The Raid That I Wasn't Ready For... - The Mad Mentor #04

There are countless raids in Final Fantasy XIV, but who would have thought that one of the most easily failed ones was from Heavensward?! Well, it turns out I've forgotten a lot of mechanics form pre-Endwalker content. Also I'm a noob. Woops.
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[@MaryAlice08]

"Van Baelsar. You're ignorant. I leave." - most accurate thing Lahabrea ever said.

[@sluggirl823]

Ultima: "But first.. I must.. Come!" Ah yes, my favorite sentence from them :')

[@natebroadus8474]

I could've sworn he said, "Van FAILsar."😅

[@howdoilogin]

@@natebroadus8474 I heard Failsar too

[@KZorander]

Nothing will top "bears" but this had me cackling

[@teaisbetter2508]

​@@KZorander i mean other bears is a good guess

[@TimR-dj2yj]

Imagine forgetting you're supposed to dip your dead Faust in cheese before serving

[@Eckdirt]

Barely even gaming at this point.

[@bigangerman8800]

38:55 “but first, I must come!” Took me out

[@HyouVizer]

Wow you had to have clicked soon as it uploaded

[@ditzyhere3138]

Same. On my commute and had to stifle laughter on the subway.

[@AcraViolet]

"There's plenty of chads out there worth committing necromancy for but Avere was NEVER one of them" PREACH 👏👏👏

[@Tesselcraig]

The undergeared, single pull and then double pull at random dark knight. The single target ninja. The "IS USING A WAND AND SHIELD" blackmage. Truly the AV experience.

[@Veishan]

When I was a sprout I'm pretty sure I was all three of these people at one point or another, lmao

[@sugoistalin7809]

Yeah, I'm sure I was the same. We were all innocent sprouts once upon a time.

[@BloodyMoon1]

For those who don't know that Alexander fight, OT takes the orb to revive the robots, as it will target the one that drops it. Take them to the platform that is going to disappear, kill mobs before they fall in. If they go in alive, boom. If they don't go in the lava, boss get boosted. Hide behind rocks to avoid raid wide. When the big robot comes in, take it to the last platform that drops.

[@TheNovicek]

To add to this, you do NOT need to revive the mobs that are already in the zone that will get cheesed. What matters is that when it goes off, all the dead adds are in there. That's the whole mechanic (same for Faust, just failing him is instant wipe) of the fight.

[@Sniperbear13]

and to explain why the bodies need to end up in the cheese; the boss gets upgrades from all the bodies and will do more damage when it gets more upgrades and it one shots when it gets the final upgrade.

[@tremor3258]

You want all the adds to die to get dropped in the lava but the BIG add you really don't want to die in lava.

[@rebellyanmagic6409]

Also the boss is invincible when the Full Metal Faust comes in, so the MT can help with demolishing its health before it goes for a lava bath and kills the raid

[@christianhagel6835]

About the Faust spawn: you can just pull him to the opposite tile of where he spawns, its always the last one :D

[@ketsuekikumori9145]

"I keep forgetting SB content has actual mechanics in it." That's a mood.

[@jaeusa160]

@20:00 I liked a lot of the Hard Mode dungeons because they were also often story sequels to the normal modes. Which is rare in a MMO. Usually you do dungeon thing, it's done, NPCs' problem resolved, the end. Most HMs after the first few have entirely different mechanics and scenery anyway. But Tam-Tara gave us 2 dungeons and Palace of the Dead for an ongoing story of some characters you can see outside Sastasha normal, a group where you beat them to the punch on a bounty on some pirates in a cave back around level 15.

[@Gloomdrake]

Also, Wanderer’s Palace (Hard), despite being an overall downgrade, has the funniest victory cutscene in the game

[@ngwoo]

Ironworks didn't live in the theatre because Amon made the carpet moldy by throwing ice all over it

[@Tolly7249]

That first run reminded me of a Dzemael Darkhold I had recently. The tank was... baby tank, on a Dark Knight. But soon as they admitted it the rest of us were chill and happy to explain mit mechanics and stuff. Like I said to them, everyone starts somewhere and FFXIV is one of the MMOs where explaining that to the rest of your party will get you helped, not kicked.

