Everytime I see Cure pop up on your screen, I imagine one of those science bird beaker things just bobbing up and down on the healers keyboard and they are off taking a dump or something. Edit: also grats on the mount
But in 50 cure is whm's mp bar best friend I clear twintania mine cure tank while keep regens up at all time until the death sentence and ball phase when i go cura until my mp out :(
I had a smn mentor in rathalos ex who told me I should do this unsynced in PF and that I'm wasting everyone's time. That same mentor proceeded to cart one or two times every pull and failing the duty for us repeatedly. They then declared it was hopeless and that they were going to wait out the timer to leave/abandon. During the final pull before they could leave the duty, we took it down to ~30% health, just the three of us. The mentor just stood in the back of the arena, watching. We had made it further than we did when the mentor was "helping" us. They left without saying a word.... Mentors really left a bad taste in my mouth, after that. I unlocked the mentor crown, myself, a few weeks ago, and I'm prepping to go through the synced ex's to unlock the mentor roulette... I am determined to never be that guy.
you can do unsynced PF EXs to unlock roulette, the only downside is you won't have the "synced" experience but it's generally better to make PFs for that as well. Personally Mentor Roulette made me "git gud" at a lot of EXs because even if you did them synced back in the day, chances are by the time it rolls around in Mentor you'll have forgotten the mechanics to some degree, so it's about derusting on the fly and honestly no shame looking up a macro or guide quickly to refresh your own memory so you can better teach people Also yeah most mentors are trash and have bad attitude, they see 2k roulettes as a means to an end, instead of the point that it's meant to help newbies. Even if the Crown's reputation is tainted, it's ultimately up to you as a player to decide what it means.
@@Zanagoth thanks for your advice, and the thought behind what you said relating to some mentor's mentality. It's really a shame, cuz you'd think they'd take up the crown to genuinely help folks. That's what i plan to do with this newfound power, anyway... for now, i'm still a little intimidated about putting it on :p
for rath ex I usually tell the sprouts "if rathalos ever looks at you move out of the way" and that has around a 60 percent success rate hope that helps
Yeah that's usually what I tell people after the first wipe, because in defiance of all common sense especially casters will just stare and continue casting on Rathalos when he's clearly going to start a dash
I do this and I also add in, “if you’re worried about getting hit during the last phase, just spam your ranged attack/instant cast spell(s) while he’s in the air. Any damage done during that phase adds to the down gauge. Doesn’t matter how hard it hits.”
... as sprout myself.. sorry.. i am just listening to music and reading the chat to not miss LOOOORE :D recently did bozja raids.. was fun especially when i said that i am first timer, and will propably back flip to death... and i did.. the arena at one of the bosses is sooo freaking small:D
Your free now Zanagoth, Rest your head on the softest pillow you can find and scream in it for the pain is no more. But that ending 10 out of 10 that's some realllllly good editing.
as a fellow elemental non-jp speaking (sometimes) mentor i once had rathalos ex at midnight with 3 jp sprouts and i felt like i went thru 5 stages of grief during the whole thing the absolute joy and pride i got when they all managed to clear it in 50 minutes tho, sometimes things like that is what makes the roulette an unforgettable experience
I automatically stopped using Cure I the moment I learned Cure II, Afflatus Solace and any other healing oGCD tools. But seriously, they fell for Freecure proc and arguing with “But it saves a lot of MP!”
lmao I'm that reaper witnessing rdm yeeted themself off platform and you really did a great job dubbing a voice in my head cos I was like 'Did you guys see that perfect backflip??'
I remember while levelling Ninja for the first time, i had made a bad habit of using Doton on single targets and in one dungeon i had a healer go: "Will i ever see a Ninja not using Doton on ST" Needless to say i never did it again but i could feel the despair in his tone.
sometimes having a random call you out is the most humbling experience 😭I'd been playing AST 4 years now but forgot it was slated for card changes in DT, and when a DPS flamed me for giving them a card that was meant for a tank (that USED to be for any melee dps) I made it a point to re-learn every card within the hour and never did it again
As a fellow Astrope-riding Mentor (Finished a few weeks ago) These videos have been a catharsis for me, knowing that out there on another Data Center, someone else is feeling the pressure too, that someone else struggled and succeeded. Thank you so much for making these, and congratulations on your victory.
As a craft mentor who is terrified of doing his battle part of the crown symbol, I salute you cousin! :D A well deserved mount! And thanks a lot for the videos ^^ they're great!
Crafting mentor was actually super easy by comparison and took about a week Battle Mentor I've been working towards since I started playing, getting that many comms is pretty rough One protip I have is make your adventurer plate funny, you actually get more comms that way
I am technically also a battle mentor, I meant that I don't use the battle aspect of being a mentor ;-)@@deathsythe238 EDIT: eh sorry I might have responded to the wrong message lol, thought you were telling me about the battle version ^^' (I'm not that youtube savvy)
Congrats my guy, when I saw you were going after it literally just after I got my own mentor mount I was ecstatic to see how it would go. I’m glad you stuck with it, the game needs mentors like you in the queue. And seriously, what was with mentors leaving smileton? I was just happy to not get Good King Moogle Mog again
as sprout healer who didnt touch dark knight - dont know what the living dead is:D i would definitely try to heal that - from name and from exp from wow i quess it is - you cannot be healed during this
@@poro9084 All tanks have an invuln. skill Living Dead is Dark Knight's. What it does is give you a buff that looks like an hourglass in a red background, if your hp drops to 0 during it's window you go into Walking Dead and it's a debuff that looks like an hourglass on a gray background. Walking Dead you can heal through if you want but is not necessary since the DRK get huge self healing off of their gcds during it.
