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After losing a duel:Newbie: "Can you please tell me what I have done wrong?"N00b: "omg! u just luky i got lag! next time i pwnz you im teh best imba u fukin nub!111"
I don't know the day I no longer became a newb, but I can tell you that the day you stop asking questions is the day you become a noob. :PI haven't done all of Nax 25 yet, nor have I completed Mal. Does this make me a "newb"? There is no clear answer. I say we simply forget the term "newb" and just have fun playing the game. All others previously labeled "noob" will now be labeled as "Banned". xD
I was thinking of this the other day. My answer is:When you are in a PUG, and you are able to react to the unexpected and 'save the day'.A big example of this is when a DPS notices the healer pulled aggro and either CC's or takes aggro off the healer. In that situation, a 'noob' would just keep dpsing the main target and never even notice the healer is getting beat on.or the shadow priest, or moonkin, who after the main healer dies, is aware enough to switch over and heal the tank for the rest of that encounter.In my opinion, you lose your 'noob' status when you can easily see 'the big picture' enough to react quickly. It isn't about levels, or gear, or achievements even... it's more about the ability to understand the game and react correctly. I'm sure there are lvl 80 hunters in i200 epics who don't understand threat mechanisms and know nothing except their rotation.
Your not a newb anymore when.You understand basic mechanics of the game. (mana/energy/rage . tanking .. healing)Know what each of your talent specs are used for.and other basic stuff.... If som1 helped you into the game this should happen in the early 20s.If not, and you a fast learner around 20s-30 =Dthats what i think at least.
You stop being a newb once you realize what type of gear your character really needs, for instance, if you're a warlock, you stop being a newb when you stop getting gear with strength on it and getting daggers with melee effects over staves.
I belive that you are not a newb when someone at endgame or near it can have a conversation about how a noob wiped their raid group yesterday and you understand why he is mad and the mechanics of how the wipe occured.
Very interesting topic, and in my opinion in depends on who is calling someone else a newb. Due to the fact that everyone probably has a different definition of newb. So, the word newb can only be defined to a point. However, to stop being a newb requires you to know everything... which is impossible. But however, that is just my defination of newb.
When you decide you want the level 61 green instead of the level 60 shiny epix
I think that someone isn't a newb when they dps prgreses so that there auto attack is no longer in there top 3 dps - for casters its when they don't oom in 3 seconds =)