[@badbuddha2359]

I think I get more cursed dzemael runs ESPECIALLY w DRKs than AV runs. That dungeon is the bane of my existence.

[@Forginswagger]

I had one run with a baby bunny tank...i think everyone was tired - 2am - and were confused why the tank full pulled the we wiped. Then after the tank onlt singled pulled and also would start the boss unless someone else did. no hate on them cus i knew they were new,i was just to tried to say anything. And I was making plenty mistakes as i lvled my DRN

[@rock_stare2146]

that first run is a prime example as to why mentor roulette can be a pain

[@mannydani9180]

Honestly, that's just some runs of leveling stuff in general, Stone Vigil I remember being a checkpoint dungeon while I was leveling my classes. Once I had the chance to roll Stone Vigil, I made sure all my gear was on level because if it wasn't (doubly so if I was tanking or healing) it would be so much harder

[@firesoy]

tank didn't even have a necklace equipped. like when you make a new character you have a necklace on by default which means he took it off.

[@MizYin]

Cider showcasing the OTHER purpose of mentor roulette: to humble veteran players and force them to remember mechs they likely forgot over time.

[@SnapImaX]

As a trial sprout i usually looked up new dungeons i went into and i instantly learned that the most clueless and checked out players (who never explained anything) were usually crown icons. The vast majority of weird toxic or baffling behavior i've seen over the years came from mentors that were clearly burned out or dead inside because it was their 40th run that day on some soul-rending grind and they had absolutely no fucks left to give.

[@ludgerkresnik3972]

Here is to you never having to work retail ever again.

[@pepper_xiv]

I've been loving this series! I know you've had a hell of a lot of backseating about the DPS thing so I've refrained from commenting so far, but as you mentioned at the end you're considering your options, I thought I might have some stats for you. I'm a healer main and have done the mentor roulette grind and also tracked it (about 1800/2000). My data is mainly from Stormblood/Shadowbringers (pre 5.3) so might not be that relevant. I came to the same conclusion as you did for running heals - it was definitely a lot of dungeons and brain numbing. I mixed it up in the end to keep from going insane and ended up doing about 1200 on DPS, 600 on heals and less than 100 on tank. - I found that DPS was the most varied - I came out at 33% for guildhests, 25% dungeons, 17% normal raids, 14% normal trials, 7% ex trials and 4% 24 mans. 0.5 comms per run. - Healer was 60% dungeons, 17.5% guildhests, 10.5% normal trials, 5% normal raid, 5% ex trials and just under 2% on 24 mans. I averaged 1.5 comms per run. - My tank data set isn't great at all, so I won't share figures, but it was mainly dungeons, trials and guildhests. On average, I got 1 comm per run. Most common dungeon was Castrum on healer, but I got a LOT of expert fills on DPS. Most common EX was Rathalos (also my most hated queue pop), followed by Garuda.

[@yanis109]

I'm at ≈500 runs and I almost play exclusively on DPS because of that, I don't really mind EXs since if the run isn't clearable another mentor will probably leave before me and if it is it won't take too long with echo and us outgearing the boss by a lot, having more guildheist makes the grind shorter anyways (and usually trial/ normal raid are faster than a dungeon too) so it just feels way better overall. I originally wanted to do it on tank to do the tank achievements too but it's like healer and you get dungeons a TON, I'll just farm it spamming O3 in an unsync group it'll be faster :P

[@rose_river_]

Woah! Props for compiling your data, this is really cool~

[@DicedCheez]

good to know. Now i have an idea of what to expect. My server might run a bit differently but i like having a rough guess

[@Suirano]

" From the deepest pits of the seven hells to the very pinnacles of the heavens, you are ignorant!" I can't XD

[@asham868]

I had an aurum vale run the other day. Had an ARCANIST in the group, and he kept spamming physick. When asked to focus on dpsing he said no cause he wanted to practice for scholar. 😂

[@Tolly7249]

Okay that's adorable.

