Final Fantasy XIV Elitism Drama - Rin & Static Leader Respond | Xeno Reacts

Rin and the Static leader respond to the claims Wave made in his video featured in episode 1. Xeno Reacts and gives his opinion on this Final Fantasy 14 Drama.
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[@Cillias14]

The Rin clips make me so irrationally furious. This is such a common tactic when someone tries to gaslight and manipulate. If an argument arises they lower their voice and talk slower to make the other party look hysterical. Ive seen this so much from my latest ex. This tells me excatly what kind of a human Rin is. This fake calmness sickens me.

[@ViviCaligo]

It's not even irrattional, when you've experienced it before red flags turn into blaring neon signs and you wonder how the hell others aren't seeing it so clearly. I'm sorry you had to deal with that from a partner.

[@Liquefaction]

That low and slow talking tactic is like wife beater/child molester type behavior.

[@thiefpotato2759]

Thats what Rin wanted to do. Gaslighting is to cause 2 reactions: to make the party to feel guilty/relent or force the other person to react in a negative way. Its easier to establish a "this person is too upset or unreasonable" narrative that way.

[@Tigerhearty]

Streamers are only remotely average at this game because they send all your stupid goons raid partners into all servers to shit the pfinder and raids of other legit players, all their little minions on discord to disgust all the other players from the game and raiding scene, be it on NA or Eu servers this includes Serenaya and Xeno too with Rin. It is a buiseness model.

[@AuntSally1]

Why anyone would now play with this group is beyond my comprehension. Nasty people

[@conroconro]

Rin needed to be the one to step back, actually look at the logs, and not emotionally condescend

[@Fa1nTy]

He can't read the logs because he has no idea how to play healer. The lesson learned from this is : if you haven't *ever* played healer in savage/ultimate content, generally shut the hell up

[@kahome]

He needs step out of streaming and learn to be a decent person.

[@kenvasquez3604]

Please stop, you're literally yelling XD

[@whitecoffee05]

the way Rin talks sounds so condecending. like i was listening to a parent talking to their 30yr old son on how to pour milk lmao

[@iciel1009]

@@whitecoffee05 he sounds so passive aggressive too.

[@potato4847]

Wave: talking about the strat very seriously and explaining his point. The group: why are you angry why are you raising your voice? 🤡 Wave: not saying anything so they won't gaslight him again. The group: he didn't help us in creating the strat. 🤡 Wave: trying to communicate with his co-healer and getting ignored. The group: he had communication issues. 🤡 Wave has a very soft voice and he talks a bit fast when he's serious or passionate but not once did I hear him scream or yell and yet they had the audacity to gaslight him into thinking he was the problem. 💩 Also, Rin should STFU. The way he was talking down to wave was so fking lame.

[@taronzgaming7739]

Yeah full blown nightmare clown shit. Hopefully Wave finds a group where he can stop shouting so much!

[@Kenzaii]

bruh this ^^^^^^^^^^ sums it up perfectly

[@babusan0]

If anything I applaud Wave staying so calm when Rin was speaking in such a condescending and accusing way. It was painful to listen to.

[@Zepherl01]

Wave just has a bit of an accent and I guess oooooo accents r scary!!!!!!

[@LittleSparklingStars]

Bro straight up, he sounds like a friend of mine when he speaks. He just sounds a little excited and talks fast but that's just how he talks?

[@Pikmin0123]

Rin didn't expect his embedded viewers to dig up the receipts

[@kamaha0010]

GLAD TO HAVE CONTRIBUTED BEEPBOOPBOOPBEEP

[@IKIGAIofficial]

Sheeeesh

[@frankloffredo6977]

@@kamaha0010 m😊

[@davidepannone6021]

Is he really that stupid? I mean he does sound stupid throughout this whole debacle but Jesus Christ.

[@blairbryan4040]

It's so weird they were trying to defend themselves, but the more they talked and showed clips, the more the made themselves look bad. They said he wasn't communicating but then showed videos of him communicating. They tried to say he was not willing to work with the other healer but then show videos of the other healer not wanting to talk to him. Do they realize they proved his case even more than defending themselves. It kinda makes me lose a little more respect for them than when the drama first broke out. At least before I could think it just wasn't a proper fit and move on, but now it just looks way worse than it did before the defense video.

[@AlujaBING]

IKR? I was so confused at first.

[@GhostAeonWolf]

everyone on their DC should see it to dodge this bullet of a group

[@jtabox]

I think that they either panicked and scrambled to make a reply video asap, not thinking out their arguments and defense, expecting people to automatically take their side "because streamer/balance mentor/whatever". Orrrr, they seriously are so deluded as a group that they genuinely believe they're not in the absolute wrong here. Idk which one is better tbh. But the fact that the original video was quickly made private when it was clear it had the completely opposite results, leads me to believe it's mostly the first alternative.

[@davidepannone6021]

Imagine respecting those asswipes to begin with.

[@bananagher7555]

@@GhostAeonWolf IIRC Dice is already on the Crystal PF "People to dodge" list for Party Finder

[@Itsnotthatdeep88]

Not only did this video HELP paint the picture of the fuckery that was going on in this static but it actually vindicated Wave at the same time…well done Bozo😂😂

[@ScreamingInSong]

I love a perfect self own

[@airbagged_]

Yup all they did was make Wave look like a rational human being.

[@Greg-if8es]

These people (Rin and crew) aren't even selfaware enough to realize this. It's pathetic. Rin is an example of someone who thinks their shit doesn't stink, and talks down to others as if he knows more but he's just some nobody that got propagated up by other non-FF14 streamers and it went to his head.

[@davidepannone6021]

@@Joeyfield0 typical male that plays fem miqo.

[@NeverMidnightGames]

probably why they took the video down, they knew they fudged up xD

[@bananagher7555]

When he said "I have to play back and forth because the healers won't communicate with each other" what he really means is "ONE healer won't communicate with the other, but that healer is my friend, so I have to use wordplay to make it seem like both their faults."

