A (not very) brief history

So, like many other players of the game flyff (Fly for Fun for those of you who don't know), I have been motivated to create a blog based on my flyff experiences by the recent Blog for Rewards event (can be found here). I've been thinking of creating a flyff blog for some time now, as I enjoyed creating a runescape blog, but I didn't really have any motivation until now (I had like 2 readers on my RS blog haha). But current events aside, I decided to start out with a little history of my flyffing experience.

I started out playing flyff in version 5-6, when I was introduced to it by some friends at school. I first created a character in the Lawolf server (motivated by it sounding cool), but then found out my friend had created a character in Aibatt, so I switched over. This being many years ago, the graphics were quite decent for an mmorpg. I, as a 13 year old gamer familiar only with runescape graphics, was quite impressed. I began playing quite a bit, and found it great fun to level with my friends, enjoying killing the many monsters in flyff as I chatted with them. By this time I was starting to get familiar with the game, and was quite proud of the fact that I learned by myself that I could save my skill points until 15 and therefore be able to save my skill reset, something that has enabled me since to not have to start over on my character.

I had learned from a brief period playing maplestory that builds in many mmorpgs were of primary importance, so I researched builds on the forums and began to level my character up as a semi-high dex blade (66 dex, 35 sta, xx str build). I enjoyed it, but then my friends began to quit, and I left the game with them for a while. This was around april, 2007 (judging by my forum posts).

I got back into the game a few months later, and this time I began to grind my way solo to 60. Around level 40 I finally began to learn the amazing benefits of partners and advanced parties, which enabled me to speed my leveling process. I began to enjoy the game again, but sadly didn't play enough to keep up with the friends I made, having to constantly make new ones as the assists and other people I had helped to level far surpassed me in a rapid amount of time. However, I kept grinding, and slowly worked my way to my ultimate goal of level 60. Finally reaching it, I quickly did my job quest (with many epic pictures that are now lost on a crashed computer) and gained my goal, dual weapons! The last few levels had been torture for me however, leveling mostly without any companionship had made them incredibly slow, so after killing a few cranes I quit the game for a very long time. (Quit around January 2008)

Two and a half years later, June of 2010, I decided to see how flyff was doing. My clan on Runescape (which I still enjoy playing occasionally) was starting to fall apart, and I was losing interest in playing many of the games I have recently played. Knowing that I usually rotated through many games in my gamer life, flyff entered my mind and I began to get my best friend interested in it again. This time I had a plan to forever abolish the days of shouting for a partner, I decided to make an FS assist so I could run it on my laptop while running my main character on my desktop. My friend was only around level 30, so I quickly (with the advantage of the new buff pang) leveled my assist to 15 and got my friend to powerlevel me. With the advantage of some other friends and a ventrilo channel to keep in touch, we decided, with another friend, to keep playing the game and make a guild in the game. This turned out to be a successful plan, as eventually all of our characters leveled to 60, and I began playing on my blade again, power-leveling my assist as I trained.

This pretty much brings us to the present, where I have a level 70 blade (Zarain) and a level 60 FS RM (Jashiatar) in the aibatt server, where I enjoy occasionally leveling them. So ends the *cough* brief *cough* history of my flyffing experience, and hopefully the next blog post will be a bit less boring (come to think of it I  probably should have just put this in my profile). Anyhow, happy flyffing :)