Rare Ex - Balmung Mercenary Service

[Defmetal]

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.

[Offiziere_Galena]

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!

[Myrhn]

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!

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?

[Remnance]

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.

[Offiziere_Galena]

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?

[Arkine]

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.

[Offiziere_Galena]

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

I can tell.

[Ryuuji]

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

[Ryuuji]

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

[Ashman]

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

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.