Mentor Roulette is a Scam - The Mad Mentor #12

[@CiderSpider]

once upon a time I had a schedule

[@ningee5755]

Yo man same

[@goldskarr]

Doubtful.

[@Lichzim]

Sleep is for the weak

[@npthekop]

Schedule is just a CONCEPT.

[@NatType3]

Then again I could sleep for a week

[@throwaway5012]

The reason you're getting a disproportionate amount of dungeons is because you're running healer. If you ran DPS, you'd get a lot, and I mean a LOT more guildhests/trials/raids. Tacks on a couple minutes to your queue, but it saves so much time in the long run. (2k mentors complete here. In my testing, Tanks were around 55% dungeon, Healers 84% dungeon, DPS 31% dungeon)

[@mainstreamvoltage]

I finished the grind too, I started running DPS for most of my runs, because how much more variety id get

[@gregariousgaming9787]

He knows

[@alexrelo9753]

Time also matters , if you queue at late night you will always get a dungeon whereas if you queue at the evening you can get anything

[@YunelKuroya]

Can confirm. I'm also done with my 2k mentor rolos. I did the first 500 on healer and it was just dungeon after dungeon. Did the rest switching through tank and dps.

[@throwaway5012]

@@alexrelo9753 Yea, definitely this. Would stop running after a certain time of night because degen hours meant nothing but obscure shit. Things you knew folks were probably sitting in the queue for hours just to run. Amdapor Keep (Hard).

[@Sniperheartshot11]

Been a huge fan lately always happy to see you back my man thank you so much for being awesome ♥️

[@MyLonewolf88]

OMG, I'm Sweetpotato Fries! He name is that way because they're my favorite snack♥ That name drop was shocking to hear as I a had this playing off to the side of doing my own roulette

[@ugbluttheorc]

Omg! I did Praetorium with a Sweetpotato Fries the other day. Joined us partway because a DPS dipped at the start.

[@TuftyTaltan]

I wanted to be offended by the comment that we're all named after food. But uh... Before I migrated my name was Kacho Nacho so I really can't argue

[@ugbluttheorc]

@@TuftyTaltan Once I got to that point in the video I realized it really was you. I remember your portrait. I was the tank, Toasterki Ronso. Whether food is a trend or not, I love names like yours.

[@TuftyTaltan]

@@ugbluttheorc Sorry to burst your bubble, but I don't play much and I don't have a portrait set, Kacho Nacho is a pretty common Lala name, in fact I had to change it so I could migrate. Unless perhaps you meant to reply to the original commenter?

[@ugbluttheorc]

@ OH! Yeah, the original poster. My 5 a.m. brain…

[@daemongo1202]

In my Dawntrail lore headcanon, there is a sweaty scientist explaining to the Origenics Budget Committee why it is 100% absolutely necessary for a robot whose sole responsibility is projecting an unconvincing hologram of a fake wall to be a 5-yalm tall gynoid with stiletto heels.

[@jacoba6983]

tbf that would stop a lot of ppl in there tracks

[@Rinaldot67]

Episode 12/200 complete! I love the subtle flex/self-burn of Cider admitting that his grandma had a 90s era equivalent of a gaming rig.

[@blitz3391]

I had the same thought about big empty spaces in the latest expansions, but for the main hubs. To me it started with Old Sharlayan where you had the whole eastern part and the western part where you barely set foot except for story reasons. And in DT, you have Tuliyollal with the massive Palace space which is just..empty, and the whole section with the barracks where nobody go. These places really feel empty outside of the main shops, and it's even worst when barely anybody stays around.

[@venabre]

The reason people think there will be an overhaul of combat for 8.0 was because at the start of DT Yoshi P said that they had the goals to diversify battles and individualize jobs so they are more cohesive and have an identity, but that they felt they should only focus on one at a time to not make it too jarring for the players, and so they decided to work on the combat first before tackling the job identity, which they said they were reserving for 8.0. I don't think we're going to see a massive change like ShB brought. The way it was worded makes me feel that the focus will lie on the kits of each job, rather than a game-wide change to combat mechanics. But we'll see.

