Hello, my name is Ruroni. Many people on shiva may know me or have seen me before. I have taken many roles in my time with FFXI. Chi blaster for gods for DVS3, tank/soloer for AFs for lower level characters, greedy ******* more concerned about avengers dropping than my pld friend who got a bq ring, friend, ally, jerk, madman, told people off, built people up, selfishly said no to a request for help, told my girlfriend we'll have to out to dinner another time, "x" really could use my help. Point is I'm not perfect, neither is anyone here nor is any linkshell. Over a year and a helf ago I got invited to a party as thf/rdm (i know whata freakin noob I was huh?) and I met Miriel, Jae, and Alivas. Just some dudes who were friends and had this cool linkshell where they just chilled and did stuff. I asked if I could join and was welcomed into DVS. For months and months, I had fun in DVS, we shared victories and defeats, both in game and personal. Made many great friends, and continued on this way for some time.
As more and more of us reached that elusive title of "high level" talks about sky and gods started up. As a 59 mnk I had no idea really what all this was, but I powered my way up along with a large group of my dvs friends to around 71 by the time we got DVS3 rolling. It was great, fighting new things all the time, experiencing new stuff, farming for god items, seeing all we could get, farming some more, people trying to rack up as many sky hours as possible.. more farming, almost everyday now... greed.... jealousy.... temper tantrums...... As you can see, for me at least it went downhill fast. The LS wars ******** reaaaally got to me, people deliberately ******* with me ruining my leisure time so they could get some gil. Especially after a particularly big issue, sky was put on hold for a week. I was more than happy, I never really wanted to go back up there. The place had even made me think of myself getting shura gear (yeah I'm probably the one mr happy up there was talking about) before others and how I could manage it. I took a long look at myself, at the shell, and at the game. I played barely if at all for a bit over a week.
Then something someone said snapped me out of it like smelling salts. I got a message from a friend. He and some other friends of mine from DVS3 wondered where I had been. Some wanted to pt, some wanted to do missions, and some just wanted to fart around jeuno doing stupid ****. It was the LS I originally joined. It had been there all along but I and many others were too ****** to notice. I still dont go to sky farming, and you know what? it dosent matter! I'm close to rank 30 (10 in all nations) and the end of the ZMs. I'm having fun like I have had only a few times before. Gods? SURE lets go **** em up! AF1? SURE I'll own that for you. Some dumb *** quest? why not! An NM you have no idea how strong it is or what it drops? Let's go get killed ^^. Is this the kind of LS you wanna be in? Do you want friends and family that you can laugh live and die with? I sure do. And though I never left DVS3, I want to reapply myself to DVS3 refocused. You can call that BS, you can throw a fit about whatever crap you wanna. DVS owns my soul. I pour it into our site and out shell and our members, my DVS family. Sound like we're for you? If so, go to our site, fill out an app, and I'll see you on the battlefield!
PS: Just don't expect to hold a candle to me... I AM THE UBER LEET ROXORS MNK FROM YO MAMMA'S HOUSE! hahah j/k :p
PPS: Thank you Meara and Lokki. I respect your guys' shells a lot. Proving to some that you can be endgame without being super hard core devoted to it. There ARE some ls that are all about gods and drops. there ARE people that don't have fun neorei, that just go and kill gods like it's a job, and mpk people that mess with thier gil flow. Not picking on your ls, I know some really cool ppls in it (wassup Augie ^^) but there are others that are just MEAN. F that guys, lets have fun^^ I agree with the endgame ls title. I for one never go to sky. Nor do some other long timers. How many HNM SKY ls let thier members get away with that? not a lot. Anyway, see you around everyone. I'll be the big Galka mnk proudly sporting the DVS3 pearlsack.