Okay so back in the day I'm on my way to a dunes party and blood tear was up. An alliance of 60-75 were fighting it and I stood at a distance for a bit watching. Next thing I know two of the plds and three whm are all dead. I'm all omg it's gonna go yellow n kiiillllll meeeee!!! So I left them feeling a bit scared about the NM.
Another one was when I was in my 50s on ninja right after the mpk patch was put in and was partying deep inside Gustav Tunnle. The whm who was the leader was an idiot so my husband and I got the the rest of the party to get him killed. He was also missing spells that a friend was supposed to be bringing. Anyways his replacement R2s him he doesn't take it sending a /tell of course after getting mad at the party for killing him saying he has same friend coming to R3 him.
Was helping some people with promy-holla. This was before the level cap was taken off. This guy on war says he needs to afk and that he is on follow. Doesn't inform who he is following on so not knowing it is me I do a gear swap. He almost agros a good section of floor 3 when he comes back. Later on the same floor he gets distracted while on auto run. Argos like 5 mobs. We kill them all but not without having to zombie a few along with some mobs that agroed while we half alive. Haven't done much with the person since then.
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03-25-2011, 03:05 PMLithera
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03-25-2011, 03:17 PMZyeriis
I won't go into details but if I recounted every time I went into the Sacrarium for CoP 4-3 with a shout group/helping a group that has some one I know in it, I'm sure I'd facepalm a hundred times, mostly about people dropping sneak/invis while surrounded by fomors, or epic fails against Kermet. Or even more epic fails at fighting the professor. Or /facepalm moments at people going ON the count of 3 while the other person goes AFTER the count of 3 for the double key door, and the key breaks, making us waste another hour getting another key. Cannot forget those awful swift belt runs to boot.
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03-25-2011, 05:35 PMGdsmsonn
The most noobish one I've seen is when there is that ONE person in your PT that is bragging about whatever (usually how awesome he can do *any* job or the job he is in the PT) and you tell him "fine go out and do it how *you* think it should be done".....
They take 3 steps and boom you get a "can I get a raise?!" because the genuis died to a "easy prey" mob....because he was wearing LVL 1 gear at lvl 40.
Also then you have a lvl 50 who died to a "to weak to be worthwhile" goblin in West Ron as a lvl 6 is taking on 2 gobs at once...
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03-25-2011, 05:37 PMHarpalinaHow is this facking humanly possible?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Gdsmsonn
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03-25-2011, 05:41 PMGdsmsonnI am not sure but I witnessed it so I know it happened.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harpalina
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03-25-2011, 05:42 PMGdsmsonnAnd the dude was in my LS at the time. He was an idiot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harpalina
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03-25-2011, 05:45 PMHarpalinaYeah, it's kind of hard to say "Hey...you just kind of suck on many different levels." to someone who's in your LS. When they're strangers in a party or alliance, it's easier because you don't personally know them. Well, if you didn't care for them in the LS, then I guess it would be easy to say that lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gdsmsonn
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03-25-2011, 05:48 PMGdsmsonnLOL the whole LS told him that on a daily basis. And they would send him on random stuff to just get "rid" of him..because he would mess anything up that the LS was doing. He has since quit the game...and last I heard he was over in Japan- but not sure on that part.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harpalina
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03-25-2011, 05:56 PMRaka
A noob moment that I had whitnessed:
An Aegis Paladin in my old, old, old, old Linkshell who thought he could tank and Shield Block Hydra by fighting with his back facing the HNM. He also did this for Kirin, though we were going to kite it. -
03-25-2011, 05:58 PMHarpalina...Why didn't any of the sackholders boot him?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gdsmsonn
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03-25-2011, 06:07 PMRichard
i showed up to a party recently in East Ronfaure [s] and asked if dancer was our main healer if so we were screwed (i noticed our tank was a war/nin) the war began to spout off non sense about he would "Teach me how to war". I ignored his obvious little nerd challenge of "My epeen is bigger than yours" and still his ego got the better of him. He unpartied us and began to solo a colibri just near the camp. I won't lie it was a close fight but after failing to cast utsusemi ichi about 10 times in a row the colibri pecking flurry'd him to death. (We had no white mage, so the warrior had to hp to aht urhgan and we spent another 20 or 30 minutes waiting for him to return to get started on exp)
LEAVE THE EGO'S AT HOME I JUST WANT EXP I DON'T CARE HOW GOOD YOU AREN'T. -
03-25-2011, 06:11 PMHarpalinalmao. Unfortunately, there's no avoiding cocky crappy players in the game...Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard
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03-25-2011, 06:32 PMSaefinn
I'd say it's never a good idea to try and be a show off, because that's when you're more likely to fail.
