Embarrassing confessions-

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Originally Posted by Malmstrom

I'll add another one to the mix. This is a bit of a hard one...

I have never cleared an Extreme or higher fight while it was current content. I did not do ARR Extremes until SB when I could solo them. I have only done a couple of Extreme HW fights because I was dragged kicking and screaming.

Why, though? It's a bit of an explanation...

I have tons of social anxiety issues.

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Nothing embarrassing or to be ashamed of at all. You'd be surprised how many people are in the same boat. I was very fortunate myself to stumble across a guild purely for players with social anxiety 9 years ago in WoW which made all the difference and is a big reason I still play MMO's and have come as far as I have. We're still around and branched out into ff14 a few years back, have beaten every EX and are dipping into Savage next week.
I'd give FC's another go, even just having company can break the loneliness. It's quite possible there are FC's aimed towards those with anxiety on your data-center, or even just a friendly group you find you click with.

Can understand what you mean with openers on guides or Party Finder descriptions. It makes little sense to me first time too. Guides in particular are aimed towards experienced Savage players who are optimizing their gameplay. The majority of players are not glancing at a class guide, seeing a 30 step opener, going "cool, got it" and pulling it off flawlessly on every boss after. Most players rotations are all over the place. It's normal, we aren't machines.
Party Finder ...well, PF is PF. A lot of people turn up and don't know what the description means exactly and just try to wing it and pick it up along the way. A nice FC group is a much better place to start out though. Some practice groups will explain, but Party Finder is often a mess where no one wants to discuss strats or work as a team.

I'd recommend working up the courage to give the guy at work a poke ingame. It's scary, but who knows where it might lead. You have to take that first step to get there.

Hope things work out though, take care.

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Originally Posted by Kobalos

Ran a lvling roulette as a WAR and my boyfriend as WHM and went and mass pulled everything in the first room only to realise I had forgotten to pop tank stance and caused my boyfriend to die twice >.<

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Curious Gorge forgives you.


Spent a decent amount of time crafting the wrong gear for the levequest.

I've played since 2011 and still have yet to feel sure in when to pop buffs on DRG and BLM. Both of which I've played since 1.0.

I get kind of jealous when I see a character with all jobs at max level because it's something I feel I will never achieve.

There's some jobs and roles that just don't click with me even after reading guides, which for me is mainly healers and black mage.

So I do not use these jobs in group content and level them via FATEs because I'm scared of failing and holding my group back.

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Originally Posted by Meillquei

I get kind of jealous when I see a character with all jobs at max level because it's something I feel I will never achieve.

There's some jobs and roles that just don't click with me even after reading guides, which for me is mainly healers and black mage.

So I do not use these jobs in group content and level them via FATEs because I'm scared of failing and holding my group back.

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Just do what I do and level them in PvP! After you join Frontline, you can change to a different job than the one you queued as, and still get XP for it. MSQ roulette as well I feel is almost like not playing the job at all since nothing there seems to be too interested in fighting the player.

I likewise couldn't get into BLM, and I'm glad I didn't actually have to play it to get it to 80. Also got GNB to 80 through PvP though I ended up playing it after-the-fact. :)

I have been leveling all of my my secondary characters jobs to 80 recently and when I was leveling DNC I noticed while doing 70+ content, something about by dmg wasn't right. I was doing great in 60 or below.

I go to queue up for Qitana Ravel... and I get the message that my item level is not high enough... and I'm so confused.

I go through all my gear from right side to left side, everything is Augmented Scaeven gear... Cept my weapon which is still the level 60 Augmented Shire.

OOOPS That makes sense. That's why my damage is garbage.

A few months later I'm working on MCH.

Same thing happens again. I notice my damage is crummy in level 70+ content, but I had just been doing really good in the level 60 content.

Go to queue up for Qitana Ravel...

...Item level is not high enough.

Again I am confused. I thought all my gear was good.

All of it was Augmented Scaevan... Except the MOST IMPORTANT PIECE...