[@idgie534]

What I'm really hoping they do is to find a way to keep jobs reasonably approachable at a baseline, but broaden the range for skill expression. I think it's fine for a job to be easy to pick up and play at a decent level in casual content- not optimal, but doing decent damage and contributiing to your group. It should just be harder to be _really good_ at a specific job, meaning that if you put time and effort into getting good at your job you're more rewarded. Right now on some jobs good damage is basically just down to crit luck, which is ludicrous.

[@Aoestandingway]

I would love that as of recently, I went from Scholar to Black Mage as I have fun learning the class and how to overcome its weaknesses, which I'm still learning but getting better at so I would like to see a kit overhaul or something that make each class unique idk maybe do something for the fairy gauge

[@Wiles731]

19:05 you can actually skip all the trash up to the last boss as well. Just takes a few more steps: 1. Tank pulls all mobs. Dps and healer don't get any aggro. 2. Run to boss room, tank goes left or right, dps/heal go opposite. 3. Tank dies. Mobs leave. Heal rez Tank 4. Profit

[@kevinvigus9597]

4:13 Healer Stance dancing was removed for Stormblood so healing then was pretty much the same as it was now expect whm and Sch had more dots to manage plus protect.

[@coffeeavenger]

I know some people miss Cleric Stance. I don’t-cleric stance was why I didn’t heal until SB.

[@riaglitta]

@@coffeeavenger I miss it because i was so good at the stance dance on SCH. You could be like 'yes, a half potency shield here is fine' - and we never got to see cleric plus chain strat and bane /cry lol. I know it wasn't for everyone, but it made it a little less dull. Also, it would be super interesting to use to make healing more 'efficient' - overhealing numbers would be so different if the original version of cleric stance was still around.

[@xvxvcaspervxvx]

Oh god, I remember that! Remember when classes had to invest skill points into stats?! WHM max piety then Cleric Stance to swap for intelligence for DPS before switching bad to heal on the spot. I actually don't miss that because it punishes players for not knowing how to min/max in a game that is generally chill about player specs.

[@DLMoridin]

@@xvxvcaspervxvx Needing to meld accuracy materia was a pain. Tanks melding strength materia and using the DPS jewlery was pretty bad too. You could meld elemental materia for element defense but that was pointless (your patron "god" effected element defense). glamour prisms divided by type (clothcraft/armourcraft/leatherworker etc) and by level was even worse. Caused a couple wipes over time by forgetting that had Cleric stance turned on too.

[@Rajaion1204]

wasn't it made a roll action in Stormblood where you did just more dmg for pressing the button. i kinda remember that there was something still but not 100% sure.

[@Ironysandwich]

Good on the first tank for checking, because that's Mt. Gulg and that first pull is spicy.

[@onedaynoreason2572]

My tank friend and I always play together, our first time in Mt gulg we just did a mega pull there... and wiped. We at least laughed our heads off 😂

[@mrblackjacker32.03]

When I was getting SGE to 80, I was really undergeared (Actually only running one or two pieces of Nabaath armor and the rest being *Augmented Scavean* ). I did 3 runs of Mt Gulg and it was a bit of a shitshow, having to handle the first and last megapulls critically undergeared lmao.

[@ReesesBees]

Yeaaah. Mt. Gulg's first pull is ROUGH if you or your healer aren't prepared.

[@Puggle-bot]

I remember I asked my healer - a sage mentor with the manderville relic - if I could pull all, and they said yes. They legitimately tried to heal me with kardia only. No shields, mits, or regen. Then they told me to mit myself better and left... after I literally dumped everything, including my invuln - 10 seconds of free healing (pld), and I died immediately after invuln wore off 😂

[@shawnscouten5184]

I mean, it’s not like dying is much of a timeloss, as long as the tank invulins and uses mit, at least a few enemies will die even if the healer does nothing.

[@orobos3378]

4:35 youve reminded me of stormblood warrior rotation, it was hectic af, swapping to dps stance just before using IR for your burst. and i was also a time when there wasnt a cap on fell cleaves during IR. if you stacked alot of skill speed you could pump out 11-14 fell cleaves in one IR. god i miss that...

[@kotenuki]

Thanks as always CiderSpider!