[@shareyy8129]

The fact that Rin was saying that Wave was yelling when he wasn't is textbook gaslighting behaviour. Absolutely manipulative, If I had a problem with a raid member I wouldn't smoke them on stream no matter how bad they were playing

[@WalkMrJ]

Oh yeah. He's always gas lighting. Remember when Rin was struggling with the tornadoes during prog? For reference, Rin kept blaming others for his placement and wiping the group. Someone in his chat called him out after he went on a 2 minute long rant about how the other guy (who was doing the mechanic right) was an idiot for not eating shit for him. Rin popped off on the chatter and then banned him. He got called out a few more times and banned other chatters while saying he's right and chat has no idea what they're talking about because they're not world first progs, even though the majority of the watchers know how to do the mechanic from either watching others or experience. About a half hour later he said something to the effect "yes. I'm making mistakes. I'm not perfect. But the other guy should be adjusting to my mistakes!"

[@ichsanelf]

@@WalkMrJ "yes. I'm making mistakes. I'm not perfect. But the other guy should be adjusting to my mistakes!", he said something like this? I guess I know why I never click the follow button on his twitch channel :D

[@jedahaw]

​@@WalkMrJ wow, what Arthars said about Rin is right.

[@DarkDyllon]

@@jedahaw yeah, when Arthars said that about Rin it kinda clicked with the video i saw of him where he was gaslighting. never watched him either way, so eh, not affected but definitely enjoying this, hope he catches way more flag for this.

[@whitemageserenia]

@@ichsanelf Ya know... somehow that doesn't surprise me. Before Rin blew up in the raiding community, when he was still known as "Avenger Kusari" I do recall him saying something along the lines of "never adjust for someone else, they'll never learn that way" so like if you were doing a mech perfectly but someone was in your spot, you were supposed to go to your spot anyway to "teach them a lesson" but... I always felt like that was wrong-think. I mean, sure sometimes it can't be helped, sometimes mistakes happen, but... come on, we're not children that don't know any better... that sort of "cold parenting" doesn't work here. To me, I always instinctively try to adjust and cover someone else's mistakes because I want the group to be successful rather than be "king of the world" or w/e.

[@Kairamek]

"Your cohealer just left. So which of us is upset?" The cohealer who left. Obviously. WTF.

[@MissMadorian]

Rin pisses me off so much with the gaslighting damn

[@KhronosTrigger]

Same

[@apathyreaper5323]

You ever wonder how he is irl?

[@polmao]

But I bet a lot of people that liked this comment will still support him. If he has been this way for the longest he shouldnt be viewed.

[@kimochiiiyamete]

word i always knew he was a pos

[@FujisamaProductions]

Same

[@tyty8484]

It's funny, Rin literally did NOT watch the video before responding to it. That clip doesn't do anything but reaffirm that he's a gas lighter

[@sequences8942]

I once raided with a healer who told me, like Wave told Dice, not to heal because they had it. Initially I didn’t really want to cut back healing, as I was a SCH and they were a WHM, but I went ahead and just tried it. So I did. Then when healing was rough, I communicated where I could support and told them points where they could focus on mechs or damage, and they listened. In the end we were a fantastic healing duo because we communicated and worked around each others’ playstyles. Wave reminds me a lot of that healer. Straightforward but willing to listen. He will see his potential really come out in a better group.

[@oshaapproved7612]

This is something I feel like a lot of non-healer mains don't get. When you're progging you are ALWAYS optimizing. It might be bad optimization, you may have to change it later, but resource management through cooldown usage IS a part of prog.

[@Altearithe]

Yep exactly what a good healer duo does. My static's healers are superb because they communicate and work with each others' playstyles. The static only benefits from it. Wave seems to be a great healer and definitely is wasted on this group.

[@bellamango6708]

bro I'd love to heal with him haha half of the ppl I have to heal with try to Chad or overheal on nothin

[@shinon748]

Funny enough thats how healers should act in raids in any MMO. Some classes have better tools to handle certain mechanics when it comes to healing. As a SCH you're best at mitigating damage. As a WHM they're better at recovering from damage. You'd put your shield up to lower damage done to the raid team. And the white Mage would use their bigger direct heals to cover any damage that went through the shields. If both healers pop off at full power at all times, there could be a chance you're both out of cool downs when something unexpected happens. Like the main tank dies or a lot of dps die to an AoE. Etc etc. Communication is key between healers.

[@StefawnVan]

You have a healthy, adult mindset. Willing to work through an issue, ask questions, communicate your needs, conscientious of them, while working hard to do your best. I bet you're like this irl too. Your co-healer is lucky to work with you, but it sounds like it works both ways. Bravo (unironic).

[@Kude1707]

Wave seems like my kind of raid member no sugar coating just straight to the point, I like him

[@iMeldorai]

seems like a solid gamer.

[@aykan5621]

True

[@LuminateTheWorld]

He's 100% the kind of person I would recruit into my static. He'd fit right in with the others i have that are no bs communication.

[@tyrellf1579]

I raid with him a lot. He is just passionate about things, rarely ever had any issue with him besides him liking to talk strats too much. Different from what the guy said in the vídeo about him not knowing how to do mechs and only following tool boxes lol

[@StefawnVan]

Would LOVE to work with someone like Wave. He's so competent, thoughtful, and high energy - in a good way. He wants to do well and he wants others to do well too. He's willing to put in the work.

[@InvictusRed1911]

AN HOUR REACT!? WITH THE XEEMS!?

[@lizencerfalia]

If you think about it, gameplay streams are just him reacting to the combat in real time

[@iMeldorai]

WITH XEEMSSSS

[@RaxorX]

I swear 7:25 if this is yelling then Rin has never been yelled at.

[@omarrich8546]

Ikr if he thinks that was rising the voice he is just disconected from reality

[@lostvayne9146]

he is an overly sensitive snowflake. Too stuck in faking that positive persona that when any type of conflict happens, he manifests his own reality.

