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Ojjeorago posted:Nabriales is pretty reliable first timers, no one wants to touch balls any more than they have to. Every time I get this in roulette there is some griefer using the lb right before the tear
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I will forever have trauma from being stuck on that instance and needing goon help to get through it.
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you can kill the tear easily enough without a dps lb but you're gambling on the tanks actually having two braincells to rub together between them and the dps paying enough attention to spot your ATTACK THIS marker
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iPodschun posted:50% and 25% from what I remember but it's been a while since I've done LotA
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Cleretic posted:My angle for Extremes in the mentor roulette (which I haven't done since Shadowbringers but whatever) is to do the following: Noted. Gonna report the poo poo out of mentors
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Aug 31, 2023 07:55
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Oneiros posted:i've also had two regular duty failures; the lv89 msq trial and the turtle guildhest People bail on that one? I love it, it's great. I've had more issues with Crown of the Immaculate, people seem to gently caress the phase 2 meter up almost as much as they gently caress up the Shinryu tidal wave.
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in approaching 1300 bkk roulettes (i started logging when i hit the 1k achievement) i've literally never seen someone get saltier at the mentors than i myself do. or even close to how mad i get at other mentors, for that matter. i have and will report mentors for immediately ditching ex trials and will call them out as the cowardly worms they are. as is typically the case in ffxiv you mostly just run into stoney silence. there are occasions where you run into sprouts that just will not or can not follow instructions and basically make the entire exercise moot (usually tanks, since hard content is the only time they actually have to pay attention to anything and that's a completely novel experience for them) but they've been very rare in my experience.
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Aug 31, 2023 08:04
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Kazinsal posted:People bail on that one? I love it, it's great. I've had more issues with Crown of the Immaculate, people seem to gently caress the phase 2 meter up almost as much as they gently caress up the Shinryu tidal wave. i've had more vote abandons (or effectively that when the entire party just leaves) on the 89 trial than every other sub-savage duty i've ever run combined
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Aug 31, 2023 08:07
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Kerrzhe posted:what is a bkk roulette mentor, aka burger king kid (you get a little crown icon next to your name) combat mentors who cleared every sub-savage duty in the game (excepting current expansion extreme trials, deep dungeons, variant dungeons, and whatever you call eureka/bozja stuff) get a roulette that can drop them in basically it's as if you selected every duty finder roulette except pvp, plus most of the extreme trials Oneiros fucked around with this message at 08:18 on Aug 31, 2023 |
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Aug 31, 2023 08:15
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"Guys I signed up as a kindergartener and those kids don't even follow instructions" - average mentor
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well if you're talking about people queuing for extremes then they likely have tens if not a hundred+ hours in the game so "sprout" is doing a bit of a disservice there but arr and to some extent hw have been so gutted over the years that stepping into "hard" content is something of a major shock to the "new" player but since the combat mechanics have been reduced to a pitiful shadow of their former glory and the boss mechanics haven't been adjusted to contemporary standards arr and hw extremes are actually hilariously easy as long as you don't roll a party full of crayon eaters Oneiros fucked around with this message at 08:26 on Aug 31, 2023 |
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Aug 31, 2023 08:23
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DoW/DoM mentor: harrowing experience giving vietnam flashbacks DoH/DoL mentor: silly hammer crown, occasional PMs from people earnestly asking about content from eight years ago 
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Kazinsal posted:People bail on that one? I love it, it's great. I've had more issues with Crown of the Immaculate, people seem to gently caress the phase 2 meter up almost as much as they gently caress up the Shinryu tidal wave. I don't bail, and I don't even hate that fight, but I have a grudge match against it because it's the only fights in content I regularly do that I just.... can't understand for some ungodly reason. It's not hard! Nothing about it is weird in the least! But I just eat poo poo constantly on it. In fact the last time I did it, which was a month ago now for my alt's msq progression, it was the biggest gong show I've seen in awhile. People were just dying left and right. Everybody. Me, the tanks, the healers, the other dps, nobody was spared. After my 4th death I was like hey stop rezzing me for a minute just so I could pull up a wiki guide and go oh red is x, green is y before telling them to rez me when they could. There was a point where everybody had died but me, a smn and with my last breath I swiftcast rez'd a healer who then lb3'd and we got back into it. This happened a loving 2nd time. Exact same thing, everyone dead, I swiftcast rez'd a healer, they lb3'd. 2 healer lb3's, same fight. We didn't wipe though! Just killed her over 1 long 15 or 20 minute fight.
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I'm surprised the Nier raids are so unpopular, they didn't seem too crazy when I ran them. Like they're weird but not in a way that makes them especially difficult. I probably died less to them than I died to Monastery or Dun Scaith.
