MY DEEPEST THOUGHTS
This section will consists of my deepest thoughts that I have posted about FFXI, the Linkshell, and more. There may be harsh to brutal language, and even some deep emo-ness. Thank you for your time.
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LINKSHELL BREAKDOWN Let me state, that this is not a rant. This is an observation made, and my strongly felt opinions about it. Thank you for reading, and if you have anything to say, feel free to say it. This LS was founded in hopes to bring many people together where we advance in FFXI and rule the land as the number one LS in Phoenix. This LS was created with many great intentions and wishes that have been flushed down the toilet since it has begun. I will now support and justify my statements. The opening of Devilutionaries were to bring the people of GodSlayers, EvolutionOfPhoenix, and TheBondsOfHonor together. This was to be done by Blackmutoh, Gar and Klaive. The first problem we ran into was Gar thinking this new LS was about the devil. He believed that since I liked Klaive as a friend, and Klaive was on the side of Satan, that I made this LS for devil worshipers, and Anti-Christ. He says he asked his friends to join us, but I know different. I have seen Gar fuck many people over just to make me laugh. I can only imagine what he has done and said about this LS and myself. Finding people was very hard. They must be open-minded and able to handle any topic. They do not have to join in the topics, but they must be able to read and think for themselves. Why is this important? Censorship is not liked here. You may censor yourself all you like, but do not try to censor others. If you do not like the subjects spoken of, then find another LS and don�t hop back and forth like a weak minded child. Each person found, found a way to hate this LS, and that is their choice. I�m fine with it. For the ones that stayed, and could not handle this LS, is where many more problems came from. Shigeru, is a main topic in this. He sent me hundreds of /tells about gays making him uncomfortable, and at times spammed the LS with his hate rants. Some of his words, where racial slurs that I should have kicked him for. I thought different from that. I made a choice to keep him in the LS, so that his blind, immature ways, will be seen as a way of how NOT to be. This is how I raised myself most of the time. I saw how people acted, how it hurt others, and found that being that way is not fun for the one, being hurt. Being bullied most of my life helped also. I think some people in this LS hated Shigeru�s words and tones and I HOPE, it taught them a lesson in life. There were so many arguments in the LS and I, being the leader, have to sort out the bullshit, the lies, and find a common ground for everyone to coexist. That is very hard to do. I can�t jump into an argument, take the side of the first voice that says, �join me� and think it�ll all be ok. I�m better than that. I must read the screen and check the credibility of the words. Plain text can show much malice, anger and vengeance. I have to see this all and then jump in, to protect he actual person in defense and ward off the attackers. After that, I must bring it to �Court of Order� and get it straightened out. Take no sides, and keep it fair for all. This made many people hate me. �Go figure.� I was called a poor leader, a coward, a fag-lover, an incompetent player of the game, and a devil worshiper. As for being a leader, I am not a leader. I never chose to be. I chose to have a LS that governed itself with smart, witty people who knew right from wrong and could handle matters on their own. My observation is that people argue to be right and ignore the fact that most arguments start with opinion based questions and observations. People who could think past their own nose, and contemplate the words at hand, instead of worrying about what offends them, could prevent these matters. Next, is farming. Farming is what we do, when we go to an area of weak mobs (monsters), and kill them for their items. Once we get a stack, we sell them to the AH, in our Bazaar, or to other people with shouts. Recently, in Jugnar Forest, Lilboobookitty and I were farming Thunder Elemental; obtaining many stacks in doing so. Klaive eventually joined us and said, farming was a waste of time, when we could be gaining EXP instead. This is another form of the LS being flushed down the toilet. Why? For me, I�ve wanted to do a LS farming trip for so long. I�ve had my heart set on it for months. I mean, my heart. I was so happy with Kitty farming in a place with me. Klaive stepped on it as if my dreams were his nightmares. I saw that as a cowardly attack and I can�t forgive him for it unless he can find a way to apologize to me. I know many of the people in the LS have dreams in the game and I respect that. I would like to help fulfill these dreams but now� I don�t want to help anyone do much of anything. Only a select few. My mind will alter in time, but not today. Gil is a subject that arises so much in the LS. Everyone is farming one way or another. I have given my all, to help people farm in areas that will benefit them in more than one way. Sad to say, they have rejected me, spited me, and made all of my hard work seem pointless. I don�t care to give anymore information to help anyone farm anything. I�ll support this statement as well. Kenitix, Linkganon, and a few others talk about needing gil all the time. They seem to surround their FFXI days with it. I have offered them Elemental and other mobs to farm but they laugh out loud at me and often replied with �That�s not much at all.