[@TheLogan1156]

Rin is a notorious foul-tempered asshole behind the scenes, so he knows very well what yelling sounds like. This is just his typical bullshit stream persona.

[@sophiexxttv]

Exactly what I was thinking 😂

[@mushsp]

When Rin yell at people I wonder if he knows he’s yelling xdd

[@ozawashere]

"he not communicating " *wave communicates calmly* "why you sound angry" while ignoring what he actually said

[@yassin9782]

What I find funny is the group is supposedly hardcore yet the raid lead is like “I don’t know what’s wrong with the healing, I never touched healer” mate I’m a midcore raider who hasn’t touched healing yet discussing mit plans and talking to my healers has already given me a lot of knowledge about how the job is meant to be played as well as how to organize their tool usage. This entire thing feels like a joke.

[@hlonghi]

This. I'm a former raider that went casual because of DSR burnout (cleared as a WAR fuck that encounter). I have seen this behavior before and it's just laughable. We made sure to study our logs in our downtime to understand who was having difficulties with what mechanic and go along with it as a group. I have been seeing ToP prog groups and this one Rin's is one of the absolute worst ones I have ever seen. It's like a "soft Party Finder" at this point. And then there is the "embedding" drama. man. I don't like Rin even though I have never met or talked to him. Absolutely shit-show that only makes his image worse.

[@muhannabasalem574]

he's range dps, that's why he doesn't know shit about mit planning let alone healing in the first place

[@Kenzaii]

im guessing reason he said that is cuz he is tryin to down play it and to suck up to dice obviously, im sure anyone who raids will know how healing works eventually.. man just tryin to get close to the P

[@TheDimsh]

Yeah that's hilarious, I think I've never played healer in my life and I am still well aware of how off-gcd heals are used and what all the healer party utility does.

[@rob4290]

Man I'm a frigging casual who's only started PFing savage near the end of 6.3 and *I've* talked with my healer friends who join me to understand how to help them with mitigation and it's given me knowledge. How the hell can someone in a TOP group be like that.

[@theredlie1988]

Dice seems like a fucking nightmare to raid with.

[@tatersalad76]

I've heard he's an actual clown of a raider

[@DrBoopa]

grouped with them before a long time ago before they were known as Dice. they would wipe pulls just for saving their parse and had really shitty attitude. Ever since then I would just leave the group if they ever showed up in my pfs.

[@Caesar512]

Every healer in Crystal PF knows to dodge

[@xivCatumin]

@@Caesar512 The amount of times Dice has joined a party and the other healer immediately left is insanely high. It's to the point that Dice and now Isweayr/Aya have been kicked from the largest Crystal raiding Discord for being too toxic and not communicating

[@maymadisson6140]

@@xivCatumin dice was denied into the group in an almost unanimous vote

[@fantasyfuyu]

"Your co-healer just left, who do you think is upset rn?" Well obviously the co-healer?? Lmao, probably upset that wave didn't unionize with them and spend all their mana during downtime

[@oshaapproved7612]

Man if Wave is "angry" Rin and the rest of the group are babies. Wave is assertive with his statements and it rules. I would LOVE to have a raid member like that.

[@NeoSpira]

fucking finally, i appreciate xenos for actually not sitting on the fence about this. like in this EXACT INSTANCE RIN IS WRONG and calling him out for a liar.

[@kickerbs]

waiting to see if both sides of an argument happen is not fence sitting, attacking one side of a statement immediately is how horrible mistakes happen like with the projared accusations quite a while back that ended up actually being proven false.

[@Actus_Reus]

@@kickerbs Definitely agree much more with you lol. Although from the evidence we saw last vid it did feel decently conclusive.

[@NeoSpira]

@@kickerbs you're right, idk why i used that term. I guess I'm just tired of people being soft and easy when it comes to rin.

[@rudyramirez125]

Did you watch part 1? Xeno is the biggest fence sitter, lmfao. The clicks made him see reason for clicks.

[@semekiizuio]

Did yall hear what he said last video? iirc he doesn't believe anything he reads online. Same thing in video 1 he was taking it with a grain of salt. That was his attitude throughout the video. In this one he agrees and disagrees with points but eventually figures it out this guy was like an Amber Heard

[@msaag5490]

So if I were to summarize this whole nonsense. Wave is an Astrologian who was just watching his co-healer and wonders "Why is my co-healer using up mana with GCD heals when no damage happened in the last 5 seconds and everyone is topped off like 6 seconds ago?" And from logs we see Dice, the co-healer Sage, is using like 5-7 GCD heals in a row. Wave asks to not do that cause he's wasting his mana (going from 3700 mana down to like 600 mana), and Dice takes offense to this. And from here a whole shitstorm occurs, the static leader takes Dice's side cause reasons, Dice does some unhinged shit with the whole "It's either me or Wave," Wave wanted to know why his co-healer was overhealing excessively and asks him to stop cause he thinks it's wrong. Also the whole "we died because of damage" is the dumbest argument for arguing why overhealing is necessary. You know what doesn't help surviving from damage, overhealing and using up all your mana before damage has even been done.

[@Equinyx666]

^^^^^^^ sums it up accurately

[@Floofei]

Lied about his views, lied about defending wave. LMAO pathological

[@zynrah5660]

My brother in Hydaelyn, how are you going to expect good communication from a player if you constantly undermine them when they speak? People saying he always sounds angry, laughing at him and making passive aggressive comments in the clip makes it seem like he may have been talking and paying attention, but they just weren't listening or taking him seriously. Even if that's just how you talk to each other, this is a new member. Based on the clips provided it doesn't seem like they had equal, open communication and they treated a new member poorly even before the confrontation with Dice. They can either take this as a chance to be like hey look maybe this is a learning opportunity, or they can get offended and defensive. 🙄

[@StefawnVan]

💯💯💯

[@Sadtv12]

how does someone provide receipts that actually perfectly sabatoge his own argument? this shit is wild man

[@davidepannone6021]

Males that play fem miqos lol

[@vielara]

It's called lack of self awareness.

