For those who don't know that Alexander fight, OT takes the orb to revive the robots, as it will target the one that drops it. Take them to the platform that is going to disappear, kill mobs before they fall in. If they go in alive, boom. If they don't go in the lava, boss get boosted. Hide behind rocks to avoid raid wide. When the big robot comes in, take it to the last platform that drops.
To add to this, you do NOT need to revive the mobs that are already in the zone that will get cheesed. What matters is that when it goes off, all the dead adds are in there. That's the whole mechanic (same for Faust, just failing him is instant wipe) of the fight.
and to explain why the bodies need to end up in the cheese; the boss gets upgrades from all the bodies and will do more damage when it gets more upgrades and it one shots when it gets the final upgrade.
Also the boss is invincible when the Full Metal Faust comes in, so the MT can help with demolishing its health before it goes for a lava bath and kills the raid
@20:00 I liked a lot of the Hard Mode dungeons because they were also often story sequels to the normal modes. Which is rare in a MMO. Usually you do dungeon thing, it's done, NPCs' problem resolved, the end. Most HMs after the first few have entirely different mechanics and scenery anyway. But Tam-Tara gave us 2 dungeons and Palace of the Dead for an ongoing story of some characters you can see outside Sastasha normal, a group where you beat them to the punch on a bounty on some pirates in a cave back around level 15.
The undergeared, single pull and then double pull at random dark knight. The single target ninja. The "IS USING A WAND AND SHIELD" blackmage. Truly the AV experience.
That first run reminded me of a Dzemael Darkhold I had recently. The tank was... baby tank, on a Dark Knight. But soon as they admitted it the rest of us were chill and happy to explain mit mechanics and stuff. Like I said to them, everyone starts somewhere and FFXIV is one of the MMOs where explaining that to the rest of your party will get you helped, not kicked.
I had one run with a baby bunny tank...i think everyone was tired - 2am - and were confused why the tank full pulled the we wiped. Then after the tank onlt singled pulled and also would start the boss unless someone else did. no hate on them cus i knew they were new,i was just to tried to say anything. And I was making plenty mistakes as i lvled my DRN
I've been loving this series! I know you've had a hell of a lot of backseating about the DPS thing so I've refrained from commenting so far, but as you mentioned at the end you're considering your options, I thought I might have some stats for you. I'm a healer main and have done the mentor roulette grind and also tracked it (about 1800/2000). My data is mainly from Stormblood/Shadowbringers (pre 5.3) so might not be that relevant. I came to the same conclusion as you did for running heals - it was definitely a lot of dungeons and brain numbing. I mixed it up in the end to keep from going insane and ended up doing about 1200 on DPS, 600 on heals and less than 100 on tank. - I found that DPS was the most varied - I came out at 33% for guildhests, 25% dungeons, 17% normal raids, 14% normal trials, 7% ex trials and 4% 24 mans. 0.5 comms per run. - Healer was 60% dungeons, 17.5% guildhests, 10.5% normal trials, 5% normal raid, 5% ex trials and just under 2% on 24 mans. I averaged 1.5 comms per run. - My tank data set isn't great at all, so I won't share figures, but it was mainly dungeons, trials and guildhests. On average, I got 1 comm per run. Most common dungeon was Castrum on healer, but I got a LOT of expert fills on DPS. Most common EX was Rathalos (also my most hated queue pop), followed by Garuda.
I'm at ≈500 runs and I almost play exclusively on DPS because of that, I don't really mind EXs since if the run isn't clearable another mentor will probably leave before me and if it is it won't take too long with echo and us outgearing the boss by a lot, having more guildheist makes the grind shorter anyways (and usually trial/ normal raid are faster than a dungeon too) so it just feels way better overall. I originally wanted to do it on tank to do the tank achievements too but it's like healer and you get dungeons a TON, I'll just farm it spamming O3 in an unsync group it'll be faster :P
I half expected you to throw in the usual "Tremble!" as a replacement for the tremble in Laha's line, but even without that the edits were still hilarious there.
Did my 2k mentor roulettes, I have them all burned into my mind. If you want the EXs though, just wait until 7.0 drops. All the new people coming in with each expansion causes the number of them to take off. You're running at the end of an expansion, so newbies is going to be low, minus Xbox newbies.
As a trial sprout i usually looked up new dungeons i went into and i instantly learned that the most clueless and checked out players (who never explained anything) were usually crown icons. The vast majority of weird toxic or baffling behavior i've seen over the years came from mentors that were clearly burned out or dead inside because it was their 40th run that day on some soul-rending grind and they had absolutely no fucks left to give.
Honestly, that's just some runs of leveling stuff in general, Stone Vigil I remember being a checkpoint dungeon while I was leveling my classes. Once I had the chance to roll Stone Vigil, I made sure all my gear was on level because if it wasn't (doubly so if I was tanking or healing) it would be so much harder
fun fact: the dusk vigil's mammoth boss has that rout ability that is supposed to do shared dmg, but it hits for so low overall that it doesn't matter. The same enemy appears as a SB hunt mark, I think, and every iteration since then it has the shared marker... They would've added it to the dungeon as well if it had to be reworked for Duty Support, but it's an optional dungeon so it stays like that LOL
love your edits of Ultima. Seriously one of my favourite cutscenes simply because Gaius and the way he says "Lahabrea.." but you just make it so much better because now I can't stop with the "Bears" during that cutscene lmao
I had an aurum vale run the other day. Had an ARCANIST in the group, and he kept spamming physick. When asked to focus on dpsing he said no cause he wanted to practice for scholar. 😂
@@Wiles731 I had a Mrd, tank in Haukke Manor -which can happen and is fine. So no issue. However, I happened to check them as they were overleveled just to give a general 'hey don't forget to unlock warrior after this!' kinda message. I got back 'I have it, the *dungeon sets it to mrd b/c underlevel*' I was like 'no...see how we're all bard, sch, drg. We all have job stones.' He is like then 'report them or i leave' and i (sch btw) said No no I can leave. And as I'm leaving, the Drg laughs and goes 'bro....your forgot to equip your job stone.
gosh i hate people like that before they got rid of protect (idk if you were around when healers had protect but it was a shield you cast on the party) i hat this guy in that one dungeo with the ants and the chimera? anyway everytime i cast protect on him he'd remove it and said it was because he "getting used to not having it when they took it away" we kicked him.