[@Nazuiko]

Fun fact! Tank stance Shield Oath I believe was also their enmity generator, but even though stance now is solely enmity, and VASTLY more of it, Shield Oath still exists. Tanks take 20% less damage but potencies are also 20% weaker. Double Down's 1200 potency deals way less damage than any non Tank with similar potency, equal to a DPS action with 960 potency. And because Healers have a 30% buff via Maim and Mend, Astrologians Oracle is SIGNIFICANTLY stronger than Lion Heart, despite being only 800ish.

[@DameonStarflame]

There is something hilarious about watching this after work and CiderSpider calls out Neopets... while I'm on Neopets. And yes, my Neopets are happily fed, thank you very much.

[@zcipher]

I feel like the biggest indicator that Dawntrail's awful experiments are happening in the background is the lack of comment on the fact that the "air fryer" guy is literally the Oblivion twins' dad who's been used as the subject of horrific experiments and that went entirely uncommented on in favor of him looking like an appliance.

[@mikeyj1987]

Your idea of using whatever you get in each dungeon as glam has rubbed off on me..can’t wait to see what chaos I start looking like! Love these videos!!

[@courtyardsys]

I always get excited when you upload a new video! I'm sure it's very stressful to put these together, just know it doesn't go unappreciated Cider! :)

[@Jon_the_Wizard]

On that slow computer thing, there was a part in Leisure Suit Larry 3 where you had to work out, and the number of reps was tied to the processor of your computer. So if you had a good (for the time) computer, you actually had to do upwards of thousands of reps.

[@maxjpz]

I'm sorry, but you think Yuweyawata and Origenics aren't visceral? I can kinda accept Origenics (though the bosses are kinda strong for me), but Yuweyawata is *visceral* in the second third. Thing looks like a Resident Evil map, complete with blood on the walls and windows, the toeture chairs, being overrun by failed experiments and the mad scientist in the end. Yeah, it's not the whole dungeon, but it's still strong.

[@Yuki_1927]

Spongebob rollercoster levels of visceral.

[@xvxvcaspervxvx]

I actually dont mind Yuweyawata! Origenics, while cursed; is pretty cut and dry. But Vanguard is probably my least enjoyed DT dungeonm mainly because of the second boss and the mechs there, its more annoying than fun.

[@daBunky]

​@@xvxvcaspervxvx do you play a caster job?

[@DarkDyllon]

it's honestly a massive let down that we went to Garlemald in 6.0 ... and nothing of the twisted experiments are even seen anywhere considering how much Zenos was doing, you'd think that this was more common place, but instead we see nothing of the sort.

[@Horstveratu]

It doesn't matter, you run through everything in this game the dungeons are nothing, it's just a funnel to the next boss. The design is fked at this point the whole game needs a reset, why even make dungeons if they are all just a funnel leading to a boss that's a boring arena with 3-5 mix and match mechanics

[@riftwalker9296]

I love seeing these videos pop up. I finished my grind back on Friday and so glad it's over.

[@zeus2o0o]

I miss the stances and aggro mitigation. Gave another level of skill challenge that was fun when you understood. I took so many tank busters as a melee DPS.

[@CadeAid1]

Man, I would love for tanks to feel unique. They’re just beefy melee dps

[@katarh]

The "oops all mentors" dungeon was because Mentor Roulette doesn't actually care if the mentor is paired with sprouts. It's just using the mentor to fill in whatever instance has been waiting the longest for that role. So rolling into Tender Valley with three other mentors means one mentor queued for a roulette or that dungeon specifically, and the instance was waiting a long time for a healer for whatever reason.

[@TheBlackMage9]

19:00 There is a solution to getting smacked. If you bind a key to Confirm (controller has this by default, afaik), you can just spam that key. Getting interrupted will cancel your targeting of the sand, but the keybind will first target the nearest object (the sand), then interact, then confirm entry. Even if you pull all the mobs on the way to the shifting sands without sprint, they can't hit you fast enough to interrupt the spam.

[@autizboyz]

4:32 the tank stance topic, you nail the part where tank do less damage, but also increase the enmity gain. Outside the tank stance you do more damage but gain a lot less agro, I forgot if tank stance actually reduce number. But one thing I remember when warrior on tank stance it double it's health, the damage taken still the same, just more health.

