Your derpiest noob moments

Not sure if relevant posting place, but I can't think of any lulsy noob moments I've done.

- Used to Fluid Aura the Slime Boss in Wanderer's Palace into the targeted player trying to kill them. :)
- Fluid Aura'n Blue Golem into the others during T9 (This was an accident)

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Originally Posted by Maleha

I have quite a lot derp moments on regular basis. Some because I am tired. Like yesterday: I helped a friend get his first clears in some dungeons. In Stone Vigil HM we were just past the 2nd boss when I noticed I forgot to activate my stance as monk completely. In my defence, it was 1:30 am in the morning after a long day...

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lol Ramuh EX in our lil random Raidroulette with static... our war was on nin... he died to an overlap and the moment I raise I realized he forgot his poison. I went "Shim! Kiss!" in chat all were a bit "wtf!?" for 30 seconds till he got what i meant X.x
PS ninja stances are poisons called Kiss of the Wasp or Kiss of the Viper
PPS its now a running gag in the static whenever someone is only a second on rogue or ninja

I didn't know you actually had to spend attribute points.

I shouldn't have disabled the active help windows, but i was so annoyed because because i got 12 new ones every time i breathed.

First time seeing a flame arrow thought it was a enemy aoe.

A simple one...
Tanking in Toto-rak, I go running and take a wrong turn to a dead end to where all my party members follow, then I do a 180 turn to fix our route with a "whops".

In my defense, playing dungeons as a tank without mini-map can be troublesome :|
(more often than not I also get lost in Halatali)

LoTA - King Behemoth. Ran to a comet when KB started casting and mistook the whirlwinds for the swirling, player-harmless Ninja AoE DoT... and stood in it to stay behind the comet...... and then died in a silent fit of 'wtf is hitting me??' *facepalm*

Second or third time in Titan HM near release on my SCH.

1.) Target Tank. Toss some heals, all going well.
2.) During the heart phase I decide to help DPS a bit since the tank is topped off (My wife being the tank).
3.) Heart dies, Titan does his thing, everyone back to places and start killing Titan again.
4.) Tank losing HP, casting heals as fast as possible, health still going down. (Didn't use Cleric stance on heart).
5.) Tank dies, realize didn't re-target tank after heart, been healing myself.
6.) Wife unhappy with me.

I went into AK (normal pre-nerf) for the first time blind as the healer, but I didn't tell anybody because I was afraid I'd get kicked for being new. I just kept getting caught in Demon Wall's aoes and thrown off the side because I couldn't figure out his pattern over like 10 attempts. When we finally got to the final boss and my map achievement came up, revealing my deceit, the party didn't explode or kick me or anything. They just said I should've told them I was new so they could explain things. I've never gone into a dungeon for the first time since then without announcing that I'm new.

My first time tanking CT I grab hate on the big dragon thingy right away and drag it to the side out of the way. Then I see the giant rear aoe and finally remember I'm supposed to tank it facing the alliance, not away.

As Dragoon on KB in CT, when he was casting Meteor and I was already behind a comet I figured I had enough time to get a standard Jump off that would put me safely back behind the comet. I landed the jump but didn't return. I wondered why until I noticed I had hit Spineshatter Dive instead. That same fight, I used LB2 immediately when it was available, about a second after he had started casting Meteor again. I died again, of course.

Psyching myself up to MT Titan EX on my eventually successful run, "Remember, Tempered Will so I don't get knocked off by 5-way landslide again. Tempered Will on 5-way landslide." 5-way landslide comes up with two lines facing me; try to get to a safe spot and get knocked off. Hit the ground and think, "Why didn't I just use Tempered Will!?" Fortunately, the DRG and MNK (the OT and both other DPS had long ago been knocked off) were absolutely amazing and ripped through over 30% of Titan's health together on top of duoing the adds. The SCH got the win for us, though, as the only one left standing.

I got black mage to 50 a long time ago and have been using it for raiding, and just recently looking at my stats I realized I had put attribute points into mind and piety for some reason. Luckily I had one of those strat attribute changing things on me and so I fixed it.

For the dye quest, I shouted to know where to find orange juice, was told to go buy it in Ul'dah and I blindly did the whole trek back in town to get one.

Months later, I learn there is a vendor just behind the Quest NPC that sells them.

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During one particularly boring Stone Vigil run, while in front of the last boss and waiting for the healer to get through the story cutscene, I took on /throwing snowballs to the boss for fun.

I was on BRD, and on entering the emote over and over I've hit Enter one too many times.

You do the math.

