8:05 - I think we finally discovered something worse than an Ice Mage Black Mage, by which I mean, if they had at least just spammed Blizzard it would've been 180 potency B1s (Which is still terrible!), but instead the alternation like this meant the F1s that were cast were more like 162 Potency 😅 14:00 - I am pretty sure they (The magitek bits in ARF) do still explode, but they are more lenient with time, and also the explosion is more about giving you a vuln stack than hurting you if I recall correctly from running the dungeon after its rework. I don't see them explode very much though on account of them being so easy to deal with! 21:27 - That is quite hilarious that the NPCs just continue on. Is this the first case of an AoE Pull that is unfailable? 22:10 - I didn't know you could arm's length the chain, nice to know! I've always just moved for it, because even if you get one of the front "portals"(?) if you place yourself juuuust right, I am pretty sure you can be far enough away from it, while still being in range to attack the boss. But this is way easier! Also to the outro, I am sure you don't need to be told this, but for every derp you meet that refuses any advice, I am sure there are several that appreciates it. All we can really do is focus on those that actually want the help! 😄
That's part of what makes me think the BLM was trolling. That and the little jump they did after Wesk died. I would bet money they were playing bad on purpose.
@berThat guy was not just intentionally being bad. Take a closer look at the section with the rotation you uploaded. As far as I can tell, none of his casts actually completed. The bar goes away before being filled every time. Seems to me like he was actually intentionally not doing his job at all.
@@johannesmuller6237 That's how it always looks. That's normal. However, what I didn't show was him eating my fruit there, was 100% intentional. So while he did intentionally kill me, he was still completing casts. Can even see MP moving.
There was a time I was healing in AV and the returner tank would not stop standing in the acid pools in the first room and kept dying, even when I was spam healing. No matter how many times I tried explaining that standing in the acid was hurting them, they just cursed me out multiple times and a few wipes later they left. Then another tank came in and we cleared without any issues. This was during a moogle tome event so I was spamming AV all day and it was the only issue with a tank I had that day. I get that it can be embarrassing to acknowledge when you or someone else you know is wrong but it's very counterproductive. Good on you for being patient and being a proper mentor. Looking forward to the next video!
I had a ninja in msq roulette that was using his mudras on doton on bosses. I told him doton is for aoe, raiton for singletarget. Then he went on to ONLY use doton on bosses, and ONLY raiton on aoe. After the instance was done, he walks up to me and places doton under me. Really hurt that dudes ego lmao
@@cb022That guy was compensating for something Also you might want to correct what you said, because you said he used Raiton on Singletarget which is what he's supposed to do. I know what you meant, but if I made that mistake I would want someone to tell me so I'm letting you know ;)
Mentor is such a fine line to walk. As a sprout, I clearly remember Mentors giving me extremely poor advice. However, now I’m a mentor myself it makes me reluctant to speak up because of that fear of being wrong or being ignored. I am very glad you do though. Your guides really helped me become a better player, and even now three years later are still very helpful. Thanks for all the guidance and being one of the best teachers in XIV. Hope you continue to guide us all!😀
Ascian Prime has a reputation as a noob killer because if someone doesn't fully understand how snapshotting works they'll take too long trying to avoid an already snapshotted Dualstar AoE ("The floor's all covered in ice! It must still be dangerous, right?") to position themselves to avoid the second one in time. Getting unlucky and having both a tank AND healer who don't get it (Or understand the tether mechanic, either) is a recipe for frustration, but it seems like the sprouts you had knew what they were doing so you had a smooth ride.
That is literally the fight that really taught me the snapshotting thing, and I'd been playing for about 3 years by the time they rolled out the new fight. Like, I knew it on paper, but never really paid it much attention...until Dualstar.
It also doesn't help if a player has a poor framerate, since that means they move slower even if they understand what's happening and if it's bad enough they can be juuuust slow enough that some combinations outright aren't avoidable. It's not a common issue, of course, most people having trouble just don't understand snapshotting, but it's one that does exist.
the way the new ARF boss teaches stack marker THEN chains is actually genius. we know we should stack when chains are coming because they snap based on distance stretched, not distance between partners. if theyre already long chains, they dont have room to stretch, they cant snap. so force everyone to stack with a stack marker, then introduce chains, its perfect. good job, devs.
"Tight..." "...I'm a failure!!!" Mood 24/7. Great as always Wesk! Sorry you had to go through that AV run, I had something similar happen to me at some point, and being told "nah, I'm fine" triggers me more than being told the usual "You don't pay my sub", apathy is a silent killer.
This whole reward thing will never cease to be hilarious to me because I just don't understand why everything in FFXIV, from its players to the creators and the very ingame narrative, believes in this candyland world where mmo players suddenly engage with the content for reasons other than the proverbial carrot on the stick. Its insane. Great series btw, keep up the good work.
They discussed that one in a video about the problems with mentor roulette. They basically said it would still be something unique, which is the entire reason bad mentors become mentors.
What zaq said basically. I would prefer the can icon, personally. I'd get the icon for the icon itself if it was a watering can, far more than a crown. I don't feel it being a crown in itself is much worse than it being something else. Though I might cover this topic later.
I've heard that idea before but I don't think it's worth the change. Sure, people sometimes like the burger king crown icon itself, but it's more about what it represents that makes people want it: "I'm not some random noob, I'm experienced player." There's always going to be people who want to instantly receive the respect of being seen as a seasoned content veteran whether they're a good player or not, and other times you get people like me who know they're not good at the game but wanted to get mentor for mentor roulette itself, for variety when we're bored. Neither type of player will vanish simply because of an icon change, though I concede that some vain icon-focused players would stop using the crown, I just think those are a drop in the bucket compared to the variety-lovers and the clout-chasers.
Oof, that AV run, lol. "Just heal" is the healer equivalent of "get back in the kitchen, wench". I don't mind if someone ignores my advice or says they don't want it, but no need to be a total dick about it, either. You're right that the new ARF fight isn't hard in the grand scheme of things, but it is way more technical than all the boss fights in the prior dungeons. I love that new fight, but it is easily the most frequent sprout killer I see at that level range.
Thanks for showing what a mentor is meant to be, someone who tries to help. Whatever other things motivate them, in the end there is someone with some intention to help. That AV run is what differentiates good mentors from the bad ones; good ones will keep trying and stick it out. I remember my first run through AV and was surprised at the jump in difficulty...such devastation! I enjoyed this episode and this series in general. Some laughs, some pains, some pointers, and trips down memory lane at dungeon I haven't seen in a while and mistakes I made when I was learning.
