Rare Ex - Balmung Mercenary Service

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Rare Ex wants to provide you with a cheap and professional alternative to pick up groups for Primals and other content in game.

All runs will be one-shots and two buyers will be taken through at a time. Prices vary depending on the content requested and are negotiable. We will consider any content request but we're most commonly asked to run Titan for buyers.

If you want to buy a run from us we usually start around 8PM EST every day. You can contact these people for more information including prices.

- Kam Nindar
- Type Mars
- Galena Brynhildr
- Alexandrious Dragorath
- Judeau Highwind

Feel free to post feedback for our service in this thread.

We're pretty much done with coils this week so feel free to contact us in-game! Any member can refer you to someone that can assist you appropriately for any mercenary services that you may need! We basically have nothing else to do for the rest of the week^^; You're more than welcome to utilize us!

A guy by the name of Straegis with your guild tag on his name got into a premade Titan HM run with me. He proceeded to stand in Landslide, generally derp around, and thanks to his constant dying, we wiped multiple times before people started giving up. Immediately after, I find him skipping around Ul'dah, advertising for paid "guarantee" Titan HM kills.

You people might think this is cute or clever, screwing up other people's runs just so they get frustrated enough to buy your help, but it's disgraceful. Your group and people who employ such distasteful tactics are a shame on gaming communities everywhere.

Sell your runs if you want, that's your business. But stop the sabotage. Save that childish shit for Warcraft.

Nice strawman, please provide proof? We have done nothing of the kind as far as sabotage. We do have some EU players who do things on their own time, but not only do we not have a member named "Straegis", we don't have an EU player with a name even close to that. And we don't condone any type of MPK or run-sabotage in the game at all.

We provide nothing but professional runs, with zero hassle. Take your trashposting and slander somewhere else please.

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Originally Posted by Offiziere_Galena

We do have some EU players who do things on their own time, but not only do we not have a member named "Straegis", we don't have an EU player with a name even close to that.

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http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...racter/699492/

Probably that guy. He looks low on the totem pole in terms of you guys' FC ranking though.

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Originally Posted by Offiziere_Galena

Nice strawman, please provide proof? We have done nothing of the kind as far as sabotage. We do have some EU players who do things on their own time, but not only do we not have a member named "Straegis", we don't have an EU player with a name even close to that. And we don't condone any type of MPK or run-sabotage in the game at all.

We provide nothing but professional runs, with zero hassle. Take your trashposting and slander somewhere else please.

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You kind of lost credibility when you tried to deny that person exists in your FC despite your roster being public information.

Even richer:

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Originally Posted by Ryuuji

Congrats to Straigus Reyist on the Allagan Baghnakhs, the latest addition to our weapon collection!

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So beyond just being a member in your FC, he's in your primary turn 5 group yet you still deny he exists. But it gets better, here's a video your FC posted of you playing with him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o1CXqKyf64

So instead of saying, "I know Straigus and he would never do anything like that he has impeccable ethics," you say, "teehee I don't know any 'Straegis', and there aren't any EU players with similar names either teehee." Poorly played.

Edit: I by no means mean to join in any claims against Straigus, and I apologize to him if it sounded like I was. I have no reason to question his character, only that of the person I am responding to.

If you really think about it, it doesn't make much sense to go out and sabotage runs then turn around and advertise for guaranteed runs. Destroys the reputation we have worked hard to establish and that would just be stupid!

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Originally Posted by Maenne

If you really think about it, it doesn't make much sense to go out and sabotage runs then turn around and advertise for guaranteed runs. Destroys the reputation we have worked hard to establish and that would just be stupid!

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I might have been willing to believe that the allegation was false or overblown or that the person making the allegation had malicious intent, but we can all now see the way your leadership behaves in the way Galena responded to the allegation. The damage is done. Denying the allegation at this point is a pointless exercise in damage control.

This disheartens me to see these responses. I am going to speak for myself and my experience with knowing and regularly raiding with Straigus Reyist. It definitely is not in his character to do such a thing. This is no way an attempt to save face, but i cannot just sit back and read this and see his reputation be thrown out and stepped on like this with such an allegation. It must have been some sort of misunderstanding. I would like more details on what the criteria is on accusing him. We're very serious about providing the best mercenary service to the point that if the current merc team isn't up to scratch for the day, the officers intervene and end the runs. We only want to provide the best service for our clientele and nothing less. Straigus along with everyone else in this FC understands the importance of integrity.