I'm sitting there with a level 60 Shire weapon at leave 75 again.

i joined an e7s clear group to help a friend clear when i already had several times before. i know the fight very well, but for some reason i couldn’t play that day and i ended up being the trap. i left the party willingly with an apology, but i still feel embarrassed over it.

As a noob archer, I wouldn't use Quick Nock because I hated the animation (I got over it).

Also when I first started I wanted to be a black mage (which was why I had archer first, back when it needed to be 15 levels or some such of it), and when I got to being a THM, I constantly couldn't figure out why no mana - I technically knew about Transpose, but every time I needed to use it I forgot. :rolleyes:

Oh, also, have let Husband-as-Tank die when healing as didn't realise function keys corresponded to the party list and was manually trying to click on him in mobs in dungeons. He has forgiven me. :D

I'm gonna throw in my own embarrassments and hope I don't get laughed at.

When I'm playing MCH, I sometimes screw up my own rotations and skill set-ups or sometimes pop a potion I never meant to pop. I do have muscle memory, but sometimes it actively works against me.

Bit of a vent confession, if you can call it that. I absolutely hate making giant pulls as a tank, and years of dealing with nonsense in WoW and here to a lesser extent means my trust for pug healers is, in general, extremely low. Even if I know the healer, it's still not something I'm particularly comfortable with. It feels like I'm just surrounded by mobs and praying the dps and heals are all good enough that I'm not literally sitting there waiting to die, even if I know they probably are good enough. Crap happens. And it sucks.

The temptation to just let people deal with mobs on their own when they pull ahead of me or try to rescue yeet me even when I'm literally already sprinting as fast as I can is very high.

The only reason I even play tanks anymore is to work towards the Amaro. At least they have some neat glamour too. :/

Once in Nier alliance I was a healer, with two friends. One was a dps and the other one was a scholar. We had a tank in our party that was completely ignoring everyone\\'s tips and killing half of the party with the tank stack. (Engels
/Goliath fight) it happen multiple times. Everyone was kind enough to explain but the tank said they didn\\'t care.
My friend told me to kill the tank and he will rez me (on discord). So during the transition to the second phase when he throws you on the second platform, I jumped down and rescued him. He was baffled and was asking "what killed me?" Most of the party knew what happen but they never told him the truth. "Oh you stood too close to the edge." "You must of walked off." I was like "oh now how did we did :("
He stayed quiet the whole fight and never killed any of us again. It was amusing.

I already posted here, but I have another embarrassing confession to make.

My main has always been melee DPS and whenever I run a dungeon for the first time, that's what I run as. So whenever I remember a dungeon, I always remember how as a melee DPS to do it.

Whenever I switch roles, all that goes out the window and I somewhat forget how the dungeon goes. If I run it as a ranged DPS, I might forget where to stand and might get hit by something bad. If I run it as a tank I do a little better, but might forget where to double pull for example.

IDK if this is normal or not.

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Originally Posted by Meillquei

I already posted here, but I have another embarrassing confession to make.

My main has always been melee DPS and whenever I run a dungeon for the first time, that's what I run as. So whenever I remember a dungeon, I always remember how as a melee DPS to do it.

Whenever I switch roles, all that goes out the window and I somewhat forget how the dungeon goes. If I run it as a ranged DPS, I might forget where to stand and might get hit by something bad. If I run it as a tank I do a little better, but might forget where to double pull for example.

IDK if this is normal or not.

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Muscle memory is huge.

I've been leveling a BLM after running from ARR to Shadowbringers 5.2 as a DRG and it's been... interesting. I keep going to jump but I end up casting Freeze or whatever I have in its spot on my hotbar. It's painful. XD

Sometimes I forget I’m the healer, especially if I’ve been leveling an alt class all day.

(Thanks, Bene.)

