What's the Dumbest Thing YOU'VE ever done?

Sabia

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I know we talk a lot about stupid things others have done but I know most of us have done some pretty stupid things ourselves. So now's your time to share! Just because I've posted this I'm going to give you 3 =)

I was allowed by my linkshell to play as a RDM/MNK for the longest time and little Dirgesong has yet to fix this on the website.... :oops:

Me and Dirgesong thought we could take a Marlboro at level 12 just because it was well...a Marlboro for murphy's sake! (needless to say the rest of the Prarie Bears ran as soon as Dirgesong pulled out his bow...)

Dirgesong and I thought it would be a great idea (along with 16 players in an alliance) to participate in the Twinkling Treant christmas event at level 7. I've never seen so many bodies! :twisted: (you can find screenies of this up on the PB site if you've never seen the twinkling treant =) )

So share your stupid moments with everyone...I know you have them!
 
Hehe. Happened in Bubu when are party had to zone to town and I zoned dead into town. Talk about embarassing. I lost count on how many people sat on my corpse. LOL
 
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I did something similar with my thf or monk or something in windy
I was fighting an enemy in E. Sarta when i got poisoned with very little life!
I ran back to windy to get to my mog house..........and the poison killed me rite as i was in front of that damned house! :(
 
Mine was on my Warrior ... first time in Kazham ... first time in Yhoater ... all my macro's used to be <t> vs. <bt> as they are now ... the puller pulled a mandie ... I voked a white lizard ... wiped out the whole party ... talk about feeling like a complete and total idiot ... needless to say since then I've fixed all macro's on all jobs and I never miss on which to voke or nuke or enfeeble ...
 
Hit Alt D and threw something very expensive away.... /cry. :oops: :oops: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

I have disabled the Cntrl and Alt D buttons forever. :x :x :x :x :x
 
I was playing a 1xlv WHM, and in a PT levelling in the maze..
Seems half of the PT was new to this place...

Then a member aggro a Gob when fighting mms=_="...and the most horrible thing was the WARs did't know how to voke .......

So the result is I died... when they are finding a raiser for me..
I sent a miss tell on the /party channel (I was talkin with some LS members)


"Oh my god I'm in a noob PT"...


and then I was kicked...= =|||
 
I've done so much stupid crap in this game... it's unfair of you to ask for only a few instances Sabia! :lol: Some of my best...

1) Leading a party as a 16 RDM with no sub back in January in Valkurm, we were FLYING through gobs and damselflies. All of a sudden, the puller asks if he should pull a Will O The Wisp... I figure, damn, that sounds cool as hell, lets DO it! "Pull, I say! Pull!" I told the puller... then proceded to laugh my ass off as I see this smoking thing bobbing down the moonlight dunes... and kept laughing even after it wiped out the whole party except for the WHM Harmoney, who ran like she was in the Olympics when she saw it charging up! 400+ to each member = bad news.

2) Make sure that the rest of your party is at the keyboard while waiting for worms in Qufim, and double check before you provoke the worm to tank it, only to find out all your healers are getting a beer... I suppose reading the log would help here :)

3) Countless times while soloing, taking on just ONE last mob before resting, with the last mob killing me in just 3-4 hits. D'oh! >.<

4) Spending 20,000k on a Small Sword instead of 2,000... whoops. Got straightened out though! :)
 
Hehe.. i would have to say I have two good instances of doing something stupid. One was completely funny and the other I still feel kinda bad about.


1. Way back when i was working on Warrior, i was around lvl 27ish and pretty new to the areas around Jeuno. It was my first ever attempt at starting a party. I got all the positions filled, dont remember what exactly th pt consisted of, but i had atleast 2 healers, I think a Rdm and Whm, whom were JP players. Needless to say I was happy to have them along, but translation were .. rough..

I decided to take them out to Battila Downs and try to find a bunker to fight in with a zone in it (since i had been in some pts that had done pretty good doing that). Unfortunately all the ones with zones were taken, and the pt was getting anxious to gain some exp. So I took them to the next bunker i saw, didnt have a zone, so i knew if we got in trouble we'd be screwed. We actually did pretty good for a while pulling gobs and an occasional tiger. The puller died a few times because he would wander too far out and get bind cast on him, and we'd see his hp dropping, by the time we got to him he'd be dead.

He got raised and we continued, but as soon as it turned nightime, a ghost spawned right smack dab in the middle of our camp, in the middle of all of us.. we immediately ran for our lives. It killed the puller in seconds cause he voked first for whatever reason. I voked it, and told everyone esle to zone, trying as best i could to use the autotranslator to get my point across. However one of the JP mages casted something on it and it went after him almost immediatly after I voked it. Needless to say I couldnt do anything for close to 20 seconds. The mage ran like heck but alas he went down, i stayed by the ghost so i would draw aggro since the Whm was still alive and running. I provoked as soon as i could and ran, I didnt make it. The Whm was the only one who did live, the other two had died from misc mobs while they were running. *sigh* It wasnt one of my better days. Needless to say the party broke up after that. I still havent attempted to start a party because of that experience. I just join pts and/or take leadership after the former leader has had to leave.

