#0 - Sept. 2, 2010, 10:11 a.m.
The chat box was instantly full and scrolling too fast to read when I logged on my first character. I figured I needed to learn how the chat functions worked before I dare attempt to kill those mean looking wolves. Then someone challenged me to a duel and I accepted and was quickly defeated. He seem to be laughing and yelled "noob warning" so everyone to turn and look. I desperately tried to chat but opened a macro box, then i accidentally moved the whole chat box and changed its size and appearance. I couldn’t ask for help before I learned how to use the chat box and several other people were emoting /ROFL at me. It was so embarrassing that I logged off and deleted that character and made a new one. I was then in a different starting area, one for dwarves.
I did not attempt to talk and ran off before anyone found out I was noob and was surprised to see the wolves were not attacking me until I attempted to click on the closest one. Here the chat box chatter scrolled more slowly and I finally figured out how to talk in the general and found out how to whisper. There were a few nice people, but most were so stuck up that they were ignoring me before they got to know me. I did not know what Spamm me not was and thought I had offended them somehow to deserve the silent treatment.
I levelled fast after I figured out how to use the attack buttons like sinister strike and put on new equipment. But when my first green dropped I got scared to put it on thinking if I did I never be able to take it off to put on something better. I had read in chat someone write dot put on greens you don’t really need, sell them or they will be BOUND to you. And the greens did warn me with a warning window that if I equip this then it will be bound to me.
Levelling was slow once out of the starting area, I got killed a lot and had trouble saving up for vendor equipment while having enough money for repairs and things needed to level engineering and leatherworking. I was lv 16 by the time someone did not laugh at the ease someone 5 to 7 levels under me could beat me up, he whispered to go to bottom and find the icon for talent points and use 7 points. He also asked why I was equipped with no greens or a blue. He gave me 25 gold, 4 16 slot bags and a boost where we did all of westfall, including dead mines
