I cannot stress ENOUGH how good these mentor roulette videos are. They are so informative and fun to watch, especially for me, a DPS main that is trying to learn the other roles!

The guy who watched the cutscenes but then did the mechanics correctly might have still been a first-timer. When I was catching up on content I'd always watch a KZfaq guide before going in, and when it was optional content that rarely comes up on roulette it wasn't super uncommon for me to be the only person who knew what the mechanics were. I know that I'm already at the point where if I queue into, like, Pharos Sirius Hard I have no idea what half the bosses do despite knowing exactly what was up my first time through, because I think I've run that dungeon exactly once.

9:45 I'm definitely stealing that opener for my next savage clear. Dude was cooking

9:00 I'm a tank main who usually plays warrior, and to be honest, this is a bad habit of a lot of us lmao. I got used to being stingy with defensive cooldowns in lower levels, and then I forget that tanks have enough cooldowns at level 90 to feed a family of four lol. Usually when playing Warrior I try to get away with doing every pull using only bloodwhetting, Equilibrium, Thrill of battle, and maybe Shake it off, before realizing "Wait, I have like 4 other defensive cooldowns". It's a plague of the mind lol

the sound effects for the 25s stun montage had me rolling lmaooo. amazing

dusk vigil elephant. the rectangle aoe is split damage and the person doesn't get stun. stand inside to save the stunned person. cone is not shared.

Speaking of that redmage, I know I'm probably in the minority here but I watch a guide for every duty. I do have autism and that for sure plays a role in the reasoning behind it. That being: the idea that my performance can have a direct impact on other people's experience and that I can avoid being the "unnecessary" nuisance by simply just watching a guide. Same reason I don't do mentor roulette because there's content in there that I have never done before.

" Oh no ! " xD I don't think I've ever seen a "48 mins elapsed", quite impressive that these guys didn't forfeit.

About that "boss mechanics not mattering" and "just kill the boss" is honestly the fault of the stat squish and ARR, so many of the boss fights, the one that a new player first expierneces, basically either they die to quick for the mechanics to matter, or you can just tank through it, leading to a bad mentality of "oh I can just ignore the mechanics and DPS the boss and it won't matter" and yes I'm talking about myself, as someone who just recently lost sprout status and has only been playing for a couple hundred hours

Tam-Tara hard can be a pain in the butt to newbies. That praetorium healer could've had something come up and just had to leave? These videos are interesting.

Your perspective is enlightening. I honestly turn my brain off for most dungeons because they arent necessarily difficult, especially anything lvl 80 and below. So as a tank sprout, i dont learn anything. I power through without a second thought. No one tells me anything in this game, and if they do, most of the time its the typical advice "dont die, and you'll be fine". Your videos are helpful.

I just hit my 1000 Commendations and yet I'm realizing that Yoshi already signed me up for the Mentor program without me realizing it and that's why I am approaching 6k hours playtime and yet am constantly in groups filled with sprouts who are level 70+ and have not yet realized that yellow on the ground is bad. (And if you're wondering why I have nearly 6k hours played and only have 1000 commendations... it's because I do A LOT of solo content) Something all Mentors should keep in mind is that the game doesn't teach you things you NEED to know. And in fact, a lot of these mechanics go completely against what you have been taught while playing the game. For example, a big purple marker around you indicates you want to isolate yourself from other people, because it hits everyone, and follows you, so you want it to only hit you. And adds while not really much of an issue in fights, are usually dealt with pretty easily. So now suddenly you're telling them they need to NOT kill adds, AND that they need to use that thing that they have always been taught to take away from other people, to kill adds. But then that player sees those adds they need to kill with it are stacked on top of the party... in their mind, they don't know what's going on, if they should still try to use it to kill the zombies, if people aren't positioning right, or what. And in that moment, thus far all their experience with the game leads them to one conclusion: The tried and true method of dealing with this is to not let anyone else get hit by the purple AoE that is targeting you. And so, they run away. So you end up having to do some preemptive over explaining while also trying not to sound like a know it all and annoy them, because the sad truth is people's egos are fragile. So a good way to explain it is something like "Don't attack the zombies, if you kill them normally by attacking them, they explode and hurt everyone. Someone will be targeted with a big purple AoE around them. You need to make that hit the zombies and that will kill them without making them explode. It's okay if it hits allies, just make sure it hits the zombies."

I swear that Dragoon in Kugane castle was me as hell when I was new to Dragoon and I was power leveling the job with a friend xD

Probably the 23 min replacement in Praetorium was due to a DC.

2:24 I always thought this was just how the mechanic worked, I've been chain-stunned by this boss every time I've run this dungeon EXCEPT the most recent time, where someone else took it all instead of me. I didn't even know it could choose different people.

