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

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

5:03 the fucking vercure going out LOL like even the rdm was like jesus i gotta do something

Mentor roulette is the mmo equivalence of working in retail

5:19 love seeing the cure 1s during this section. It adds to the experience.

As a fellow mentor who tries to help people, I applaud you. Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉 You deserve this mount and your title.

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 dunno whats worse a healer healing me through Living Dead or them using CURE III TO TRY AND DO IT

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!

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 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.

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

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!

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

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.

Cure In Troia A dungeon that doesnt hit for shit and makes me fall asleep as a healer (sage) Truly a df experience.

I really like how you edit your videos. So funny and spot on. I hope you continue to make more of these!

IDK I kinda can't blame mentors that leave EX trials on sight. Smileton though? WTF lmao.

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).

love the music selections, quite the breakdown

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!

What a beautiful end to the trilogy. Thank you for your sacrifice and the many laughs you gave us along the way.

Thank you for your services, man. The path is not easy but at least hopefully someone thanked you on the way

Grats on the grind my dude! Less than 2% of mentors finish that. Truly an elite mentor

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.

ggs on the achievement, well deserved !!

love the editing, love the jojo part 4 reference and the usage of the DRG soundtrack :D very cool

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??'

this whole saga was amazing to watch - grats on your mount :)

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.

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-)

Im just impressed at the amount of footage you got 😂

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 😁

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.

I just started my mentor roulette journey so this is an inspiration to just keep chugging at it. GGs

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."

I never knew how chaotic Mentor roulette was until this.

Holy shit that Sunken Temple strat I had no idea about until today. TYVM

Ty Zanagoth. Another truly excruciating video.

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.

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

Don't stop making these. Keep up the good work!

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!

I finished the mentor grind in August so, congrats for getting the mount aswell, it really was a long ride 😂

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!

"no thoughts, only dosis," as a sage main, i feel that to my core tho T_T

you know how trippy it was watching this video while playing osrs and having osrs music suddenly pop on

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

Congratz on getting the mount!

congrations on the achievement!

grats for the unicorn! Ilaughed and cried a lot watching this vod

I nearly choked hearing that fuckin' "OH NO" bootleg spy line from that sonic racing game.

Congrats!!!🎉🎉🎉❤

5:00 lol, even the RDM was trying to help and it wasn't enough

Congratulations!!

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.

THIS VIDEO IS PURE GOLD

**sees “elapsed time”** **has a panic attack**

I wonder if there is a special algorithm that pairs first timers together. On mentor roulette you have so many firsties, while if you queue via trial roulette you rarely havr any. Also how long did it take you to get the mount?

Although I don't understand shit, the edits alone are enough to make me laugh 🤣

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!

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.

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.

my god i need a clip of the NEVER GIVE UP bit ft all the gigachad tanks, that was so good

As someone who just finished the mentor grind, you paint the pain. GG.

liking the vid because of the "pass the whiskey" damn, i havn't heard that in a looong time

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 love watching this, i dont even get mad at these people. legit are the highlight of my day

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.

I love the Fray "never give up" fragment

yayy, i love these videos - i recently made a big jump in MSQ from heavenward to end of shadowbringer, and now i know a lot more bosses:D, and i definitely understand to dying to some mechanics.. but some are just weird:D... i also love running those dungeons.. bcs i can finally use my title as Rez Mage, about people complaining about mentoring - i am still doing MSW? thought about doing mentor briefly.. but holy hell there is sooo much bosses which you meet barely once, i dont think i would be able to remember all of it, plus i think i would explain after wipe

That single target Cure III unlocked the monster in the depths of my soul and it thirsts for blood.

This is why I love mentor roulette.

no thoughts, only dosis ```love it

the arms length clips made me realise how much i crave for this serotonim, how many time i've been left alone after AKB ?

this is the exact reason why i have a living dead macro for dungeons, 'cause no shot they ever gonna notice on their own

Can't wait for the Dawntrail continuation to this achievement chain, it's time for it square.

I viscerally felt every single zoom in on a doton.

My man out here like "I hurt myself today...."

Your videos are the reason behind why I always keep hyper-potion stocked now LOL

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)

Ngl I forgot you did all those warframe raid videos a while ago, and now you do ff14 videos. Keep it up man :)

For the bird boss in Great Gubal Hard, I just position that boss right next to the puddle, so they are at least close enough that they might step in it or see people are in it.

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

THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF "NEVER GIVE UP" FRAY

Getting hit with my favorite track from Deep Rock Galactic into We All Lift Together. Yasssss

21:00 Using LD to soak all those orbs is such a chad move.

Idk what dungeon was with sofa fire, but i really hoped some explained to them. Reminded me of that Qarn dungeon where doom debuff can be cleansed via orange tablet

6:48 set off my fight or flight. I don't even play NIN.

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

Congrats!

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.

I got Howling Eye Extreme the other day and one Healer immediate left when people were in the cutscene lmao

Love this ♥

5:00 that vercure tho xD That rdm saw the despair

That guy baiting the rathalos puddles take a closer look at what he's drawing 😂

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.

keep these videos coming brother

something about the cure 1 crits tickles me to death in the cure montage. it's still cure 1 but harder lmao