DPS corner of Shame

Welcome, my fellow DPS, to the DPS corner of Shame.

Have you ever, as a NIN, felt the need to Goad that one BRD or WAR in a speed run to support the AoEing and accidentally threw it in the WHM?

Have you ever clicked Jump right when an AoE pops under your feet leading to your head piercing through the floor as if you were Hildy's apprentice?

Have you ever Repelled Arrow the sh!t out of Titan's arse and realized it was so hard you fell out of bounds?

Come and share your derpy moments of shame as a DPS where YOU were that guy valiantly tanking the floor, because someone has to do that one dirty job, and know that...

You aren't alone.

I won't lie.... once in a blue moon I'll flare with transpose still far into CD and just sit there twiddling my thumbs and pretending to be busy until I have enough mana to cast a Blizz1. Don't ask me how it happens, but once in a while I derp heavily on my rotation and this is the result.

Had the misfortune of performing this Mother of All BLM Derps during the add phase of T13 and it made me want to crawl under a box and die.

Ninjas can goad a Warrior in speedruns? Next you're going to tell me melee are able to stun trash mobs.

Was in a T13 run. Was on the outer edge of the Arena, last phase of the fight, plotting my Earthshakes. Thought I'd be cool and Elusive Jump over two sets of Earthshakers, back to Bahamut Prime...

Messed up my Camera angle and jumped into the wall and died. Then one of the tanks messed up, healer used LB3 to res, I ressed and died in the wall, again. rofl.

matter of fact, i did kill myself with a misclicked repelling shot during titan ex this week. i got so embarrased by it that i actually have been taking it out of my hotbar whenever i go into this fight.

SMN derp - while running titan ex, and basically any other quick dodge aoe fight, if you Rouse/Spur your pet with "face target" turned on, you will spasm and face towards your pet (or sometimes, just backwards), making you run in the opposite direction and die.

This happens a lot too, with self buffs as well, esp if lagging, the client will think your true position is behind your current pos, and "face" towards "old you" and move backwards and die.

For this, and many other reasons, for the love of good turn off auto facing.

These are great. With all the people generally flexing their LEET muscles on this Forum, it's nice to see some humility. Keep 'em coming.

I was trying to show an FC member how to disrespect Levi as a MNK during his slams. Needless to say I ended up targeting the wrong one and not only dashed right into his tail for a kill, but also ended up falling off the boat.

That and elusive jump out of a fate, off a cliff, and to a well deserved death. I just laid there, accepting what I had did.

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Originally Posted by Arkenne

Have you ever Repelled Arrow the sh!t out of Titan's arse and realized it was so hard you fell out of bounds?

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I repelled into a Landslide once.
My friends won't let me live it down.

I think my derpiest moment was when my static was just starting T10. We had a 1 bar LB at the beginning of Imdugud and my tank was like 'Aldo, do your pew-pew' So thinking I was casting LB but I accidentally hit Freeze.... lol that drew quite a laugh.

Oh... I got another one. T9. After the golems drop, I usually run to center, pop QS and unleash hell on green. I go to center so I can rotate the camera and move from golem to golem quickly. One time (while on auto-pilot I like to think) I ran straight to center before the drops. Ate all three in an epic display of stupidity. My FC could have sworn I was trying to be billy bad-arse by popping manawall and trying to survive. I was not.

I'm now known as The King of the Meteors in some circles.

Titan ex as blm, just screwing around pew pewing jumping and dodging everything. Hit sprint by mistake jumped and just missed the edge :( splat. Ok guys ill stand still :x

Think my best so far is back when titan ex was still somewhat new, our white mage ended up dead and as a summoner my first instinct was to rez him, in doing so i managed to forget the landslide coming right after, in which i got hit mid rez, and by the time the rez actually hit him i was already off the edge, so when he accepted he dropped right down with me, never to be rezzed again! lol.

another good one i have is from a whm in my static when we were farming T9, he wanted to try fluid aura on the golems as an interupt, he decided to use it on the last golem which was blue at the time, to interupt magnetisim, except he was a bit late and ended up finishing the cast after the knockback, sucking us all so close to the wall we all had a mild heart attack.

