*Peeks out from behind bathroom door*
Oh, hey there. Good to see you. Also I'm pooping, do ya mind?
Yeah, it's been a while.
Where have I been? That's a strange question to ask while I beef a loaf.
Despite what you may think, I was not murdered by bros on April first.
Long story short; I had a lapse in judgment and played FFXI on the private server I mentioned in an earlier post. I got lost in it for a while before I realized how stupid it all was and I was wasting my time.
Why, you ask?
Short story long, a friend and I started back up on this private server when they fixed all the bugs with (read: finally fucking added) Puppetmaster. Yes, Pup is lame and you spend your time playing with a penis metaphor, but gosh darn it, Pup is pretty fun. Even if your automaton bugs out and becomes a cyclopean nightmare from the darkest recesses of an insane mind.
For a while, things were cool. People were kinda sorta helpful when they weren't running Dynamis.
But there are... Things...
So, I'm going to get right into just what was all wrong with this server and you can make your own judgment on the level of retardation.
For starters, I had leveled Beastmaster, aced my Maat fight, and solidified myself as a member of the 75 Club. Until I found out just how much being a loner was looked down upon. More on that later.
I have to say, they had coded all of the original Maat fights pretty well. There were only a handful of complaints with broken things, no biggie.
But, the additional Maat fights for Dancer, Scholar, Blue Mage, Puppetmaster and Corsair were not coded at all, so their solution was for the player to post on the server Facebook page and ask for a limit break, to which a server GM would create a list of random crap to do and you would have to post proof of completing said crap. Sound easy, right?
My friend's first job to 70 was Blue Mage, so he received a custom limit break and we were off!
The first few objectives were pretty easy. We camped Ose for an Assault Jerkin, learned Spinal Cleave, did a few things we already unlocked. Then we came to the final objective, which was to storm the Mamool Ja stronghold and defeat their leader, Gulool Ja Ja.
If you don't know, Gulool is a fucking asshole. He has two heads and they both should suck several dicks. At the beginning of the fight, he summons a bunch of dudes then proceeds to explode the crap out of you because that's what ninjas do.
So we assemble a team after several hours of people not wanting to help because it's an ass of a fight. We get him down to half health, then the tank up and dies, like they do, and we wipe.
People leave, we ask again, a few hours later, we're back at fighting. Same thing happens, and we wipe.
Luckily the GM who gave the quest felt bad and raised my friend's level cap to 75 out of pity.
Then my friend starts getting tells from one of the older people on the server. I'm gonna paraphrase, because I don't remember the exact words he used, but he complained that me personally was a waste of a party slot because Beastmaster was a joke job and I wasn't parsing well. Said I should have picked another job to level that could do more damage, so basically, a party should consist of Paladins and Black Mages.
Kinda takes the fun away when you're told the job you enjoy playing is garbage and you should level something else for the good of a group that doesn't want to help out in the first place.
Seriously, all these guys do are Dynamis runs. Not even Dynamis that newer people need. We had to schedule days of the week for people to come help get Dynamis clears because no one wanted to do them. It took me weeks to get the four main cities, and I still need Beaucadine because everyone says "Why do Beaucadine when we can just do Xarcabard."
Why? Because new people fucking need it, you bunch of retards.
There were several new people who needed the main four, and all people did was drop in, say "Any Dynamis runs?" and when we asked for help, they either said to tell them when we're further in, or they just logged off altogether.
Most of the people were selfish pricks. Most, but not all. There were a core group that genuinely wanted to help and required no begging on bent knee. But it ruins the experience when you hit a wall because 20 out of the 30 people who actively play are only interested in Dynamis currency.
After all this crap and other stuff involving harassment the GMs didn't do shit about, we just quit. It was fun up until it wasn't.
So, I'm back now. You will see funny stuff probably.
I also have something special in store that I want to wait a little while before releasing it. But just know, it will be epic.
Thanks for sticking around.
