TTOF - Seriously A Serious Linkshell, Guys

Clearly you've never been pitted against a COR in Ballista.

thats what the last black mage said.

TToF has been a social shell for the better part of a decade. We don't actually "recruit" people, and this is for the better. As soon as we start actively looking for people, we would have to develop rules and some kind of framework that rewards efforts of unequal players "equally," like all the other linkshells bound together by a common goal rather than friendship.

If we kept our current rules and invited people randomly, we'd end up with spite lotting, people lotting for jobs they don't play, terrible players lotting things over good players, etc. I'd rather not do what little endgame there is to do than deal with some kind of point system ***. This is why I made a separate Legion shell (Taruwaru), because I was afraid it would go poorly and I didn't want those denigrate outsiders in TToF. Fortunately I was too lazy to make a point system for Taruwaru either, so I recruited very conservatively and most of them ended up being a good fit in TToF anyway (and thus got pearled). This gave us enough (high-quality) players to do Adoulin content comfortably and casually.

This is our third or fourth recruitment thread and as far as I know we have only pearled one person from all of them. That person was a sweet innocent little Galka, and he eloped a few weeks after being pearled (true story). We never heard from him again. So, as serious as we may be, we are not particularly serious about recruiting people and I am adamantly opposed to recruiting people that I feel would destroy the atmosphere of the linkshell.



PS. Galkas are terrible and I won't even pearl my own mule because he's a Galka. Frodo was an exception.

PPS. What you portray as an arbitrary decision to kick people based on their names is actually part of my holy quest for alphabetic linkshell list balance. This quest predates this thread by years, but you can see evidence of it sprinkled throughout my posts.

PPPS. The real reason I made linkshell recruitment threads was to try and get people to spam Artemas with tells.

As far as I remember, Leaden Salute can't miss, I don't know how it does on Manawall. If you could boost Leaden Salute enough, you might go down. Though I never did PvP because I was too busy rubbing up against random Mithra on the airship.

You'd be surprised how often that doesn't work (at least 95% of the time). BLMs think they're all tough doing that, but there's really no way to block 2 fire shots and then a Wildfire from a properly geared COR. Not to mention light shot will still interrupt you despite the sublimation charge if I decide to go that route.

Except the MP won't be there to cast anything after Fire Shots and Wildfire. When it does work, well okay, you killed me once. Now all of your JAs are on their 10 minute cooldowns and I'm back in 30 seconds with a double dose of Fire Shot to tip me over 100 and Wildfire you in the back while you try to Sprint away.

I meant I wasn't sure how Manawall worked in regards to Leaden Salute, whether Leaden Salute would hit 100% and do MP damage, be resisted due to conflicting mechanics, or ignore Manawall and just do pure Darkness damage.

jesus *** it figures all you guys are ballistards

Also, if Manawall is dispellable, a Dark Shot would proc and simply boost Leaden Salute, but as I said, I have no idea how any of these abilities effect one another.

thanks for taking the time to type all that out. to the chagrin of many a butt, this is the spirit of ttof!

Leaden Salute is terrible compared to Wildfire, Death Penalty withstanding. So terrible, in fact, that it's Tebow's WS of choice. The loss of 900-1500 QD damage and 20ish TP for a little extra Leaden Salute damage is a terrible tradeoff, especially in Ballista.

This is false, his WS of choice is Trueflight. Terrible as it may be it is Light based, thus it's Holy. The Virgin Father likes to shoot his Trueflights straight into the ground.

The mechanics of BLM does not match up well to the mechanics of COR in Ballista.

I'm just gonna leave it at that.

Thank God, de-mained again.

Maybe now all the random interlopers will show themselves out.

My bad, Jos is ok too.

Who is Kelhor and what have you done with Rooks?

Who is Danii and what have I done with Anna?!