[PotN] open recruitment

Prowlers or the Night [PotN], a Rank 5 Free Company here on Behemoth, is actively seeking dps to fill out Static Groups as we prepare for Coil. We're a social raiding Free Company that uses Ventrilo for communication, have our own website (two actually, but we're slowly migrating our info to the new one over at guildworks.com), our own Youtube channel and soon to have a dedicated TwitchTV channel.

We are also interested in merging with other small FCs out there that want to bring their whole circle of friends. This game is about having fun, and that's our first and foremost priority. You get as much out of the Free Company as you put into it, so if you're an active, social player with your eyes on endgame content, PvP or just hanging out with some pretty cool people, feel free to contact one of us in-game.

Being a casual Free Company, we accept anyone as a social member, but if you're joining specifically for raiding, there is a short interview process to make sure we're the right fit for each other. We maintain an 18+ atmosphere, and are very active and helpful as we believe in organic growth from within rather than just targeting experienced level 50s in-game. We usually maintain a solid 10+ players online throughout the day and night.

So if you're tired of feeling like just a number in an overly populated Free Company or are tired of waiting around for your small group to get anything organized, look no further.

Officers online to contact are:
Marcus Valerius
Kyamborl Mushri
Jazira Kanpa

Update: We're forming our first Static Coil Group and are desperately in need of dps! Even if you're not fully geared, we're constantly running AK and WP with our tanks and healers so you no longer have to wait for a queue! Not max level? Not a problem! We're actively helping all our lower level players reach their full potential with dungeon and FATE grinds!

People should join PotN! Good luck Marcus =D

Thanks Jack! We gotta get formed up so we can give you guys over in DH some competition, lol!

Pretty much closed on Dragoons atm, so next up are Bards, Black Mages, and Summoners.

What are your raid times?

This FC has your typical terrible management and overly complex system they try to implement into a mere video game. I happen to be a dedicated and hardcore/casual guild leader in other games due to prior experience, so I understand the whole interview and recruitment process. However, this FC excluded both of these factors out and failed to even construct a simple gaming community. It is to an extent for which I will list the following events that occurred:

1. As a DRG, I joined because I thought I'd be able to do a few AK/WP runs, and if they're friendly I would be willing to participate in more activities (Events, Fates, Coil), hell make some chatty buddies.
2. They require an "interview" for raiding, and they prolonged it for 2 weeks due to the FC leader not being on or AFK, and he even abruptly interrupted the interview to play with his buddies. Spent about 2-3 hours on this interview and there was more.
3. Their activity is about 5-10 people on most at a day, which about 8 or so are always AFK (Basically, the FC is dead)
4. FC has your typical inner circle, excluding others out and maintaining only a group of friends.
5. The FC leader literally dictates his own dogma that the game itself is a job. LOL.
6. The interview was never finished because I had waited 2 weeks and was pretty aggravated that all members were offline and nobody wanted to do anything (I had to shout and personally tell people if they wanted to fate grind or craft together or simply do some dungeon runs, but nobody responded because they were either AFK or offline)
7. I had been patient for 2 weeks just so I could find a simple FC to play with in dungeons. I put in my time and effort by trying to help other members and even willing to download their voice chat program. After all this, the FC leader says I am impatient. You call waiting 2 weeks just to play the game with a guild impatient? Most people would leave within a day if they couldn't even find someone to talk to.

I can list numerous remarks about this FC, but for those who are interested as first timers, I have to suggest look for other options. This FC is simply a failure.
When in doubt if the above doesn't suffice, hell, look at the name of the FC itself. Explains a lot for a bunch of self-entitled kids.

Against my better judgment, I'm going to reply to this post once. After this reply, any further immature rants will simply be like water off a duck's back. I've wished you luck in your endeavors to find a home, and I truly hope you find success in the future.

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Originally Posted by Zaranghae

1. As a DRG, I joined because I thought I'd be able to do a few AK/WP runs, and if they're friendly I would be willing to participate in more activities (Events, Fates, Coil), hell make some chatty buddies.

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After 6 days of being unresponsive to call outs in FC Chat for our daily WP/AK runs, you didn't get in any. This may have led you to assume that you were being ignored. I'd venture to guess that the three tank/healer combos that run these must have all been out to get you. During my times online after work, I sent you many /tells, but you were either already in runs yourself or simply /afk in Ul'dah.

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Originally Posted by Zaranghae

2. They require an "interview" for raiding, and they prolonged it for 2 weeks due to the FC leader not being on or AFK, and he even abruptly interrupted the interview to play with his buddies. Spent about 2-3 hours on this interview and there was more.

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The interview process is usually done over Ventrilo, but since you said you were uncomfortable speaking over voice chats, I was forced to conduct the interview via our recruitment linkshell. The run I had to leave for was scheduled several days in advance for our first shot into Coil. If you hadn't taken anywhere from 5-10 minutes per question through the first few sections of the interview, it would have been done before my scheduled raid time.