4:17 That AV run......I always slow walk (RP walk) through the first room because the adds agro by sound instead of sight...except the toads. What happened in the boss room is literally the reason why I stand on top of the fruit just so that no one outright snags it... 13:55 The turrets in Aetherchemical Research Facility do enrage....found that out a long time ago when the party I was in just focused the boss. Three of us survived, but one person got one-shotted... Also, you want to talk about Reaper being busted...look at Dancer...they get to walk around Sastasha with a 720 Potency nuke with Standard Step...
Ahh that Aurum Vale, that's what a lot of my roulettes look like, but often from ignorance not malice. Used Rescue 3 times in Labyrinth of the Ancients yesterday as an example, that was entertaining...
You and your Yootoob (or something) chanel are by far my main source of knowledge about how to play Ff14 correctly. Been playing for two years now. Still checking your class guides at least once a week. And now let's Wait in QUEUUUE!
2:56 Me too Wesker. Me too. Edit: 16:07 They jsut took the Hades EX ascian prime bit. And toned it down and reslotted it into that dungeon. Which is neat.
*sigh* This av run reminds me of playing ninja, have a tank pull and then run circles around the entire room with the pull, upon asking them "Please do not run in circles with the pull" I got told to stay in my lane and learn to be better tanks need to do this to give the healer time to heal.. Sometimes groups make me want to slam my head into a wall hoping that my brain damage will make things seem less stressful.
Oh the days of me starting ff14 as PLD and killing normal enemies for xp, running around them felt like they missed more of their attacks :D, until my veteran ff14 classmate told me to stop screwing up the positionals for others!
Meanwhile, as I was too stingy to ever throw money at the cash shop, I instead got a mostly maxed out racing chocobo, as well as got gud at jumping puzzles. I did this until I eventually has 4 million mgp to buy a nice 4 seater blimp. I can easily say that this was still a much easier grind then losing hairs over mentor roulette for a multi-seater mount.
it`s not about the lulti-seater mount at all. It`s about the fact that you can say: I did that. It`s one of the most hideous grinds we have in the game. I`d say it`s one of the big 4 bragging-rights-grinds we have: Luckiest of Lords/Ladies, the Mentor Mount, the Hunt Mounts and the GC-Levequest-Grind
People not wanting to take advice is why I limit myself to 1 piece of advice. It's more likely to take in my experience, even if I could give more than 1.
The new ARF actually was tripping up almost every group I got for it during my grind thru mentor roulette last year. Specifically the last boss. That donut/chariot (or vice versa) snapshot back to back is very quick for something that's not in extreme/savage/ultimate content. Also I'm certain I had no less than half a dozen AV runs that were sketchy, to be nice
For Aetherochemical Reasearch Facility, me a non-mentor had to teach so many people to do the last boss that i kinda get scared when this pop on the decimal roulets and i just pray that's gonna be a fast run
I felt that AV run in my bones! Poor scared Dark Knight and uuuuugh that bm. Not sure if a troll or just stubborn either way you can't teach someone who doesn't wish to learn.
Wesk I think this series is so popular also is because I use it to motivate myself to help people and pay attention when all I get is people minding their business xD
Waitin in queeeee....for episode 5 I also realized that Mentor Roulette was a very easy way of finishing Khloes Book every week without having to do anything extra. Still never gonna touch my crown ever again
I'm still not a mentor, but aetherochemical research facility gives me mentor trauma XD The last roulette I did to get red mage to 90 was that dungeon, and the healer died on the first tethered orb mechanic every time we attempted the final boss, no matter how we explained the dodge. No veraise at that level. Ended up just vercuring through the whole fight as if I was the healer.
The MT Gulg megapull at the start is maybe my favorite pull in the game to tank. I love it SO MUCH. Also yes the Aethrochemical Research Facility's final boss is legitimately my favorite dungeon boss in the game now. Just a ton of mechanics in there that are easy to pull off but teach SO MUCH that people need to know
I've done garuda extreme so much that I can say synced with the echo she always dies before the plume matters and the raidwide after doesn't even kill you.
While I can't say there aren't bad mentors out there, I feel like mentors get a bad rep. As someone who loves helping people and genuinely mentors for that reason (the pony is a bonus) it's a thankless job. I can not tell you the number of times you try to gently give sprouts information and they ignore you or actively go against your advice, making the dungeon, trial, whatever, so much worse.
Though I'm happy to help people, I'm grinding for the mount really. However after 1500 or so runs it's completely stopped any motivation I have to try and advise. I will literally only say something now if it's stopping the run or if I'm in the mood to argue my point. The number of people who flat out ignore you or argue against doing the absolute bare minimum in their role is insane.
the ARF boss fight is tricky for new players because the movement required is pretty fast compared to anything before that, there's frequent wipes especially if healer is new... also for garuda synced the spiny plume dying literally doesn't matter anymore, most players survive the incoming attack just fine... only minimum item level has some problems with it... I've tried to get people to not kill the spiny several times on roulette and it never worked out, but it also never actually mattered
Also those that keep making comments about "sprouts." I finished the game all the way up to level 80 before Endwalkers was a thing as a sprout. Didn't know how to change it. But I knew what I was doing, so not all sprouts are bad. Not saying you said anything, someone else did and it reminded me of the many times I've had to deal with it. 😂
Although its a different game with different systems of labelling, granblue fantasy relink has basically an "any content" roulette to backfill endgame players into queues for people progressing that rewards you with a currency exclusive to it that can be used as bad luck protection for bad item drops from the lategame bosses and stuff like that, xiv's gearing system kinda conflicts witht his but something more like this shows that rewards for roulettes like this can work.
You are in for a rough ride, BLM feels like crap until you unlock fire IV, so i can only pray for your sanity and if possible, eat food that gives you crit/spell speed, it will make it less painful and the extra HP also helps
@soldierorsomething I played blm til level 37 before going back to my main and I was enjoying it. I cleaned out my armory chest recently so I don't have the gear to play it again just yet but I'm considering messing around with it once I get dragoon to level 50.
I spoke about this with my spouse and they said that one of the biggest issues with mentor roulette is that it's kind of a misnomer. The groups that you end up with aren't exactly looking for a mentor; they aren't necessarily looking to be taught; and this likely contributes to a lot of the non- or negative responses mentors get when they try to teach or instruct. We know the reality of it is that the mentor roulette is ultimately a queue filler, but it being named the way it is and given the requirements that it has leads to a number of false expectations about the way it ends up working in practice. As someone who's finished the grind, I definitely see their point. Not sure what would be the best way to address it though.
