Embarrassing confessions-

[Rilifane]

I was thinking that all node were server-side at start. Developed it isn't right away though, but still. Also, for first few days of playing I thought that all interaction items in quests (like getting apples from trees or such) are server-side too, so I rushed to them to collect before other would reach them. That was a thing in other MMOs I played so it was kind of a reflex out of experience I guess.

Coming from WoW where literal wars broke out over nodes on PvP server I always made a beeline for nodes as if total annihilation was around the corner and the node my only chance at survival.
Took me quite a while to notice that nodes miraculously did not despawn if someone got there first. And imagine my confusion when I saw someone standing 2m away from me, seemingly hacking into thin air.

Only thing I can think of is way back when I started really playing this game, sometime around the end of ARR and before start of HW. Having come from both FFXI and WoW, I was under the impression I wasn't supposed to actually do damage. I was used to the way the other MMO's did it. Huge, continuous spike damage would happen and MP was always tight so I wasn't supposed to waste it trying to do loldamage and risking someone got spiked to death. Cleric Stance? Clearly to help me get through the solo quest content that I have to go through. It cripples my healing, so what else would it possibly be used for?

I've accidentally locked myself into cleric while the tank got his teeth rearranged so many times, it's really emberassing. That's what you get for spamming a button you definitely should NOT spam.
With the way healer dps worked back then people were generally really understanding of healers not daring to dps or the occasional fuck ups caused by turning cleric on at the wrong moment. There was an undeniably higher risk to it then compared to now so I doubt the others were really bothered by you not daring to dps.

[RitsukoSonoda]

I had a an under geared sprout tank run off to try super pulling a low level duty while on WHM and die. Then let them die about 10-15 more times on purpose afterwards because they chose to insult me then accuse me of buying a skip potion after the first death. At which point told them 1. I hadn't healed that duty since ARR and 2. I've capped every tank job already and can point out everything they're doing wrong if they haven't figured it out on their own already. I probably should have just left before then but the DPS in the group atleast thought my response was funny and I was in one of those moods where I'd watch someone do something stupid waiting for something to happen like hitting themselves in the groin with a sledgehammer just to ask them "Ok so what did you just learn?"

[Aurelius2625]

I literally thought that Hallowed Ground was an AoE placed at your feet that gave everyone ten seconds of invuln.

Granted, this was the first MMO I've ever played even remotely seriously. The MMO I played was Conquer Online before this.

[Esmoire]

I spent about a year being absolutely horrified of using Party Finder for some reason. Now you find me using it to invite people to join me for the Jumbo Cactpot drawing.

[Tyssyn]

As a dancer main, I had shield samba and closed position right next to each other. They are a similar color and I wasn't really paying attention, clicked on my fellow dps, hit the button and off we went, only to be asked after the first pull why I hadn't partnered anyone. I said 'But I di..... oh...." when I noticed samba was on cooldown. I apologized profusely as I partnered up, blushing a bit irl and laughing at myself.

[Anienai]

I had a an under geared sprout tank run off to try super pulling a low level duty while on WHM and die. Then let them die about 10-15 more times on purpose afterwards because they chose to insult me then accuse me of buying a skip potion after the first death. At which point told them 1. I hadn't healed that duty since ARR and 2. I've capped every tank job already and can point out everything they're doing wrong if they haven't figured it out on their own already. I probably should have just left before then but the DPS in the group atleast thought my response was funny and I was in one of those moods where I'd watch someone do something stupid waiting for something to happen like hitting themselves in the groin with a sledgehammer just to ask them "Ok so what did you just learn?"

You are my 2nd favorite poster.

[Haprimac]

After the machinist update in ShB, I didn't check my skill list properly as I just expected all the new stuff to be automatically added to my hotbars, so I ended up playing and leveling machinist for the longest time without ever using Hypercharge. Then one roulette I saw another machinist use Auto Crossbow and was all "HOW?!" and went on a frantic skill search after dungeon.

[Crushnight]

I started back when Leviathan was fresh out and I got Smn to level 50 before doing Brayflox Longstep dungeon due to wanting max grand company rank which means I entered both Dzemeal Dark hold and Aurum Vale with no Garuda-Egi back when Garuda-Egi was defacto best pet due to contagion. Sorry to those groups (actually thanks to Aurum Vale group i'm so comfortable in df now just for how friendly they were so now I treat any df instance as they treated me) for that oh and took 3 days after joining an fc to learn how to switch chat channels and it was pure luck due to a df encounter that taught me to go from say to party and I notice fc chat XD.

[WhiteArchmage]

As a dancer main, I had shield samba and closed position right next to each other. They are a similar color and I wasn't really paying attention, clicked on my fellow dps, hit the button and off we went, only to be asked after the first pull why I hadn't partnered anyone. I said 'But I di..... oh...." when I noticed samba was on cooldown. I apologized profusely as I partnered up, blushing a bit irl and laughing at myself.

I've done the opposite. I have Shield Samba and Closed position in the same spot in different hotbars, So I went to use Samba and then my static pointed out I didn't have a partner lol

[NessaWyvern]

I sometimes give out the wrong info to sprouts by accident in NN and feel really embarrassed about it afterwards, due to quest locations changing between expansions.
For example, someone asked where to go to learn how to use glamour prisms, and I said there was a quest for it in MorDhona at lvl 50 (because that’s where it was when I did it back in ARR). Turns out they had changed it, and made it possible to get in Vespa Bay instead, and I didn’t know. Was told by a lot of other mentors that day to just leave NN and to stop being a mentor because of it. :< my bad, sprouts.
I still feel pretty embarrassed about it.