Embarrassing confessions-

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.

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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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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That's nothing to be ashamed of. It's actually a common occurrence in human memory. It's the reason why when you watching a rerun of a show, you can suddenly recall the dialogue. Your mind has compartmentalized the information and is bringing it out when something requires that specific information.

That's why when playing a job you'll have no issues, regardless of the lack of names, because you recognize the information required to play the job. But in a conversation you might not pick up on the subtleties. I for one always confuse Wildfire and Flamethrower's names.

As for my confession...
I think I hoard in game because I don't have much irl, so a virtual piece of trash is for some reason important to me. Since I never know when it might have a use, T.T

My confession- it took me a level to work out how to spend my rdm mana bar as I accidently deleted the first bit of the sword combo off my bar when setting it up

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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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I don't know the names either. I just know what the icon looks like, where it is on my bar, and when to use it.

I look for and prefer visual class guides because lists of abilities to use by name don't help me :P read one blm guide that was like f4 f4 f4 b4 yada yada for the entire rotation and I swear my eyes glazed over immediately

Crafting w/o Collectable Synthesis on.

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Originally Posted by Anienai

Crafting w/o Collectable Synthesis on.

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And then crafting enough HQ spinning wheels etc to furnish the whole damn first. Yup. Can relate.

Casting Bene on myself after letting the tank drop.

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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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In fairness, Freeze was useless up until 5.0 completely changed it.

My shameful confession, is I've only started melding materia to my gear at level 80, having been playing since 2011 in 1.0 I completely ignored it for all those years til now (I did help I that I don't do endgame, but still). Before then, whenever I ended up with materia or had a piece of gear fully Spiritbond I just sold the materia on the MB and didn't use it myself. That's a different story now...

This one time, in Deltascape 4.0 Savage, we were doing it and then during Decisive Battle where the tentacles come out of the ground, I ran the opposite way after the knockback and ended up dying (I'm tank). I ended up leaving the party out of shame. The end.