Hello, I'm pretty much a new player (played a month of original original FFXIV, and played a bit at re-release stumbling around so my knowledge base is old and really a non-thing ^.^ ). I've learned to say "I'm new" or "My first time" and ask questions about what to expect with dungeon bosses but I don't always. The hurdle for me here is simply I learned to hate PUGS in other MMO's and there you learn to keep quiet so you don't get to be the next 'target'. I'm a work-in-progress ^.^

Anyway much to my pleasant surprise the PUGs here are a lot of fun, and a really good learning experience. I panicked the other evening on my first run through the mansion as we wiped on (!)trash. I couldn't keep my heals up to the damage spikes. I was completely dejected. I was waiting for the vote kick or some kind of raging.

But no, my party members just dusted themselves off and we carried on-- they were understanding, offered some really good suggestions and we finished successfully although I think I had gone into 'overhealing' mode wanting to do well for them. After I analyzed my terrible performance, taking into account the suggestions given me, I've begun to make better use of all my spells etc even when I'm just out questing-- I found with the current rapid progression, outlevelling questlines etc., can be detrimental as I had fallen into the trap of "Press 1, Press 2, Press 1 and done, next."

I've spent some time reorganizing my HUD, trying different bar configs and have gleaned a few ideas of what might work for me out of this helpful thread. One thing I haven't touched yet is macro's but thats now on the 'To Do' list. Anyway, that's been my experience up to now.

Arigato,

Kawada Kiku