Your funny, embarassing, mistakes and weaknesses as a new player

[Ilitsa]

I used to think that "dragoon, Paladin, etc" was reserved for 1.0 players, and that those of us that joined in 2.0 would be relegated as "Lancer, Gladiator, etc", and that they were the exact same, just showed who played earlier and stuff <_< >_>

[Orbiaus]

I had terrible macros for whm and arrow macros to change targets. It made my healing terrible. To be fair im on ps4 and it can be hard to put powers where it feels comfortable and efficient.

[Savagelf]

I will pre-fire a summoner debuff before i near any mobs

[Immut]

Just now in syrcus tower i was being the absolute perfect scholar, microing my fairy, swapping fairies for WD/FW while keeping maximum uptime on all my dots. I was pretty proud of myself because I'm awful at casters normally.

Turns out cleric stance never activated and I didn't actually do anything useful at all.

[tinythinker]

Oh, I am brand new myself, and yesterday or the day before I realized that "The Heart of the Party" isn't just a really prolific FC.

[vanitaslaughing]

Oh, I started out as archer, went bard, and eventually decided to level lancer/dragoon for b4b (I had a few fairly helpful peeps in the fc who helped me lots because they saw potential in me).

So, I got dragoon to 50 back then for the hell of it and for the achievement and everything (and because I liked it). At the time we had a LOT of bards so whenever we did fc stuff we'd have at least two or three bards, and I always thought dps variety was nice. So I went as dragoon.

Was good, unless there was a second dragoon... I used to think my disembowel didn't stick... I didn't realise there could only be one disembowel up at a time and that it wasn't a dot like chaos thrust is... so I'd often disembowel combo OVER AND OVER.
No one ever called me out on it. It was just a weird quirk of mine, they probably all thought (and I went into df as bard, usually).
Needless to say I got a LOT better since those days last year, ahaha.

[Ehr]

So my first job was DRG and then I went for SCH and fell in love with healing and then BRD ended up somewhere after those among the other jobs. So these are the 3 that I most prominently remember making mistakes on (aside from the troubles of learning to hold aggro as a tank).

So didn't do the DRG rotation properly at all when I first started out and just struggled to dodge. Also flipped off the edge with Elusive Jump in Titan and into the death-wall in T5 and T9. I now know the full rotation and can perform well, just not a fan of melee DPS anymore.

As a BRD I have killed myself multiple times with Repelling Shot. I've done it and fell of the edge in Titan. Another time I was playing it in T5 and hit the wall. I also hit the wall again in T9 while tanking the Golem because I'd use it for movement to get to meteors...buuuut I was on the wrong side of the Golem. I'm a decent BRD, but I prefer to DPS on BLM.

When I started leveling SCH, I: used Eos on Sic for a while, didn't let the fairy do most of the work, and just struggled in general to balance MP management and keeping up with healing. Also used to do lots of over-healing. Now I practically heal on auto-pilot all the time. Back when I first started healing I never would've thought I'd be trying to get in as much DPS time as possible or letting a tank's HP dip down to 1k and then getting them back up with insta-heals or even solo healing raids or EX trials.

[AlphaFox]

Kinda in hand with Dragoon mistakes, I would wait to use Elusive Jump cus I figured I was in mid-air, this must be invulnerability frame of freedom or it would consider me at the target location but nope. Elusive, land, drop. xD

[Lemuria]

I played 1.0, so most of my early mistakes are from that era. Mostly, it was picking on enemies which were a thousand times tougher than myself, since there was no easy indication of how deadly an enemy was. The antlions in Thanalan had lalafell for breakfast more times than I can count.

[myahele]

I played 1.0, so most of my early mistakes are from that era. Mostly, it was picking on enemies which were a thousand times tougher than myself, since there was no easy indication of how deadly an enemy was. The antlions in Thanalan had lalafell for breakfast more times than I can count.

Wow that seems kinda fun not knowing if an enemy is far stronger than you or not. Would add to the sense of danger on the world, atleast until you're max lv