[@SuddenFool]

Being so self centered they have deluded themselves into believing they are perfect.

[@CrackGolden]

Cause they dumb af

[@atlanta7314]

I can't in good faith believe that this static had people who experienced basic human interaction on a daily basis. There is no way that is yelling or sounding angry, that passive aggressive wording and tone was honestly aggravating to hear. For someone who wanted to point out that Wave wasn't listening or always confused, why did you include a clip of you guys not paying attention to what he said and just basically grouping on him for how he talks? Insane. Thanks for covering this, Xeno. The want for a beard was wholesome.

[@StefawnVan]

Love your comment. Beautifully stated.

[@stoneenergy8959]

He says both healers wouldn't talk to each other. But when Rin was dressing wave down they say the issue is everyday he is telling dice what he is doing wrong. So which is it? Clearly it's Dice is the one refusing to communicate.

[@Geist1337]

No matter what they say; the original video showed that the other healer was wasting mana during downtime on healing, for no reason, and screwing themselves and the static over by not having enough going into a damage phase; before then gaslighting and allegedly complaining in DMs about their co-healer who wasn't doing anything wrong.

[@Codemaster238]

Rin should win gaslighter of the year award for the next 5 years minimum.

[@xbree_]

I’m not gonna lie I felt like I got second hand gaslit from listening.

[@neruneri]

@@xbree_ oh no that's exactly what was happening. Rin was trying to gaslight us too.

[@jtabox]

IKR.. Rin's behavior in the stream is like the f-ing definition of gaslighting. "You are literally yelling" - while Wave talks in a chill way. What's sad though is that if Wave hadn't made the initial video, he would probably be blacklisted now because of course people would believe the streamer who would probably spread more shit so as to justify his gaslighting.

[@WindAxel0]

@@xbree_ I felt that shit in 40k. Like is this how it feels? LMAOOO

[@Gillian_FFXIV]

@@xbree_ NOOO kidding!! I was watching the stream live & I felt it as if it were directed towards *me* lmfao

[@calmexit6483]

I can't get enough of ffxiv drama. It's addicting to watch as long as it's not happening to me.

[@ArchieGamez]

Heres some popcorn 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿

[@j0shimitsu]

@@ArchieGamez im literally doing the NEW DAY popcorn gif

[@icanspelle6050]

If you get involved in drama in a video game with cat girls and dragons you need to quit video games for a while

[@calmexit6483]

@@icanspelle6050 couldn't have said it better myself im just hoping someone will start to cover venue/ERP drama, some juicy shit goin down on that side of the game

[@ergonamix9977]

@@calmexit6483 Pathra will occasionally do Drama Time-type readings of drama stories for FF14 that usually involve the RP/ERP circuit.

[@whitecoffee05]

everything that Rin is saying to Wave, could be said to heal spammer Dice. "you can take this as a learning experience, or get offended" like bro, who the hell would heal when everyone is shielded and full health?? you don't have to be a hardcore raider to understand it is just wasted MP resources.

[@DoppelgangerTH]

Rin unironically suggested to heal worse than avg DF healer lmao

[@ghosttkeeper]

I genuinely thought I misheard the whole thing at first, because not even sprout me would've done that.. It goes against all logic O.o

[@dacienvegas2712]

Odd numbered patches = Drama season. It's even in the patch notes.

[@ArchieGamez]

Pls look forward to it!

[@bennie4857]

Lol this guy "You need to take a step back and calm down" after the guy he is claiming is not calm keeps getting cut off while trying to explain himself.

[@darkmirror21]

Wave should be thankful for Dice for showing people how godawful they are in front of a wider audience and how Wave basically carried his ass

[@Xiknyn]

The part where Wave is talking about the machinist messing up and they're admonishing him for mishearing the question is telling. The person is snickering because they've already decided to dogpile Wave in private and they're enjoying this "validation" for the reason the group has decided they don't like him.

[@TheDoomSheep]

Dude that part is lowkey infuriating. It's like yea Wave is clearly ESL but sounds pretty fluent to me, so it was so patronizing and condescending at the same time that they caught him with a question he didn't fully understand because he was talking at the same time. Wave dodged a bullet when he got kicked and I hope he doesn't let this experience hurt him.

[@aluj4498]

that part their attitude were really terrible, they're behaving just like middle school bullies

[@troll5262]

Rin is the kind of person I might hit in the face if I ever talk to them RL. That condescending, downgrading and disappointed tone used to manipulate or, worse, gaslight drives me up a wall.

[@runarhrothgar]

You already know this kind of person (Rin) wouldn’t have the balls to do this IRL. Monitor warrior 100%.

[@kaishia_sai]

over healing during a down time mechanic is hilarious to me lmao

[@YvaiatheDemon]

Im an absolute noob healer when it comes to hard content but damn...even I know not to do that xD

[@OathOblivio]

A few gcds is ok to top people off and give some shields before a raidwide or mechanic damage, but don't spam it lol

[@lindaa9005]

not only was it hilarious to look at those healer logs, and to look at the party in real time- but seeing that raid leader who admitted he didn't really know anything about healing caught in the middle and trying to back him friend- cmon- what a mess

[@kaishia_sai]

@@OathOblivio totally agree especially if I know I need to save some mitigation for later mechanics during prog😂

[@Kenzaii]

there are a lot of downtimes that deal damage and u need to heal... but the fact of overhealing during ZERO damage mechanic is freaking troll lmao

[@azazamat]

Rin is an IRL Fast and Furious-level driver. I've never seen anyone perform such a blatant 180.

[@kiba6416]

pure gold comment 🤣

[@CanYouResistClick1ng]

FAMILY

[@llamatoddtv]

I don't condone this behavior, it's very upsetting and disheartening to hear and I feel bad for Wave, that had to have been frustrating.