� I see that their problem is that they think on terms of the one time lump sum and not the overall price. Linkganon was happy to kill the SPOOK and gain the Traveler�s Mantel worth 50K to 200K at that time. I was farming Thunder Elemental. I mentioned in the LS that I was farming them, in hopes that people would want to join me. Linkganon asked me how much I�ve made and I told him, 100K at that time. He said, �That�s not much, I just made 200K.� In my opinion, it was cruel and pointless to open me up for that kind of attack. I�ve not helped him and do not plan to help him with anything more until I forget what was done, he apologize, or he can find a way to show me some LS cooperation. I�ve made sure not to help anyone who�s fucked me over or discredit me on stuff that I know for a fact. If you cannot help the LS, then leave the LS. We are not to help you, we are to help we. I have made a choice to be as selfish as this LS has turned out to be. Many times in this LS have people asked for help. They beg and plead but no one cares to answer, or in their selfishness, turn them down so they can farm. I�ve left farming and spent nearly 10K in gil to go help anyone that needed it. I still do it. I�ve spent about 6K to help Vazka get his AF but the people that join him were dumb-asses. They could not figure out how to stand on a switch to open the gate for Gate Breach. The last 3330 gil I spent was to scout the area to go to the last Gate Breach and possibly the Coffer Chest. I told this to Vazka and he didn�t care. He got pissed that people were leaving, disbanded the PT and logged/changed LS. I was out on my 3330 gil bird, looking stupid for him. Would I help him again? YES. Why? He helped me as mich as he could and also, I know he was pissed off. I can look past some things. I�ve asked for help from Kaachan so many times for AF gear help. He always ignored me. When I said I got help to get it, he wanted to join in. Skill ups I�m sure. I got sick of begging him. He got his AF from friends and boasted in the LS about it. Immediately, I asked for his help for mine, and he ignored me. Yes, I figured he zoned, so I waited and asked again. Even in tells, and got nothing. This is what goes on, when I choose to say, �fuck it, work alone ass-wipe!� People have asked me for help so many times, and I have no problem saying, �I�m NOT leaving an EXP PT to help you, or anyone else.� �I�m not giving you 100K and I�m not joining your LS after I spent so much time making this one work the best I can.� Partying is a good thing and yet, so may people in this LS would rather fatten their pockets instead of gain EXP for levels. They make excuses about needed gear and such. I say, �fuck that narrow-minded shit!� Why? I, being a RDM need MP, AGI, and anything that will boost anything to good use, that hampers me. I�ve needed armor and weapons since I was level 20 RDM. I get them luckily by friends and drops from mobs. I was a level 45 RDM wearing level 30 Melee gear. I�m a damn MAGE doing that and made it work. My items cost about 50% to 70% less NOW than is it did when I NEEDED it. Stop lusting for gil and lust for EXP. Stop this mindless quest for wealth and quest for quests. I�m moving forward, now that I�m, well enough. See you when you get to my level. For those who are higher than me, I�ll see you soon Very Happy. If you need gil, stop leveling low jobs and level your main job. Move on. In EXP PTs, you get so many drops in crystals that will sell for much. Even if Earth or Water sells for 1K only, it�s more than 0K. You can get many other items that can sell for more. I�ve made about 60K maybe even 100K in EXP PT now. That�s 3 PTs for that much. Gil and EXP all in one. Capping skills and everything. Wisdom 101, take it or not, I told you. <.< Many times in this LS have I heard people says, �brb link hopping.