"Y'know, I saw Revelation Casting, and I just did not hit Rampart or anything." - Wournsfeik, in the year of our lord 2015 while face down at Phoenix's feet.

Hit the wrong macro and elusive jumped right off the platform on titan. Loldrg indeed.

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Originally Posted by Bluevann

For the dye quest, I shouted to know where to find orange juice, was told to go buy it in Ul'dah and I blindly did the whole trek back in town to get one.

Months later, I learn there is a vendor just behind the Quest NPC that sells them.

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/soothe Don't worry, you're not the only one.... I remember doing this quest way back when the game was released and did the exact same thing (minus the shouts, I just trekked back). It took me till earlier this month, on a clicking whim, to realize there was a vender right there. An entire year or so to figure this out. ><

It had been a while since I last tanked on my hyur char (I'd been DRGing him) and was helping a new FC mate level his rogue - queued for halatali on Glad, and while I did remember to use cooldowns........ I'd sometimes hit both Rampart AND Foresight (and vice versa), fully aware that they apparently don't stack (or last I'd read). I'd literally pop one, check enmity to flash (had an overgeared BRD that was raising enmity like crazy), completely forget I hit one of the defense CDs already and then hit the other. All in a few seconds of each other.
*Twitch* Memory lapses.... *Goldfish*

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Originally Posted by Bluevann

For the dye quest, I shouted to know where to find orange juice, was told to go buy it in Ul'dah and I blindly did the whole trek back in town to get one.

Months later, I learn there is a vendor just behind the Quest NPC that sells them.

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Didn't ask, didn't look it up. Ran straight to the MB and bought two (one for myself and one for my wife). This is the first that I've heard it was on a vendor. Don't even know how much they cost lol. I paid 2k each for them, This was a month or two after ARR released.

Derpiest moment was at game release, playing Ifrit story mode with my THM....keep using only Ice spells on him, because....you know....it was Ifrit...

Derpiest I could think of...

BLM, think rotation is Fire 3, Fire 3, Transpose, Blizzard 3, Fire 3, Fire 3 etc
Not realizing I'm doing crap DPS.
Realizing it's my fault we can't pass the Demon Wall
Going to a training dummy and seeing if it was me and my rotation
It was
Log off in shame for a few hours.

*facepalm*

So, I finally got a tank class to 50, WAR, and since I have solds here and there on the way I had everything on ilvl100 but the shoes.
FC mates wanna do an ex roulette and someone HAD to tank so I said, why not?

Keepers of the Lake.

My very first level 50 dun as a tank, with a very noob for healing healer, and one of the DPSers was a Zeta BLM...

I tried my very first mass pull ever!!! and also did my very first messed up party wipe as a tank \o/!!!
On my defense, I had agro on all the things when that happened! >:U! (even if I only lasted 3 seconds)

I leveled Bard after my BLM and I was doing Cutter's Cry. On Chimera and we were at like 15%, other DPS was dead. I go "Oh shoot! Need to LB!!"
*Doesn't realize that Bard doesn't have damage LB*
*Uses LB2 as Bard*

I caught mine in video >.>...

It was my first time doing the Steps of Faith...

I shall join in on the chorus of posting our own derp moments! Because I too have had my share, especially during the earlier years when I first started. To break it down:

Derpish stuff I did back then and haven't done since: (Yet)

1: During my very first dungeon run ever as an Arcanist, I had Topaz Carbuncle out for the whole dungeon run. (The tank didn't say anything about it) Later on, I came to realize that Topaz, being a tank pet, doesn't do as much damage as Emerald Carbuncle, and failure to realize that a competent Tank player is all that's needed for holding enemy aggro. Since then, I've never summoned tanking pets in dungeons again... unless I see that the player is being a "lolTank" and not holding aggro effectively.

2: Related to 1, I used to always have my pets set to "Sic". This was failure to realize on my part that the pets Ifrit and Titan had stun moves, (and Garuda kinda) which they WOULD use if set to "Sic" and build stun immunity on the enemies.

3: Related to 1 and 2, during my first Ifrit HM fight as a DRG, I kept throwing out leg sweeps and Spineshatter Dives out of habit for extra DPS. I failed to remember that these moves inflict stun, which while not entirely needed for the fight, it DOES make things easier when you can stop "Eruption" from going off during the final phases of Ifrit. I facepalmed myself over not realizing that I made it a bit harder than it should have been.

