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

[Meyi]

A level 90 white mage asked me how to cure the other day. ^^;

[Dijana]

Got a few more I thought of.

Once way back when I was lvling whm sub in an ls pt in dunes. Had a friend come in on rdm (not his main). We were fighting crabs in the trees where all the leeches are and I noticed the rdm diaga one time. I assumed he just did it by accident and let it go. Then he did it again. I pointed out to him please dont do that, if you hit a leech they're all going to link on us. He did it another 2 times and twice we of course, got links. By the 3rd time he did it, whoever the tank was had grabbed his links to try to save him and rdm immediately ran to selbina to save himself. Much yelling ensued.

Another was a noob moment from myself. My first job was smn and because of my time zone, all my friends had gone to bed by the time I'd get home from work on weekdays so I'd always just exp alone. After getting to 75 I still had no diabolos and my new bf (who also played) organised a group to get him for me. My sole responsibility was to curaga to wake everyone when slept. So we all buffed up at start, I drank my poison pot, everyone got slept including myself, went to curaga and....nothing happened. And I couldnt move. After spamming that macro a few more times I realised I was slept still and my poison wasnt waking me. I forget what happened then exactly but we still won, after getting yelled at by a few people one of the guys realised that since I had soloed smn I'd probably never had to deal with this rule, nobody had ever told me that I had to cancel stoneskin for poison to affect me ; ;

Earlier than that I was soloing crabs on my smn in kuftal using shiva to sleep then rest when I needed mp. Had a guy in my ls beg to come along as 40 something whm for skillups and was very insistent about it. Told him how I was fighting with the sleep - rest he said ok. So then I went along, got it near dead with barely any mp left. Sleepga, release, go to rest and...it immediately wakes and starts to kill me. I realise whm had put dia on it. He claimed he did nothing when it was slept to wake it. After he had to raise me and I started fighting again. Same thing happened, although this time I saw it and tried to outlast it before releasing, but just ran out of mp and died again. He then decided to tell me I was no good at this soloing and left, then started laughing in ls about how I was trying to sleep dia'd mobs and people called ME the noob >_>....

[Greatguardian]

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.

This is 100% fact.

Also (@Saefinn), most high level players are pretty chill. The people who tend to run their mouths off all the time in Port Jeuno about how awesome they are are typically mid-level morons who think they're hot stuff. Most of the best players in this game tend to keep to themselves or their friendgroup. It is universally frustrating to deal with mule-headed or willfully ignorant players.

[Ravenmore]

What GG said. Noobs will be noobs no matter how hard you try. I know many mages that don't get why you try and stay at max casting range or say they don't use windower so no way to tell. When the game it self tells you.

[Teraniku]

My nooby moment happened when getting THF AF Dagger. I'm on my lvl 42 ish THF near Beaudeaux before the MPK patch. So I go in pick one close to the zone and try to steal the soup then zone. Well this other guy was there fighting stuff and I guess he got in trouble. So I see him zone out and he doesn't say anything to me. So I zone in to try and steal again and I swear every Quad in the zone is at the Zone point, so of course I'm insta killed, and the guy doesn't even attempt to give a sorry or try to get me a raise. Would have been cool with it if I'd just gotten a [Danger] say or /tell, then it'd have been my fault for going back in there.

[Logandor]

Okay I got a great one. This happened about a week ago. I teamed up with some friends and we were heading out to get my last white mage feet seals when this dnc/war comes from the flux and forgets to put up spectral jig. We watched as he aggro'd 8 bombs and offered to pull them off him and only once his hp hit 10% did he shout help me but never accepted the party invite. We kept healing him but after the 8 were killed he still wouldn't use the jig. We asked him why he didn't use it. His answer and I quote "What the hell is that?"

[Ezikiel]

LVL 90 BST was asking for help on shadow lord

[Shibayama]

So when I first started like 6-7 years ago, I had no idea how to open doors for my first few days. I have no idea *why* I was so baffled by them, maybe i didn't understand targetting or something. Also I distinctly remember being in the goldsmithing guild in bastok trying to craft for some reason and this guy asked me, "Hey do you have a LS?" and for some reason I thought he was offering me a Light Crystal to craft with, and because Light crystals were 'Ooooh special can't find them around bastok' I eagerly said yes. You can imagine my surprise but it was because of that linkshell's mercy that I was able to learn a lot haha.

I gotta say this thread is both hillarious and terrifying. My boyfriend just recently started playing and I usually keep a close eye on him and level/do quests with him but I fear for the day when he decides to do something on his own and he'll get a group with some jackwagon screeching "OMG ur level XX how do you not know to do this thing that hasn't come up your brief stint of playing yet but I expect everybody to automatically know it because being over level 50 means you know everything about this game!!!11 /kick" Not that he makes mistakes a lot and I've been pretty good about teaching him, just you never know whats gunna happen.

[Zyeriis]

LVL 90 BST was asking for help on shadow lord

BST can deal magical damage?

[Ezikiel]

BST can deal magical damage?

Your pets can. Cant remember fungaur name.