Don't like DF?

[Artamie]

I was talking about this with a friend of mine last night. A so-called 'Flower Sniffing' Linkshell (to use the terminology from another game. You know...stop and smell the roses?); a linkshell of people who are actively -not- speedrunners, are willing and able to help new players, and are generally patient and knowledgeable...plus the aforementioned new players who'd like to be one of these people.

I'm not very good at running social things, though, and my bad luck would probably infest the whole LS if I tried to run it. But if anyone on Siren is up for it...I'd be happy to help out, at least with the lowerlevel folks. I level far too slowly to be of any use to upper levels yet, though.

With the way they artificially slow down player progress at the moment it definitely works well and really prolongs the enjoyment of the game too. Rather than running dungeons all day, helping others nets you comrades and occasionally you stumble across things you never noticed during your 1st playthrough. It's sharing these moments with those friends that a mundane mmo experience turns magical. That's how I made it out of 1.0 at least when people called you crazy for playing a "failed game"!

But one advice I have on this is to clearly define limits of how far you'll go in aiding your newbie shell. You don't want to tire yourself out when everyone graduates and wants a piece of Ifrit or a Garlean Legatus!

Ha, kangaroos and kiwis..yeah that would have been us ^^;

This is one of my fondest memories from 1.0 thanks to you guys!: