Vanish wrote:
i can't believe TTK is a big hnm ls now
i guess i left ffxi right at the point before TTK became le uber
that's too bad too, i would've kept playing if i knew they would be awesome lol
what do you mean? lol, it was a "big hnmls" when you were part of it. If you have like 50+ members most of whom are around 24/7 and you're doing sky, dynamis, and hnms.... surprise you're in an hnmls. Likeiwse I remember even back then being compared to fs, ckd, and being refered to as one of the "top" LSs.
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as for my history....
well.. it breaks down like this..
first i was in MCK (MarcCourtKnights) which was my friend and co-worker: Talonz' Linkshell with just us and some other RL friends and family of his: Derock, Gloryboy, Glorygirl, Kiluded, Kayel, Cocoroto, and Imrede. I was given this LS when i started but most of the guys were in there mid-late 30s.
then i met some amazing cats while lvling through the dunes (denior and ravenspell) who gave me a pearl for Untouchables which was my main LS for a long time. somewhere between lvl 40-50 most of the guys in untouchables started slowing fading away from the game for RL stuff, at this time i migrated back to MCK because i was now somewhat within their lvl range
i should also add around this time that i was given a few other pearls most of which i don't remember the names for, none of them really appealed to me and my needs so i dropped them, bout the only ones i was intersted in being in were the ones given to me by nghia but they were always abandoned i would tell him this and he would be like 'oh, gotta get you a new one' lol
so MCK was my jam again until the release of WoW when nearly everyone (all 6 people lol) migrated games. That's when i made a post on allakhzam that i was seeking a new LS and/or perma PT. I also bought a LS and named it PBS (PossessedBySatan) after my RL writing/graffiti clique, but to this day i only have like one other person in it, and its collecting dust.
well within a week i had a new LS: TA (ToonAdventurers) with some amazing folks (Daithi/Squidy, Pooter, Toony, Loony, Killertoon, Gamefreak, Morbid etc.) AND i was in the process of forming a perma with some other great people (Arcadeus, Hobbes, Effin, Kujamie, Sniffles) being that Hobbes, Sniffles and Arc were all in the same LS they gave me a pearl to TTK (TheThreeKingdoms) to keep in touch with them, so now the LS count was at 4 (I still kept MCK and untouchables in the hope that people will one day come back)
Shortly after joining TTK, i ran into Obie who helped me do my WHM body AF. She asked me if i would like a pearl to CrimsonsKnights and i accepted, afterall some of my fav peeps at the time were in her LS (Jedix, Navyr, Obie, Binarycow, Chaddenick, Skeeter, Saladhead , ect.)
I was pretty devoted to TTK and that was my main LS, around the time when Kayel quit I also took a few months off, this had mostly to do with me having to deal with my RL problems (maio) and getting frustrated with the game because i didn't have enough friends or support from my LS to accomplish a lot of the things i need/wanted to get done.
When i came back to FFXI i had a renewed vigor and accomplished a lot of shit my first week back.. beat maat, got fenrir, rank 10, etc. I was only around for about a week when i heard Tio and Grim had a giant falling out. I was torn because i liked Tio a lot, she was one of the folks from TTK who really helped me, we did opo crown items together, got sky together etc.
At first, the idea was to make a friend/family LS that was to build slowly, and focused more on friends and helping eachother and lvling together and shit.. basically was looking for a throwback to my stint in MCK, as opposed to the large military/corporate feel of TTK. My plan was to juggle both shells.. help TTK with large events and do small things (like getting SMN AF etc.) with Tio's pearl. Well, Grim flipped and said that anyone caught wearing TheCelestial (Tio's pearl) was banned from TTK sky and dynamis.. being that i was only keeping the LS to help with those big events, there was really no reason to go back.
So I focused all my efforts on TC and trying to help build it and everything, Tio and I were, and still are very wet behind the ears when it came to leading a big LS, but we learned a helluva lot. We got a lot done and on our way to becoming a well established top LS on the server. Greed and other things (maybe we had a lot of ppl who had never been in a HNMLS before and didn't know what to really expect from one) led to a lot of ppl leaving and after losing about 1/3 of our core group that really was the main basis and support of the LS... Tio decided to call it quits on sky and HNMs. This led to more ppl, and I myself even applied at a few otehr places and things. It was a dark time for me, not feeling like I had any friends, not knowing where to go.
After Tio took a week vacation IRL and was away from the game, she came back and we talked and decided that the best thing to do was try and rebuild.. and that's currently where i am now. It's boring not doing anything besides dynamis and lvling smn and brd, it sucks that a lot of my friends are scattered in other LSs with some folks I don't care for. It sucks that I kept a relatively low-profile and don't have more "friends" in the game to be able to have a billion options if things don't work out with TC, or to be able to recruit to TC. But I have Tio and a few otehr ppl who have hung on and are like family to me.. and i have a couple options after that as well. But yah, that's my story.