I am such a n00bFollow

I have seen threads about funny things you have heard people say that make them sound n00bish. I have heard many myself. This thread though is for the most n00bish thing you have done. I think we should all take some time to reflect and remember that we all have these moments.

My most n00bish moment in FFXI.

We were at the top floor of Promyvion Holla. I had done this a few times already so I was leading the Alliance to the zone. We were blocked from both sides. I remembered a couple ways we had gona about getting there.

Otion A: Fight are way through, which usually ended up in a few deaths plus links.

Option B: wait for everything to move and slowly work our way there, but we had people complaining to hurry cause they needed to leave.

Option C: Tank voked the first aggro and trains to the zone. I was one of the tanks.

Someone in the Ally says "Just do the voke and zone". I was thinking ok, it works and if someone dies it will be me and they can come back an raise me. So I run off, voke the first aggro and I am building a nice train. Everyone in the Ally follows my lead. I see the zone, but wait; that isn't the zone. It was the glass looking door that you cannot enter. I ran the wrong way. I die right away, and the Ally members are dropping one by one. Next thing I see 18 dead people on the top floor of Promyvion Holla all due to me running the wrong way. Also none of the mages had reraise on, making it even worse.

I'm such a n00b

Please share your worst n00b moment here.

I remember I could never figure out how my LS buddy could always find my on the map when we were in partys. I thought he had a widescan earring that let him see party members and NPCs(don't ask where I got that idea). It took me weeks to figure out that Party members show up on your map. O.o

More recently, while on the ship to Selbina, I saw a 57 THF getting pwned by a Sea Monk. Confused I threw a cure 3 his way and thought, "Wow, that's a tough Sea Monk..". It didn't dawn on me that it was the SEA HORROR until it turned around and smacked me for 300hp. Lol, I felt like such a n00b.

oooo that boat sounds like fun.... lets see........ i was lvling ninja in dunes and decided to death warp with 2hr, so i bow to my party, run to a bogy and explode, nice dmg, but i never disbanded so my party got pwned >_<

=P
Just remembered another... and it still happens.
I'm not a mage so I usually change to a level 1 job and bloodport from windy to sandy. Well... HP was in the dunes outpost because of the Garrison we did that day...
After almost getting past La Theine Plateau, within steps of zone, there it is: an orc someone zoned.
And back to the dunes I went... Level 1 blm lol.
I made it, after a few misfortunes on the way.

My biggest Noob moment was the 2 times i feel asleep playing.

Once i was a WAR, so the party prolly lived, but the second time i was the WHM in garlaige citadel. I so passed out while resting, and im sure the party pulled some mobs. Funny enough, i woke up what i beleive to be a few hours later, and i was still alive. Not sure maybe a different party camped there, and kept me alive and left right before i woke?

Anyways, when i say i need to go in 30 minutes now cause im tired, i leave in 30 min. Soimetimes the party is mad at me, but i think they would rather be mad that the session ended, then be mad cause i passed out playing ><

Has everyone made these noob mistakes? Not to sound cocky, but I waited to play FFXI until I had real life friends very experienced to teach me the ropes.. I mean, I'm still fairly new... My highest job is a 30 WHM, I haven't even done an advanced job quest but I always find myself leading my parties, even if not intentionally...

In my 30 lvls as a whm, no one has ever died under my healing except for uncontrollable issues like disconnecting and me running out of MP totally during a overly tough battle, and I always catch myself giving people advice, since I spent so much time with good training from my ls leader Kitanna and ls mate Dno...

I really feel for people who are new at this game and don't have someone training them the ropes, I always stop what I'm doing to help new players with gil or advice whenever I can, even if I'm busy with a quest or mission.... It feels good when someone is really overjoyed from my help!

Edited, Sun May 22 12:32:49 2005 by Joenewyorker

I had never even heard of the game when I started playing. I had gotten it for my husband, then I installed it, then I decided I'd start a character to see what it was like, I'm cruising around having a grand old time, and I decide to try out "the zeruhn report" mission. I didn't have a clue about the zeruhn mines were, so I kept going into the Korroloko Tunnel and dying... and i'd do it over and over and over again. Finally, almost in tears, I was ready to declare the game the absolute hardest, worst thing I had ever played in my life, when some nice person sent me a tell asking me what in the hell I was doing. Still, I have to wonder what the people were thinking watching this level one character with the most basic of armor run merrily into the Korroloko tunnel, die, then keep on doing it.

Hey Wrip, sorry about the way I came off in that post... I totally did not, in any way, mean to sound cocky and I understood why you said that after I read back my post... Just wanted to apologize for whatever it's worth... I really didn't come off very well there and I totally didn't mean it that way...

I was on my PLD, and about to go EXPing with my static in Bibiki Bay. We had a good setup that we usually went by, so I was looking forward to EXPing. But I had been farming before coming here... (You see what's coming, doncha?) So we get there, get to the camp, and one of our RNG's pulls a gobbie. I hit my voke macro a couple of times, but then I see '/ja "Provoke" <t> Unable to use job ability.' or something like that. So I'm all wtf and hit the macro again a couple times. Then I look at my job abilities and notice I have all of my THF abilities... so I realized that I had subbed thf. >.< I guess the up side was that I kept hate the entire fight, and I warped back and changed subs. Wow I was embarrased. XP

my biggest noob moment has to be one of the worst.

i was with my level 19 sommenr and certain circumstanses made me leave the dunes and head to sandy. Well,i thought while i was in sandy,i would just go on and beat shiva. Turns out,shiva is no easy prey.Well i died, and guess where i got warped back to....the dunes. well,i cant ride a chocobo till im level 20 so i walk all the way back to sandy and log. the next day i decided to fight shiva again.i went to go and set my hopepoint making sure this time i didnt land in the dunes if i died. well i died again,shiva royaly kicked my *** and carbuncle was of no help. well i was too mad to even go to the HP so i just turned of my PS2. the next day,i turn it all on, and guess wat,im in the dunes again. i was soooo pissed. Turns out, all i did was talk to the crystal,never set my HP cuz i was in such a hurry.

This is a bit of a tough one, but one of my more memorable moments was when I was 50 or so. I was on the ship to Selbina because a few of my friends wanted to fight pirates (We were really bored.) so we were riding the ship back and forth. The occasional Sea Monk would spawn, and we'd all beat the snot out of it having a great time, but then the level 29 PLD we had with us saw one, and charged it head on; it demolished him in a few hits. I realized what it was, seeing as how the Sea Horror had laid 2 beatings on me before this, so I hit my 2 hour instantly...the whiff fest began -_-;

I got owned, and so did one other of the people in the group, luckily, there was a 75 JP NIN on the boat who took the thing down. Moral of the story: never attack anything on a boat.

(PS: If you count it, there's also my ~300 Chi Blast fight opener >_>)

As a WHM I gotta say I have perhaps never made a noob mistake.

As the other jobs? Plenty!! Especially pulling. And I REALLY don't want to get into those few times, VERY few times, I got my whole party in trouble while pulling as THF and WAR.

And as a BLM, I don't want to get into the few times, VERY few times, that I over-aggroed the mob and got stomped.

lol ^^

Edited, Mon Jun 6 00:08:01 2005 by Hohitoo