Once for giggles most of my praetorium party just didn't use abilities and beat up Lahabrea with auto attacks. MSQ Roulette was weird (and a terrible experience your first time). Personally I'd really like to see them give 8 player dungeons another shot.
Before the rework i took a whole team unsyncd but locking us to level 1 gear and accesories. We did cape westwind, livia, and the ultima weapon fights. People were seeing mechanics they never saw before. It was fun
Tip on the big walking dragon dudes: If you see it lift its tail high, that's a backwards cleave. If you see it lift one claw high, it's a forward cleave. If you see it put both claws together in front of its face like its charging up a kamehameha, it's about to fireball the furthest person in the direction that it's facing. (Learned after much trial and error in Nidhogg EX lol)
I'm sad that they changed the skalla gap into a bridge, sometimes you would see people who fell into the pit cause their transformation expired right when they were about to go over😢
I've been doing Mentor Roulettes on DPS and the vast majority of them have been guildhests and old normal trials or raids; 36 guildhests and 33 trial/normal raids out of 93 total counted with a whopping 5 pre-Endwalker dungeons. The fun part is most of the guildhests I get tend to be when the queue's are 10+ minutes so it feels like I've accomplished absolutely nothing.
first run reminds me of that time I got a post-stormblood dungeon and the tank wore an ilvl 530 earring but everything else was ilvl 130. The tank died so many times and I was heal botting because they would take 1/4 their health in trash autos alone (anything above 3 enemies would kill them)
I love watching these mentor roulettes so I can learn some stuff I didn't know since either I did it unsyched with fc or with npc's and the alexander raids? I still have not finished all of them so knowing the upcoming mechanic is very nice
Looking at Aurum Vale... your tank is a Dark Knight. Implies this is not their first time in there since they'd have to be in Heavesnward. But given their gear situation, might be "baby's first tank"
Eyes of the Creator is one of my core memories of this game. First time I had a friend with me to explain the mechanics. Second time I was with randoms as the main tank and I was the one explaining the mechanics after the first wipe. It didn't seem like my explanation took, so I ordered the off-tank to take aggro, shirked, and started doing all the mechanics for my party. Cleared on the second try with a ton of commendations! It felt so good!
Half the stay is listening to how the balesar speeches get edited, the other half is seeing what sort of madness can be witnessed in these dungeons. Such sympathy was totally my intention.
Last time I ran CT one of our DPS immediately left as soon as the dungeon started. No big deal, got another one right away. Then they left right away. Then we got another replacement. Then they said "I can't deal with this today" and left. My third of the alliance ran with seven people the rest of the instance
Yeah, at this point seeing any of the CT raids provokes a stress response in me because of how boring they are, and how many times I've played them. I'd rather spend 30-40 minutes muddling through a bad run of Puppet Bunker than do a 12 minute perfect run of any of the CT raids, because puppet bunker's fun and interesting.
i was the machinist in that a9 raid, the other mentor :) i finished my mentor roulette grind the day after this happened, so i wish you and all of the mentors going for it a very good luck! i promise these types of shitshows are few and far between lol sorry i left before you got to comm me, but i really appreciate the sentiment!
at least you are a mentor who knows what they are doing. i had one yesterday that really gave me a headache. i was grinding out some mog tomestones for the event and the mentor that got queued up with us was honestly just being so stupid. it was hard mode wanderers palace. but you have these objects in the dungeon these holy stakes or something that buff the enemies when they are standing in the red period blood around it. (gives em damage up and defense up) but they are really easy to just pull out of the period blood. so our mentor summoner just kept focussing on the stakes wich was a pain cuz he wouldn't move till they were all dead. and he wouldn't attack the enemies with us either so it took us twice as much time (thankfully our healer and our machinist were both focussing the actual important enemies) the worst was the last boss because that boss puts those things down every so often but taking them out takes way too much time so usually you just kite the boss around and pull him out of it every time he puts it down. but instead of attacking the boss our bot ass summoner just started ruin spamming those stakes. like i was yelling at my screen the entire time wondering what was going on in his head cuz that is not the way to efficiently take out that boss. (idk how i keep running into these ppl honestly)
Haven't played xiv in awhile, might return for dawntrail but for some reason I'm committed to watching you finish this series. Keep chugging on you thick eyebrows achievement hunting maniac😂
Once upon a time, back before you started this, I left a comment saying that mentor roulette as healer is basically role playing as a super market queue buster. And er... I wish I had been wrong for both our sakes. (As I am also doing this grind on healer)
Another thing you can try, if you wish to stay Sch, is try the Oceania Data center or a different NA data center to see if you happen to get different content....or try a different time of day/different day of week, However that said, the current tombstone event, xbox release still being fairly new, and the upcoming expansion do tend to encourage more people to be doing leveling and dungeon content (or msq roulettes). I am nearly done with this now having started my grind pretty much in January. I can tell you, it is seasonal and a bit daily what you might get. I find that Mon/Tues i get a lot more Level 90/current tier stuff. Fri/Sat I tend to get a lot more guidheists. Later evening my data center, I tend to get more 8man trials/raids. Good luck out there.
