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Back when I first started, I saw a stack of silk trade items on the ground. I kept trying to pick it up and wondered why I couldn't. I thought they were really good items or something. I thought, since they were named silk, that you could pick them up and buy items from the item mall with them. A higher level player kept coming up to the stack and asking me what's up. I had no idea they were trade goods

I thought the same thing I did a 5* trade at level 20 and did not get passed the bridge at jangan cus npc thives killed me I remember cursing them thinking they where real players.

Many similar topics have already opened, but still make me laugh when found one like this.

First of all, I've never played any other MMO/PC game before SRO, exception some funny crap on my sister's C64 in 1990-92, so I did not have the faintest idea about games. Luckily a friend played on Troy, he told me many useful advices in connection with stat points and skills.

My stories,

* did not know skill window can be scrolled-down
* my biggest inspiration was to learn the skill what the zombie girl uses and the other what floating a brightning textile/silk over characters' shoulders
* once I met a guy who pwned hunters and traders at devil bug area, he gave me his loot and stated to teach how to robe and sneak away, few minutes later he asked "Hey, how much time left on scroll?" I was suprised and said "Sorry, what are you talking about?"
* I never used teleport scroll and horse untill Lv.30, thought they are too expensive, better if I travel on foot (it was great in armor, w/o grass walk)

and many others I can't remember now...

Thanks for topic Bg_Dream

You're welcome

I have a similar topic on my forum....but...it's in bulgarian, so it's kinda pointless to tell you to check it xD ...so i thought....let's check out what other players didn't knew and have done wrong...i have seen similar topics here, but there are always new and fresh people with new funny stories Thanks all for your replies, i really enjoy to read them Hope all of you do too

When I was lvl 10 or so (after ages of grinding because I didn't know anything about skills, so I grinded with a 9 lvl gap xD) I was invited in a party with a lvl 17 guy. I thought he was a god. :o

And I was always scared for orange mobs, Because in those days the levels of the mobs were not mentioned so I always ran 100 meter away when I saw one. xD

I remember seeing a zombie girl with grass walk speed and I was like: ZOMG at lv 50+ thieves float!

1. Lvled all masteries to see the atacks
2. Only used normal atacks+imbues because I didn't want to spend too much gold on MP pots
3. I tried speaking with city spammers and gold bots
4. I refused to stall so my gold never went higher than 90k
5. I usually had all the job suits on my inventory in case I found loots, one day I found a bunch of trade loots at jangan, I grabbed them all with the lvl 20 horse and then went right INTO THE FREAKING MAIN DOOR trying to enter the city... I obviously got raped by a high lvl hunter

When I started the game there were NOT goldminers and spambotters. If a botter stucked in an obstacle (like DW teleport gate) people globalled how lame it is, the whole server came there and could not keep from laughing. Great times!

When me and my friend started playing we didnt know how to exchange, so we used to drop items on the ground and pick it up again.. Once he dropped lvl 1 soX bow and a pet got it =S

I still use that trick to get money from my first account to my second account, can't find any other way to do it :s

i saw someone selling sos blade lv1 for 10k. bought it and then got scared that someone will access my account over that sos blade cos it was so cheap so in panic i npced it

i though sro farming is done on mangyang area cos there were fields and ... farming?

when i went trading for first time i got attacked by random player and he killed my camel. i didnt do trading for half a year probably.

i tried typing different codes so my chat would turn yellow

oh well...when i was a noobie(2006 summer^^) i always tried to pm the npc THIEF till the day that i make my first trade and after it i understanded that they werent players,Feeling noobie

and first time a saw a sos sword i asked to the guy if he was a GM cause of the shiny weapons and he said of course i can make u one too for some gold,and give him 12k gold to make one too,then he ran away....

i got an alchemy drop from a earth ghost, it was a potato and i kept trying to put it with my hp herbs and i couldnt figure out why it would stack with them. they had the same picture...

whahaha DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD


dun rmember my funnies, but i didn't know u can scroll skill list down.

A lot of guys probably did this too;

When I had my first char I lvl'ed up about to lvl 12 before I started thinking about how to get skills.
I thought I was lucky when I met a guy who invited me to his noob guild.
He told me how to get skills......this is what he said press U and go to guild....you will see a little heart..press on it and hit ok...

Great!! all my sp (about 500) was changed into GP :S
He said thanks and kicked me out of the guild.

When I was around lvl 15 with that char I still had only lvl 7~8 skills.

