Oh! Oh! I have some...
Myself...newb with my first character (elvaan, now a mule). I was pretty lucky overall because my sister and brother in law got me into the game so they taught me quite a bit of stuff - the most useful of which was party dynamic and the role of tank in a party (at lev 5!) since I had chosen warr as a first job. They didn't tell me everything however...
- It took me like a week to find out there was more than just N Sandy. I was flabbergasted when I discovered S. Sandy...
- I, too, went over to Spook looking for a Revival Root for that quest...didnt even know there was a NM there, some guy just gave me the root. LOL!
- My first time to the dunes, someone had to come find me in la thiene! Then I died from a bogy right on the path in a ways, and iirc someone in my pt was casting deodorize to help against them!
- I, too was a n00b warr, with a lev 13 mnk sub (aiming for 30) and user of Teh Greatsword!
- On my Alek char, I was one of those rdm in the dooms who cast diaga... and couldnt figure out why we kept getting pugs. You know, YEARS later - my sis and bro in law STILL don't let me forget that.
Onwards to others...I recently started Brd and took it through the Dooms just last week. I actually did not bad with most pts, but I get this invite from a group of 18-19 while I was just 16! I think I am too low, but I thought, well I hate to be rude, so I hung out waiting. I kept asking about a healer, but I don't see one forthcoming. I /ch the warr - 18 with NO ARMOR excpet for a body pc! No healer still...I am getting worried. They pick up a blm.
Well the party leader says, "ok who is doing what?" No one ever answered me about a healer, so I said, "I know what I am not doing, I am not main healing.", which got no answer. They pull Sheep! right in front of Selbina! Thankfully not too bad to heal but I am a freaking bard, and the only reason I have more than 50mp is because I am wearing an astral. Meanwhile, the blm has like more mp leftover than I do altogether.
Me>> BLM, can you please help heal?
N00b>> Don't tell me how to do my job! Brds heal, blm kill stuff!
Me>> disband
Next day I had a classic horror party. After waiting forever to get a pt together we head off to Secret beach. Someone aggros a gob, which, with 5/6 18's should have been np, esp with a whm and warr. We wiped! It seems we had the classic warr who wouldn't voke, and a whm/thf who wasn't too sure about how to heal. So the warr logs altogether, the whm hps and disbands, and the blm leaves for another pt! I was all "grr! now have to waste another 30 mins getting reps..And on, the whm came back, then left again, and me and the 2 other experienced players just nickle and dimed ourselves up tnl killing crabs.
The next day I end up in a pt with this same whm in Qufim! But this time we had a PL, so it wasn't critical. Was interesting to see the progression of the whm. He had no spells so had to lot on nearly every spell the gobs in Delkfuts Tower dropped! But! He was actually a nice guy, and more importantly, he was seriously trying to learn. By the end of that party he had divine seal > curaga down, and reliably silenced the right gobs, etc etc, and I was really happy to see that he actually did have the makings of a decent whm. I guess the difference between him and the blm the day before was the whm ate up advice and tried hard, and the blm...well, you saw. ^^