Your biggest regret(s)...

[Epical]

I would've put this in the main section, seeing as it would get more traffic and we could hear some interesting stories, but it's not really an advanced topic, so unless a mod wants to move it, it goes here!

Anyways, what is/are your biggest in-game regret(s)? Please don't say anything stupid like "playing this game" or whatever... I want this thread to be as entertaining as the "How did you get your name?" thread. I'll start:

I actually have four.

My first one is being a Taru. When I started the game, on the character creation screen I added up all the numbers of the stats each race had (not knowing it was affected by the job), and Taru came out as a tie with Mithra I think. I thought the Taru looked cool, so I picked it. Down the line I began to ha-, no, loathe being a Taru... so now Raceconv is my only escape from this treacherous being I have become.

My second regret is throwing 5M into powerleveling Bonecraft/Leathercraft (never finished) on a mule for Scorpion Harness synths alone. Now that that market went down the drain (at least here), everytime I looked at my mule's crafts, I get all angry and wiiiiiiiiiish I could get that money back... there are so many things I could use it for.

My third regret is throwing away my fking Optical Hat. Now, you may be thinking "Why the hell would you do that?", and it actually wasn't on purpose. When I "quit" to play WoW in Nov2005, I was cleaning out all my stuff for liquidation, and throwing away random shit so when I sold my account, they would have ample storage space. My Storage at the time was full of random r/ex stuff that I had collected over time, and for some reason my Ohat was in there. I had become so used to the key presses of tossing r/ex items that it was just reflex when I accidentally highlighted my Ohat. The second I did it I froze and was all "FUCKKKKKK NO!". Even though I "quit", I was still pissed the FUCK off because I farmed each and every eye without TH, etc etc back in the day. When I came back to FFXI in July2006, that's when I really felt the burn. Everyone was so into TOAU that no one had time for Ohat runs, since everyone and their mom had one... so to this day, with jobs that could really use it, I still do not have an Ohat, but I have a cluster sitting in my Locker. =\

My last regret is leaving for WoW at the time that I did. Even though the expansion had already been released for a year, there were still a LOT of people doing CoP missions. During the time I was gone, everyone finished CoP missions and understandably moved onto to being occupied with TOAU. When I came back, I was still only on Promy-Vahzl and everyone was finished/no one wanted to do any more CoP missions than they had to. So again, to this day, I'm still on Promy-Vahzl, and without a Brutal/Rajas/AF[2]+1/Apoc Earring. /cut

Your turn.

[Jeryhn]

First regret was not finishing my "dream" of being a clothcrafter. Could be rolloing the the monies now if I kept going.

Second was picking Abyssal after finding out that dark skill wouldn't help Stun.

That's about it for me.

[Ryko]

Giving whiny cunts what they want, regardless of effort put in.

[Charitwo]

Not being a taru, though that issue is somewhat getting resolved.

[Atlasion]

Taking a break for a few months because I thought I would need to concentrate on uni (turns out first year is easy though) and missing my chance to get an LS funded relic.

[Quixotic]

passing on multiple haidate in my old linkshell when it was easy to do sky.

[Metah]

Leveling Cooking.

Way back when I started I thought "Hey, I like to cook in real life, so cooking in game should be good too!". Oy.

[BerenTebogo]

Passing on multiple haidates

quitting and deleting my first content ID with a 75 SAM + RNG in the olden days (pre first patch) I don't know, even after leading a LS and having a good amount of success / changing to tank jobs I always look back on the first content ID with more fondness.

passing on multiple D. Legs

taking a break and missing dyn-tav win + lots of priority in all aspects of game (2nd break :\ ) and a good amount of my LS's accomplishments

Blowing multiple chances to capitalize on a fucked up economy with a 100 craft because of laziness / spending crafting capital on currency then deciding I don't have the time to dedicate to a relic and losing about 50% on currency return (dont regret the currency I gave to friends though, obviously)

etc etc...I've made a lot of bad decisions lol, but I still have fun so whatever.