My favorite irony with lost cure 4 is that white mages (or any other healer) dont get to use it. I understand healers dont really need it, but the class you think would get it, can't use it at all. It would be nice to have when running essance of the profane tho lol I really enjoy the fun facts you put at the end of these videos. Even if they're things I knew already, it's fun to hear when someone else noticed the same things I did. Or remembers something from a previous expansion. Hope you're also doing well c:

The Tam-Tam Tara group sounds like my first time in that dungeon. It was my first Hard dungeon and up until that point you could ignore boss mechanics (other than AOEs). Had a good Tank that helped me through.

My recent dungeons included a lvl 42 Gladiator, a lvl 84 DRK that never used TBN, a NIN that used Doton against single targets, and a lvl 70+ SAM that never used Higanbana. None of which cared when I tried to help them 🙃 Glad your videos can make light of these cases while also being informative.

Whenever I tank I always have a mentality of "Stay still & move as little as possible so the others can AoE properly ". I never really thought about Kiting W2W pulls above "Stay out of the Orange Juice".

In grand cosmos any dodgeable aoe can burn furniture so you rescue was good.

I had a grand cosmos as red in which everyone else was a first timer. Ress mage got alot of work, but got all three commends though.

The first healer on Prae could have an emergency (hope not) or probably just hardware malfunction. Edit: Cool video btw. It's nice to see a mentor documented their roulettes not as a meme. Keep it up!

Tbf regarding Duty 5, the Red Mage might have watched a guide video on this dungeon. I've got a friend in my FC that does that for...About every duty we run, even when we go full premade.

Yep, any attack that boss does that looks like fire, can very much take out the furniture. Was reminded of this and then explained it to my party of first-timers the other day LOL.

That /comfort thing blew my mind. I'm still running into new mechanics. Some of these roulettes reminded me of an ew trial 2 I did the other day. Going to keep it vague to avoid spoilers, but yeah I ran into probably the greenest red mage I had ever met. There were two new players. I was main tanking. They kept hanging out around me when I had the glowing orb of death. After they died repeatedly, I did explain some of the mechanics, like red in, blue cross, and green out. But this red mage also used lb on cd every single time. I explained after their first: wait for the end of the fight please because if we get hit, the healers can res everyone with lb 3. Right after that, we wiped because of what I said. Next pull went better. The other sprout was learning and listening. Red mage? Not so much. Our red mage friend had the max stack of res sickness and insisted on using lb3. Right when it was available. I told them that they shouldnt have done that, because if we are close to wiping we cant recover without healer lb3. We cleared it that pull, but I think that was the most I've ever seen a player die on that fight. It's just odd to me how someone could be that far into the game and not get that standing next to the tank, especially while said tank is glowing red,=death. The lb thing I get a bit; maybe they just didnt even realize lb is shared between the party.

I once had a tank that loved to LB on cooldown, back during the last Mogtome event in a Sastasha Hard run. I think they were a bot, they were doing single pulls only, would only walk in jerky, very segmented increments before rotating and continuing, and didnt respond to any questions.

I think that's something the novice hall misses it tells you to pull agro off the healer and never says take it to the tank, it comes to you to kill

I notice a surprising amount of sprout tanks using LBs. Usually when I try to ask why they either don't say anything or leave before I finish typing, but the one time someone actually answered they said they thought it was their own limit break to use. If it isn't already in the Hall of the Novice, LBs and what they do may be something worth mentioning. Actually, speaking of HotN, do they mention LBs at all? I remember being a new player and not having LB on my hotbar until someone mentioned I needed to add it.

I once had a praetorium where our healer just... never showed up. We queued in and there were only 3 of us. You can get right up to Nero without issue, but that's where the no healer run ends. Maybe they had the same thing, and you just happened to be the first person to queue.

Your Tam Tara run made me laugh. I have had so many runs of that dungeon just like that. It was in one of the moogle tome events last year (?), and I was grinding it as a healer. After enough wipes, I started asking whether people knew the zombie fight as soon as I set foot in there. Almost no one seems to know the fights...or read chat.

Whenever I miss a mob when pulling I always get that torn feeling of trying to keep going anyway and hope the person with aggro actually brings the mob to me or just turning for even a split second to try and range attack the lost mob who's just barely out of my ranged attack's, well, range at all times. Many incidents of watching sprouts treating their aggro'd mob as a last duel to the death miles away have caused me to develop a little bit of a trust issue.

