12:10 Lancer: *dies horribly* Cider: No one takes damage at all!

@thehermitwizard

13 күн бұрын

I mean, they technically didn't take damage, they just died.

@rtiq270

13 күн бұрын

and "they didn't even need a healer" as the same Lancer dies again immediately after being rezzed

@rustyjones7908

13 күн бұрын

No one who matters took damage!

4:18 - Your laugh is just wonderful, ngl. This bit made me smile so much :3

@Lurki-

13 күн бұрын

Shout out to the sprout tank disconnecting for blessing us with this laugh.

@mooncake7446

13 күн бұрын

his laugh is so cute :3

@Lunar_Crescentfall

12 күн бұрын

Deep smooth voice, has a cute laugh I love it

@Raisera

11 күн бұрын

I'd rather call it strangely evil. Which I am fine with.

HE FINALLY GOT AN EX LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO

@cj_skywalker

13 күн бұрын

Too bad it's the WORST Extreme trial that you could ever think of, the Monster Hunter dragon. XD I tried that fight with a good party, and I still wiped. Rathalos eats noobs for breakfast, lunch and dinner. ;p

@CI254

13 күн бұрын

@@cj_skywalker I might be in the exception but I'd rather get Rath than pretty much any other EX.

@inekd

13 күн бұрын

@@cj_skywalkerI did it in mentor roulette with 3 sprouts and we did it in like 5 pulls and the sprouts were really clueless, so I counter your anecdotal experience with my own xff

@codclipheaven7087

13 күн бұрын

@@cj_skywalker Calling Rathalos the worst EX is funny, it's basically the easiest one out there.

@gabrielyamatoy.matodraw5570

13 күн бұрын

​@@CI254 same im with you

I liked the little psa about Free Cure being a scam because I deal with white mages in expert roulette constantly who fish for Free Cures who get really pissy at me when I tell them not to do that, that it is a waste, and told "just stick to tanking and let me focus on healing"

@IKMcGwee

13 күн бұрын

As a white mage enjoyer, I'm sorry for your pain.

@ol-Daddy-doodoo

13 күн бұрын

At that level they shouldnt even be casting cure 2 outside of emergencies lol

@mavfin8720

13 күн бұрын

On my WHM, I actually have Cure II on a macro key, with Cure I below it. The ONLY time Cure I can get cast is if Cure II doesn't exist, really. So I don't have to walk into Sastasha and screw around figuring out why I can't heal anything...

@Gloomdrake

13 күн бұрын

God, everyone should be forced to try every role, because that “focus on your job while I do mine” is always so annoying when the person who said it is actively making your job harder by doing theirs wrong

@WreallyWren

13 күн бұрын

I was in Pandaemonium earlier and my jaw dropped as my co-healer was actually casting cure 1. Just why? Almost as shocking as when I watched a red mage hard cast a res

Another thing about the "healer strike" is that a strike only works if it has specific, meetable demands upon which it will end. "We're on strike indefinitely cause shit sucks" just isn't enough.

@robertlamb5091

13 күн бұрын

The only "demands" I've seen boil down to "take all the non-healer healing away and make healers do more damage." While I agree that a lot of the tank self heals are getting out of control (War Main here) I think more heal checks and varied mechanics would serve better than trying to nerf or remove things.

@Rotaretilbo

13 күн бұрын

It also really tickles me that the vague demands we do get are things like "give healers more DPS", a thing they are already doing and have expressed interest in continuing to do, and "make content harder", a thing that YoshiP has already explicitly said they're going to spend this expansion working on. Like, what a time to decide to hold this stupid strike, ahead of the expac that is already doing half the things they were demanding in the first place. I'm reminded of an anecdote I heard, that YoshiP apparently asked a group of people, presumably at one of the 2016 FanFests, to raise their hand if they wanted harder content in Stormblood, and most of them raised their hand. Then he asked people to put their hands down if they hadn't completed the Midas (Savage) tier, and almost all the hands went down. Probably apocryphal, but I do think a lot of the people saying things like "savage can be trivially solo-healed" (a real thing I did see posted in the healer strike thread) or gesturing vaguely at the fact that highly organized statics of some of the best players in the game have managed to clear ultimates without healers (another thing I saw posted in the healer strike thread), probably have no idea what they're talking about, when it actually comes to game balance and difficulty.