Jumping in the shame,

On my first levi EX clear, I was playing NIN and were learning along my FC companions.
We wiped a few times during our learning process, through which I managed to avoid falling on the water for the most of it.

But then my mind disconected for a second on the last try and levi slammed on my side, I reacted a bit slow so I was close enough to end up falling, so I decide to Sukuchi away from it, which does work, I've tested it before... but sadly I was 0.3 seconds too late and by the time the bomb throw animation ended I slid along the bottom of the ocean to the other side...

Worse is... that was the clear run and I did nothing...

OTL

my keybinds have proven that it's a bad idea to have Second Wind as CTRL+1 and Elusive Jump as CTRL+2. Took a tick of damage from earthshaker puddle, tried to use second wind but ended up using elusive jump instead, straight to the wall.

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Originally Posted by Mercutial

I won't lie.... once in a blue moon I'll flare with transpose still far into CD and just sit there twiddling my thumbs and pretending to be busy until I have enough mana to cast a Blizz1. Don't ask me how it happens, but once in a while I derp heavily on my rotation and this is the result.

Had the misfortune of performing this Mother of All BLM Derps during the add phase of T13 and it made me want to crawl under a box and die.

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Oh hoooh, yea I've done that one, you aren't alone, my friend.

BLM suffers the Mudra lag on this too, if you have a 300+ ping you could go Flare -> Transpose but Transpose registers first, so you go F3 -> Transpose to U1 -> Flare in U1 -> Move to F3 with 0mp. The pains and wonders of lag =-=

I've also gone and fumbled Convert (when was going to Flare) -> Swiftcast (when was Convert) -> Transpose (cuz I got confused) -> Flare (cuz I finally reacted) orz

So, I've run Titan Ex a hundred times as a tank. But the first time I went on DRG, oh boy. The gaols came out, I was picked for the DPS gaol. As the party broke me out, I turned my camera towards the healer gaol and my brain went "if I jump there as soon as I'm free, I can start busting our SCH out early", so that's what I did. And of course a split second after I arrived, Upheaval knocked me off the edge. I don't know why I expected anything different to happen.

Also DRG, this time my first run as DPS for Turn 12. I got the bluefire mark, so I ran to my designated drop spot and turned my back to Phoenix. Hit Elusive Jump as soon as the mark disappeared, landed at Phoenix's butt as intended... and promptly dumped the bluefire pool all over the other melee DPS and the tank. I suppose it was fortunate we pushed phase right then, but I felt so dumb.

And that same run I popped Blood For Blood just as Phoenix flew up for the plumes. Somehow switching from tank to DPS makes me forget how fights work.

Anyone remember normal AK? Demon wall. He does the first attack with the line down the middle... OK, cool, dodge left. He does the second part with the two lines on the edges... OK, cool, dodge lefFFFUUUUUU

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Originally Posted by pandabearcat

SMN derp - while running titan ex, and basically any other quick dodge aoe fight, if you Rouse/Spur your pet with "face target" turned on, you will spasm and face towards your pet (or sometimes, just backwards), making you run in the opposite direction and die.

This happens a lot too, with self buffs as well, esp if lagging, the client will think your true position is behind your current pos, and "face" towards "old you" and move backwards and die.

For this, and many other reasons, for the love of good turn off auto facing.

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Nah, auto facing is good, you just need to turn on legacy camera. Someone pointed that option out to me and I don't know how I managed without it now.

Fighting against Midgardsormr, doing a jump just as an AoE from Midgardsormr *and* a Mirage Dragon appear overlapping underneath me.

Cat sitting on my mouse, causing my thumb to hit my Elusive Jump button...while fighting Titan...right off the edge I go!

Moving (same) said cat off my desk, start doing rotation...with my hand aligned 1-off where it should be for half a rotation before I even notice what's happening because I'm distracted

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Basically, I need to get rid of my cat.

My personal favourite was in Labyrinth of the Ancients final boss during the pads. I continuing to DPS until the last moment because I was going Elusive Jump back to the pad. At least that was plan until I executed the jump facing the wrong direction.

