Favorite WoW noob moment

[mjdoom]

Been there, done that.  Just thought I'd pass on a tip in case you didn't know it already.  You can bind a key to flip the camera.  I have mine bound to "y".  When backing up like that, I flip the camera often to see where I am going.  I also flip the camera back and forth when drinking/eating in highly populated/quick respawn areas to see anything coming up on me.  The only problem I have with this is forgetting that the camera is flipped.  I stand up and start going the wrong direction because forward is into the camera rather than away as usual.
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This reminds me of a camera mishap I had once. Instead of flipping the camera I usually look around using mouse drag. Occasionally this disorients me and I start walking in the wrong direction because I expect to walk in the direction I'm looking...

On one occasion I was standing on the broken part of the Thandol Span looking around trying to do the quest where you find someone's body somewhere near the span (or so the quest text said, he's actually downstairs in one of the span towers). In my haste to run back off the span after I didn't see anything by looking I accidentally walked off the span instead :D Thankfully I landed clean in the water so I just had to swim out...

Due to my unfamiliarity with the Arathi Highlands I did not realize that there was a ramp out of the water only a few seconds east of me though so I proceeded to swim west back towards the nearest point I could exit to the Wetlands, thus increasing my downtime while I recovered from my accidental fall.

There was one benefit of the whole event though, in the process of swimming out of there I stumbled across Faldir's Cove :) Fun times.

- mjdoom