[@CafeCreativeYT]

👏

[@extinctbaryonyx]

Tell your 'friend' Rin to stop embedding "Nice attitude" to his persona. We love the toxic Rin as the way he is. No need to pretend :)

[@marlex4552]

There's a reason why Dice and also the static leader are on a public Crystal PF dodge list. Isweyr A’imagril was caught zoomhacking and Rin left his group because he didn't want to play with someone who used it. One namechange to Aya Magril to cover the tracks and all is suddenly good and well and they're back in the same static? Hypocrite.

[@unitedstatessc]

I don't really care if people use zoom hacks. The vast majority of PC pf people are using cactbot. To the point where pf p4s was impossible the few weeks the cactbot dev was out of town.

[@madlinkers8595]

p4s was cake what are you on about get good

[@slammer6128]

​@@unitedstatessc you assume they use it you mean. Just because you might use it doesn't speak for majority.

[@lethaltoconcrete2194]

@@unitedstatessc I don't think the vast majority of PC players are using Cactbot. Anecdotally, at least, that seems to be far from the case to me. I'll concede that more people seem to use it than I would've expected, but it's not *that* bad.

[@nateortega2912]

​@unitedstatessc I'm a pc player, and I don't use a cactbot. But it I'd funny how there was not alot of pfs for the week to the point where it was hard to get a full group. Ik it was a patch week but you know

[@KaguyaEne]

With the amount of gas Rin lights he can power all of Europe for years.

[@JJJ42069]

Zepla catching strays got me crying oh my god LMAO

[@NanoNaps]

I generally like Zepla but that tweet thread days later when everything was said and done was really weird and unnecessary.

[@miamise2427]

Oh my, thank you for featuring my response essay in your video. I was just a little heated and decided to rant a little. You keep keeping on too, king! 👑

[@Phynastor]

Hey, sorry to bother you but any chance you could copy and paste it here? I really wanted to read the whole thing and there isn't a link to the vid that was taken down.

[@VioletShinobi]

1:00:00 That clip of him saying "Just focus on the good stuff" is classic manipulation that abusers use. Rin's behavior once again is just proving that he's a gaslighter at the very least, and a serial abuser at the worst.

[@LittleSparklingStars]

that's the vibes I got from Rin. Classic abuser type stuff.

[@DarkDyllon]

@@LittleSparklingStars if i was in a frustrated mood at the end of the raid session, 1 of the members left early and just logged out without a reason (supposedly rage quit) the last thing i would need to hear is someone talking in a real calm voice "you're yelling" motherfucker you're right i'm yelling, you should be aswel concidering 1 of the members just rage quit.

[@LittleSparklingStars]

@@DarkDyllon stop yelling :'(((((((( you're offended

[@darrellbruh1335]

it's no coincidence his kid is a TROON

[@xSHIELDBREAKERx82]

Rin literally dug his own grave. And the static leader will never, NEVER be taken seriously again. This static deserves the hate it gets and should fall apart, never to reform again.

[@CinohXub]

No don’t let them fall apart, let them be contained and not spread the disease

[@xSHIELDBREAKERx82]

@@CinohXub Yeah, you've a point. My overarching issue is that this level of stupidity, contained or no, will inevitably spread. It's not elitism nor favoritism-it's a sheer lack of intelligence. I cannot, for the life of me, understand how anyone, anywhere would be desperate enough to join a group of such a full blown fool and then call circle jerking, "prog". The only thing that progged in this case was the community witnessing a Biblical stereotype. "If the blind leadeth the blind; both shall fall into the ditch."

[@davidepannone6021]

​@@xSHIELDBREAKERx82350% straight facts up in this bitch.

[@213fenix]

The thing with them partying with Dice though, dice already was never taken seriously in ages, crystal knew him and his friends infamously to be these kind of shitters and pure parsers, where everyone but them was the issue. They're on the blacklist of if you see them, kick instantly or leave. I've never done any duty with them yet oh the amount of stories I've heard about them. Rin's a perfect fit into their group, now if only they could find a maintain'd 8 group so they can leave everyone else tf alone

[@whitemageserenia]

@@213fenix Question is, how long after they found that "perfect" 8th would it be before the group self imploded as is often the case with groups like this?

[@Sammysnows]

Is just amazing 14 drama is actually satisfying to watch than an actual race Rin hasn't cleared imo and he is doomed to never clear if he never changed his attitude. I'm glad I joined a static that always meme first then focus later, we don't care about race, yes we use log and death recap mod so we know wtf just killed us.l, but most of the time is just full of memes or meme out of nowhere just for laughs.

[@AnAverageBox]

Lmao Rin is a textbook gaslighter good lord. I've never seen this side of Rin. I've only seen the world prog uwu attitude from his dsr streams

[@StefawnVan]

What's it like seeing him this way? Did ever have a feeling he was this way or is it a surprise?

[@runasth]

Sadly for Rin, you cannot gaslight the internet.

[@MrFeelingperky]

28:00 Wave saying that he would say the same thing to the trials faces is top tier behaviour. That's earned a shit ton of respect from me.

[@rekido]

My boy xeems making a 5min video into a 1h react. im proud

[@sejekokoru]

Dude I world progged/week 1 with Dice in abyssos and I believe 100% that Dice was the issue. We had constant issues with them and their healing. They never did enough healing and refused to talk with their healer and couldn't accept feed back. I absolutely believe the raid leader was tryna smash or very close friends with Dice because I would never ever raid with them again even in a casual setting, they were that bad.

[@VuxGameplays]

Do you know what gender is Dice? Are they the woman speaking in vc sometimes?

[@sejekokoru]

@@VuxGameplays They identify as he, but yes

[@alicecry]

I’m pretty sure I ran with this guy and got blamed the same way Wave was because of the basically the exact same tantrum

[@Kenzaii]

@@sejekokoru ah so they are a female, gotcha.. the rage attitude and leaving vc/game makes sense now, girls who think highly of themselfs def hate told what to do lmao

[@SuguSugux]

@@VuxGameplays Dice it a female. you can chek her twich.

