Rare Ex - Balmung Mercenary Service

[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

[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.

[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.

[prymortal]

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.
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.

[Romowens01]

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.

[Harmattan]

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.

[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

[Exiras]

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

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

[Risae]

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