The noob moments that you have witnessed that made you /facepalm...

[Kingofgeeks]

read through

http://lvlup.gd-tangent.com/view.aspx

and read all of it! its full of awesome nooby moments and is an awesome manga style ffxi web comic

[Kingofgeeks]

my ls has a lot of noobs in it that wanted to party one day. instead of making multiple parties, we decided to make a roaming level 10 alliance in the dunes... while it was a lot of fun, holy crap did it not work :-P

[cidbahamut]

I had a Black Mage that tried to attack things with their wand and cast elemental debuffs that overwrote each on in Crawlers Nest once. It made me very angry.

[Olor]

getting an invite to a garlaige party and arriving to find that two of our members had no subs and were wearing lvl 1 taru racial gear

[Olor]

When your ls is talking about another ls and some idiot misses his /l and its legit

Or even better when you are crabbing to your LS about someone in the party and mt into the party chat. fun times.

[Harpalina]

Ugh someone today came to a Garlaige Citadel party (in the late 40s) said they didn't have a map. It's 3,000g for one in Lower Jeuno. Really?

[Flunklesnarkin]

When scars of abyssea first came out and people didn't know much of how the zones worked..

I use to exp a lot in abyssea misereaux coast..

and it always happened.. somebody would aggro athamas otw to the exp camp.. and massive alliance draw in would ensue xD

[Babekeke]

Farming Despot years ago... Finally he popped and people tried to kill him melee style... Obviously many people died before myself (BLM) and the DRK managed to get hate and pull it to the corner of the map and kite it.
Once the other party members recovered from weakness, they came to join us. PLD was first to get there and instantly used flash on Despot while stood next to 3 sprinklers (Pots). They naturally agrod him and killed him. Since he was the last person to touch Despot, Despot went yellow and another group that was there claimed it.

/facepalm

[Saefinn]

Last Night:

"Pay Me and I won't steal your beetles"

then

"I need somebody to open the Banishing Gate"

Why should we? If you asked nicely on the other hand...

I had partied with the guy the day before and he was a major troll then and it seems, a failure of one, "gahahaha I'm going to be a troll...but I need your help".


Also, I find elitists in the game are the biggest noobs around, it's so ridiculous, yet funny watching them talk. Most of them would rather sit around berating people they call noobs instead of actually helping them learn - I spoke to an elitist about it and he claimed that noobs never learn. Which isn't true, I find myself teaching people, not all of them listen straight away, but they can learn, you're just got to approach them in the right way, instructing people how the HAVE to play their job doesn't work, but teach them what they CAN do and how it helps the party, people can get defensive when you start bossing them around or even start insulting their intelligence - a lot of the time I find myself teaching people about crowd control as my 2 top jobs are SCH and COR, which are useful for both, very few people think to actually cast sleep when somebody aggros or links - it seems people's instinct is to zone or to spread the damage, but I try and avoid that, a lot of the time you can deal with it without zoning. When people try to take on the pulled mob and the aggro'd mob at the same time, it's a real pain when it comes to casting sleep, I just tell them to attack ONLY 1 mob, they do it and I can sleep them and they learn that if somebody in the group can sleep, then you're not going to face and fatalities so long as you're sensible about it. I find it's a lot better than going, "lolnoob" and kicking them for doing something you might deem 'noobish'.

With this, I add Port Jeuno shouts to noobishness, sometimes you just hear elitists say the stupidest things.

[Dijana]

Bit of a long story but this is one of the worst noobs I had to deal with. I was once tanking yacumama on dnc for my rng friend's emp gun trials, when we had another, full pink, dnc come along and want to join us to work on his dagger. He was using the OA2-4 times dagger, with rather horrid gear only managing to spam feed yacu tp and making it so much harder on myself while myself and rng had been managing fine earlier. Told the other dnc if he was going to fight it and make it tp more/hundredfists sooner, then to use his tp to help cure me (since he was sitting on 300 the whole time) did not once cure me.

When I got into a bit of trouble and didnt have enough tp to cure myself as I'd been wsing, expecting the other dnc to cure me, rng started throwing everything he had to get hate off me and give me an extra few seconds to recover. Unfortunately I died before he could get hate, but of course, it immediately went for him over the other dnc. What did mr dnc do? HE...immediately turned and ran away when I died, leaving rng to die. Of course it then killed mr dnc a few seconds later. When asked why he didnt cure me...'because whenever I cure someone I always get hate and die'.

We later told him to just not touch it and use no foot rise- reverse flourish for tp to cure me after assuring him he couldnt get hate off me like that. Instead of curing me (still) he just used haste samba on himself (while not ever fighting anything). When we asked him why he was using haste samba since it only gives me the -delay if he hits the mob, his response was 'to haste himself'.

Horrible noob, but to be fair, he was polite, and grateful, and I can only hope that he had thf lvled as the reason why he had a magian dagger and that his lack of knowledge was based on not having played the job for long (the only time I hoped that someone had aby leeched something I was in a pt with...)