Rebuilding Burned Bridges
Dancer to 59, very close to 60. I have ADD when it comes to meriting, what can I say. The 5 dagger merits I do have paid off though since I got Dancing Edge a few levels early. Dancing Edge adds another aspect to an already complicated job.
On one hand, I should be saving TP for healing and stuff.
On the other hand,
That was the best of the best using building flourish. Most of my weaponskills were around 500. But even so, I was outdamaging both the warrior and the monk on weaponskills very badly. I have no illusions that I was outparsing anyone or coming that close, but 800 damage from a job that was invited pretty much solely to heal is pretty gewd.
I couldn't do too many DEs though since I needed to perform my normal dancer duties. I'll admit it was a bit tempting to throw most of the healing duties onto the RDM and just DE a lot, but no. I was invited for party support and the party deserved that support. I know I'd be pissed if the RDM stopped healing and started nuking or something. So I only DE'd when I had enough TP and flourishes to keep my normal duties up, which I managed every couple of mobs. I'm in no rush anyway. There are a lot of mobs weak to piercing between me and 75. Plenty of time to totally shatter that record.
I applied to AncientsXI today, finally. Some of you may recall that I said a lot of bad stuff about AncientsXI when I quit. To those people I say STFU. I never claimed to be consistant. Really, most of that entry was me trying desperately to make myself feel better about leaving a lot of AXI friends behind and joining a linkshell that seemed better at endgame but containing exactly two people that I knew. It was a gamble and it didn't pay off, and even if SX hadn't blown up like it did I'm not sure if I wouldn't be reapplying to AXI right now anyway. SX *WAS* better at endgame but it always felt too much like someone else's shell and I was just sorta there when all my better friends were back in AXI.
This seems like an okay place to publically apologise for what I said about AXI and to Laria specifically. I'm sorry.
Though in actually reader, this situation is mostly YOUR FAULT becaues if you hadn't spread Ereblog around nobody would have found out about me saying nasty things in the first place! But alas, things done have been done, I can only apologise so much. So I have to hope people don't carry grudes and things will go all right.
While camping Despot late tonight with the VAG I had sort of a revelation. A few other groups came to try to camp it for a while but left quickly. It couldn't have been that we scared them away - we had two BLMs, a BST, and a melee WHM (cough) and they outnumbered us both in bodies and in killing power. The revelation was that it was probably ME that got them to not compete against us. A couple of them sent me tells thanking me for the guide, and I was thinking about that. Camping against me must be like trying to take claim from Joan of Arc or something. A lot of people believe they owe me for the guide, something I'm not entirely sure I still deserve after so many years, but it's a real and tangible force. I'm winning Despot claims with the power of LOVE, baby!
On one hand, I should be saving TP for healing and stuff.
On the other hand,
That was the best of the best using building flourish. Most of my weaponskills were around 500. But even so, I was outdamaging both the warrior and the monk on weaponskills very badly. I have no illusions that I was outparsing anyone or coming that close, but 800 damage from a job that was invited pretty much solely to heal is pretty gewd.
I couldn't do too many DEs though since I needed to perform my normal dancer duties. I'll admit it was a bit tempting to throw most of the healing duties onto the RDM and just DE a lot, but no. I was invited for party support and the party deserved that support. I know I'd be pissed if the RDM stopped healing and started nuking or something. So I only DE'd when I had enough TP and flourishes to keep my normal duties up, which I managed every couple of mobs. I'm in no rush anyway. There are a lot of mobs weak to piercing between me and 75. Plenty of time to totally shatter that record.
I applied to AncientsXI today, finally. Some of you may recall that I said a lot of bad stuff about AncientsXI when I quit. To those people I say STFU. I never claimed to be consistant. Really, most of that entry was me trying desperately to make myself feel better about leaving a lot of AXI friends behind and joining a linkshell that seemed better at endgame but containing exactly two people that I knew. It was a gamble and it didn't pay off, and even if SX hadn't blown up like it did I'm not sure if I wouldn't be reapplying to AXI right now anyway. SX *WAS* better at endgame but it always felt too much like someone else's shell and I was just sorta there when all my better friends were back in AXI.
This seems like an okay place to publically apologise for what I said about AXI and to Laria specifically. I'm sorry.
Though in actually reader, this situation is mostly YOUR FAULT becaues if you hadn't spread Ereblog around nobody would have found out about me saying nasty things in the first place! But alas, things done have been done, I can only apologise so much. So I have to hope people don't carry grudes and things will go all right.
While camping Despot late tonight with the VAG I had sort of a revelation. A few other groups came to try to camp it for a while but left quickly. It couldn't have been that we scared them away - we had two BLMs, a BST, and a melee WHM (cough) and they outnumbered us both in bodies and in killing power. The revelation was that it was probably ME that got them to not compete against us. A couple of them sent me tells thanking me for the guide, and I was thinking about that. Camping against me must be like trying to take claim from Joan of Arc or something. A lot of people believe they owe me for the guide, something I'm not entirely sure I still deserve after so many years, but it's a real and tangible force. I'm winning Despot claims with the power of LOVE, baby!