.
I wondered why anyone would do such a mean thing as that griefer did to me. As I became more familiar and adept at the game I swore I would always try and help new people, remembering how green and distressed I was at first.
Thinking if my toon died and I'd always have to start from scratch again was the first goofy thing I thought.

The one thing that sticks out in my mind from when I started playing isn't really all that goofy but I swear I can't go to Kings Row without remembering it.

I was convinced that whatever a contact told you to do you had to go do immediately in order for the game to progress. So, when Azuria told me to go talk to a contact in Kings Row when I hit 5th level... I went immediately.

Once I figured out how exactly to GET to KR, I saw the star in the Nav pointing towards the police station and ran across the street from the train station... jumped the fence... and landed square in the middle of four 7th level Vahzilok.

After a short grisly death scene I seem to remember inventing swear words on the spot.

Waaay back when I got Hover on Zube, I didn't realize it could go up and down. I just thought you'd hover along at your current level. So I used it to cross chasms in my way, and dreamed of the day I could get full-fledged fly.

But once I was "stuck" in Perez Park behind the tall wall and couldn't jump over it. I needed to leave the zone, and the zone exit was right there behind the wall, but I had to run halfway back through the whole gorram park (full of big spawns that I didn't yet know how to avoid very well) until I could get through one of the openings in the wall, then run all the gorram way back up to the zone exit. Took me half an hour.

I thought I'd still be here 7 years later...

Now THAT was goofy...

I started my first character in Galaxy because I had heard it was quieter. I did some street sweeping, and around level 3 I decided I wanted a peak at another zone just to see what the world was like. So I went through the gate to Kings Row.

Immediately to the right, coming up the little hill was Paladin in all his giant purple glory.
'OK. Going back to the starter zone now.'


-When I first started slotting, I assumed you could only have one enhancement of a given type in a power. 1 accuracy, 1 damage, 1 recharge, etc.

-I spent an hour on a roof in Kings row watching the Clockwork 'build' a Prince because someone in Broadcast said that the Clockwork 'build' Paladin; I thought it was part of his foot or something. Then a Blaster came along and Fire Balled the whole group.

-Creating various character concepts only to find out the game already had NPCs that were essentially the same.

-Looking for landmarks and locations from the CoH Novels and Comics that just weren't in game.

-Avoiding cars and traffic because I thought it would do damage.

-Getting utterly lost in the sewers but having out-leveled the enemies and having to re-roll to escape.

-Looking up to anyone who was a Kheld because they must know what they're talking about if they had a 50.



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These are a great read!