As a Newb, what funny blunders did you commit?

[Tahquitz]

I hated City of Heroes for the first 8 hours... went from Level 1-13 on using only two attack powers with no idea how to add the ones I picked.  At level 1, I drug my powers from Tray 1 to Tray 3 while triple stacked and then collapsed it.  I changed to Tray 3 and used it that way, wondering where my new powers appeared.

Fortunately my roommate was a 5 year vet.  He fixed it before I threw a tantrum when he got back from work.

[Floride]

Jumping off of buildings for a few hours trying to get the next "recieved damage" badge.

[thunderforce]

I got my first character, an elec/elec blaster up to level 26 or 27 before I realized that just because several different enhancement types could fit into a power, it did not mean that I had to use each possible enhancement type in each power.

I score that one; ended up slotting Brawl because I already had one of each possible enhancement type in each set power. Oops.

Eventually, I ended up deleting that character as it had easily 4 or 5 levels worth of debt.

There was never, as far as I can tell, a point where this was possible. In issue 6 the cap changed from 10 deaths-worth of debt to 5 (but in-mission debt was halved in issue 5, so the issue 6 cap is 10 in-mission deaths) with some tinkering later, but it's never been possible to get a whole level in the hole, let alone multiple levels. Perhaps that's another one for this list: thinking a character has an amount of debt that makes it unfeasible to go on.

I also score "not knowing about the exit button", and my new contribution is "Went to Hollows, accepted blind invite without prompt for team teleports on." Fortunately, I got a relatively mild version of that prank where you got dropped on Wincott's head rather than in a mass of Trolls.

[General Idiot]

Could be worse, you could've fallen prey to people who used to TP unsuspecting folks in Peregrine Island into the guard towers near Portal Corps. Originally they were fully enclosed so while you could be TPed in there you couldn't get out unless you had a TP of your own or a friend willing to TP you out. The devs eventually put a hole in the side of them for that exact reason.

Also I'll admit, every time someone went afk in a mission I'd see if they had TP prompt enabled by attempting to TP them into a mob. Which was maybe quite mean of me, but I tended to only play with pretty easy going people who just laughed at stuff like that.

[thunderforce]

Could be worse, you could've fallen prey to people who used to TP unsuspecting folks in Peregrine Island into the guard towers near Portal Corps. Originally they were fully enclosed so while you could be TPed in there you couldn't get out unless you had a TP of your own or a friend willing to TP you out. The devs eventually put a hole in the side of them for that exact reason.

Didn't Pocket D have such an enclosed space when first released, as well?

Trouble is, sometimes TP prompt would earn you a faceplant. I would turn it off when teamed with people I trusted.

[srmalloy]

There was never, as far as I can tell, a point where this was possible. In issue 6 the cap changed from 10 deaths-worth of debt to 5 (but in-mission debt was halved in issue 5, so the issue 6 cap is 10 in-mission deaths) with some tinkering later, but it's never been possible to get a whole level in the hole, let alone multiple levels. Perhaps that's another one for this list: thinking a character has an amount of debt that makes it unfeasible to go on.

It was never possible to get more than five bars of debt, which -- by the debt payoff mechanic -- would never keep you in the hole for more than half a level of advancement (assuming that you didn't collect additional debt along the way). Additionally, I seem to recall -- but I'm not sure, so I'm not claiming this as fact -- that, back when you didn't get XP while exemplared down (and needed a specific teammate to be exemplared to), the XP you weren't getting would be applied against your debt, so that if you were in a hurry to burn your debt off, you could exemplar onto a team and turn all your theoretical XP toward reducing your debt.

[thunderforce]

Additionally, I seem to recall -- but I'm not sure, so I'm not claiming this as fact -- that, back when you didn't get XP while exemplared down (and needed a specific teammate to be exemplared to), the XP you weren't getting would be applied against your debt, so that if you were in a hurry to burn your debt off, you could exemplar onto a team and turn all your theoretical XP toward reducing your debt.

Correct, or the same effect was seen in no-XP mode once that was added. However, it's worth noting it didn't really achieve anything; your net total XP ended up the same either way. There's just a slight chance if you use this technique that you'll be able to get a bit of extra debt on a defeat which would otherwise have gone over the debt cap, which is counterproductive.

Also, Patrol XP changed matters a bit; since you can accumulate a level's Patrol XP, you can effectively get a level's worth of debt-equivalent before you get into actual debt. Patrol XP functionally tripled the debt cap for some use cases - it just didn't look like debt.

[Kyriani]

This may not qualify as a "newb blunder" but my first character that got to high levels didn't have a travel power till after they raised the level cap beyond 40 he he.

She's an ill/rad controller and sprint + superior invisibility was her "travel power" lol. It was definitely an interesting way to level. I just had too many powers I absolutely felt I needed to fit a travel power in. Of course much later down the road we got things like temp powers and what not which made such situations far easier to deal with.