I apologize for any issues that have arisen, but I assure you that there was no true intent of sabotage. I put my own reputation as a service provider myself in Balmung's crafting community behind this. I understand the full importance of earning trust and upholding one's integrity being a Registered Nurse in RL. I would not back Straigus if his actions were truly sour.

Open communication and civil discussion could easily solve this problem. Hopefully we can get past pointing fingers ^_^;

<3 Ryuu-tan

Even if those are false accusacions, the was you handle them is very poor.

I'm the "bad cop" love. Shortly after this Straigus and Ryuuji were being sent love tells by a certain someone, and receiving praise. I'm very happy to take the hate and attention away from people who don't deserve it and put it onto a jerk such as myself.

Either way, I don't tolerate my close friends being slandered. And it's also very cute that Dread is still following us/our progress. <3 Miss you!

Straigus Reyist

"E" is fairly far from "I", but I will give "I" and "U" to you. Also lacks a last name, screenshots, etc. Or anything, you know, that would provide some type of proof? And if I handled it so poorly, why is Straig's name cleared, the troll who made the accusation not responded, and the attention entirely away from the false accusation?

Sure handled that poorly.

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Originally Posted by Offiziere_Galena

Either way, I don't tolerate my close friends being slandered. And it's also very cute that Dread is still following us/our progress. <3 Miss you!

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I'm Myrhn, bet you had never heard of me like i never have heard of you, I just saw this and comment my point of view. What my FC have to do with this?

Straigus messaged me in game and he seems like a genuinely decent person. I'm more than willing to believe that whatever happened regarding him was overblown or entirely mistaken, and Ryuuji's response here is exactly what needed to be said. I don't think anything more needs to be said about Galena, he digs his own hole.

http://www.loveknysna.com/wp-content...ing-a-hole.jpg

Brb.

I've got better things to do that 'troll' a guild.

However, my first response was to draw the guild leaders' attention to a possible problem in their guild. Seeing how it's addressed, now leads me to believe the issue is known and -encouraged- within the guild.

No, I don't have screenshots. Do you take screenshots of people in every failed run you've ever been stuck in? Didn't think so. I didn't realize this guy was gonna be a problem until the runs were over, and I found him later in Ul'dah, selling 'guaranteed' wins.

What's happening, whether condoned by this guild or not, is not right and it's not fair to players who are trying to work their way through end-game material.

So I misspelled his name? He hacked my Titan HM run. Are you honestly going to defend him and people like him playing by unethical tactics?

I actually had the displeasure of running with him twice then. The first time I didn't think much about it. Failed Titans runs happen all the time. It wasn't until the second time when a Safire Saf said they had a highly geared monk that could help. I thought the name sounded familiar but it had been over a week at least and have tried many Titans between that time.

I'll start using fraps more often. But it was easily evident that Straigus Reyist was ignoring the Gaols. I know this because one time he did attack and it did melt. One time out of I don't know how many. He also liked to hang around the tank in the front trying to draw the land slide on them. That's the only reason I think for a Monk to ever be in the face of Titan. The group didn't have what it took. Shortly, after that I was hanging around RT and heard him calling out selling runs. And found out they were both part of the same guild.

Not encouraged, it simply does not happen Dunlyn. But yes we do sell guaranteed runs, and members in their offtime do runs without the FC or with a member or two to help out. It's all positive public relations, they help out and play to their fullest. I can guarantee you that you saw a tag from a FC that sells relic progression (a practice that is a mixed bag, both frowned upon and looked on as positive), and decided to pin the failed run on him.

And Clouse, the proper way to do Titan is to attempt to bait the landslide during post-heart either to the side or the side-front of the rest of the group. Check out any of our Titan videos on YouTube and you'll see that is a common practice for us, and for many other FCs.

Instead of outright lying and blaming someone for a failed run, why not talk to them about it? Instead of making a failed attempt at publicly stamping your feet on the playground?

You should probably take Offiziere_Galena off your marketing team.

PS: I've never ran anything with any Rare/RareEx/R:EX or any of the countless groups with that name on Balmung.

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Originally Posted by Arkine

PS: I've never ran anything with any Rare/RareEx/R:EX or any of the countless groups with that name on Balmung.

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I can tell.