Went into POTD with a friend the other day because they hadn't completed it on their alt and wanted to give WAR a shot besides. I decided to level my alt's WHM. Cue me accidentally killing her mid-pull by trying to turn down my volume and accidentally switching my monitor to HDMI.

I resubbed to the game like 6 days ago. I think. All I did was log in to get my fantasia out of the mail, another fantasia I bought on impulse. Switched to one of my usual presets, as usual. Haven't played the game since. Didn't even check the new update from.. don't know when. Still, resubbed probably just to occasionally make a fool of myself on this forum. Lurked every other day, sometimes had the urge to post. More of routine than anything else, sucks being locked out of it when unsubbed.

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Originally Posted by Malmstrom

I don't know the names of most of the skills in the game, even on jobs that I have played for years. When people start talking about skills and rotations and they abbreviate everything (PS, DS, XQ!) I often have no idea what they are talking about.

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To this day I couldn't tell you what the name of a single Samurai ability is. Despite leveling it to 80.

Why they made all the skills in Japanese is beyond me when they localize skills in every other language. At least with Ninja they only made some of them (mudras) in Japanese.

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Originally Posted by Deceptus

To this day I couldn't tell you what the name of a single Samurai ability is. Despite leveling it to 80.

Why they made all the skills in Japanese is beyond me when they localize skills in every other language. At least with Ninja they only made some of them (mudras) in Japanese.

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This reminds me of a time when I was playing with my one friend who plays this game. I was playing Sam and talking about some of the skills, and he started correcting me on how to pronounce some of them. Apparently, I wasn't pronouncing several skills correctly... for quite awhile :o

One from me and one from my boyfriend regarding Alliance Raids.

From me: I’m on PS4 and the default HUD had the other alliances HP in massive boxes that took over the top 1/3 of my screen. I’ve been playing and clearing these raids for years, but only just figured out how to fix this like... two weeks ago? I hate them slightly less now lol.

From my bf: He didn’t have other players’ effects off, so every alliance raid was a glow fest. I told him how to fix that a few days ago.

We really, really hated alliance raids until now.

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Originally Posted by Deceptus

To this day I couldn't tell you what the name of a single Samurai ability is. Despite leveling it to 80.

Why they made all the skills in Japanese is beyond me when they localize skills in every other language. At least with Ninja they only made some of them (mudras) in Japanese.

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In fairness, I don't know most of nin's skills anyway, English or not :p only one I remember is kassatsu, and that's only cause it's fun to say. Almost definitely saying it wrong though. <.<

Another confession... died a few times on Lakshmi a while back because I somehow ended up with my bard song gauge right on top of the duty button, so I couldn't clearly see either, and couldn't remember how the heck to move the duty button. Spent the whole fight trying to fix my UI and tanking the ground >.<

This isn't really embarassing for me but it's probably the most surprising for you so here goes.

When I was originally leveling up I obviously had the default keys set on most things, meaning as I learned new skills they soon became troublesome to hit if I wished to retain the ability to move at the same time. Most people, as I've later realized, handle this by changing their keybinds to keys that are always within reach. I couldn't say at what point I fully switched to doing it but my solution was to just to let go of my mouse and get a second hand on the keyboard.

This is how I still play to this very day. Inside instances I only touch my mouse if a boss jumps and I need to look around to see where they are charging from, as during those moments I'm not losing anything from removing my right hand from the keyboard either. One current exception is E7S that forces me to use my mouse for facing my teleport the correct way but since it's during a simple 1-2-3 portion of my rotation it doesn't cost me anything.

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Originally Posted by Avidria

Another confession... died a few times on Lakshmi a while back because I somehow ended up with my bard song gauge right on top of the duty button, so I couldn't clearly see either, and couldn't remember how the heck to move the duty button. Spent the whole fight trying to fix my UI and tanking the ground >.<

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I don't actually know how to move it around either as I think the HUD layout doesn't have that option so it's permanenty hidden behind where I've decided to set aggrolist. You can however either go to your skills > general and drag the Duty action to your hotbars or you can go into your keybinds > hotbars and just bind a dedicated key for using duty actions there.