Continued from above (silly SE limiting posts to 1000 characters or less...)
In hindsight, I guess I could have held up the raid to finish our interview, but I'm not selfish enough to think that my time is more important than the other seven people's time. As for 'prolonging the interview for 2 weeks,' according to our website you joined the FC on 11-24-13. You were Discharged a mere six days later on 11-30-13. We keep very detailed records of when people are invited, under what circumstances, and by whom.

Also, I mentioned above that I attempted to contact you several times over the next 6 days, only finally getting through after I posted in FC Chat, a /tell, and the recruitment linkshell. When I finally did track you down, you immediately demanded (not asked) to be placed in a T1-T5 Coil group. Along with some of the other red flags from the part of the interview you did complete, this was deemed by the officers present in the linkshell to be more of a hassle than it was worth, as you wouldn't really fit in with the general attitude of the FC. I wished you luck, and summarily Discharged you to find a more suitable group.

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Originally Posted by Zaranghae

3. Their activity is about 5-10 people on most at a day, which about 8 or so are always AFK (Basically, the FC is dead)

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We do have 8-10 people on almost all day with members doing various activities such as WP/AK runs, crafting, gathering, or grinding FATEs. Sometimes this causes FC Chat to get pretty quiet. Some of this has to do with our utilization of Ventrilo.

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Originally Posted by Zaranghae

4. FC has your typical inner circle, excluding others out and maintaining only a group of friends.

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We have a saying here: "You get out of as much as you put in to the FC." Since I never saw you type anything in FC Chat aside from replying to the multitude of 'welcomes' when you first joined and never saw you in our Ventrilo server, I can safely say your effort equaled your worth to us.

If by 'inner circle' you're referring to those members that have taken the time to utilize our website and Facebook pages, have been active members in FC Chat and Ventrilo, and have actually taken the time to build up rapport with other members, then no, you definitely weren't in the 'inner circle.' We just call those people members.

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Originally Posted by Zaranghae

5. The FC leader literally dictates his own dogma that the game itself is a job. LOL.

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Running a Free Company is a job. It's a job I enjoy, but it takes work to make everything run smoothly. There's a dichotomy when it comes to FC members. On one hand, the members are our customers because we provide a service that makes them stay. On the other hand, members are employees, where certain things are expected of them. I understand you're still young and made several unsubstantiated claims regarding your progress in other games, so you may do things differently. However, there is a slight difference between progression runs in FFXIV and playing Hello Kitty Adventures.

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Originally Posted by Zaranghae

6. The interview was never finished because I had waited 2 weeks and was pretty aggravated that all members were offline and nobody wanted to do anything (I had to shout and personally tell people if they wanted to fate grind or craft together or simply do some dungeon runs, but nobody responded because they were either AFK or offline)

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I'll reiterate what I posted above: The interview was never finished due to the demands made by you at the start of the follow-up session. Going from 'I just want to do AK/WP runs' to 'you're going to put me into a T1-T5 Static Group' made me realize that that finishing the interview would be pointless. I was online each of the SIX days you were in the Free Company. I'm still confused about your '2 week' timeline, but maybe that's some newfangled 'metric time' or something.

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Originally Posted by Zaranghae

7. I had been patient for 2 weeks just so I could find a simple FC to play with in dungeons. I put in my time and effort by trying to help other members and even willing to download their voice chat program. After all this, the FC leader says I am impatient. You call waiting 2 weeks just to play the game with a guild impatient? Most people would leave within a day if they couldn't even find someone to talk to.

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Simply name any person you helped in the FC and what you helped them with. That way I can at least verify if anything you're writing consists of more than half-truths and emotional responses best left in Middle School.

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Originally Posted by Zaranghae

I can list numerous remarks about this FC, but for those who are interested as first timers, I have to suggest look for other options. This FC is simply a failure.
When in doubt if the above doesn't suffice, hell, look at the name of the FC itself. Explains a lot for a bunch of self-entitled kids.

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Please, continue to list them all, because every time you post some flame on this post, you put us right at the top of the forums for everyone to see. It's the easiest advertising I've ever had to witness.

On a parting note, though, I do like your 'self-entitled kids' comment. I became a supervisor for the first time at work when you were 5 years old. Your emotional maturity places you somewhere in the 'tween years of Middle School 'mean girls.'

Digest, respond, do whatever. Our conversation is over.

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Originally Posted by Vivikun

What are your raid times?

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Currently we are building our first Coil group to run anywhere from 10am-1pm EST or possibly 12-3pm EST. We break down the FC into individual raiding clans so if these times don't jive with your schedule, chances are we're already working on a group that might. For simplicity, we've split the day up in 6-hour increments, so we have 4 designated raid groups (although I won't lie to you, we're still filling the first one completely, then working on the others as more people hit 50 or we pursue targeted recruitment for those groups). And please don't assume we're going to raid for 6 hours a day. I believe I would die a painful death if I had to go through that.