Mentors exist outside the roulette though. Considering just the roulette misses the entire rest of the discussion. And there's still many more things to go over for it. I'll be saying much more on this in Ep5
Oh, yeah, it isn't JUST a mentor roulette problem for sure, but I do think the roulette causes at least some people to apply those false expectations about what a mentor "should" be due to the way it's structured (as a generic queue-filler, rather than an appropriate backdrop for mentoring that's actually agreed upon by both mentor and mentee(s)) The roulette is the primary activity of the game where a mentor is generally regarded to be "on duty" after all (to the point where the game itself forces you to have your crown icon on while you're doing it), and it seemed to me like most complaints about mentor behavior (whether justified or not) originate from the roulette too. It reminds me of the (thankfully very few) times where I landed in a HW+ extreme trial (not counting Rathalos because that shows up a lot for some reason), where once I was chastised for clearly knowing/remembering nothing about the fight. Like, bro, crown or not, you probably shouldn't expect random DF guy (which I still am, even with a crown on) to have an 8 year old ex trial down by heart. Some people seem to honestly think that just because it's a mentor roulette requirement, people running that roulette should be experts at all of it. Ain't gonna happen.
I'm still in my first year of playing 14 and sometimes it feels like I know more than the mentors I encounter half the time and many seem to be quite rude. I had one accuse me of using a bot while going through a dungeon because I wasn't talking and instead paying attention to mechanics in the dungeon I'd never done before. Their attitude never changed and before they left they said "if you're going to use bots make it less obvious" as if they didn't wipe the party multiple times because they didn't know how to use their cooldowns and I kept getting the healer back up and attempting to dps enough to help the healer out. All that mentor earned that day was a report which is still the only time I've reported someone. I've found alliance raids you have 2 roulette which raid you get and what kind of mentors you'll get. Luckily it seems they tend to be more nice in raids compared to 8 man or dungeons, even making some rough runs fun and enjoyable despite wipes. When we had a mentor DRG pulling mobs and the bone dragon causing 2 wipes then screaming at us healers "where were the heals??" I've never seen every healer turn and look at a single person so fast and then rip into them, he fed himself to the wolves, mentors and sprouts alike teamed up against that one drg. He screamed the rest of that raid and no one cared it was a bunch of jokes in chat and it remains one of the funniest runs I've experienced. "PULL THEM AWAY" "shut up you lived"
you have the patience of a saint man if i was in that av run i wouldve dismissed that black mage when they started talking back. if you really dont want to try theres literally duty support so you dont have to grief other people
I agree with your point. Unfortuneately duty support doesn't exist for optional dungeons like Aurum Vale, so eventually these people will end up in a group.
@@misawa8629the way they were talking made it sound like they were just rouletting for the bigger exp, so that's not the issue here. They're just being awful because it's very slightly more efficient.
Oh gosh, so many things to talk about... I'll probably comment twice or thrice to not mix so much different subjects. I often stop and think that it's not always an bad aurum vale run, but when it's a bad run, its often aurum vale. Maybe it's because it's that close to the end of arr and people have usually cleared 2.0 when that happens. I had a terrible episode with a tank and a healer during the first pull, which the tank complained to a point that "the healer was not healing properly on purpose" and after that pulled the first boss 2 times without getting emmity. After the tank was kicked out i was tryin to give pointers to the healer until the next one queued in. We may have passed by half the time of the duty when we got the clear.
you can survive without the spiny plume by using tank lb. I've done it a couple times before. Garuda is surprisingly easy just doing it synced. Can completely skip the vortex phase.
I've not seen a GEX clear since like, early SB. Last time I got it, I could not get the OT to Provoke Chirada no matter how I explained it. So when it became these quick idk. Back then you very much did need the Plume. Least in any party I got.
@@WeskAlber True. If the tanks have no idea what's going on then a clear is basically impossible. Especially if you do happen to make it to vortex phase and thermal low starts happening.
The horse is mostly just something you kinda just glance at and go "that mad lad." If they touched up the horse it could be nice, but its very playdoughy atm. The number of people in ARF that I get that are either first time or haven't been there since the rework is nuts. I've had to walk people through the final fight a lot. Couple times I needed to danger dorit myself so others could just follow my movements.
Black mage was 100% griefing on purpose and they always respond with “it’s fine just heal or just tank ect” i have run people through things like BA. I have taught and walked people through savage/ultimates you name it, and i like to think I’m pretty chill and patient as long as people are willing to learn even if the progress is slow. One thing i have absolutely zero patience for is when someone is clearly playing poorly and hurting the progression of the duty on purpose, not because of a lack of knowledge.
"It's a dumb and ugly horse" hey that dumb and ugly horse is gonna impress my boyfriend so much he'll have to come back to this game to play with me! Your Aurum Vale run gave me flash backs to a Sohm Al run...Bad DPS...both stood in AOEs, never dodged. Neither took ANY advice I was giving or said anything. We wiped at last boss only cause I got stuck in a certain mechanic and the DPS, of course, wouldn't do anything to free me (Nor the tank) before it killed me. Thankfully the second time I didn't get picked so I was able to free the DPS to they could go back to pressing their 2-3 buttons or whatever they were doing... The tank did the absolute bare minimum but at least dodged AOEs. Rare time I didn't comm anyone.
Concerning the Garuda EX fight: nowadays most parties survive without the first Spiny plume (DF parties almost always kill it regardless of explanations/ signs not to 😅) - even me in my ARR 110 ilvl average gear - however the second one (when the ads reappear) needs to be kept alive if the party cannot dps fast enough to prevent Garuda’s cast, or most people will wipe in my experience
Man, I see that Black Mage rotation so much during MSQ roulette. One of my top wishes for Dawntrail is for them to add a tooltip for Astral Fire/Umbral Ice instead of the single tutorial pop-up at what, level 2? I can't even really be frustrated at sprouts doing B1>F1 because the game completely leaves them lost in the woods.
I just do mentor roulette for variety of content and fast DPS queues, lol. I do it anytime I want to just get to hitting buttons real fast if I'm bored.
aurum vale still being such a df killer is always fun to see. either people just don't know what to do or they do badly on purpose... what is it about this dungeon in particular 😭
NGL I probably would have let the BLM run out of HP and not raise them it would have been much easier. However in that scenario you did the right thing better to let the GMs deal with that behavior than to grief in return.
When entering the portal all effects get a like, x10 time multiplier. Notice there's a DoT on me. If you go in ASAP, you have a DoT for a long time. If you sit outside... You can also pop all your CDs as the DoT runs out for those to get a timer multiplier. So imagine a permanent burst window for the rest of the fight.
