Promyvion Runs - Anyone Scheduling Any?Follow

Well, being unable to lead one on my own (I admit, I am far from being leader quality), and not having a linkshell that will help, I come here looking for aid in the matter.

For the past few months I have been interested in the CoP Missions, extremely interested. The only problem is I cannot attend the weekly ones with the few people I consider "friends" on this game, due to them being so far ahead of me (and being unwilling to help me catch up to them).

I wish to complete the Promyvions soon.

Now, here is the drawback to this whole matter:

I can only come as two jobs which are of appropriate level, and have ungimped subs, MNK/WAR, or a weaponless WAR/MNK (in which I could readilly find a Great Axe for, but don't expect me to have anything else). Unless, of course, you'd be willing to bring along a WAR/THF as well, in which I'm sure I could give a mean SA + Sturmwind ^^

That is the main reason I am never accepted to a Promyvion run, nobody is willing to bring along a MNK (or a WAR without /NIN as their sub) because they don't seem to realise how easy the Promyvions can be (specifically with Anima), and load their groups with WAR/NIN, RNG/NIN, SMN/WHM, and WHM/BLM to half *** their way through, without doing any of the prep work.

I can come prepared, I have a full set of Lv. 30 Cap gear for both jobs (except for the weapon for WAR/MNK(THF)), I already have one of each Anima, and can bring appropriate food (and Poison Potions for Holla if needed). It would be prefered if you could invite me as MNK to WAR.

So, I am pretty much begging here, if anyone is having a Promyvion run, and has an extra slot, and is willing to bring along a MNK, please reply and/or contact me in game. I am dieing to advance in the storyline for CoP.

Thank you for your time,
Mad Friar Avelyn

[Edit] Ooh, looks like someone doesn't like me, or the prospect of asking help for something. {All Right!} Troll! ^^

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Shykre, I want to note, that your Linkshell, no matter how highly you think of it, has a notorious record of not helping with any events I schedule in advance. You should be able to recall one, and I can recall a few times in which you personally refused to help in something, even though it was already scheduled beforehand.

You, and your linkshell are not trustworthy to me anymore.

Hence why I said that I have no linkshell to aid me in the matter.

Edited, Fri Nov 18 09:10:04 2005 by MadFriarAvelyn

How many times will I have to say it.... I'M SORRY I FORGOT YOU NEEDED THE PROMYVIONS. I'm one of the "friends" he's referring to. I did a 3-promyvions-in-one-day run and I forgot he needed them. There. I've said it in front of all of Allakhazam's community.

That being said, I'm not aware of the story with Ikkin, since I wasn't online at that moment. Also, in case it was too subtle, the "CoP Sundays" event I started in our LS forum, was a direct attempt at getting it done for you.

So. Tuesday November 22nd. We'll start with Promyvion-Dem. We might be able to do another one after that, farming animas in between the 2. Get lvl30 Mnk/war gear, i'll get some too.

oh and btw, once we get the run going, it would really help if you took me off your black list.....

Avelyn this is hardly the place to talk about this, if you want to lash out about Benevolence related to Benevolence, theres forums to do this...

But since you decided to wash your dirty laundry in public I feel I have to throw a subligar at you (and not of the bone type, the metal ones)

We have tried to help you many times in the past, and its sad you couldnt attend all the events, and that we couldnt answer your call to arms all the time, but we try to do things for a lot of people.

5-2, me and Cadant came, the rest of the LS wasnt available, we could have said no, since it wasnt a LS event, but we still took our gear and marched on to Castle Zvahl in order to finish 5-2 with you.

MNK AF - Again you had to wait out to obtain it, but you did refuse to lot on the keys that dropped, supposedly gracefully handing them to Pryssant and others, then you blew up in front of Halcyonryu saying his PT leader stoe your key and that Halcyonryu delibarately set you up, to bring your hopes up and crush them... Their PT got a key while getting exp, and Halcyon had nothing to do with what the leader did, in fact he stopped PTing and grabbed his THF to come back and help us in CN, Cad took a death from a Scorpion (although he somewhat deserved it, using AM at the start of a fight, and the death scissors didnt spare his taru soul, he took a R1 like a big boy, and laughed it off) We got the key and found the coffer rather quickly.