4: Suggesting that my friend be a Gladiator when we first started the game together, not realizing at the time that A: It's a Tank class and B: He's a very horrible Tank. (All he can usually think about is killing stuff. Little details? He's not very good with little details) When another friend (and now a FC member as well) joined a little later and noticed it too, we both agreed to persuade our "Tank" to never tank a dungeon again. It was hard to get him to stop too, due to his insane love for swords. (The biggest reason why I suggested the class to him in the first place) After agreeing to get him his PLD relic weapon, (because he's that stubborn on collecting everything he can so much as touch in games) he's never tanked again. Good thing too IMO. Guy could hardly hold aggro for the life of him, let alone dodge attacks. He makes for a decent BRD though, as both me and my other friend agreed on. (IMO, BRD is the easiest class/job to pick up and play as anyway)

Derpish moments that I may still have on rare occasions:

1: Any time I activate sprint as a melee DPS or BRD by accident... Double the points of frustration if I did it as a PLD. Triple if I did it as a WAR. (How the hell do I hold aggro now!?)

2: One time, I elusive jumped off the arena in Titan HM as a DRG. Yeah... talking about having a lolDRG moment...

3: Related to 2, I once Shoulder Tackled too soon as a MNK into a Landslide. Didn't die though.

4: Attempting to activate Hallowed Ground and thinking I did (cause I have a macro for it), when in truth it had like... .5 to 1 second left on cooldown, resulting in me NOT using it and taking a massive hit for it. Similar results with huge pulls on rare occasions.

5: Flipping through my hotbar menus too fast or not at all (for whatever reason) and thus pushing the wrong buttons. To explain briefly, I had this moment in WoD:

*During battle against the first boss as I'm playing as WHM*
Brain: "Ok. Adds are coming. They need to die ASAP. We can hit both if we use Holy while keeping our main target cursor on the MT, so that we know when to pop out of CS and heal as quickly as needed. Don't forget to throw out a Medica II in there just in case the adds use that damn AoE attack."
Fingers: "DERP!" *Somehow switches forward a hotbar instead of going back to Hotbar 1*
Me: *Pushes button where I had the spell "Holy" set up on Hotbar 1... but is on Hotbar 5 instead. Cue the following LS message in chat for my hunting LS:*
Chat Log: "BOUNTY MARK IN SIGHT! *Insert player name here* is hiding at *pos*!
Brain: "Wut?"

Said LS got a laugh out of it anyway. "The new S+ hunt I've been hearing about?" one of them asked. Even though we all got a laugh out of it, I was still doing ">_<" at the end of it, lol.

That's all I can remember for now. I might post more later.

I main WHM.
Every time I start a dungeon and ppl are like standing... doing nothing... I keep wondering what's keeping them, and then someone points out on chat "protect plz?"

Then I go "OOPS SORRY XD" and cast it.

That still happens, BTW.

Tried tanking T9 for the hell of it in df.First few pulls go alrightdas expected with us wiping to heavensfall. On the last pull... screwing up a CD timing so I eat first ravens entirely unmitigated, then sentineld at the wrong time, and it fell off right before the boom.


PLD is not my main.

I'm a BLM and I still don't get the point of Freeze... ._. ...

I was healing a dungeon as a WHM once (or trial) and forgot that I had access to cure II until the big fight was over. D'oh!

Most recent Derp moment. Doing High Level Roulette as a WHM. It doesn't pop right away so I switch to BTN to do the crafting beastmen quests. I'm out in the swamps of Mor D. and the Routette pops. Switch to WHM, and wait 30 sec, b/c people always go at the start. Thinking that might be enough time to allow my skills to reset.

The Lost City of Amdapor pops. I cast protect and the tank runs off. So no stoneskin. As we are running I also realize "oh crud, I don't have Benediction, b/c it's on cooldown".

<start Derp>
--Brain goes "Keep the tank alive".
--Brain goes "Hey Cure III must be better then Cure II, so now you can use that spell you hardly ever use".
--Madly start spaming Cure III on the tank.
--Making sure to hit Shroud early so that I could at least try and have some MP later.
--Fight get's over and no one died. I am almost out of MP, and Benediction is still not up
--Tank mentions in chat "You know Cure II heals for more then Cure III right?"
--I almost start to argue but decide to check the popups.
--$H!T #%&@#$
--Thank the tank for reminding me.
<End Derp>

Also discovered that it's now possible to ignore the doors at the end. Painful but doable now with gear.

That time in T9 learning when I figured Fluid Aura knock back wouldn't work on the golems it never works in boss fights right? lalalala well...it does...aaaannnd hulk smash super golem death wipe time.