It's unfortunate that we cannot get past pointing fingers and further trashing a person's reputation with alleged sabotage publicly by a "pitchfork mob" rather than approaching this issue face to face with us and the person in game expressing your concerns allowing for a further discussion to clear things up. Obviously, I am taking the time in addressing this because inherently I do care for both sides. I do not appreciate this thread being derailed with such drama as this, so please feel free to approach us in game if you truly do have a sincere concern about this issue. There's enough of that in these forums^^;

Now onto your criteria.. I can potentially see where you are coming from, but i can also see where you could have mistaken his positioning to be threatening to the tank. If you could provide exact times when and where he was positioned near/on the front side of titan during which bomb sequences.. that would be great. A melee with good positional awareness can actually have little to almost no dps downtime on titan if one is familiar with the mechanics of the fight.. straigus is definitely one of those melee. Chances are the only times he was anywhere near the tank was after a weight/punch was executed most likely to dodge and also keep uptime on his dps. Personally being familiar with MNK with myself in this encounter.. I can tell you that the area in front of titan is actually quite safe to utilize to dodge if you know when he does his frontal cleaves to time it. Also in terms of straigus being potentially close to the tank with landslides.. I assure you it was most likely to "bait" the landslide away from the majority of the party, and I can see why some people who are unfamiliar with this practice may see it as attempt at encroaching on the tanks area.

Now in terms of ignoring gaols... chances are he DoT'd it up real good and went back on titan to, again, keep maximum uptime on the main boss. You said that you've seen previous gaols melt.. well.. then he probably adjusted his dps so that he would assist with the gaols with dots and immediately went back to titan.. but that means the rest of the dps in that party dropped the ball as well if there was such a dynamic difference between gaols. it was a judgement call made on the fly.. also it coudlve have been where the positon of the gaol was in the arena. Was it far back in the boonies where gaols really shouldn't be in the first place? Also, who was gaol'd inside? Was it an immediate priority like a healer? I mean.. each dd has their personal judgement call on that type of thing.

I just feel that he has immediately been made into a scapegoat merely because he was seen participating in mercenary services later afterwards... which is pretty much a normal afternoon/evening thing for the FC to do during off days for FC funding purposes. It appears that speculation is attempting to be pushed as fact.

I will clearly state one last time that we DO NOT condone to such practices. Straigus and a few others in the FC, including myself, do not mind helping random pugs outside of merc time just to help here and there... but if we start being utilized as scapegoats for failed runs then I guess we are going to have to refrain from helping random pugs on our free time anymore... which is unfortunate :/ I mean... I literally just helped a titan pug a few mins before typing up this post. It will probably be my last after reading what has been going on with Straigus... :(

Anyways... TL;DR... I hope we can get pass this and I do hope for the people who happen to have issues with Straigus approach me to settle this problem once and for all. I also highly recommend speaking directly to Straigus himself, and hoepfully you'll see that it just isn't in his character for such low practices as the accusations that is being put on him.

Happy Hunting, Balmung!

<3Ryuu-tan

Remember when you guys had to leave hyperion because type mars ruined your reputation by constantly trolling the DD fate every single day for hours on end?

Like he'd just teleport in as soon as someone told him the fate was up and rush in to kill the lambs and teleport out because huehuehue it's funny.

Hello Eadieni from Hyperion! I will agree those were dark days of the FC under the previous leadership. It was also under that same previous leadership that the choice of migrating to Balmung was done.. even to this day the core has yet to really understand why we really moved... but past is past. I assure you the reasoning was not due to that case, but it never the less does not excuse such actions. This FC is far from what it was back in Excalibur and Hyperion. The original leaders have already abandoned and transferred off Balmung to Sargatanas. It is currently under new leadership and since then has been nothing but improving! I assure you the mindset, mentality, and path of this FC has changed quite a bit. I hope all is well back on Hyperion which was my personal native server... I do miss it quite quite a fair amount at times since I did leave behind a great social that i still keep in touch with via voice com... anyways..

Best Regards,
Ryuuji

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Anyways... TL;DR... I hope we can get pass this and I do hope for the people who happen to have issues with Straigus approach me to settle this problem once and for all. I also highly recommend speaking directly to Straigus himself, and hoepfully you'll see that it just isn't in his character for such low practices as the accusations that is being put on him.

Happy Hunting, Balmung!