Then in Garlaige Citadel, same scenario happens, we fight for keys, Akya and Pryssant get theirs, because, again you refused to lot, after more and more hours, we get another key, or not, I dont remember, but no coffer, so we reschedule, it took time, but we got the coffer and key. Of course it was bad of us to quit on you, but after 4 hours of key hunting, we needed sleep.

But what has been irking me in the past months is your whine to obtain things because it didnt go my way the first times. It happens to all of us Avelyn, and its called life. Some of us might have more luck, or maybe our positive attitude and perseverance allow us through.

I levelled RNG to 30 just for Promys, I got butchered 6 times because of my own silliness on one floor, but I kept getting up, ready to stand some more.

I died a vast number of times, along with Tanta, Nuku, Cadant, Legault, Tijet, Lamente and Pretus (taking a few deaths for him when I could have escaped easier than him) I even delevelled on BRD, but I dont care, Ill make it back, its just exp and gil, we were there till 4am almost, trying to get Lamente through (and Tijet, I cant remember)

But thats FFXI, its a game, its fun, I enjoy BRD and the deaths I get, if they help us learn how to complete a tough BC battle, then Ill be just the more happy to take out my horn and earn my exp back, its tougher for MNK to get PTs, but Im still willing to take the bullets, like using horde lullaby and running away from the entrance to take a royal 3 mammet beating.

But on your blog, be it a place where you write private thoughts, which is on the internet, has been a mirror to what you think of the Linkshell, without us taking the hits too personally, but you took it to new levels in the last few months.

First you wished for my death, you wished Id get run over by a train and die, not a pleasant death is that?

And now you attack Akya, my girlfriend, my love, by calling her a gimp bitch, saying I give her eveything, using my goldsmithing to fund her, that all she does is eat candies and ballista and reap in gil from what I do... well guess what, she doesnt, she got equipment from me... Ok so she got very good equipment, then again she earned it, she came with me to Valkurm Emperor, she earned her empress hairpin like the rest of us. She pays for her nin tools, and well she doesnt feel like levelling and she loves to ballista, shes allowed to Ballista like everybody else, and shes allowed not to level.

Sure for a while she was gimped, and she felt bad about it, and she still is gimped WHM 56 / BLM 27. But if you so didnt like the fact she was gimped why did you PT with us for so long? I shouldnt encourage people being gimped, and she knew I didnt like it, and thats one of the reasons I stopped the static, we had to correct that situation, you then yelled at me for stopping your exp, I am not a XP generating god, just a THF or a BRD with 3 people by my side...

I love Akya and she works hard for her gil, not all of it, but most of it. Some people think of others before their own selves, and the gear I leant to her always came back, when she was done with it, or when I needed it. She makes her gil by doing and winning ballistas (not a great source of money folks) and by doing Chocobo Fletchings, yes piles and piles of fletchings, just like I started out by making piles of stick disgusting Insect Paste day after day in San D'Oria to fuel my crafting.

But dont attack the person I love and care about, she works hard and can do as she pleases, I dont own her and she is free to decide what she wants to do, if she wants to be gimp, she can be gimp, Ill tell her its not a well viewed thing in the game, and if she insists to go to 75WHM with a lvl 27BLM sub, she can try if she wants, but she resolved not too.


You can keep whining to obtain things, but I got my things done by being perseverant and direct, by setting times and setting limits, saying hey lets do a Promy one day, it might be fun wont get you anywhere, but I have had enough of your double identity and hyporcrisy. You are a shame to the honor of every FF player, I think Id rate you under Intyoda.. At least he had the guts to stand up and say you are teh suXX0rs!

shykre, a spoony bard, willing to defend love, truth, honor and the penguin way.