@@sonicdude100 I remember when you had to save Bene for that if you wanted to do the big boi pull. Get your crap together, burn your Rampart, Burn LD, use arms length at 7 second wait until 8 seconds and Bene, Arms length slows enemies as soon as you hit max HP and drop WD, They start slow, and you start with your other Mits, pray to god the DPS is competent. (Big Ask.)
To add on the party chat defense, I don't think any of the default tabs for party chat are set-up in a way to only show the player's texts alone, meaning if you want that to happen, you'll have to create a custom tab for that which is something I expect new players to not know at all (I started using that myself just before Endwalker's release for a Spoiler free tab).
yeah, was reason why i specifically did that - so i could read party chat, but then i had exp from wow, so i sorta knew it should be doable and just was clicking on chat tab to figure it out
Had a run of Great Hunt EX at the time of writing this, actually. I joined in late as I'm sure I took the place of someone with less fortitude. Three mentors, one sproutless SMN. We wiped time after time, but we kept going. I'd had plenty of experience doing this before--lead plenty of newcomers to victories before. This wasn't one of those successes sadly. Our SMN was struggling hard. We gave them every bit of advice we could; avoid their front, use Mega Potion duty action when you need healing during the flying phase, you can take the stacks solo as long as you use your Mega Potion, etc. At times, they were so engaged, they'd forget to summon their carbuncle or run right at the boss and pull it instantly between wipes... their damage was low--they hardly found time to cast when they were able. It was clear they weren't ready for this--no tricks or tips could make up for it--they needed more time and practice familiarizing themselves with their kit--let alone the fight. I'm not one to try and explain someone's entire kit to them during duties--that's better suited in front of a training dummy. I keep it to myself and do my best to help out where I can. Regardless, we pressed on--and eventually, without a word, they left. Another mentor is pulled in and we finish the fight fairly quickly. We chatted for a bit before leaving--mostly about feeling bad that we weren't able to help the SMN get their win, but agreed that they didn't seem like they were really ready for it--and hopefully they at least learned something about the mechs. "Look to those who walked before to lead those who walk after." Sometimes people expect a lot more from mentors--and I can't say I blame em. Everybody's just a player at the end of the day. Good mentors can teach you plenty from what they know--maybe not all of it at once in an EX or what-have-you. But like many will say, and they're right, they don't pay your sub; it's up to you to put in the time and effort necessary to improve and accomplish what you set out to do on your journey. I just hope that when failure does happen you'll still be able to have fun, y'know? "Thou must live, die, and know."
you are good guy... or gal.. you tried, and that point it is on sprout - as sprout myself - you cannot be carried too much.. on other side i need to said that i have several years of high mythic keys in WoW - so i understand how classes works, how skills should be chained, evade to stuff, but sometimes not knowing the boss and he is watching you... menacingly just callculate too late and get hit, but i think over year i met only one person who was angry about not me knowing mechanic - you tried a lot, dont be sad about it - it is also good feeling when the sprout finally catch on - i spammed lot of Shiva Extreme ... bcs i love the music - and when group get the mechanic of Bow it just feels so good
If a lot more people had this understanding, both mentors and sprouts, I believe us mentors that take that crown a little more seriously than most, would be given a lot more respect about what what we actually do. Of course, there’s the bad eggs, but those bad eggs can ruin it for those that are actually willing to help and stick around to do so. I really just hope that the huge amount of newer players we have coming into the game soon, have the chance to meet mentors like us that are willing to try our best to get their clear in older content. Seeing 5+ yellow clear text in the chat log makes my heart smile every single time. I’m certainly not a content genius, but I can say that one of the biggest reasons I still play this damn game is from the feeling I get when someone clears what they consider something difficult. I have a lot of good memories helping sprouts in mentor roulette, very few bad ones. I feed off the excitement… and that’s why I still do this shit.
Z, I feel ya, man. It wasn't easy to make life easy for everybody. But where we can, we can and do a little something about it. When I wear the crown, i almost always play dps, coz that way i can skip and loaf a little bit, and do the mentoring. But when I play tank or healer, no can do. Rotation and doing the mechanics above all, or... i die, you die, everybody dies. LMAO. to me, the crown symbolized something more than just getting the awesome mount. It's a testament of your undying love for the game that have captures millions of hearts the world over. Giving it a bad name is like shitting in my cup of hot chocolate and drink it afterward. I got 2K+ days of subscribed time. All the long timers know what that means.
Can I just say, as a sprout who has the occasional braindead moment (mostly from panicking in the heat of the moment) I weirdly really appreciate these vids? Like I know mentors have got to be frustrated with me when I wander into an aoe or noticeably fuck up my rotation, or QUEUE INTO AN EX VIA DUTY FINDER WHOOPS but this humor helps me feel like it's more "ah, goddamn sprouts :T" than pure annoyance. Also this is a great What Not To Do guide
yeah it shouldnt be truly nothing else but helping sprouts the best you can with the mount being the goal too yeah but to achieve it without actually preforming your mentor duty in some positive way is just meh to me. Like the btchn/sighing, emotes, vote abandon etc. Especially with how that roulette works with pulling in fresh people/newer players in. I got mine completed in 2017 so yeah, definitely had the experience with seeing how bad mentors were with the sprouts. so yeah there's mentors out there with the best intentions too. doesnt have to be "goddamn sprouts"
I blame Cure 1 on the devs. They KNOW the additional effect is a trap, and people shouldnt use cure 1 after getting cure 2 yet they still keep it after all this time. Remove the additional effect, and have cure 1 be upgraded to cure 2 instead of them being two different abilities
i'm still leveling ninja, so i didn't know that about doton (being a dps loss on a single target). thanks for teaching me something! :) congrats on the achievement (also wait that spot for the heretic's forks in malikah's well is god tier hang on-)
@@berrybackshots Not in EW, and even in ShB it's extremely close because the doton takes an extra mudra, so wasn't really worth trying. Nowadays it's a straight loss no matter what.