I have a feeling that mage didn't do any job quests or anything. Even if they did just going back and forth between ice and fire so quickly is just bad.. sad that people reject genuine advice.
That BLM is a good example of why i dont correct anyone anymore. I remember trying to tell a BLM on void ark that he was attacking a magic immune boss and had done 0 dmg for 2 mins. The entire alliance raid flew into a rage at me asking everyone to mass report me for parsing and bullying. I learned that its better to just let others be bad at the game cuz even though your intent is to help others to improve and maybe learn something about mechanics, they will just see it as you calling them dumb.
That very first run you did, I have dealt with on so many occasions. One even got mad that I told the tank to please pay attention to what they were doing only to find our that they were distracted typing in their FC chat which is why they were dying so quickly when they did their pulls. Healers have cool downs and it makes it hard for us to keep up if they don't do their job. The group proceeded to tell me to just do my job and heal. No offense but if I'm doing the work and they aren't, well then they aren't getting healed. We can only do it for so long before just letting them die because of their own mistakes. I do, do my job. Everyone else needs to as well instead of having a conversation in another chat. That and other healers I have ran with in extremes, raids, etc. They seem to just give up on healing, raising, everything. I waste so much mana more now then I did at a lower levels.
I over heal. I know I do but I still am not as comfortable as I would like to be as a healer. Though some times I worry about dps and forget to heal. I want to be a better healer so I keep trying.
Oof, that Aurum Vale run. The tank I'm willing to understand because it seemed like they were very new, maybe to MMOs as a whole, maybe even to video games in general. And they were trying their best and listening. So, that's frustrating but I wouldn't call it their fault. Everyone starts somewhere. The black mage, though? Basically actively sabotaging that run. "I'M GOOD TY" No you aren't, your garbage rotation is actively holding the party back. Bruh.
i wish guildhest were better implemented into the main story path, they teach usefull things, but i understand the devs trying to make arr more fast and entertaining to do
When entering the portal all effects get a like, x10 time multiplier. Notice there's a DoT on me. If you go in ASAP, you have a DoT for a long time. If you sit outside... You can also pop all your CDs as the DoT runs out for those to get a timer multiplier. So imagine a permanent burst window for the rest of the fight.
you don't have to run away just know when and pop buffs/mits. if you're a gnb, pld, pop invuln and sprint. if you're a dork knight, warrior. pop all your defensive cooldown. i'm not sure if walking dead is useful there. if you're healer, medica2 and aspected helios and don't refresh while inside, put on all your HoTs. if you're a dps, have that lb ready unless someone popped it, good luck.
god that av run was tiring just to WATCH. i can not imagine having to actively deal with it. and i genuinely can not understand how someone could be that bad at playing black mage at that level and refuse to learn bc its "hard to remember" like.... you just spam fire 1! thats it! just keep spamming that, use any firestarter procs, and then switch back to ice to gain mp! how in the world is that so hard to remember to the point that you refuse to listen to someone telling you what to do? i really, truly, do not understand why some ppl are so adverse to just like... Trying. not being the best - but just simply trying. not only are they making things more difficult for the other people in their party but also like.... are they even having fun? is it fun to be stuck in a dungeon for that long? idk. maybe they do get fun out of making other people miserable lol.
I have felt all of these emotions and I don't even have mentor roulette yet (still missing SB and forward EX) You meet some true characters in this game and it's so weird to me as someone who's hypercritical of their own performance that others can be so... completely disinterested in improving.
Hey its fun to look back at how bad of a player yourself used to be like 2 years ago, my friend still likes to remind me of locking eyes with a boss and being oblivious to everything else that was happening around me
Yeah no, that black mage was 100% griefing and purposely ate the fruit to kill you, good thing you reported them
With the title 100% was trolling/griefing
Would have 100% kicked them too
Yeah that black mage is completely out their minds griefing.
That black mage with the "Imperial Nuisance" title speaks for itself, lol.
Here's to your sanity, boss.
8:05 - I think we finally discovered something worse than an Ice Mage Black Mage, by which I mean, if they had at least just spammed Blizzard it would've been 180 potency B1s (Which is still terrible!), but instead the alternation like this meant the F1s that were cast were more like 162 Potency 😅
14:00 - I am pretty sure they (The magitek bits in ARF) do still explode, but they are more lenient with time, and also the explosion is more about giving you a vuln stack than hurting you if I recall correctly from running the dungeon after its rework. I don't see them explode very much though on account of them being so easy to deal with!
21:27 - That is quite hilarious that the NPCs just continue on. Is this the first case of an AoE Pull that is unfailable?
22:10 - I didn't know you could arm's length the chain, nice to know! I've always just moved for it, because even if you get one of the front "portals"(?) if you place yourself juuuust right, I am pretty sure you can be far enough away from it, while still being in range to attack the boss. But this is way easier!
Also to the outro, I am sure you don't need to be told this, but for every derp you meet that refuses any advice, I am sure there are several that appreciates it. All we can really do is focus on those that actually want the help! 😄
That's part of what makes me think the BLM was trolling. That and the little jump they did after Wesk died. I would bet money they were playing bad on purpose.
I'm ok with people being bad. But people that are that against receiving help... It just grinds my gears.
Being bad happens, not being able to execute on given advice too.
Intentionally being bad? Fuck you.
@berThat guy was not just intentionally being bad. Take a closer look at the section with the rotation you uploaded. As far as I can tell, none of his casts actually completed. The bar goes away before being filled every time. Seems to me like he was actually intentionally not doing his job at all.
@@johannesmuller6237 That's how it always looks. That's normal. However, what I didn't show was him eating my fruit there, was 100% intentional. So while he did intentionally kill me, he was still completing casts. Can even see MP moving.
There was a time I was healing in AV and the returner tank would not stop standing in the acid pools in the first room and kept dying, even when I was spam healing. No matter how many times I tried explaining that standing in the acid was hurting them, they just cursed me out multiple times and a few wipes later they left. Then another tank came in and we cleared without any issues. This was during a moogle tome event so I was spamming AV all day and it was the only issue with a tank I had that day.
I get that it can be embarrassing to acknowledge when you or someone else you know is wrong but it's very counterproductive. Good on you for being patient and being a proper mentor. Looking forward to the next video!
Spamming AV for tomes...
You got more patience than me
I was dying inside watching that AV run. I would not be able to stay. I hate helping people that are actively working against the help.
Same, I wouldn't bother healing through the dungeon after that assholery from the BLM.
