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R3drum was known for everything. Their leader was the best sparer until Kevin passed him. Overall most of them had good spar and pk stats. Destroyed towering when it was the hardest to get a tower. Thx to Lia they were the most popular guild ;p, they were the trend setters. Whatever Shinta did everyone else followed. Sh1t comet from US spent 2 years trying to be better than Shinta and that includes 1 year after Shinta went inactive.
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Shinta was never really very great in my opinion. He was average. I don't think I ever lost to him more than once every three or four times I beat him. And there were always tons of people better than me. Kevin was always on top. Shinta has numbers on his profile, and that really doesn't speak to me. R3druM itself was, again, a group of friends. They all joked and behaved as a group, so it is only natural that they were "trend-setters" for other members. They had strong players to defend the towers for longer amounts of time, which worked towards the guilds success.
Keep in mind that this was the only guild at the time that wasn't composed of "perms" and "temps" and had no real allies/sub guilds. It had strong, dedicated members, and therefore had a large advantage over any other guild at the time. You may also remember the 4-digit codename guild, Anbu. That was fun as well, while it was essentially R3druM with a different name, made just for fun. It kind of died, though. I forget what my number was, too.
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But the best part about it and why I must give them credit is because they did it when it was a pretty even playing field. While US was a guild that had more than 30 years combined of experience and they had an uneven playing field to their favor. Iphone5 at least can compete with most pcs atm but when US “terrorized” (lol) graal iphone4s were not even close to be on a pc level.
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True in a way, but US came when the playing field evened out as well. We just raised the bar. Once other guilds began growing and people started getting better at fighting these players with more experience (or skills rubbed off?), US had finally found some close matches right at the end of its heavy activity streak.
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Ive been asked to multiple guilds and the only one I felt bad about declining was Ryo’s invitation. He was the sparer that I respected the most for his behavior.
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I've declined pretty much every major guild that still exists today except a select one or two. The only major guild leaders that I don't recall offering me a position were Clops and Thallen. Ryo is a very respectable person, and a really nice guy! I used to talk to him all the time, and we would guild spar with some other Japanese players every Saturday morning for a good year or so. This group of sparrers eventually gathered in Yocchi's guild, Momento Mori, for GST. Most of the members are gone, though.
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Don’t get me wrong I respect him for what hes done for the server but I pride myself on not sucking up to people or being a follower. Im not like 90% of the community I can stand on my own.
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Are you saying me and my guildmates suck up to Rufus? He's a friend to us, why would we be his "followers" or suck up to him for anything? If you don't mean us, and you mean the Graalians not including US and you, I don't think anyone can speak for them except themselves.
Also, just because you aren't in a guild means that you are above 90% of the community? Do you mean that anyone who is a part of any guild lacks the ability to stand on their own?