Kman ~ accepted

Theirs so much to talk about I can't believe I went for four days now without posting anything. So much has happened that I don't even know where to begin. I'm warning you now this is going to be a long rant so if your anything like my close friends you'll probably read this first paragraph and than ignore the rest but I don't blame these are the things I really apprecieted and enjoyed for others old news for the rest irrelevant but here goes...

On Thursday September 1st I joined Distant Beliefs linkshell. This is my very first HNMLS, and will be my last until I either get kicked or it falls apart. So what makes an HNMLS anyways, well in my eyes it's a linkshell that consists of talented members constantly striving for improvement in gear and skill. This is what in my eyes DB is all about and I'm happy to be part of it. On my first day with DB they decided to try taking on Tiamat the flying dragon. Even though I didn't take part in the main allianc and witnessed very little of the actual fight I didn't mind much because it was a huge event for DB and they even managed to bring the beast down to 87%. I wasn't ready for tiamat at all so it was definatly a good thing I wasn't in the main alliance, my job was to clear adds. This wasn't how I normally saw tiamat being fought and those adds became overwhelming towards the end because our entire add alliance lacked a whm and I had to cure the tanks and all others who took dmg. Still very exciting but very hard I hope we come back for the win soon.

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I spent sometime talking to Takigurl and got on very good terms with her which is nice, I learned she's very found of tarutaru and that's really cool. Gotta love ls leaders who love tarutaru. I got to exp with munkeyjim also a very nice guy, I tried to keep leveling my DRK but man these parties are going no where. I honostly think that I would have already had DRK37 if I didn't join DB on thursday but my gametime would not be half as intresting.
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Since I don't quite know everyone in DB yet I tried to listen into the conversations and just hang out while I worked on DRK. Than all the sudden someone asks about Akujin and if he's argumentive. It catches me completly offguard. Ofcoarse he's argumentive lots of people are not really that negative but like thunderclese said "we don't want more people that will argue." So I stuck up for him and only about 5 min later Aku sends me an aim saying read this (it was a link to the imagination forums which basically had a huge flame thread). Ok at the time I got extremly pissed at aku. First he said a lot of crap that I didn't like, he spoke about everyone being incompetent, and dropped my name too many times. I quickly apologized for him to everyone because I could see where everyone was comming from. No one likes to be told they suck, NO ONE. Now though I think I changed my mind because after all I know aku, I know the type of person he is and he's not a bad guy he doesn't aim to crush people in order to get ahead and however bad this may sound he did kinda push Imagination to where it is now. I told Viera to keep it simple and keep it social but when I got accepted into DB I tried to leave on very nice terms with the idea I would come back to visit, I now see that's unlikly to happen. Akujin did overdo it but what was said was said and I'm now very happy to see Aku in DB, and I'm also happy DB could look past it contrary to how I reacted after reading that forum.

Thing is me and Akujin are very simular in terms of trying to be the best. This is something lots of people take offense to. To be the best requires being better than others and being better than others implies they are worse so people take it offensivly. When I was part of Kanojo's social linkshell I had a lot of fun and I might as well clear this up now in hopes that Kanojo comes back to read this one day and find out why I left HungOver. Kanojo btw is hilarous so I really didn't want to leave but like I said before I try to be the best, I don't think I'm cocky because I do put time and effort into learning as much as I can. Back than I faced Maat and lost not by luck but because I made a foolish mistake. A lot of RDM take it as an insult when you claim Maat isn't that hard when they had to spend months trying to be him, but if you read my Maat Guide and experience for the fight you'll see why I hold my views. I was really disappointed about not being able to beat Maat on first because of how I lost (1 nuke away and 8 mps short of it), but a lot of people in HungOver apparantly didn't like my attitude about it. Again I meant to put no one down I don't think I'm better than anyone really or atleast don't really think about it consciously but I do think that I know what I'm doing atleast for Maat I feel I do. I later got a /tell from Thunderclese the hungover ls leader and he nicly said that a few people didn't like my attitude. Since I think I'm a nice guy I kinda said ok than but it really hurt to hear that at all because I never mean to insult anyone and well it made my stomache turn to hear people didn't like me when I try so hard to be nice. Basically by saying all the things I had all I wanted was a simple /cheer Kman. That's all I ever want a little support and a little recognition. Still I did learn from the experience and wont repeat it again. This blog is the only place where I can freely talk about myself my adventures and thus express what kman is thining. Anyways moving on...