I love it. It just shows you're the better person for being calm about it and doing what you're supposed to despite what is happening
I had a ninja in msq roulette that was using his mudras on doton on bosses. I told him doton is for aoe, raiton for singletarget. Then he went on to ONLY use doton on bosses, and ONLY raiton on aoe. After the instance was done, he walks up to me and places doton under me. Really hurt that dudes ego lmao
@@cb022That guy was compensating for something
Also you might want to correct what you said, because you said he used Raiton on Singletarget which is what he's supposed to do. I know what you meant, but if I made that mistake I would want someone to tell me so I'm letting you know ;)
Mentor is such a fine line to walk. As a sprout, I clearly remember Mentors giving me extremely poor advice. However, now I’m a mentor myself it makes me reluctant to speak up because of that fear of being wrong or being ignored.
I am very glad you do though. Your guides really helped me become a better player, and even now three years later are still very helpful.
Thanks for all the guidance and being one of the best teachers in XIV. Hope you continue to guide us all!😀
Good news, Episode 6 is gonna talk about this!
My god.
I have NEVER seen an AV run that bad.
Holy shit.
Ascian Prime has a reputation as a noob killer because if someone doesn't fully understand how snapshotting works they'll take too long trying to avoid an already snapshotted Dualstar AoE ("The floor's all covered in ice! It must still be dangerous, right?") to position themselves to avoid the second one in time. Getting unlucky and having both a tank AND healer who don't get it (Or understand the tether mechanic, either) is a recipe for frustration, but it seems like the sprouts you had knew what they were doing so you had a smooth ride.
That is literally the fight that really taught me the snapshotting thing, and I'd been playing for about 3 years by the time they rolled out the new fight. Like, I knew it on paper, but never really paid it much attention...until Dualstar.
It also doesn't help if a player has a poor framerate, since that means they move slower even if they understand what's happening and if it's bad enough they can be juuuust slow enough that some combinations outright aren't avoidable. It's not a common issue, of course, most people having trouble just don't understand snapshotting, but it's one that does exist.
the way the new ARF boss teaches stack marker THEN chains is actually genius. we know we should stack when chains are coming because they snap based on distance stretched, not distance between partners. if theyre already long chains, they dont have room to stretch, they cant snap. so force everyone to stack with a stack marker, then introduce chains, its perfect. good job, devs.
"Tight..."
"...I'm a failure!!!"
Mood 24/7. Great as always Wesk! Sorry you had to go through that AV run, I had something similar happen to me at some point, and being told "nah, I'm fine" triggers me more than being told the usual "You don't pay my sub", apathy is a silent killer.
This whole reward thing will never cease to be hilarious to me because I just don't understand why everything in FFXIV, from its players to the creators and the very ingame narrative, believes in this candyland world where mmo players suddenly engage with the content for reasons other than the proverbial carrot on the stick. Its insane.
Great series btw, keep up the good work.
This is it
20:56: Wesk kneels to the ground in the Crown of the Immaculate arena with new comms to his name. "Something terrible happened here."
"Say the line, Bart" made me giggle. Thanks
A friend of mine had a great idea. Swap the crown out for a watering can, to water the sprout.
They discussed that one in a video about the problems with mentor roulette. They basically said it would still be something unique, which is the entire reason bad mentors become mentors.
What zaq said basically. I would prefer the can icon, personally. I'd get the icon for the icon itself if it was a watering can, far more than a crown. I don't feel it being a crown in itself is much worse than it being something else. Though I might cover this topic later.
I've heard that idea before but I don't think it's worth the change. Sure, people sometimes like the burger king crown icon itself, but it's more about what it represents that makes people want it: "I'm not some random noob, I'm experienced player."
There's always going to be people who want to instantly receive the respect of being seen as a seasoned content veteran whether they're a good player or not, and other times you get people like me who know they're not good at the game but wanted to get mentor for mentor roulette itself, for variety when we're bored. Neither type of player will vanish simply because of an icon change, though I concede that some vain icon-focused players would stop using the crown, I just think those are a drop in the bucket compared to the variety-lovers and the clout-chasers.
Why not both?
Your beginner guides were honestly what allowed me to level all the jobs and not feel like I was being carried. Love your guides dood
Oof, that AV run, lol. "Just heal" is the healer equivalent of "get back in the kitchen, wench". I don't mind if someone ignores my advice or says they don't want it, but no need to be a total dick about it, either. You're right that the new ARF fight isn't hard in the grand scheme of things, but it is way more technical than all the boss fights in the prior dungeons. I love that new fight, but it is easily the most frequent sprout killer I see at that level range.
Related to the guides point you made, your Shadowbringers Dragoon Guide is what got me to finally try the game out in the first place
Thanks for showing what a mentor is meant to be, someone who tries to help. Whatever other things motivate them, in the end there is someone with some intention to help. That AV run is what differentiates good mentors from the bad ones; good ones will keep trying and stick it out. I remember my first run through AV and was surprised at the jump in difficulty...such devastation! I enjoyed this episode and this series in general. Some laughs, some pains, some pointers, and trips down memory lane at dungeon I haven't seen in a while and mistakes I made when I was learning.
4:17 That AV run......I always slow walk (RP walk) through the first room because the adds agro by sound instead of sight...except the toads. What happened in the boss room is literally the reason why I stand on top of the fruit just so that no one outright snags it...
13:55 The turrets in Aetherchemical Research Facility do enrage....found that out a long time ago when the party I was in just focused the boss. Three of us survived, but one person got one-shotted...
Also, you want to talk about Reaper being busted...look at Dancer...they get to walk around Sastasha with a 720 Potency nuke with Standard Step...
Ahh that Aurum Vale, that's what a lot of my roulettes look like, but often from ignorance not malice. Used Rescue 3 times in Labyrinth of the Ancients yesterday as an example, that was entertaining...
You and your Yootoob (or something) chanel are by far my main source of knowledge about how to play Ff14 correctly. Been playing for two years now. Still checking your class guides at least once a week.
And now let's Wait in QUEUUUE!
2:56 Me too Wesker. Me too.
Edit: 16:07 They jsut took the Hades EX ascian prime bit. And toned it down and reslotted it into that dungeon. Which is neat.
*sigh* This av run reminds me of playing ninja, have a tank pull and then run circles around the entire room with the pull, upon asking them "Please do not run in circles with the pull" I got told to stay in my lane and learn to be better tanks need to do this to give the healer time to heal.. Sometimes groups make me want to slam my head into a wall hoping that my brain damage will make things seem less stressful.