[@one_eyeddd473]

The lil quirky things new players do so sefiously is hysterical

[@Wiles731]

Oh that sweet child

[@jessnkinz]

@@Wiles731 I had a Mrd, tank in Haukke Manor -which can happen and is fine. So no issue. However, I happened to check them as they were overleveled just to give a general 'hey don't forget to unlock warrior after this!' kinda message. I got back 'I have it, the *dungeon sets it to mrd b/c underlevel*' I was like 'no...see how we're all bard, sch, drg. We all have job stones.' He is like then 'report them or i leave' and i (sch btw) said No no I can leave. And as I'm leaving, the Drg laughs and goes 'bro....your forgot to equip your job stone.

[@GeriannGreen]

gosh i hate people like that before they got rid of protect (idk if you were around when healers had protect but it was a shield you cast on the party) i hat this guy in that one dungeo with the ants and the chimera? anyway everytime i cast protect on him he'd remove it and said it was because he "getting used to not having it when they took it away" we kicked him.

[@CiderSpider]

You haven't forgotten how to do Alexander raids, right?

[@kurosakikun96]

Can't say I have, they are very popular on Materia for raid roulette

[@Foxpawed]

I remember! ... normals at least. And solo savages.

[@BloodyMoon1]

Did my 2k mentor roulettes, I have them all burned into my mind. If you want the EXs though, just wait until 7.0 drops. All the new people coming in with each expansion causes the number of them to take off. You're running at the end of an expansion, so newbies is going to be low, minus Xbox newbies.

[@Radintoriov]

I've been exploded so many times doing Eyes, I don't think I'll ever forget the mechanics of that fight, specifically :v

[@armandleg3775]

As the ninja from that raid I totally forgot

[@orciencor6001]

I half expected you to throw in the usual "Tremble!" as a replacement for the tremble in Laha's line, but even without that the edits were still hilarious there.

[@alanepithet2931]

The classic MSQ roulette meme edits will never not be classic.

[@muyou6589]

I'm sad that they changed the skalla gap into a bridge, sometimes you would see people who fell into the pit cause their transformation expired right when they were about to go over😢

[@DevilSeiji]

I loved jumping all wibbly wobbly :(

[@muyou6589]

@@DevilSeiji same ༼⁠;⁠´⁠༎ຶ⁠ ⁠۝ ⁠༎ຶ⁠༽

[@bajanoates859]

I liked being a jiggly ghost ☹️

[@MissPoplarLeaf]

7:00 I was sad to see that the fat ghost button was gone :( Same with other people in my roulette at the time

[@IKMcGwee]

Blubber ghost bouncing was great! I'm sad to see it gonneee

[@MissPoplarLeaf]

@@IKMcGwee yeah I loved bouncing up and down!! It was so silly and fun, I wish they had kept it

[@Galeforce017]

I'm glad you can just squeeze out every inch of fun to be found in that Ultima Weapon cutscene.

[@DacianGradaMusic]

fun fact: the dusk vigil's mammoth boss has that rout ability that is supposed to do shared dmg, but it hits for so low overall that it doesn't matter. The same enemy appears as a SB hunt mark, I think, and every iteration since then it has the shared marker... They would've added it to the dungeon as well if it had to be reworked for Duty Support, but it's an optional dungeon so it stays like that LOL

[@Nazuiko]

Its also a boss in Bardam's Mettle.

[@aidanmillow566]

Once for giggles most of my praetorium party just didn't use abilities and beat up Lahabrea with auto attacks. MSQ Roulette was weird (and a terrible experience your first time). Personally I'd really like to see them give 8 player dungeons another shot.