[@lyapaggy7283]

As a fem Hroth player, I swear, the worst thing is not about "no hat". The worst thing is exclusive Hrothgar haircut are limited by face :(

[@xvxvcaspervxvx]

Tell me about it! As a male Hroth, I'd like to wear something other than eye patches, circlets and mouth guards. The addition of some of the hoods from 7.0 was nice, but then they hide the warpaint and battle scars my character has :( Can I just get a western hat for my Dawnblazer outfit please Yoshi P?!?!

[@litchtheshinigami8936]

real.. i was a fem hroth for like a week when they came out but due to the lack of hairstyles i went back to male aura lol

[@puzzlechick163]

THIS. I don't really care about hats (salty that my Ultima horns get glued on my ears, luckily there are other horn options) but I'm so mad about the lack of hairstyles and the locking of some to certain faces :(

[@Raiaka]

25:23 For some of us, it's the lack of hairstyles and the fact that head gear is still a problem. The day the I'm able to use all my unlocked hairstyles on Fem-Hroth, you can be damned certain that I'll be switching over.

[@tiehunterog]

Stormblood cleric stance was just a damage buff. Heavensward's swapped ypur mind and int because int was spell damage and mind was all healing

[@xvxvcaspervxvx]

I do not miss those days! lol

[@jamesdupray306]

It's interesting to see ways the developers could create 'disparity' between different skill levels, even in simple content. A healer not sweating with w2w Ala Migo monkeys, a Tank knowing how to group Brayflox hard, a MCH knowing their AoE rotation... Good design allows completion of story by all levels, but a reward for more effort/skill/knowledge.

[@ComelliE02]

I love this series I have learned so much from watching this! I started less than a year ago and am just about to start Shadowbringer MSQ, and honestly only got comfortable jumping into roulettes without my friends recently but its been so fun and I can defiantly say this series is part of where the confidence for that came from. Also I sometimes put this playlist on when I'm having trouble sleeping, it's great content please keep it up! And also I play on Dynamis Maaduin.. why you gotta be mean to us lol my ques are not like 30+ min as healer sometimes....

[@Quilmeleon]

Watching your mentor roullette videos has helped me become a better scholar.

[@cataposs]

For 26:40, one of the four mentors in that party is only a -trade- mentor. Battle/full mentors have access to mentor roulette, people who're only trade mentors don't. So it's for the trade mentor, almost certainly.

[@black-velvet98]

I miss when that second castrum abania boss had the elemental matching mechanic

[@NostalgiaChan]

BASED FELLOW POSTOPIA ENJOYER. I miss when the capitalist hellscape paradigm was "We'll get kids to beg their parents for our products by making fun, cheap games" and not whatever the hell they've got going now.

[@1033515]

I preferred Candystand personally but yeah I do miss weird flash game websites

[@emeraldpichu1]

Estinian stole the Garlemald expansion for himself

[@NeoSaturos123]

I blame G'Raha Tia. When we could've had an interesting Garlemald expansion, he just randomly whisks away for an Isekai plot. Then promptly seemingly forgets he lead one of the only two remaining nations in an entire world for a 100 years as their last hope and goes back to his ARR self once back in Eorzea.

[@BabyShenanigans]

It makes tons of sense to have moon housing. THERE ARE HOUSES ON THE MOON AND THE BUNNIES REPEATEDLY BEG PEOPLE TO MOVE THERE!!! [Shakes gate] YOSHI-P LET ME IIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!

[@cursed_strobewi]

the best kind of way to start the day is to watch the new Cider Spider video 😌

[@xvxvcaspervxvx]

I am a firm believer that Origenics is 100% cursed!!!!! Mentoring as an Astro, I get this dungeon at least 1-3 times a day! With 1 of them being a fill-in for the previous healer! This place is just pure evil! Now excuse me, back to The Stone Vigil! I frequent this place so much, I've just made it my home at this point!

[@Glitch_Online]

11:07 What a mentor... teaching the sprouts that moving from AoE is dps loss.

[@xvxvcaspervxvx]

I mean, at that level it is!

