Think back to your noobie days..

Ahh... I remember the good old days of being the unfortunate ignorant noob.

The things that stand out most for me are:

As soon as I had cleared pre-searing (which I did as quickly as possible not having much time for 'noob' areas and missing all the skills) I ran out of ascalon straight up the hill and got owned by the two devourers that spawn there. God knows how long it took me to figure out you actually had to have a party to play this game successfully.

Then I have some faint images of my Mo/R (my first character) running around the Kryta area with a bow, bow skills and smite skills. I don't ever remember people spamming chat ordering me to heal them though. Perhaps I had it turned off. Wouldn't surprise me.

Anyway they are two highlights of my Guild Wars noobie career. Now I wonder, what are yours?

I am very much looking forward to being a noob again in Factions

I remember my first character, a Ranger/Elementalist.

I thought the combination of Firestorm and Ignite arrows was the best thing ever.

Pre-searing ascalon for the first character was my fondest memories of this game.

god i loved pre-searing so much i spent like 2 weeks in it on my first character. when i went through searing and saw ravaged ascalon. it took me a few days to want to play again.

Same here. I think I spent something like 30 hours in pre searing before I decided to take that final quest. The cool part was I had no idea what to expect, and to tell you the truth, the minute I saw the new beat up ascalon, I was disappointed. I miss the pre searing ascalon.

My main character, now a R/Me, used to be a R/W.

I figured: Bow skills for "sniping", grab an axe or sword if any foe should come too close. Oh, and I can use the pet as a tank, too. All about the soloing, but....hmm......damn, only 8 skill slots. And preperations? Take waaaay to long, no use for them :-) let alone expertise. who needs that attribute for crying out loud? no skills for that. ahem. yeah, well, with that kind of attribute, energy and skill management in the beginning I still wonder how I got this far......

My first Char was a Meser, was like im the ownage at the start of game killing things with my conjure pahntasm.

Half way through the game i couldnt kill anything with the degen spells, i deleted him at level 16 for a warrior that actually did damage.

My first character was a Ranger/Mesmer. Ran around in pre not really knowing what I was doing, eventually went to post. You know how Warmaster Tydus gives you a quest and says that Alesia will want to help you out? Yeah, I thought to myself, "Wow, that's very nice of her!"

I may have also actually talked to her.

I'm gonna go hide now.

Thats interesting...My opinion of mesmers is that they start as weak, and dominate(no pun intended) Towards the end of the game....nothing says kiss my ass murssat like domination mesmer


Incidently my first character was a Me/Mo

Pre-seering was great! Shame the rest of the game dont look that good maybe anet got bored or something lol

My first char was a w/mo cause people said it was best, so i used that but didnt like it So started again as a w/r, played for ages in pre with him! Use to farm spider legs and sell them at the fort "WTS 3 spider legs for 20g"..... happy days

lol my first character was an elementalist. She didn't make it past pre-searing, or maybe she did, but she certainly didn't make it too far past that.
Then I had a ranger who went all the way.

However my greatest newbie moment had to be that I spent several weeks in pre-searing without realising that there was another section to the game

Illusion mesmers kill things so fast at the start its unreal, then as things get more life illusion mesmers suck really bad. I didnt go try domination tho...

Ahhh...pre-searing...the good old days...seems such a long, long time ago.

I spent many weeks there with various characters doing all the quests that I could find. After they were done, myself and another newbie spent many more days going across the wall time and time again just to wipe out all the charrs there. They were challenging, dangerous and most of all...darn right scary.

lol yeah the first time I did the north wall I did it with henchie and kept thinking over and over, I'm not going to make this, I'm not going to make this, the new section is so hard. How wrong I was. After a couple of days I had no problem - my ranger was even lvl8 at the time.

My pre-searing was in the kryta, Lion's Arch, during WPE (world preview event); I wore the crappiest armor (thank god they werent that crappy) all the way to maguma jungle wondering where can I find materials for armor crafting. Clearly, I sold every salvageable items without knowing I need to salvage them.

Most memorable was that, Aurora Gate was highly populated. I passed it on 2nd or 3rd run, don't remember... but it was a good fun feeling of accomplishment as of then.

I explored every aspect of pre searing with my first character and still missed several quests. Having some guidence from my brother who made a pre char to help me out a bit, but mostly I was wondering around alone with my necro.

My first character was an Elementalist, which I hated very much.

Deleted him after about 30 minutes of playing.

Made a monk, name Ember Loreweaver (this was in beta, btw.) Finish Pre, and started partying, and fell in love with being a monk. I love how busy I am keeping everyone alive, the feeling of someone saying "good job, Ember" it's just great.

Wow, just thinking about my noob days make me smile a bit. I remember in Pre, I ran with my monk as far east as possable (I was in Ashford, and didn't know about Forst Ranik yet.) I walked by a hill, and saw a huge glowing golden statue. At first I was like "omfg, beautiful. I then pushed alt, and saw that there was a "basket of apples" at his feet. I imediately thought "OMFG, I MUST HAVE THOSE APPLES!"

So I ran for it, a few spider fell, and I took them out with ease. I finally got my precious basket o' apples, and that then is hit me. Something has to be guarding these apples!

I started to walk away, then about 15+ spiders fell from the three tops and the statue. I freaked and started running, thinking to my self "There apples must be expensive, I'm gonna go to town and sell them to whoever bids the most, MUAHAHAH!" In about 10 seconds I died. I couldn't believe it, I had the most wonderful item in the world in the grasp of my hands.

I found myself awake afterwards at Ashford Abby, cursing the damned spiders of the statue! I started spamming in local "Hey, I found a 'basket of apples', is it good, what's it used for?!?!?" No one answered, so I just kept on spamming.

About 3 minutes later, I got a pm saying "stfu nub, those r for quest!!!1"

That one pm to my noob self has stopped me from asking anyone for help in local.

My noob character was a monk with a severe identity crisis uncannily similar to what Alesia sufffers. Yup, a mo/w trying to be a warrior with some healing, and of course since it was a noob char without the nifty monk spells that could make such a thing effective, it didn't take too long before I learned to become a proper (albeit still nooby for a while) healing slave.

So here i was, in the pre searing, with my e/mo, and i cast a enchentment on my friend. suddenly, 1 energy regen was gone. i gouldnt get it back. then freaking out, i cast the same spell on myself. ya, that only made things worse.
long story short, i had a hard time with the whole 2 regen for the rest of the time, and after i zoned, i didnt use enchantments for about a month, untill a friend showd me how to end them

Quite hilarious

My early days...
WPE:
played a R/W thinking: shoot arrows, I like ranged attacking. and warriors are though. I'll be one mean ranger!
Getting severly hurt by the abundant hammer Wa/Mo's (hey, I had no idea how to play a ranger!)
Last hour of WPE: hey, what is this 'Expertise' thingy? Hmm... that is interesting. I had been playing all the way with 0 expertise.

Early days after release:
- Bought a non-max longbow with sundering mod for 15k thinking I would lay the pain on those monsters! Yeah baby!
- spend a week walking in Ascalon area till I found the first mission post
(Hey, I was exploring the game and working hard for my lvl 30 armor!)

looks like we have pretty similar early-day-R/W-experiences. ("exper-what?")