Edited, Fri Nov 18 14:31:56 2005 by shykre

Jeez, I go to sleep for 7 hours to log on to this? This is horrible. Everyone please disreguard this post. This should have been talked on my Linkshells website.

I'll help, count me in. Either mnk/war or war/nin. No preferences, i'll need to buy gear anyway

Wow, there are so many people here pointing fingers, yet never viewing things from my side.

During my time playing this game, I've been forced to be a patient person (seeing as I am a Pre-Ranged Attack "Nerf" Monk, before people started thinking Ranger was a broken class, and that every other damage-dealer was superior, and it is not). I have been forced to wait for many things due to my class (as other monks can agree, we're pretty much forced to be patient people).

During this time, I also tried to be as helpful as I could be to others. On another one of my Linkshells, Kapoks, I had helped others with rank missions, quests, anything, as much as I could (as they had assisted me greatly, I had Rank 5 and my airship pass before I was level 33). I had even given away a Scroll of Drain I had quested to a new player who joined the Linkshell because he was too scared to travel to San d'Oria from Windurst to even attempt to quest it (unknowing of the value of the scroll, and not regretting the act even after I learned it's price).

I had, however, decided to leave Kapoks, after the leader had dubbed MNK as a worthless job, after refusing me to join him on a Promyvion run he had planned. Soon after I applied for Benevolence.

During my time with Benevolence, until recently, I had tried as hard as I could to do the same. Except for one thing:

Tanta, the leader of Benevolence, had set a deadline, to be Level 60, Rank 6, by September 15, 2005. I had plenty of time to do this, but at the rate I had gotten invites, and the rate I could exp, I couldn't be as patient as I wanted to be.

I had joined one of the statics Benevolence had going, including in the mix was Shykre (our THF, turned BRD on the last days of the static), Akya (our WHM), Cadant (our RNG (who disbanded after the "Ranger Nerf"), and Pryssant (our PLD, and a damn good tank may I add). Contrary to the belief of the group, I had joined it for fun, since the usual pickup party brought more grief than anything in the tediousness that is slaying mob after mob, not for the "assured experience points" which they think I joined it for now.

During the static, I tried to be as helpful, or as generous, as I could. We leveled nightly, as much as our schedules could allow. I admit, I had turned up to the static late at times, more times than others, but so did the rest of them. Whenever we couldn't find a refresher, I would provide to Akya and Pryssant (who, whenever we couldn't find a refresher, also had Pineapples to synth into Juices available) Yagudo Drinks, as many as my inventory could hold, synthed with ingredients I bought with the gil from my own pockets (which was very little at the time, due to us levelling almost nightly, I could barely afford anything past the food and what Yagudo Drinks I could provide after each session). I would even give a share of them to whoever replaced Pryssant (who was absent a few times) to use so we could keep some steady chains.

The Yagudo Drinks, of course, did stop for the two sessions Shykre actually played his Bard, but I synthed them whenever a refresher was not available..

During our static, when convenient, we would go to areas and hunt for keys, and coffers, for our AF. During this time, I had been glad to pass on the coffer keys, to try to be nice, and the members of the static that needed them (and, almost, at one point, someone outside of the static) got their keys before me. I remember one incident, after a key hunt in Garlaige Citadel, I had passed on the two keys that had dropped, so that Akya and Pryssant could get them, with the promise from Shykre and Cadant that the last key would be obtained the next day.

The static didn't meet the next day, and the next session we had didn't involve coffer keys in the least.

I had hoped I would have help from the static in obtaining my AF, as I had used my time just as much as they used their time to get what keys they got. The only piece they, as a static helped me obtain were the old gauntlets in Crawlers Nest (in which they couldn't even help me fight Darkspark for my final AF afterwards). My Garlaige Coffer key was obtained through a skillup party, not the static as intended, my AF Feet were duo'd (with, I admit, the help of the ever hate pulling Cadant, who was using his BLM at the time). My AF Hands, the Darkspark fight, was done for me by a BST Friend of mine (Shirok, who's name was attempted to be tainted on this forum by a troll who used his name). My AF Body and Legs were obtained when I went to help in some Testimony Farming for Cadant, and Damyen respectively.