[@Adventium_]

5:54 "To this day I've never seen a run get all 4" I actually had a party that got all 4 like a week ago, it was kinda cool. I don't remember if we also got all 4 on the second set.

[@TheTriforceDragon]

Seen it once as well while leveling Monk. We did get both sets as well, which was really cool.

[@Xemnas4]

Just ran it for a roulette this week, we got all 4 both times. It was a first for me, too.

[@taljahiemstra2631]

I also got all 4 for the first time last week on both pulls. It took me by suprise

[@Tolly7249]

My trick for Chimera is 'Ram means run away because he's gonna ram it in' and 'Dragon means get close cause the drag's coming on'. If it works, it works.

[@OmegaGuess]

Mt. Gulg is one of my favourite dungeon for the Demented Rubik's Cube because there are a few attack patterns that let me show off the magic pixel by hiding in a teeny, tiny safe spot in the corners.

[@markup6394]

7:00 --- Its the same rig as Halicarnassus and the frog end boss from Dohn Meg (the fairy dungeon). 9:00 --- Thats actually one of the thing I dont like about EW: we just forgot about everything that happened in Stormblood. Which was gruesome! And now its just water under the bridge... just like that. I dont want a tribunal, simply because most "people" responsible we already dealt with (looking at you, Zenos...) but letting it drop under the table in Garlemald while letting those people there shit on me... I had many choice words, and the devs didnt let me, hence why Garlemald to this day is the zone I hate most in the entire game and I couldnt care less what happens there. 23:20 --- Housing is indeed in a strange spot right now... With my main, I'm on a highly populated server and getting a house is almost impossible, but with my alt I'm on one of the new servers and every odd plot is empty. Its actually sad to see :( I really like the notion of having housing neighbor hoods but unless you meet up with guildies there's hardly anyone there... 24:05 --- I rather think that armor was already dyed XD Most ARR armor is dyed when you get it via quest reward :)

[@mithiwithi]

As for Garlemald and their war crimes - propaganda is a thing. The common folks probably hadn't the faintest idea what war crimes were being done in their name. You had to be somewhat higher up, or be one of the foreign legions or commanders, to have any clue of the truth. (In light of that, Quintus offing himself suddenly makes a lot more sense.)

[@markup6394]

@@mithiwithi True, of course. Garlemald is basically North Korea. Doesnt mean its okay to never mention the horrible crimes committed in their name because, unlike North Korea, Garlemald had a very aggressive expansion policy. And if a bloody soldier accuses me of killing his friend at the Praetorium, during an active war... sorry, not sorry. Sadly, the game didnt allow me to respond -.-

[@CamperCarl00]

3:59 Cleric stance was altered when Stormblood came out and was just a 15 second damage buff by then. When it was removed in Shadowbringers, it was because they opted to reduce the offensive options that healers had. In ARR, you literally could not do damage without cleric stance on. If you did any offensive action without it, you might as well be hitting enemies with your book. The strategy was to turn it on when applying DoTs and specifically during WHM holy spam. Scholars were the goat at this because the fairy wasn't affected by cleric stance and wasn't factored in to dungeons below 30. They could essentially be an extra dps at those levels. In general, due to threat being very difficult to manage, it was very possible to out threat your tank (especially as a WHM) if you went gung-ho. Warriors, for example, took a bit to get going and had sub-par aoe options, so if you dropped regen and started to holy spam, your tank might have to use his aoe taunt to pull them off of you. This wasn't bad per se, but it was difficult, and players were nowhere near as good as they are now. Fast forward to Heavensward and we see two major changes. HP pools were increased across the board and healers got access to more the raiding scene explodes. Groups with dpsing healers are seeing massive success due to a simple fact. Healing dps isn't taken into account when balancing duties. Players were already shifting towards "green dps" at this point and this only made it more prominent. Wall 2 wall pulling went from simething you do during farms with specific party loadouts to every pug because of how easy it was to clear packs when the healer dps'd. I remember melting groups of enemies with Bane on Scholar because we still had access to both Bio and Miasma. Keep in mind, you only needed the stance on when you cast a DoT spell, you can essentially set it and forget it as a Scholar back then.

