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

[Thizzerio]

Saw someone paralyna some random dude who was fighting cactaur in A altep, by oasis, then stand by him, watch him brew, then get 1 shotted by ??? needles while the guy finished off the cactus.

[Neisan_Quetz]

Paladin pops Invincible versus an IT Wind Elemental (complete with macro accompanied "I shall not fall! {Invincible}!) and dying to Tornado in Kuftal tunnel skillup pt.

[Thizzerio]

Paladin pops Invincible versus an IT Wind Elemental (complete with macro accompanied "I shall not fall! {Invincible}!) and dying to Tornado in Kuftal tunnel skillup pt.

lol,..... hahahaha

[Enxane]

Only thing i can think of is when a pt i was in had a pl in yhutunga and the lead and the pl both wanted to kill Overgrown Rose cuz they thot it was a boss(their words).I told them a "boss" checks as impossible to gauge not incredibly tough but noooooo. After PL hit it once he would call for help and tell us to fight it. He did that twice, I just watched then left pt.

[Aerius]

I'm pretty sure I do something every day that makes someone facepalm.. >.>

One example, in Abyssea Attohwa, me and a 2 friends from the linkshell were duoing Aggressor Antlion. One friend was SMN90 and the other was BLM90 (me being SMN as well, but lv71.)
We were kiting the darn Ant, and my Garuda was supposed to keep the Ant busy when my friend's Garuda died or was Released (and my Garuda actually did sometimes!) So when I saw him Release his Garuda, I thought "Oh, we're probably pulling back for a reason! Release, quick!" (I have a phobia for doing something wrong,) I hit the Release Macro and at that moment realize that I maybe shouldn't have done that as the ant gets closer and closer.

Luckily we were able to pull right. We still lost, but not a 2nd time. Floored him the 2nd time!

And one day I was heading towards some LS friends who were camping a Tonberry NM in Abyssea. I didn't have the Confluxes in the area so I sneavis'd up and started running towards them with Carby out. What I didn't notice however, was that at a certain point Carby was no longer following me. However I noticed that as I arrived at the battle scene and as I looked back I saw an imp headed towards me in all it's glory, just having beaten my Carby to a pulp. ;_;
Ofcourse, once again, if I recall correctly, I got the whole team wiped.

OR! When we went to fight the pugils BCNM (shooting fish?), me and my dear SMN friend headed towards the burning circle, only to find out that I still had my old orb. I had forgotten that you don't get a new orb if you still have your old one.

Oh and by the way, this all comes from a lv71 SMN, though even today, at Lv90 SMN, I have at least 1-2 fails every day.
Sometimes it makes me feel like I'm perhaps not really made for this game, but the addiction and the rare "good job!" moments do make all the fails seem minimal.

I know two things though, 1.) I still have a lot more to learn, 2.) I love the Linkshell I'm in. I love every darn player in it, they're very kind and I thank them for all the patience they have with my often-facepalm moments.

(Also, P.S.: The above, is only a fraction of a fraction of the total of fails I've had over the years.)

[Kavik]

mmmm biggest facepalm moment... I don't really have one in my noobish days becuase my cousin was very strict that i not suck or be noobish, so i knew a lot before i even had a subjob XD I did have a facepalm moment the other day as 90thf in oldtown mavop though, i'm training gobs and bugbears (and bats because they come with the gobs) for alchemy mat drops when i attack one of the bugbears and ws it and it doesn't die... O.O? this thing just took a 1.8k DE to the face... wtf? oh shit thats an NM! *proceeds to kill it* damn... good thing my train ended there it could have killed me XD

[Fumbles]

Crawler's Nest party. 5 people in an ls invite me (A red mage) to heal. I come down and realize these crawlers aren't dying very fast...and they are reaaaally getting hammered by that thing. Turns out the highest lvl gear someone was wearing was lvl 12 harness....

When confronted about this, they said they had no gil and farming was too hard. Needless to say this red mage took his services elsewhere. EXP was abysmal and there weren't enough cures around to keep them alive.

[Zyeriis]

Caedarva Imp Party.
White Mage healer.
"Why aren't you healing us?"
"I'm silenced!"
"...Use an echo drop....you do have some don't you?"
"What's an echo drop?"
"It's like what we're about to do to you, except it removes silence, and is actually useful."
/facepalm

[Starcade]

I'll give you one that drives me up the wall.

We probably would've gotten a Fiat Lux win if most of the party that we had would've gladly deigned to actually bring reraise and shadows to the fight!!!

[Zyeriis]

I'll give you one that drives me up the wall.

We probably would've gotten a Fiat Lux win if most of the party that we had would've gladly deigned to actually bring reraise and shadows to the fight!!!

Back when Fiat Lux first came out:
*Gets full party, finally, after hours of shouting.*
*Takes most of party up to the castle, except maybe 1 or 2 stragglers."
"Where's Castle Zvahl?"
/facepalm