Eh, I don’t really blame anyone, people are allowed to leave whatever they want if they are willing to take the 30 minute penalty, I don’t quite understand why anyone would do so though, outside of Exs (they might be fun for me to do, but I could see why some might get annoyed) I could maybe understand smileton, because most dungeons are kinda boring, but Golbez is the one that confuses me, its a normal trial, its like the fastest easiest thing you can get in mentor roulette besides guildheists, so weird to leave there.
@@shawnscouten5184 Well if I'm doing my roulettes and someone insta leaves I'd certainly be annoyed. But I'm not using DF for EX trials in the first place so that would never affect me.
I've started watching your video around when I started farming for the mount, got it yesterday and so happy to see you got it too lately, big gz on the achievement and thx for sharing the pain with all of us
I've been healing in this game since 2.0. That cure 1 spam segment disheartened me into the deepest, darkest sigh I've ever breathed. Perfect song choice.
There ought to be a big flashing red sign that says "THIS CONTENT IS OPTIONAL AND EXTREMELY DIFFICULT" whenever you queue for your first extreme trial. Also I swear I have never done Nabriales in one try ever in my 2,000 hours. Even if I mention before the fight to save the LB, DPS sees three shiny bars and goes "ook"
The butt clenches when you see an 8-man duty come up and you don't know if it's a synced EX or the 8-man guildhest. And the additional butt clench when you see a 4-man duty come up and it's the Great Hunt EX instead of Bockman.
I managed to get that 8 man guildhest once in my grind for Astrope. I dead ass forgot there even was an 8 man guildhest, so imagine my confusion loading into that thing, thinking "what the hell is this?"
As a ninja player, been flipping around on Single Target Doton for a while. It's the closest thing to a DoT Ninja has, but yeah, resources could go towards Raitons. Will take this to heart for future Ninja play, thank you Mentor Sensei!
The issue is that almost all DoTs in FFXIV tick every 3 seconds (with the exception of MCH Flamethrower that ticks every second for some reason), so Doton's single target potency is basically 80 x 6 ticks = 480 potency IF the enemy stands in it the entire duration vs Raiton's 650 upfront potency, so under no single target circumstance is Doton a damage gain especially after they removed prepull Doton + Hide tech. It's a bit of a noob trap because the 3 second tick system isn't explained or intuitive, so I understand why people make the mistake (every other job in the game wants to apply DoTs if they have one), but it's also a good reminder that looking up a text guide for 5 mins can avoid a lot of mistakes when learning a new job
Yeah, I saw in another video that it apparently WAS a little more potency than Raiton in the past, but yeah, not upfront. It's sort of a unique thing with Ninja's abilities and the Mudra. My DRK brain sort of associated it as similar to Salted Earth, but then as I thought on the Mudra logically, you ALWAYS have a choice for that, but it's a choice. It's a resource using ANY ninjutsu. When you think of that as another "meter" of sorts, you become a bit more self-conscious about that. Which is why despite the complexity of Ninja, it's basically my favorite Melee DPS at the moment.
You are the mentor that we all should strive to be. I generally do my roulettes on WHM, as I would rather have a sprout tank than a sprout healer. No mit is usually more survivable than no heals, and I'm not very good at tanking anyway. The cure 1s I saw today hurt me. They always do. My condolences. And congratulations on your mount!
This was a whole experience! Took me back when I completed mine 3 years ago ;_; absolute roller-coaster of emotions lol, Grats on the mount fellow Astrope-rider!
17:50 I love how Ramuh EX is in the background for this. There's only so many ways I can explain to a tank sprout that they need to grab **3 ORBS** and not one more. If they can't count to 3, I'm afraid they can't be helped. Walls of text won't help if people either ignore what you say or can't do the most basic tasks.
Yeah being a Mentor just means you take accountability of a whole when others refuse to learn a fight on their own time. It's shitty and there should be more rewards for Mentoring.
Psst... THERE ARE LINES ON THE FLOOR. THERE ARE LINES ON THE FLOOR. THERE ARE LINES ON THE FLOOR. THERE ARE LINES ON THE FLOOR. THERE ARE LINES ON THE FLOOR. THERE ARE LINES ON THE FLOOR. THERE ARE LINES ON THE FLOOR. THERE ARE LINES ON THE FLOOR.
6:52: I started last year as a WAR but as someone who's DPS main is NIN, it kills me seeing that in dungeons and alliance raids. I haven't even beaten Stormblood yet and I'm still seeing that STD(Single Target Doton) everywhere. Least I have a new idea for a macro🤷 Edit: 10:14 - this is why i single pull that specific section
Congratulations, it’s one of the more difficult grinds in this game. Takes lots of patience, endurance, and mental fortitude. But you definitely earned it. Great job!
About the Complain part, no one would need to explain anything from the beginning. Since if they went in unprepared and watched no guide, I assume they gonna blind prog, and if they went in prepared, it’s mostly visible. Only do explaining stuff if they actively ask for advice mechanic wise, Or if hard stuck kinda. Was what I usually been doing while I did the grind. Also GZ on getting the mount fellow mentor maniac x)
this video is so fascinating and terrifying at the same time. i see a lot of twitter people complain 'make alliances harder' cause they get mad they cant use their full healer kit or something. but they just don't realize how low the bar is sometimes. 😭
Unironically, watching your vids has made me go on a journey to get the mentor mount myself (only as healer because I don't trust DF healers). I studied any EXs that are possible to encounter and yet all I ever get are just levelling dungeons. Maybe if I go as tank I'd see more cursed but alas. Someday I'll get the bonafide mentor experience.