@KaguyaEne

13 күн бұрын

@@Rotaretilbo Fun fact, the original thread poster for the strike has never completed anything past Extremes. And I wouldn't be surprised if most, if not all, of those clears came after they all got Echo.

@chelsthegameruiner8669

13 күн бұрын

The craziest thing to me is that this started because Xeno and his friends (known endgame players) cleared a dungeon at the media tour. I'll forever say this, endgame players are a different breed of player compared to players like me (I aspire to be a good endgame player though. It'll bring back fond memories of my Destiny 1 years. I still remember two-manning Crota with a friend back in middle school). I'm definitely down for harder dungeons so long as it doesn't interfere with story progression. The strike to me at this point though just feels like these players are more jealous of the endgame players and so are trying to get classes like Warrior nerfed. A friend of mine who I told about this said it best: "Why the hell are those on strike demanding the skill removal of a class's kit? That seems incredibly counter intuitive and will only harm the game's health in the long run."

@AschenDog

13 күн бұрын

Aren't potencies kind of beefy in the early build anyway...

Can confirm, some people find Scathach hot. Source: Me. I find her hot.

I'd love to see a colab between Cider and WeskAlber. The Scholar main that hates Dragoon teaming up with the Dragoon main that hates Scholar, it would be awesome.

@The-Nomad1

12 күн бұрын

Dragoon? What's that?

@MeTaViToRFeNiX

12 күн бұрын

@@The-Nomad1 Thats code for "forker"

If seeing a sprout enjoying Tam hard for the first time and the like stops bringing a smile to your face aren't you just done with FF14 in general, heh.

Episode 7 out of 200 complete! That genuine laugh in Dzaemel was delightful. It may be the most joyful any player has ever been while trapped in that hell dungeon.

They tried something new with the MH collab and it's an interesting take on a trial. I had my fun grinding it for the mount back in the day... Good times. Surprisingly never got it in mentor roulette... yet.

@thekawaiiginger7840

13 күн бұрын

It’s only a matter of time, save yourself

@ElliottFenton

13 күн бұрын

Coolest thing about it is it translates any existing monster hunter knowledge into the fight it’s really well done

@PixelHead777

13 күн бұрын

FFXIV trying to run on MH logic definitely worked way better than MH trying to run on FFXIV logic.

@TheVenhammer

13 күн бұрын

@@PixelHead777yeah the behemoth fight in MHWorld is so awful, monster hunter is not made for aggro in the same way as final fantasy

@ClassyCrustatio

12 күн бұрын

It's very unique. The only thing I wish they added was a block duty action, maybe with a 15 second cool down. Other than that it's a fun trial with the perfect integration of MH mechanics.

as someone who used to play a catboy gunbreaker before converting to the bunboy reaper (soon to be viper) cult, we are built different. the healer strike reminds me of when people got super mad about the wow mythic dungeon invitational being ran without a healer, because speedrunning extremely high level dungeons is definitely indicative of the average person doing regular content or something

@ashensage7968

13 күн бұрын

That's my thought too! Just cause some guy solo'd it as a war doesn't mean every tom dick and harry can or will do that? Man I can barely solo a boss fight as anything other than a war. I'm just a filthyy casual that plays for story and making friends XD

"Three sprouts without job stones" What? That's clearly a Black Mage and Summoner icon. Only the tank didn't have a stone.

@TrueChaoSclx

13 күн бұрын

Summoner? That's just Arcanist 2

30:43 last time i did as jumping baby did, i got kicked out of the ball pit at Mc Donalds

the only issue with roulettes is one you cant really solve: over-saturation of ARR content. just due to the fact that there will always be more new free trial players doing ARR stuff and the significant portion of those players who dont really continue passed heavensward due to burn out/ lack of interest generated. if every new player did actually play through the full msq then repeating ARR content wouldnt be as big of an issue. however there really isnt a way to guarantee people continue with the full game

@GrimViridian

11 күн бұрын

Yeah that would have saved me from an awful labyrinth raid experience, me and my wife who didnt underst the mechanics were left to rebive ourselves multiple times. Luckily the other two parts went much better but me and my wife were just kinda following and doing our best while everyone else rushed it XD

@aSmolGoth

10 күн бұрын

You're right, but also once you hit HW content, most new players seem to understand that no one does EX in duty finder.

My wish finally happened, I got to see Extreme trial in mentor roulette!

