Your silliest deaths

Have you ever experienced weird and funny deaths before?

To start, I'll tell a funny way I have died in game.
I was still learning blue mage and thought I could complete a boss fate alone. This was in the churning mists. There were two dragons fighting, so I technically had an ally. This would be easy enough, right? Nope! My attacks were barely doing damage and I kept getting tagged by adds. Then the boss turned to me and breathed fire (took about 90% of my health). It proceeded to go back to beating up the other dragon. I got killed by a dragonet moments later. Though, you could say my hubris killed me in that moment.

Fighting Eden Titan one time, I was in my red mage melee phase when he started his go-cart charge. Right as I hit my backflip to get away, a healer Rescued me, server ticks tripped over each other, and I went flying.

Backflipping off the edge of the map as any job with a jump back. Repelling Shot, Elusive Jump, Displacement, ect.

Thinking I could teleport across a gap with aetherial manipulation.

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Originally Posted by Swordsman

Thinking I could teleport across a gap with aetherial manipulation.

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The struggle is real when we're not at the level of the scions with real jump dashes. They're the true master of gap-closing.

Walking into the wall on quickmarch, multiple times.

Accidentally double-casting old Cleric Stance when needing to heal back during ARR or HW, thus being incapable of healing for several seconds. Or thinking your cast didn't go through and trying again only to discover you were just lagging and meeting the same fate.

My very first time doing praetorium. This was before cutscenes were made unskippable. I didn't know some of the tricks people did like running to that one port place and everyone going through and leaving the mobs behind. Yeah I died right there. Didn't know how to get back. died a couple times trying. Got pulled in an immediately ended up in a cutscene (I didn't even know how to skip cutscenes I was so new). Died as soon as I came out of the cutscene. Tried to get back another cutscene + die coming out of it. I never saw 3/4 of the dungeon as I spent the entire time trying to get back to the group in a cutscene followed by dead loop. I felt like such an idiot and was so terrified of the place I didn't do it again for 2 years.

Staying confidently in the danger zone and casting. Hitting Aetherial Manipulation - but nothing happens because I am staying out of range.

Sometimes the wires in my brain get crossed and I do the exact opposite of the mechanic. I'll watch what side Hansel and Gretel's axes are on, or which of Hashmal's arms is burning, and something inside me says "Alright, that's the side the attack is on, so... run into it!!" I'm sure somewhere deep down inside a little voice is screaming, but on the surface I'm just like "Me watch for tells, me good player."

Have flipped off the side of something to my death multiple times as BRD, RDM, or DRG and now I add RPR to the list of just yeeting myself into the blue yonder

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Originally Posted by TaleraRistain

Have flipped off the side of something to my death multiple times as BRD, RDM, or DRG and now I add RPR to the list of just yeeting myself into the blue yonder

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Here take my very commiserating like on that one! I'd like it twice if I could. Been there done that...moved my button that does that to somewhere I will NEVER hit unless i am seriously trying.

Well,

I once atomic detonated my capital planet. The command for atomic destruction, assuming of course you have an atomic detonator on you, from the planet menu was C-B-Y and the command on the planetary menu for entering your citadel and logging out was Z-B-Y.

I turned my chair to get up and walk away when I noticed, out of the corner of my eye, red text saying YOU HAVE BEEN DESTROYED. Now, I sat there in shock for minutes, staring at the charred remains of once glorious capital planet, and finally figured out in what boneheaded way I ruined my own day.

Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!

Oh, sorry, you meant this game didnt you? My bad.

First time I ran Striking tree,pretty sure this was before the target ring change.Long story short I thought his beard was his hair.
Not sure how many tank busters I ate but I died ALOT.Was a true sprout at the time and everyone gave me an F in chat at the end as my corpse was still
Lying there.I still cringe about it.

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Originally Posted by Taralyne

First time I ran Thornmarch,pretty sure this was before the target ring change.Long story short I thought his beard was his hair.

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His... beard? Wait, I think you mean The Striking Tree, if you're referring to Ramuh. Thornmarch is Good King Moggle Mog.

Early in my career I was killed by a little level nothing because they simply looked at me with hate in their heart. It was all that was needed to let gravity do the rest when I wanted to take a shortcut and use the "can't die by fall damage...as long as not in combat".

I queued a 24 player raid as a WHM. The entire alliance loaded in dead...

I also spammed healing spells once on an FC mate while they were doing mini cactpot tickets in gold saucer when they somehow died at the counter...

So... who wants to go raiding with me as one of the healers? :3

Gap-closing towards Deathgaze in Dun Scaith or Eden's Leviathan in the split platform phase, where at certain angles the end of your trajectory is off the edge of the platform.

Love watching RDM backflip off of platforms. Need a "10" Olympic judge emote for it.

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Originally Posted by RitsukoSonoda

I queued a 24 player raid as a WHM. The entire alliance loaded in dead...

I also spammed healing spells once on an FC mate while they were doing mini cactpot tickets in gold saucer when they somehow died at the counter...

So... who wants to go raiding with me as one of the healers? :3

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Rescued my tank into the crowd by accident when I wanted to drop Excogitation on 'em in the middle of AoE Tankbuster.

-Destroyed-

To this day I'm still haunted by my trial with Exordium in T7.

I'd hopped between high end raiding FCs to try and get a progression seat out of the gate next time round. They trialed me with alts in a sale in T7, not a problem I thought, done that fight plenty.

Turned out they pulled the fight slightly differently to Sol which resulted in them arranging things 90 degrees rotated from what I was used to. No problem after the pull right? Somehow it was, I had a horrible time placing myself and my camera correctly which culminated in me camera clicking and meleeing a nearby CC'd Renaud to death. As WHM.

Amateur hour extreme.

Thankfully they gave me a second chance next time out but damn I wanted to go die in a corner after that first run.

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We can do this!!!!

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Nope D:

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Originally Posted by Swordsman

Thinking I could teleport across a gap with aetherial manipulation.

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You honestly think it WOULD work. I mean, you're floating!

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