Mage of All Trades

Note: This is a rather shitty entry, and I’m not happy writing it, but  I want to have something posted in response to the bullshit that’s going on in game recently.  Feel free to ignore the rest of the entry, as it isn’t anything fun.  I’m really not trying to be nasty with this entry, but more of just show that there’s two sides to the story, and I’m really not sure how things went so far downhill other than people convincing themselves of things that aren’t true.

As anyone who follows my Twitter is aware, there’s been a good chunk of dynamis crap going on over the last few days.  Essentially, the linkshell was lead by a couple, one of their friends, and my boyfriend.  The four got along pretty well–they were all friends, at least.  Having couples lead is dangerous; things typically aren’t very balanced.  Star was rather frustrated because it was very much so a “we’ve decided; we appreciate your input but you have very little say.”  Recently the 4th officer quit the game, which left Star and the couple to lead.  About two weeks ago, he got in a spat with one of them.  He said the truth, and she wasn’t very happy.  This couple hates a good friend of ours because he said the truth, and now they hate Star for it. Now they’ll hate me for it: the linkshell is run by one person.  She gets what she wants, and will do anything including lie to get it.

Example: Someone wants to come SMN, not RDM.  Ok.  Reasonable solution: Talk to Star, who creates the parties, sometime outside of dynamis when he’s not busy, and nicely say that he needs to let said person come SMN.  Yes it’s not productive, etc.. but the guy shouldn’t have to always come RDM.  What happened: After Star said for him to go RDM, he fussed to another officer who went behind Star’s back and told said person it was fine to go SMN.  When Star realized it, and asked “why are you not on RDM?” this other officer stepped in and lied, saying “Well, I’m dualboxing WHM and BLM, and I can’t focus, so I needed him to come SMN so he could heal better.”  First of all, RDM > SMN for healing.  Secondly, if you cannot focus dualboxing, you should not be dualboxing.  Star later got flack for this instance, with the SMN fussing about how “it’s so sad that one officer feels like they need to lie to protect me.”  You’re right, it is sad, especially since that was not the only possible option.  Always with the lying, and the blaming others.

Last night, when we were discussing what was happening now that the couple has quit the linkshell, leaving it to Star, one of them popped into the linkshell and was saying how their leaving had to due with the attitude of two people.  Star quickly responded yes, me and you, which, it was quite apparent that’s NOT what she meant.  In some warped way, her and Arrey’s leaving is being blamed on me.

The SMN mentioned earlier and his wife are both leaving the ls to form their own.  A few members also left, though we’ve still got a solid 18+ who stayed.  Rev and Arrey both joined this linkshell, less than few hours after leaving this linkshell.  Of course, at this point it’s not nice stuff that’s going on; everyone is getting a tell to leave, and they’re not above being incredibly nasty to Star and myself to try and “win” members to their side.  Star got a message last night from a good friend, telling him he was horrible and just a lapdog, and that “bitch,” myself, had him perfectly trained.  If that’s the case…I want a refund, he does NOT do what I want him to do! ;)  I forget what else was said, but it was just a lot of nonsense.  The SMN has no idea what’s going on, and he’s just saying some awful stuff.  He’s heard everything from Rev, so of course it’s going to be biased, and since she’s not above lying…a good chunk isn’t true.

This is the second to last conversation I had with Rev, about 24 hours before she officially left the linkshell, me “causing” her to leave the linkshell.  Aren’t I awful?:

The above blurred out words were names of potential officers, which I didn’t think needed to be posted publically especially since the linkshell’s no more. Again, you can see more examples of lying — she did honestly say at one point I shouldn’t be an officer because I’m dating Star, yet she was dating the ls leader and was an officer.  She tries so hard to find a nice way to say what she means, but her being “nice” is her lying…is it all that hard to tell the truth? :/  And I did, DO, consider her a friend, even saying all of this.  It’s not the nicest thing to do, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true and if she truely isn’t aware of what she’s doing maybe hearing it for a 3rd, 4th, 5th time will help.  We’ve had an odd friendship for quite some time, but we’ve never resorted to being nasty to each other until this last conversation I had with her (where Aria is Rev’s mule):

Considering I said nothing to her between the two conversations, either she was lying when she said she “adored” me, or she talked herself into thinking I was to blame.  I was 100% honest in that conversation with her, and I really don’t see what all the fuss is about.  Oh well, it is what it is.  She’s talked herself into hating me, which is really too bad.  She and that SMN though, they’re really just making fools of themselves :/  Most of the ls is staying with Star, there’s no need for them to try and stir up trouble.  If they want to leave, that’s fine, but threats of tanking the linkshell bank is rather harsh.  Even if you hate Star and I, what about the other 16+ people who put in time last month towards that gil?  You’re not just robbing us, you’re stealing from them too.  Some “leaders.”  This whole thing just makes me really sad; can’t we just be adults here?

