Things you learned the hard way.

[Windlorn]

Re: Things you learned the hard way.

My hardest lesson playing ffxi was learned in yhoater jungle while leveling pld. I was using F8 to target the mobs and then voke the mob when the puller brought it to camp. All of a sudden I start getting popped by this white lizard and realized I must have voked it by accident Well, after that most of us died before we could zone.

It was a valuable lesson learned about making sure what you have targeted before voking and I was lucky that most of the party was understanding about my error. I also picked up in the very near future the valuable use of /target <bt> for targeting the "battle target" instead of any random mobs around you.

[Ellipses]

Re: Things you learned the hard way.

Charming a worm and then acting as its puller is not a terribly efficient strategy.

Just because a guild shop sells out an item every day doesn't mean you should hurry to buy as many as you can without checking the price first.

[Sassafrass]

Re: Things you learned the hard way.

Orcish Hexspinner has true sight. -_-

[Lucky and Elizabeth]

Macro Experiment

I was trying to see how macros worked and I shot an arrow and hit a Pugil in the dunes and killed my entire party.

[Kametame]

Re: Things you learned the hard way.

One thing to watch out for.... Vrtra can pop one floor upwards on accident. Happened at Lakshmi, poor newbies camping spook never got the chance to run. ; ;



Also, never afk in Al'Taieu. There are gigantic UFO-lookalike things there called Yovras that wander about and hit like a truck when aggroed. I went afk in sea after porting in from Holla. Came back after 1 hr and I was kissing Lumorian soil. Took a look up at the log and here's what I found.

The Om'Yovra hits Kametame for 382 points of damage.
The Om'Yovra hits Kametame for 243 points of damage.
The Om'Yovra readies Primal Drill.
Kametame takes 1242 points of damage.
Kametame was defeated by the Om'Yovra.


>_<

[Taskmage]

Re: Things you learned the hard way.

That Vrtra thing was a huge glitch they had to call in some devs for. ^^ Only happened once ever as far as I know, but I guess there's still a good lesson there. "Never assume you're safe. You never know when you might be staring a level 80 HNM in the teeth."

[Suteru]

Re: Things you learned the hard way.

95*

Actually, he was hacked up there I think, someone used a warp tool after aggroing Vrtra and it confused the AI so he just spawned where the spook camp was, and didn't get back down because he uses draw-in and is prgrammed to stay where he is (where he pops)

[Mycraell]

Re: Things you learned the hard way.

I took the boat from Selbina for the first time today, fought a couple of enemies on the way. On the way back, figured i'd go up to the deck and level a bit more... only to find the crabs that were there on the way had given way to a massive squid. I checked it, and died before getting to the end of the "impossible to guage" message...lol.

[Neomage]

Re: Things you learned the hard way.

Not really pertaining to FFXI but...

Never, EVER pick up a 1000+ degrees F. piece of metal.

[Kikku]

Re: Things you learned the hard way.

taking on hetacomb solo XD;;
he whooped my ass(was mining at the time)

[Atma]

Re: Things you learned the hard way.

Learning imps are true-sight: 1600xp
Learning Jnun is true sight: 1600xp
Learning that apparently Reserve Draguhrs and Lamias cast AM and tier IV and -ga III magic: 1600xp

Breaking your first key because you got the Yadiwha dice quest and the corsair quest confused? Priceless.

For deaths in parties, there's RII or RIII. For everything else, choose homepointing >.<

[fallenintoshadows]

Re: Things you learned the hard way.

Learning imps are true-sight: 1600xp
Learning Jnun is true sight: 1600xp
Learning that apparently Reserve Draguhrs and Lamias cast AM and tier IV and -ga III magic: 1600xp

Breaking your first key because you got the Yadiwha dice quest and the corsair quest confused? Priceless.

For deaths in parties, there's RII or RIII. For everything else, choose homepointing >.<

I guess master card didn't come in helpful XD

First time in la theine: don't ever stop to wonder why the grounds rumbling. Just run next time.

[Mog]

Re: Things you learned the hard way.

Hmm, guess a lesson learned would be to never take off invisible while staring down 5 yagudos in Castle Oztroja.

[Taskmage]

Re: Things you learned the hard way.

Hmm, guess a lesson learned would be to never take off invisible while staring down 5 yagudos in Castle Oztroja.

by putting a key in a coffer. ... Nah, nvm, it's worth it.

[Aeolus]

Re: Things you learned the hard way.

Turns out you can (Hide) from Yags.