[@NeroLucifarious]

Before the rework i took a whole team unsyncd but locking us to level 1 gear and accesories. We did cape westwind, livia, and the ultima weapon fights. People were seeing mechanics they never saw before. It was fun

[@thomaslee9368]

The last run of Prae pre rework I convinced all but the WHM to ditch armor for a naked run. Just weapons and accessories, lol. It was glorious!

[@MissPoplarLeaf]

Tip on the big walking dragon dudes: If you see it lift its tail high, that's a backwards cleave. If you see it lift one claw high, it's a forward cleave. If you see it put both claws together in front of its face like its charging up a kamehameha, it's about to fireball the furthest person in the direction that it's facing. (Learned after much trial and error in Nidhogg EX lol)

[@purplefreedom1631]

Wanderer's palace tank that moves around the edge of the arena but never moves the boss OUT of the buff banners...

[@hirudemonstrife]

Half the stay is listening to how the balesar speeches get edited, the other half is seeing what sort of madness can be witnessed in these dungeons. Such sympathy was totally my intention.

[@lmildrum]

That tank in your first aurum vale didn't even have a necklace equipped

[@Scrambles_Deathdealer]

Last time I ran CT one of our DPS immediately left as soon as the dungeon started. No big deal, got another one right away. Then they left right away. Then we got another replacement. Then they said "I can't deal with this today" and left. My third of the alliance ran with seven people the rest of the instance

[@Nesaru]

Sounds like something I'd do. ST is boring and I care more for enjoyment over exp and tomes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@alanepithet2931]

Yeah, at this point seeing any of the CT raids provokes a stress response in me because of how boring they are, and how many times I've played them. I'd rather spend 30-40 minutes muddling through a bad run of Puppet Bunker than do a 12 minute perfect run of any of the CT raids, because puppet bunker's fun and interesting.

[@Kafaldsbylur]

Wanderer's Palace Hard may not have as fun of a dungeon experience, but it does have the single best ending cutscene

[@Rotaretilbo]

The old Ultima/Lahabrea fight was especially annoying, because Ultima is straight up just invulnerable for the first like 60 seconds of the fight, then you blow through him so fast that the primals all drop out at once. The second half of the fight wasn't *hard*, but it was vaguely interesting, relative all the other fights in the dungeon, closer to a normal ARR boss than everything around it. And then there's Lahabrea, who literally couldn't die until he finished his stupid monologue, but had so little health that he'd be down to 1 HP before everyone was fully out of cutscene, and then the stupid monologue wasn't even voiced.

[@urustai]

What I vaguely remember from A9 is the NEST video of them fighting the boss & Morvy says "Scrapline! Get yer ass in here!"

[@Burred11]

Zaltan looks like he plays Dark Knight with Grit bound to 4

[@Inuzika]

love your edits of Ultima. Seriously one of my favourite cutscenes simply because Gaius and the way he says "Lahabrea.." but you just make it so much better because now I can't stop with the "Bears" during that cutscene lmao

[@Geist1337]

Dang, it's not even Monday anymore.

[@NatiiixLP]

Yea, it's Tuesday evening for me, but hey, sounds like an extra long and juicy video, so I'll take it.

[@eFeXuy]

I too used to farm Skalla for that fucking glam, and yes all the changes are for trusts.

[@KianaWolf]

I suspect the reason for the dropped tank stance is because they read outdated guides, but haven't bothered to _read their tooltips._ If that concept sounds baffling, that they'd have the initiative to read a guide but not the common sense to make sure it's an up to date one or to consider reading the tooltips of their skills to know what they do, let me assure you that some of the tanks I've run into that did that cited specific guides. Some people are just ridiculous.