Honestly, yes. Healers get way more dungeon queues than tanks or dps. I usually go in as a summoner because I get more variety, and I can rez if the healers eat shit. Tho usually I am the last dps to be rezzed despite often being the only one that can help rez. It is what it is lol.
@heatherlamka9163 If it helps I'm good at hazing memories on how to beat fights as well as knowing that most of the time it's just gonna be Free Trial bosses which now include Stormblood ones which thankfully can be yoloable
This one time i went for repairs in the quicksand (ULDAH) but i accidentally clicked the NPC next to him and he started speaking about offering me a mentor role and i nearly had a heart attack!
Dont worry, as someone who used to play FF and seeing the constant state of narcissism and "holier than thou" attitudes mentors have towards the general player base....the feeling is mutual
Mentor roulette was made for people with kidnapping and self-inflicted harm kinks, so if you see anyone riding Astrope you can instantly know at least 2 of their kinks.
Thornmarch EX is the bane of my existence. I even survived mentoring the Amphitheatre EX, Ramuh EX, Leviathan EX, Garuda EX--you get the idea. I've survived almost all of the ARR EXs. But that one? That one is something else.
A lot of mentors will leave experts or level 90 dungeons bc one or both of them don't give penalties for immediately leaving. They bail to have another queue instead of doing a dungeon for 10-15 min. I just suffer through shit I don't wanna do bc at least I can say I didn't cheese my mentor roulettes at all.
any mentor who sticks by the extreme trials deserve respect. Honestly it should show a tiny number on the crown of consequtive finished roulettes, either by clear or timeout. Instantly leaving one should remove your crown for a week as well as reset the number.
That Cure 1 spamming section is why I don’t trust healers. I trust my Eurekan Potions more than healers. . . . And not just because I’m doing Eureka as just a Thaumaturge so it’s my only source of healing/mitigation. Edit: I do have Manaward but that’s a 2 minute cooldown.
as a nin who use to drop doton on a single target(mainly bosses), i thank you for kicking the stupid out of me. as my monkey brain did think that the lingering aoe could do enough.
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Everytime I see Cure pop up on your screen, I imagine one of those science bird beaker things just bobbing up and down on the healers keyboard and they are off taking a dump or something.
Edit: also grats on the mount
everytime i see cure i want to kms as a WHM because ahdhfhfhhhshahshdhSHDHDHHF
But in 50 cure is whm's mp bar best friend
I clear twintania mine cure tank while keep regens up at all time until the death sentence and ball phase when i go cura until my mp out :(
Whoaa what level that dungeon?! Why cure when hab lilies and tetra?!
that was a lvl 90 endgame dungeon
lmao
I had a smn mentor in rathalos ex who told me I should do this unsynced in PF and that I'm wasting everyone's time. That same mentor proceeded to cart one or two times every pull and failing the duty for us repeatedly. They then declared it was hopeless and that they were going to wait out the timer to leave/abandon. During the final pull before they could leave the duty, we took it down to ~30% health, just the three of us. The mentor just stood in the back of the arena, watching. We had made it further than we did when the mentor was "helping" us. They left without saying a word.... Mentors really left a bad taste in my mouth, after that. I unlocked the mentor crown, myself, a few weeks ago, and I'm prepping to go through the synced ex's to unlock the mentor roulette... I am determined to never be that guy.
you can do unsynced PF EXs to unlock roulette, the only downside is you won't have the "synced" experience but it's generally better to make PFs for that as well. Personally Mentor Roulette made me "git gud" at a lot of EXs because even if you did them synced back in the day, chances are by the time it rolls around in Mentor you'll have forgotten the mechanics to some degree, so it's about derusting on the fly and honestly no shame looking up a macro or guide quickly to refresh your own memory so you can better teach people
Also yeah most mentors are trash and have bad attitude, they see 2k roulettes as a means to an end, instead of the point that it's meant to help newbies. Even if the Crown's reputation is tainted, it's ultimately up to you as a player to decide what it means.
@@Zanagoth thanks for your advice, and the thought behind what you said relating to some mentor's mentality. It's really a shame, cuz you'd think they'd take up the crown to genuinely help folks. That's what i plan to do with this newfound power, anyway... for now, i'm still a little intimidated about putting it on :p
for rath ex I usually tell the sprouts "if rathalos ever looks at you move out of the way" and that has around a 60 percent success rate hope that helps
That should be a thing though... "If you're not a tank and (insert enemy) looks at you, MOVE!!!"
Yeah that's usually what I tell people after the first wipe, because in defiance of all common sense especially casters will just stare and continue casting on Rathalos when he's clearly going to start a dash
I do this and I also add in, “if you’re worried about getting hit during the last phase, just spam your ranged attack/instant cast spell(s) while he’s in the air. Any damage done during that phase adds to the down gauge. Doesn’t matter how hard it hits.”
... as sprout myself.. sorry.. i am just listening to music and reading the chat to not miss LOOOORE :D recently did bozja raids.. was fun especially when i said that i am first timer, and will propably back flip to death... and i did.. the arena at one of the bosses is sooo freaking small:D
@@tigerwarrior1787 It's literally a thing mentioned in the hall of the novice. But nobody does that.
Your free now Zanagoth, Rest your head on the softest pillow you can find and scream in it for the pain is no more.
But that ending 10 out of 10 that's some realllllly good editing.