2. I was taking the ship between Selbina and Mahura several times to catch a crab for a quest in Windhurst. One of those times I ran up to the deck, only to see a Sea Horror in my path. I was using my lvl 40 War/Mnk combo at the time, since it was my highest lvl job, and it still is so far. At first I didnt realize it was a Sea Horror.. i had thought i saw the words Sea Monk.. I had fought those before and won. I whipped out my Greatsword and charged toward it, hit it once, it spen around and hit me for 200+ dmg.. I then realized how large it was.. and thought "Oh shit..."

I was able to withstand a few more hits before going down. Which was okay, I could live with that, i had given myself a good amount of cushioning exp so I wouldnt delevel. However, this is where it got funny as hell. I whip my camera around and see the door to the deck open, it was another M Elvaan character, he was in subligar and still had his "Noob"questionmark up. He runs over to me and sends me a tell.
Noob>> Sorry, I cant help. :(
Me<< Go back down quick!!! RUUUNNN!!!
Without missing a beat, and i mean as soon as I had hit enter to send the message, the Sea Horror whips around and pimp slaps him one time. Down the poor noob went. I couldnt help but laugh my ass off. We both spent the rest of the 9 minutes laying on the deck of the boat with the Sear Horror laughing at us. We got raised as soon as we reached Mahura, poor guy.

Sorry this post is so big.
 
lol, I have also done some pretty stupid stuff, but the worst so far had just recently occured.

I was having a few beers, and was in a full alliance in Xarcabard doing Genkai 2 quest. We had fought the first of the 3 NM's we needed to kill to get item's, and when we went to the seconde NM spot. My friend said I aet a mithkabob, puleld my weapon, ran into battle, and just sat there. Everyone got their item (I was still just standing there, and then the NM spawns again and eats me for dinner.

He asked me the next day what happened, and I told him I passed out i at the keyboard, and the next thing I knew it was morning, and I was in bed.....LMAO. Needless to say, when you want to stay up late and do something important in game, DONT DRINK AND FFXI!
 
The stupidest thing I probably ever did (that I can clearly remember) is when I was levelling my black mage in Tahongi Canyon.

Now generally when you are about to finish a battle, a mage will start to heal.

For all of you who do not know what the middle row of the keyboard looks like, it goes.

asdfghjkl;

So.... Ctrl+h is healing right? I hit Ctrl+g. Now normally this would be an honest mistake....but...I did it twice in the same party. So two ITs gone down the drain..haha...I got a lot o heat for that one. So now the call for help is convienently all the way at Ctrl+q.
 
Boat Ride between Selbina and Mhaura

While stories about the boat ride between Selbina and Mhaura is pretty common, I figure this is worthy of telling. One disclaimer, this story is not exactly about my dumbest experience, but I bet some of the people mentioned in the story may think so. Once upon a time, actually it was 2 weeks ago, after another uneventful leveling session in the Dunes, I caught a boat back to Mhaura, getting ready to go back to Windurst for a little R & R. The boat ride was relatively empty. Including myself, there were only 7 people on the boat altogether. I noticed right away a DRG 60 with beautiful shining armor. There were a few other assorted passengers, including a WHM 20 and a BLM 40 with WHM sub.

Since there were no other high levels on this trip, and no one has a raise, I decided to hide in the cabin where the Pilot is immediately after the trip started. I took the time to get myself a glass of water, and getting ready for an uneventful 12 minutes. When I came back with my Water, I noticed the following lines across the window:

Sea Horror (pretty rare compares to Sea Monks) appears on the Deck.
DRG 60 - I can take this mob. No problem, as long as you two heal me, there should be not problem at all.
BLM 40 - I don't know, that thing looks really tough.
WHM 20 - yeah, let's do it.
DRG 60 - As long as you keep curing me with Cure II, there should be any problem.
BLM 40 - OK.


It doesn't appear they ever partied, since all of the dialogs were in /say mode. Then the DRG proceeded to engage the Sea Horror. I returned to the computer as the battle began. True to his words, the DRG 60 was causing a lot of damages to the Sea Horror. His blows were causing somewhere between 100 - 300 points per hit. At the same time, the Sea Horror was doing about 200 points per hit on the DRG. The WHM and the BLM were curing the DRG like there is no tomorrow.

After the Sea Horror absorbed about 1000 points of damage, the following messages came across the screen:


WHM 20 - I am out.
BLM 40 - Oh s***.
DRG 60 - Oh s***, run!


The WHM 20 ran across the deck, and went into the cabin below at this point. The BLM used his last bit of MP with elemental attacks, and caused another 300 exp of damage. The DRG further casued about another 700 pts of damage (that's about 2000 now) before he ate the deck. The message DRG 60 lost a level came a cross the screen.


