The reason why you are getting the current normal raids on Mondays is because its the last day before weekly resets. Most have already gotten their tokens and Monday is the last day to get them, so a lot less people would be queuing for it.
2:07 For spreading the hearts, they do indeed work the same way. It's just funny to note however that in savage, the stacks **don't** give a magic vulnerability, so you can just safely stack both of them on top of each other and resolve it even easier. I just find it funny how it's a tad more punishing in that regard in normal mode lol
I appreciate the perfect 13:37 run time. Very leet. Seeing you play BRD in M4N also reminded me of my weekly reclear yesterday. There was a first time BRD, and them and really most of the group was having a rough go of it. I'm not sure if the BRD was feeling bad about their damage, their rotation (especially after seeing you highlight the pain of dying mid burst as BRD), or both, but starting with the earliest available LB2 once they got revived for the second time in short order, they just started firing off an LB1 each time the gauge filled. I know LB damage is always in a kind of weird spot in terms of how much of a difference it makes in any given content outside of very specific situations while LBs regularly get wasted in dungeons in particular making their use time fairly irrelevant almost always, but I still would have loved a melee LB3 in that fight lol
2nd boss of Strayborough is simple, the death cups are always going to be either adjacent (1 in, 1 out) or mirrored (both out or in), regardless of which the cup that is "behind" the other when they spin is the only one you need to watch as the quadrant following/just behind it will always be safe. Alternatively the same thing applies if you go 1 quadrant ahead of the "front" cup. I could be wrong, haven't gotten it in a bit actually and the way to tell adjacent or mirrored I'd be surprised if it was totally right, but I'm fairly certain that as long as you stay one ahead of the front or one behind of the back cup you can always resolve it safely.
I've glossed over a guide for it, and apparently from the third cups and onward, they have "more" possible patterns 🤔 I just can never remember them! 😂
@@CaetsuChaijiCh really? I've found the trick of watching the back cup and getting behind it to work every time. Though I see the 3rd set less and less these days as people get better and more often have red tome and raid gear.
so one thing to note: Bard song duration is 15 seconds longer than the 2 min burst this is nice because if you die early in a song and cast the next one, you have a 15 seconds "grace period" where you always had a song up even with a death casting whichever song is the next early also doesn't screw your rotation in the next 2 minutes because you'll end up drifting it anyway to get the full benefit of the previous song that means if you die 20 seconds into wanderers minuet and rez takes 8 seconds and you immediately cast mage's ballad, when army's paeon times out you'll end up only 2 seconds without a song, as opposed to the 17 seconds you would otherwise plus it's a lot easier than to keep track of when exactly you should cast current song based on cd of songs you already used it's only really bad to cast something *after* you should've cast it(and maybe wanderer's, but my gut says you should also be fine so long as you still have it during the burst
That's of course true, but mages ballad has a cooldown, and if you used mages ballad the last time 43 seconds after wanderers, you simply cannot choose to use it earlier than that because of the cooldown 😅
idk if its more or less helpful but for e8 i always just treat the mirrors as copies of shiva facing the outside of the arena. if shes cleaving in large circle (biting frost? driving frost? i dont ever remember the name ._.) the safe spot for those copies would of course be, outside of the arena. so you need to get waaaay out to avoid the big circles, for example. tho im not sure if thats harder or easier to remember when youre actually doing it >_>; also love that u fought rathalos with fatalis :D fitting
Duty 2: I didn't know that's what the heart stack marker does. This never came up whenever I did M2N, we just stacked properly. That said, in any sorta high level content, I will not chase after people with a stack marker unless it is required for a mechanic and running to Narnia to stack there is the correct solution. They run away or don't get in melee range, their problem and I assume they know what they're doing. Bonus points if I'm not the tank. The only time I chased someone with a stack marker was when a sprout did that in Prae and I was the tank. Turned out they didn't know it and were glad when they got the explanation. Duty 6: Arm's Length/Surecast? Does that work? Never tried it. Duty 9: What do you mean? That's how you do the mechanic. Kill the boss before the third cups. Easy. Clearly, there is not a single ghost town run that strays from that rule. Nope. Never, not at all.