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The next morning I got to exp DRK a tinny bit more ; ;
And we did the awesome kick ass BC Divine Might. Alright so first try we wiped we got it down to three, but I was really nervous and came in did my job but it was a first try so my basics were covered like second nature (Refresh/Heal) and I was told to gravity AA Hume. Second try was so much better I got the landing blow on the TT and chainspelled the galka with geoffrey so it was awesome we really kicked butt and got it down to EV who did benediction and the HM. I also had a tiger slept which helped puto who was being beat up by him so over all had a better understanding of my surroundings still tho we managed to go down and Isildur was upset by that because we had it in the bag oh well. The sad thing is everyone went back and manaburned it for the earring and I was real upset by that and so was renay and a few others I mean it's such a cool fight how could just let it pass by I can't wait till we do it again. I really don't want my earring until we clear it the real way. I hope I can resist the manaburn temptations.

Than we went and did Dynamis Jeuno, and wow this was so easy I actually got bored. I've done 10 dynamis runs before I did one with DB and each one was unsuccesful, but exciting, this was almost a joke. We had an hour and 40 min remaining after I got my key item. Drops were amazing about 8 AF2, including 2! Duelist Pants so congradulations Takigurl and Geoffefry(sp?). One day I'll have em too ^^
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On monday meaning yesterday we had maintance and all logged outside of Dragon's Aery and had an unchallanged claim on an unclaimed Fafnir. It was my first time taking part and I've watched countless Fafnir fights all of which had claim changes wipes, SSJ and even before that. This time we did awesome clearing Fafnir before he went SSJ on us and it was amazing smooth. I made the following mistakes that I will fix for next time...
~ I began the fight standing slightly further down to his leg, I thought I was clever since I didn't take any dmg while everyone seemed to suffer. Renay pointed me out and asked me to move while I wasn't clear why I had to Renay said that if I make it turn than everyone will suffer big time. Even though I never dropped cure IVs and my nukes did shit for dmg I had no doubt it had virtually no hate on me it's still very important to listen to the officers and veteran members so I took a few steps and got in line.
~ I only realized how mp intensive the fight is so next I'll keep much closser eye on the whm, and if the whm is standing and attentive I'll be sitting healing. I only began doing this when I dropped under 300 mps and realized we still had a long way to go. By doing this I'm always ready to keep going and back people up with consitent cure III. (Also considering that a /whm sub is more useful for Fafnir, but maybe /DRK is better I still don't have an idea as far as how much hate Stun is).
~ I need to hit 75 RDM and burst thunder with more elemental skill, the only thing that can raise my elemental skill right now is af2 pants so I'm praying for them as soon as possible. I also didn't unfilter certain things and had to watch TP changes through windower for Bursts.

After one of the most exciting fights I've ever took part in we continued to do Kirin, something I watched about 3 times from a BLM perspective. This was extremly frustrating for me. For a few reasons. They put me into a blm alliance. Kirin is kited constantly and whm is one place while blm are completly elsewhere. Not only did I have an impossible 6x refresh I had to play bard and run after everyone. I asked Akujin to pretty much follow me or stay centered and I'm going to discuss this on DB forums a little later, again DB owns sky they have been doing this before I even knew how to walk in FFXI but at the same time it seemed inefficient. Either have a BRD take my place which doesn't make much sence since their highest range instrument still wont cover the entire room. My refresh cycles are on the dot refreshes meaning @ 12:00 is me, 12:08 is player 1, 12:16 is player 2 and so on this is ofcoarse with haste. So one way would be to tell the BLM to find me rather than me search all over for them and give em late refresh. While I remain positioned in one area. The reason this wont work is because BLM are lazy ... yep their lazy bastards for the most part and this is something I learned as a stereotype from trying a few manaburns they will not change from their normal rutine. This is what I ended up doing... not refreshing the BLM I focused on Zana the whm and myself. I would also not do a cycle with the blm but try to give them one right before they dropped. Lag made this very hard when I had to run through kirin in order to get to one of the blm before they dropped and overall did a poor job in that aspect. Still keeping it to just 2 people refresh I never had to rest and helped geofery(sp?) run around chasing Kirin and suprisingly I enfeebled it pretty well for the stage where I'm at. I'm currently a lvl 74 and it was nice knowing I can land enfeebles on kirin without an ES. This is btw what I managed to land.




I had about a 7/10 avg for gravity resistence without ES. And about a 1/2 for silence. My goal is to be able to land enfeebles on call and become a main RDM enfeebler for DB. I have a plan which I wont share until finished.

I'm thining it might be better to sub /brd for this if not the main enfeebler/stunner that is if I'm in the blm pt. This way u can play a song for a lot of folks even if refresh isn't up or improvise with it. With a little practice I'll get better at refreshing blm right before they drop. A good connection is required.

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That's end of this long 4 day rent. Sorry their was so much that's why I put pictures for you guys. Take care ^^