Another Salvage post!  I’ll start with the happy stuff, since, well, it’s happy!  To date, our salvage group has gotten 5 35s, which isn’t half bad considering we’ve only been going 2-3x/week for 8 weeks!  We’ve gotten: 2 pairs of Usukane pants, 1 Morrigan Robe, 1 Skadi shoes (which has since left the group :<), and one pair of Morrigan hands.  Of course, none of these have been completed yet, but we’ve gotten the 35s for it!  Since 4 of those are from Arrapago, last week we did two Bhaf. bosses to try and match up some 25s.  Monday night we got Skadi shoes 25 (which went to Star, since the guy with the 35 left D:, putting him @2/3) and Ares’s mask, which went to Seite who was actually @2/3 on that piece from another group, making Monday complete our first upgrade!  Tuesday we netted the Ares’s 25 body and the Usukane 25 pants…thus starting the shit storm.

Our lotting system is pretty strait forward; it’s a group for friends, but we have priorities etc.. so we know what to focus on.  We also have interest pieces, so that if they drop people can have claim on them, but we don’t go out of our way to get them.  So, my list looks like this: #1 Morri Robe, #2 Morri Slops, Interest Morri Pigaches, Crown, Gloves.  One person had Ares’s Body as #1, one person had it as #2.  Ditto for the Usukane pants.  The people who had it listed as #2 both were very unhappy that they couldn’t lot, and complained.  So the question that’s on mine and the other “leaders” is: WHY DO YOU NOT HAVE IT LISTED AS #1 THEN?  I mean, I’m really not sure how much clearer we could get…

One guy was ok with it, but the other guy…wow.   He was livid that the first guy got Usu legs instead of him, because he “just joined.”  Our Salvage group is made up of our Nyzul group; this is someone from our Nyzul group.  He didn’t come for the first seveal runs due to RL stuff, but it wasn’t like he got the 25 on his first run.  Moreover, he also had the 35; we didn’t give the 25 to someone who needed the 35 over someone who could upgrade now.  Bleugh.  Anyways, I was then told I was a liar because Rae wasn’t with us from the start, and I “ninja added him”.  I kid you not, that’s what I was told.  This Salvage group was BASED around our Nyzul static…but I ninja’d someone in from Nyzul.  Then he went off about how I told him that we couldn’t change any wanted gear (which…I didn’t; I’ve let 3-4 people change their gear within the last few weeks, and chatted with the other “leaders” about people swapping gear too), so we’re fucking him over because we’re not doing CC @ SSR for his Usu body, which, btw, he claims we can do with ANY old 6 people.  Anyone can do it.  Also, he knew I was changing people’s gear, and he told me “well I thought you guys were my friends so I looked the other way.”  He never once asked me about it, yet he holds ME responsible for not knowing that he was having issues with the lotting system, because I didn’t go to him and ask him if he wanted to change it.  I’m not a babysitter, really guys, I’m not.  I work at a daycare with toddlers, I expect this kind of behavior from them.  Not from an adult.

Anyways! One specific example: We were planning on doing Arrapago Sat, SSR Mon, and Bhaf boss Tues.  Because this guy was so upset about not doing SSR, and insisting that us not doing it due to low numbers was BS, we tried it last night with 6 people.  We just wanted to fix things with him; when he doesn’t have something lodged up his rear he’s a very nice guy and we DO want to get him his gear.  He’s a friend and we’ve always wanted to help him.  So we went with 6.  The first bit of the run went well, he was telling us what to do and acknowledged that we wouldn’t get to CC just then but we’d learn for Monday. We get to the 4th floor with less than 20 minutes left, and suddenly he changes to completely unreasonable and a HUGE jerk.  He’s complaining to Star about person x and person y, and how they suck so bad at their jobs and why can’t they just get it right.  He’s telling the RDM that he needs to gravity and bind everything after it’s slept, despite the fact that we’ve got like 4 things at camp and there are things like recast timers.