Mentor roulette is the mmo equivalence of working in retail
5:03 the fucking vercure going out LOL like even the rdm was like jesus i gotta do something
as fellow red mage... wouldnt be first dungeon where i would do healer job - but that tends to be when healer dies and i dont have ress bcs of lvl:D
The healer is really doing something wrong when RDM or SMN have to rez or heal the tank
@@mrblackjacker32.03a rez can be warranted because accidents cant happen the swift may be on cd but failing to heal being a healer is something lol
As a fellow mentor who tries to help people, I applaud you. Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉 You deserve this mount and your title.
as a fellow elemental non-jp speaking (sometimes) mentor i once had rathalos ex at midnight with 3 jp sprouts and i felt like i went thru 5 stages of grief during the whole thing
the absolute joy and pride i got when they all managed to clear it in 50 minutes tho, sometimes things like that is what makes the roulette an unforgettable experience
5:19 love seeing the cure 1s during this section. It adds to the experience.
I automatically stopped using Cure I the moment I learned Cure II, Afflatus Solace and any other healing oGCD tools.
But seriously, they fell for Freecure proc and arguing with “But it saves a lot of MP!”
The average DF white mage is a cure spamming, gaming terrorist. At least those sages were using gall charges.
even in a 90 dungeon lol
it has already been said but : they should remove cure proc
@@ildathetMake afflatus solace replace cure 1.
lmao I'm that reaper witnessing rdm yeeted themself off platform and you really did a great job dubbing a voice in my head cos I was like 'Did you guys see that perfect backflip??'
I remember while levelling Ninja for the first time, i had made a bad habit of using Doton on single targets and in one dungeon i had a healer go: "Will i ever see a Ninja not using Doton on ST"
Needless to say i never did it again but i could feel the despair in his tone.
sometimes having a random call you out is the most humbling experience 😭I'd been playing AST 4 years now but forgot it was slated for card changes in DT, and when a DPS flamed me for giving them a card that was meant for a tank (that USED to be for any melee dps) I made it a point to re-learn every card within the hour and never did it again
@@bubbletea5294 Flamed you over a card? That's not going to make or break any run; DPS needs to get checked. A reminder goes further.
I mean if it's a strong opponent like a boss, shouldn't it be fine?
As a fellow Astrope-riding Mentor (Finished a few weeks ago) These videos have been a catharsis for me, knowing that out there on another Data Center, someone else is feeling the pressure too, that someone else struggled and succeeded. Thank you so much for making these, and congratulations on your victory.
As a craft mentor who is terrified of doing his battle part of the crown symbol, I salute you cousin! :D A well deserved mount! And thanks a lot for the videos ^^ they're great!
it's not that hard to get battle mentor, just get a tank, healer, and dps to current cap and do roulettes as healer or tank for easy comms.
Crafting mentor was actually super easy by comparison and took about a week
Battle Mentor I've been working towards since I started playing, getting that many comms is pretty rough
One protip I have is make your adventurer plate funny, you actually get more comms that way
I am technically also a battle mentor, I meant that I don't use the battle aspect of being a mentor ;-)@@deathsythe238 EDIT: eh sorry I might have responded to the wrong message lol, thought you were telling me about the battle version ^^' (I'm not that youtube savvy)
Congrats my guy, when I saw you were going after it literally just after I got my own mentor mount I was ecstatic to see how it would go. I’m glad you stuck with it, the game needs mentors like you in the queue.
And seriously, what was with mentors leaving smileton? I was just happy to not get Good King Moogle Mog again
I dunno whats worse a healer healing me through Living Dead or them using CURE III TO TRY AND DO IT
Cure III.
Cause Cure II spam might actually keep you alive afterwards. Cure III means you wasted LD and you're probably heading right into a wipe.
as sprout healer who didnt touch dark knight - dont know what the living dead is:D i would definitely try to heal that - from name and from exp from wow i quess it is - you cannot be healed during this
@@poro9084 All tanks have an invuln. skill Living Dead is Dark Knight's. What it does is give you a buff that looks like an hourglass in a red background, if your hp drops to 0 during it's window you go into Walking Dead and it's a debuff that looks like an hourglass on a gray background. Walking Dead you can heal through if you want but is not necessary since the DRK get huge self healing off of their gcds during it.
@@sonicdude100 I remember when you had to save Bene for that if you wanted to do the big boi pull. Get your crap together, burn your Rampart, Burn LD, use arms length at 7 second wait until 8 seconds and Bene, Arms length slows enemies as soon as you hit max HP and drop WD, They start slow, and you start with your other Mits, pray to god the DPS is competent. (Big Ask.)
To add on the party chat defense, I don't think any of the default tabs for party chat are set-up in a way to only show the player's texts alone, meaning if you want that to happen, you'll have to create a custom tab for that which is something I expect new players to not know at all (I started using that myself just before Endwalker's release for a Spoiler free tab).
yeah, was reason why i specifically did that - so i could read party chat, but then i had exp from wow, so i sorta knew it should be doable and just was clicking on chat tab to figure it out
Oh gosh, this is giving me PTSD... But thx for the content, I really hope you´ll be able to rest after all this suffering
Had a run of Great Hunt EX at the time of writing this, actually. I joined in late as I'm sure I took the place of someone with less fortitude. Three mentors, one sproutless SMN. We wiped time after time, but we kept going. I'd had plenty of experience doing this before--lead plenty of newcomers to victories before. This wasn't one of those successes sadly. Our SMN was struggling hard. We gave them every bit of advice we could; avoid their front, use Mega Potion duty action when you need healing during the flying phase, you can take the stacks solo as long as you use your Mega Potion, etc. At times, they were so engaged, they'd forget to summon their carbuncle or run right at the boss and pull it instantly between wipes... their damage was low--they hardly found time to cast when they were able. It was clear they weren't ready for this--no tricks or tips could make up for it--they needed more time and practice familiarizing themselves with their kit--let alone the fight. I'm not one to try and explain someone's entire kit to them during duties--that's better suited in front of a training dummy. I keep it to myself and do my best to help out where I can. Regardless, we pressed on--and eventually, without a word, they left. Another mentor is pulled in and we finish the fight fairly quickly. We chatted for a bit before leaving--mostly about feeling bad that we weren't able to help the SMN get their win, but agreed that they didn't seem like they were really ready for it--and hopefully they at least learned something about the mechs. "Look to those who walked before to lead those who walk after."
