Salvage Static #5?

I don't want to jinx things, but I think I might finally have a salvage static that will actually make it past a month!


There are only two types of statics i've experienced that always seem to break whenever you get them started: CoP Missions & Salvage. I did manage to complete CoP over a year ago, but have yet to make any real progress in Salvage, which is due to every static I have ever been involved in, breaking. Either people disappear without a word, or RL schedules change and people can no longer attend.

But, i've finally found a static with 5 other people and so far it seems like everyone is planning on sticking around. The only downside to the static is that 2/3 runs, are at the break of dawn on Saturday and Sunday. Goodbye sleeping in! Just going to to keep my fingers crossed that this static works out.

I'm managed to free up more of my time now, which might not have been the greatest idea because I now find myself sitting in my moghouse more than I ever have.

I made a really hard decision to finally leave my Limbus shell. I'd been in the LS since day one, and we'd been running for over a year. In that time, we'd had a lot of members come and go, and aside from maybe a handful of people, most members couldn't be depended on to show up consistently which made our progress slow down quite a bit. Runs were being cancelled, and eventually the need to recruit became a priority.

It was then when things started to go sour. I had proposed a couple of ideas and requests to amend the lotting rules, because the system we had, didn't really fit things as well as it had originally when the LS first started. Very few of the original members were still in the LS, and while the idea behind the lotting system had been to fairly distribute gear to every member over time, you can't exactly do that when the majority of the starting members have left. New members had joined, and were being placed in the same tier as veteran members that had a year worth of attendance.

Eventually trying to point out the flaws in the lotting system, soon had a select few members making all kinds of accusations as to the type of player that I was.

The only point I ever tried to have understood was that the LS was a point system, which therefore meant that the effort and time put into the LS was being tracked. As with all endgame shells, a point system is designed to prioritize the people that are putting in more to the shell. I mean it doesn't make sense for someone to work 20hrs at a job and get paid $100, and for another person to work 2 hrs and also get paid $100, right?

In the end, not much was done to make the rules change because the majority of the members were not in favor of having any changes. And it was this majority, that while understandable, just couldn't commit as much time. There's nothing wrong with being unable to participate as much as "Joe", but it shouldn't be expected that because of your situation, you get the same opportunity to progress as quickly.

For a few reasons though, I couldn't just quit. The original leader has specifically asked me on a few occasions to help lead, and I had been promoted to an officer before he left the game. So I wanted to do my part and help the LS become better, to see it progress. I had also received a lot from the LS, and so I wanted to return that help to the members and see them also progress and receive the gear they were after.

But as the runs went by, it was obvious a few people disliked me and had fixated on their conclusions as to "who" I was as a person. Drama started finding its way into the LS, to the point where I eventually didn't feel comfortable expressing my opinion about anything because I felt like the moment I did, I would be accused of things that were untrue.

Finally, I just came to a point where I questioned "who" I was in fact helping. With the exception of a few, I felt treated unfairly, I felt judged unfairly, and I just didn't feel that I should be giving my time to people that wanted to take every opportunity to take things I would say out of context, to try and prove their conclusions that I was such a bad person - obviously out to take advantage of everyone in the LS.

So, I told leadership that I would be leaving and made a goodbye post to the LS. If the majority of the LS disliked me, then it would be better that I left after all, right?

It was difficult to do, because felt like I owed the members and the LS more... but overall, I believe it was probably the best decision to make.

At this point I think i'll be taking a break from Limbus unless something comes up. I've been considering helping my social LS get a "casual limbus" group going down the road, seeing as quite a few members have just gotten access or will shortly. But we'll see.

And speaking of casual events... SoTW had a good run a couple of weekends ago. We did a Tinnin x3 night, which resulted in 2 Enkidu Caps, 1 Enkidu Subligar, 1 pair of Hachiryu Sune-Ate (which sold for 3.2mil and was split to all members) and a lotta death!