� I�m going to be honest. I do not like that at all. I only invited people to this LS that didn�t have a LS or was sick of their LS, and wanted a new one. I have invited people who read my old bazaar and wanted a LS. I want loyal Devilutionaries. I want people who get into the LS and are FOR, the LS. For those who have a LS other than this one, I�m going to use you like you use us and your other LS. I�m going to ask for help from your LS and expect you to try to get it. If you ask me for help, you expect me to try or give a valid reason why I can�t. I do not give a damn about other LS. I just don�t. I don�t care to join them, and I don�t care to merge with them. I wanted to merge with one, but they found mine so meager, they didn�t care to think of it anymore. If you can�t handle me using you, for your other LS to help me, I don�t care. Leave my LS and don�t come back. LS hoppers seem to want a LS to do everything for them and give nothing in return. They seem to use LSes as an escape or a way to beg for gil. Once, our own LS person named, Angelika said, �If you don�t help me kill the dragon, I�m going to Mithra Pride and get help.� Now how much respect do you think you lost from me when you said that? You lost lots. How can you get it back? I don�t know. Earn some stripes and help us. I do not mind helping people with Dragon fights. I love it. A good dragon raid is always fun. If I do not help, it must be, because I�m farming too far away and know you can�t wait for me to warp or get bird, OR, I know we don�t have the means to get it done. I also know, that people in this LS don�t give a damn to help others, but want help when they ask for it. In many cases, turn about is fair play. Deal with it and shut up. I�ve tasted my own medicine for a long time and still do. I just get pissed, lose respect, and move on. Family is what I wanted in this LS and family is something this LS don�t know shit about. Why? Well, I thought it�d be nice to do an Eco-Warrior each and every Friday, Saturday and or Sunday. There is a schedule. Check it out. Level certain jobs to level 20 and have armor for them, so you can be ready. I thought it�d be good to do this in any nation for anyone. You get gil, fame, and EXP. The LS can do this and it will be so grand. Alas, we are not that lucky. We get people who no-show, rather go farm or PT when anything could be formed, and don�t look back. We can do Promyvion, but no one seems to level jobs that count. They just jump job to job and complain like bitches, that they can�t level or, have no money to level their main job. Common Sense says, �Spending gil on other jobs, stops you from collecting for the main job.� There is so much that can be done but the people in this LS don�t care about it. It SEEMS that if it doesn�t benefit them, they won�t join in. It only SEEMS that way. If I�m wrong, then prove it. I wanted a good family of Devilutionaries. This won�t happen. People are so greedy and use to greedy people that they always want to SELL ITEMS TO THEIR OWN MEMEBERS. That is to me is so fucktard. LS should do anything for LS, which doesn�t hurt the LS or the individual. I offer people stuff and they say they�ll pay me back. I�m sick of it. If I GIVE you something out of the kindness of my bleeding heart, FUCKING TAKE IT! Give me a polite <Thank You.> and show some gratitude. I don�t need gil form anyone. I know how to farm it. In fact, I�ve been farming only to save up for a Royal Bed, and Noble Bed, one day, but that can�t happen. MY LINKSHELL DREAM My dream for this LS was to rekindle my opening love for FFXI. I wanted to create a world, within a world, that would house people who wanted to band together for the good of their respective nation and venture all of FFXI. I dreamt of being in PTs with my LS and showing how to run the world of mob killing. I fantasized of handing down armor, weapons, money, and such, to aid our LS home. I believed that in this game, people would be there kind-self that this cruel real-world forces them to hide. I happily dwelled, on the thought of leveling jobs, and making many friends on the way. I thought about the LS sitting in a lovely area, talking about the day�s events and sharing information on mobs, quests, and missions; to help the LS prepare for it. I thought of this LS, before I knew what a LS really was. I thought of it as a Battling Clan that would be held in highest regards, of all around. I use to dream of a day, when 5 of more of us would PT, and walk through any nation with onlookers saying, or thinking, �OMG, it�s that <LS Name>. What are they doing here?� Moreover, someone would reply, �It doesn�t matter why they�re here, just know, they will get the job done. We�re too low to even ask to be in their LS.