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Originally Posted by Lammas

I don't actually know how to move it around either as I think the HUD layout doesn't have that option so it's permanenty hidden behind where I've decided to set aggrolist. You can however either go to your skills > general and drag the Duty action to your hotbars or you can go into your keybinds > hotbars and just bind a dedicated key for using duty actions there.

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If I read this right, you guys are looking for the 'duty' option in the HUD layout. You have to switch to it from the 'basic' button.

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Originally Posted by Dreamsoap

If I read this right, you guys are looking for the 'duty' option in the HUD layout. You have to switch to it from the 'basic' button.

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Yeah I found it eventually, but thanks haha. I always forget that's how you have to do it... I kind of wish instead of "basic" the default option was "all," cause for the longest time I didn't even know a lot of the options there even exist.

I also didn't have any idea you could split the target bar into three pieces so you can move the enemy cast bar and dots afflicted separately until recently. So that's a thing too lmao

I haven't progressed my NG+ past the point where you first enter Rak'Tika so that I can go visit Emet Selch whenever I please. :3


Can't embed this, but how else can I have qualify time with him?
http://i.imgur.com/jReDSoq.gifv

I'm a kitty cat. Meow! <3

I have finally caved and joined my friends in the trend of compiling slootglams for some of my classes (only for my RDM and SAM tbh). NO REGRETS.

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Originally Posted by Boa-Noah

I've only ever played Black Mage, like all the way back from when I got into the beta servers or whatever they were for preordering FFXIV:ARR...

I didn't know Freeze was so good, I played years with it completely off my bar and only when coming back from a break last week or so someone told me the proper AOE DPS rotation had Freeze, so me being an idiot just ignored the advice until AFTER the dungeon was over and then tried out in Copied Factory, they were so damn right... If you're out there, strange party member in Mt. Gulg that told me how to play my class right, I'm sorry for not listening right away, Freeze is great.

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Freeze wasn't good until this expansion. They reworked it and unless you really went back and re read every tooltip you can easily be forgiven for that.

I also can't remember proper skill names. Even for my main. So talks about what things do are an adventure--I called Manashift 'MP Gift' in my head since its creation lol.

Here's a poem (first attempt at a Haiku so will probably mess it up) about my experiences in Refulgence (way too many times than I would like to admit :( ):

Icy refulgence
A cold platform sliding off
like an idiot

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Originally Posted by Deceptus

To this day I couldn't tell you what the name of a single Samurai ability is. Despite leveling it to 80.

Why they made all the skills in Japanese is beyond me when they localize skills in every other language. At least with Ninja they only made some of them (mudras) in Japanese.

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Translating some aspects of Japanese makes less sense than saying it in Japanese.

You start with Iaijutsu, which is the art of quickly drawing a sword (Fast Draw), then slowly start getting into your attack combos looking like:

Breeze rustling through leaves (Wing Edge) - The sound of bodies storming a tactically held point (Blade Wind) - Moonbeam
(Wing edge) - Behavior of a Samurai (Servitude) - Burning Chariot
(Wing edge) - Quiet Snowfall

Then your AE's are simple and easy to translate. Same with your range attack (Swallow, or Swallow Tail)

Aaaaaaaand then it goes off the rails.

The universe must be destroyed
The morning sun must be destroyed
The evening moon must be destroyed
Hope must be destroyed
The heavens must be destroyed
When one is calm, ones mind is calm (Clear Mind)

And then you get to the actual meaning of the iaijustu skills.


If theres one thing I learned from playing the L5R card game for 20 years, sometimes saying 4 syllables is better than the alternative.

For a look at how Squeenix handles its translations for stuff like that, check out some skill names in its mobile game titles.