I would love to see some blue mage dungeons/raids, and some ocean fishing… I want to hear your approach for 3 million points haha, also island sanctuary you get the automated process at rank 8 I think, I forced myself to play it and it turned out better than I thought it would
How do tanks not realize their stances are off? In my experience, every time that issue occurs it takes multiple ppl in the party to tell them to turn their stance back on.
Given that I've had tanks who refused to stop trying to stancedance when the single-pull mobs were biting my monk ass I suspect they see it and just think they're in the right
Tank player here. When you're doing msq you get a ton of content that doesn't require adjusting the tank stance. Not to mention it's something that feels like it should be on by default all the time. Now if you're talking off multiple pulls, I dunno. I don't claim them.
I had a tank last night who not only was not turning tank stance on, they would turn it back OFF and also run past enemies without attack, but then start single pulling, until the very end where they rushed past every enemy to just go for the boss. This was Sastasha. They proceeded to just stay dead as the rest of us finished the dungeon by ourselves.
Episode 4 out of 200 complete! I love that Alexander raid because it can go south so quickly if people don't know/remember the mechanics. It makes me feel useful as a healer.
The old Ultima/Lahabrea fight was especially annoying, because Ultima is straight up just invulnerable for the first like 60 seconds of the fight, then you blow through him so fast that the primals all drop out at once. The second half of the fight wasn't *hard*, but it was vaguely interesting, relative all the other fights in the dungeon, closer to a normal ARR boss than everything around it. And then there's Lahabrea, who literally couldn't die until he finished his stupid monologue, but had so little health that he'd be down to 1 HP before everyone was fully out of cutscene, and then the stupid monologue wasn't even voiced.
So from experience, if you have the fetters debuff from whirling gaol, you will get hit by the damage part. Why am I saying this you might be thinking? Well one time I was playing dragoon, and both got rescued by the healer behind rubble AND got the fetters debuff, I was safe behind the rubble but couldn’t move, as well as getting hit by whirling gaol behind the rubble. It looked really funny
38:00 Yeah, but at least it would make sense for the Allegans to just make a robot by copying dragons and bahumut. You can just FEEL this happened because they wanted to a bahumut, but they realized they couldn't get the bipedal legs to work just right, and they could really use some more battery storage space, so let's just go quadruped and try to stay on theme to keep the investor happy.
I always play with Join In Progress on. Got Aetherochemical the other day, already in progress, 42 minutes remaining. It still took 20 minutes to beat Ascian Prime. The parties right now are BAAAAAAAD.
1:35 you're giving them too much credit, they only used Shadow Wall on the first pull and then nothing on the second one, despite having Rampart and Arm's Length ready. From what I could tell about the rest of the pulls, the tank only used mit after dropping in HP instead of pre-emptively (which is bad), but also seemed to stop for a while between GCDs, as if having to look at their keyboard to see where their buttons are. Edit: For A9, you don't need to resurrect the robots if they're already in the orange zone, it's just a waste of time. In my experience, Faust will usually die around the time the third platform lights up, so you can park between the two platforms opposite of the first one that spawns and just move it slightly to whichever doesn't light up second. That way Faust will end up in the molten lava at the right moment every time.
On the bad hardware front, I have this shitty refurb Toshiba laptop running Windows 7, that I mostly only use when I'm traveling. It *technically* runs FFXIV, but it's gotten worse and worse over the years. Like, I house sat for my parents for a couple days some years ago, back during the ShB content lull in the fall of 2021, and while my laptop chugged in major cities, I was able to run trust dungeons on it pretty consistently. Lacking a numpad or mouse, I didn't actually do any fighting, I'd just go into Holminster Switch or whatever on DPS, pull a pack, walk myself away from the mobs, and then go lie down and putz about on my phone, head back over, walk myself to the next pack, rinse and repeat. That's largely how I leveled my trust avatars in ShB. Fun fact: if you're positioned right, you can AFK the bucket-head robot in Malikah's Well as DPS with a trust party. More recently, I traveled to visit some friends out of state for a week in January 2023. Island Sanctuary was still relatively fresh content, and I was still doing daily craft recommendations, rather than weekly predictions. At the time, my laptop could no longer handle trust dungeons, it'd pretty consistently crash, but it could handle the Island Sanctuary well enough, so I spent some of my down time there. I traveled to visit different out-of-state friends for a week this past January. Now doing weekly predictions for Island Sanctuary, I basically just needed to log into FFXIV on Wednesday. Alas, the game crashed at every load transition, and crashed unrecoverably trying to load the Island Sanctuary itself. I've not been able to get the game to launch on the laptop since, not that I've tried terribly hard.
34:18 Im on a dell laptop from 2013 and im the ..4th? owner of it XD i have to upgrade soon if i wanna play dawntrail, literally wont be able to run it.
these are kinda fun except when they aren't... 💖 so much fun watching... thinking of doing mine when dawntrail ends btw the guy that transforms into dragon can be stunned on the cast... works on snowcloak too 😉
I feel like Mentor status affects your roulettes even outside of the Mentor specific roulette. All of the dungeon ones specifically seems to push me into groups with all sprouts.
@@sugoistalin7809 Didn't say it was a problem, though if you both don't have the crown on and aren't doing Mentor roulette then I don't think it should be railroading you into groups with sprouts. It doesn't help that the number of sprouts with bad behavior has been drastically increasing since Endwalker, but I no longer think this is the case though, and it's simply a large influx of new players.
34:20 I recently upgraded mine but before that I was playing on an 8 year old PC, it was passable for the most part but every single time I'd jump into a savage raid the first pull would have so much animation lag while it was trying to load the animations into the cache because I very much didn't have good RAM in that thing, or a good processor. It was a biweekly occurance that I'd say "I need someone else to call this the animations haven't loaded in yet"
18:51 yes this boss you kill the adds with the boss's aoe attack. You can trivialize this by just having the dps and healers just stack on the bosses ass and dont move for the whole fight. You technically take more damage, but its very easy to manage. Also, that aoe animation is the old BRD move "Wide Volley," which i still miss to this day.