� /sigh I wanted a place where we could be happy, talk about whatever and enlighten ourselves for the better and not the worse. Maybe learn things that will broaden our horizons for the real world. It�s a dream I had, that seems like a pipe dream now. /sulk. If, anyone feels this dream is worth having, let me know. If you think it was dumb in the beginning, let me know. Power Leveling (PL). There have been so many cases of people asking for others to PL their party (PT). In my opinion, these people are very weak. Leveling your job should take time in the areas that Square Enix (SE) have designated. While leveling your job in a PT, you are SUPPOSE to learn everything about your job. You are SUPPOSE to learn how, and when to use your spells or abilities. Leveling helps you understand where you can fight, how to work with a group for a common goal and a bit of togetherness that you just can�t get solo or being PLed. Power Leveling not only hurts the person for the future, but severely hurts an Experience Party later on in levels. How is this? I�ll give a few pinpoint examples. 1. I was PTing with my RDM at level 46. We had WHM, BLM, RDM, NIN, WAR, SAM. It was obvious to me and the rest that the WAR was PLed by his loads of level 70+ friends, as he claimed. None of his friends were online and due to this, he fucked us over in mobs and battle. He ruined the WHM by constantly using Berserk. This Job Ability Increases Strength but Lowers Defense. While this causes more Damage, it was pointless because his Great Axe was not capped and he had no accuracy food. Also, due to him having lowered Defense, the mob caused much more damage, resulting in our WHM Mana Burning Cure 3. I had to join in and this stole hate from the WAR. Overall, the WHM died 4 times, and I died once. Each time, saving the Pled WAR. The SAM could not hold hate and the NIN subbed THF. The WAR was angry that the EXP was no higher than 120. He said the PT sucked because we could not get 200+ EXP per fight. We pointed out that he need to pull better mobs, and not use Berserk. He called us Noobs and nothing changed. The WHM leader found a PLD and kicked him. This resulted in a GM being called, on ME. Nothing was done. The GM loled it, all and said to keep playing FFXI. 2. I was PLD on Qufim Island. The one PLed was a WHM. Ok, I really should not have to go into this at all; but there are suck ass WHM in the LS that asked me and others for a PL. Now, in all factuality, PLing a WHM is just plain STUPID. A WHM or any other mage is STUPID to PL. By curing the WHM, the WMH never has to do it. This results in ONE THING. People like me, being a level 24 PLD, on Qufim Island, with a WHM, whose Healing Magic is 10, and Enhancing Magic is 20. They can�t cast cure for shit, and don�t have a macro for Protectra/Shellra. They can't cast Dia, Banish or anything. On the bright side, their Club and Staff is CAPPED. Personally, I KNOW how to PL a mage job, but I ain�t gonna do it to many of the people in the LS. Maybe some, but not most. And if your PT sucks that bad that you want someone to PL it, then QUIT the PT and find a new one, OR� OR� Be helpful and give them pointers on how to further their job to help the PT get more EXP. People who are PLed do not look at the EXP properly. For example. Level 16 and killing Crabs for 63 EXP. The fight is like 45 seconds long. Then you fight a PUG, and the EXP is 200 for a 5 minute fight. FIVE MINUTES and the noob bitches say, �that�s more like it.� WRONG. In 5 minutes, you can kill 5 Crabs for 315 EXP while you kill one PUG for 200. Now I know, like normal, people will find a way to say I�m wrong, or validate why a long pointless fight for 200 EXP is worth it. A short fight saves your WHM more MP and you get higher chains and if you like, you can chain a PUG or anything stronger for a higher EXP chain of 3 or even 5. Luck has to be on your side though. That was more info, take it if you want. It helps every time. <.< I have ONE request. If you can, help me out with this LS. If you can, show the LS that you want good things for it. Will you help me out? I and this LS sure need it. I�m out now. Thanks for reading this. If you have any comments let me know. Good or bad, just reply. /salute /bow /farewell 1/8/06 6:07:55 PM
MY LINKSHELL FANTASIES [b]SHORT BEGINNINGS[/b] When I started FFXI, I didn�t understand a thing. I came in the Phoenix Server, with what most would call, �Childish-Foolishness.� What I mean is, I believed, that I was entering a world, where people would work together for a common cause. I believed that cause was to beat the Beastmen, and bond as �brethren� on the battlefields in FFXI. This aspect turned out to be a Child-like dream. Once I realized that it was not about Beastmen, but moreover, pride of Nations. San d�Oria strived to take control of Windurst, while Bastok desired, San d�Oria, and Windurst, declared to rule San d�Oria. I found it foolish for nations to fight each other, while the Beastmen, where fighting the nations, and winning. They were taking over lots of regions. I was told that I should join a Linkshell, but no one was recruiting a newbie Red Mage. Every Linkshell wanted �High Level Players� to join. I could not understand such discrimination in a game, where we all should be on the same side. In time, with no ways of making good gil, accept for killing Goblins, Orcs, and Rabbits, I didn�t know how the AH worked, and for a long time, no one would tell me. I was alone, and forced into ignorance. I did what I could with my very first 8K. That wasn�t the first time I wasted all I had for something that failed, but in life, you have to get use to disappointment. I partied in Valkurm Dunes for a while, only to be taunted, yelled at, and have GMs called on me, for things that people would not help me understand. The things were /emotes with each spell cast. (example) �/em casts Bio to reduce health, and strength.