[@Slipfish]

You will run into some people with weird ideas in an MMO, but also I've just had a bug recently where my stance turns itself off randomly when tanking and that probably seems more likely. Caught me by surprise twice. After that I realized I needed to keep an eye on it rather than setting and forgetting.

[@mannydani9180]

​@@Slipfish Does it turn off when entering an instance? I know when you get level synced down your stance gets turned off but if it goes off during the dungeon then I don't know

[@Slipfish]

@@mannydani9180 Not that. It's a recent thing and I only noticed because I was spamming so many roulettes farming multiple relics. The first two times I assumed I made a mistake but by the third I was actively watching it because I'd never had this issue so many times. It just turned itself off in the middle of a dungeon, not the beginning.

[@anxiousraven505]

I was sad, i loved turning into the stupid ghost. the flailing around was hilarious

[@nilzero5686]

oh thank god, i had a moment in time where i had nothing to do

[@slayerone1226]

Gaius walks into a bar. This was not his intention!

[@psymar]

for future reference, bad breath can be cured by a fruit, it clears ALL afflictions. I am rather proud of myself for thinking of this when my levelling roulette hit AV as tank recently and I failed to dodge one

[@Kumogoro]

Once upon a time, back before you started this, I left a comment saying that mentor roulette as healer is basically role playing as a super market queue buster. And er... I wish I had been wrong for both our sakes. (As I am also doing this grind on healer)

[@Local_custard]

first run reminds me of that time I got a post-stormblood dungeon and the tank wore an ilvl 530 earring but everything else was ilvl 130. The tank died so many times and I was heal botting because they would take 1/4 their health in trash autos alone (anything above 3 enemies would kill them)

[@AdamS-argonwow]

I've been doing Mentor Roulettes on DPS and the vast majority of them have been guildhests and old normal trials or raids; 36 guildhests and 33 trial/normal raids out of 93 total counted with a whopping 5 pre-Endwalker dungeons. The fun part is most of the guildhests I get tend to be when the queue's are 10+ minutes so it feels like I've accomplished absolutely nothing.

[@JennyCross]

Getting my last few jobs leveled up before Dawntrail, and these Lahabrea speech revisions do so much to help me survive the MSQ roulettes. 😆

[@TenebrisFlamma]

So from experience, if you have the fetters debuff from whirling gaol, you will get hit by the damage part. Why am I saying this you might be thinking? Well one time I was playing dragoon, and both got rescued by the healer behind rubble AND got the fetters debuff, I was safe behind the rubble but couldn’t move, as well as getting hit by whirling gaol behind the rubble. It looked really funny

[@ChaosDX1]

Eyes of the Creator is one of my core memories of this game. First time I had a friend with me to explain the mechanics. Second time I was with randoms as the main tank and I was the one explaining the mechanics after the first wipe. It didn't seem like my explanation took, so I ordered the off-tank to take aggro, shirked, and started doing all the mechanics for my party. Cleared on the second try with a ton of commendations! It felt so good!

[@JulesVante]

38:42 I could sworn to anyone that Athena was going to say “THE WORLD SHALL TREMBLE”

[@herebejamz]

Tank gearing is interesting, nobody really notices a DPS on a 10 level short, unless they're really paying attention to numbers, but tank gear is hyper necessary. Doesn't help that in ARR there's also a bunch of non-tank gear that they can still equip.

[@Rinaldot67]

Episode 4 out of 200 complete! I love that Alexander raid because it can go south so quickly if people don't know/remember the mechanics. It makes me feel useful as a healer.

[@crittomato7043]

I love watching these mentor roulettes so I can learn some stuff I didn't know since either I did it unsyched with fc or with npc's and the alexander raids? I still have not finished all of them so knowing the upcoming mechanic is very nice

[@CamperCarl00]

I feel like Mentor status affects your roulettes even outside of the Mentor specific roulette. All of the dungeon ones specifically seems to push me into groups with all sprouts.

[@sugoistalin7809]

And that's a problem how? Helping sprouts is what mentor status is meant for.

