• Social Etiquette: Public and global chat channels may not be used to spam, harass, or annoy other players. Please use the appropriate global channels when buying or selling items or forming groups. Using global channels to harass or spam other players may result in muting your account for a certain period of time or in serious cases may result in a temporary ban.
• Reporting Behavior: Please take screenshots of any serious infractions of harassment or behavior that grossly violates our rules and submit them to the Report section of the forums. Private messages that are unwanted should be blocked by using the command “/ex ”. Please remember that unwanted messages do not necessarily constitute harassment. However, messages containing, racist, homophobic or sexual content should be reported (via screenshot) and may result in the temporary mute or suspension of the party sending such content.
• Game Masters / Community Managers: GMs will never ask you for your items or password in-game, on the Discord Server or on our site. GMs will not give away zeny, items, or assist players in any ways with the exception of certain events that allow GM interaction. Please understand our GMs and CMs are human beings who mainly act as volunteers out of love for the game and server. They deserve your patience and should be treated like any other member of our community as they help you.
• Other RO Servers: While casual mention is fine, please reserve discussion, advertisement, or recommendations of other servers to appropriate forums such as RateMyServer or other fan communities. Users advertising other services or goods from other servers may receive a temporary or permanent ban.

• General Rule of Thumb: Each player is expected to create a welcoming community. While competition and banter is allowed, overt “griefing” or harassment of other players may be punishable by warning or other severe means.
• Kill Stealing: Players are expected to make a good faith effort to not kill steal from other players—that is the purposeful killing of other players’ tagged mobs. Accidental kill stealing should be forgiven. However, if victim of a repeat kill stealer, please record video or submit substantial evidence through screenshots documenting the *repeated* kill stealing behavior of the other person. Please note that only the most serious infractions will be investigated.
  Being a victim of kill stealing does not invite you to harass or insult the other player. Remember that two wrongs do not make a right.
• Mobbing: Mobbing, that is the gathering of mobs to kill all at once, is allowed to the extent that it does not affect other players. Valiant prides itself in rebalancing the experience granted by all mobs, which in turn will make various leveling strategies outside of mobbing viable and encouraged.
• MVP Rules: MVPs are not considered subject to the kill stealing rule and any player may attack them. Loot is also free-for-all if multiple parties or players are competing for the kill. Loot priority is programmed to favor the player(s) with the highest damage output. Using skills such as Pneuma or other things to purposely kill or grief other players will not be tolerated. It is PVM not PVP when you are killing MVPs.
• Griefing: Skills should be used for the benefit of players and eradication of mobs. Players using skills to harass other players may be subject to punishment. Examples would be trapping players using ice wall or buffing mobs to grief players. These rules are not applicable in PVP situations.

• Mob Griefing: The gathering of mobs with the intention to kill another player is not permitted. While some situations cause players to run past you with mobs that may switch their targeting to you, especially in dungeons with tight corridors, the intentional gathering of mobs with the sole purpose of killing another player is a bannable offense.
  If you become victim to this abuse, please provide us with screenshots showing the player heading towards you with mobs, and purposely running those mobs into you or using skills such as hide, teleport or vanish near you to force those mobs to attack you. Note that this is a difficult offense to prove and the more visual evidence (especially video evidence) you provide, the better. The offender’s name should be visible in all reported media.
  
• Scamming: Sellers should be very careful about listing items at their intended prices. Buyers as well should look carefully at any item they buy to ensure it is the right item at the price they intend to pay with the correct number of sockets (if equipment). Players grossly misrepresenting items that they are selling may be subject to punishment depending on the severity.
  DO NOT AGREE TO ANY INDIRECT TRADING SUCH AS TRADING AN ITEM BETWEEN TWO CHARACTERS IN EXCHANGE FOR AN ITEM OR ZENY ON A THIRD CHARACTER.
• Illegal or Inappropriate Content: Content including but not limited to sex, nudity, gore, violence, drugs, racial slurs, homophobic, or other prejudiced content is unwelcomed in our community and will be punished depending on the severity of such comments. Again, please first try to ignore the player, but if the player persists with such remarks or content, please report that player to our staff for investigation.

Punishments are issued at the discretion of the GM Team and will be considered on a case-by-case basis. We reserve the right to mute, ban, and jail you for rule violations with or without warning. Punishment and conflict resolution is to be kept private between the sanctioned player and the GM team.

1. No Spamming: Spamming refers to sending irrelevant messages, or a large amount of messages in a large volume. People spamming messages may be warned or muted.
2. No Insults or Harassment: Sometimes people may have different opinions with one another, but that doesn’t give the right for personal attacks, derogatory statements, or insults. People caught in a heated argument may be warned once to cease. Mute time or permanent removal from the Discord server may follow after if the behavior continues. Try and keep the peace. If someone is upsetting you, block them. Constantly pinging a user who doesn’t wish to engage with you will be considered harassment. If someone is bothering you, don’t make a scene. DM a moderator.
3. Remain Civil: Respect is a two way street. Please treat others how you would like to be treated in return. If someone is uncomfortable with an edgy topic and asks for it to stop, please respect their wishes or continue the discussion in DMs.
4. No Sexual, Racist, or Homophobic Content: The occasional “PG” innuendo as a joke is fine; we all giggled at the naughty “PP” joke from Pokémon as little kids, but try to keep it clean. Content including but not limited to sex, nudity, gore, violence, drugs, racial slurs, homophobic, or other prejudiced content is unwelcomed in our community and will be punished depending on the severity of such comments.
5. Use Appropriate Channels: Channels exist for a reason. Try to keep the channels on topic. We understand that sometimes conversations steer off course now and then, but try to keep them on track. Channels such as Bug Reports, Suggestion Box, or Support are not the channels for debates and discussion as it harms the staff's ability to respond appropriately to actual problems.
6. No Real Money Transactions: Do not post offerings for items with the intention to sell/buy/trade for real currency. People found doing this will be permanently removed from the Discord Server immediately. Only currency, services and items within the server itself are allowed to be offered and traded.
7. Other RO Servers: Please reserve discussion, advertisement, or recommendations of other servers to appropriate forums such as RateMyServer or other fan communities. Casual mention is fine, but this is not the place to discuss other servers. We are our own server and do not need constant comparisons such as "X server did this". We of course are open to improvement, but ultimately what we decide to implement will be dictated based on community wants and technical limitations.