Titan EX on my BRD... I'd been DPSing the DPS goal under Titan's arse after that last section of the platform had been broken off (so tiny arena). I forgot that when I moved up under his rear that my character had turned to face the Goal I was DPSing. The knockback occurs, I went to run forwards to clear the ledge and start working on the healer's Goal... and ran right off, instead.
It's because I couldn't see through Titan that I had turned backwards to face the Goal behind me. D:

I derp every time I forget I'm allowed to LB, when I'm on MNK (too used to WHM or BRD that has a largely less need to LB much).

LoTA - Was at the Bone Dragon boss on BRD character... I wasn't fully paying attention because of FC chatter floating around in the chat box. Normally I don't like the chat in the middle of fights, but it's just one of those nights. I was poking the skels that appear - waiting till the tank got them to the last plate and poked.... and it just never dawned on me that I was causing them to run away from the plat forms. I ended up semi-tanking them to the lastish plates, without a single thought. After the fight, I scrolled while autorunning and my Alliance had been yelling at me the whole time -_-;;;;
"I know what you're thinking Taiga!" .....no, I doubt that, since I wasn't thinking at all. ;_; (I think they thought I was trying to troll -_-;...)

Garuda EX - every now and then my brain will just skip a whole phase - mainly when on BRD. It's always the phase right after Garuda Jumps and destroys all the rocks. I'll start running straight for the ranged safe zone/A for the Spiny + Sisters phase...... and then get knocked back into the middle when her wind tunnel for Spiny + Plumes phase pops up >_>

Twice in the same T5 clear, I used Repelling Shot hit the wall during the second phase.

My DPS corner of shame is...

- Setting up {Huton}, but using {Mutilate} BEFORE casting the {Ninjutsu}.

- Using {Life Surge} before {Full Thrust} is ready for combo.

- Using {Power Surge} then {Ring of Thorns}.

- Using {Blood for Blood} while mob is casting a big attack.

- Using {Invigorate} after using {Wide Volley} two times.

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Originally Posted by Mercutial

I won't lie.... once in a blue moon I'll flare with transpose still far into CD and just sit there twiddling my thumbs and pretending to be busy until I have enough mana to cast a Blizz1. Don't ask me how it happens, but once in a while I derp heavily on my rotation and this is the result.

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By far, BLM transpose/flare derps are the most painful. You cannot do anything, your MP bar is an empty marker of failure your whole party can see, and it takes forever to fix. God forbid you have no ether and are stuck in Astral. You'd be better off just dying.

As a black mage... I cast Fire 1, get a Fire 3 Proc... swift is up and there are a few adds and I have enough mana to Flare, but not to Fire 1... so, swift+flare, transpose, and then hit Fire 3 proc... lol, have happened to me a few times... like at least 10 secs with 0 mana. Felt pretty retarded.. xD

Oh man.

In T12, I had Brand of Purgatory and was subsequently targeted by Blue Fire (the large circular AoE). I panicked for some odd reason and used my Aetherial Manipulation macro to a healer, who died from my passing of the flame. It was... hilarious.


Edit: A friend of mine (drg) accidentally Tab Targeted Phoenix during the Bennu Add phase, and used Jump. A dead body rained from above lol

Double monk T12. Killed a Bennu, "targeted" the next one, both of us Shoulder Tackled over to Phoenix at the same time.

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Originally Posted by Edellis

By far, BLM transpose/flare derps are the most painful. You cannot do anything, your MP bar is an empty marker of failure your whole party can see, and it takes forever to fix. God forbid you have no ether and are stuck in Astral. You'd be better off just dying.

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"yo, get outta melee range!"
"YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! THERE'S NOTHING LEFT TO DO ;_;" *boop*

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Originally Posted by Jim_Berry

- Using {Blood for Blood} while mob is casting a big attack.

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All the time, oh my god

-button press- "Hell yeah, lots of damage-" -boss prepares super hit- "Shit, wait, no"

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Originally Posted by SunnyHirose

Double monk T12. Killed a Bennu, "targeted" the next one, both of us Shoulder Tackled over to Phoenix at the same time.

"yo, get outta melee range!"
"YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! THERE'S NOTHING LEFT TO DO ;_;" *boop*

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All casters always in melee range! (unless excessive cleaves/void zones limit dps).

