Low Mannin'

Well, as the name suggests, the Dynamis shell lately has been pretty... well yeah. I think the past 3 weeks or so have averaged us 1 DD party, with 4-5 Black Mages total. Luckily we've been alright low manning typical zones, we've done well with Xarcabard, too. That's not what bothers me about it.

Since we redid our dynamis linkshell, we've never quite had the numbers for DL. I know that disappoints a few PLDs, and I hate not being able to offer them Shadow equip. This is also throwing a wrench into our relic completion as well. I'm not sure we could dish enough damage / have enough 2hr's to keep the animated weapons busy for long enough. Not to mention that one pull up the hill towards the Animated Tachi, that's really a pain. We're going to have to sack it several times, as we found out last run.

What's more, this is our first relic with this new shell under the system of using the main shell's bank to aid. (Well, technically not. We completed our 2nd relic when the ex-Leader of the main shell gave us his extra currency, and we used it to finish another member's Aegis.)

So suppose the shell runs out of steam and we can't recruit enough to keep numbers doable. (On Unicorn its terrible the number of Dynamis shells. Monday and Thursday are booked solid and one group is almost always blocked by a random shell.) I don't like the idea of completing only ONE relic with this shell, and I dislike it more because its, you know, mine. Means if the linkshell goes down, oh man, Kaddy is never going to hear the end of it.

So now I'm looking for strategies on low manning, because I really don't want to have to go out-of-house to have another shell merc it, and pay upwards of 2-5m (Whatever is apparently 'worth' it these days). I guess I could always save up money to have some mercs done, for mine and for relics afterward. Seems like such a waste. I may ask one of the other shells for a team up run perhaps, set up the relic splits, let them keep coins in exchange for coming or something. Sigh. More to come later this week. Probably gunna try to post more often, and shorter posts.