Chimeera
I left the guild when chimeera left. she was my only friend. When every1 hated me, she alone defended me. Only she knew what I did behind the scenes.on the inside, I gave thousands of gold to new players, geared alot of new players for free.leeched hundreds of players. She left as she said that every1 she knew was leaving. both the game and to the empire for some.
On the outside I was cold icy person who would even kill a raid of his own guildmates for the tiny reason that there wasnt space for me at MI. I really did kill a raid of mercenaries and ascendancy at the same time.
was total chaos with 2 raids focus firing on you at the same time. Caster healers at that time were gods, especially one with lvl 9 runes with a pure endurance build.
As patches and nerfs came, i gradually weakened, till even i was no longer able to handle a single warrior as people and gear caught up.
So I spent the next 7 months alone with her in Svardsorden which was now empty. We watched SAO episodes together, spent time cliimbing every place and beautiful spot in Sarnaut, love grffin bug back then.
We spent alot of days together doing absolutely nothing.
She stopped logging in after 5 months. so that 3rd week of november I found myself alone and waited.
I didnt watch another episode of SAO.
WhiteSatin
When i left mercenaries was already in turmoil, so many new faces and few old ones.
Whitesatin was originally my recruit who i forced dee to get into the guild.
he had crappy equips and talked big. but i saw that despite this he really had the skills as a player after just one run with him.
he got in within the week.
I was the one who forced him to become the next new Mercenary guild leader. He loved the guid and was the most active.
Svardsorden part 2
chimeera was gone for 3 months, i was alone all that time. grinding, lvling. I would not leave no matter what.
I was offered 5k gpots to go to ascendancy with a free ticket.
I found Bitty one day without a guild. He had sent me a computer a year over. and asked if he can join the guild, he got tired of mercenaries. i cudnt say no so he came into the guld. it started like trickle.
3 months later I had 120+ members mostly newbies and sent to them other guilds as soon they were ready.
we fed the major guilds in league at that time with members like valiance emi mercs warsong
this was successful to a small degree as it filled in the spaces in guilds that had ppl that moved to empire.
I did this for 6 months, me and bitty usually soloing or doing most the work rather to down DC bosses.
Bitty
Bitty stayed because of me but i realized it was taking its toll on him as well. Repeated I did try to convince him to try a new guild. I decided to focus a bit more on real life and let the guild dwindle down not accepting new ppl and waiting for people to graduate the training guild I made. I then stopped one day and told every1 to leave. it was 300 days since chimeera since logged in and i lost heart at ever seeing her again. spending countless days at the last place she logged out. that small island in lukemorie.
I have to thank bitty for.
Keeping me company, helping me help the newbies.
Chimeera Part 2
I was always mean to old players but I took care of new league players very well. Something only chimeera ever saw first hand. I met her first time when I was ganking empire at asee, she was still in sky pirates. I gave her little notice, even when she first entered mercenaries.
I offered my services to her for boss loots, I usually killed all 5 bosses at catacombs solo. she got lost to the point I had to log in her account and let her log in mine.
I dont know how I started to trust her but I let her log in my account more often to solo heroics and such. that was when we were lvl 42. I was also the first person ever to solo allods up to a3. took me 4 hours to solo the heroic allod lab13.
In this game I met alot of friends. Cats have long memories.
there is simply too much to tell, and would probably fill several books in the 4 years i really played the game.
About me.
I am NA's first caster healer.
I was a follower/student of Deity, one of the earlier players who ganked alot. I inherited that I guess from him as well as the healer lessons.
I am the first in NA to solo every heroic, and 90% of all the red rings, and bosses on the server before DC/lvl 52.
I was also the server's best cheaters and scoundrels. But I never lie, i was extremely honest when it came to business.
My main account has been banned a total of 7 times, but never for extremely bad issues like RMT.
(was a member of the first party ban for example. 5 of us got banned of a party of 6, Tamelcoe got saved cuz he got stuck in purgatory, we got caught cuz we were waiting for him to respawn, lucky bastard. We were repeating the heroic several times in a day, u can only do it once a day. GM Haz gave us hell that week.)
I also know 80& of all the bugs that were exploited in the game, including the one were u were mentioning that some mercs got banned.
Dotndrop, a former svard, apparently we were the best cheaters in the game. he never shared the cheat and all us 5 other svards had to find out the hard way and only had 2 weeks to exploit it before he let himself get caught. He never taught us how we had to find it out with clues. It was a duplication bug where in we duplicated loots onboard an astral ship. 1-2k gold an hour. I used another account to do this mind you. He got caught cuz he sold the duplicated Cannons to frozen rose for 25k gold total and she complained when she learned about it. Alot of people got banned and he took full responsibility. Only his account was cleared of all its items and the rest were unbanned.
and little things too
Piopico example also banned me for exploiting the horse bug. Lets say I ganked every empire player on the holy lands 3 maps.
When an empire party came to save them, i ganked them too. Same thing when i got banned for killing 20k newbies in the culverts,
I ganked every party that came to help/save them while tanking all the NPC mobs that auto healed me.
Special mention to Slobodan who I've fought on almsot literally every map of Sarnaut.
and to every mercenary and player i've ever met.
@ topic starter dug,
I first met him as a noob in isle of revelation. I doubt he even remembers the convo about dark dwarves.
speaking of isle of rev, I remember my bet with Vicelich which I won, soloed that silly 47 red ring before the patch hit. I was 45.
Cats remember alot.
too much to tell really. so many stories to tell, so many silly and great humans.
posting only allows me 10k characters per post, hence 2 posts.