I'll list the general raid times below so you can get a better idea what we're planning in the long term.

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What are your raid times?

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For a general outline of what we're planning for the long term, here is a list of the groups and their back-up groups and their scheduled time slots:
Clan War
Harbinger: OPEN
Recruitment: OPEN
Raid Days: OPEN
CONTENTION (Back-up group)
TIMES:
4am-10am EST
3am-9am CST
2am-8am MST
1am-7am PST

Clan Famine
Harbinger: Tommy Smith
Recruitment: OPEN
Raid Days: OPEN
PRIVATION (Back-up group)
TIMES:
10am-4pm EST
9am-3am CST
8am-2pm MST
7am-1pm PST

Clan Pestilence
Harbinger: Marcus Valerius
Recruitment: OPEN
Raid Days: OPEN
CONTAGION (Back-up group)
TIMES:
4pm-10pm EST
3pm-9pm CST
2pm-8pm MST
1pm-7pm PST

Clan Death
Harbinger: OPEN
Recruitment: OPEN
Raid Days: OPEN
TERMINATION (Back-up group)
TIMES:
10pm-4am EST
9pm-3am CST
8pm-2am MST
7pm-1am PST

We've opened up recruitment more for the casual side of things and have now switched up our buffs to help accommodate everyone!

Monday: Earth and Water (+5% exp for gathering)
Tuesday: Helping Hand (+5% exp for crafting)
Wednesday: Earth and Water (+5% exp for gathering)
Thursday: Helping Hand (+5% exp for crafting)
Friday: The Heat of Battle (+5% exp for combat)
Saturday: The Heat of Battle (+5% exp for combat)
Sunday: The Heat of Battle (+5% exp for combat)

On raid days, we'll be utilizing the Proper Care buff (slows gear wear by 10%).

Any other questions, feel free to message me in-game!

We've adapted to the difficulties of open recruitment into the Free Company by creating a linkshell designed to help everyone get up to speed and get us into CT, Coil and HM/EM Primals. We understand that without the amenities offered by some of the larger FCs out there (such as housing and an increased player pool) and the casual-friendly atmosphere offered by much smaller, tighter-knit FCs are all important to each individual's play style. Our linkshell (Fallout: New Chocobo) is open to active, friendly players who want to work towards a goal without giving up their individual (or Company) identity. Feel free to /tell for an invite!

Bump for posterity. Linkshell is nearly full with multiple Coil groups. [PotN] is now actively seeking to fill the last few spots for it's very own Static, tentatively to be run in the later afternoon/evening hours. Still hashing out the days/times, but we have a solid mix of experience/gear.

Another shameless bump. We now have our application process set up and is located here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GFq...-Yu30/viewform

Once the application is complete, you will be contacted in-game by an officer. Thanks for checking us out!

<PotN> is still recruiting and would love to have you all join via the link above or through the in-game application process. You'll be seeing more /shout spam (sorry in advance, I know those are annoying) in the near future, so if you'd like more information, please send a /tell!

Any chance I could get a LS invite still? I intend to go through the application later tonight at work.

Nearly 200 members and growing! Last week we were ranked 12th in total activity, which is saying a lot considering the size we were and the Free Companies that are at the top! This means you're going to be joining a drama-free ACTIVE Free Company with very defined goals and a strong organization!

<PotN> is still growing steadily and needs you! Two Static Coil groups with room for more, plus learning groups starting up on the weekends!

Need your relic? Full relic carries via our linkshell, Fallout: New Chocobo!

Want a casual environment that promotes from within? Look no further!

Also in the market for merging with small to mid-sized FCs that are looking for a sense of direction and organization!

EDIT: We recently changed our linkshell name to Grand Theft: Fallout, or GTFO for short. Still doing full relic carries, and will be in the market for giving out free EX Primal runs tentatively within a couple weeks. Yes, FREE.

<PotN> is still recruiting and is currently ranked #5 on the server for activity (having recently displacing <Focus> and nipping at the heels of the Behemoth Ravens <BR> and the super-sized FCs (SCorp, BLKJK, and PV). With the help of motivated, active players, we can reach even higher on a weekly basis. Two Static Coil groups with many a PuG set up by us in Party Finder on a daily basis.

For raiding, we use (and require Ventrilo), and would strongly suggest joining our Facebook page and/or website for out-of-game communication and discussion. If you have questions, feel free to contact the following people, referring to this post as your source:

Marcus Valerius
Fobnel Starlite
Keyalin Evernight
Luka Vahlens
Morphies Nightshaper
Eirik Aozaki
Tyraeus Ashaia

<PotN> now has two raid groups farming T5 and will be in the market soon to start another. Ideally we'd like to build from within, and fill in any weak spots on the roster with like-minded individuals. Raid days and times are relatively open, as long as they don't interfere with our current groups' schedules (it's a bad feel when someone gets locked out when another group is relying on them to be there). We're still in the planning stages of our third group, so if you'd like to get in on the ground level, now is a great opportunity to do so.