I rarely put any comments under YT video's but I just wanted to mention that for the "rout" attack (recognizable from the square targetted AoE) from the Oliphant in dusk vigil, you can stand in between the target and the boss to lower the damage received. This seem to be uncommon knowledge and wanted to share that info.

"Boss decides they just don't like this particular party member " ohhhh I've had that feeling before lol

The penta weave voice over is way too funny.🤣

I feel like in general, lately I've been getting low damage groups very often in my regular roulettes. I've also had multiple instances with tanks using lb...which I guess is understandable with with new players on xbox and new people starting or returning for Dawntrail.

in the dusk vigil bit regarding the tank.. there were times where I noticed I struggled healing the tank and found it odd cause i usually don't struggle too much keeping them alive in the early dungeons. One day when i had a run in stone vigil and we wiped in spots I know I don't struggle healing through usually, i decided to examine my tanks gear, i didn't see any that needed repairing but i noticed a lot of lvl 1 stuff still equipped on them..... so my guess is, that tank had some gear that was still on the very lowside and just wanted to get the min iLVL to unlock that dungeon. also the first boss to Tam-tara hard is much easier if everyone stays in melee range of the boss. focus on the boss. and the healer heals through the damage from the spread marker. while ignoring all the adds

9:43 bro was reading the tooltips as they went

I've been thinking of doing mentor roulette grinds, but the chance that I land into a synced extreme trial tends to put a damper on it. If and when this happens, I will stay until we clear or someone leaves, and then I no longer have the will to go again. One of the more common extreme I get from mentor roulette is the Striking Tree.

The last time I aggro'd mobs that wasn't a raid fight where they die quickly anyway, our tank did not have their stance up, and I asked "stance?" before the first pull of Castrum Meridiam (spelling?). They proceeded to the first gate with the healer also asking about stance. With the next set, I stood there as a red mage as I saw mobs standing there, then realized I'm tanking them. Still no stance, though this does change by the time the tank returns to pick up his slack. Had he had stance up I'd probably rejoin the group, but felt it was better to ensure they don't go for the healer ad piled on my spells. If I was bard, mechanist, dancer, or any melee, I'd probably be more willing to regroup like I normally would.

I just want to say that a tank can pick up some mobs he has lost aggro while still rounding up the groups for a big pull without running back and forth by using their ranged attack while running ahead. That assumes the DPS who got the aggro doesn't stop and keeps running with the pull.

Pulls like the giga pull at the end of Tower of Zot are things I live for as a WAR. The healers in my FC think I'm a masochist 😂

One situation where I end up not giving much advice is when I notice a player _really_ doesn't know what they're doing, specially at a point in their levelling where they really should. You have to pick the one thing you think is holding them back the most and see if they even listen before tackling the rest of it, otherwise you're just filling party chat with text for no reason...

2:25 had this boss stunlock me to death as the healer 😂😂 Literally from beginning to end, i didnt get a chance to heal myself... luckily party killed it shortly after my death but that was just foul 😂

Why is it usually a summoner. 90% of the time someone pulls threat off of me while I am doing a wall to wall, its a summoner that decides to akh morn/death flare while I am gathering everything. Am I stopping to long ? I do my aoe combo (2gcds) to establish threat then move on.

I like watching the cutscenes in certain dungeons I’ve run a bunch of times, so I can also understand why the red mage did it. I also struggled to figure out that first tam Tara boss!

You get interesting shadowbringers and endwalker content. I seem to always get Qarn normal and Qarn hard at least half of the time 😂

4:31 man, l wish people in pvp would stop using dashes and back flips to immediately jump outbof my covers...

The 2nd duty mammoth ABSOLUTELY hate me for some reason no matter what my role is. Easy to say, if I'm the healer then I'm fucked. 😭

Another fun day in roulettes!.. :D

What you showed in Tam-Tara Deepcroft seems to be the classic case of people having "speedrunner" mentality, where new players think that they're supposed to focus on damage, ignore mechanics and let the healer handle the rest.

Just wanted to say love the videos -- From a fellow Chaos DC Content Creator

I like watching these as sort of a recap on some duties, while I am not really a first timer in any duties I honestly don’t remember a lot of them, probably due to the fact I played them for msq once and just never got them in a roulette again 🤷‍♀️ also doesn’t help I’ve been leveling alt jobs and doing nothing but arr content for quite a bit now lol

ah yes, the mental roulette! 🥴

For the Tower of Zot issue you could have said something like "if were doing a big pull please don't attack until the tank stops, its difficult to heal otherwise"

today i learned you the aoe kills the zombies in tam tara. I typically just ignored them and burned the boss down lol

It'd be interesting to see how much role affects the frequency of extremes...

