Back when I was a N00b...Follow

Okay, people. Time to spill those secrets you're ashamed of, back from when you were a lowly newbie just starting out in the world! (Come on, you KNOW you were a noob at some stage. ^_~)

When I was a noob:

- I ran around a mob for 4-5 minutes before realising I had to actually attack it to kill it.

- I didn't figure out what point there was to macros until I was a lv 12 WAR. (Suddenly, using Provoke was SO much easier!)

- I was pretty sure nobody used Auction House, so I did all my shopping/selling at stores.

- I thought it was unfortunate how many DRGs ran around aggroed by cool Wyverns. (Never found where they spawned, either!)

- It took me several minutes until I figured out that I couldn't kill a sheep with blue text because it was someone's pet.

- In my first party ever in Valkurm, someone told me I was "tank" and I was like "... wha-? Did you just call me fat?!"

- I thought Tremor Rams were the toughest opponents the game had.

- First time I ever attacked a Worm, it submerged before I could attack it, and I thought, "Wow, that was an easy fight."

- Quadavs aren't as friendly as they appear at lv 2.

- I thought manual "dodging" worked up to lv 10.

- Fire crystals seemed useless, so I threw them out whenever I got them. (Well, c'mon, they only sell for 14-15g at stores!)

Those are just SOME of the embarrasing things I matured from. So come on, spill some of those dark secrets you have from when you were of newbish accent. ^_~

oh yeah I thought I hit the big times with my sub job...untill i noticed it wasnt lving up with my main.

Tried to tank as a lv 14mnk/7war, "But I have more Hp than you do, i'll be ok!"

Shouting (Trade with with me plz, I have to hand out these coupons for a quest! Help me out!)

I addressed these in another thread earlier but;

!) I tried everything to change my name to light blue to match my party.

2) I went crazy trying to find my party on my map (didn't know there were multiple marker lists).

And last but most important (and embarassing).

3) Soloed Blm to 18 and was frustrated because lvling was taking sooooo long. Thank you Allakhazam for showing me the way.

When I was a noob:

- I didn't know about healing, I thought I had to run back to my mog house for healing.

- I wanted to be a WAR/WHM (and only a WAR/WHM)

- I did not understand how people could afford anything at the Auction House since almost all mobs do not drop gil. (Before I understood just how much could be made at the Auction House)

- I thought quests were only for money, I didn't understand fame at the time. I noticed I could make more money at the Auction House so I did very few quests. I spent a lot of time building up the fame I missed out on earlier in the game. (After I understood the whole concept of the Auction House)

- I spent a lot of time looking for the person who rents out the chocobos, when I was only lvl 11. (Quest? What quest?)

- Lvl 18, just got the skull, saw Steelfleece, first words out of my mouth, "Let's fight it." Saw it hit a lvl 20 rdm and killed him in one hit, I changed my mind.

-I couldn't find a use for Beastman Seals and ended up throwing them all away...probably up until Qufim. Now I wonder how many I would have right now if I had kept them!

-Up until level 8 or so, I didn't know I could stack items and was always so frustrated when my inventory was full of earth and fire crystals.

The fires in Ronfaure could cook my rabbit meat.
The boat was the most dangerous adventure ever. (now look at me :P)
Revival tree roots... we all did that one..

omg Embur you big n00b!
/hug

Damn, is that all you guys can come up with?

I was a rdm/mnk in the beta.
I was a mnk30/war5 until I got advanced job, where I then became brd/mnk and bst/mnk...then later realized the significance of whm subjob.
I got to lvl 43 sam before realizing mnk subjob wasn't gonna cut it.

Needless to say I have improved...a lil

/hug Watusa. n00b pryde!

-showers in the Giddeus spring with Watusa- weeee

well, I can't remember anything big I did when I first started but last night after restarting I had a major brain-fart. I leveled to level 5 without even thinking about getting signet. It didn't even occur to me to get it till I was running back into town and seen the guard. :embarrased:

- My first battle with bats outside San d'Oria ended with me saying "They shouldn't be able to hit me if I'm standing behind them!"
- What's Signet? I didn't learn this until about level 9!
- I remember the first time I looked at the Ghelsba Outpost zone, I had to turn around and run back because I was too scared to enter.
- The AH is silly! Why not just go to the weapon shops!
- Why can't I cast Cure as a 1WAR ?? I bought and read the spell!
- And worst of all I thought that when you /checked things while in a party, Decent Challenge meant that with the rest of your party, it was a DC.

I never thought I would think about these again!! I have come a long way since then.

Good Luck all!

- I did not know how to check mobs until lvl 7 or 8. I kept wondering 'it's so weird that somtimes Young Quadavs are easy and sometimes they're so hard.'

- I did not know how to stack until lvl 13. Then a party member said "a thief who doesn't know how to stack. It's a sad day." And it was. Cuz that idiot still didn't bother to tell me how to stack.

- I died at lvl 2 or lvl 3 and was dumbfounded. "Holy crap. Does this mean I have to start all over again?" (Because you know, I had put so much time and effort into getting so far into the game.)

- My first title other than "Mog's Master" was "Chocobo Trainer" because I didn't understand quests. I kept wondering how other people were getting "cool titles" like "Gustaberg Tourist"

- Finding the President's office in Bastok was IMPOSSIBLE. "Metalworks? what? elevator? huh?"

- I responded to anything spoken in LS with /tell's until I hit dunes.

- I have actually said the words "geez walking saplings are like impossible."

- I threw all beastmen seals away until I was leveling my subjob. Then a friend of mine noted to me that "yeah, you need like a boatload of those things for some quest or something, I think." I started at PS2 release, all the people on my friendlist were n00bs starting out too. We were like the blind leading the blind.

- Skillchain.. Experience Chain... same thing in my mind til lvl 14 or so.

- Did not make a macro until level 15. In my defense however. a subjobless Thf can do ok without macros before Sneak Attack.

- I was (and still am) a terrible navigator. Everytime I died in Wadi it would take me a ridiculous amoutn of time to travel back.

- A noob story from a little later on. As a 30 thf/mnk (oh yeah, walkin tall) a random 67 whm offered to help me with my ninja flag. I follow him sneaked to the ??? (To this day I think he took the scenic route.. either that or he got lost but didnt wanna say antyhing). We clear the area and he tells me to check the ???. 3 leeches spawn, the whm tanks and kills him with this lil taru club of his and is cure III and IV'ing me constantly cuz these things are murder to me. I note his MP goign down and I go "Oh no! Are we dead" he goes "LOL no." We kill them and we begin to make our way out when I get aggroed by a bogy. Whm doesnt have much MP left as he begins to fight it.
Again -
"Oh no! are we dead?"
"LOL no"
Whm begins casting Teleport-Holla.
Whm casts Teleport-Holla.
Whm vanishes!
/me was defeated by the Bogy.
me: I'm dead.
whm: oh you don't have holla crystal?
me: I have dem.
whm: lol. u should have told me. I could have interrupted.
me: I had no idea what you were doing.
whm: stay there. I'll come raise u.

- Anyways, the worst part of it all is that you never really stop being a n00b. You just become a n00b at a higher level with different questions.

I whole-heartedly agree. It's nice to see that lvl 30+ admit to noobness. /rate up for honesty! :-D