Oh the days of me starting ff14 as PLD and killing normal enemies for xp, running around them felt like they missed more of their attacks :D, until my veteran ff14 classmate told me to stop screwing up the positionals for others!
Meanwhile, as I was too stingy to ever throw money at the cash shop, I instead got a mostly maxed out racing chocobo, as well as got gud at jumping puzzles. I did this until I eventually has 4 million mgp to buy a nice 4 seater blimp. I can easily say that this was still a much easier grind then losing hairs over mentor roulette for a multi-seater mount.
it`s not about the lulti-seater mount at all. It`s about the fact that you can say: I did that.
It`s one of the most hideous grinds we have in the game. I`d say it`s one of the big 4 bragging-rights-grinds we have: Luckiest of Lords/Ladies, the Mentor Mount, the Hunt Mounts and the GC-Levequest-Grind
People not wanting to take advice is why I limit myself to 1 piece of advice. It's more likely to take in my experience, even if I could give more than 1.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who does the "Say the line Gaius" thing
This episode was worth it just for the "Oh God this is not gonna be good." 🤣
The new ARF actually was tripping up almost every group I got for it during my grind thru mentor roulette last year. Specifically the last boss. That donut/chariot (or vice versa) snapshot back to back is very quick for something that's not in extreme/savage/ultimate content.
Also I'm certain I had no less than half a dozen AV runs that were sketchy, to be nice
1:54 you have helped me learn my favorite class drk.
Then 2 years aka last week I sent you're video to my friends who just started ff14
For Aetherochemical Reasearch Facility, me a non-mentor had to teach so many people to do the last boss that i kinda get scared when this pop on the decimal roulets and i just pray that's gonna be a fast run
I have no problem giving advice.
"Just heal!"
"I am, I keep going OOM cos of you. Play your class not a bot."
I felt that AV run in my bones! Poor scared Dark Knight and uuuuugh that bm. Not sure if a troll or just stubborn either way you can't teach someone who doesn't wish to learn.
You can arm's length Anima's gravity orbs? TIL
Ooooo I love learning new things to arms length.
this series is just the best to laugh at how much patience u have, thank u for the content
Wesk I think this series is so popular also is because I use it to motivate myself to help people and pay attention when all I get is people minding their business xD
Waitin in queeeee....for episode 5
I also realized that Mentor Roulette was a very easy way of finishing Khloes Book every week without having to do anything extra. Still never gonna touch my crown ever again
I'm still not a mentor, but aetherochemical research facility gives me mentor trauma XD
The last roulette I did to get red mage to 90 was that dungeon, and the healer died on the first tethered orb mechanic every time we attempted the final boss, no matter how we explained the dodge. No veraise at that level. Ended up just vercuring through the whole fight as if I was the healer.
The MT Gulg megapull at the start is maybe my favorite pull in the game to tank. I love it SO MUCH. Also yes the Aethrochemical Research Facility's final boss is legitimately my favorite dungeon boss in the game now. Just a ton of mechanics in there that are easy to pull off but teach SO MUCH that people need to know
ARF last fight can be a struggle when you get it with a sprout healer on msq and have to guide them through every mech... for 4 tries.
I've done garuda extreme so much that I can say synced with the echo she always dies before the plume matters and the raidwide after doesn't even kill you.
While I can't say there aren't bad mentors out there, I feel like mentors get a bad rep. As someone who loves helping people and genuinely mentors for that reason (the pony is a bonus) it's a thankless job. I can not tell you the number of times you try to gently give sprouts information and they ignore you or actively go against your advice, making the dungeon, trial, whatever, so much worse.
Though I'm happy to help people, I'm grinding for the mount really. However after 1500 or so runs it's completely stopped any motivation I have to try and advise. I will literally only say something now if it's stopping the run or if I'm in the mood to argue my point. The number of people who flat out ignore you or argue against doing the absolute bare minimum in their role is insane.
I love the random chance of hearing "Oh this is a levequest" or "Oh god..." After you load into the roulette 😂
the ARF boss fight is tricky for new players because the movement required is pretty fast compared to anything before that, there's frequent wipes especially if healer is new...
also for garuda synced the spiny plume dying literally doesn't matter anymore, most players survive the incoming attack just fine... only minimum item level has some problems with it... I've tried to get people to not kill the spiny several times on roulette and it never worked out, but it also never actually mattered
Yeah I've not been back in here in years
When I first started playing I got a AV like that as a whm, legit thought I was doing something wrong. Glad to see others suffer so.
Also those that keep making comments about "sprouts." I finished the game all the way up to level 80 before Endwalkers was a thing as a sprout. Didn't know how to change it. But I knew what I was doing, so not all sprouts are bad. Not saying you said anything, someone else did and it reminded me of the many times I've had to deal with it. 😂
I don't know what it is about Aurum Vale that attracts bad players. Almost every player like that black mage I've encountered was in that one dungeon.
Although its a different game with different systems of labelling, granblue fantasy relink has basically an "any content" roulette to backfill endgame players into queues for people progressing that rewards you with a currency exclusive to it that can be used as bad luck protection for bad item drops from the lategame bosses and stuff like that, xiv's gearing system kinda conflicts witht his but something more like this shows that rewards for roulettes like this can work.
That Black Mage lowkey inspired me to be a better Black Mage than him, starting at lvl1.
You are in for a rough ride, BLM feels like crap until you unlock fire IV, so i can only pray for your sanity and if possible, eat food that gives you crit/spell speed, it will make it less painful and the extra HP also helps
@soldierorsomething I played blm til level 37 before going back to my main and I was enjoying it. I cleaned out my armory chest recently so I don't have the gear to play it again just yet but I'm considering messing around with it once I get dragoon to level 50.
Your tank glam is very interesting love it!
The ARF fight is hard when you’re doing it with sprouts that don’t understand the mechanics and die to every single ice or fire attack.
I spoke about this with my spouse and they said that one of the biggest issues with mentor roulette is that it's kind of a misnomer. The groups that you end up with aren't exactly looking for a mentor; they aren't necessarily looking to be taught; and this likely contributes to a lot of the non- or negative responses mentors get when they try to teach or instruct. We know the reality of it is that the mentor roulette is ultimately a queue filler, but it being named the way it is and given the requirements that it has leads to a number of false expectations about the way it ends up working in practice.
As someone who's finished the grind, I definitely see their point. Not sure what would be the best way to address it though.