Indeed, understanding how the stack works is irrelevant as long as you respect it in a way 😅 and yes, running to Narnia usually means you get it alone! I don't know if kb immunity would work, it might 🤔 i usually don't think about it because the part where it matters most you can only realistically stop one of three knockbacks! 🤔
For the stack one, while true, by taking it solo they gave the chance of 3 other players more breathing room for other heart mechanics. They can survive it and nothing critical was going on during that point in the fight. This only works out in normal though of course.
That is true! The main reason why I felt the need to point all this out at all, is because a moment after they got hit, they said something to the effect of "I don't know how it works on normal" or something like that, so my guess was that even if it was potentially helpful, it may have been entirely unintentional!
For brute bomber i have noticed something but it could just be coincidence. After he drinks the enhancement, in normal version, his first lariat chain is always opposite sides and his second lariat chain is always the same side. If I'm wrong about this, I'm sorry
Just a heads up if you haven't done mentor roulette since the mog event started. I did 10 of them yesterday and half were Alexander raids (since they give mog tomes now)
ngl was thinking but for the honey b lovely fight what if the tank took it alone so everyone else had more breathing room. With the stacks going out normally everyone ends up with 1 heart and 1 or 2 after towers so going into hearts phase a lot of people only have 1 chance to get hit by a heart before getting stunned. If the tank takes it alone he takes almost no damage, is stunned but since its towers the stun isn't during a dangerous mech and it leaves everyone with 0-2 hearts so they have more breathing room for when dodging hearts mech comes up
It can be helpful, but it is also a strategy that assumes failure, as it is possible to do without I'd say! 🤔 But Indeed, it would soak up hearts so others don't need to have them!
@@MajoraZero ideally you aren't reacting like that though. you see the lines ahead of time before the line aoe and adjust. But i know what you mean when you lose track of things and start dodging like neo. I play on high ping too I'm super far from the servers so i feel the pain.
I do have to disagree with you on the Paladin soloing the M2N stack marker, 4 less hearts on the group going into the chaotic heart phase is absolutely worth a tank being stunned for a few seconds. That's a big brain play in my books.
I‘ll always remember my first time queueing for rathalos extreme, because after 30 minutes of queue time I found a group, enjoyed the cutscene since it was my first time and came to a party entirely deserted except for me 🥲
The reason why you are getting the current normal raids on Mondays is because its the last day before weekly resets. Most have already gotten their tokens and Monday is the last day to get them, so a lot less people would be queuing for it.
Yeah that does make sense 😊
2:07 For spreading the hearts, they do indeed work the same way. It's just funny to note however that in savage, the stacks **don't** give a magic vulnerability, so you can just safely stack both of them on top of each other and resolve it even easier. I just find it funny how it's a tad more punishing in that regard in normal mode lol
It is strange that M2N has a few mechanics that some would consider harder than the savage version, just in general! 😂
Oh there's a magic vuln in normal? I assumed it was the same as savage haha
The Tank wanted to be a super simp for Honey B. Lovely. On Duty 2.
Ah, "I WANT ALL THE LOVE!" 😂
For Eden's Titan I love a simple rule to remember the mech - "Do not stand in front of the car" 😄
"stand in front of titan with the big arms! He wants to give a hug!" 😂
I appreciate the perfect 13:37 run time. Very leet.
