Wiping to more Gods.

Title explains it all. Just finished participating in the most epic fail I have yet to see in Final Fantasy XI. Pandora's Box just wiped a group of 20+ people to Byakko. This on top of all the rule bending and general ass-hattery going on in the shell is really making me think of pulling the ultimate dick move. Drop my pearl, take my Summerstone and Gem of the North and either move on to greener pastures or sell them off and at least make a monetary profit, considering this linkshell has been more headaches than pleasures.

Our Nyzul static is fail-tastic. Out of a total of 6 runs, a possible 30 floors cleared, we've cleared 9. And it seems to be a fair-weather static at best. People decide they just... don't want to participate, even though they've signed up. The failed floors are due to a wonderful mixture of epic fail people participating and unlucky floor combinations (Order lamps followed by Enemy Leader, which happens to be a fucking SOULFLAYER NM). Mostly epic fail people though. Today for instance, 4/6 people decided to take it upon themselves to pull COMPLETELY SEPARATE MOBS simultaneously, even though Zac, the LEADER OF THE FUCKING STATIC said that he would be pulling. Insert fucktastic wipes and failures here.

More on Pandora's.

One of the number one rules I think anyone should follow when leading a sky/sea/limbus/endgame shell is that THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS TO RULES WHATSOFUCKINGEVER.

I bring this up as I'm seeing a person I haven't seen in... 3? weeks with a /seacom stating he has lotting rights and wanted to lot Byakko's Haidate. But the rules state that if you miss more than 2 runs in a row, you lose lotting rights till you've attended more than 2 consecutive runs. This person's excuse is that he's been working, but yet he's afforded the benefit of the doubt whereas I was asked to tell Kristi that she no longer has lotting rights.... because she can't attend runs due to *drumroll* HER FUCKING WORK SCHEDULE.

Not to mention I'm feeling less and less appreciated in the linkshell. I'm supposedly an officer, but yet I was never asked before a new lotting rule was added. I agree with the rule, but it's the principle that I wasn't EVEN FUCKING ASKED. Not to mention I'm just about the only person who is asked to come as a job I inherently dislike for the benefit of the shell, but yet other members are allowed to solo-lot things when they're asked to come a job THEY LIKE AND HAVE ADMITTED TO LIKING.

Also, my gear elitist side seems to be kicking my ass a lot recently, noticing the quality of players that are getting the QUALITY gear. Such as SAMs who fulltime full STR gear and attempt to use a FUCKING SPEAR OF TRIALS ON GODS getting Shura Haidate over a relatively well-geared competing lotter who is more than willing to not only change their gearing habits to fit the situation, but is also just a more intelligent player.

All in all, not pleased at all with the situation in Pandora's Box. The worst part is, if I bring pretty much any of this up to the leaders, it'll be ignored at best and I'll be called a hypocrite at worst. I say hypocrisy because I, myself, have already done an "unthinkable" act in the LS: I lost lot on Zenith Mitts to our WHM leader and essentially rage quit. There's more to it than that, but I'm giving you, the reader, what the leaders see of me. Not to pull the "No one understands me Q_Q" card, but that's essentially what that was; I was under far too much stress at the time, and quit because it was the final straw.



Wow. That was a rant and a half. Sorry for talking your eyes out of your skull. If you're a leader from Pandora's Box and happen to stumble across this blog. You're this close to losing probably 3 damn good, dedicated members. May want to confront people who seem displeased with the shell instead of thinking everything's JUST FUCKING PEACHY.

Going to pass out now. Had too much rum. G'night.