Your derpiest noob moments

[TruebladeNuke]

I shall join in on the chorus of posting our own derp moments! Because I too have had my share, especially during the earlier years when I first started. To break it down:

Derpish stuff I did back then and haven't done since: (Yet)

1: During my very first dungeon run ever as an Arcanist, I had Topaz Carbuncle out for the whole dungeon run. (The tank didn't say anything about it) Later on, I came to realize that Topaz, being a tank pet, doesn't do as much damage as Emerald Carbuncle, and failure to realize that a competent Tank player is all that's needed for holding enemy aggro. Since then, I've never summoned tanking pets in dungeons again... unless I see that the player is being a "lolTank" and not holding aggro effectively.

2: Related to 1, I used to always have my pets set to "Sic". This was failure to realize on my part that the pets Ifrit and Titan had stun moves, (and Garuda kinda) which they WOULD use if set to "Sic" and build stun immunity on the enemies.

3: Related to 1 and 2, during my first Ifrit HM fight as a DRG, I kept throwing out leg sweeps and Spineshatter Dives out of habit for extra DPS. I failed to remember that these moves inflict stun, which while not entirely needed for the fight, it DOES make things easier when you can stop "Eruption" from going off during the final phases of Ifrit. I facepalmed myself over not realizing that I made it a bit harder than it should have been.

4: Suggesting that my friend be a Gladiator when we first started the game together, not realizing at the time that A: It's a Tank class and B: He's a very horrible Tank. (All he can usually think about is killing stuff. Little details? He's not very good with little details) When another friend (and now a FC member as well) joined a little later and noticed it too, we both agreed to persuade our "Tank" to never tank a dungeon again. It was hard to get him to stop too, due to his insane love for swords. (The biggest reason why I suggested the class to him in the first place) After agreeing to get him his PLD relic weapon, (because he's that stubborn on collecting everything he can so much as touch in games) he's never tanked again. Good thing too IMO. Guy could hardly hold aggro for the life of him, let alone dodge attacks. He makes for a decent BRD though, as both me and my other friend agreed on. (IMO, BRD is the easiest class/job to pick up and play as anyway)

Derpish moments that I may still have on rare occasions:

1: Any time I activate sprint as a melee DPS or BRD by accident... Double the points of frustration if I did it as a PLD. Triple if I did it as a WAR. (How the hell do I hold aggro now!?)

2: One time, I elusive jumped off the arena in Titan HM as a DRG. Yeah... talking about having a lolDRG moment...

3: Related to 2, I once Shoulder Tackled too soon as a MNK into a Landslide. Didn't die though.

4: Attempting to activate Hallowed Ground and thinking I did (cause I have a macro for it), when in truth it had like... .5 to 1 second left on cooldown, resulting in me NOT using it and taking a massive hit for it. Similar results with huge pulls on rare occasions.

5: Flipping through my hotbar menus too fast or not at all (for whatever reason) and thus pushing the wrong buttons. To explain briefly, I had this moment in WoD:

*During battle against the first boss as I'm playing as WHM*
Brain: "Ok. Adds are coming. They need to die ASAP. We can hit both if we use Holy while keeping our main target cursor on the MT, so that we know when to pop out of CS and heal as quickly as needed. Don't forget to throw out a Medica II in there just in case the adds use that damn AoE attack."
Fingers: "DERP!" *Somehow switches forward a hotbar instead of going back to Hotbar 1*
Me: *Pushes button where I had the spell "Holy" set up on Hotbar 1... but is on Hotbar 5 instead. Cue the following LS message in chat for my hunting LS:*
Chat Log: "BOUNTY MARK IN SIGHT! *Insert player name here* is hiding at *pos*!
Brain: "Wut?"

Said LS got a laugh out of it anyway. "The new S+ hunt I've been hearing about?" one of them asked. Even though we all got a laugh out of it, I was still doing ">_<" at the end of it, lol.

That's all I can remember for now. I might post more later.

[AlexionSkylark]

I main WHM.
Every time I start a dungeon and ppl are like standing... doing nothing... I keep wondering what's keeping them, and then someone points out on chat "protect plz?"

Then I go "OOPS SORRY XD" and cast it.

That still happens, BTW.

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

Tried tanking T9 for the hell of it in df.First few pulls go alrightdas expected with us wiping to heavensfall. On the last pull... screwing up a CD timing so I eat first ravens entirely unmitigated, then sentineld at the wrong time, and it fell off right before the boom.


PLD is not my main.

[Bluevann]

I'm a BLM and I still don't get the point of Freeze... ._. ...

[sciondar]

I was healing a dungeon as a WHM once (or trial) and forgot that I had access to cure II until the big fight was over. D'oh!

[SummerRider]

Most recent Derp moment. Doing High Level Roulette as a WHM. It doesn't pop right away so I switch to BTN to do the crafting beastmen quests. I'm out in the swamps of Mor D. and the Routette pops. Switch to WHM, and wait 30 sec, b/c people always go at the start. Thinking that might be enough time to allow my skills to reset.

The Lost City of Amdapor pops. I cast protect and the tank runs off. So no stoneskin. As we are running I also realize "oh crud, I don't have Benediction, b/c it's on cooldown".

<start Derp>
--Brain goes "Keep the tank alive".
--Brain goes "Hey Cure III must be better then Cure II, so now you can use that spell you hardly ever use".
--Madly start spaming Cure III on the tank.
--Making sure to hit Shroud early so that I could at least try and have some MP later.
--Fight get's over and no one died. I am almost out of MP, and Benediction is still not up
--Tank mentions in chat "You know Cure II heals for more then Cure III right?"
--I almost start to argue but decide to check the popups.
--$H!T #%&@#$
--Thank the tank for reminding me.
<End Derp>

Also discovered that it's now possible to ignore the doors at the end. Painful but doable now with gear.

[Miste]

That time in T9 learning when I figured Fluid Aura knock back wouldn't work on the golems it never works in boss fights right? lalalala well...it does...aaaannnd hulk smash super golem death wipe time.

[Saseal]

Level sync derps..... a good chunk of the time, when I'm in a hest roulette (it's 90% turtle hest...) I keep trying to spam cure II or Stone II. Resulting in a spam of nothing. I catch myself before anyone dies, but it's still annoying >.> Sometimes that also results in me switching my Stone I and Stone II hotkeys so I can spam Stone I more effectively while skill synced. Then I go into a raid or trial or Garuda EX and spam Stone I, like a nub, because I forgot to switch it back -.-
(luckily that only happens with Stone I/II, since Cure I/II don't need to be moved, for my setup... Hotkey #2 and #4, while Stone II is #1, Stone I is #9 - can be used but is out of the way. I keep my most used towards the beginning of the # row by my movement keys so I can just reach, tap, and move my hand back on the WASD keys).
Sometimes happens in low level dungeons, but not nearly as much...

Level 45-7-ish synced dungeons, when shit goes wrong, though.... *Slaps Bene with a burning, dire need - Death is the only response...*

I really like this thread. It makes us all so much more human (rather than feeling like you're the only one that messes up and everyone else is godly...).

[Twilite]

Walking into a crafting guild, and upon looking at the supplier's inventory, I was wondering why I didn't see anything related to GSM(the current craft I was using at the time). I looked around and saw that rose guy instead of the GSM guildmaster, and realized, I was in the Weavers Guild instead of Goldsmith.

[FrejyaAthenes]

One time...many times, I would set my pet to Obey and not realize that if I locked onto an enemy my pet would attack it. This led to this memorable line from Stone Vigil (Hard):

"THAT IS NOT OBEYING! THAT IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF OBEYING!"