[@AshleyDavis_yuubari]

that rin clip makes me so mad, everything else aside being told youre yelling and being offended whilst not being true id be FUMING LOL

[@SSJ4Bass]

“Until we die to damage” Then what does your party keep wiping to? 🤔

[@bellamango6708]

couldn't be.... mechanics.... lol

[@jtabox]

Besides the entertaining part of all this, it's also a bit sad that had Wave not made his initial vid, Rin, the other healer and the static's leader would probably talk shit about Wave on stream/discord/etc, that he was the one causing problems, probably causing people to blacklist him. Because people of course would believe the popular streamer/balance mentor/"hardcore" raider than some unknown guy who failed his trial "because he was yelling and being difficult to communicate with"...

[@Hadosama]

I love how the static leaders “evidence “ only made him look worse and vindicated Wave.

[@boanoah6362]

Remember that Dice is almost universally reviled as a shit healer and most other healers not only agree but openly dodge her... and Rin sided with her. That speaks VOLUMES if you ask me.

[@stoneenergy8959]

Holy shit that raid leader is frustrating. He clearly doesn't like wave. He asked him how they did in the trial and then speaks down to him because he didn't do a background check on the mch? You asked about their trial performance. Did you, as leader, find out who he was raiding with before and ask? And he misheard a single word and he jumps on him.

[@CherryMinus]

I was half expecting one of the "you can see an example of this in clip 4 below" and it's just Rin's infamous UCoB vod

[@avrax3497]

In my former group, my co healer started to exhibit destructive behavior due to one of our member being kind of a pain. As much as I could understand why and was sharing some of her feelings, it got out of hands. It got to the point that something needed to be done, but instead of talking to her, they decided to fake disband the static and regroup without her. That was so wrong that I just instantly left the static, it felt like I was backstabbing her. Wave is better off without them, it probably would have never worked out. If they want to defend a healer that is spending so much mana it could be considered griefing, then this is not a group anyone should be part of.

[@mrjeff2]

I personally hope they keep getting crap for being such a joke of a team. I hope they have difficulties clearing TOP and learn from this experience. Rin still being part of the team afterwards and even running damage control in stream is a great representation of his character also.

[@StefawnVan]

and his "damage control" communication skills are middle school level at best and S-tier narcissist at the worst. He has zero character.

[@NightKnight4455]

now imagine Wave joins an actual good hardcore group on NA and gets world first next ultimate

[@tylerslittlecafe1288]

Not going to lie Xeno giving the talk about how you can't get back time followed immediately by 'you wasted two hours ranting' was fucking gold.

[@mo17]

I die every single time when xeno’s mic stand squeaks and he yells. I can’t stop laughing 😂

[@semekiizuio]

Sounds like a tiny violin 😂

[@gavindaniels6781]

I had to come back to this video on 3 separate occasions to resume where I left off. It's so ungodly upsetting how heavily they are all collectively gaslighting the one guy. It's so hard to watch. Garbage people. Fully trash. No one should act that way.

[@DarkDyllon]

I love how Rin is like "oh no, I defended Wave" meanwhile in another clip "the other healer is solo healing the mechanic, he left, who do you think is upset?" or "it sucks being told you're not doing what is correct" but then in another clip go "i stand by my decision, wave got done dirty" my stance is fairly simple and as someone who got severely frustrated with my static a few times, if you leave out of nowhere because your fweelings got hurt, you're out of the static, easy as that. I got frustrated at a lot of things in my current static, but that was prog related, i stuck out the session and just reset for the next, i didn't leave early since that would be fucking over 7 other people. then the raid leaders reaction, i love how he says "despite the overwhelming amount of evidence against him" meanwhile shows clips that is overwhelmingly painting the picture AGAINST them. When Dice refused to talk to Wave (as the screenshots the leader provided shows) that means that DICE is the one not willing to communicate, not Wave. But it's funny how i've never heard of Rin before all of the recent drama (knew he existed since Twitch sometimes recommends his channel, but was never interested) first with that group that got outed for using zoomhacks, leaves that static because he doesn't want to be accosiated with them (fair enough, enough streamers like Zepla for example straight up said that she doesn't want to raid with anyone using these kinds of 3rd party tools, granted it's likely just more of an "just saying it here so that nobody can go after me type of deal) but then joins another static where Dice is also a known cheater, I can see Dice catching a ban real soon knowing how the FF14 community can be, it's obvious he's using 3rd party tools, it's public. I can see people mass reporting his ass and getting him banned, not even simple UI QoL tweaks, just outright AOE prediction cheats.

[@dreamer5377]

It’s funny cuz this raid leader person *is* that raider that used zoom hacks, they just changed their character name so now Rin is back to playing with them lol.

[@MenheraYabbitSimp]

Wave seems like a dude you want in your group. Just gimme the toolbox, gimme a mitigation planner, let's fucking go type of person.

[@Cheedynamic]

Oh god, Whenever someone starts telling me not to be angry, when I'm merely passionate just grinds me wrong. Feeling bad for Wave dealing with that group, they did him a favour by letting him go (in a backwards way) but it would have been way better if they realized that they were behaving poorly.

[@marslara]

As somebody who cries when I get too frustrated or angry, hearing somebody try to demean me for it is a sure fire way to make me more frustrated or angry 😭

[@nebula8851]

Textbook example of valuing a friendship over a group, and different expectations. If it's a group of friends who want to mess around and have fun, having someone who's more serious and hardcore in that group is going to cause a problem. On the other hand, if your group is hardcore, then you need to have the resolve to say "You're my friend and I care about you, but you're holding the group back, please either learn your job properly, or step aside so someone else can stand in". Expectations need to be clearly laid on the table, and if there's a mismatch, then there needs to be a discussion about how to resolve this.

[@SILVERONIN]

Rin is the face of FFXIV, that passive aggressive, GASLIGHTING, faux positivity persona is sickening to watch and prevalent in the community!