So i started a new char and became pro

remeber to kick his ass when u lvl up

Never saw him again, also was to noobish renembering his name its about 1 year ago

So I used to spawn protectores and tell other noobs that it was tiger girl's spirit and they all atacked it

did this to lol

Some people say a picture is worth a thousand words. And if this doesnt bring laughs I dont know what would! lol



*ps I am the dead glaiver, just after I found out how nasty npc thieves could be*

That happened to me I saw some people casting nukes and other nice skills and I was always wondering what the hell is that skill? It's not on my list

i saw SOS everywhere when i first logged in i didnt know what it stands for so i thought they needed help

so i was like u need help or something and the guy didnt respond i was like is this an npc? can't be.... i got really confused then i found out like 2 weeks later....

I reached lvl 10 without any imbu or weapon skill.
I started shooting the mobs with a bow, and when they get close, i switched to a sword ...
I didnt know where to buy arrows so i bought them from the stalls .
It took me some time to realise that i can scroll down in the skill menu ...
I sold my first weapon elix at the NPC because i thought 20k is a fking good price.
I thought the thiefs must kill every player by pressing the alt button ... than i wondered why was my name became red.
At my first guild trade, one of my guildmates had to came back for me at the ferry because i havent got 500 gold with me to use the ferry.
I thought that my crit 11 bow dropped from an earth ghost has a very bad crit...

I was a very big noob

i thought if you grind on the same thing,, it be easy XP .. so i was lvl 11 grinding on mangyangs
thinking it wud be
easy xp and 1 hit ko.. ROFL

I'll put them in order.

Put points to int while playing glaive.

Did not know about skills till lvl 12-15.

When I did figure out I could have skills I put sp into ALL of them thinking I would be awesome.

Did not realize I could scroll down in the skill menu till lvl 20-25.

All of the above eventually led to the demise of my first character.

Back when I was a noob, I thought that since when people traded, they had items that were "red silk" and "white silk", I thought that they actually were giving players "Silk", which was used to buy premium items, and that's what I thought the names where after the "red silk" and "White silk", and I thought it must suck when someone jacks their trade, because they just lost their real life money.

I used to think NPC thiefs were real thiefs, and I wanted to be a thief because they were always so powerful and would kill me so quickly when I was a low level, so I would ask people "How do thiefs appear after trades? How do you find trades?" And I thought that there was some sort of special teleporter that teleported you behind a trade, and you could rob it.

I was so proud when one time, I was hit by a thief, but I didn't die in one hit! Sadly, I died when it hit me the second time.

I didn't know you could buy potions, so I would never use potions, and would only sit down to regain hitpoints and mana until level 21. I would only use potions while fighting giants. I used to sit down until my mana and hitpoints were fully charged before I would then use zerk. I used to grind normally using a bow, but I would only use arrow combo and cold imbue, I didn't use antidevil because I thoguht it took too long to launch. But when I went into zerk, I would change to sword and shield and use fire imbue.

I used to wear capes all the time while I grinded, and I would hate it when high level players would come and kill me. After I became level 20, I would grind in a hunter suit to throw off suspicion that I was actually a thief, but then player thiefs would always come and kill me, lol.

One time someone asked me "What level are you", while I was grinding in a hunter suit, I was lv 20 and I lied and said I was level 26. Then the guy changed into a thief suit, and zerked, but I still managed to kill him, lol.

I didn't use autopots until like level 35 or something.

I'm sure there are way more.

I also thought that Tiger girl and all the other uniques were just really strong players who logged into the game sometimes, and I thought it sucked because they were always killed, and I was scared to get to a high level because then it would announce when I logged into the game and tell everyone where I was, then people would try and kill me.

lol nice.

my first char ever was a very bad hybrid lvl 28 (took me months...) with heuksal lvl 25, fire/light/ice/force lvl 23ish....and had 0 sp lol. was a fun build tho ^_^

I don't know if this was for every server but I remember while grinding in tiger mountain
if a giant tiger appeared ever player in the immediate area would run over to it.
As if this action of rarity required the participation of so many people.

It was quite the spectacle to see so many noobs in zerk on one tiger giant

*Take in note this was back in the old days when the majority of players were legit and many were low lvl.

Hhihihihiih same here i was feeling so sorry about the poor TG

From what i red here i think i'm the one of the few people still playing with their first char. I guess it wasn't SO messed up, it was just a hyrid int bow, so i switched to s/s and it was all fine

Oh yeah, I also didn't know about skills until level 7, when a nice person explained me step by step on how to use them. Before that, I would add the skills, but I thought they were applied automatically

I also, would make every character a 1:1 armor sword user and when I got to level 8 I'd restart. I also grinding by going south for mangyangs, then further south for ghosts, then further south for the poison ghost guys in the river, then further south to fight weasels, lol.