Vonsmiten

Welcome Xev, I'm quite new as well, but never the less glad to have you checking out the team!

Do you remember having the canni dance on shamans? Those where the days.... When it took 15 mins to go from OOM to full

Oh man, I haven't thought about in years. Shamans had the strongest glutes in EQ. Canni Dance buns of steel.

Video or its not true!

Haha the company owns the copy rights to the videos.Besides it all being on VHS >.> . I'll try to get some pictures up under my profile once I figure out the forums a little better.

Can we convince you to reinstate your dancing career?!

I've recently decided SoH needs a dance crew and you could come in handy! Did you train in any other styles? Of course I have to ask the obvious ballet question -- were you ever in a production of the Nutcracker?

If you ever fire up WoW again there are drunken BGs that happen.

What is creepier - a lalalalalalalafell or a telescopic chainsaw?

I was in pretty much every well known ballet at one point or another. Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Firebird,Giselle and the Nutcracker. Nutcracker was our big money maker so I did 16-20 shows of that every year. For 12 years, Waltz of the Flowers still makes me startle to this day, because I had to go on after it for so long haha.

As far as reinstating the dance career. The trouble with ballet dancers is our training is so strict that we tend to suck at every other type of dance. Not always true, but definitely true in my case.

I don't think I can face the disarray of my garrisons, but I will certainly be taking a peak at Legion.

Clearly a lalafell with a telescopic chainsaw.

I still maintain that EQ was the greatest MMO of all time. Nothing was as epic as those Vox, and Naggy raids.

What class did you play in EQ?

What was your favorite EQ Xpac?

I played a Barb Warrior and a shaman. The shaman probably saw more use. I was to young to be trusted tanking haha.

Luclin was probably my favorite expansion that I played.

(On my phone forgive typos please!)

Read and Signed. See you all in game

 

-Von

Oh, I like you already! I prefer to roast mine over a fire with a nice BBQ sauce. Get 'em nice and crispy!

It's so important to get that nice crisp caramelized exterior.

Welcome to the forums!

 

Another FFXI vet

 

What did you play?

 

How much end-game involvement did you have?

 

I look forward to meeting you and chatting in mumble.

I played a WHM, RDM/NIN and SMN/WHM mostly in FFXi, I did the majority of my end game on the WHM though. i stopped before they added in the SCH, although I did my service as a Refresh bot too. You can probably guess which one I got to play the most haha. 

 

I did most of Sky thats the one I really remember anyway. There were too LSes on Carbuncle that did a lot of raiding. Skybreaker and IRON, I had good friends in both. One of whom I am still in contact with to this day, he actually doesn't live that far from me. Small world

I thought this was a really nice way to put it.  You may also be the guild's first (ex) professional ballet dancer?

 

I don't play FF14, but welcome.

Thanks for the welcome Ashin. I am very much ex as far as the ballet thing goes. My last performance was in 2012

Welcome to the forums Von! 

 

I only have one question at the moment. Do you like Lalafells?

They aren't bad with the right sauce. Always give me gas though.

Good afternoon SoH community. My name is Veurr Vonsmiten, everyone calls me Von or Vonsmiten though and you can too. I will be trialing with Team Sapphire in FF14 over the next few weeks as meat shield du jour. I'm never sure how much detail to go into with this sort of thing. I'll try to be brief-ish, keep the mystery alive.

 

 

A bit about me personally, I work as a finance/data entry/wood gathering peon, for my states department of education. I am 27 years old  and have a lovely girlfriend who occasionally plays with me, She has just started to dip her toes into our worlds though. Other interesting notes, I was a semi-professional ballet dancer with a regional ballet company here in VA for about 12 years, starting when I was 12. I stopped a few years ago when the company changed directions. Lately I've been too busy with work to focus on a lot of hobbies other than gaming. But very recently I have made some inquiries into participating in the heavy events division of the Mid-Atlantic Highland Games. 

 

That's the real life stuff, but as the Brad Paisley song goes I am so much cooler online. I've been a hardcore and semi-hardcore MMO player for around 17 years. I started out playing EQ on a desktop computer my grandmother bought me from Walmart in like 1999, or early 2000. I have pretty much played every major MMO title for the last decade and a half. UO, Runescape, Shadowbane and EQ of course up to about the Planes of Power expansion. I was young in those early days and I would guess truly awful. In the end I was basically the kid mascot of guild called Draconis Mortis, that started out in EQ on Mithaniel Marr. 

 

Fast forward a few years to the launch of FF11 and that was the first game where I did end game as a real raid member. I played XI through Chains of Promathia on Carbuncle. About that time WoW released and I started playing that. It's been one of my favorite mmos just like everyone else I suppose. But I truly got into the top end raiding thing there, finishing Vanilla, BC and Wrath in top 150 US guilds. 

I've been playing FF14 consistently since the 2.0 launch with a brief break a few weeks ago. I look forward to seeing what comes next and i hope to share much of those new experiences with SoH. 

 

So there we go, a brief auto-biography of Veurr Vonsmiten! I know the question brigade will be in here shortly, I've seen you guys joking about them in the other posts. I look forward to getting to know you all. 

 

-Von