miss-clicks and accidents

Greetings everyone! Long time no post!
I return with a question for anyone who is reading this. Have you ever made bad miss-clicks and/or mistakes that you needed a moment to recover from mentally?

There are regular missclicks (for example: accidentally healing yourself) and then there are "what the hell" missclicks. One such example is using tank lb when you are trying to do something else or using backflip off the edge right when the boss is about the die.
Recently, I have been leveling my sole tank class just so that I wouldn't need to touch it after that. No matter what I do I just do not like tanking. But in order to complete a certain quota I set for myself, tank is indeed required. I am trying to get all the role quests completed.
I am a controller player. Keyboard is just too different for me to really learn efficiently when playing games. However, an unfortunately side effect is sometimes I missclick and then make a mistake because of it! In my case, it is using lb when I am trying to sprint- I placed sprint in a similar place to the lb. I have decided lb will now be banished to shared hotbar 4 because I have done this mistake twice now.

edit: I just realized the worst part of accidentally doing tank lb. I cannot cancel it. Every other class needs to cast for an lb but tanks have an instant lb. So if I do lb on accident as a healer I can cancel it asap. But tank, I am animation locked. I'm sure tanks need an instant lb but it sure does make it suck when I use it on accident

Lots of times. Usually amounts to nothing major, like hitting LB, or something.

The worst, I accidentally rescued a tank with a tank buster into the group. It caused a row and I was vote dismissed because the group believed I intentionally griefed them. I didnt, it was a genuine mistake. But, shit happens.

Accidentally hitting my aetherial manipulation macros on my wxhb bars and delivering myself and whatever stack or spread damage we're dealing with onto an unsuspecting teammate -_-

Decided I was going to use benediction on the tank for the next pull, so to use it effectively the tank has to be pretty low on HP.

I used benediction on my self... Then in a panic to get a heal off, I threw out tetra and a lilly heal... Also on myself. Tank died. Everyone died.

Fat-fingering disengage moves and flying off ledges is a time-honored tradition in this game.

I've lost count how many times I have healed myself instead of the tank lol

Look on the bright side...

In older MMORPGs while playing a healer I've accidentally healed the enemy we were trying to kill instead of my party members... lol

Sometimes my controller will decide to change targets of not register I am holding L/R properly and nothing will happen, or I will be on the wrong hotkey page. Great fun when i am the healer and people are dying because the heals going to wrong place… or more funny my repose spam instead of my 1 dps button.

Results are far less noticeable on tank or dps, just my combo breaks or I just stand there doing nothing or marking 1/2/3 on mobs.

I also use controller, so some times the triggers to get to the upper hot bars can get misclicked. I try to keep this in mind when laying out my hot bars, as well as keep the same kinds of stuff in similar places for each character: anti-knockbacks, buffs, etc. I know which things I’m likely to hit by accident and try to arrange them so that it won’t mess things up too bad. If you ever see me hit Peloton on DNC in the middle of a boss fight, I double tapped my trigger by accident! lol I have my LB on the “hidden” hot bar that requires 2 trigger presses to activate, so I have to go there on purpose!

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Originally Posted by Khryseis_Astra

I also use controller, so some times the triggers to get to the upper hot bars can get misclicked. I try to keep this in mind when laying out my hot bars, as well as keep the same kinds of stuff in similar places for each character: anti-knockbacks, buffs, etc. I know which things I’m likely to hit by accident and try to arrange them so that it won’t mess things up too bad. If you ever see me hit Peloton on DNC in the middle of a boss fight, I double tapped my trigger by accident! lol I have my LB on the “hidden” hot bar that requires 2 trigger presses to activate, so I have to go there on purpose!

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Controller is a pain for this. I wish we could remap the triggers differently so the 4 cross bars could be attached to the 4 shoulder buttons and use touble tapping for other things.

Spammed gear GC turn in for seals. Must have turned in an ultimate weapon, noticed way later when item restoration didnt work anymore.

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Originally Posted by Local_Custard

Have you ever made bad miss-clicks and/or mistakes that you needed a moment to recover from mentally?

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Occasionally. If I do them in savage especially, it distracts me a lot (because of the little DPS impact), but I still regain my focus enough to do the mechanics. Ultimately, nobody notices because these are usually rotation errors that they wouldn't see.