Sometimes people expect a lot more from mentors--and I can't say I blame em. Everybody's just a player at the end of the day. Good mentors can teach you plenty from what they know--maybe not all of it at once in an EX or what-have-you. But like many will say, and they're right, they don't pay your sub; it's up to you to put in the time and effort necessary to improve and accomplish what you set out to do on your journey.
I just hope that when failure does happen you'll still be able to have fun, y'know? "Thou must live, die, and know."
you are good guy... or gal.. you tried, and that point it is on sprout - as sprout myself - you cannot be carried too much.. on other side i need to said that i have several years of high mythic keys in WoW - so i understand how classes works, how skills should be chained, evade to stuff, but sometimes not knowing the boss and he is watching you... menacingly just callculate too late and get hit, but i think over year i met only one person who was angry about not me knowing mechanic - you tried a lot, dont be sad about it - it is also good feeling when the sprout finally catch on - i spammed lot of Shiva Extreme ... bcs i love the music - and when group get the mechanic of Bow it just feels so good
If a lot more people had this understanding, both mentors and sprouts, I believe us mentors that take that crown a little more seriously than most, would be given a lot more respect about what what we actually do. Of course, there’s the bad eggs, but those bad eggs can ruin it for those that are actually willing to help and stick around to do so. I really just hope that the huge amount of newer players we have coming into the game soon, have the chance to meet mentors like us that are willing to try our best to get their clear in older content.
Seeing 5+ yellow clear text in the chat log makes my heart smile every single time. I’m certainly not a content genius, but I can say that one of the biggest reasons I still play this damn game is from the feeling I get when someone clears what they consider something difficult.
I have a lot of good memories helping sprouts in mentor roulette, very few bad ones. I feed off the excitement… and that’s why I still do this shit.
Z, I feel ya, man. It wasn't easy to make life easy for everybody. But where we can, we can and do a little something about it. When I wear the crown, i almost always play dps, coz that way i can skip and loaf a little bit, and do the mentoring. But when I play tank or healer, no can do. Rotation and doing the mechanics above all, or... i die, you die, everybody dies. LMAO. to me, the crown symbolized something more than just getting the awesome mount. It's a testament of your undying love for the game that have captures millions of hearts the world over. Giving it a bad name is like shitting in my cup of hot chocolate and drink it afterward. I got 2K+ days of subscribed time. All the long timers know what that means.
What a beautiful end to the trilogy. Thank you for your sacrifice and the many laughs you gave us along the way.
Grats on the grind my dude! Less than 2% of mentors finish that. Truly an elite mentor
Can I just say, as a sprout who has the occasional braindead moment (mostly from panicking in the heat of the moment) I weirdly really appreciate these vids? Like I know mentors have got to be frustrated with me when I wander into an aoe or noticeably fuck up my rotation, or QUEUE INTO AN EX VIA DUTY FINDER WHOOPS but this humor helps me feel like it's more "ah, goddamn sprouts :T" than pure annoyance. Also this is a great What Not To Do guide
yeah it shouldnt be truly nothing else but helping sprouts the best you can with the mount being the goal too yeah but to achieve it without actually preforming your mentor duty in some positive way is just meh to me. Like the btchn/sighing, emotes, vote abandon etc. Especially with how that roulette works with pulling in fresh people/newer players in. I got mine completed in 2017 so yeah, definitely had the experience with seeing how bad mentors were with the sprouts. so yeah there's mentors out there with the best intentions too. doesnt have to be "goddamn sprouts"
Cure
In Troia
A dungeon that doesnt hit for shit and makes me fall asleep as a healer (sage)
Truly a df experience.
Most mentors start out bright and hopeful thinkning they will restore the mentor name, but in the end, we all get broken by the roulette
I blame Cure 1 on the devs. They KNOW the additional effect is a trap, and people shouldnt use cure 1 after getting cure 2 yet they still keep it after all this time. Remove the additional effect, and have cure 1 be upgraded to cure 2 instead of them being two different abilities
i'm still leveling ninja, so i didn't know that about doton (being a dps loss on a single target). thanks for teaching me something! :) congrats on the achievement
(also wait that spot for the heretic's forks in malikah's well is god tier hang on-)
most of skills which are AoE are not worth it if they are not off global cooldown:)
@@poro9084 doton is a dps gain depending on the time the target is in the aoe
@@berrybackshots Not in EW, and even in ShB it's extremely close because the doton takes an extra mudra, so wasn't really worth trying. Nowadays it's a straight loss no matter what.
"no thoughts, only dosis," as a sage main, i feel that to my core tho T_T
love the editing, love the jojo part 4 reference and the usage of the DRG soundtrack :D very cool
IDK I kinda can't blame mentors that leave EX trials on sight. Smileton though? WTF lmao.
Eh, I don’t really blame anyone, people are allowed to leave whatever they want if they are willing to take the 30 minute penalty, I don’t quite understand why anyone would do so though, outside of Exs (they might be fun for me to do, but I could see why some might get annoyed) I could maybe understand smileton, because most dungeons are kinda boring, but Golbez is the one that confuses me, its a normal trial, its like the fastest easiest thing you can get in mentor roulette besides guildheists, so weird to leave there.
@@shawnscouten5184 Well if I'm doing my roulettes and someone insta leaves I'd certainly be annoyed. But I'm not using DF for EX trials in the first place so that would never affect me.
