Embarrassing confessions-

[Kinazu]

Whenever I get into a duty, I scan all the players for catbois and only check those out and see if I like them. I do the same anywhere else in the game anyway, and whenever they click on me, I quickly press ESC and waddle away. (I never approach people first ; w ; )
I also tend to start crafting something, and the moment I complete the craft I noticed I forgot to switch on Collectable crafting. I uh... Do this literally every time.

When I was new to the game, I had no idea where to get my mount. People kept saying around level 20, but I never got it (back then side-quest with a +-marker weren't a thing) so I just assumed my character had a bug/glitch and I could never obtain a mount, so I went through ARR and HW without a mount until people pointed out I had to do a company quest. .-.

[Halivel]

For whatever dumb ass reason I used to think unspoiled gathering nodes for Miner and Botanist would go away if someone beat me to them. I didn't think they were only client side for some reason. I used to get really upset at people who were already gathering at the node. And at people who came to the nodes after I was there first. Didn't actually SAY anything to them though. So that's great. But uh yeah... I'm am dumb.

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.

Whenever I get into a duty, I scan all the players for catbois and only check those out and see if I like them. I do the same anywhere else in the game anyway, and whenever they click on me, I quickly press ESC and waddle away. (I never approach people first ; w ; )
I also tend to start crafting something, and the moment I complete the craft I noticed I forgot to switch on Collectable crafting. I uh... Do this literally every time.

This reminds me... I count all the male Miqo'te I meet (especially Moon Keepers) in Main Scenario and Side Story quests. In content before Shadowbringers, at least.

[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.