I was PLing a Dunes party, their leader wandered off to change jobs and I joined one of their party members to take on the NM that was next to our camp. I wanted to flex my muscles and they wanted to see what it dropped. He started attacking whilst I was still buffing, he died pretty quickly (think he was either level 30 or 40), I tried to solo it and died. Luckily I had reraise up. The annoying thing was, if I put another stoneskin up, I might have lived.
In terms of stupid job combos, at level 18, I was MNK/WHM, it didn't get me any party invites and I found it was basically useless. My argument was: well, I need to heal myself, surely?
I'd also say the noobiest people are the elitists who love to flame people and display high levels of douchebaggery. They might not be noobs at playing the game, but they're certainly noobs to life. Saying that, some are noobs at the game too.
Oh, I've run parties where somebody's just standing there lecturing another player on how to do their job. I think we had a PLD who was receiving lessons in being a tank (he was doing fine IMO). I don't mind getting advice from other players, after all, I can learn something, but I don't go around voluntarily telling people how to do their jobs when they've not asked for any advice. But of course, the fact your guy got himself killed is pretty funny. Whilst I had a show off moment above, I didn't bring my ego to the table, because I know I'm probably not the best Scholar in the world, the fact I died proves that. :P After all I should have been able to solo the NM.Quote:
i showed up to a party recently in East Ronfaure [s] and asked if dancer was our main healer if so we were screwed (i noticed our tank was a war/nin) the war began to spout off non sense about he would "Teach me how to war". I ignored his obvious little nerd challenge of "My epeen is bigger than yours" and still his ego got the better of him.
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03-25-2011, 07:29 PMThaiChi
Ok. This ons is good, and I hope some other people on my server come and back me up. Hope someone from Quetz is reading this. We had this one player, affectionately known by the initials JRS, who claimed to be the best player on the server. He has sooo many stories, yet this is the one thing is that defines him and most of the people who inhabit Quetz know of this story, I believe through our server forum.
So this guy, JRS, is seen in an exp party around.... 52-58, possibly 60 in a colibri party, level synced down from at least 74. This was his job combination : SCH/NIN. Now /NIN doesn't seem too debilitating, but once you get to his reasoning for it, you can join the collective /facepalm that the rest of us have actually come to miss. When asked "why /NIN?" he responds "for shadows, obviously". "If I cast Utsusemi: Ni and then Utsusemi: Ichi, I'll have 7 shadows".
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You read that correctly. He vehemently claimed that this worked even though the members in his party were telling him it doesn't. There was absolutely no way to convince this guy that he was wrong. He had several flame threads about him posted up on our server forum and has since then hopped servers because he was ridiculed on a regular basis, and harassed almost everywhere he went. Not to say he didn't deserve most of it, he never actually showed any in-game etiquette to the people who tried to help him out by giving him proper information. The best ones really were the mass amount of different BLMs who would sit in Whitegate and blind invite him, probably while he was shouting nonsense, where he would accept party invite, and then be retraced.This has happened several several times and each time he returns to whitegate, demanding to know why said BLM has cast retrace on him, typically within the next 5 minutes.
I would tell more stories but his n00bism is legendary, and I honestly can't remember them all and hope someone else from Quetz stumbles on this thread and contributes. Every time someone brings up JRS its always good for a laugh. He's on Bahamut now, some of us on the server miss the laughs he gave us. -
03-25-2011, 07:33 PMHarpalina
I feel bad for the Bahamut server lol. Um...7 shadows? Really? Like...really? I mean, ffxiwiki, c'mon! If someone is telling you information and you don't believe it, check wiki...
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03-25-2011, 07:53 PMblizz
ok i have one. And this is kinda classic my x wife decides she wants to play fffxi and she gets hooked up in my ls at the time and she makes her first trip to to holla to get her tele crystal. but she finds the broken one first. she asked why she could not get the tele crystal and i went to her screen to make sure she was at the right place she wasnt. so i quicky told her omg you broke it. she asked how do i fix it? i said i dont know i never broke it before so she proceded to juneo and shouted for over a week on needing help to fix tele crystal so other players could get it. what made it worse was everyone in the ls was on board with the joke and kept asking her if it was fixed yet so they could tele there.