23:18 yeah during this stretch I usually just Rescue the tanks out of the fields if they're sticking around in them, trying to go a decent clip so the enemies also shuffle out as well.
24:48 yup, part of why i became a tank main (back in 3.0, even. Was BRD maind before that) was the classic mindset of "if you want something done right, do it yourself," after i was sick of dealing with, to borrow your word choice, sub-optimal tanks.
I did LOS pulling in Bozja during cluster farms. Lets you stay mounted so you can pick up a huge group faster. That was the only time I ever thought it was a good idea though.
Pretty much yeah, but man, has double mounted tanks pulling all of z2 with me going burrrr as a white mage. We had the full squad, three in z2, 2 in z3 and 2 in z1. Weather was up so we also had care drops too, we were printing clusters, good times.
you're doing mentor roulette on healer which tends to get mostly dungeons, whenever youre playing dps you seem more likely to get a mixture of everything else with a tiny sprinkle of dungeons, then the few tank ones I have done seem to just be mostly dungeons as well but RNG is RNG will always be different for everyone
I was actually sad to see the Skalla change, i got called abelist on twitter for saying i missed turning into a ghost. sure it didnt make any difference really but it just indicative of them taking sandpaper to some of the more unique things in game its the little things and it was kinda charming and funny idk.
Hi Cider! Fairly new to the game. Friend & I have been making our way through, we're about to start Shadowbringers. We've been doing all the side content & unlockable raids/dungeons/trials/etc. Are there any guides you recommend for dipping one's toes into Eureka? P.S. The added OSRS sounds are my favourites
When I joined the game in early HW (early as in like 1 week after the expansion launched), I was gaming on a laptop with a Nvidia 540 card. Legit ass 8-12 fps on the lowest settings.
I was raiding the second tier of Eden Savage on my mobile hot spot because I was living in a hotel at the time. Light Rampart was as fun as you'd think but that was surprisingly enough the only time it was ever actually an issue.
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"Van Baelsar. You're ignorant. I leave." - most accurate thing Lahabrea ever said.
Ultima: "But first.. I must.. Come!" Ah yes, my favorite sentence from them :')
I could've sworn he said, "Van FAILsar."😅
@@natebroadus8474 I heard Failsar too
Nothing will top "bears" but this had me cackling
@@KZorander i mean other bears is a good guess
"There's plenty of chads out there worth committing necromancy for but Avere was NEVER one of them"
PREACH 👏👏👏
Imagine forgetting you're supposed to dip your dead Faust in cheese before serving
Barely even gaming at this point.
38:55 “but first, I must come!” Took me out
Wow you had to have clicked soon as it uploaded
Same. On my commute and had to stifle laughter on the subway.
For those who don't know that Alexander fight, OT takes the orb to revive the robots, as it will target the one that drops it. Take them to the platform that is going to disappear, kill mobs before they fall in. If they go in alive, boom. If they don't go in the lava, boss get boosted.
Hide behind rocks to avoid raid wide.
When the big robot comes in, take it to the last platform that drops.
To add to this, you do NOT need to revive the mobs that are already in the zone that will get cheesed. What matters is that when it goes off, all the dead adds are in there. That's the whole mechanic (same for Faust, just failing him is instant wipe) of the fight.
and to explain why the bodies need to end up in the cheese; the boss gets upgrades from all the bodies and will do more damage when it gets more upgrades and it one shots when it gets the final upgrade.
You want all the adds to die to get dropped in the lava but the BIG add you really don't want to die in lava.
Also the boss is invincible when the Full Metal Faust comes in, so the MT can help with demolishing its health before it goes for a lava bath and kills the raid
About the Faust spawn: you can just pull him to the opposite tile of where he spawns, its always the last one :D
Here is to you never having to work retail ever again.
@20:00 I liked a lot of the Hard Mode dungeons because they were also often story sequels to the normal modes. Which is rare in a MMO. Usually you do dungeon thing, it's done, NPCs' problem resolved, the end. Most HMs after the first few have entirely different mechanics and scenery anyway.
But Tam-Tara gave us 2 dungeons and Palace of the Dead for an ongoing story of some characters you can see outside Sastasha normal, a group where you beat them to the punch on a bounty on some pirates in a cave back around level 15.
Also, Wanderer’s Palace (Hard), despite being an overall downgrade, has the funniest victory cutscene in the game
"I keep forgetting SB content has actual mechanics in it."
That's a mood.
" From the deepest pits of the seven hells to the very pinnacles of the heavens, you are ignorant!" I can't XD
The undergeared, single pull and then double pull at random dark knight. The single target ninja. The "IS USING A WAND AND SHIELD" blackmage. Truly the AV experience.
When I was a sprout I'm pretty sure I was all three of these people at one point or another, lmao
Yeah, I'm sure I was the same. We were all innocent sprouts once upon a time.
That first run reminded me of a Dzemael Darkhold I had recently. The tank was... baby tank, on a Dark Knight. But soon as they admitted it the rest of us were chill and happy to explain mit mechanics and stuff. Like I said to them, everyone starts somewhere and FFXIV is one of the MMOs where explaining that to the rest of your party will get you helped, not kicked.
I think I get more cursed dzemael runs ESPECIALLY w DRKs than AV runs. That dungeon is the bane of my existence.
I had one run with a baby bunny tank...i think everyone was tired - 2am - and were confused why the tank full pulled the we wiped. Then after the tank onlt singled pulled and also would start the boss unless someone else did. no hate on them cus i knew they were new,i was just to tried to say anything. And I was making plenty mistakes as i lvled my DRN
Ironworks didn't live in the theatre because Amon made the carpet moldy by throwing ice all over it
I've been loving this series!