I've started watching your video around when I started farming for the mount, got it yesterday and so happy to see you got it too lately, big gz on the achievement and thx for sharing the pain with all of us
I've been healing in this game since 2.0. That cure 1 spam segment disheartened me into the deepest, darkest sigh I've ever breathed. Perfect song choice.
I really like how you edit your videos. So funny and spot on. I hope you continue to make more of these!
There ought to be a big flashing red sign that says "THIS CONTENT IS OPTIONAL AND EXTREMELY DIFFICULT" whenever you queue for your first extreme trial.
Also I swear I have never done Nabriales in one try ever in my 2,000 hours. Even if I mention before the fight to save the LB, DPS sees three shiny bars and goes "ook"
Although I don't understand shit, the edits alone are enough to make me laugh 🤣
Thank you for your services, man. The path is not easy but at least hopefully someone thanked you on the way
The butt clenches when you see an 8-man duty come up and you don't know if it's a synced EX or the 8-man guildhest.
And the additional butt clench when you see a 4-man duty come up and it's the Great Hunt EX instead of Bockman.
I managed to get that 8 man guildhest once in my grind for Astrope. I dead ass forgot there even was an 8 man guildhest, so imagine my confusion loading into that thing, thinking "what the hell is this?"
@@KazgrelI went through all the Guildhests one time. Even I forgot there was a full 8-man at the end.
Edit: And I remember some useless things.
As a ninja player, been flipping around on Single Target Doton for a while. It's the closest thing to a DoT Ninja has, but yeah, resources could go towards Raitons. Will take this to heart for future Ninja play, thank you Mentor Sensei!
The issue is that almost all DoTs in FFXIV tick every 3 seconds (with the exception of MCH Flamethrower that ticks every second for some reason), so Doton's single target potency is basically 80 x 6 ticks = 480 potency IF the enemy stands in it the entire duration vs Raiton's 650 upfront potency, so under no single target circumstance is Doton a damage gain especially after they removed prepull Doton + Hide tech.
It's a bit of a noob trap because the 3 second tick system isn't explained or intuitive, so I understand why people make the mistake (every other job in the game wants to apply DoTs if they have one), but it's also a good reminder that looking up a text guide for 5 mins can avoid a lot of mistakes when learning a new job
Yeah, I saw in another video that it apparently WAS a little more potency than Raiton in the past, but yeah, not upfront. It's sort of a unique thing with Ninja's abilities and the Mudra. My DRK brain sort of associated it as similar to Salted Earth, but then as I thought on the Mudra logically, you ALWAYS have a choice for that, but it's a choice. It's a resource using ANY ninjutsu. When you think of that as another "meter" of sorts, you become a bit more self-conscious about that. Which is why despite the complexity of Ninja, it's basically my favorite Melee DPS at the moment.
5:00 lol, even the RDM was trying to help and it wasn't enough
You are the mentor that we all should strive to be.
I generally do my roulettes on WHM, as I would rather have a sprout tank than a sprout healer. No mit is usually more survivable than no heals, and I'm not very good at tanking anyway.
The cure 1s I saw today hurt me. They always do. My condolences. And congratulations on your mount!
Gratz on the mount you deserve it and thank you for helping as much as you did in every mentor you did. You are a kind and wonderful soul!
Glad I'm not the only one who says hi or salutes the Knight's Memory every time you go in there. I always /salute.
more than a year later and this video singlehandedly saved my overall dps when leveling ninja, thank you
something about the cure 1 crits tickles me to death in the cure montage. it's still cure 1 but harder lmao
This was a whole experience! Took me back when I completed mine 3 years ago ;_; absolute roller-coaster of emotions lol, Grats on the mount fellow Astrope-rider!
17:50
I love how Ramuh EX is in the background for this.
There's only so many ways I can explain to a tank sprout that they need to grab **3 ORBS** and not one more. If they can't count to 3, I'm afraid they can't be helped. Walls of text won't help if people either ignore what you say or can't do the most basic tasks.
Yeah being a Mentor just means you take accountability of a whole when others refuse to learn a fight on their own time. It's shitty and there should be more rewards for Mentoring.
There are, you get a roulette for mentors only and there's a mount for doing mentor roulette enough times.
ggs on the achievement, well deserved !!
Psst...
THERE ARE LINES ON THE FLOOR.
THERE ARE LINES ON THE FLOOR.
THERE ARE LINES ON THE FLOOR.
THERE ARE LINES ON THE FLOOR.
THERE ARE LINES ON THE FLOOR.
THERE ARE LINES ON THE FLOOR.
THERE ARE LINES ON THE FLOOR.
THERE ARE LINES ON THE FLOOR.
I never knew how chaotic Mentor roulette was until this.
I nearly choked hearing that fuckin' "OH NO" bootleg spy line from that sonic racing game.
21:00 Using LD to soak all those orbs is such a chad move.
That single target Cure III unlocked the monster in the depths of my soul and it thirsts for blood.
6:52: I started last year as a WAR but as someone who's DPS main is NIN, it kills me seeing that in dungeons and alliance raids.
I haven't even beaten Stormblood yet and I'm still seeing that STD(Single Target Doton) everywhere. Least I have a new idea for a macro🤷
Edit: 10:14 - this is why i single pull that specific section
Congratulations, it’s one of the more difficult grinds in this game. Takes lots of patience, endurance, and mental fortitude. But you definitely earned it. Great job!
