The times you were "that" kind of player...

[TyrTry]

"The player who pulls and isn't a tank"
"The player who has no idea what their rotation is"
"The player who is a complete butt in chat"
"The player who ignores advice, only to find out the advice was correct later on"
Etc.
Etc.
*Tears*

Unfortunately, if you can name it, I've probably been it at some point. I like to think I have a good understanding to how the mechanics work in this game (been playing for a couple of years now, maybe more) and I still find myself screwing up more times than I care to admit, losing my patience to silly things, or literally running around having no idea to what I am doing, hoping for the best (it usually never is).

I like to think I've come a long way since my days of being a sprout, and I wanted to see if anyone would care enough (or be brave enough) to share their stories of their younger days being a new player and the mistakes they've made along the way.

Here's my story just to break the ice:

This was my first MMO, so the concept of Tank and DPS eluded me. My first class was a LNC (I really wanted that Dragoon). The first time I entered a dungeon I literally pulled EVERYTHING! Needless to say, I died...a lot. And I'm sure the healer absolutely hated me. In chat, I read "let the tank pull" followed by "stop pulling."

I had no idea what they were talking about.

The funny part is, I was wearing full DoM gear. I thought I looked cool in the hood. This wouldn't be corrected until I joined my first FC and a couple of members told me what I was doing wrong. This was back when you had to get two classes leveled to receive a job. So, when it was time to get a lv.15 MRD, you can kind of guess how that went down. I pulled everything...after everyone else. I didn't know that Tanks had to pull first or lead the dungeon. Gratefully, the party I was with was very patient and explained some of the more foreign concepts to me.

[ryouma17]

i play on PC with a PS4 controller sometimes theres a delay input between my controller and my bluetooth adaptor there are times when i tell my character to stop but they keep running for another 2 or so seconds causing me to accidentally pull but this rarely happens

[Stormfur]

Oooh! I was WORSE than the player who didn't know what their rotation was, back in 2.0 beta when I joined the game.

I didn't even know what my ROLE was.

It took me until Haukke Manor until some kind soul told me I was a tank and how to do my rotation. I had come from TERA where lancer was the tank job and I just naturally assumed that's what this game's lancer was as well. Well, I wanted to be a DPS, so Gladiator (not paladin) seemed like a good choice.

In fact, I didn't even know job quests were a thing. I was a GLADIATOR until like level 40 or whenever it is that you do Garuda Hard.

[FFgame]

When I started playing last year I used to think DRG "red chain" buff was a shared dmg boss mechanic and moved away from them
Wtf is a limit break, this isn't ff7

[Rymm]

FF14 was not my first MMO (by a long shot) so I had already worked out most of the the kinks before I got here.

But like everyone else, I still make mistakes. One of the one I was guilty of several times while I was lvling both MCH and BRD (two classes I rarely play) was right-clicking on the boss while waiting for the pull. If I do this with any of my other classes, nothing happens til I move into range. But with these two jobs I would inevitably end up pulling them on accident with my auto-attack. I always felt really cr*ppy afterward and made sure to apologize to the group, because I personally hate when anyone pulls before me when I tank.

The other most glaring mistake I ever made, I still feel bad about to this day. It was a few weeks after I got my mentor status. I did a lvling roulette as a healer and had one of the worst groups I've ever had the misfortune to be stuck with. Not bad as in 'doesn't know how to play' but bad as in two of the players queued together and were horribly rude and actively doing things to make the rest of the group miserable. I sucked it up and tried to finish because I felt like I had a responsibility to the sprout who was also stuck with them. It was Sunken Temple and as we approached the final boss I typed out in chat the explanation of the correct way to open the door. As soon as I did one of the two trouble makers peeled off and run up to it, clicked the wrong way, and dragged the extra mobs that spawned back to the group. Given that the tank had already pulled everything and wasn't using any cooldowns, we wiped. At that point I lost my temper and I swore at them. Admittedly, I shouldn't have. But those two guys were quick to jump all over me, telling me that we only wiped because I was a bad healer, etc. and, probably most cuttingly, that I didn't deserve to be a mentor if I was going to swear at people.

They may have been total jerks, but they did have a point with that one. It was a good lesson for me though, and it's always remained in the back of my head to give me that extra movement of pause before losing my temper again while having the mentor icon showing.

[CassandraJean]

i managed to get dragoon all the way to level 50 without fully realizing that I should be keeping Heavy Thrust up all the time. I was more concerned with juggling the combos. So finally someone pointed out "you should use heavy thrust" and i felt like such an idiot that I hadn't been using this NICE buff??

I felt dumb and promised to try to use it from now on. But the other players on the team were nice about it and commended me for attempting to be a better player.

[Usho]

"The player who pulls and isn't a tank"
"The player who has no idea what their rotation is"
"The player who is a complete butt in chat"
"The player who ignores advice, only to find out the advice was correct later on"

I never was any of these examples. Prior to coming to FFXIV in early 2016 I had just came off of 10 whole years of playing Final Fantasy XI, so I already knew how to conduct myself within the online mmo community. The rotations weren't that hard, I never needed advice cause I knew what I was doing. I'm only a complete a-- in chat if people are complete a--holes to me.





And the ONLY TIME I pull if I'm not on a tank job (And this is RARE and ONLY on FFXIV) is only if the tank is completely useless, a troll and or wastes time cause they don't know WTF a tank stance is at LEVEL 70 (Dumb--- Jump Potion newbs ugh >_>; Like seriously, if you don't know how to tank at lvl 70 then you need to not be on that job at all.) *facepalm*.



Thanks for those Gameshark Jump Potions btw SE. Guess pay to win was the general idea? Mind as well have said:


"Screw Novice Hall! Are you a new player? Don't feel like grinding or learning your job from scratch like a REAL player? Buy our Jump Potions and get to end game levels with NO Experience needed! "





SE...The flood of excess stupidity you people unleashed with Stormblood last year...I just...I can't even....*sigh* *facepalm*






/2 cents

[Coratanni]

I'm self taught in games like this so my 'rotations' will never be optimal. I main white mage, but my main dps class is ninja. I didnt know about the whole trick attack rotation for ninja, for an entire year, until I was light farming for the lux relic and someone told me about it. I don't particularly care if people use the best rotations or what have you. As long as you are doing something and avoiding aoe's/holding aggro/healing/dpsing when needed, that's all I care about.

Also, I'm an azz to dps/healers who tank in dungeons or players who stand in aoe's then complain when they die. You pull it, you tank it. You stand in stupid, you can hug the floor for a minute or two. I don't mind babysitting green sprouts and helping them through content, but people with 70's should have SOME basics by now. I am not going to hold your hand or reward your bad behavior. I grew up in a different era though so your mileage may vary.

[TyrTry]

When I started playing last year I used to think DRG "red chain" buff was a shared dmg boss mechanic and moved away from them
Wtf is a limit break, this isn't ff7

Ha! I sometimes catch myself running from my own chain. Then I'm like "Oh! Duh!"

[GrumbleBeard]

In ARR someone told me that for monk, it was better to completely skip using true strike and use only twin snakes to ensure that it never fell off because the damage evened out in the end. It was until midway through HW that I finally stopped doing that.