I know you've had a hell of a lot of backseating about the DPS thing so I've refrained from commenting so far, but as you mentioned at the end you're considering your options, I thought I might have some stats for you. I'm a healer main and have done the mentor roulette grind and also tracked it (about 1800/2000). My data is mainly from Stormblood/Shadowbringers (pre 5.3) so might not be that relevant.
I came to the same conclusion as you did for running heals - it was definitely a lot of dungeons and brain numbing. I mixed it up in the end to keep from going insane and ended up doing about 1200 on DPS, 600 on heals and less than 100 on tank.
- I found that DPS was the most varied - I came out at 33% for guildhests, 25% dungeons, 17% normal raids, 14% normal trials, 7% ex trials and 4% 24 mans. 0.5 comms per run.
- Healer was 60% dungeons, 17.5% guildhests, 10.5% normal trials, 5% normal raid, 5% ex trials and just under 2% on 24 mans. I averaged 1.5 comms per run.
- My tank data set isn't great at all, so I won't share figures, but it was mainly dungeons, trials and guildhests. On average, I got 1 comm per run.
Most common dungeon was Castrum on healer, but I got a LOT of expert fills on DPS. Most common EX was Rathalos (also my most hated queue pop), followed by Garuda.
I'm at ≈500 runs and I almost play exclusively on DPS because of that, I don't really mind EXs since if the run isn't clearable another mentor will probably leave before me and if it is it won't take too long with echo and us outgearing the boss by a lot, having more guildheist makes the grind shorter anyways (and usually trial/ normal raid are faster than a dungeon too) so it just feels way better overall.
I originally wanted to do it on tank to do the tank achievements too but it's like healer and you get dungeons a TON, I'll just farm it spamming O3 in an unsync group it'll be faster :P
Woah! Props for compiling your data, this is really cool~
good to know. Now i have an idea of what to expect. My server might run a bit differently but i like having a rough guess
I half expected you to throw in the usual "Tremble!" as a replacement for the tremble in Laha's line, but even without that the edits were still hilarious there.
The classic MSQ roulette meme edits will never not be classic.
You haven't forgotten how to do Alexander raids, right?
Can't say I have, they are very popular on Materia for raid roulette
I remember! ... normals at least. And solo savages.
Did my 2k mentor roulettes, I have them all burned into my mind.
If you want the EXs though, just wait until 7.0 drops. All the new people coming in with each expansion causes the number of them to take off. You're running at the end of an expansion, so newbies is going to be low, minus Xbox newbies.
I've been exploded so many times doing Eyes, I don't think I'll ever forget the mechanics of that fight, specifically :v
As the ninja from that raid I totally forgot
Cider showcasing the OTHER purpose of mentor roulette: to humble veteran players and force them to remember mechs they likely forgot over time.
As a trial sprout i usually looked up new dungeons i went into and i instantly learned that the most clueless and checked out players (who never explained anything) were usually crown icons.
The vast majority of weird toxic or baffling behavior i've seen over the years came from mentors that were clearly burned out or dead inside because it was their 40th run that day on some soul-rending grind and they had absolutely no fucks left to give.
that first run is a prime example as to why mentor roulette can be a pain
Honestly, that's just some runs of leveling stuff in general, Stone Vigil I remember being a checkpoint dungeon while I was leveling my classes. Once I had the chance to roll Stone Vigil, I made sure all my gear was on level because if it wasn't (doubly so if I was tanking or healing) it would be so much harder
tank didn't even have a necklace equipped. like when you make a new character you have a necklace on by default which means he took it off.
fun fact: the dusk vigil's mammoth boss has that rout ability that is supposed to do shared dmg, but it hits for so low overall that it doesn't matter. The same enemy appears as a SB hunt mark, I think, and every iteration since then it has the shared marker... They would've added it to the dungeon as well if it had to be reworked for Duty Support, but it's an optional dungeon so it stays like that LOL
Its also a boss in Bardam's Mettle.
I'm glad you can just squeeze out every inch of fun to be found in that Ultima Weapon cutscene.
love your edits of Ultima. Seriously one of my favourite cutscenes simply because Gaius and the way he says "Lahabrea.." but you just make it so much better because now I can't stop with the "Bears" during that cutscene lmao
I had an aurum vale run the other day. Had an ARCANIST in the group, and he kept spamming physick. When asked to focus on dpsing he said no cause he wanted to practice for scholar. 😂
Okay that's adorable.
The lil quirky things new players do so sefiously is hysterical
Oh that sweet child
@@Wiles731 I had a Mrd, tank in Haukke Manor -which can happen and is fine. So no issue. However, I happened to check them as they were overleveled just to give a general 'hey don't forget to unlock warrior after this!' kinda message. I got back 'I have it, the *dungeon sets it to mrd b/c underlevel*' I was like 'no...see how we're all bard, sch, drg. We all have job stones.' He is like then 'report them or i leave' and i (sch btw) said No no I can leave. And as I'm leaving, the Drg laughs and goes 'bro....your forgot to equip your job stone.
gosh i hate people like that
before they got rid of protect (idk if you were around when healers had protect but it was a shield you cast on the party) i hat this guy in that one dungeo with the ants and the chimera? anyway everytime i cast protect on him he'd remove it and said it was because he "getting used to not having it when they took it away"
we kicked him.
7:00 I was sad to see that the fat ghost button was gone :( Same with other people in my roulette at the time
Blubber ghost bouncing was great! I'm sad to see it gonneee
@@IKMcGwee yeah I loved bouncing up and down!! It was so silly and fun, I wish they had kept it
Once for giggles most of my praetorium party just didn't use abilities and beat up Lahabrea with auto attacks. MSQ Roulette was weird (and a terrible experience your first time). Personally I'd really like to see them give 8 player dungeons another shot.