Level sync derps..... a good chunk of the time, when I'm in a hest roulette (it's 90% turtle hest...) I keep trying to spam cure II or Stone II. Resulting in a spam of nothing. I catch myself before anyone dies, but it's still annoying >.> Sometimes that also results in me switching my Stone I and Stone II hotkeys so I can spam Stone I more effectively while skill synced. Then I go into a raid or trial or Garuda EX and spam Stone I, like a nub, because I forgot to switch it back -.-
(luckily that only happens with Stone I/II, since Cure I/II don't need to be moved, for my setup... Hotkey #2 and #4, while Stone II is #1, Stone I is #9 - can be used but is out of the way. I keep my most used towards the beginning of the # row by my movement keys so I can just reach, tap, and move my hand back on the WASD keys).
Sometimes happens in low level dungeons, but not nearly as much...

Level 45-7-ish synced dungeons, when shit goes wrong, though.... *Slaps Bene with a burning, dire need - Death is the only response...*

I really like this thread. It makes us all so much more human (rather than feeling like you're the only one that messes up and everyone else is godly...).

Walking into a crafting guild, and upon looking at the supplier's inventory, I was wondering why I didn't see anything related to GSM(the current craft I was using at the time). I looked around and saw that rose guy instead of the GSM guildmaster, and realized, I was in the Weavers Guild instead of Goldsmith.

One time...many times, I would set my pet to Obey and not realize that if I locked onto an enemy my pet would attack it. This led to this memorable line from Stone Vigil (Hard):

"THAT IS NOT OBEYING! THAT IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF OBEYING!"

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I really like this thread. It makes us all so much more human (rather than feeling like you're the only one that messes up and everyone else is godly...).

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Same. It's the exact reason why I watched the "Fails of the weak" videos that revolved around people messing up horribly in the Halo videogames. If you ever feel like that the bad luck and horrible judgement skills only happen to you, just watch one of these videos!

And now we have our own version of that via this forum thread, lol.

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- Running past the Forked Lightning target on my way to the Egg in T11, only to get clipped by it.
- Getting Forked Lightning and moving away from the group, only to run straight into our healer and almost hitting them with it.
- Popping off Blood for Blood right before Nerve Cloud hits the room. Not a good idea.
- Getting killed by a mechanic, hearing the raise sound effect and hitting buttons so fast you end up teleporting back to the beginning.

Those were just in the past week in raid -.-

So, me and my friend are helping one of our FC mates rank up her Chocobo in the stable by feeding it, sadly only one can feed it once per hour, so we often "compete" for it.

I say "compete" because I always forget all about it.

And this one time I finally managed to sneak up on her to feed the acursed bird, was all happy to see the "ready" and laughing behind my friend's back, hur hur hur, *click*, *message pops* "this bird exp for this rank is already maxed, it wont gain any exp unless rank cap is broken".

OTL

I went to Turn 10 as a bard for the first time last night. My highlights were:
- Repelling Shot out of Sacred Soil before raidwide damage.
- *Almost* Repelling Shot out of a tether I was supposed to soak, not quite, but a split second after I hit the button I realized what I'd done and clenched.

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Originally Posted by Bamboofox

I went to Turn 10 as a bard for the first time last night. My highlights were:
- Repelling Shot out of Sacred Soil before raidwide damage.
- *Almost* Repelling Shot out of a tether I was supposed to soak, not quite, but a split second after I hit the button I realized what I'd done and clenched.

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Personally I love to Repelling Shot into instant death walls myself xD

had a new derp moment last night lol been stuck on 59 triad cards for quite a while over 300+ shiva/levi runs no drops so dropped onion knight card from WOD last night im like yaaaaaaaaaay thinking i might get somethin for it i go wander over to achievement npc n guess what?? gives me 3 cards LOL!!!! i facepalmed so hard last night and my girl wouldnt stop calling me derpina LOL

I joined a T8 farm party a few weeks ago. It was going... pretty poorly, but we were having fun so nobody complained. I got AF in one of the runs, ran back to the corner and got Gaseous Bomb. I sat there for a few seconds looking at the beam going "Dafuq is that?" Then I realized it and tried to sprinting to the group. Needless to say a solo soak Gaseous Bomb is a wipe.

Doing T10 and seeing we had wild charge but no heat lightning had gone off then i noticed the tether line a little late needless to say i murdered the drg/monk >_>

Did trial roulette about two weeks ago - finally didn't get SoF or Ifrit HM, but did get Garuda HM.
I haven't done Garuda HM in ages (just have a preference for Garuda EX if it's Garuda anything).
I forgot the fight and the differences in the mechanics between HM and EX :|
I started doing EX anticipated mechanic movements.

Insert over-geared healer confusion derps.
That must have looked wonderful. 10/10.

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Well, at least I didn't die to anything... except in wishing to crawl in a hole to do so.