[@riaglitta]

I was just thinking on like, healing efficiency demand in raiding would be so different now. Overhealing?? better not lol

[@thebrave9971]

"The Raiding scene explodes" If you meant explode as in it violently and brutally massacred the raiding scene with how ruthless Gordias and Midas were to the point they nearly killed the game anyways and the dev team had to double back with creator. (Unfortunately Gordias Savage was designed with Healers doing damage in mind)

[@CamperCarl00]

@thebrave9971 When Gordias released, it was extremely overturned, yeah. It doesn't help that there was renewed interest in completing Savage due to the introduction of Normal difficulty. There were a lot of people who weren't raiding at a high level in ARR who jumped in to Gordias (myself included). Pepsiman acted as a gatekeeper for the content, but the Manipulator was a monster of a fight in its own right. I do remember them heavily nerfing Gordias, maybe that's where they were talking about how "healer damage normally isn't taken into consideration when balancing." It does reinforce that that's when the Healer dps debate kicked into high gear.

[@TheKillerman3333]

i want scholar to have a passive where if you die your fairy ressurects you. however it has a cool down of 5 minutes.

[@WreallyWren]

I know you don’t want to switch from Scholar and that’s fair. But DPS will definitely give you variety if you want it. Summoner is a pretty good pick for roulette, you can raise from a very low level, the raise saves so many runs and even physick can be useful at low level. Also once you start doing your deep dungeon grinds you’ll never forget what a chimera does. Failing a rams voice will be an insta kill on any job and you don’t want to lose your run on 181 because of it. Either way I love the series. I always enjoy seeing the content as it actually is for most players like playing with baffling randos rather than elite players doing elite things

[@chernobyl169]

> Mt Gulg > Tank checks before wall to wall > Me: "here comes the invuln on the first pull, that triple pack is mad"

[@ohdoggy]

The mentor roulette extremes are the only content that might need mentors from my experience but they usually trying to disband after 15 mins, i think they should make a role specialists for DOW so you can kinda mentor your job rather than the content, fundamentally most content just comes down to not being in the way of an aoe, cleave or just standing in a stack marker

[@dunethewanderer8944]

As someone who healed Castrum Abania when it was on content - no, Cleric Stance did not make it any more interesting. Except the part where people wouldn't know what the mechanic on the second boss was and kill themselves (which is probably why they reworked it)

[@vonslee]

Subject Number XXIV is built off the standard Hyur rig. It's pose is the Red Mage pose.

[@ponderingForever]

5:14 Been enjoying the recent interviews about veto'ing certain complex ideas in EW and bringing more difficulty/variety back since DT feedback. I doubt a giant change, but interested to see what they propose.

[@bonniebelair8749]

Please don't break my air fryer. It's the one appliance in my life that actually means something. I sacrifice my microwave instead.

[@lightblooms]

Hilariously I am doing my mentor roulettes while I have Neopets up on in another window while listening to this, so I can chat on the Neoboards in between queues. Dubloon Disaster is still there since they put in a Flash integration fix last year-- and it's still hard!

[@ElvinG28781]

Getting eaten by pugnax makes you pugsnax.

[@ZiriO]

The bouncy council has spoken! You were not bouncy enough!

[@JarroHood]

I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW! MY NEOPETS ARE IN THE LODGE SO THEIR FEEDING IS PREORDER'D Also love ya videos!

[@DuskChimera]

Can confirm, I've once gotten all 4 pods in Castrum Abania. Granted, it needed a pictomancer and viper who had burst ready.

[@solarismagnum]

Easiest way to remember the voices is dragIN ram OUT.

[@hurnt1494]

Cartoon Network had a bunch of fun games, i used to play a Powerpuff girls snowboarding game a lot.

[@SkorchRabbitz]

I appreciate the lack of many spoilers in the mentor series, especially since I haven't played past 5.5

[@Xaelroth]

Man I remember Postopia and their postokens. As a Canadian, Post either didn't exist or my parents wouldn't buy me their cereal, so I had to make do with playing the games without postokens. Many of these kinds of games are lost to time, but sometimes someone archived them somewhere. Fun to look up every now and then. One of my favourites is the Nightfall Incident, an old Lego-related strategy game.