Mentors exist outside the roulette though. Considering just the roulette misses the entire rest of the discussion. And there's still many more things to go over for it. I'll be saying much more on this in Ep5
Oh, yeah, it isn't JUST a mentor roulette problem for sure, but I do think the roulette causes at least some people to apply those false expectations about what a mentor "should" be due to the way it's structured (as a generic queue-filler, rather than an appropriate backdrop for mentoring that's actually agreed upon by both mentor and mentee(s))
The roulette is the primary activity of the game where a mentor is generally regarded to be "on duty" after all (to the point where the game itself forces you to have your crown icon on while you're doing it), and it seemed to me like most complaints about mentor behavior (whether justified or not) originate from the roulette too.
It reminds me of the (thankfully very few) times where I landed in a HW+ extreme trial (not counting Rathalos because that shows up a lot for some reason), where once I was chastised for clearly knowing/remembering nothing about the fight. Like, bro, crown or not, you probably shouldn't expect random DF guy (which I still am, even with a crown on) to have an 8 year old ex trial down by heart. Some people seem to honestly think that just because it's a mentor roulette requirement, people running that roulette should be experts at all of it. Ain't gonna happen.
I can't see myself doing mentor. My patience is too low and I'd probably get banned if I got someone like that BLM in Aurum lol
YOu hands down have the best begginer guide, I legit feel like I can play any job if i watch your guides. I haven't been playing for long (
I'm still in my first year of playing 14 and sometimes it feels like I know more than the mentors I encounter half the time and many seem to be quite rude. I had one accuse me of using a bot while going through a dungeon because I wasn't talking and instead paying attention to mechanics in the dungeon I'd never done before. Their attitude never changed and before they left they said "if you're going to use bots make it less obvious" as if they didn't wipe the party multiple times because they didn't know how to use their cooldowns and I kept getting the healer back up and attempting to dps enough to help the healer out. All that mentor earned that day was a report which is still the only time I've reported someone.
I've found alliance raids you have 2 roulette which raid you get and what kind of mentors you'll get. Luckily it seems they tend to be more nice in raids compared to 8 man or dungeons, even making some rough runs fun and enjoyable despite wipes. When we had a mentor DRG pulling mobs and the bone dragon causing 2 wipes then screaming at us healers "where were the heals??" I've never seen every healer turn and look at a single person so fast and then rip into them, he fed himself to the wolves, mentors and sprouts alike teamed up against that one drg. He screamed the rest of that raid and no one cared it was a bunch of jokes in chat and it remains one of the funniest runs I've experienced. "PULL THEM AWAY" "shut up you lived"
you have the patience of a saint man if i was in that av run i wouldve dismissed that black mage when they started talking back. if you really dont want to try theres literally duty support so you dont have to grief other people
I agree with your point. Unfortuneately duty support doesn't exist for optional dungeons like Aurum Vale, so eventually these people will end up in a group.
@@misawa8629the way they were talking made it sound like they were just rouletting for the bigger exp, so that's not the issue here. They're just being awful because it's very slightly more efficient.
It's really weird seeing dungeons I did back when I was a sprout get changed. It's one of those that you do once and don't really see anymore
Oh gosh, so many things to talk about... I'll probably comment twice or thrice to not mix so much different subjects.
I often stop and think that it's not always an bad aurum vale run, but when it's a bad run, its often aurum vale.
Maybe it's because it's that close to the end of arr and people have usually cleared 2.0 when that happens.
I had a terrible episode with a tank and a healer during the first pull, which the tank complained to a point that "the healer was not healing properly on purpose" and after that pulled the first boss 2 times without getting emmity.
After the tank was kicked out i was tryin to give pointers to the healer until the next one queued in. We may have passed by half the time of the duty when we got the clear.
I'll never complain about a bad AV run again
OMG, that AV part of this video is why im never ever picking up the mentor!
felt that decimate windup in my soul, it delays the heal by SO much
i think onslaught actually makes the bloodwhetting heal faster (by messing with the animation) but im not 100% on that
I felt my entire body tense up when I did it. Sucks to know your mistake and freeze up. Though unsure if Equilib woulda saved me.
@@WeskAlber it woulda given ya some buffer room for sure but it's a close call
you can survive without the spiny plume by using tank lb. I've done it a couple times before. Garuda is surprisingly easy just doing it synced. Can completely skip the vortex phase.
I've not seen a GEX clear since like, early SB. Last time I got it, I could not get the OT to Provoke Chirada no matter how I explained it. So when it became these quick idk. Back then you very much did need the Plume. Least in any party I got.
@@WeskAlber True. If the tanks have no idea what's going on then a clear is basically impossible. Especially if you do happen to make it to vortex phase and thermal low starts happening.
The horse is mostly just something you kinda just glance at and go "that mad lad." If they touched up the horse it could be nice, but its very playdoughy atm.
The number of people in ARF that I get that are either first time or haven't been there since the rework is nuts. I've had to walk people through the final fight a lot. Couple times I needed to danger dorit myself so others could just follow my movements.
Black mage was 100% griefing on purpose and they always respond with “it’s fine just heal or just tank ect”
i have run people through things like BA. I have taught and walked people through savage/ultimates you name it, and i like to think I’m pretty chill and patient as long as people are willing to learn even if the progress is slow.
One thing i have absolutely zero patience for is when someone is clearly playing poorly and hurting the progression of the duty on purpose, not because of a lack of knowledge.
"It's a dumb and ugly horse" hey that dumb and ugly horse is gonna impress my boyfriend so much he'll have to come back to this game to play with me! Your Aurum Vale run gave me flash backs to a Sohm Al run...Bad DPS...both stood in AOEs, never dodged. Neither took ANY advice I was giving or said anything. We wiped at last boss only cause I got stuck in a certain mechanic and the DPS, of course, wouldn't do anything to free me (Nor the tank) before it killed me. Thankfully the second time I didn't get picked so I was able to free the DPS to they could go back to pressing their 2-3 buttons or whatever they were doing... The tank did the absolute bare minimum but at least dodged AOEs. Rare time I didn't comm anyone.
I remember getting a tunnel vision as a new player in FF14, if there was a boss to be killed, so they must have had it too
Concerning the Garuda EX fight: nowadays most parties survive without the first Spiny plume (DF parties almost always kill it regardless of explanations/ signs not to 😅) - even me in my ARR 110 ilvl average gear - however the second one (when the ads reappear) needs to be kept alive if the party cannot dps fast enough to prevent Garuda’s cast, or most people will wipe in my experience
There needs to be a tank role action that works as an enmity increase pull ability. Would be a nice quality of life skill
That AV run...that's what we mean when we say this "great/best community" has a large moral hypercasualism problem.
