Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Growing discontent
I have found myself increasingly unhappy in my linkshell as of late. General inactivity from certain individuals, people staying on other pearls during events or just in general, and our constant wiping.
We wiped to Kirin last week. This is annoying, but we generally do not have enough people to properly kill him. I don't understand why the kite party dies seemingly so easily, but it happens. We wiped to Prudence last night. We always wipe to Prudence. Unfortunately, I do not have a better alternative so we manaburn and hope it goes well. It normally does not. The kicker is after Prudence we wiped to Faith. I'll take some blame in this. Clearly my expectations were too high for the rest of the linkshell.
The plan was to farm organs while a few black mages went to find the ??? and then wait for it to move. I found the ??? and after we received a few HQ organs I became impatient with waiting. Everyone farming organs was to come to the NW tower, where I was. I had the black mages wait in their towers in case the ??? decided to move seconds after the melee were prepped and ready to spawn Faith. A ranger died on the way. I still don't understand how someone can die with a black mage, red mage and white mage to sleep things on the way, but he did. After a few minutes the melee were ready to spawn Faith. I disbanded to sleep mobs that would aggro the spawner and log off. The black mages were told to come to the NW tower.
I expected we would have to hold Faith for five to ten minutes while we waited for the black mages and we would quickly kill with five black mages. This never happened. The black mages never showed. Something happened with Kyliee, Prong, Keum and they escaped two or three times then disconnected. Shortie died and I assume Allura went to help him. They showed up after we wiped and I had called it a day. I don't understand the difficulty black mages and red mages have climbing the tower. Common sense, stoneskin, sleep and bind (for dark ghrah) is all you need to quickly climb towers. I think I'm going to get some friends and low man Faith. I have decided I want my torque.
Sometimes it feels like I have to explain everything with intricate detail to get anything done right. Well, my version of right. Things that we have done many times before I expect people to be able to do. If they do not ask questions then they know what to do. This never happens. People are afraid to talk. They cannot ask for a raise, ask for explanation of the kill, call hate or anything else. I'm growing tired of this. It is a much their responsibility as it is mine to handle such simple tasks, but if I do not do them no one else will.
Maybe it is time to move on to a new linkshell. I do not owe my current one anything. But Limbus would end if I left. Maybe Salvage would too. Sometimes I wish the linkshell would break so I could leave guilt free.
We wiped to Kirin last week. This is annoying, but we generally do not have enough people to properly kill him. I don't understand why the kite party dies seemingly so easily, but it happens. We wiped to Prudence last night. We always wipe to Prudence. Unfortunately, I do not have a better alternative so we manaburn and hope it goes well. It normally does not. The kicker is after Prudence we wiped to Faith. I'll take some blame in this. Clearly my expectations were too high for the rest of the linkshell.
The plan was to farm organs while a few black mages went to find the ??? and then wait for it to move. I found the ??? and after we received a few HQ organs I became impatient with waiting. Everyone farming organs was to come to the NW tower, where I was. I had the black mages wait in their towers in case the ??? decided to move seconds after the melee were prepped and ready to spawn Faith. A ranger died on the way. I still don't understand how someone can die with a black mage, red mage and white mage to sleep things on the way, but he did. After a few minutes the melee were ready to spawn Faith. I disbanded to sleep mobs that would aggro the spawner and log off. The black mages were told to come to the NW tower.
I expected we would have to hold Faith for five to ten minutes while we waited for the black mages and we would quickly kill with five black mages. This never happened. The black mages never showed. Something happened with Kyliee, Prong, Keum and they escaped two or three times then disconnected. Shortie died and I assume Allura went to help him. They showed up after we wiped and I had called it a day. I don't understand the difficulty black mages and red mages have climbing the tower. Common sense, stoneskin, sleep and bind (for dark ghrah) is all you need to quickly climb towers. I think I'm going to get some friends and low man Faith. I have decided I want my torque.
Sometimes it feels like I have to explain everything with intricate detail to get anything done right. Well, my version of right. Things that we have done many times before I expect people to be able to do. If they do not ask questions then they know what to do. This never happens. People are afraid to talk. They cannot ask for a raise, ask for explanation of the kill, call hate or anything else. I'm growing tired of this. It is a much their responsibility as it is mine to handle such simple tasks, but if I do not do them no one else will.
Maybe it is time to move on to a new linkshell. I do not owe my current one anything. But Limbus would end if I left. Maybe Salvage would too. Sometimes I wish the linkshell would break so I could leave guilt free.
Labels: FFXI
# posted by Mazzic @ 10:34 AM 