For example, if a pot or mitigation doesn't activate, or I press a mitigation instead of an attack, or a damage buff doesn't activate so I press it late, or I overcap gauge to 60 right before using Infuriate, or a GCD doesn't go off before retreating out of an AoE, or if I turn off tank stance to help prevent taking aggro and then notice it didn't turn off, or I forget to use my raid-wide mitigation before an AoE I normally use it on.

Nobody notices any of these things, fortunately, but they affect me because I aim to do it perfectly every time and usually I do.

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In my case, it is using lb when I am trying to sprint- I placed sprint in a similar place to the lb. I have decided lb will now be banished to shared hotbar 4 because I have done this mistake twice now.

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My limit break button is next to my tank stance button and it's never really been a problem. Sprint is on the other side and I keybind it to R anyway so I can activate it quickly to recover from a mistake ie. running out of a mechanic too slow can be salvaged with Sprint.

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Originally Posted by Local_Custard

edit: I just realized the worst part of accidentally doing tank lb. I cannot cancel it. Every other class needs to cast for an lb but tanks have an instant lb. So if I do lb on accident as a healer I can cancel it asap. But tank, I am animation locked. I'm sure tanks need an instant lb but it sure does make it suck when I use it on accident

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Everyone presses the wrong key/button occasionally. Most of the time it's inconsequential or easily recoverable. Given that the tank LB is very situational and its uses are at defined moments in the game, I just moved the button to a side bar. Maybe not really be an option on console but on PC it is a non issue.

Many years ago in a game that had no Duty/Dungeon finder I asked a dear friend to run me through a low level dungeon. He was terrified as he had never solo'd a dungeon before but I knew he could do it easily. We got through the whole thing with no problems and exiting the last room my hand spasmed and I ran right off a cliff into lava.

OOOOOOOPS

ya not alone.. new keyboard did quite a few things to me as well and something on accident hitting tank LB or Heals LB as well...

Actual tank LB uses are planned and deliberate with several seconds' warning during downtime. You would lose nothing by putting your tank LB on a keyboard or mouseclick hotbar instead of your controller.

That forward leap attack in Summoner's "Ifrit" phase is a death trap, especially in PvP. I see a button I can hit, I hit it. Aaaaand I have just delivered myself as a sacrifice to a big swarm of enemy players. :rolleyes:

Of course there is also the classic WHM moment of accidentally using Benediction on yourself because the tank wasn't targeted. Or that time I burned through all my lilies, wondering why the tank's HP isn't going up while they're taking tons of damage...

I threw away a nearly complete Thavnairian Onion before, I felt really smart then.

Oh, all the time. I've yeeted myself off platforms on BRD, RDM, DRG, DNC, and RPR.

Have done lots of the same stuff that many others have commented. Healing myself instead of party members, pressing lb.
I have also zoned out many times when teleporting and just teleported to the same place i already was lol

Always accidentally deactivating Shield Oath/Iron Will is the common one for me, especially as I'm all thumbs.

A particularly embarrassing misclick that doubled as a mistype I did many years ago was I had made personalized vows in /shout for my wedding as a macro, and had left the macro on my hotbar out of sentimental value. This was fine, until one day doing old-school FATE train parties in Northern Thanalan, and... I hit the macro accidentally not once but twice, thus filling the entire zone's chat log with my loveydovey rambling monologue about how much I loved my boyfriend. :P

Not surprisingly someone shouted back to me to shut up, although, more surprisingly is how much people actually cheered me (and actually booed that guy down), saying it was 'cute' (it was on Balmung so, take from that what you will).

Needless to say, that macro is no longer on my hotbar. :P

Most common accident I have is hitting something to start typing in chat with a random assortment of numbers and qweasd suddenly popping in party chat once I notice why I've stopped doing anything.

Accidentally placed palm on T instead of W, and rescued Black Mage into the void zone, instead of leaving the zone myself. Got instavotekicked from Alliance raid right after the boss fight.

As a controller player :
Most commons : bad backflips on DRG or Red Mage....
Using tank LB once on a Suzano Ex a few years ago instead of pushing the right button for an aggro switch ^^;;

Playing FFXI and leveling a job in a party that had an LS mate in it.

Another LS member announces something in LS chat they did that made them a chunk of Gil.

LS mate in my party says "Buy me a subligar so I can be sexy." in Party chat instead of LS chat.

Me laughing at the remark + the confused responses from the rest of the party who were not part of the LS.