[Septimus]

Second was picking Abyssal

Number 1 for me.

I think my second regret would be waiting so long to make a second character. Then again, had I made Atum much earlier I probably wouldn't have leveled WAR to 75, so I guess it's not all bad.

[gandorf]

My only regrets in game was never being able to stick to one job and never finishing anything i started in game like crafting.

[Intense]

Well, I deleted my original char, Intense, 2 times. Making him unretrievable. So that would probably be my regret.

Although, I was happy with the acct my friend gave to me. Except that he picked Abyssal earring. ;x

[Daahan]

1) Leveling DRG as my first job. Seriously, it has to be one of the biggest wastes of time in this game. True, it is kind of fun when I get on it every now and then and what not, but I wish I had leveled something else first. I don't necessarily hate the job; rather, I hate it's uselessness and SE's inability to make it remotely useful.

2) Quitting last fall, telling myself I was going to quit for good, but then coming back. I came back with very little gil, with my name practically moved to the bottom of every lotting list (when before I quit I was near the top), and losing my precious manteel and having to look at myself is a disgusting houppelande. It was a rash and stupid decision to say "I'm not going to be returning to the game." All I needed was some time off because it was a tough semester at my university. I'm still getting back on track. I also lost a great assault static by quitting, and now I can never get anyone to do assault with me (Tonko and Septimus, I miss our assault static).

3) Biggest regret? Not leading my own successful LS.

[Jeryhn]

My only regrets in game was never being able to stick to one job and never finishing anything i started in game like crafting.

Maybe you should quit.

Oh wait...

[Sheeny]

Paying 70m for Kraken Club 5 days before they moved it to BC and I saw prices as low as 35m over the following 2 days.

Passing up Neptunal Abjurations when I was in HNMLS because "zomg I dont have the space for TWO sets of attack gear! That's crazy talk! PASS."
At the time I was just BST and WHM, crying about the space issues of a few Heca pieces. Now I lug around multiple gears for PLD WHM BLM WAR at all times and laugh/cry at the irony. Not the end of the world - only thing I wish I had is Heca Cap - but its just so sad that I passed 100 of them for such a silly reason.

Picking Beastly Earring from DM.

[Gilanth]

Quitting and giving away all my gear and gil (20 million+ gil and 25-35 million worth of equipment at the time i quit) then coming back and starting from scratch.

Not leveling any other jobs and always spending my spare time crafting.helping people and farming,which im now putting right. Playing the game for me more this time enjoying it so far although low levels are quite sparse now.

Picking Elvaan then wanting to play BLM >.> Did'nt know till i was thru Garlidge citedel and thought sod starting again now i wish i did so much.

[Xavier]

Fucking Bushinomimi.

Most of my real regrets have more to do with the players than game decisions though.

[layoneil]

Leveling SAM instead of MNK as my first "fun" job. that has lead to a lot of other minor decisions which all add up to be pretty annoying right now.

Not leveling BST to 75 when i could have had a BST static.

and much lower on the scale would be doing Minuet Merits on BRD.

besides that i don't really 2nd guess myself that much. i don't count things like "if i would've known this patch was going to happen, i should've done X" as regrets. i don't regret not being able to predict the future.

oh and i regret trying to buy TM Hooks +2 while half asleep and ended up buying TM Hooks for more than 10x the price.

[Elesirdur]

Never really pushing myself or applying myself to be part of an elite end-game LS. The time-sink factor was definitely a problem for me and I really feel like the last year of my FFXI career has been a huge waste; taking a big step back in terms of difficulty of events and not really getting much to show out of it.

[Wulf]

Giving whiny cunts what they want, regardless of effort put in.

[theo]

I have a lot of minor things, but ultimately I don't find myself losing sleep over any of my in-game decisions...

I do kinda wish I had taken Tamas instead of Rajas. I think that would probably amount to my biggest regret actually.