Man, I see that Black Mage rotation so much during MSQ roulette. One of my top wishes for Dawntrail is for them to add a tooltip for Astral Fire/Umbral Ice instead of the single tutorial pop-up at what, level 2? I can't even really be frustrated at sprouts doing B1>F1 because the game completely leaves them lost in the woods.
I just do mentor roulette for variety of content and fast DPS queues, lol. I do it anytime I want to just get to hitting buttons real fast if I'm bored.
aurum vale still being such a df killer is always fun to see. either people just don't know what to do or they do badly on purpose... what is it about this dungeon in particular 😭
NGL I probably would have let the BLM run out of HP and not raise them it would have been much easier. However in that scenario you did the right thing better to let the GMs deal with that behavior than to grief in return.
Genuine question, you have to run from the black hole during the ascian fight? How come?
When entering the portal all effects get a like, x10 time multiplier. Notice there's a DoT on me. If you go in ASAP, you have a DoT for a long time. If you sit outside... You can also pop all your CDs as the DoT runs out for those to get a timer multiplier. So imagine a permanent burst window for the rest of the fight.
when you cast blizzard
Drop it like it's hot, drop it like it's hot drop it like it's hot
I have a feeling that mage didn't do any job quests or anything. Even if they did just going back and forth between ice and fire so quickly is just bad.. sad that people reject genuine advice.
With max item level, you can even Tank LB and survive, if the plume dies before it
I cam confirm thise bot thing still explode
Me before this video: I’m the worst BLM player in the game
Me after this video: I’m the second worst BLM player in the game
That BLM is a good example of why i dont correct anyone anymore. I remember trying to tell a BLM on void ark that he was attacking a magic immune boss and had done 0 dmg for 2 mins. The entire alliance raid flew into a rage at me asking everyone to mass report me for parsing and bullying.
I learned that its better to just let others be bad at the game cuz even though your intent is to help others to improve and maybe learn something about mechanics, they will just see it as you calling them dumb.
That very first run you did, I have dealt with on so many occasions. One even got mad that I told the tank to please pay attention to what they were doing only to find our that they were distracted typing in their FC chat which is why they were dying so quickly when they did their pulls. Healers have cool downs and it makes it hard for us to keep up if they don't do their job. The group proceeded to tell me to just do my job and heal. No offense but if I'm doing the work and they aren't, well then they aren't getting healed. We can only do it for so long before just letting them die because of their own mistakes. I do, do my job. Everyone else needs to as well instead of having a conversation in another chat. That and other healers I have ran with in extremes, raids, etc. They seem to just give up on healing, raising, everything. I waste so much mana more now then I did at a lower levels.
I over heal. I know I do but I still am not as comfortable as I would like to be as a healer. Though some times I worry about dps and forget to heal. I want to be a better healer so I keep trying.
The SGE is perfect for you :P
you can actualy survive the garuda ex without the bubble if you use some mit, cause you outgear it super hard
Oof, that Aurum Vale run. The tank I'm willing to understand because it seemed like they were very new, maybe to MMOs as a whole, maybe even to video games in general. And they were trying their best and listening. So, that's frustrating but I wouldn't call it their fault. Everyone starts somewhere.
The black mage, though? Basically actively sabotaging that run.
"I'M GOOD TY" No you aren't, your garbage rotation is actively holding the party back. Bruh.
"only on this a few levels" ...were...were they using a 2.0 guide with cross classes??
Lets FUCKING GOOOOO, YOU MADE MY DAY! Love your videos!
I admit it. If the chrysalis ques I leave instantly......I'm so sorry but.....toodles 👋
Are those blue switches I hear when you're typing? Also look into the bandaid stabilizer mod, your keyboard will sound 10000x better I promise.
The only thing that pops out from looking that up is ways to ruin a keyboard.
i didnt know you could hyper pull mt gulg like that
i wish guildhest were better implemented into the main story path, they teach usefull things, but i understand the devs trying to make arr more fast and entertaining to do
Waiting on QuEuEeEe lol I love ya
I have probably done better than that BLM as a Thaumaturge. . .
Which wouldn’t be hard considering I’ve done up to 140 in PotD solo as a Thaumaturge.
Wait, why do you need to run away from portal in Chrysalis? Never heard of it before.
When entering the portal all effects get a like, x10 time multiplier. Notice there's a DoT on me. If you go in ASAP, you have a DoT for a long time. If you sit outside... You can also pop all your CDs as the DoT runs out for those to get a timer multiplier. So imagine a permanent burst window for the rest of the fight.
you don't have to run away just know when and pop buffs/mits. if you're a gnb, pld, pop invuln and sprint. if you're a dork knight, warrior. pop all your defensive cooldown. i'm not sure if walking dead is useful there. if you're healer, medica2 and aspected helios and don't refresh while inside, put on all your HoTs. if you're a dps, have that lb ready unless someone popped it, good luck.
I stopped running mentor roulette's after 50 or so. The reward is in not enough for getting insulted/called toxic/... when trying to give advice/help.
god that av run was tiring just to WATCH. i can not imagine having to actively deal with it. and i genuinely can not understand how someone could be that bad at playing black mage at that level and refuse to learn bc its "hard to remember" like.... you just spam fire 1! thats it! just keep spamming that, use any firestarter procs, and then switch back to ice to gain mp! how in the world is that so hard to remember to the point that you refuse to listen to someone telling you what to do?
i really, truly, do not understand why some ppl are so adverse to just like... Trying. not being the best - but just simply trying. not only are they making things more difficult for the other people in their party but also like.... are they even having fun? is it fun to be stuck in a dungeon for that long? idk. maybe they do get fun out of making other people miserable lol.
Early BLM is like. The most no-effort rotation to remember. Anyone can learn it if they're actually willing to learn.
That black mage was a bot.
I have felt all of these emotions and I don't even have mentor roulette yet (still missing SB and forward EX)
You meet some true characters in this game and it's so weird to me as someone who's hypercritical of their own performance that others can be so... completely disinterested in improving.
Hey its fun to look back at how bad of a player yourself used to be like 2 years ago, my friend still likes to remind me of locking eyes with a boss and being oblivious to everything else that was happening around me
i never go healer in mentor roulette. it's better to go dps. max damage and clear.
It's hilarious how "special" mounts from way back kinda suck because of the textures. Some of them look legitimately terrible.
18:56 I love that Roe sage's energy lmao
It's not av it's piss vale
Most mentors are bad anyway, they just want the burger king crown before their ign, or mount. Good mentors are so rare.
Thank you for proving my point.
Stay in your lane.