Well, actually not really. We only had one run that I recall having more than one death, which was due to a short 30 seconds where Tinnin decided to say hello to our nukers. Overall though, the fights went well and only lasted about 30-40 minutes each. I'm really hoping that we have more interest among our members to participate, because for the Tier 3 and 4's we usually have to bring in outside help. Maybe i'll have to figure out a more convenient time to try and accomodate people's schedules ><

And now for some quick updates~

I finally got SMN to 75! And no, I am not getting a Maat's cap! I refuse to touch NIN or BST. NIN just seems like the type of job that would stress me out to do really well, because I know you have to be attentive. BST, just has too many negatives for me. You don't get party invites, and unless you're lucky enough to find someone else that wants to duo with you, the xp/hr is painful. At least for someone like me who has spent the majority of their "xping" sessions getting 20k/hr.

And speaking of that, i'm just about finished meritting SMN already, lol. I managed to get 5/5 Physical Avatar Attack, and am currently 4/5 with Magical Avatar Attack. I figure for the kind of events i'll be asked to do on SMN, the ACC won't be too big of an issue. And if I do resist, or miss... oh well, wait another minute and try again! >_>

I helped out again with some more CoP missions. Helped our the other static in our LS get to the top of Promyvion-Vazhl. I actually had some fun with this because I got to bring out my lvl 50 gear for SAM - yay soboro! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!


Also helped Vepion, Lyea and Fieryblizzard kill Diabolos. On our way out to the fight, Biast had popped and this turned out to be an interesting fight.

My plan had originally been to kite Biast on SMN, but Lyea ended up provoking and holding hate. somehow things got a little messy, and because not everyone had been in zone at the start, I ended up taking a death. This led to another group in the zone taking claim, but after a couple of minutes they also died to lolBiast.


Thankfully though, reinforcements came and we got claim and the kill. Oh, and the drop! Soulstar found himself the new owner of a shiny new helmet.

And now that Vepion and Fieryblizzard had killed Diabolos, they were able to participate in our dynamis shell RoR's first Dynamis-Buburimu. We got the win, which seemed pretty easy and managed to pickup about 5-7 items that you don't usually see in dynamis zones. There was one dragon though that ended up giving us a real hard time. He spammed through all the 2hrs of all the available jobs in the game (minus the new ones) and kept spamming a lot of AoEs that wiped our alliance a couple of times. But, our reliable PLD Ketsurui was able to keep up with the kiting and we did manage to kill it in the end. Now we're looking at trying to do more Dreamland zones, but because we only run once a week, its difficult to decide how often because it takes away from our usual zones.


Did a little NM camping too. Xean was out camping Novv the Whitehearted which was quite a surprise to me, because he's not a fan of NM camping. I went out to give him a hand, and within an hour, Novv popped for us. Xean went 1/1 for the Minstrel's Coat, which was really nice seeing as I had remembered another player going 1/7 on this. Guess it's just my luck that sucks with NM drops now, lol.


And lastly, had another go at the ACP fight. Athoz setup another run, and our setups seemed perfect. We had PLD/RDM, RDM/DRK, SMNx2, WHM and our 6th changed between MNK and BLM. The dmg from me and Soulstar on SMN seemed to be doing fine, because we got the crystal down to 50% in less than half the time allowed.


But, our first run had a mix of bad luck and some inexperience. Our PLD Darce, had gotten charmed a couple of times, which eventually made our RDM/DRK get drawn in, eventually killing him. With no sleeps or stuns available, it didn't take long for the rest of us to wipe.

The second run had less charms, and we did get the crystal down to about 4-5% if I remember correctly... but, once we lost our PLD and RDM, it was a sure loss.

I felt really bad for Athoz and Zaross, among the people needing the fight, they are the ones that have attempted it the most and never seen a win. And thanks to the greatness that is SE, they have to climb the tower EVERY time they want to try again. I can only imagine they're about fetup and ready to just forget about the body piece you can get at the end... but, I think we'l have another run planned hopefully in the week ahead. This time i'm gonna go all out and grab some extra meds.

Which thanks to a very lucky run of KSNM30 - Royal Ramble, won't be a problem at all! I finally got a chance to try this KSNM, and now I can't wait to organize a couple of runs with my LS. It is an easy enough fight (though you do need your kiters to be focused) and has a better profit than Copycat. Why hello thar mr. 100%-drop-O.Ingot! I managed to get myself a d.Ingot as well, which was nice because I plan to keep my O.Ingot to do the next gobbie bag quest... provided I can find myself a leathercrafter 81+!