I admit that when I tank (not even close to expert) and others are aggroing mobs, I tend to chase them down because of what I call 'single thought cave man mentality' ("must protect, must protect, must protect") lol

Wait yojimbo is in ff14?

It's crazy to me seeing you get so many dungeons in your Mentor roulette's. I practically just get Guildhests or Trials. Hardly get dungeons.

huh, I was always kiting zombies in tamtara hard, boss is pretty squishy so it is somewhat viable but killing them with marker is much better

Gotta love those old ARR dungeons that have wipe mechanics but so many people just insist on attempting to 'brute force' a boss and ignore everything else simply because of being 'overgeared'

Feeling vindicated 11 minutes in. I dunno what it is about the higher lvl dungeons when I tank, people complain when they take aggro and I'm too busy to explain in middle of a pull that they need to bring it to me instead of sitting there letting it kill them way in the back. When I was sprout I was always told to bring aggro to the tank. Now that I'm tanking people get mad that they're taking aggro! I can't win here lol.

Caveat on a dps with aggro running to the tank... if the tank is doing single target in an aoe pull and I get aggro, I am kiting if that will save my skin. 😅

During second zot Tank running back to get mobs hes lost Ill admit, i do this on my alt However i dont run back to get them, i run just far enough to get the ranged attack to hit then continue forward Since the ranged attack has high eminity, using once should take agro off the dps/glare spaming whm I will also admit, i hardly use my cooldowns on bosses, unless they have an actual hard hitting tank buster, i save my cds for the aoe pulls

I feel like a "Mentor Roulette" should only require you to have done Normal content, not the Extreme and Savage stuff. I only play Normal content, but I've done it all, VERY MANY times, and I have a lot of patience for new players or groups that are struggling and need a bit of extra love from an experienced healer. If the point of Mentor Roulette is to fill groups and connect sprouts with much-needed help, why not open it up to allow for more of that from the community? I don't even want a Burger King crown icon, an achievement, or a fancy mount. Just another daily roulette option is enough to get some variety, maybe see some less-played optional content, and feel like I've helped some newbies succeed. How much does "hardcore" content even come up in Mentor Roulette anyway? My impression is people aren't supposed to queue for this stuff in Duty Finder anyway. I think what these players need isn't so much a mentor, but just practice to learn the fight. What are the odds that a Mentor player is going to be able to perform well when tossed into any random hardcore trial or raid boss anyway? Are they really going to remember the mechanics on the fly?

I am not keen on tank things, was all the sarcasm about kiting cause kiting is useless/messes up dps? I srsly need to know coming from wow where it's more useful 😂

Being on the other end of that tank chasing down mobs thing as I started a new character specifically to learn how to tank: I’ve done this through experiences of people not bringing the mobs to me, and then getting upset I didn’t take the aggro. I am finding that tanking is incredibly stressful as a result of players not doing what they should. I have people constantly trying to speed run a dungeon without me, dragging more enemies to me than I am comfortable dealing with, not running to me when my aggro drops, not being healed very often and having to use more mitigations than necessary as a result. The list goes on and on. It also usually results in people being rude to me. I don’t even get an opportunity to learn my kit, the boss mechanics, or my rotations through gameplay. People do not make being a tank easy. They make it much harder. Oh, I didn’t make a big enough pull for you? Look man, I don’t have the pack locations memorized and I’m still a baby tank. I’m trying to figure out how best to pull as big as possible while also not being in fear of idiot healers not healing me in time. I seriously got killed twice by two different healers who had decided during a 5 enemy pull that my sitting with 30% health “was fine” and they should “dps” instead. Dude, hit me with a heal at half health and go back to dps. Don’t wait for almost dead like a moron. All you’re doing by not healing me is making me paranoid of big pulls. If you choke at 5 enemies or 7 enemies, why would I ever pull more than the pack in front of me? Healing ain’t hard. I did that crap for 3 years as a whm and sch main. I never let my tanks drop below 50% health and usually let them make the 12 enemy pulls. Or more. Pay the heck attention, healers. Stop making me hate being a tank. Stop making me want to go back to being a healer instead.

The fact that everyone's in-game name is on full display here makes me uncomfortable watching. Have you considered switching them to initials?

8:10 “unusual amount of mobs”. So normal amount of mobs. What’s there to be hit should be hit.

You couldn't pay me to ever heal Mentor roulette. I will tank it 50 times in a single day, but never EVER will I heal one. Also the Big Elephant in Dusk Vigil, the Box AoE that it uses durring the wombo-combo stunlock "Rout" that is actually a stack Mechanic, the stunned player takes considerably less damage with a tank in front of them.

Those clips in the beginning hurt my soul 😭😭😭