Why I Think My LS Is The Best!

I recently, to my dismay, had to drop a linkshell of mine... I liked that group a lot, we had probably ~30 Active members and i enjoyed the company of most of them. But it became obvious a certain problem would never resolve itself and i decided to leave. It was the first large Linkshell i actually enjoyed being with.

I still hated that i had to fight for a spot in the alliance =.=a, but it wasn't a big deal. we started off pretty dumbly in the beginning, Bringing 18 people to fight 1 NM, Rarely trying to proc anything but Red for Atma (at the time not a lot was known about Blue/Yellow. I however knew they effect Drop rates, Not everyone did. I was ignored.) Eventually after bitching on my part, though no credit given, We began to begin proc' Blue/Yellow on NMs we needed too, and even dividing out alliance between NMs to get more accomplished in a small time.

It was looking up, But Eventually we went from our Wishlist / Attendance System, to a "Point based" System. The kind you find back in old HNM LS'. the terrible Kind that favored those with hoarded points. I.E we also had a TIER system in place. So someone who say, Got everything they wanted before this system was in place, could hoard his points, and pretty much have controlling lot on any +2 Empyrean items. Not its not all bad. We did have a Limit of 2 +2 items per run. (unless you were the only one there.)

Anyway, that jump in rules cause a lot of quiet drama, not so much in LS chat but in tells, From what i could tell a good chunk of the LS was either against it and too sheep-ish to stand up for themselves, hated it outloud (Me, a few others), or a few liked the idea.

Either way, Despite what we had to say about this rule change, It went into effect. the first sign our opinions didn't matter... To me, anyway.

The Drama that ensued from that point on over point confusion, lotting rights, etc etc was almost a daily basis in that linkshell. Which i hated to see because it was a great linkshell before hand. Our Original leader tolerated no Drama, and for the most part everyone got a long outside 1-2 people maybe. It was a fun shell, that slowly degraded.

Now, I wil not deny I did my fair share of bitching/Firestarting, because i saw that our Old Leader basically 'gave up' power to a Sack, Who from then on would basically lead all our events. I'm not going to paint his as a bad guy. He knew his stuff (partiallythankstome), he got things done(usually by overwhelming numbers rather than skill), and We got drops. People were happy until lotting rights were generally called. Since all of the "Point" Costs and etc were done without our Knowledge, We generally, outside of knowing after the event, Weren't sure how many points we were going to be charged for an item. It became more stable as the system progressed. I want to direct attention to this item in particular.

http://lna.guildwork.com/dkp/#/items/4cdd9ea5205cb21f1000401a

You'll notice a name down near the bottom? My name? Charged 5 points instead of the 3/4 Everyone else was charged. I let this guy thinking there must have been a reason i was charged more points than everyone else. if you check the top right you can even see the point value listed as "4". Now, I assumed the "3" points people were charge before Point system went into effect.

Oh, i forgot that. We had points deducted from us Retro-actively. Meaning when the point system came into effect, Those who had gotten items back to a certain point (I really don't know how far back) were charged for those items. A lesser number however, So not all bad.

Anyway, But I didn't know, So i moved on, kept it to myself because i already caused too much drama question our 'leader' and his choices. So i tried to lay low, I tried... Key word.

Anyway, Drama filled Events after Drama Filled Events come and passed, Largely due to the growing disdain between some members. I got my fair share of tells from one person about the other in some way or another. I won't go into detail cause of privacy rights, but lets just say the linkshell wasn't exactly all sunshine anymore. more and more people began to grow upset.

Now, I know the Linkshell wasn't turning into some dark hell hole because of 1 man. I just didn't like what our LS was becoming, and the only thing i could draw from it was 1 person becoming incharge and then the quarrels started. So in a way i blamed him. It was, I'll admit, misguided hatred for the man. Whenever i spoke to him it felt as if my comments were brushed aside and ignored because i had a history of "standing up" to him, or calling him out on some things. Some of which I should have kept my mouth closed but i was never good at being a Sheep.

So after our repeated conflict, It was obvious we grew to hate eachother even more. Though for stature sake im sure he'd never admit he hated me. Though i have a feeling he hated me as much as i hated him.

I won't act like im the Saint in this, A fair share of some of the LS problems were cause because of me. I got upset when something stupid happened. Something i remember getting upset with was a WHM spamming Holy on the Uragnite NM to try and Trigger yellow, But it was in Magic-Absorb mode so it was only causing it to spam TP moves. I asked them to stop, I got what i felt was a sarcastic comment back (though apparently it was not) and i overreacted by telling them they didn't have to be a *** about it i was only asking them to stop healing it.

Unnecessary drama. I should have kept my mouth closed. But Hind-sight is 20/20. Now i don't have the time to apologize. But as it turns out the people in question are giant self-involved users anyway.

how do i know this? My brother helped them once kill Glavoid, Of which was a promise they would in-turn help him kill Carabosse. Despite me telling my brother they would never keep their promise, and they would never help us, He went and helped them still.