Worst noob moment ever. x-wife wanted to use my account to go fishing cause she loved to fix and hey i didnt want to lvl it. so i let her use my toon i leave for work for the day. Come home have a nice dinner sit down to relax and log into the game. I am in full fishing gear. i look at my fishing lvl and it says level 10 i am happy. i open my invintory and i see a plethera of moat carps. I am happy. Thinking its a great day i go to start turing in moat carp for lu shang look in my mog house and see more moat carp. Still hasnt doned on me. I then go to change to a job to go to events. then i look at my mog house a little closer. WTF. the ohh shit button hits me right in the face. I call for my x wife. Where are all my sellables at. had a extra set of hq staves a few sh+1 a cursed harness-1 haubys+1's all missing. She replys. I was in your mog house so i just threw them on the ground can't you just go back in there to pick them up like you can in Diablo 2. I needed space for more moat carps.
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03-25-2011, 07:56 PMSagianLOL! I'm on Titan, but I've only done that once, so I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one involved in such an 'incident'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zyeriis
Once the rest of the party finished with their various forms of /facepalm-ing and generally making fun of me, I apologetically asked them to replace me and made the run for my crystal. -
03-25-2011, 07:59 PMHarpalinaOH MY GOD. I would be *crying*...Quote:
Originally Posted by blizz
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03-25-2011, 08:06 PMSagianLOL! Was this a factor in the subsequent parting of ways?Quote:
Originally Posted by blizz
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03-25-2011, 08:06 PMblizz
here is another one that just completly blew my mind.
A certain pld on fenrir server who just at that time recently got his aiegis. was out at adamantoise. his party entailed him on pld/nin. and a rdm and 3 whm. camping in secret and missing the claim cause didnt want to fight a nq turtle was only day 3. we sit back to watch the show to collect tod. As we sit there waiting everything is going smooth. Now all the mages where cureing. 1 of them was probley set up on a cure bot program. but the end result 18 min into the fight the pld falls over dead. This player did however become a much more humble player after this occured. -
03-25-2011, 08:08 PMblizz
lol no it was a honest mistake and i learned a valuable lesson lol.
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03-25-2011, 09:47 PMThaiChi
So apparently someone made a youtube video of this guy i mentioned.
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03-26-2011, 03:49 AMGdsmsonnHe was RL friends with one of the owners. So, in order to keep his sanity outside of the game - he left him in LS. But he was on ignore for 99% of his time there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harpalina
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03-26-2011, 03:56 AMHarpalinaWow...that is amazing...when your stupidity turns into infamy...Quote:
Originally Posted by ThaiChi
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03-26-2011, 04:48 AMMieraLMAO OMG WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY???Quote:
Originally Posted by blizz
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03-26-2011, 04:52 AMMieraThe hell did I just watch?Quote:
Originally Posted by Harpalina
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03-26-2011, 05:18 AMHarpalina
Okay I just had a /facepalm moment...For DRG AF1 quest, you gotta go out to Altepa desert and find a ??? and fight an NM. Well, me n my friend fought it...I forgot to check the ??? after killing the NM and warped home only to realize that I had to re-do the fight. I only assumed the NM dropped the key item...f*cking Abyssea...
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03-26-2011, 05:29 AMHarpalina
Ooh that story I just posted reminded me of a time, years and years ago, when one of my high school buddies used to play FFXI with me (he has long since quit) and we were all in a perma party in my old LS. We were all helping each other do our AF quests. Well, it was his turn on RDM and we had to go to Davoi. We had to fight that NM that dropped the Davoi Storage Key. The rest of us passed and he lotted. Shortly after he lotted, we get the dreaded message that none of us could obtain it and the Davoi Storage Key was lost...we were all like, "WTF!?" He checked his inventory...and it was full.../FACEPALM
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03-26-2011, 07:36 AMMiera
I remember a time when I leveled RDM and I kept hasting everyone including the RNG, I didn't know that Haste didn't help Ranged Attack. ;o I was akso trying to be a good RDM by keeping everyone hasted so people didn't whine.
Speak of Hasting a RNG, I remember back when I did Merit parties on my RDM and we had a RNG in our party who wanted to go balls out and show all of us what a KC RNG could do... so He told me to haste and keep him healed.