Before the rework i took a whole team unsyncd but locking us to level 1 gear and accesories. We did cape westwind, livia, and the ultima weapon fights. People were seeing mechanics they never saw before. It was fun
The last run of Prae pre rework I convinced all but the WHM to ditch armor for a naked run. Just weapons and accessories, lol. It was glorious!
Tip on the big walking dragon dudes:
If you see it lift its tail high, that's a backwards cleave.
If you see it lift one claw high, it's a forward cleave.
If you see it put both claws together in front of its face like its charging up a kamehameha, it's about to fireball the furthest person in the direction that it's facing.
(Learned after much trial and error in Nidhogg EX lol)
I'm sad that they changed the skalla gap into a bridge, sometimes you would see people who fell into the pit cause their transformation expired right when they were about to go over😢
I loved jumping all wibbly wobbly :(
@@DevilSeiji same ༼;´༎ຶ ༎ຶ༽
I liked being a jiggly ghost ☹️
"We will speak later Ascion, but first I must.... COME!" Have this running in the background while in diadem, but this got me. Masterful editing, sir.
What I vaguely remember from A9 is the NEST video of them fighting the boss & Morvy says "Scrapline! Get yer ass in here!"
Mr Cider you have no idea how excited i am to see this 43 min gem pop into my feed. I look forward to your content every week !
Those Sonic Booms in the Alexander fight were very fun. Always appreciate the editing in these videos
I've been doing Mentor Roulettes on DPS and the vast majority of them have been guildhests and old normal trials or raids; 36 guildhests and 33 trial/normal raids out of 93 total counted with a whopping 5 pre-Endwalker dungeons.
The fun part is most of the guildhests I get tend to be when the queue's are 10+ minutes so it feels like I've accomplished absolutely nothing.
first run reminds me of that time I got a post-stormblood dungeon and the tank wore an ilvl 530 earring but everything else was ilvl 130. The tank died so many times and I was heal botting because they would take 1/4 their health in trash autos alone (anything above 3 enemies would kill them)
That tank in your first aurum vale didn't even have a necklace equipped
10:19 Yes, Surecast/Arm's Length will also prevent draw-in effects. It even says so in the description!
I love watching these mentor roulettes so I can learn some stuff I didn't know since either I did it unsyched with fc or with npc's and the alexander raids? I still have not finished all of them so knowing the upcoming mechanic is very nice
Wanderer's palace tank that moves around the edge of the arena but never moves the boss OUT of the buff banners...
I was sad, i loved turning into the stupid ghost. the flailing around was hilarious
Looking at Aurum Vale... your tank is a Dark Knight. Implies this is not their first time in there since they'd have to be in Heavesnward. But given their gear situation, might be "baby's first tank"
my guess is it may be their first time as a tank. as they may have not done PLD in ARR.
@@Forginswagger yeah. That’s what I meant by “baby’s first tank”
Getting my last few jobs leveled up before Dawntrail, and these Lahabrea speech revisions do so much to help me survive the MSQ roulettes. 😆
your edits of the msq cutscene are very entertaining
38:42 I could sworn to anyone that Athena was going to say “THE WORLD SHALL TREMBLE”
Eyes of the Creator is one of my core memories of this game. First time I had a friend with me to explain the mechanics. Second time I was with randoms as the main tank and I was the one explaining the mechanics after the first wipe. It didn't seem like my explanation took, so I ordered the off-tank to take aggro, shirked, and started doing all the mechanics for my party. Cleared on the second try with a ton of commendations! It felt so good!
Half the stay is listening to how the balesar speeches get edited, the other half is seeing what sort of madness can be witnessed in these dungeons. Such sympathy was totally my intention.
Last time I ran CT one of our DPS immediately left as soon as the dungeon started. No big deal, got another one right away. Then they left right away. Then we got another replacement. Then they said "I can't deal with this today" and left. My third of the alliance ran with seven people the rest of the instance
Sounds like something I'd do. ST is boring and I care more for enjoyment over exp and tomes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, at this point seeing any of the CT raids provokes a stress response in me because of how boring they are, and how many times I've played them.
I'd rather spend 30-40 minutes muddling through a bad run of Puppet Bunker than do a 12 minute perfect run of any of the CT raids, because puppet bunker's fun and interesting.
O man just taking us with you in Praetorium cutscene suffering. Masterfully edited though 👌🤣
Wanderer's Palace Hard may not have as fun of a dungeon experience, but it does have the single best ending cutscene
i was the machinist in that a9 raid, the other mentor :) i finished my mentor roulette grind the day after this happened, so i wish you and all of the mentors going for it a very good luck! i promise these types of shitshows are few and far between lol
sorry i left before you got to comm me, but i really appreciate the sentiment!
at least you are a mentor who knows what they are doing. i had one yesterday that really gave me a headache. i was grinding out some mog tomestones for the event and the mentor that got queued up with us was honestly just being so stupid. it was hard mode wanderers palace. but you have these objects in the dungeon these holy stakes or something that buff the enemies when they are standing in the red period blood around it. (gives em damage up and defense up) but they are really easy to just pull out of the period blood. so our mentor summoner just kept focussing on the stakes wich was a pain cuz he wouldn't move till they were all dead. and he wouldn't attack the enemies with us either so it took us twice as much time (thankfully our healer and our machinist were both focussing the actual important enemies) the worst was the last boss because that boss puts those things down every so often but taking them out takes way too much time so usually you just kite the boss around and pull him out of it every time he puts it down. but instead of attacking the boss our bot ass summoner just started ruin spamming those stakes. like i was yelling at my screen the entire time wondering what was going on in his head cuz that is not the way to efficiently take out that boss. (idk how i keep running into these ppl honestly)
the lahabrea bit was like a ytp and i've been watching those a lot lately, so it was really funny to see
oh thank god, i had a moment in time where i had nothing to do
Haven't played xiv in awhile, might return for dawntrail but for some reason I'm committed to watching you finish this series. Keep chugging on you thick eyebrows achievement hunting maniac😂
Looking at that thumbnail, I can't help but hope this is the Mentor Roullete video we've been anticipating.