[@CamperCarl00]

@@sugoistalin7809 Didn't say it was a problem, though if you both don't have the crown on and aren't doing Mentor roulette then I don't think it should be railroading you into groups with sprouts. It doesn't help that the number of sprouts with bad behavior has been drastically increasing since Endwalker, but I no longer think this is the case though, and it's simply a large influx of new players.

[@supekele]

your edits of the msq cutscene are very entertaining

[@toperishtwice]

ARR Alliance Raids might be quick, but there's a significant portion of the population that HATE Crystal Tower.

[@GiselleDoodles]

Yep. I eat the 30 and leave if I get it in roulette.

[@LordRobaZe]

yep fuck crystal tower, puts me to sleep

[@litchtheshinigami8936]

at least you are a mentor who knows what they are doing. i had one yesterday that really gave me a headache. i was grinding out some mog tomestones for the event and the mentor that got queued up with us was honestly just being so stupid. it was hard mode wanderers palace. but you have these objects in the dungeon these holy stakes or something that buff the enemies when they are standing in the red period blood around it. (gives em damage up and defense up) but they are really easy to just pull out of the period blood. so our mentor summoner just kept focussing on the stakes wich was a pain cuz he wouldn't move till they were all dead. and he wouldn't attack the enemies with us either so it took us twice as much time (thankfully our healer and our machinist were both focussing the actual important enemies) the worst was the last boss because that boss puts those things down every so often but taking them out takes way too much time so usually you just kite the boss around and pull him out of it every time he puts it down. but instead of attacking the boss our bot ass summoner just started ruin spamming those stakes. like i was yelling at my screen the entire time wondering what was going on in his head cuz that is not the way to efficiently take out that boss. (idk how i keep running into these ppl honestly)

[@davidlynch9469]

Little bit of hidden mech. The fruit removes all debuffs at once even the 10k you get from bad breath.

[@j800r_aswell]

"We will speak later Ascion, but first I must.... COME!" Have this running in the background while in diadem, but this got me. Masterful editing, sir.

[@TheCrazyhusky]

Honey wake up, Stormblood content has actual mechanics in it.

[@gamingbean6440]

D: why would you not miss being a spooky ghost! Honestly the "jump" animation as the ghost is more why I miss it. I always found that hilarious.

[@elvishcyborg4275]

Those Sonic Booms in the Alexander fight were very fun. Always appreciate the editing in these videos

[@merlinswife]

the lahabrea bit was like a ytp and i've been watching those a lot lately, so it was really funny to see

[@trekonic9464]

How do tanks not realize their stances are off? In my experience, every time that issue occurs it takes multiple ppl in the party to tell them to turn their stance back on.

[@InnocentGuillotine]

Given that I've had tanks who refused to stop trying to stancedance when the single-pull mobs were biting my monk ass I suspect they see it and just think they're in the right

[@LunickTMM]

Tank player here. When you're doing msq you get a ton of content that doesn't require adjusting the tank stance. Not to mention it's something that feels like it should be on by default all the time. Now if you're talking off multiple pulls, I dunno. I don't claim them.

[@ev_artwork6443]

I had a tank last night who not only was not turning tank stance on, they would turn it back OFF and also run past enemies without attack, but then start single pulling, until the very end where they rushed past every enemy to just go for the boss. This was Sastasha. They proceeded to just stay dead as the rest of us finished the dungeon by ourselves.

[@geoff2686]

I'm the Ninja dps in the first dungeon. I didn't even realize I got grouped with Cider.

[@TheIdiotjen]

Mr Cider you have no idea how excited i am to see this 43 min gem pop into my feed. I look forward to your content every week !

[@cj_skywalker]

I also never noticed that Xande is standing at his throne as he summons the comets on you. I was too busy looking at the ground. XD

[@XanaPc2024]

your editing is the absolute best ever! that cutscene part had me in stitches! :D

[@sirabcde]

I'm sad about Skalla not having the ghost transforms. The butt wiggle was too cute!