[@alanrendon9302]

literally gaslight, gatekeep without the girl boss

[@CWFDSmokeEater]

@@alanrendon9302 And most of the girlbossing isnt done by actual girls

[@jtabox]

This is so damn true...

[@Midnightear]

Rin? The face of FFXIV? :v

[@gospel_rr3361]

@@Midnightear his attitude represent pretty much the majority of ffxiv players, being sarcastic and passive-aggresive is a trademark in this game.

[@shinigami6106]

Lost what little respect I had left for Rin. How are you going to gang up on Wave when Wave was in the right the whole time, then tell Wave he is probably "feeling attacked" while literally attacking him with your friends. Then to take it further, condescending to Wave by telling him to calm down and stop yelling when honestly you can hear Wave sounds defensive and frantic more than angry or even close to yelling. Now Rin wants to just brush his own toxicity under the rug and say "let's look to the positives." I empathize with Wave. I'm not as sensitive as Wave is, but my first static went something like this even down to the "I was asked to join after being in their PF". Only my first static wasn't full of hardcore raiders, it was full of grey parsers. They were all friends with each other. I was just a random that joined their PF and was asked to stay. Fucking huge mistake, this was one of those friend groups that couldn't separate raiding goals from friendship. No criticism of this group's gameplay style went anywhere. Almost nothing ever improved and I was blamed for shit I wasn't responsible for because it's convenient having an outsider that isn't a friend to scapegoat. I was also belittled for making any attempt to review and improve the group so we would stop wiping to E6S enrage for 2 months straight. And it wasn't like I was just saying, "Our groups sucks, we need to be better." I was looking at logs to see what problems we could patch up easily like improving uptime by changing the way we did certain mechanics. I eventually left that static after having to reclear in PF for several weeks anyway and just clearing E7S in PF while this static was still wiping to E7S adds. I basically quit Savage after this. I got pulled back in for 6.2 and it's actually a very good time when you're raiding with rational adults and not a cliquey group of friends.

[@GimmeTOKYO]

Holy crap. Your experience in ShB reminds me so much of my own experience with the static I left during this current raid tier. Same issues of friendships/relationships getting in the way of any valid criticisms, and we got to miD December without even clearing the door boss of P8S. Raid lead was throwing another person under the bus, and when I called it out for all to see, I was made out to be the bad guy and the shit player. I left so quickly. I PFd the next week and cleared the tier finally. I know part of the issue also was my own improperly set expectations in regards to level of skill and personal goals.

[@BaghNakh1]

When the guy started to say that Wave was "rising his voice" and "being disrespectful" I was like "where is the proof?" and I got reminded of Amber Heard like claming shit like all the proof you need is your own imagination and then Xeno boom referencing Amber Heard. Wave's voice and manner of speaking to me is like absolute golden, I wish people would talk that way on my raid groups back when I played WoW, like Wave to me is literally the gold standard of how you should speak to people in voice comms. And even if you could argue that he got a bit emotional or maaaybe if you really stretch the argument that he raised his voice by 0.001db which could've completely shaked your emotional foundations, I would absolutely understand after being gaslighted in front of an audience. I can guarantee that probably none of them have actual real interactions with people in real life if they think Wave was being disrespectful, annoying, etc. Such a bunch of weak-ass drama queens, jesus f-ing christ man.

[@NannatheNanna]

this drama is actually hilarious and the self report makes it even funnier

[@emilyspector2728]

Thank you Xeno for showing who Ren really is. And Wave was just trying to tell the guy to reserve mama. I mean if I was a healer and I did this, holy crap. And Dice on the convo….really?!?!

[@jedahaw]

Have you watched Arthars video about this matter? In it he talks about Rin, and although I have never played or spoken or watched Rin's videos, Arthars description of him is accurate.

[@dahrkphoenix]

As a player and healer who was traumatized from a raid group during Shadowbringers, this shit is ridiculous. I won't get into my own story, but damn... Specifically when it comes to healing, I don't quite understand why it's so hard to communicate preferences for each other's kit usage. Not every player is gonna be able to read your mind, and getting angry or escalating these issues will clearly make things look worse on you (ESPECIALLY if you're streaming). With as bad as this incident is, it's hard to think about how much worse it was off stream.

[@davidepannone6021]

Because you're assuming everyone that plays this game is a grown up. Sadly in my now 6 years time I've been subbed, i can pretty much say a good 70% of FFXIV players are manchildren.

[@kiyokiyoko]

why does chat get so mad when he pauses? if i just wanted to watch the video without baldy talking then i can just watch the video on my own

[@didac3859]

It's a meme, nobody is actually mad. Xeno and chat's dynamic is one where chat basically roleplays toxic whiny babies and Xeno pretends to be frustrated by it.

[@Daccura]

@@didac3859 That description is so accurate lmao but true.

[@semekiizuio]

​@@didac3859 ok that makes sense, for whatever reasons when he was getting "angry" there was some threat as is with rise in voice but laughter vibe i was getting.

[@aileenswann]

Yeah, i never got this. It might be a meme on xeno's chat, but it is pretty real in other streams XD Isn't hearing the opinion of the person reacting kinda the point of it all? XD

[@jonathanarvizu1403]

thanks for covering this bud. Rin got me messed up saying Wave got done dirty yet he was the one shoving the rod up Wave,

[@Midnightear]

Lmao Rin's like 'oh yeah I'm gonna gaslight Wave, and I'll gaslight you too!' Dude's actually a pathological liar...

[@cloud09gaming]

I don't understand. Why is the only items that he brings forward is stuff that *supports* the arguments against him. There is a severe lack of self-awareness going on in this "response" video. Maybe if they fix it later then we'll see. But for now all this really proved is that they're full of rude arrogant people, sadly including Rin who I used to like. :< Also edit: I'm fully a "two sides to every story" and we will probably never know all the details. But when I literally see Rin sitting there telling someone they're yelling and we can hear that he isn't in *both* clips where they accused him of it. You're just showing you're a bunch of liars pointing to calling someone a liar. Agree with the whole "Don't harass people" though. What do people think they're going to win doing that?