As a fellow (undercover) mentor, seeing your vids gives me hope and also makes me feel bad. You're a far better person than me
this is the exact reason why i have a living dead macro for dungeons, 'cause no shot they ever gonna notice on their own
About the Complain part, no one would need to explain anything from the beginning. Since if they went in unprepared and watched no guide, I assume they gonna blind prog, and if they went in prepared, it’s mostly visible. Only do explaining stuff if they actively ask for advice mechanic wise, Or if hard stuck kinda. Was what I usually been doing while I did the grind. Also GZ on getting the mount fellow mentor maniac x)
i've watched this video so many times and i still laugh when i see it. omg you're the best hahaha
this video is so fascinating and terrifying at the same time. i see a lot of twitter people complain 'make alliances harder' cause they get mad they cant use their full healer kit or something. but they just don't realize how low the bar is sometimes. 😭
love the music selections, quite the breakdown
this whole saga was amazing to watch - grats on your mount :)
liking the vid because of the "pass the whiskey"
damn, i havn't heard that in a looong time
The cure 1s in 90 content made me so violently angry like I had a physical revulsion from seeing that ahahah
devs make cure 1 turn into cure 2 im literally begging
Gratz on the mount. I too am very close to getting this mount (only 191 away). It really is an experience to say the least.
grats for the unicorn! Ilaughed and cried a lot watching this vod
I should have listened to the Ninja main message and skipped that part, I damn near threw up my lunch, shit was physically hurting me
you know how trippy it was watching this video while playing osrs and having osrs music suddenly pop on
Unironically, watching your vids has made me go on a journey to get the mentor mount myself (only as healer because I don't trust DF healers). I studied any EXs that are possible to encounter and yet all I ever get are just levelling dungeons. Maybe if I go as tank I'd see more cursed but alas.
Someday I'll get the bonafide mentor experience.
i am thinking about going mentor myself after i complete last expansion.. but there is sooo many bosses, i dont think i would remember them:D
There are so many fights in this game, you can't be expected to remember them all. Just say you don't remember and it'll come back to you as you die.
Honestly, yes. Healers get way more dungeon queues than tanks or dps. I usually go in as a summoner because I get more variety, and I can rez if the healers eat shit. Tho usually I am the last dps to be rezzed despite often being the only one that can help rez. It is what it is lol.
@heatherlamka9163 If it helps I'm good at hazing memories on how to beat fights as well as knowing that most of the time it's just gonna be Free Trial bosses which now include Stormblood ones which thankfully can be yoloable
4:33 Healers: "OMG Darkknight is to garbage for casual content!" also Healers:
Holy shit that Sunken Temple strat I had no idea about until today. TYVM
4:08 general PSA if he's in lightning (sky is purple) DO NOT KILL THE WATER BALLS. They bait the lightning for you so this doesn't happen.
Im just impressed at the amount of footage you got 😂
As someone who just finished the mentor grind, you paint the pain. GG.
Your videos are the reason behind why I always keep hyper-potion stocked now LOL
my god i need a clip of the NEVER GIVE UP bit ft all the gigachad tanks, that was so good
Not being a mentor is the best decision I've ever made in this game
This one time i went for repairs in the quicksand (ULDAH) but i accidentally clicked the NPC next to him and he started speaking about offering me a mentor role and i nearly had a heart attack!
Ty Zanagoth. Another truly excruciating video.
Dont worry, as someone who used to play FF and seeing the constant state of narcissism and "holier than thou" attitudes mentors have towards the general player base....the feeling is mutual
Burger King Crown disease is real
Shoutout to the RDM who Vercured you when you were dying and the WHM was still spamming Cure I. It didn't do much, but it's the thought that counts
Huge congratulations on your 2000! 🎉 I'm on my final stretch now (350 to go!) but love seeing your content about it to keep me going 😁
i had no idea /comfort worked like that. you, mentor, are Teaching(TM).
Congratulations!!
I just started my mentor roulette journey so this is an inspiration to just keep chugging at it. GGs
Can't wait for the Dawntrail continuation to this achievement chain, it's time for it square.
i love watching this, i dont even get mad at these people. legit are the highlight of my day
Thanks for reminding me that DRK questline is the goat
This is why I love mentor roulette.
Mentor roulette was made for people with kidnapping and self-inflicted harm kinks, so if you see anyone riding Astrope you can instantly know at least 2 of their kinks.
Thornmarch EX is the bane of my existence. I even survived mentoring the Amphitheatre EX, Ramuh EX, Leviathan EX, Garuda EX--you get the idea. I've survived almost all of the ARR EXs.
But that one? That one is something else.
Don't stop making these. Keep up the good work!
Ngl I forgot you did all those warframe raid videos a while ago, and now you do ff14 videos. Keep it up man :)
A lot of mentors will leave experts or level 90 dungeons bc one or both of them don't give penalties for immediately leaving. They bail to have another queue instead of doing a dungeon for 10-15 min. I just suffer through shit I don't wanna do bc at least I can say I didn't cheese my mentor roulettes at all.
I love the Fray "never give up" fragment
any mentor who sticks by the extreme trials deserve respect.
Honestly it should show a tiny number on the crown of consequtive finished roulettes, either by clear or timeout.
Instantly leaving one should remove your crown for a week as well as reset the number.
That Cure 1 spamming section is why I don’t trust healers.
I trust my Eurekan Potions more than healers.
. . . And not just because I’m doing Eureka as just a Thaumaturge so it’s my only source of healing/mitigation.
Edit: I do have Manaward but that’s a 2 minute cooldown.
**sees “elapsed time”** **has a panic attack**
I hope you get all the commendations after every duty my good mentor 😂
as a nin who use to drop doton on a single target(mainly bosses), i thank you for kicking the stupid out of me. as my monkey brain did think that the lingering aoe could do enough.
THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF "NEVER GIVE UP" FRAY
Living Dead pops * Every warning sound the game has goes off * DO NOT HEAL I HAVE POPPED LIVING DEAD. LET ME DIE