[@bellamango6708]

I was actually sad to see the Skalla change, i got called abelist on twitter for saying i missed turning into a ghost. sure it didnt make any difference really but it just indicative of them taking sandpaper to some of the more unique things in game its the little things and it was kinda charming and funny idk.

[@UncleButterworth]

Twitter complaints are less than useless, and often insulting.

[@firesoy]

fortunately as Dave Chappelle once said, twitter isn't a real place

[@thomasfleming8131]

Looking at that thumbnail, I can't help but hope this is the Mentor Roullete video we've been anticipating.

[@echo_9835]

Mad baby suffers from the fausts of outragous fortune delivered by a giant fondue bot

[@eternalspitfire9064]

You can double click a player icon in the commendation menu to give the comm instead of going down and clicking confirm. As a heads up

[@anthonydelfino6171]

Looking at Aurum Vale... your tank is a Dark Knight. Implies this is not their first time in there since they'd have to be in Heavesnward. But given their gear situation, might be "baby's first tank"

[@Forginswagger]

my guess is it may be their first time as a tank. as they may have not done PLD in ARR.

[@anthonydelfino6171]

@@Forginswagger yeah. That’s what I meant by “baby’s first tank”

[@meriwidget3474]

This actually works as a reminder for me of how these older things work lol.

[@GamingFoodie]

"Gaius Van Baelsar's porta potty" I'm choking! 🤣🤣🤣

[@Tinandel]

I did LOS pulling in Bozja during cluster farms. Lets you stay mounted so you can pick up a huge group faster. That was the only time I ever thought it was a good idea though.

[@IKMcGwee]

Pretty much yeah, but man, has double mounted tanks pulling all of z2 with me going burrrr as a white mage. We had the full squad, three in z2, 2 in z3 and 2 in z1. Weather was up so we also had care drops too, we were printing clusters, good times.

[@Rotaretilbo]

On the bad hardware front, I have this shitty refurb Toshiba laptop running Windows 7, that I mostly only use when I'm traveling. It *technically* runs FFXIV, but it's gotten worse and worse over the years. Like, I house sat for my parents for a couple days some years ago, back during the ShB content lull in the fall of 2021, and while my laptop chugged in major cities, I was able to run trust dungeons on it pretty consistently. Lacking a numpad or mouse, I didn't actually do any fighting, I'd just go into Holminster Switch or whatever on DPS, pull a pack, walk myself away from the mobs, and then go lie down and putz about on my phone, head back over, walk myself to the next pack, rinse and repeat. That's largely how I leveled my trust avatars in ShB. Fun fact: if you're positioned right, you can AFK the bucket-head robot in Malikah's Well as DPS with a trust party. More recently, I traveled to visit some friends out of state for a week in January 2023. Island Sanctuary was still relatively fresh content, and I was still doing daily craft recommendations, rather than weekly predictions. At the time, my laptop could no longer handle trust dungeons, it'd pretty consistently crash, but it could handle the Island Sanctuary well enough, so I spent some of my down time there. I traveled to visit different out-of-state friends for a week this past January. Now doing weekly predictions for Island Sanctuary, I basically just needed to log into FFXIV on Wednesday. Alas, the game crashed at every load transition, and crashed unrecoverably trying to load the Island Sanctuary itself. I've not been able to get the game to launch on the laptop since, not that I've tried terribly hard.

[@BigIsaac91]

When I joined the game in early HW (early as in like 1 week after the expansion launched), I was gaming on a laptop with a Nvidia 540 card. Legit ass 8-12 fps on the lowest settings.

[@franksta21]

The ultima section was hilarious! 🤣

[@evandavis5223]

This game has so many dungeons I forget that some ever existed.

[@MoonmunkPersonal]

"But first, I must COME!" yes. this is perfect.

