(Lost Ark) Thaemine THE FIRST 5th clear EUC [DQ] | Gunlancer, Red/Lone Knight

Edit: I re-uploaded this but with less compression here    • the first hd  

Note: A lot of gameplay in this video is really bad. It's so bad that I was planning on keeping this unlisted but due to the circumstances below I don't plan on coming back to Lost Ark any time soon, so I can't redo it with better gameplay.

0:00 G3
16:50 G4 - 1
32:40 G4 - 2
39:49 G4 - 3 (cutscene)
42:02 G4 - 3
45:51 End

= What is this video about?

Thaemine is the final 'legion raid' in Lost Ark, which when released in KR was supposed to be the hardest raid ever. It was so difficult that the raid was nerfed after release to make it more realistic for most players to complete, although the initial hardest version of the raid is still accessible in 'THE FIRST' mode. There was a race for the first 10 teams to complete this mode across all regions where this game was released. Many teams, including ours, were disqualified (DQ'd) from the race after clearing mostly due to RMT (buying gold).

I got RMT banned twice (once on release week, and again 1 week after this clear happened), not going to claim innocence or anything they were both valid. My choice was to either not participate in the Thaemine race, or RMT to get to 1630 and get DQ'd (1635 was overkill but in January I was ~8m gold away from 1630 anyway). The second ban was unfortunate as it was for transactions that happened before Thaemine release, but I knew it was coming since the original ban didn't remove enough gold.

Some other people on the team got banned too, not my place to say whether they were deserved or not for the most part. But Melt's ban was completely false (appeal auto-denied), it's hard to believe that someone with a 1630 breaker on Thaemine release didn't RMT but it's doable if you run busses on 9 characters every week for a year. I can't prove this, but neither can AGS.

No regrets though, the only thing I would have done differently is RMT in a less obvious way, like (some of) the teams currently listed on the leaderboard, instead of just sending G2G gold directly to my account.

Timeline of THE FIRST clears on EUC:
1st (dq): alveonna
(1st) 2nd: woqq aka team euw
3rd (dq): kappi
(2nd) (reclear): alveonna
(3rd) (reclear): kappi, rewind
(4th): realize, yavida, etc
5th (dq): our team
6th?: normal content players 1640 arcana
7th? (broadcasted as 5th): yuui
8th? (broadcasted as 6th): valenteer
9th? (broadcasted as 7th): syn/gaesaekki
10th? (broadcasted as 8th): pikeogens? nada?
11th? (broadcasted as 9th): keldon?
12th? (broadcasted as 10th): qiyana?

Recorded with OBS https://obsproject.com/