� No one was mature enough to say, �There is no need for the emotes, Blackmutoh, they know what you�re casting, and what it does.� The first thing I get, is a tell from a Tarutaru standing in front of me. �Stop the emotes noob, and its attack not strength.� This is not how I dreamed FFXI to be. [b]ORIGINAL RULES[/b] In time, I learned much, and I grew into the first �Pride of the Red Mages� in FFXI. I originally wanted to make a Linkshell, of rules and structure. Rules, that no one should have a problem with. . No level discrimination. . No racial discrimination, real life or game life. . Linkshell members freely help Linkshell members. . If we can, help those not in the Linkshell, so they may proceed in FFXI. . Help each other learn FFXI, as new things will be discovered. My rules were simple, and I truly believed, that if I recruited enough people, that it would prosper. Over time, I was bombarded with the truth. People would only join your Linkshell, if they believed, they would gain from it. No one wanted to join a Linkshell, and help people, only receive help. People, don�t have any loyalty to a Linkshell, as they have many, where they go to beg for help. If that help is not rendered to them, they will change to another Linkshell, and beg there. If they exhaust all of their Linkshells, they quit FFXI, shutdown for hours, until they think help has logged on for them, or join another Linkshell, while talking terribly about the previous Linkshell. People would start Linkshell wars, and that would rage in Camps and over monsters. Yes, the truth slammed into my brain, for months. [b]WHAT I WANTED IN A LINKSHELL[/b] Eventually, I met Klaive, and though I was struggling with Linkshells, I wanted a home. I wanted a home for those, who had no home. I wanted a Linkshell where people would log on to FFXI, and never leave it. I wanted lots of people in the Linkshell, and having fun talking about any and all things under the sun, the covers, and/or hay, if that�s what you�re into. Klaive helped me come up with a theme for the Linkshell, one that he would jokingly respect, and yet, one that I�d deal with in name. It took a week, waiting on Gar to come online, and disassociate himself of the idea, until we named it. He didn�t like the name, Devilutionaries, and yet, if he talked to us, it might have been named something else. This Linkshell, Devilutionaries, were made to represent, a devil. It is to represent the devils of the world, which want to do things right, or as close to right as possible. This Linkshell, for me, was to be home for those that other Linkshells reject. Rejects from other Linkshells, would have a home here, where they could learn how to play a job as correctly as it was made to be. They can also, experiment with job combinations, that others might not have thought of. They could talk about real life situations and obtain guidance from the more experienced players. I had hopes for people to join us, and find companions in FFXI. Not selfish people, but people who wanted to help others when they could, and over time, invite good people they meet along the way. It sure would be nice to have a Linkshell full of people, who want to achieve something in FFXI, for their Linkshell village. I enjoy when people log on and greet the Linkshell members, and are greeted in return. I�m proud when members form statics, and find the time to level together. Playing FFXI is easy. Leveling a job to 75 is no problem until Maat. Doing quests, missions, and farming is all apart of FFXI status, and economy. This game is so easy, and yet, people do their best, to make it so hard for others to just log on. I refuse to be one of the people that log on with an attitude, ruining the game for others. This is a part of real life for me and others. It is part of real life, because of the people I meet, the situations I get into with this people, and the conversations I have with them. It�s all real, and for that, I respect each person, until they have proven, to not be respected. I understand, that nothing can be or should happy-happy fun all of the time, and yet, I wish that others, like me, can understand, that there is no need to add to the hardships of FFXI, that Square Enix has already placed there for us, to overcome. [b]BLACKMUTOH�S PERSONAL FEELINGS ON DEVILUTIONARIES[/b] It�s been nearly 3 years since this Linkshell started, and during those three years, I�ve held back so many things, and