I dunno, I always thought Nikki was really nice and he's always had a hard time acquiring gear because of the time zone difference and NA shell's conflicting run times. I would pull strings to get gear as well. I did, too. Remember BOL gave their first pair of w.legs to my DRK. Job priority? Hardly.
Anyway, he's been nothing but nice to me. I've been invited to Salvage runs and long before that, he synthed a 20M item (at the time) on a whim, without question.
I'd be pretty pissed off if people talked shit while I'm asking an honest question too. Right on for not letting them get away with it.
The sad thing is, you all persecute people for joining Absolution and without a doubt I can say this story wouldn't have happened if Nikki wasn't with them.
It's a shame really, because a lot of the people who disagree with how Absolution decides to play the game, albeit botting or not, (holy shit, cheating in a video game) they still manage to make MILLIONS off people who buy their N.heads and Ace's helms. The even more shameful aspect of this, is a majority of the people who publicly disagreed with how Absolution plays the game are the one's BUYING THEIR GEAR.
The people who bought gear. You can't say you didn't have the time to join a linkshell like that. What a pile of bullshit. You had to camp the Aery to even see if the item drops before you could purchase it.
The hypocrisy is so delicious I can't possibly hold back my ear to ear grin.
Keep it up Nikki, you're finally in a shell that cares about their members and I congratulate you on that. He made the right choice, by the way. Joining a shell for Einherjar isn't really an option, it takes way too long to acquire gear at a fast pace from Odin.
That's one thing I've noticed since the decline. There's linkshells who scrape by doing Einherjar and what not, who basically gave up gearing their members in Dragon's Aery. They say they're "fully-geared" but that's a LIE. LIARS. Fully-geared Tiamats/Dark Ixions/Sandworms... lol What a crock. Droppin sum gaiters!!!!!
You still have many members who deserve gear they were never given but don't bother pushing the 110% effort you did in the past. Why? The people in charge who actually gave a shit about gearing their LS (botting in the aery, oh my) stopped giving a shit after their core of friends/family were geared. They've either quit the game or stopped caring. It's not just ONE LS, too. It's ALL the linkshells who have left the Aery and Attohwa Chasm.
People in Kaizen, Integral or what have you. I really appreciated the invitations but I regretfully declined them to join a linkshell that camped the Aery. It wasn't in vain either, I finally obtained an N.head (without paying for it) after YEARS and YEARS of wanting one.
Had you invited me when you gave a shit about gearing your members, I would've joined in a heart beat. Call me greedy!
Remember Chronicle's quote of a Bible verse he had in his comment? It was something along the lines of fight fire with fire.
I know I've given people shit in the past for joining them, but it was from pure jealousy. Rarely would Dez claim and yeah, that brings down morale. They pushed through the HARDEST time this Aery has EVER seen. People gave me shit for the countless King Behemoths HNMPT claimed, they had a lock down like Absolution did until we finally got a defending ring for Cuester. The thing is, Linkshells of the past would still compete against us and I believe that's how Pers' 5/5 Koenig Aegis PLD (who actually wears that shit to tank) obtained his defending ring. They cared, they
persevered and got what they wanted. NOT ANYMORE, big bad people who are open about botting are rampant now.
We stopped camping shortly after I got my cap. It really sucks, because I know for certain there were members who wanted one too.