Once upon a time, back before you started this, I left a comment saying that mentor roulette as healer is basically role playing as a super market queue buster. And er... I wish I had been wrong for both our sakes. (As I am also doing this grind on healer)
Another thing you can try, if you wish to stay Sch, is try the Oceania Data center or a different NA data center to see if you happen to get different content....or try a different time of day/different day of week, However that said, the current tombstone event, xbox release still being fairly new, and the upcoming expansion do tend to encourage more people to be doing leveling and dungeon content (or msq roulettes). I am nearly done with this now having started my grind pretty much in January. I can tell you, it is seasonal and a bit daily what you might get. I find that Mon/Tues i get a lot more Level 90/current tier stuff. Fri/Sat I tend to get a lot more guidheists. Later evening my data center, I tend to get more 8man trials/raids. Good luck out there.
Zaltan looks like he plays Dark Knight with Grit bound to 4
I would love to see some blue mage dungeons/raids, and some ocean fishing… I want to hear your approach for 3 million points haha, also island sanctuary you get the automated process at rank 8 I think, I forced myself to play it and it turned out better than I thought it would
How do tanks not realize their stances are off? In my experience, every time that issue occurs it takes multiple ppl in the party to tell them to turn their stance back on.
Given that I've had tanks who refused to stop trying to stancedance when the single-pull mobs were biting my monk ass I suspect they see it and just think they're in the right
Tank player here.
When you're doing msq you get a ton of content that doesn't require adjusting the tank stance. Not to mention it's something that feels like it should be on by default all the time.
Now if you're talking off multiple pulls, I dunno. I don't claim them.
I had a tank last night who not only was not turning tank stance on, they would turn it back OFF and also run past enemies without attack, but then start single pulling, until the very end where they rushed past every enemy to just go for the boss.
This was Sastasha. They proceeded to just stay dead as the rest of us finished the dungeon by ourselves.
I too used to farm Skalla for that fucking glam, and yes all the changes are for trusts.
Gaius walks into a bar. This was not his intention!
gotta respect that early morning grind keep up the great content and have a great day
I'm sitting at 120 completed mentor duties and this series has really motivated me to keep going and continue my suffering ❤
Episode 4 out of 200 complete!
I love that Alexander raid because it can go south so quickly if people don't know/remember the mechanics. It makes me feel useful as a healer.
Your lahabrea speech made me snort on the train and get weird looks from the boomer lady next to me. Thanks 😂
The old Ultima/Lahabrea fight was especially annoying, because Ultima is straight up just invulnerable for the first like 60 seconds of the fight, then you blow through him so fast that the primals all drop out at once. The second half of the fight wasn't *hard*, but it was vaguely interesting, relative all the other fights in the dungeon, closer to a normal ARR boss than everything around it. And then there's Lahabrea, who literally couldn't die until he finished his stupid monologue, but had so little health that he'd be down to 1 HP before everyone was fully out of cutscene, and then the stupid monologue wasn't even voiced.
Honey wake up, Stormblood content has actual mechanics in it.
So from experience, if you have the fetters debuff from whirling gaol, you will get hit by the damage part. Why am I saying this you might be thinking? Well one time I was playing dragoon, and both got rescued by the healer behind rubble AND got the fetters debuff, I was safe behind the rubble but couldn’t move, as well as getting hit by whirling gaol behind the rubble. It looked really funny
I also never noticed that Xande is standing at his throne as he summons the comets on you. I was too busy looking at the ground. XD
38:00 Yeah, but at least it would make sense for the Allegans to just make a robot by copying dragons and bahumut. You can just FEEL this happened because they wanted to a bahumut, but they realized they couldn't get the bipedal legs to work just right, and they could really use some more battery storage space, so let's just go quadruped and try to stay on theme to keep the investor happy.
I always play with Join In Progress on. Got Aetherochemical the other day, already in progress, 42 minutes remaining. It still took 20 minutes to beat Ascian Prime. The parties right now are BAAAAAAAD.
You can double click a player icon in the commendation menu to give the comm instead of going down and clicking confirm. As a heads up
Mad baby suffers from the fausts of outragous fortune delivered by a giant fondue bot
1:35 you're giving them too much credit, they only used Shadow Wall on the first pull and then nothing on the second one, despite having Rampart and Arm's Length ready. From what I could tell about the rest of the pulls, the tank only used mit after dropping in HP instead of pre-emptively (which is bad), but also seemed to stop for a while between GCDs, as if having to look at their keyboard to see where their buttons are.
Edit: For A9, you don't need to resurrect the robots if they're already in the orange zone, it's just a waste of time. In my experience, Faust will usually die around the time the third platform lights up, so you can park between the two platforms opposite of the first one that spawns and just move it slightly to whichever doesn't light up second. That way Faust will end up in the molten lava at the right moment every time.
On the bad hardware front, I have this shitty refurb Toshiba laptop running Windows 7, that I mostly only use when I'm traveling. It *technically* runs FFXIV, but it's gotten worse and worse over the years.
Like, I house sat for my parents for a couple days some years ago, back during the ShB content lull in the fall of 2021, and while my laptop chugged in major cities, I was able to run trust dungeons on it pretty consistently. Lacking a numpad or mouse, I didn't actually do any fighting, I'd just go into Holminster Switch or whatever on DPS, pull a pack, walk myself away from the mobs, and then go lie down and putz about on my phone, head back over, walk myself to the next pack, rinse and repeat. That's largely how I leveled my trust avatars in ShB. Fun fact: if you're positioned right, you can AFK the bucket-head robot in Malikah's Well as DPS with a trust party.