The only item that I had gotten with at least half the static there was my AF Head, the Temple Crown, and that was through convenience alone, as I had come out to help Shykre (or was it Bon? Whoever it was, the AF involved an NM in both
Sauromugue Champaign and Garlaige Citadel, for the THF AF) with a couple AF Pieces, and we had spotted a coffer along the way.

During the time, after a Castle O. Raid (which was very succesful, our entire group making it to the top, several people completing their G3's doing so, and us killing the Yagudo's Avatar (some of us even joked afterward that we should have a T-Shirt made, which says "I survived the Yagudo Avatar's Astral Flow, and All I Got Was This Lousy T-SHirt")), Akya needed her G2 done (maybe Pryssant as well, I can not recall if it was the both of them or not).

Four of us (Gavian (or Caspion, one or the other), Shykre, Akya, and I, and Pryssant if he attended) fought, and killed, all three Boreal Mobs for Akya (and Pryssant if he did attend).

After the static finally disbanded, very close to the deadline, and me not 60 yet, I had recieved this compliment from Pryssant:



During my time in Benevolence, I had only scheduled one event, a Shadowlord run, so I could reach rank 6, and meet the deadline. A very small amount of people even responded to it, fewer were even online the day of the event, and with connection issues (making me think I wouldn't be able to log on in time), the event never happened, and I missed the deadline which I had wished to make so I could stay in the shell. I willingly dropped my pearl afterwards, in which Cadant and Shykre helped a pickup party I joined complete 5-2, but I had already left the shell, and missed the original deadline.

After Tanta had reduced the requirements for the shell down from Level 60, Rank 6, to Level 40, Rank 4, I re-applied, as I wanted to be back with the friends I had been with since I joined the shell (minus Akya, who had missed the deadline herself, and left the shell due to University matters coming up).

During the month I've been back, I've been juggling a lot of things. School Work, lots of stress at home with the family, my grandmother being sent to a nursing home due to her breaking her arm, the activities of multiple linkshells (including more coffer hunts and recently a Five Hour Jelly Ring run for Rasengan in Kapoks (who wears his new ring proudly)), and I do not have a proper way to vent in real life, as nobody will even listen to me rant anymore. So I used the game for this purpose, and I admit some of my reactions have been hasty, I have cussed people out, and yesterday I made this post, wishing to at least go through the Promyvions, so I might join the rest of the members in Benevolence, who have gotten much farther in CoP than I have (or, at least to chapter three), so I could have some fun, in doing so relieve a large amount of stress, and attend their weekly (or every other week) CoP Mission Runs. I had even, on several occasions, expressed I still did not have the Promyvions done, and had openly complained that it was because people would not bring a MNK along (due to the "template" created by everyone too lazy to do any prep work), and it was Benevolence who I believed (then, more than now) would break out of that mold, and be willing to bring a MNK along on a run (in which they had done before, a Promyvion Holla, in which our WHM Disconnected, and our Party Wiped, and this was not repeated for those that had lost (Pryssant was in the group that had wiped)).

Last weekend Etho helped Pryssant complete all three Promyvions in one day. He did not even invite me along, (even if it was just to help in the Anima Farming!) even though I had said, on several occasions, I had needed the Promyvions, and had just recently helped his friend, Tempusdezire, reach rank 4, on a day I had stayed home from school sick, and was sleeping in my bed for as much of the day that I could. This is where I snapped, and where the decline started to where I am now.

So yes, this post is a bit hasty, it does point fingers where they don't belong, and yes I have snapped, and lost what patience I had, in order to get these done. I have openly said things I wouldn't normally say (or even think!) during this time, all due to the stress I've been given over the past month. Think of me as you want, call me the next Intyoda, I don't care, just read this post, and use it to view things from my perspective before you carry on with those activities.

[Edit] Typos > Me -.-;;

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