The latest one was in T13. Depending on Megaflare floor thingies, I would sometimes do a last second Aetherial Manipulation to get to the stack and get occasionally comments like, "WTF, Waliel, that manipulation," to which I respond with, "I know what I'm doing." Last time I responded with that, I would misstime the next manipulation, the missile hits me while I'm mid-flight on top of a healer -- who was about exactly halfway through my path to the group, well away from the stack and my beginning position -- and the missile kills both me and the healer. I didn't even know it was possible to do that.

Another thing with manipulation happened in T11. I'm standing in the side, so I can do just a small sidestep to dodge the gas. I get the stack beam for missiles and manipulate myself to a wrong target by accident, which makes me go straight through Kaliya and I get a stack. I get super confused by what just happened, make the most epic "WHAT?!" on TeamSpeak which scares everyone, and I run back into Barofield in my confusion. I die inside Kaliya to the missile solo, and everything just goes downhill from there, because people were laughing at my yell and what I did and couldn't do anything. I hear one of our tanks still has nightmares about that yell.

- Activating Battle Voice 'cuz it's too close to my AoE skills.

- Dropping a Flaming Arrow when the boss's about to jump. Most of the time, though, tanks just move from Flaming Arrow for some reason...

- Repelling Shot out of the Level Sync Fate x.x

- Forgetting to switch off Foe Requiem...

- Life Surge on the Jump. Yeah...

It was against Mog Ex, which I usually run as a Whm. That time, I went with FC friends, to help for a clear as a monk. At the end, when he started casted Memento, I spammed by Limit break ro realize just as we were being killed, that I had been spamming my "Fists of Fire" on and off instead.

So having a Zeta can be cool and all... but not so much on LotA, lemme tell you...

This morning I finally managed to get into CT1, after 4 days of failed attempts (to get in). I got lucky since both tanks were wielding ilvl 135 weapons, and they were WARs so yay for that.

Oddly enough, at the Behe fight, I tanked 2 of the 3 Iron Giants... and as a NIN I go "wtf D:?! Lets pop a DEF CD!!" *B4B* "... OK, that was not very smart". A WAR came to my rescue but a tower was lost D:

I tried to shoulder tackle to the sphere construct in T11 but as the tank was moving it around the trajectory changed when the skill activated and I shoulder tackled into the death wall.

Accidental Elusive Jump into the death wall in T9. The best part was the conversation that happened on TS after I did it:
"Luna, did you just Elusive Jump into the wall?"
"... maaaaaaybe?"
"God, stop being such a Dragoon."

I had just learned Foe Requiem and was at Whitebrim where that fate with all the tons of Ice Sprites popped. I'm thinking "Oh cool I now have a job skill that isn't just relevant when in a party since it's a big AOE debuff that will cause all these sprites to take even more damage from the casters in this fate, even if they aren't in a party with me."

If you can't guess what happened, I'd suggest trying it as soon as you have Bard & Foe Requiem unlocked just to see what a magical experience it is.

Just had a fun one as MNK.

Snowcloak for a Zodiac drop + light farm.
First leg: I forgot I'd swapped my Twin Snakes and True Strike for convenience in low-level FATEs, so here I am running it and wondering why stacks aren't showing right, why my "Twin snakes" and "True Strike" are hitting so low.
Second leg: I get a 90k during the Yeti fight... but probably saved a ton of time on it by saving my Steel Peak to stun the ogre trying to Elbow Drop two full grown snowballs!
Third leg: While trying to position myself for a shoulder tackle after Lunar Cry finishes casting, I'm about a body width too far to the side. And I end up in range to get the ice shard explosion.

Yet I still got my fang drop. Do poorly, get rewarded?

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Originally Posted by KikoriL

*disaster* Yet I still got my fang drop. Do poorly, get rewarded?

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Most of the Zodiac drops I got for my Zeta were from very messy runs...
RNG seems to love those who suffer...

Farming Titan for a pony (still haven't gotten it) and heart phase happens, we break the first Gaol and then I Spineshatter Dive to finish off the last 5% of the heart...... right as Upheaval finishes casting and sends me careening off the side. A Derpgoon moment straight out of the textbook.