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The Diary of the Dead Lalafell Gardener 8

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The Diary of the Dead Lalafell Gardener

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So, I left my static and went to sub for the Banana Gaming for the week.

I wonder, if I have to do it again, I probably will choose to lie about it instead. I wanted to be honest, but at the end I was not totally honest either. There is no way to walk out a static with no salt.

For Banana Gaming, they told me that they were a group of close friend raiding together. I didn't really realize what was the implication until someone was late on raid day.

Everyone in the team was patiently waiting for him to show up. I supposed, because they are good friends.

And, we were standing in Hinterland, waiting for the whole hour.

In the end, we only managed to clear A5S. There were little time to do much on A6S.




The next raid I sub for them was also a late start, but at least it wasn't an hour. It was the first time I got to Vortexer.

I think this is where the most difficult part of the fight to get used to.

First of all, we are not making it to Vortexer at every pull. Mistakes still happened at orb phase, height, and what not. Then, if we made it to Vortexer, I might not get certain mechanics. The reason why we didn't get the kill on that night, largely is because I freaked out and got to the wrong spot before super cyclone, or was too close to the water and got the drainage tether.

Of course, now I am talking about it in hindsight. The most difficult mechanics for me was the ice. For many runs, I never got any ice. Then when I got it, I messed up the placement. The raid lead told me how to place it, then I won't get ice again for many runs. Until I get it again, I forgot about everything. On paper, I finally for comfortable on that mechanics after placing ice correctly twice. However, it took many months for me to get enough chance for the ice for that to happen.

By the time when we finished raiding, a new person showed up on Discord. It was their caster. With his sudden return, it was the end of my sub with this group. Of course, with the type of person I am, as long as I sub the game, I can't sit around quietly. Despite the fact that I never got to clear A6S, I still run around subbing for teams. It was were I ran into the Team Bowies (Ash's team) at one of their A7S training.




I think it was about a week before I was subbing for Banana Gaming, a lot of things happened in Asny and Aelia's static. Lars left the static. And some time before that happened, Rex stepped down as raid lead and Lily took over. They kicked their MT for performance issue. Their caster got poached by an A8S progression. I subbed for them for a day and I can almost tell it won't last long. The same week as I started subbing for the Banana Gaming, their static went on a two weeks break with people feel like doing whatever they want.

It sounded logical, but by by day two, Aelia already got pissed.

She complained to me one day, "Everyone told me that I am a good healer, but yet no one person answer to my PF looking for group ad!"

The problem was, she was looking for a static to pick her up for A6S clear. She had bonus. If there was no absent in any static on that week, the odd was against her.

I had a bad feeling about it. With the frequent turnover, they had a difficult time making progress. Poor progress demotivated people, and caused people wanting to seek other opportunities, to take a break from this mess. Rex sometime bad-mouthed the others in the static on FC chat but I doubt it is his true character. The situation just seemed to spiral downward.

Then, they were supposed to be on break for two weeks, but they stick together for A5S weekly. Nobody was really doing much apart from it. It was not clear to me how the situation will change afterward.

So as Aelia was complaining, I told her "Look, you have two weeks of free time, why don't you use it fully? Try different things, try out different groups. Try groups that are ahead or behind your current progression. Meet some new people. You may or may not like them. Maybe at the end you realize that your current static is the best for you. But until you see how other statics are like, you will never come to that conclusion. You may or may not find a better group, but at least you will find an answer for yourself."

My expectation at the time was, she will find out the world outside really sucks and end up in returning to her original static. Obviously, I had in mind my previous two statics. If she had problem with hers, try mine. Not to mention, most people in her current static was like an entourage for her. Not many people can leave a group when they are the center person in the group, then go somewhere else when they are just another ordinary member. Aelia always referred them as "friends" but it was so clear that they were not equals standing. I doubt she would leave her these people behind.

Maybe I was encouraging her to try out other group, so she gave me the information for groups that was looking for caster. I don't know, maybe the idea is I should be looking for a group while she was looking?

I wasn't sure, because I was planning to un-sub the game at the time. However, I still have about two weeks on my sub, why do I stand around doing nothing? It was like when I encourage someone to reach out for new possibilities, I sit on my ass and do nothing. It just sounds hypocritical.






Couple weeks later, to defy all expectations, Aelia moved on to a new static.

And about the same time if not slightly before that, I got an offer to a spot in the static I trialed for. The static name was "Heliodor Ikea".

Comments (9)

Sigurd De-mizar

Phoenix [Light]

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Nazreen Eby

Cerberus [Chaos]

Quite a twisted quote of me...

Aster Whitefang

Cerberus [Chaos]

Lol lol the names of statics make me laugh :)

Asny Rak'nys

Cerberus [Chaos]

Sigurd De-mizar

Phoenix [Light]

@ Aelia, The truth is I miss that blog where you said bomb has exploded and how shit hit the fans. It is not often you complain like that ^^

@ Kres, I think Rad, the raid lead, actually works in Ikea. Even our discord channel has the word Ikea in it.

Sigurd De-mizar

Phoenix [Light]

Btw, do you guys notice that Dom is #2 in over GC standing in Cerberus with over 400k seal. How is it even possible?

Aster Whitefang

Cerberus [Chaos]

We had someone who was first in all gc standngs <_<

Nazreen Eby

Cerberus [Chaos]

Fates and gc handins. During yokai weeks i was top 10 or so. Anything producing gc seals will make ur rank

Aster Whitefang

Cerberus [Chaos]

True, i think during the yokai event thing i was farming i reached like 8th
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