Seeing you play BRD in M4N also reminded me of my weekly reclear yesterday. There was a first time BRD, and them and really most of the group was having a rough go of it. I'm not sure if the BRD was feeling bad about their damage, their rotation (especially after seeing you highlight the pain of dying mid burst as BRD), or both, but starting with the earliest available LB2 once they got revived for the second time in short order, they just started firing off an LB1 each time the gauge filled. I know LB damage is always in a kind of weird spot in terms of how much of a difference it makes in any given content outside of very specific situations while LBs regularly get wasted in dungeons in particular making their use time fairly irrelevant almost always, but I still would have loved a melee LB3 in that fight lol
Hmm yeah that does sound like a frustrated bard if I didn't know better 😰
Bard Mentor Roulette!? Updated Bard Guide confirmed!?!?
Yep! 😉😁
2nd boss of Strayborough is simple, the death cups are always going to be either adjacent (1 in, 1 out) or mirrored (both out or in), regardless of which the cup that is "behind" the other when they spin is the only one you need to watch as the quadrant following/just behind it will always be safe. Alternatively the same thing applies if you go 1 quadrant ahead of the "front" cup. I could be wrong, haven't gotten it in a bit actually and the way to tell adjacent or mirrored I'd be surprised if it was totally right, but I'm fairly certain that as long as you stay one ahead of the front or one behind of the back cup you can always resolve it safely.
I've glossed over a guide for it, and apparently from the third cups and onward, they have "more" possible patterns 🤔 I just can never remember them! 😂
@@CaetsuChaijiCh really? I've found the trick of watching the back cup and getting behind it to work every time. Though I see the 3rd set less and less these days as people get better and more often have red tome and raid gear.
The tank going to Narnia had me laughing harder than I have in recent memory. So damn funny.
I'm glad to hear that! 😂😄
so one thing to note: Bard song duration is 15 seconds longer than the 2 min burst
this is nice because if you die early in a song and cast the next one, you have a 15 seconds "grace period" where you always had a song up even with a death
casting whichever song is the next early also doesn't screw your rotation in the next 2 minutes because you'll end up drifting it anyway to get the full benefit of the previous song
that means if you die 20 seconds into wanderers minuet and rez takes 8 seconds and you immediately cast mage's ballad, when army's paeon times out you'll end up only 2 seconds without a song, as opposed to the 17 seconds you would otherwise
plus it's a lot easier than to keep track of when exactly you should cast current song based on cd of songs you already used
it's only really bad to cast something *after* you should've cast it(and maybe wanderer's, but my gut says you should also be fine so long as you still have it during the burst
That's of course true, but mages ballad has a cooldown, and if you used mages ballad the last time 43 seconds after wanderers, you simply cannot choose to use it earlier than that because of the cooldown 😅
@@CaetsuChaijiCh *facepalm* right! true! I need coffee and a new brain 🤣
at least that works on the first 2 minutes
@kyallokytty oh yes definitely, your suggestion works under the right circumstances and it was a nice thought! 😁
"It is JUST Alarm Pheromones. Right, guys? ;)"
*cries in M2S*
You can't imagine how many wipes or almost wipes I've had to it too! 😂
@@CaetsuChaijiChour static calls that mechanic BS bees
I remember Bard’s old effect of increasing max HP was actively detrimental to use in certain fights, now how am I supposed to wipe my raid on bard
I suppose there are mechanics that hit for % of hp that would be hilariously problematic! 😂
idk if its more or less helpful but for e8 i always just treat the mirrors as copies of shiva facing the outside of the arena. if shes cleaving in large circle (biting frost? driving frost? i dont ever remember the name ._.) the safe spot for those copies would of course be, outside of the arena. so you need to get waaaay out to avoid the big circles, for example. tho im not sure if thats harder or easier to remember when youre actually doing it >_>; also love that u fought rathalos with fatalis :D fitting
That is an interesting way to work it! 😊
Ha! I didn't even notice! That's amazing! 😂
Duty 2: I didn't know that's what the heart stack marker does. This never came up whenever I did M2N, we just stacked properly. That said, in any sorta high level content, I will not chase after people with a stack marker unless it is required for a mechanic and running to Narnia to stack there is the correct solution. They run away or don't get in melee range, their problem and I assume they know what they're doing. Bonus points if I'm not the tank. The only time I chased someone with a stack marker was when a sprout did that in Prae and I was the tank. Turned out they didn't know it and were glad when they got the explanation.