I have never seen a RNG use a KC before but now that I witnessed it I don't ever want to see it again... Especially on Colibri..
It looked like this.
The Greater Colibri readies Pecking Flurry.
The Greater Colibri readies Feather Tickle.
The Greater Colibri readies Feather Tickle.
The Greater Colibri readies Feather Tickle.
The Greater Colibri readies Feather Tickle.
The Greater Colibri readies Pecking Flurry.
The Greater Colibri readies Pecking Flurry.
usually by the time the Colibri is dead my MP is at 0 and the RNG is dead.
He died like.. a lot.. WTF you think I have a infinite MP pool with super fast cast? D: -
03-26-2011, 08:15 AMHarpalinaThat's the stigma we have to put up with as mages. Especially as a taru...people think because we have a load of MP that translates to forever there MP. No, douchebag. We do not have unlimited MP. SMNs are not healers just because they have auto refresh as a job trait and tarutarus do *not* have a million MP to cure your weaksauce defense ass.Quote:
Originally Posted by Miera
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03-26-2011, 04:46 PMRambus
We had a returning ls member today and i took him in an abyssea party. it was a good party and he was gaining te.
then we got BLM that fulltime dark staff and mp gear for nukes.
so we told him when you hit 10 mins just leave -.-
this is the bad side of abyssea being easy, people play jobs that wouldn't be with exp being slower ( i seen a lot of pt leaders kick people for performing that badly.)
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03-27-2011, 02:55 AMSpamtastic
hahaha. had a good one in one of the promys before level cap was removed. we're on the 4th floor resting up before the run to the zone. one of our guys goes running off and brings back a notorious monster. his excuse for running up to it was "it looked like a bush".
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03-27-2011, 03:35 AMMeyi
Yesterday I offered to help some people kill Kharon for seals since I needed to kill skeletons for my Magian Staff.
We didn't have a BLU or BRD, and the two people who were /nin didn't have the elemental wheel. -slaps face-
BLM can cover half of the spells, but that's it. The other half I can't do on my own. -
03-27-2011, 04:28 PMVenat
Not really a noob moment but a troll moment where back in the day as thf id link/argoo ton of enemys in crawlers nest and flee them to the zone and it would not only kill everyone but slow down exping partys and everyone period. This was before monsters could despawn on lost hate.
I was a Fiend back in the day of old school.
Makes me think how far FFXI has came from then and where FFXIV stands now where FFXI used to stand.
Of course im not a fiend anymore with beinging a #%@^ on FFXI you cant get anywhere. -
03-29-2011, 02:06 AMHarpalinaOoh I would have black listed you so hard...Quote:
Originally Posted by Venat
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03-29-2011, 02:44 AMRamsos
My old linkshell had this terrible rdm. One day when we were killing aspi, his job was to handle adds. On the pull, we get a single raptor add. He has "one" raptor to take care of. About 3 minutes later, another raptor starts attacking the tank. It is slightly damaged, so we start to think that another shell DoTd it to try and mpk us. We tell the rdm (Ill refer to him as "T") to handle the second add. This is when we notice that he is dead. Turns out this new raptor is actually the original one. His excuse: "I cant solo these raptors without joyeuse". This moron tried to melee the raptor down with a staff instead of sleep/nuke it lmao.
Another story about "T". Me and a friend go out to duo cacatrot rapido on rdm+brd. This guy asks to tag along. We feel bad since this guy is constantly made fun of and rarely ever asked to come do anything, so we let him tag along. His sole responsibility is to poison rapido. 25 resists later we discover that he doesnt even own a NQ water staff. After loaning him a HQ staff, he "still" couldnt land poison.
Another story about "T". Claimed that his provoke recast is 25 seconds when he wears turban. -
03-29-2011, 02:46 AMwish12oz
When Andylynn/tearvalynn(same person) said blade: jin was wind damage.
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03-29-2011, 02:47 AMHarpalina.../facepalmQuote:
Originally Posted by Ramsos
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03-29-2011, 04:29 AMMcFlurry
Playing the game for the first two months without a linkshell as RDM, taking that long to get to level 14 because I kept running out of HP in North Gustaberg fighting consecutive mobs, and when I did run low, running back to Bastok Markets to get my HP back in my Mog House.
Because I didn't know you could /heal. -
03-29-2011, 04:41 AMHarpalinalolllllllll...ohh....ouch >_<Quote:
Originally Posted by McFlurry