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

[tinythinker]

I started as Gladiator, and by god I was slow. Molasses slow. I would open the map and and sit there as I tried to find where to go, in dungeons. I had weird pauses between pulls because I was weirdly hyper focused on mob order and would try to mark them all in the way I wanted them killed. Oh god I was terrible.

I'm thinking of trying tanking... this might be me

[Esp]

Took gladiator as my very first class and thought it was a sword and board DPS. Wasn't until the first dungeon I realized I was the tank!

I also come from FFXI, so when I got provoke, I used it every time it was up cause I had no idea it just only put me at the top of the hate list +1, instead of stacking my hate like it did on FFXI xD (I sadly didn't learn this lesson until my first run of BCoB)

I also thought the Duty finder pulled players from every world and from every data center, lol.

[Yunuen]

I have some trouble paying attention when I'm reading, and so I didn't fully pay attention to my skills/rotation or what they did for thaumaturge when I started. Thankfully, a kind WHM told me the rotation in Tam-Tara

[Saphri]

Going back through the game with new characters to get a better understanding. This time around I finally learned that the Limit Break level meter was for the entire party. So, if I LB, it takes it away from everyone.

[Hash_Browns]

Most embarrassing thing I have under my belt is that when I did the dungeon Sastasha (for It's probably pirates,) for the first time, I thought the people in the dungeons with me were NPCs until one of them talked.

[tinythinker]

Most embarrassing thing I have under my belt is that when I did the dungeon Sastasha (for It's probably pirates,) for the first time, I thought the people in the dungeons with me were NPCs until one of them talked.

"Wow, the AI in this game is *really*advanced!"



To be fair, you do get grouped with NPCs for story-mode content in this game more than a little

[gumas]

as DRG iam proud to say that iam one of the people who use jump on titan while he cast that massive knockback on my direction. and this is back when titan is still THE titan (ARR era)

keeping the tradition strong.

[Hazama999]

This was my first MMO and I remember reading about classes and jobs and whatnot. Now, I don't know why but going into the game for the first time (during beta), I had the idea that you could somehow make it through the story as a non-battle class. Clearly I didn't think it through. How would it make sense to fight Ifrit as a culinarian?

I guess the reason I thought this was that I initially thought the game was a bit more "open" as to how you progress through it (i.e. being able to go through the game as a disciple of land/craft). I must've subconsciously thought that you wouldn't "have to" engage in battles to make it through the story.

[CazzT]

First time I played, I saw the level 17 mobs and ignorantly assumed that level difference was not as significant as it is. One corpse run after being one shotted later.... I have a grudge against the giant turtles to this day.

[DevilsDontFly]

That moment when you go to Thanalan, see the Adamantoise chilling outside and thinks: "I can beat that one with my lvl 5 self, it's in the starting zone anyways."