[@lemeres2478]

38:00 Yeah, but at least it would make sense for the Allegans to just make a robot by copying dragons and bahumut. You can just FEEL this happened because they wanted to a bahumut, but they realized they couldn't get the bipedal legs to work just right, and they could really use some more battery storage space, so let's just go quadruped and try to stay on theme to keep the investor happy.

[@hoensdatter]

i was the machinist in that a9 raid, the other mentor :) i finished my mentor roulette grind the day after this happened, so i wish you and all of the mentors going for it a very good luck! i promise these types of shitshows are few and far between lol sorry i left before you got to comm me, but i really appreciate the sentiment!

[@katarh]

"I hope the tank knows what to do" gave me PTSD because.... I usually don't. And I'm a mentor tank. And I got this a few weeks ago. (The answer is tank takes Faust to the THIRD orange goo thing that fires off, diagonal to the first one that goes off.) Also the tank has a frontal cone AOE, as you figured out eventually. Everyone else else can't be in that quadrant. Edit: It's true that tanks, healers, and DPS get different flavors of stuff. As a tank I'm more likely to get later endgame things, I think because people are more willing to level healer to 90 but they give up tanking by level 70+ because of tanxiety so there's a vacuum in comparison to the healers. But I also randomly land in guildhest. DPS? Slightly higher odds of launching straight into an ARR Extreme trial.

[@Gravewhisper]

Darknights in ARR dungeons are not real tanks. I recently levelled a DRK and I felt like I was made of paper. No other tank takes that much damage at those levels. DRK in Aurum Vale is just rough, especially if you don't have amazing gear.

[@gabby_bear]

My new internet gets about 80-100mbps download at best cause I moved to the borderline middle of nowhere 😭 missing my nearly 1gb internet from before I moved

[@kingramennoodle]

27:11 "My faces are up here" "I've made my choice"

[@scratch7971]

Seeing that drk tank in aurumn vale at the beginning cured my tankxiety

[@ramvicious8057]

Get those achievements bro

[@Mewnoaa]

I'm sitting at 120 completed mentor duties and this series has really motivated me to keep going and continue my suffering ❤

[@zegichiban]

I kinda miss the ghost flying over the gap, it was unique.

[@GTaichou]

The last time my dishes were always done and not sitting out was when I was leveling the first time and running Prae every day. I felt so functional. Queuewalker broke my functional routine legit

[@SawyerCustomGaming-io8xz]

I've noticed a bunch of dungons changing.. I kinda liked the ghost floating thing, it was neat.

[@eighttimesnine]

gaius YTP is the highlight of my week

[@AurumKHK]

I appreciate the runescape splashing sound.

[@shiro12okami69]

Fun fact, A9 normal raid Tankbusters are supposed to be Tankshared. Means both tanks need to stay stacked for them^^

[@Florian-dh6mz]

Currently on 618 tracked Mentor Roulettes. 292 (47%) were dungeons as a tank. 42 were Praetorium or Castrum.

[@SirVyre]

Uhm... Uhm... Dolorous Bear's party dies in Copperbell Mines... Completely.

[@Blooest]

Typically in Porta, you also get LB before the phase change. It resets at phase change anyway, so you can have three LBs in that fight.

[@InfinitusMG]

I gave up on doing Mentor Roulettes during the Moogle tomestone event. People are out there queueing for Praetorium all day long and the game loves to fill those parties with Mentors.

[@bladeninja7495]

As soon as he said “I don’t have to explain anything” I knew it was gonna be a wipe

[@Cooldrew100]

I was rocking the "laptop as a wireless adapter" tech while trying to play Halo 3 lmao My friend let me keep his 360 at my house for a while, and our wi-fi was total dogcrap. At some point I lost or broke the 360 wireless adapter I bought for it, so for a while I was hijacking wi-fi off a spare Windows XP laptop my dad had in the basement for a couple years lol