So they killed the Glavoid(s), and its time for Carabosse. What happens? The two in question Disappear! I just tell my brother "Told you so", and we went to kill our NM, Assuming they had somewhere to be, or something to do, right? Something urgent?

Wrong. not 1 hour into the run, The two in question strolled right past us, Ignoring us completely, and were helping someone else kill Briarius. Didn't offer anything, no excuse, no sorry for blowing him off. -nothing. Walked right on by.

but anyway, I couldn't have known what type of people they were back then, So my drama was started needlessly, And for that I will apologize to them.

Anyway, Continuing. The Drama continued for some time, Fair share by me, Until 1 night We're in Abyssea-Grauberg. We're building time, and I'm looking through my wishlist. The zone reminded me i wanted to add something to it that i had forgot too (Ravager's Earring).

So i go there and notice Epona's ring is on it too, I had recently got Epona's ring (to my great happiness, another finer moment with that linkshell). So i decided to remove it.

NOW, the rule i was aware off is that if you edited your wishlist the day of a run, the item you added, you would not be allowed to lot on. Of course this makes sense, but as a safety procaution i sent him a tell with something like the following~

"Being in this zone reminded me to add something to my wishlist. I removed Epona's ring and put on Ravager's Earring. I know i can't lot this run, But i was on the website and didn't want to forget to add it for the next run"

To which the Sack I've talked about previously (He's still in charge so i try to act professional when we do events) replied.

"okay"... Or something to that extent. I'm sure i got a response.


Anyway, Later in the run, after Raja, etc, We decide to kill the Hydra NM! I was looking forward to this NM because I had Widowmaker on my Wishlist. It was something i wanted for some time. So we kill the NM, little nuanced throughout the fight i ignored, though were probably early warning signs, Like him not wanting to get Blue originally (Which isn't standard if someone has the blue drop wishlisted). But i ignored it thinking it was a mistake.

So eventually, Through craziness and bitching (not a lot of which wasn't from me.) we killed the NM. of Course Widowmaker dropped and i was waiting for him to assuredly call me to lot, as i was the only one with it wishlisted.

I was wrong, He called it freelot. I immediately thought it was a mistake and i said "Um, Its on my Wishlist". He asked when i added it i said "About a week or two ago"

Then he cited "I don't remember seeing it" something on about how he checks it regularly (which it itself was *** or he WOULD have seen it. He was trying to keep his image up in party chat). So eventually he pulls up the page and he's like "You edited it an hour or so ago"

I was in shock, I got hot tempered. I asked him if he had not remembered the tell i sent to him not even 2hours ago about how i edited out Eponas and put in Ravager's Earring? Blah blah we argued, I lotted anyway cause it was freelot and continued to argue that this was unjust.

So he cited a rule which apparently everyone but me had heard in Linkshell chat one day that instead of not being able to lot on items Edited that day, That we could not edit our wishlist AT ALL some time prior to events, Otherwise you wouldn't be allowed to lot.

I genuinely did not know ANYTHING about this rule. I told him i understand the idea of the rule but I had sent him a tell earlier in the run about me editing my WL to add Ravager's Earring, and Remove Epona's. (which i thought was common courtesy to do so).

Anyway, Eventually the Great Axe dropped to me cause no one else lotted, Probably due to the drama around it. But it was then that it became obvious no matter how i tried, or he tried, to put this crap behind us, we hated eachother, and since he was a seat of power in the LS, it would come back to bight me in the *** too much. I decided to drop the pearl there before this incident happened again.

I've yet to tell anyone but my brother the real reason i left that shell that day, so to those i know in my LS who read this forum they're just learning it for the first time too! Though i really hope they dont give a ***. It was because no matter how i tried or the sack in question tried, We will both HATE eachother to the day this game closes down... And you cannot successfully be in a LS when one of the sacks Hate you. It just doesn't work. Especially when that Sack is in charge of Wishlists and running events.




But anyway, After i left, I felt dirty for taking the Great Axe with me, IN retrospect i should have passed it. but i didn't, I hoped that didn't come to bite me in the *** (it did, btw, I got a rage tell from a LS member a few days later how i was a total scumbag, that i "used the linkshell" to get armor (Isn't that what a LS is for =.=?) and left when i got everything. I tried to explain to him thats not the reason i left, but he didn't wanna hear it. Its a shame the guy in question was at one point my friend. that had to end to i gues..).

So I asked the other Sack (Who happens to be my GF) if she had remembered me having Widowmaker on there. She said "yes" and that i had had it on there for weeks. Of course i could present that to the other sack, He'd just assume my GF was covering for me. but i dropped it and moved on with my life. I was sad to leave the linkshell :| i Miss a lot of those people.


Now i wanna make it very clear. The Sack in question im talking about is not a bad guy. It was just obvious to me that i was not liked very well by him, and as much as we both tried, or latent hatred of eachother would repeatedly get in the way of LS Events. That and I'm the one who generally caused a lot of the LS Drama cause i wasn't happy with how the LS was being run. I should have kept my mouth closed, for it a lost a good group of friends.