BLM 40 - Oh my god!


I hear foot steps outside of the cabin from one side to the next. A tentacle protruded through the walls, and I can follow the path of the Sea Horror, which was right behind the foot steps. The BLM 40 managed to get back down to the doors to the lower deck, and ran into the lower deck. Unfortunately for him and the rest of the passengers. The Sea Horror entered the lower deck right after the BLM. At this point, I can see the tantacle sticking out from the floor, circling the room.


WHM 20 - It is in here, oh s***
BLM 20 - wtf


400 pt hit, 500 pt hit, and the hits continued for a while. Then the hits stopped. At this point, there were still 3 minutes to go for the boat. There were no more chatter of any kind, except the protruding tantacle circling the floor.

When we arrived at the dock, the graphics shows all of the passengers walking off the boat, then 6 bodies dropped on the floor. Luckily a high level player with Raise was getting ready for a fishing expedition. She stopped and raised everybody.
 
Oh, I just remembered another classic one. When Porum and I were newbies still, we though Deodorize actually made you undetectable against goblins. yeah, we were dumb.

So we casted it on ourselves and we're level 14 or so and we go into bubu and run to Mhuara. Thinking we were so sneaky, we start running right in front of the goblins......yeah, bad idea... aggro, smack, dead mages.
 
Ecks said:
Noob>> Sorry, I cant help. :(
Me<< Go back down quick!!! RUUUNNN!!!
Without missing a beat, and i mean as soon as I had hit enter to send the message, the Sea Horror whips around and pimp slaps him one time. Down the poor noob went. I couldnt help but laugh my ass off.

Ok....my god the tears are still streaming down my face from this part!

Ok i have two that i recall really well. Cant stop laughing though...
The first one was on the first ship ride i ever took. About to pass out here from lack of oxygen. Can just picture his emotion when typing that! Ok anyways, so im all excited cause im on the ship exploring. I run up to deck and kill a sea clipper and a pugil SOLO! So at this point im a ragin badass so i park it in the middle of the deck and get a drink. Come back and im lying face first on the ground with a nasty looking skeleton standing over me laughing.

Second was just recently. I was camping emperor and i had seen him earlier luckily so had my 1.5 hour timer set. I come back after training lizards with my fun new ability Cyclone. So the last train takes me down to about 150 and im healing. Some low level shouts for help clearing the bat out the tunnel with the monument so i head over and destroy it. Come back and rest. Check widescan. Lo and behold EXACTLY at the 1.5 mark he spawns. He is across the map so im assuming i am not gonna get him. Hes free i grab him only to realize i had 200 hp or thereabouts. I smack my two hour and watch as we even out. Then it went downhill. I died with a low level party watching. My RDM friend happens by and kills the emp and gets the drop. I was very bitter after that though it was a rather stupid thing to do.
 
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Actually now that I think about it...this has also provided some pretty embarassing moments in game. Like once I was playing my WHM and had her on auto follow to get to the camp, all of a sudden she sits (healing mode) and gets aggro'd by a gob before I could get back up....Cat on the keyboard. Or this other time I was trying to join a great party and ended up disbanding from the party by accident - 2 times in a row....Cat on the keyboard. Or when all of a sudden afsoudrwofuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu appears in party chat... :?
There are countless others....Why the damn keyboard?!
 
Sabia... all I can say is...
L
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A
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I have 8 cats and I know how it can be... yeah they're all over the place, and I can have one on my monitor and one on my bed with one swatting at my mouse cord at the same time. Only once has one decided that the keyboard would make for a suitable bed, and my party thought I'd gone nuts, spinning in circles and with such insights like "a;lsjkaweawer12u092jka;" in the chat log. Those of us with cats are playing this game on "Hard" difficulty, I think :)
 
Oy..Rune I know what you mean! I mean you love the little critters - but they're just so in the way when your not paying attention to them, but instead to a little taru. The bad thing about Scrizz is even if I do convince him to get off the keyboard and onto my lap he bites me everytime I'm playing FFXI! I think he doesn't like the way I'm constanly moving my right hand around with the mouse and the number pad...The other bad thing about it is that he does that "kneeding" thing that happy cats do...but on my keyboard so not only is the jibberish i'm spurting out long and drawn out - he's tearing the keys out of my keyboard! He loves sending me swiftly across the room to retrieve my "D" key.
 
same to me, my 5 cats sit in my lap, and bite me everytime a type something long, and they hate when i type 1-handed because im running with the second hand.

and even though they dont sit/sleep/shit on my keyboard. they like to attack the moving mouse on my screen when im off ffxi and attack every moving thing sometimes.. and in ffxi world.... a shitload of things move :)
 
Once in Yhoator, i was leveling my BLM and i hit the wrong macro while we were fighting a mandy. Instead of casting Thunder, i casted Aeroga. The thing was, we were in one of those caves where lizards hang out and three just happened to be right beside our mandy. Needless to say, the whole party died and i didn't make any friends that day.
 
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