Just a bard telling a true story

[Troxx]

Originally Posted by Itap [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I understand the frustration OP, but it’s expected. Just because you show up doesn’t mean you’re going to get a particular item, especially one that is pretty rare. Loot council guilds usually have inner cliques and the officers will hook up their friends and their alts. Solution? Join a true dkp system and bid once you have attended enough raids and built up some points.

If he was in a proper DKP guild he wouldn't have had a chance as it was his first raid at 48. Whether an alt of a bard main (playing alt to participate) was present or otherwise, I would not allow a white scale to go to a level 48 bard who's first raid was the one Lady Vox that dropped a white scale.

I'd honestly guild bank it for an offline high level main bard who wasn't even online.

Guild leaders/officers should make reasonable decisions based on what is best for the guild. White scales are tradable, very valuable, incredibly ... INCREDIBLY useful when placed on a bard that has proven loyalty/longevity/attendance.

Giving it to a random level 48 nobody who's barely ever raided is a stupid decision to make from the standpoint of a guild leader/officer. I've just seen too many people bail on a guild prematurely for greener pastures after receiving the type of support that only veteran players deserve.

White scales that drop belong to the guild and the guild should place them on members that have not only earned them ... but on members that they expect will remain. If I were a guild leader who ran anything other than a raw DKP system, I'd make sure that scale went to the bard who was most likely to contribute the most in the long run (Ie a bard with long tenure and 50% attendance over a new bard with 95% attendance that joined a month ago). Even in a pure dkp guild, I'd not let the only bard in attendance take a white scale with low tenure/dkp over an offline bard with high tenure/dkp. That shit is tradable and deserves to go the the bard who you can most count on to not leave the lesser guild for a higher tier guild 3 months later.

TLDR? White scales are a special kind of rare/awesome/useful. Don't expect a guild to give you one without earning the trust of said guild and actually earning your keep.

[Troxx]

PS: an epic bard brings a lot of power to any guild that raids. Higher resists, more ac, better at all the critical things a bard NEEDS to do. An epic bard is a win for the whole guild along with the individual. More than any other epic it changes gameplay and power curve. Bard epic will forever be a BIS item 100% of the time. It adds an aspect and power to the class's gameplay that cannot be replaced or replicated in classic era.

White scales represents THE bottleneck now that undead bard exists. If no worthy bard is online, guild bank should get it until one is found (online or offline). The item being tradable also makes a guild more likely to get burned by someone not actually turning it into an epic for them-self. 300k+ is a pretty huge temptation for the level 48 bard who hasn't even decided if it's their main class long term. The 50s weed out most would-be bard mains.

The only other epic that comes close to being irreplaceable is the cleric epic - and even then the best geared clerics can bag their epic until they need a click. For other classes? Epic is replaced easily in velious with much better. In some cases (warrior) epic is obsolete compared to cheap tradable gear.

To the OP: your thread/complaint is laughable. You're 48 ... barely worthless participant for the raid in question. You barely raided before it dropped. With this thread, you effectively proved that the guild leaders were correct in NOT giving it to you. You were not and still are not worth keeping around.

Kudos on your immaturity.

~Peace

[Argh]

It is not confounding that rare epic pieces dropped at vox would be held for a post hoc bidding process, or that the winner of that item would not have been playing a 52 bard or lower at the raid.

[Lhancelot]

Originally Posted by Daldaen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

RIP the poor souls of casual P99ers as they discover the depths of neckbeardism some Epics take to acquire.

[d3r14k]

Originally Posted by Daldaen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

His soul was crushed. RIP Biggunsworth.

A picture of Biggunsworth in turtle form (super secret druid animorph spell):

[khanable]

Originally Posted by maskedmelon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

OR, play ffxiv instead. you can be a cat girl (super popular, but kinda meh to me tbh), a ninja (fu-king awesome in MY book (^。~)v, ride a wet chocoho, have a fairy as a pet, get married, gamble, raid on YOUR schedule, pvp, own and decorate a home, grind (if you really want to), craft, EMPLOY not crafters, have you own hairdresser, indulge in a fantastic story, master ALL classes, collect stuff, be rewarded for exploration anda lot more!

i miss it :c

^ do this

[skarlorn]

Originally Posted by Caiu [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Forgot to mention being a whoremaster and running a cat girl erotic RP brothel. Game owns.

Yooooo this sounds tight

[Teako]

Originally Posted by Caiu [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Forgot to mention being a whoremaster and running a cat girl erotic RP brothel. Game owns.

Can neither confirm nor deny that certain servers may literally have miqo brothels in Ul'Dah.

Shit is weird as all hell. you have been theoretically warned.

[hyejin]

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stares wistfully into log txt

[arsenalpow]

Me and Cucs are on that FF train. It’s pretty goog