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

[Richard]

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.

[Harpalina]

LEAVE THE EGO'S AT HOME I JUST WANT EXP I DON'T CARE HOW GOOD YOU AREN'T.

lmao. Unfortunately, there's no avoiding cocky crappy players in the game...

[Saefinn]

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.

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.

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.

[ThaiChi]

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.

[Harpalina]

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...

[blizz]

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.

[Sagian]

*Stare* What server was this on? >:O I've had this happen before in a few parties over the years. Could you be one of those people!? Must...not....facepalm....must....destroy....

LOL! 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'.

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.

[Harpalina]

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.[/COLOR]

OH MY GOD. I would be *crying*...

[Sagian]

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.

LOL! Was this a factor in the subsequent parting of ways?

[blizz]

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.