relaxed so many rules. In time, I started enforcing those rules. I once made it very clear, that no one was to be an asshole to anyone else. For two whole weeks, people did not talk in the Linkshell. They had nothing to say to each other. I found that highly disturbing. A simple rule of, �not being an asshole� and they all shut up. It was at least quiet for once, but for the stupidest reason. This in turn, allowed me to think things over, and reset how things are voiced by me, in the Linkshell. I�m going to give how I directly feel about many situations in the Linkshell. PREPARE TO HATE ME! BEGGERS: I don�t deal with a begging person for long. The first 3 to 5 repeats of their question, annoys me greatly. So then, I will, if need be, twice, give them the proper information, or advice, and hope that it ends. If it does not, I will ask someone else to handle it. If that does not work, then I prepare to kick them. They are a disturbance to the Linkshell, and to me. They are not needed. RAGERS: A raging person is not someone I care for from the start. They usually come into the Linkshell, and are ok, talkative, and easy going. Once something happened that they don�t like, they begin to fly off the handle. They will call people noobs, assholes, and more, without even explaining themselves to the person they are upset with. I usually let these types run themselves out of the Linkshell, for they have no patience, and prove to be stupid. If need be, depending on how things began, I might kick them. LINKSHELL HOPPERS: Simply put, I don�t respect them. I�m not talking about those who have other Linkshells with friends in them, that they were apart of before, or after Devilutionaries. I�m talking about the ones, that ask for help, and when they can�t get it, the way that they want to, they go to another Linkshell, and do the same thing. I reward loyalty, and I�ll be damned if I reward that kind of behavior. NEWBIES: I still love seeing new people to FFXI, or better yet, when FFXI is their first MMORPG, �NOW WoW.� I try to give them all of the advice that they ask for, and nothing more. Overloading them with future game knowledge on levels, and WS seems dumb to me. I like to let them have an adventure, until it comes to using their job. Though, you can EASILY look at the help screen when looking at a part of your job, I understand, that it does not explain everything. So, for that reason, I can give what knowledge I have about certain specific things. HIGH LEVEL NOOBS: I really have no respect for these people. I don�t care to have them in the Linkshell, and if it were up to me, I�d ban their account. These people, level a job, and learn some things about it, and once at level 65-75, they THINK, they know everything, just because of the level of their job. That is why, and ANYONE can vouch for this, I do not use any of my job levels in arguments, trying to prove a point. HLN will do this, and I always say to them, �Your level doesn�t mean anything to me. I don�t care about your level.� You HLN can hate me for that all you want, but your level ain�t shit to me, and neither are you. HIGH LEVEL SNOBS: This is something Drahgoness came up with. I understand her point of it all, too. A HLS, is someone who obtains a high level, and get great gear and all that stuff. They look at those, who are at the same level, or even level 10, and pick on them for not having the best gear, or most up-to-date gear. They forget, that gear costs way more than it should, and HQ versions of the gear, is drastically overpriced. They tend to think very little of those who don�t have the great gear that they possess, and in my eyes, they can go to hell. Now do not get me wrong, I can�t stand to see a job, equipped in the wrong kind of gear. Like BLM using MND gear, or RDM specifically using MND gear. I can�t stand to see SAM, MNK, and PLD using DEX gear or INT gear. That kind of stuff is pathetic and they need to be shunned for their crimes. [b]BLACKMUTOH ON JOINING MISSION LINKSHELLS[/b] Ok, here it is how I feel about joining another Linkshell. I simply can�t do it without my partner being there at my side, getting things done. Klaive and I are a team among teams, and without trying, have built a strong hate towards us from all the other players. There are many Linkshell types out there. There are the High Notorious Monster, Burning Circle Notorious Monster, Kindred Seal Notorious Monster, Imperial Sanction Notorious Monster, Dynamis, and plain old, Notorious Monsters. There are more but� it�s too much to remember. These are things that others have made Linkshells for. The leaders, are highly demanding, and not half as forgiving as I am. You are typically required to show up at the time THEY specify. You are to use job combinations that you are not familiar with, and use it perfectly, or else, �KICK.