[@FinalQueue007]

27:42 Can only imagine his teammates are wondering what he's doing there lol

[@DeltaPangaea]

Godbert-Face Highlanders represent. Godbert beard, too. I believe the gist with regard to the housing wards is that because of Technical Reasons, housing takes a stupidly disproportionate amount of server capacity to run. Like some outrageous percentage of the game's entire server footprint is dedicated solely to housing, it eats that much. So it's not as much about them wanting to as it is about what they can physically support. So I've been told anyway.

[@iPlayOnSpica]

For sure, Tender Valley (specifically Zarjor Wash) should've been an open zone. And it doesn't even need story yet, just be a ruins free for exploration by players (and lore-wise, npcs as well, which would lead to some storyline relevance later).

[@shingofan]

26:14 Oh yeah, the Lingerie Football League. Forgot that was a thing until you mentioned it.

[@dimwarlock]

"Am I and idiot or just dumb?" That's why I try not to do introspection, every thought leads me to ask that question

[@LastMinWin]

i miss the flash games on the cartoon network website. They had one where it was a wierd rpg set in a resort where all the cartoons were hanging out.

[@Zelkiiro]

Vauthry's voice acting makes me so happy. He's giving it 110%.

[@howdoilogin]

For the Cutter's Cry boss, I was told that since the game warns about Ram's Voice with "the Chimera's eyes turn blue" and Dragon's Voice with "the Chimera's eyes turn violet" the trick to remember is "viol-in, blue away". Also you remember those a lot easier once you use them as a Blue Mage.

[@smaller_cathedrals]

I always remember it this: A ram knocks you AWAY, a dragon you wanna cuddle.

[@Ahi_Django]

In German, we say, "Widder Weg, Drache Dran." It's pretty easy to learn when you know how

[@TheDoddler]

@@smaller_cathedrals I remember it with Ram=RUN, Dragon=drag-IN. This is also one where EN skill names makes it harder, on JP the skill is called ice voice and thunder voice, you only need to remember what it looks like.

[@Zephyrsw0rd]

Ram run and dragon dive is what I usually tell sprouts

[@Zyart]

My raid group always uses "Enter the Dragon. Dodge Ram." for chimera mechanics.

[@teysa.k]

once i was working in my WT book with my boyfriend, I forgot to unsync the party for it and didn't notice because the queue fired instantly for Shiva Extreme. It was when we loaded onto the map and saw 6 more mentors being like: "wtf?" that I noticed my mistake. I played along and no one ever knew that it was me the one who queued for a synced extreme.

[@asteroidxarmageddon2354]

Funny enough, back in the days of 'Stance Dancing', Tanks could just keep their DPS stance on virtually the whole duty if there was a Ninja, because that job had Shadewalker, a move that takes the aggro generated by the Ninja and transfers it to a target of their choice. Or if you were a Warrior as you can just activate your Tank Stance (Defiance), use Tomahawk, then Equalibrium switch to DPS Stance (Deliverance). Apparently the healing from Equalibrium...even if no heath was actually restored, would generate so much aggro that you would never lose it, great for bosses.....and lets not forget about Unchained....

[@Caittus]

I've had a 4-pod clear once, it felt real good. Usually manage to get 3, but the 4th is rough unless everyone is really pulling weight.

[@sevynwarr]

Fun fact about Ruin 2. It used to be instacast with the same damage as Ruin 1, but also a higher MP cast. So you could use it when needing to move for a higher mp cost, then use Ruin 1 when you were standing still.

[@floatingposeidon]

I feel like CiderSpider would roast me for my Viera's name 😂 I hope to meet you in a roulette one day for sure, though!

[@belgaming6100]

In cutters cry I run to the boss an start the fight to port in party 🤷‍♂️

[@kazineverwind5267]

Your honor, my client was eepy. It was past his bedtime.

[@evilton8378]

always enjoy a new video. or old video. or any video honestly

[@Mz_jazzy]

In tender Valley: good trick to use when looking for the right line. Start at the circle and follow the arrows out to where you're standing. I have only died maybe twice, and that is because I was just tired.

[@Bongaboi151]

Great video, Cider!