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Maxwell Lord posted:I'm surprised the Nier raids are so unpopular, they didn't seem too crazy when I ran them. Like they're weird but not in a way that makes them especially difficult. I probably died less to them than I died to Monastery or Dun Scaith. they're not really that hard at all, except maybe red girl since that can require a lot of movement, but some of the mechanics are more difficult to grok without someone explaining them to you and the higher level you get the more you run into players who just can not press their damage buttons and so the bosses can drag on a bit shb is currently the level where players have most of their kit (and therefore don't actually use most of it) but also the modern encounter design was firmly established so poo poo will actually kill you resulting in a perfect storm of incompetence and fights that actually expect you to react to things
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Aug 31, 2023 08:48
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The Nier raids are a lot of fun, but the bosses in them feel like they have 20-25% more HP than they should have. They always trend towards longer instances than the rest of the alliance raids.
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the crystal tower raids got a friend of mine back into the game because he was so bored with the 2.0 content being basically autopilot poo poo even when you're going through it, but even LotA making you have to pay attention to the ground and the icons above your head is more than most normal WoW raid content that it was like, oh poo poo, this is what the game is really like
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Kazinsal posted:the crystal tower raids got a friend of mine back into the game because he was so bored with the 2.0 content being basically autopilot poo poo even when you're going through it, but even LotA making you have to pay attention to the ground and the icons above your head is more than most normal WoW raid content that it was like, oh poo poo, this is what the game is really like I think Bowl of Embers(Hard) is where specifically the boss fights start being "you have to look for indicators other than just the orange AOE markers" and that's the first big shift.
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Aug 31, 2023 08:55
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MadFriarAvelyn posted:The Nier raids are a lot of fun, but the bosses in them feel like they have 20-25% more HP than they should have. They always trend towards longer instances than the rest of the alliance raids. I wish this was the norm, I tend to consider cutting off mechanics a failure to see and do a fun thing.
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People get a little stir crazy after hours
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Runa posted:People get a little stir crazy after hours sending good vibes to the guy looking for the '97 Tacoma
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Aug 31, 2023 10:05
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poking party finder on a friday night and it's 99% gay hrothgar goth nightclubs, then casually telling a mate what server/ward/plot to go visit
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the biggest mistake of the mentor system was giving rewards for it
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I don't even get why the mentor roulette mount is so coveted. Does it look amazing in motion, or is it just the usual "this took a billion years to earn so it's extra-special" thing?
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Aug 31, 2023 12:13
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It's the latter, same as with the jam toast. Don't @ me.
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i assume mostly because it's "rare" (read: i sunk a lot of time into this). personally i think it's ugly as gently caress i'm more interested in the low-effort/time commitment ex runs and all the oddball duties it throws me into when i'm lucky enough to avoid guildhests, tbh
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Tekopo posted:It's the latter, same as with the jam toast. Don't @ me. ofc if I wanted to fly around on a rectangular prism I'd either use the bed or Proto-Ozma so I never use it even though I farmed every loving card
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Tekopo posted:It's the latter, same as with the jam toast. Don't @ me. Shuffle or Boogie, bitch
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Proto-ozma is an awesome mount and I'm glad I went through Eureka for it, especially BA since BA rules.
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My first mentor roulette was the one-sided MSQ fight against Johnny Two-Shields that you do before Castrum and Prae, and that was hilariously delightful. You can't fail at "Kill him until he dies from it." My third roulette was Leviathan EX, with people who aggressively refused to learn any of the mechanics to the point I was wondering if they were a troll party.
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BA was especially fun as a warrior chaining double edge but I think they nerfed that a little.
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Why waste time getting the ugly mentor horse when you could have put that time towards getting a Big Fish title.
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Thundarr posted:Why waste time getting the ugly mentor horse when you could have put that time towards getting a Big Fish title. Look, Sea Butterfly is being an rear end in a top hat and Stethacanthus' requirements are really strict!
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MadFriarAvelyn posted:The Nier raids are a lot of fun, but the bosses in them feel like they have 20-25% more HP than they should have. They always trend towards longer instances than the rest of the alliance raids. I tend to quit out of Depression Tower. I don't need to spend any additional time in a grey haze
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Maxwell Lord posted:I'm surprised the Nier raids are so unpopular, they didn't seem too crazy when I ran them. Like they're weird but not in a way that makes them especially difficult. I probably died less to them than I died to Monastery or Dun Scaith. They're in an unpleasant middle ground where they're too hard for CT strippers but too easy for orbonne enthusiasts so they please very few. Also personally, I find all 3 to be really aesthetically bland and displeasing to look at.
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Thundarr posted:Why waste time getting the ugly mentor horse when you could have put that time towards getting a Big Fish title. Because fishing hates you. I'm mostly convinced that Fishing and map dungeon RNG are how the devs take out their frustrations on us.
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I usually give most stuff from Mentor a fair shake, but Prae’s the one that I’m always 50/50 on just eating the deserter timeout.
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Maxwell Lord posted:I'm surprised the Nier raids are so unpopular, they didn't seem too crazy when I ran them. Like they're weird but not in a way that makes them especially difficult. I probably died less to them than I died to Monastery or Dun Scaith.
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