This is the lovely stunt he pulled on me last night.

I was on bard; I’m NEVER on bard.  At the start of the night, I asked if Marchx2 was acceptable, and was told yes, that was fine.  So anyways, we’re on the 4th floor, and he asks for mad/min when we have ONE minute remaining.  Except, he doesn’t ask.  He tells.  And, he insults Staren in the process, as Star has a blackbelt and he doesn’t.  Star’s belt has NOTHING to do with this; our other bards always cast Marchx2, and did this BEFORE Star started to come as monk. Moreover, I ASKED, and was told March x2 was good.  I was a smidge miffed given how the evening had gone, but I tried to be nice about it.  Looking back, that ;) may have been ill-timed since he was mad too but I honestly didn’t mean anything bad by it.  So anyways, we get kicked out a minute later, and this happens:

He’s mad because he “told” me to sing mad/min for the gears.  As you can see here, I’m all but positive he did not.  Despite this fact, I explained why I was confused and acknowledged that I misunderstood what he meant if he really did ask for this for gears on the 4th floor.  Of course, I then had to go back and double check.  This is what he asked for earlier:

To which I responded “ok”.  I don’t know…he may have thought it, but I can’t read minds, and I do not see ANYTHING about needing min/mad for gears or for floor 4.  It’s not in the SS, but I double checked and he asked for this we were killing…the Rampart on fl3!  So after we killed the rampart, I went back to Marchx2!  I just..I don’t even know.  With this guy, EVERYTHING is someone else’s fault.  He was complaining this week about how he got shit from our Nyzul static, when he got askar shoes and pants.  He said he wanted body, and when it droped it was his…and he TOLD Rae to lot against him.  Rae won, and our static fucked him over because he got “shit”.  I lied to him because I said Rae was a part of our Salvage group from the start, and I fucked him over because he didn’t ask me if he could change his wanted list.  Obviously I’m stupid and didn’t realize that he wanted mad/min for fl4 gears…I mean, how could I have missed that that’s what he was asking?  Nothing is *EVER* his fault.  It’s always someone elses.  I’m thinking it’s about time to cut our losses, and I’ll be sad to see him go because he was a good friend, and is a great player.  But this bullshit isn’t acceptable.

He told Star and I both that we shouldn’t “mistake his kindness for weakness.” Oh, we won’t…but we also won’t mistake your elitism that we somehow missed, or your pigheadness, for strength.

Anywho! Enough of that, if anyone is still reading!  And this last SS, my “quote of the day”, is very nice (: Out of the 6 people present…guess who the only female is!

Bleugh.  I hate feeling like I’m writing to complain about people in game…but at the same time, if I’m writing about what’s happening in ffxi, that is a large chunk of it.  I’ll start with more fun things though!

Nyzul
Most of us are on floor 40 now!  Poor Ryo, he had horrible lag when we were fighting the boss on floor 40 and managed to use his Fireflies without realizing it was too late though ):  We’ll hopefully get that taken care of tomorrow though so we can all start at floor 41 on Saturday for our next set of climbs.  We had some really nasty floors–jokes of “</3 to you either Blizzard” were found, followed by statements of “SE could never be so mean with these Nyzul floors!”  We did 2 floor 20 runs last night–we’ve been pretty good about using all 7 tags a week: four for climbing on Saturday, 3 during the week for boss floors.  Had Askar drop, and we need one of those yet for our static…but we timed out and no one got it ):

Dynamis
There’s been some talk of changing the rules, which I’m kind of iffy on.  I don’t want them to change, but I don’t know if I’d leave if they did.  From my understanding, most linkshells now allow people to lot on either currency (singles or 100 typically, not both though?) or relic, and they have their choice–though I am aware that some groups don’t give their members any currency.  Mine handles things differently.  The leaders collect all of the coins and sell them.  At the end of the month, 4 mil is tucked safely away to pay for the next month’s runs, and the extra gil is split up between members.  They want to nix that, and instead use that extra gil to pay for relics.  Basically once you get a stage four relic, they’ll pay for the rest of it.  However…this works for about 4-5 people.  The other 35 of us won’t benefit from it (before people think “oh, well  having people with a relic in dyna still helps everyone,” not really.  It’ll help people you’re in a pt with in dyna only, and who’s to say they’ll stick around in the ls for very long?  What about RL issues, what if they quit the game?  In that case, what if they sell their account, and make a nice chunk of rl-change off the work of the ls?).