[@donutsteel6797]

I was there when Postopia was replaced with the Flintstones only site, then that was killed too.

[@wurmsrus2]

22:06 based on pattern of when the other housing was released, 2.1 goblet/mist/lav, 4.1 shiro , 6.1 emp it probably won't be until 8.1

[@Meowlo]

Digivolution of a Toaster. I'm dead

[@TuftyTaltan]

"Why are all Lalafells named after food?" I'm not I- [Kacho Nacho] Fuck.

[@pretzelthedude]

Oh wow. The "Lingerie Football League". I'd forgotten about that 😂 .

[@rfactor1502]

I have similar suspicious regarding some of that story coming up in 7.4 and .5, but more to the point, how that cup is probably going to be key to the 8.0 story, and where we go from here. Given the intent of starting a new major arc, once the Alexandrian one is settled, we will likely start to see that larger one take shape.

[@Avenger131]

Cleric Stance died at the start of Stormblood. technically it still existed, but it was changed drastically. Shifted into a cross-role skill that buffed damage by like.. 5% for 10 seconds.

[@TammyTwilightRose]

I remember changing to a femhroth and seeing how many armor tops and gloves were like extra wide on us. Even the starting gear bangles were extra wide last I saw

[@dragondragon8463]

It's the palace we made along the dead

[@Xenmaru00]

personally what i wish they'd do is bring back the ability to zone back into whatever house/apartment you were in and not get booted to the outside. i know that changed at some point during SHB but before then we could do that and it made, for me personally, having a house, have a meaning. Either do that or give us the ability to make and place a glamor dresser in our houses. Hell lock it to *houses* and not apartments if need be just give me a reason to have a house!

[@Gravewhisper]

Tanks having to juggle their stances sounds like a random party nightmare. 3/10 Tanks already need to be reminded to use tank stance in the first place. Can't imagine how chaotic runs would've been, if the tanks actually had to turn it on and off again.

[@Melancholy_Scholar]

I have kept my femhroth so far. But staring at my list of unlocked hairstyles that are completely unusable is Rough.

[@RoseArtemis24]

I've managed to clear the first set of coffin thingies in Castrum Abania once, only since dawntrail dropped though! We also got very close on the second set in the same run, there was maybe 25% left on the last one

[@XealGiles]

the giants actually summon a primal lalafal

[@Dcharger52]

Casters' AOE Sleep is really nice for Cutter's Cry

[@LittleMissLanna]

I think we'll get more housing after they finish with the housing update! That'd make sense to me. Remember they wanted to figure out the inside of houses maybe being large no matter their outside, plus the furniture graphic update!

[@NatiiixLP]

2:37 Oh, I think we all wanna know more about those statues. That leg up is an absolutely crazy way of sitting that I'd never seen on any ancient statue anywhere in the world. Sassy ass statue. 😭 17:07 I'm so glad I'm not the only Cutter's Cry hater. That should be the highest priority for a dungeon rework. The trash pulls and trash skips are so ass.

[@TemLightKiBlade]

I used to love the Bionicle flash games back in the day. It was amazing and fed my love of story and adventure over gameplay in many games. A few years ago I found a download of it to play and it went mostly ok until this flying section where you have to click enemies to hit them, and it went at like 120 fps, when I remember it lagging back at like 20 fps. It was nearly unplayable. That being said, makes me want to return to that game again thinking about it.

[@ironsides982]

Oh a Iron Maiden reference. A man of culture.

[@Zinkhal1]

0:40 this dungeon ...xD leveling my ast ... first time in that dungeon after a longer break from the game starting to get back feeling safe .. wasnt in that dungeon for a long time and tank ask me "shall i pull?" and was like "sure" thinking "is he really asking if he should pull everything single ..? dont want to stay here till tomorrow" and then in the middle of the first pull i was like "oh shit i remember .... now i understand what he really asked ... never seen someone pulling all the way up ... well lets see how it goes.." XD the run was a lot of fun even if i wasnt really sure about my gameplay xD and btw he didnt even invuln the first pull really big respect for that player he was like "healer said sure pull so he know what he is doing" and just believed :D

[@sweepingtime]

How come it's called Smileton if Smile is not constantly playing in the background?