<3Ryuu-tan

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I haven't seen anything other than he-said-she-said in reference to Straigus. However, as someone who wandered into this thread because it was a Balmung thread, Galena has worked pretty hard giving me a first impression of Rare-Ex. I can happily walk away without any assumptions about Straigus' character, but I now have an eyewitness account of the people you choose to be the mouthpiece. That being said you (Ryuu) are doing a serious service to your shell with your responses. It's just not across the board.

Well this thread is kinda Toxic.
I'm not going to touch that, but would like to say i think i can see a missunderstanding in play style...

Personally i've never had any probliems with RareEx:

*I know 1 of them from past runs & hes very supportive to players when they have probliems.
*Also seen Ryuuji around with the crafting service & i dont think anyone has anything bad to say about that, I've only heard good & thankful things when its menchioned.
*I've even been in a party with some of them not long ago, they weren't bad people. Nothing negitive happened like what is menchioned here.
*i got them to Merc my Scholar yesterday without gear & all the stats in INT through Titan since I was impatient to do my final relic with FC or random group + to win a bet. Also I've always wanted to see what a run with them was like & if they do anything different. :cool:
Safire Saf & the group, I was expecting them to tell me not to do stuff or to do stuff differently, but nope they were like "hey, hows it? you ready? cool lets go." happy to talk. Inside it was clear if someone wasnt sure of anything they could easily work around it.
They didnt complain, did the run, had fun. was so friendly that it was almost like being in a run with my old 1.0 friends.

So anyway If people have a probliem with anyone from any FC you should probably just contact there FC master in game & talk to them first about the person so they can sort out any probliems or worse case call a in-game GM. Just my 2c.

Was in 1.0 on Excalibur where Straigus and (if memory serves me correctly) his brother ran a social LS. Straigus has always been helpful to about anyone that he ran across. He's a good player and knows his role in groups very well.

Not picking sides at all, just voicing my small opinion on the player in question.

BTW I have no affiliation with RareEx here on Balmung or on Hyperion or even Excalibur in 1.0. I did not know that the original leadership is no longer with them and because of them I've kind of stayed away from them. But nice to know it's under new management that are trying to change things for the better.

While I do not condone any such things as "selling" titan wins, the sheer amount of power some people are putting into destroying some reputations is fantastic.

Straigus was the one SCH that healed my very first relic win, out of good will, and we won, and he never messed around either. I'd just appreciate it if people didn't diss people when they don't know what they're talking about. It's very sad that you didn't beat Titan, but why take it out on one of the players that was with you? Messing up Titan is a group thing as much as it is a group thing to beat him.
If you failed, your whole group has to reconsider how they're playing. The only exception being the tank, as tanking Titan is just a cakewalk, and if this one messes up, it's entirely his fault.

I say you should give free runs to people to get your rep back up!! lol
question though how much do people sell these runs for
wouldnt you get more potential buyers if the prices were less in the 10-50k range rather than 400k that I have seen :O

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Originally Posted by CrimzunAeoun

I say you should give free runs to people to get your rep back up!! lol
question though how much do people sell these runs for
wouldnt you get more potential buyers if the prices were less in the 10-50k range rather than 400k that I have seen :O

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50k/6 people = 8.333k gil

At that price we might as well just do them for free. The reason the prices are in the hundreds is because it has to be split between the 6-7 people running you through. That way they get a decent amount of money for their troubles

This is just sad that people have to provide paid kill services because they have nothing else to do.
ded game

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Originally Posted by Exiras

50k/6 people = 8.333k gil

At that price we might as well just do them for free. The reason the prices are in the hundreds is because it has to be split between the 6-7 people running you through. That way they get a decent amount of money for their troubles

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ah! but wont you get more overall because you could potentially draw in more customers that would not spend 400k but would pay 50k
it would take more runs at 50k to equal the 400k you would make in total in a single higher priced run. but the potential to make more is there
also i think more players have 50k to spend rather than 400k to spend
:O
businesss tactics yooo

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Originally Posted by CrimzunAeoun

ah! but wont you get more overall because you could potentially draw in more customers that would not spend 400k but would pay 50k
it would take more runs at 50k to equal the 400k you would make in total in a single higher priced run. but the potential to make more is there
also i think more players have 50k to spend rather than 400k to spend
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businesss tactics yooo

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Titan hm is not the most fun or relaxing fight ever created. So doing it 5 times in 30min to barely match the price of spending 30min to find 1 buyer at our price just seems bad. Despite what shout chat says there is plenty of business at our price