� You will bust your ass for these Linkshells, and in the end, you are unable to obtain ANY of the rewards, because you are new to that Linkshell, and need to build credit as a LOYAL member for them to use for their own goals. You could bust your ass many times, and get nothing, EVEN IF, you are the ONLY one, that can use the item. I created Devilutionaries, for many reasons, and all of them are positive. Not one of them are selfish, and my reasons involve everyone having a great time in FFXI. I want to do Dynamis, and more, for Relic sets, but I want to do so with my Linkshell members. Yeah, I too want loyalty, but mine is not so vile. Not at all, is that vile. Let me share a short vision with you. A Linkshell is born from Blackmutoh, and Klaive. It�s called Devilutionaries. This Linkshell becomes full of members, about 30 plus. They talk, party, farm, take over nations, kill NM for items for the Linkshell, or to sell. During these times, Blackmutoh and Klaive, takes a certain amount at random times, and equip the Linkshell, IntrepidKnights. They go to Dynamis, or do a KSNM fight or something, while quite possibly, others in the Devilutionaries, equip, GodSlayers, and go kill a few Gods for something. There could be three teams in any of the three Linkshells, doing random, progressive things in FFXI. Imagine a team in IntrepidKnights, farming a Level 30 BCNM, whiles another in the same Linkshell, farm a KSNM, or even do a Dynamis run. All drops that show up are given to those who need it, or will soon need it. No one has to earn their place to obtain a drop, because we are all a family. We have already been here, and know the no one is using us, just to get an item before leaving, until they want another. We will be a [b]self-sustaining[/b], Linkshell, that need no help from outsiders, unless we want to help them. We don�t need to join their Linkshell, just simply party with them, help them out, and be friends. Then would the word, �Alliance� have a solid definition in FFXI. This is an idea that can, come to fruition. People are too easily negative when it comes to ideals, but if they work at it, it will happen, and things will get done, with a lot less stress. [b]A FEW FUN EVENTS FOR US TO CONSIDER[/b] I proposed this to Klaive a long time ago, and though he thought it was a good idea, he explained that it would be very hard to get it done. Here goes my idea. There are three Linkshells that I give a damn about. . Devilutionaries: Owned by Blackmutoh and Klaive. . IntrepidKnights: Owned by Blackmutoh. . GodSlayers: Owned by Klaive. I had noticed how there were so many people at times, from different nations, in the main Linkshell, Devilutionaries. It got me thinking� �People love to try Ballista and more. I wonder�� So, I say to you, the reader, what I said to Klaive on the phone. [b]�It�d be cool, if we got people in the LS, to participate in Ballista and Brenner. I mean, think about it, IntrepidKnights, vs. GodSlayers. It will be our own Linkshell, competing against each other, and learning how to do these things. It�d be nice to gain so much experience for these things. We�d rule in it against other people or Linkshells. We can go in, one Linkshell against the other, and afterwards, talk about it in Devilutionaries. We can talk about plans, strategies, and more concerning jobs, abilities, strengths and weakness in these types of matches. We�d also, gain so many points and items and more, and no matter what, it will be a Linkshell event that did all this. It�ll be all, fun, skills, no drama, no assholes, and no bullshit.�[/b] So now you know more of my scheme for this game.
[b]BLACKMUTOH ON FAVORTISM[/b] There are many people who left the Linkshell, that complained to me about choosing favorites. The case in this matter, is that they are half right. I favor my partner, Klaive. I favor anyone who uses a job wisely, and wants to team up with me for something. I watch anyone who uses RDM. I tend to not say anything to a RDM/WHM, while I will help the RDM/BLM. RDM/BLM is a deep, personal thing in FFXI for me that no one will ever understand, other than Klaive, Drahgoness, and that might be it. I pay close attention to any WHM in the Linkshell, and with consideration to that particular WHM level, I think about who has a job, struggling to get parties. I mention teaming up, to make things a bit easier for the WHM, who may need a tank, support Job, or attacker, and vise versa. I try to duo with people who like adventure, or want to static a job, or camp a monster. I show a large amount of favoritism, to those, who are more loyal to the Linkshell. I shy from those who cause drama, such as fights, or trolling. I really stay away from people who try to party for experience with job combinations such as PLD/WHM, or uses a job with the WRONG weapon, such as WAR using a Scythe. I don�t care how nice you are to me, and others, if you have a fucked up combination or stupid-ass gear for your job, I don�t care to be around you in the game.