So anyways, not quite sure where I sit on this, because I know there are groups who don’t get anything except relic, but I do like getting 200k or so each month from dyna…  And I certainly don’t want to feel like I’m putting time in and other people are benefiting off it by getting a relic while I’m sitting just hoping for AFv2.  Hopefully they won’t change it though, I rather like it how it is.

Did Dyna-Qufim the other day, which was fun…only got city AF though, and timed out before killing the boss.  Wee for short dynas.

Limbus/Einherjar
Nothing exciting–did another Omega last night which was nice.  Got two heads and a body, though one body free dropped since no one wanted it.  Puts Star closer in line to getting the body he’s been wanting though so that’s nice!  Needs moar Ultima, but he’s a jerk anyways.  We’ve not done einherjar for a wihle.  The leaders were gone all of last week which no one knew anything about, and so yesterday when they were actually there, most people didn’t even bother equipping their linkpearls so we couldn’t go.

Drama!
A good friend in my social linkshell went crazy.

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Oy. Between Thanksgiving last week (and subsequently Staren being in town for 10ish days) and the start of exams and papers due at the end of the semester this week, I’ve not been online hardly at all–never mind in game. However, I’m at a bit of a lull in the week–no more exams or papers until next week, wee!, so I’ll be able to be on a bit more for the next few days.

Star and I did log in twice while he was here; we did two different dyna runs–Bastok and Xarcabard. We also both got a bit of crafting in; I dinged 34 in Bonecrafting, and he got Woodworking up to just under 70 (last I heard it was 69, I think?). I got pretty pissy during the Xarc. run; one of the ls leaders was being an idiot. Just before the Bastok run, we did a Sandy dyna, and there was a little issue at that dyna over one of my friends being able to lot/not lot on an item. A few of us pipped up and said it should be his, and after a bit of looking, the leaders realized it should be his–he had White Mage listed as what he wanted for cities/snow/dreamworlds and had that set from when he joined, months ago.

The issue was he took a few weeks off (though, at this point he had been back for a good 2-3 weeks and had been getting points…) and one of the leaders had set his account to “retired” so the other leader didn’t have access to his wants list when he made the list of who gets what. Of course, Novam wasn’t -TOLD- this, and the leader managed to make a jerk of himself by blaming Novam for not knowing, but it ended well and was taken care of.

Fast forward to the Xarc run, not two weeks later. White Mage gloves drop, and they should go to Novam. It was declared it was open lot, and the leader who set his account to “retired” refused to acknowledge that it should be Novam’s. I pipe up, and get ignored, and then he proceeds to yell at Novam, saying “I’m sure you’re list is wrong, you must have screwed up, and that’s your fault, not mine.” Seriously…just 2 runs ago this was taken care of, that he SHOULD be in line for White Mage relic… I am very sad indeed when the main leader who calls who lots what isn’t around, this other guy does NOT handle things fairly at all.

Anyways, in a happier note, I did a limbus run last night (putting me at 3 runs, so I can now lot on AF+1 items rather than just waiting for them to be free lot!). And, lol, during my first 3 runs, I received 3 AF+1 items: White Mage, Red Mage, Black Mage. I’m now 1/2 on all four of my lvl 75 jobs.

I originally had this at the end, but I decided I should start with it and put the rest of the entry behind a cut, because it’s me complaining…and I seem to do that a lot lately, about my dyna and/or sky ls. So here we go!

I DO have good news though–something happy that I’m ecstatic to write about. However, my screenshots are horrible–boo my graphic card D: So I’m waiting for Eni to post SS (his are always amazing quality \o/) before posting about it–but I’ll say what it’s about: two good friends of mine got married in game today, and I got to chaperon!

And one other completely not FFXI related thing: does anyone know how to switch to only have 5 entries show up on the main page of a wordpress blog (either just any blog, or for this theme in specific) by any chance? Please lemme know if you do! My entries tend to be too long…and 10 on the main page makes the scroll bar super teenie D:

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