HNMLS read even if you hate meFollow

Actually there are a lot of useless threads. But that's besides the point.

A good point was made: prove yourself. Just asking for one on the forums here quite honestly chances are will not get you what you want. Make friends, contacts, etc. Help people, and find different ways to prove you're fully capable of handling yourself in an endgame ls.
This takes at least some amount of: loyalty, respect, maturity, and patience.

So: prove yourself. Work toward it.

Demonspawnmatt,

I partied w/ you as my WHM last weekend while you played BRD. Between fights, you would prefer to stand and wait for the mob to come so that you could fail to debuff it instead of keeping the mages' ballad up. Between fights, don't just stand around and look stupid, please.

To the rest of the people--
after some ********* we got him to ballad myself and the lil BLM. feel bad having to tell someone to do their job at lv 69, though :/

Not by any means a bad bard, just not a good one. Best of luck to whoever accepts him in their LS~

-- Atrius

Matt, people might better understand some of the reasons behind you not being a very good player if you just tell them the truth:

That you don't know how to use or program basic macro's.

I don't mean that mean or rude, just as absolute factual truth.

You need to learn some of the basic principles of the game, use that as your base, and then work on building your reputation back up.

For example, when people tell you that you need to carry more than one instrument on your BARD, and that even though the one you carry has +1CHR, there are OTHER benefits to carrying other instruments and +1 instruments for their added effects to SPECIFIC songs. Instead, you tend to just say "but i thought that CHR was the most important thing to a BARD" and not listen attentively when people tell you the REASONS behind using different instruments.

In regards to macro's, your response of "well, if i'm no good at programming in RL, at school and such - then how would I be able to program in a game?" is NOT going to cut in general game-play - LET ALONE - HNMLS's, etc.

If you use macro's for nothing else, you need to be able to use Equip changing macros - ESPECIALLY for things like HNM's, where you have to swap out gear for situations repeatedly.

Noone is asking you to program your macros yourself. You might not be able to program, but i'm sure you should be able to copy something down and then enter what you copied. There are many sections of this site that can show you SPECIFIC macro lines.

I know there are other reasons people have issues with you - I.E: the no warning warps and disbands from parties, your WHM shortcomings with waiting until people are almost dead to cure them, the fact that you won't/don't stoneskin and blink yourself when pulling with your BRD or the many other things people have issues with you for.

I don't know you well, but what i have known, you HAVEN'T been an a$$hole, or rude or anything. And i really DON'T think it IS that you're an a$$hole, i just think that maybe you aren't the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to this game. Which is cool, though - but just like in sports - it's the people who are the least athletic that REALLY have to try their damn hardest and figure out EVERYTHING they can possibly do to win. And some of these non-athletic people have turned into champs, too.

EDITED: to save matt some embarrassment.


Edited, Wed Nov 2 01:26:21 2005 by SniperSixtySix

SniperSixtySix seems to be speaking clearly, and honestly. He's not trying to make you feel bad Matt, just trying to tell you where you can improve. Don't get defensive, take the critisism and learn from it.

Matt,

Based on our encounters in the past few months you've belonged to DCA, and then KupoNet, I've gotten a handle for your personality and player skill. You may not be a bad guy, but your actions do say things about you. No one can blame someone for being per say a player lacking "skill" as others see it - hell, everyone has their flaws. However, when you bring up a topic like this, those things come into question.

More than once we spoke via /t about things, and I've seen in dynamis on multiple occasions how you play WHM. I've never seen you as BRD so I can't discuss that. What I can say is that it did leave much to be desired. I can understand that picking up the small nuances of the job may be difficult - but in that case, you should accept criticisms as a good thing, as people trying to help you and make you, perhaps better at the said job. All I've seen is you going on and making excuses, getting defensive about what people are saying, even when they are saying it 100% respectfully.

From our encounters, I would say you need to improve your skills at your jobs, but more importantly, your people skills. When someone confronts you about something, don't jump on the defensive. The very same thing I'm talking about now is what lead to you being removed from KupoNet. You can't accept someone telling you that you're wrong or that you've broken the rules.

Just think about what I said.

This proves my theory...

A linkshell doesn't determine the quality of your character.
Your character determines the quality of linkshell.


Yeah I have no linkshell.

Matt you screwed me in the past before I really knew you, but I don't hate you. Still wouldn't want you in my LS after all that though :(

"Those of you who know me, should know me as a fairly decent WHM. I have never been told I suck at my job, no one on the server considers me a gimp"

Rodin, you are a sucky gimp. there you been told.

Reputations, like most things, can be repaired. it take two things to do it though.

1 - and honest and considered effort on the part of the person with the damaged reputation to repair it.

2 - A willingness of others to accept that people CAN change.

if either one is missing (and to be honest within this thread I'd say BOTH are missing) then it's a dead issue.