Duty 6: Arm's Length/Surecast? Does that work? Never tried it.
Duty 9: What do you mean? That's how you do the mechanic. Kill the boss before the third cups. Easy. Clearly, there is not a single ghost town run that strays from that rule. Nope. Never, not at all.
Indeed, understanding how the stack works is irrelevant as long as you respect it in a way 😅 and yes, running to Narnia usually means you get it alone!
I don't know if kb immunity would work, it might 🤔 i usually don't think about it because the part where it matters most you can only realistically stop one of three knockbacks! 🤔
For the stack one, while true, by taking it solo they gave the chance of 3 other players more breathing room for other heart mechanics. They can survive it and nothing critical was going on during that point in the fight. This only works out in normal though of course.
That is true! The main reason why I felt the need to point all this out at all, is because a moment after they got hit, they said something to the effect of "I don't know how it works on normal" or something like that, so my guess was that even if it was potentially helpful, it may have been entirely unintentional!
For brute bomber i have noticed something but it could just be coincidence. After he drinks the enhancement, in normal version, his first lariat chain is always opposite sides and his second lariat chain is always the same side. If I'm wrong about this, I'm sorry
My observations on this is that it's true. Probably about 10 kills since I noticed and it hasn't been wrong yet
That is a great observation! I will trust your word on it. It makes sense since it teaches that he can mix it up like that!
This has also been the case for every one of my BB runs (at least 25)
Just a heads up if you haven't done mentor roulette since the mog event started. I did 10 of them yesterday and half were Alexander raids (since they give mog tomes now)
Oh yeah that could happen haha! 😂 It makes sense!
5 Raids and 2 Extreme Trials? You sure this week was not just a boss rush?
Good work once again!
Yeah I guess it kind of is! 🤣
ngl was thinking but for the honey b lovely fight what if the tank took it alone so everyone else had more breathing room. With the stacks going out normally everyone ends up with 1 heart and 1 or 2 after towers so going into hearts phase a lot of people only have 1 chance to get hit by a heart before getting stunned. If the tank takes it alone he takes almost no damage, is stunned but since its towers the stun isn't during a dangerous mech and it leaves everyone with 0-2 hearts so they have more breathing room for when dodging hearts mech comes up
It can be helpful, but it is also a strategy that assumes failure, as it is possible to do without I'd say! 🤔 But Indeed, it would soak up hearts so others don't need to have them!
Alarm pheromones 1 is my fav mechanic of the tier
It is interesting! But it starts to get grating when other players keep failing it I suppose! 😂
@@CaetsuChaijiCh I just tire of mechanics that are so predictable. It's nice to have a mix up and have to react on the fly.
@Jahkrel oh definitely!
@@Jahkrelhaving to react with short time and high ping sucks :(
@@MajoraZero ideally you aren't reacting like that though. you see the lines ahead of time before the line aoe and adjust. But i know what you mean when you lose track of things and start dodging like neo. I play on high ping too I'm super far from the servers so i feel the pain.
I bumped into Caetsu in a guildhest today, I wonder what that means. :D
More mentor roulette grind! 😂
A lot of current raid fights popping up is probably a bunch of people trying to get some weekly gear last minute. At least, that's my guess.
Food for algorythm
An army's paeon if you will! 😄😁
I do have to disagree with you on the Paladin soloing the M2N stack marker, 4 less hearts on the group going into the chaotic heart phase is absolutely worth a tank being stunned for a few seconds. That's a big brain play in my books.
I suppose you're right! 😅😂
I‘ll always remember my first time queueing for rathalos extreme, because after 30 minutes of queue time I found a group, enjoyed the cutscene since it was my first time and came to a party entirely deserted except for me 🥲