[Tahliah]

Let's see, I tried to kill a giant octopus by myself, I got teleport thinking I could click a spot on the map and port there (not just the zone map, either *blush*), I took several different travel powers on the same toon (and no fitness pool at all), I six slotted fly, I thought you had to leave missions to go train new powers the very second you dinged, I didn't realize you could move the map and kept it in the center of my screen while trying to run around essentially blind, I didn't understand how chat worked so all my messages were essentially spam . . . sadly, the list goes on and on.  COH was the first real MMO I played (I had played Diablo way back in the day), and there was a great deal to learn (and unlearn--I was afraid to go to the hospital because I thought someone could come by and take all my gear and inspirations). 

[gstauf]

First character, Rad defender.  Duoing with someone else, picked too hard a fight in Kings Row, so we were running away.  But the mobs kept following us, and following us, for some reason, normally they would leave you alone after a bit, why the heck did these mobs hate us so much?   Good thing I had Radiation Infection running on them, to reduce the damage they were doing to us. . .

[Spellcaster Hana]

One of my toons, a kinetic melee scrapper. I don't usually use a melee character (I'm a ranged type person) but I was on a team and since I have a lot of Knockback powers, I just went ahead, knocking everything out of the way. The leader was a tank and he kept telling to stop using KB. I didn't know what KB was back then until he caps locked "STOP USING KNOCKBACK!!!". I'm like: "...oh...oops! sowwy, my bad...". Good thing he didn't kick me out of the group...  :-\

[Justice Blues]

First character, Rad defender.  Duoing with someone else, picked too hard a fight in Kings Row, so we were running away.  But the mobs kept following us, and following us, for some reason, normally they would leave you alone after a bit, why the heck did these mobs hate us so much?   Good thing I had Radiation Infection running on them, to reduce the damage they were doing to us. . .

The best part of that happening was the other mobs that would get aggroed as you ran by them. "The crowd chasing us is getting bigger! Run faster!" ;D

[Tahliah]

One of my toons, a kinetic melee scrapper. I don't usually use a melee character (I'm a ranged type person) but I was on a team and since I have a lot of Knockback powers, I just went ahead, knocking everything out of the way. The leader was a tank and he kept telling to stop using KB. I didn't know what KB was back then until he caps locked "STOP USING KNOCKBACK!!!". I'm like: "...oh...oops! sowwy, my bad...". Good thing he didn't kick me out of the group...  :-\

I will say that--generally speaking--the COH community was pretty good about things like this (not kicking people for still learning).  Yes, I've seen people kicked from teams for things like this, but it didn't happen that often over the years.  That wasn't the same for trials, but then again, that was end game content so some degree of knowledge of the game was expected (rightly so), but it always made me uncomfortable when trial leaders would be totally rude and horrible to someone who was running a trial for the first time and didn't know X yet.  I usually ended up sending tells to the poor soul being castigated for not being as adapt at running whatever trial as someone who'd run it a hundred times.  It got kind of sad, though, toward the end, with people announcing up front that they'd never run X trial before and asking if they could still join.  Anyway, I ramble off point since my point was that most people I ran into in COH were very nice and helpful when people didn't know what to do or not do.

But I did a similar thing when I first branched out from my "regular" power sets: I was trying a dark/dark . . . troll, I want to say, right after controllers could use dark.  Anyway, it was in some tf, and I didn't realize that my shadow fall made it impossible for the hostage to follow.  Now I feel like a complete idiot, of course, but at the time, I simply didn't know.  I'd run that tf a zillion times with all kinds of toons, but I guess if I'd ever run it with someone running /dark, I never noticed them turn off shadow fall.  Or realized why they'd done it.  Anyway, it was horribly embarrassing because I wasn't still (technically) a noob, but I sure was acting like one on a new powerset! 

[dwturducken]

...
Anyway, it was in some tf, and I didn't realize that my shadow fall made it impossible for the hostage to follow.
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Ya know, this was something I kept doing almost right up to the end. Some things are just easier to miss than others, for some. :)

[Floride]

Ya know, this was something I kept doing almost right up to the end. Some things are just easier to miss than others, for some. :)

I was notorious for:
"wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww on my way!"

[dwturducken]

OK, how's this. I just made the connection between Doc Samson and Doc Delilah. Just now. While getting dinner ready. *facepalm*

[Floride]

OK, how's this. I just made the connection between Doc Samson and Doc Delilah. Just now. While getting dinner ready. *facepalm*

Newb!  ;D

[dwturducken]

I know!  :roll:

[Jordan_Lee]

OMG, this makes me smile thinking about it.

I was a stupid noob. I used training enhancements until my 30s. I didn't know you could delete enhancements from your trays until level 20s or 30s, so I pretty much used no enhancements because they were all red. And this was when SO enhancement drops weren't common.

I took Flurry from the speed set (enough said)

Though, I was an MA/Regen scrapper, so my attacks were quick to make up for not hitting half the time, my energy refilled nice on it's own so I could attack a lot.

Oh, and as a scrapper I took Hover and Fly. Going forward taking Air Superiority was a common thing for me to do if I wanted a flight character.

And I actually spent money at Icon to change up my costume at level 20. lol I ended the game with over 70 costume tokens, at least...seems silly to spend money on costume...

:'( I miss my heroes

[microc]

learning curve with my bubble shielded mm with robots...turned on the power on at the wrong time the whole team and bad guys get squished and killed and i standing there alone.