Embarrassing confessions-

[Avidria]

I unlocked small aetherical shards in main three capitals (those that are used for teleporting between different part of the cities) on 50th level. For about 3 first months of playing the game I ran between zones in main cities only manually and honestly hated them. I still have some hatred towards Limsa Lominsa honestly. And also still sometimes forget to use shards.

This reminded me of how I spent the first like, year of playing this game not knowing you can teleport to big Aetherytes from the map. Mind was blown when an FC mate pointed this out. I'd been opening the menu every single time even when I had a map linked from chat open lmao

[Rilifane]

I once had a huge crush on a poster here. They don't come around anymore though and we never actually talked to each other either. Their posts always got my undivided attention and was always a good read.

Aww that's sweet. And it happened to me aswell. I was pretty new to the forum and always enjoyed their posts. They seemed really nice, I liked the way they wrote and it was always an entertaining and good read.

It took me forever to unlock flying in every HW and SB area. Let's not even start with ShB. So whenever my friends wanted to do a FATE somewhere, they had to chauffeur my ground-bound ass there.
Whenever I started unlocking the aether currents, I always got distracted. I was close to one, then noticed a node, then noticed something else, then noticed my retainers were back etc.
I don't get sidetracked that easily with other things ingame but with aether currents it was as if I had suddenly lost all brain capacity and couldn't remember for a measly 5sec what I really wanted to do.

When I see a cute pet, nice glamour or nice looking character, I follow them around just to look a bit longer. Which resulted in me following someone around the whole Limsa for several minutes becaused I loved looking at the little Laladile waddling its way through the crowd.

[Esmoire]

When I started Astrologian, I heard about Lightspeed, thought it sounded super cool and was excited to keep playing until I finally unlocked it. One day, going into my 60s, I actually look at the actions I still haven't unlocked and can't find it. Can't find any traits that make it change from something else.

Oh. It's a starter action.

{ Oops! }

In my defence, this is easier than you'd think with the jobs that don't start at 1.

[REPROBEAN_CHILD]

A confession: I always desired to be an Ice Mage. I sought to channel that through Black Mage, but players who did so are always met with scorn and vitriol. I was devastated. Eventually, I learned of Blue Mage and of its own ice abilities and spells. Now I can become the Ice Mage I've dreamed of!

[monk-dps]

I changed my name to Server Malfunction last night.... and today in deep dungeon I DCed like 3 times. :/ Fuck Suddenlink.

[Aniise]

Confession time for me: When I started out in ARR as a ninja, and FFXIV being my first mmo, I wore caster equipment until level 30 because I thought it looked cool. When I later on realized stats actually mattered, I was pretty embarrassed about it. :'D

[Makeda]

I don't know the names of most of the skills in the game, even on jobs that I have played for years. When people start talking about skills and rotations and they abbreviate everything (PS, DS, XQ!) I often have no idea what they are talking about.

I tend to know most of them by keybind.

So DRK core AoE rotation.... that's 7 then 8.
one-shot Tank buster coming up? hit Control-3.
Minor tank buster coming up? Hit 5 or 6.
Big AoE need mitigating? Control-5

Slowly been learning the names this expansion just so I don't get confused when people say "I got the next Reprisal" I know to NOT hit Control-5... :P

(What's worse is all my keybinds are absurdly random based on things I set into my Razor Nostromo almost a decade ago in WoW... so '7' is as easy for me to hit as '1' as they right next to each other...)

[Eric_Riot]

I didn't know that gen Z were called Zoomers until yesterday!!

[Anienai]

I changed my name to Server Malfunction last night.... and today in deep dungeon I DCed like 3 times. :/ Fuck Suddenlink.

Awesome name

[Silica-chan]

I never beat an EX-Primal before echo was added to it, which made me quit trying to them all together. (I'm bad at this game)