More recently, I traveled to visit some friends out of state for a week in January 2023. Island Sanctuary was still relatively fresh content, and I was still doing daily craft recommendations, rather than weekly predictions. At the time, my laptop could no longer handle trust dungeons, it'd pretty consistently crash, but it could handle the Island Sanctuary well enough, so I spent some of my down time there.
I traveled to visit different out-of-state friends for a week this past January. Now doing weekly predictions for Island Sanctuary, I basically just needed to log into FFXIV on Wednesday. Alas, the game crashed at every load transition, and crashed unrecoverably trying to load the Island Sanctuary itself. I've not been able to get the game to launch on the laptop since, not that I've tried terribly hard.
The ultima section was hilarious! 🤣
Dang, it's not even Monday anymore.
Yea, it's Tuesday evening for me, but hey, sounds like an extra long and juicy video, so I'll take it.
"Van Failsar, You're Ignorant. I Leave" I fucking love your editing xD keep up the good work!
34:18 Im on a dell laptop from 2013 and im the ..4th? owner of it XD i have to upgrade soon if i wanna play dawntrail, literally wont be able to run it.
these are kinda fun except when they aren't... 💖 so much fun watching... thinking of doing mine when dawntrail ends
btw the guy that transforms into dragon can be stunned on the cast... works on snowcloak too 😉
was that the runescape magic splash sound when the oliphant's attack whiffed? 😆
I feel like Mentor status affects your roulettes even outside of the Mentor specific roulette. All of the dungeon ones specifically seems to push me into groups with all sprouts.
And that's a problem how? Helping sprouts is what mentor status is meant for.
@@sugoistalin7809 Didn't say it was a problem, though if you both don't have the crown on and aren't doing Mentor roulette then I don't think it should be railroading you into groups with sprouts. It doesn't help that the number of sprouts with bad behavior has been drastically increasing since Endwalker, but I no longer think this is the case though, and it's simply a large influx of new players.
34:20 I recently upgraded mine but before that I was playing on an 8 year old PC, it was passable for the most part but every single time I'd jump into a savage raid the first pull would have so much animation lag while it was trying to load the animations into the cache because I very much didn't have good RAM in that thing, or a good processor. It was a biweekly occurance that I'd say "I need someone else to call this the animations haven't loaded in yet"
D: why would you not miss being a spooky ghost! Honestly the "jump" animation as the ghost is more why I miss it. I always found that hilarious.
27:11 "My faces are up here" "I've made my choice"
I hope we get a new iteration of RUclips Poop Lahabrea cutscene every time he gets this duty.
Are you taking requests? Can you make him say L+Ratio?
18:51 yes this boss you kill the adds with the boss's aoe attack. You can trivialize this by just having the dps and healers just stack on the bosses ass and dont move for the whole fight. You technically take more damage, but its very easy to manage.
Also, that aoe animation is the old BRD move "Wide Volley," which i still miss to this day.
I'm sad about Skalla not having the ghost transforms. The butt wiggle was too cute!
23:18 yeah during this stretch I usually just Rescue the tanks out of the fields if they're sticking around in them, trying to go a decent clip so the enemies also shuffle out as well.
24:48 yup, part of why i became a tank main (back in 3.0, even. Was BRD maind before that) was the classic mindset of "if you want something done right, do it yourself," after i was sick of dealing with, to borrow your word choice, sub-optimal tanks.
I've noticed a bunch of dungons changing.. I kinda liked the ghost floating thing, it was neat.
"Gaius Van Baelsar's porta potty"
I'm choking! 🤣🤣🤣
I did LOS pulling in Bozja during cluster farms. Lets you stay mounted so you can pick up a huge group faster. That was the only time I ever thought it was a good idea though.
Pretty much yeah, but man, has double mounted tanks pulling all of z2 with me going burrrr as a white mage. We had the full squad, three in z2, 2 in z3 and 2 in z1. Weather was up so we also had care drops too, we were printing clusters, good times.
The dps que slaps. I get EXs, normal trial, shadowbringers content, ez guildhests. Getting a dungeon is kinda rare for me.
This actually works as a reminder for me of how these older things work lol.
you're doing mentor roulette on healer which tends to get mostly dungeons, whenever youre playing dps you seem more likely to get a mixture of everything else with a tiny sprinkle of dungeons, then the few tank ones I have done seem to just be mostly dungeons as well but RNG is RNG will always be different for everyone
I was actually sad to see the Skalla change, i got called abelist on twitter for saying i missed turning into a ghost. sure it didnt make any difference really but it just indicative of them taking sandpaper to some of the more unique things in game its the little things and it was kinda charming and funny idk.
Twitter complaints are less than useless, and often insulting.
fortunately as Dave Chappelle once said, twitter isn't a real place
Hi Cider! Fairly new to the game. Friend & I have been making our way through, we're about to start Shadowbringers. We've been doing all the side content & unlockable raids/dungeons/trials/etc. Are there any guides you recommend for dipping one's toes into Eureka?
P.S. The added OSRS sounds are my favourites
When I joined the game in early HW (early as in like 1 week after the expansion launched), I was gaming on a laptop with a Nvidia 540 card. Legit ass 8-12 fps on the lowest settings.
As soon as he said “I don’t have to explain anything” I knew it was gonna be a wipe
Titan Extreme and Twintania divebombs on ps3 was absolute torture back in ARR, so I feel your latency pain
When Mentor Roulette was introduced, I got Shiva EX everyday for 2 weeks straight
"But first, I must COME!" yes. this is perfect.
I was raiding the second tier of Eden Savage on my mobile hot spot because I was living in a hotel at the time. Light Rampart was as fun as you'd think but that was surprisingly enough the only time it was ever actually an issue.