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

[Korpg]

Personal experience.

I went into Castle Oztroja for the first time, so I didn't have a map yet (haven't gotten it yet I mean). I was there because I was helping others with rank 4 quest (them not knowing I was also on the mission).

Got my cutscene, I warped everyone else out. I thought "this is a good time to go exploring" so I did. I was a level 50 BLM at the time.

I get to the four switch door not knowing that the code is somewhere else, so I decided to try opening it myself. The mobs behind me checked EP, so I knew I could just sleep them and all that. Not knowing (or realizing) that I didn't have any MP, because being the noob I am, I forgot to rest after sending all those people home.

So, I'm hitting my sleep macro when I realize I have no mp, so I tried to run for it. Not only did I get lost trying to get out of there, but I managed to link the entire zone, including the 2 NMs on both north and south sides of the first floor (campers there were afk, go figure) and died RIGHT in front of the zone out. Almost made it.

That was my greatest noob moment in FFXI history.

[Zatias]

Long time ago, I was pulling a bunch of mobs for a pt I was PLing for a friend.

The new BLM saw all the mobs I had and decided to test his new AoE spell: Stonega!

He died a horrible, bloody death in a matter of.... eh a quarter of a second and all the delicious exp I had trained had gone to waste, but I could not stop laughing.

[Psxpert2011]

back in the days when things were simpler, I was invited to a party in the jungle. I was a level 29 War and gone through a whole hour of exping, it was great exp then. That was the time I though we were ready to fight something different and pulled a white lizard. The End.

[Psxpert2011]

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

Great sig, very nice. Oh and I got deterred by the animation videos on the site. Sorry about that, "...Misi's mom, got it going on~...!"

[Zyeriis]

Yesterday, Bennu.

While tanking: "Protect/Shell Can I have it?"
30 seconds later...
"Protect/Shell Can I have it?"
Some time later...
*Tank dies from lack of cures and lack of Protect/Shell"

*Tank is Raised*
*Tank uses Mijin*
*Tank is Raised*
*Tank receives Protect*
*Tank receives nothing else*

A few minutes later...
*Some one aggros Ouzelum while they're still fighting Bennu*
*Back up tank goes to Mijin Ouz to get him off party*
*Everyone who was told not to touch Bennu except for procs decide to fight Ouzelum*

/wipe + /Bennu despawns + /facepalm

[RabidSquirrel]

A party in Yhoator Jungle with a BST/WHM with abysmal gear and using a sword. One guy in the party says he should at least go and get an axe. So the beastmaster death warps to San d'Oria, runs out to Ronfaure, and kills Orcish Fodders until he gets an orcish axe.

[Drhatchet]

Recently I was in a party with a PLD that AVERAGED barely over 200 damage Chants with level 90 Almace.

[Babekeke]

Recently I was in a party with a PLD that AVERAGED barely over 200 damage Chants with level 90 Almace.

Just goes to show that any idiot can get the best gear if they have good freinds ><

[Drhatchet]

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

Some of the better players (you don't have to be elite to be good) gave up on teaching others because others typically don't want to be taught. I can't count the number of people I've met that don't gear swap for anything, then write the job off as crap later. I've seriously had at least 4 variations of "then I have less inventory space" when I tell them about gear swaps, and some even called me a cheater stating "Its a glitch/hack/mod that lets you do that!" Some noobs learn (I happen to have a few I've helped over the years on my FL), but most seem to be noobs by choice.

[Kiroko]

Where: Aby
Who: A lvl 90 something
What: Was asked to invite someone to the alliance and was given the lead, they were silent for a few moments and replied they didn't know how to invite someone to a pt, and when they tried they ended up somehow disbanding. What rock had this dude been living under?