[@joaoteixeira8349]

don't forget it's a REUPLOAD!

[@FIREBALLINbg]

Well I wouldnt say people should get harassed, but they definitely deserve to be told off in some way however mild. If it's severe I'd just get harder even if it's not a thing im proud of. Wave got completely squished and as melodramatic as it sounds it was a cruel and ruthless squishing to his being. So fuck Rin and this whack ass static or whatever you people call it. Im sorry, but im mad as apples.

[@semekiizuio]

Im not for harrassment... except if it gets them to quit the game maybe...

[@Phynastor]

I'm kind of a believer of "Falsus in uno, Falsus in omnibus". These people lied several times, gaslit and outright made some shit up. I'm not going to believe a single one of the claims they made unless I see proof of it.

[@elldibs7396]

remember the words of asmongold. never let your mask down on stream. if you are faking being a "family-friendly," "helpful," "approachable" "tank mentor" you better keep that mask on no matter what. your entire career and reputation depend on it.

[@GoatSays]

That Rin guy is so annoying. The fact that Wave didn't tell him to just stfu shows restraint.

[@TheYanDR]

That guy Rin needs to learn how to speak to people like an adult.

[@Zapphiren]

Imagine Xenos now recruits Wave for the next ultimate raid. This whole drama would come to a happy conclusion

[@SambreakerSasaki]

Idk why, but Rin just looks like Dollar Store Andrew Tate 🤣

[@tankplank69]

I cannot unsee this now

[@kamaha0010]

Top G? More like Big L

[@ArchieGamez]

OH MY GOD 🤣

[@Cfishies]

herbivore male version of andrew tate more like

[@never5930]

Rin keeps losing my respect more and more overtime. I dont want to have no respect for him but he is making it difficult Regardless of if he is right or not, the way he was speaking to the healer was so disrespectful and condescending.

[@ItsSVO]

Well that’s because Rin is that type of person and always has been. I took one listen to his stream a while ago and the forced over the top positivity is exactly how a cunt whose trying to manipulate people into watching them would behave, compare this to xeno and Arthars who are genuine on stream.

[@cd2340]

dude is the fucking epitome of fake nice. That soft, overtly nice voice he puts on like in this instance while also being passive aggressive is so fucking annoying.

[@FinalJimothy]

why does rin even deserve respect lol

[@never5930]

@@FinalJimothy i was fond of him when i first started the game i guess. I just hate to see people go downhill in my eyes

[@theoperator3712]

@@never5930 He's not going downhill, this is just his true character coming out. If you go looking around you'll find a long history of this. If you want witness testimony, ask the people that knew him when he was on Balmung. I've always heard them saying the same thing, that he was a toxic jerk. People can change, but Rin hasn't. Honestly, he reminds me of a sociopath I used to know.

[@N3k0G4m1]

If rin notices that wave always sounds that way, maybe he should consider it as his normal voice? For me it looks like the whole group is bullying wave the whole time for his voice... (3rd clip)

[@eureka5635]

Rin giving me major Gaslighting and narcissist vibes.

[@StefawnVan]

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@StefawnVan]

bingo

[@kitten1591]

Yeah, because ragequitting is "participating in discussions", and spamming heals during downtime and OOM'ing yourself is "coming prepared" pepega

[@tanhongyi7180]

This is kind of the problem with them. None of them, especially raid leader nor Rin, knows anything about healing, and yet they defended Dice's mistake not because Dice was right, but rather they want to shut Wave up. At this point there is NO WAY the raid will progress, because no one is acknowledging the problem. And on the contrary, they are twisting them into illogical arguments. This is totally counterproductive for progging a raid because no one will know what went wrong, and what should be done right. These ain't hardcore raiders, they're casuals. They're casuals pretending they are playing hardcore by progging the hardest fight blind, without knowing what it really takes to prog a fight blind. They're better off reading guides at this point of time.

[@aykan5621]

43:06 I'm 100% sure that the one that was pushing "his" strat was Rin cuz I watched his guide about the new paladin rotation, and for some reason he chose the most complicate rotation when in Discord you have an easier one that does the same overall damage.

[@IKIGAIofficial]

Met someone just like this on Midgardsormr. You tell them that theyre wrong on something then they grasp at straws saying stuff like “oh well you were wrong to say that I was wrong in public like that”

[@Direwolf13PS3]

The raid lead should've just said I picked my friend over Wave, and that's it. Instead he buried himself under his own stupidity. Could've dodged the 'elitism' drama and just made it clear he picks favorites.

[@NekuHarp]

Y'know, when I see Rin's behaviour, I start to think that sometimes, harassment can be justified.

[@ProtossOP]

Harassment? Not really. But Rin needs someone to beat his ass for his behaviour, that would fix a lot of his issues.

[@PocketMitts]

I’m confused about the part that the raid leader says they had to constantly explain stuff to Wave. When they were trialing him and interviewing him did they even check his experience with hardcore raiding? He said himself he was new to this saying he started raiding in endwalker. Now it’s fair that he isn’t to your expectations but surely you’d expect to have to cater to wave solely based off his experience.

[@samwilkinson9309]

Damn, the raid leader made just as good if not a better argument for Wave than Wave made 😂

[@PianoMatn]

And that 'yelling' reminded me of the movie with Adam Sandler in the plane and the women and guy asked him to stop yelling lol

[@inquisitr1892]

Man is speaking in a perfectly reasonable voice..."Stop yelling!"

[@BroadBoulders]

36:41 "Does the demon have hair?" xffing

[@javicasi69]

I’m so fucking glad Xeno calls Rin out on his bullshit. Like come on. They did the wave kid dirty, that’s fine w/e but don’t then turn around and saying you were pro wave.

[@leongalette2712]

Glad you got a chuckle from my comment on the response video.

[@Ely_ria]

Saying to someone not yell when they are not yelling is almost an unconscious technique to be on the right even for a moment and also confuse the other person.