Its mostly 1-2 word names and then you get "you must choose to eat with your imagination", "a codex of a named swordsmaster" (which have been updated since implementation to some success) and my favorite, half of Emperor Palamecias skillset (which they thankfully changed years later) which included "hahaha you insolent fools".

there are a handful of ledges that i jump down for shortcuts that has mobs next to them, and every time i aggro one and fall to my death

Once I've been playing a job to the point of automaticity, I end up forgetting skill potencies and sometimes even names.

Back in 2.0 I was an aspiring SCH trying to make my mark in the world. I ran all content with Cleric stance on because of the damage boost, completely missed that it lowered healing output. I'm sorry to everyone that dealt with me back then.

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Originally Posted by Hazama999

Once I've been playing a job to the point of automaticity, I end up forgetting skill potencies and sometimes even names.

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This normal. You just know the rotation and haven't "researched" the job(don't misunderstand that), where such things would be stored in long term memory.

I'm always getting lost in this game. When I open the map to check, most of the time I should have gone the opposite direction.

When I just started playing, thought this game has some kind of transportation where you can freely move and look at passing landscapes, especially when I seen rails in Thanalan, then after seeing that airships just instantly teleporting you with a little cutscenes I ended up really disappointed.
Also when leveling up, I really thought that after completing story once, you can create an alt and level up freely, without MSQ.
Ah, and I really loved raise on my Paladin, thinking it will be very useful in raids.

When I was new to the game in 2013, about a month or two into playing I was at endgame getting into shout parties on my DRG to do Binding Coil. The cleave range on the snake boss in there as well as the speed of the telegraph was like lightning to me, since I was on PS3. I told the party I was new, and they said you'll die a lot probably. I confidently stated I wouldn't, and proceeded to go double weak on the snake and still die 4 more times after that.

I play with animations on, and sometimes it really does make the fights harder, because certain explosions do obfuscate the camera completely. A specific boom chain in God Kefka is what I'm thinking about. My old raid leader assumed that I can't play without call outs because of it, despite the fact that I've done callouts for him during his nosebleeds before. Despite the fact it has killed me before, I play with effects on, but my friends will chide me about it any time that I die hehe. I just... I like the fights being boomy and blammy.


The first time I used the melee LB3 I died. It was ADS in Turn 2 of Binding Coil. The LB did damage the boss... but I got smoked.

I actually would like to parse hound for a cycle. I play on PS4 however, and I'll never be willing to demand uploads or logs of someone else haha.

I killed myself with Elusive Jump in Titan HM more than once.

Again when I first started I came from FFXI. In FFXI a BRD rotation was swapping BRDs out between parties so they could distribute Soul Voice enhanced song buffs to the entire alliance. Coming to FFXIV and my ex talking about how hard BRD rotation was in FFXIV, I acted like I knew what she was talking about 100% When I found out it wasn't even remotely the same thing I died a little inside, cause she just knodded along with me when I talked to her about it as if I knew what was going on.

I got my first Titan HM clear as a pity carry from a social LS of people who were all Legacy and already had relics. They said all I had to do was last until the heart broke, and I did. It still felt bad though.

I've often partaken in the seedy underbelly of Balmung. It's amusing, albeit time consuming. I just like to write lewd stuff I guess. hehe

I squee whenever I get Hullbreaker Hard Mode because of the Sanguine Siren section.

Recent confession: I have been dropping groups right at the start lately for leveling roulette, because I can't get anything other than Qitara Ravel or Malikah's 9/10 times.

It's not that I don't like them, but I just keep getting them over and over and over....

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Originally Posted by Dawn_FF14

I'm always getting lost in this game. When I open the map to check, most of the time I should have gone the opposite direction.

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OMG, so I'm alone in this struggle!! I'm so happy! T. T

There's still a lot of boss mechanics I don't really understand in places I've run several times. I just kind of do what everyone else is doing, but have no idea why or what will happen if I don't.

I also have no sense of direction. If at the end of a fight my character isn't already facing the right direction it takes me way too long to make sense of a map that really only gives me 2 possible ways forward.