On the Gaelic thing, I can only apologise. Us folk with Gaelic speaking roots get really touchy when someone dismisses the language considering the whole history of oppression thing. And I ain't saying they're wrong to get mad or anything, but some of us forget its well within peoples rights to joke about it ESPECIALLY when it's a part of history that isn't really taught. And thats obviously assuming the folks correcting you even HAVE gaelic roots to begin with xD

@rustyjones7908

13 күн бұрын

They can go eat a potato and drink some whisky and shut up

i love when some dumb shit happens and he laughs and breaks character you can hear his normal voice for a second

10:05 the ONLY exception to using Cure I over Cure II is when you get synced to a level below 30.

@MyVanir

13 күн бұрын

He said that.

@silvermunkee

13 күн бұрын

If you're doing MINE coils then MP management becomes much more meaningful, so it matters there... but who does that anyways?

@TrueChaoSclx

13 күн бұрын

I think the world first clear of TEA also had a single Cure I used in it :d

@22:50 “My brain is on cooldown” Perfect way of putting it.

The thing about the healer strike (imo as a tank main) is it's a strike in protest: meaning that its goal isn't having demands met so much as bringing attention to an issue. In that sense it's working (without even being executed) because people are talking about it. Of course the no-healer dungeon run as a spark is a silly spark because it's a dungeon and they're presumably gearcapped, this is not in any way indicative of how endgame Dawntrail will feel for healers. Gear is actually a huge part of the problem for healers (and to a lesser extent tanks) because at level cap it seems to scale up at a faster rate than the incoming damage (in casual content anyway) (Smiletron, the Dead Ends and the Stigma Dreamscape were way more challenging and fun when they were the expert roulette than Aetherfont and Lunar Subterae are now). I wonder if there's room in the game for straightforward tank and spank fights that have casual level mechanics but consistent high incoming damage for both the party as a whole and the tank especially.

9:04 - Love that you are talking about the dragon that swoops down and attacks you while fighting the dragon that swoops down and attacks you.

26:50 - Fun fact. in FFXI, Ninja’s are tanks. they use consumable items to blink tank with the subjob of WAR set to provoke. The consumables allows mobs to ‘miss’ up to 3 single attacks if i recall correctly. and the blinks will all be used up in the presence of an aoe. It’s been so long, I forgot the specifics, but blink tanking was a thing for Ninja’s in a party/group.

@DrakonLameth

13 күн бұрын

Yeah, SE finally gave in to that at some point, because for the longest time, shadows ate hate and ninjas didn't have anything really inherent-to-ninja for getting hate back beyond "hit it a lot"

@OBXandos

12 күн бұрын

Ninja tanks were so broken when they first appeared. In XI when a mob hit you it lowered your threat, that is why tanks needed to keep their damage up and constantly had to use Provoke. Since Ninja's never actually got hit their threat was never reduced. Your DPS could go ham and never rip the mob off of the tank. Once your Ninja got high enough level to have both Utsusemi Ichi and Ni they could rotate shadows to the point of invincibility. Eventually Square gave in and said Ninja tanking was real tanking and acceptable, but also nerfed them pretty hard to not completely outclass all of the other tank types. That's when things like removing shadows lowered your threat and AoEs removing all shadows were introduced into the game. Ninjas had to work a little harder on their threat and mitigation. They were still highly sought after tanks but Paladins and Warriors were still acceptable to have as well.

I did my mentor roulettes back in the day, and when Rathalos EX was current. I think I ended up doing that fight over 200 times in my mentor grind. I was so happy to see it over something like, Nidhogg EX or Sephirot EX. LOL

Been fiending on Cider's YT content for ages and finally popped in his live stream for the first time. Much fun & chill. He looked like Kiros from FF8 dressed in AR Caean crafting set, classy! If you haven't, you better start now.

people forgot that the mitigation kit of tanks and healers are balanced around you getting slapped around by Savage fights & ultimate fights. jimmy bob the dungeon boss doesn't really hit like a savage or ultimate raid boss, meaning that even in min-ilvl synced dungeons, you're still overgeared.

@Beldhan

13 күн бұрын

more the kit have soo much changed with each expansion that the dungeon are not adapted for it. from one expansion to another the previous content become easier and easier and easier. not because they are easy, it's more because the high end stuf recquire strong kit and break everything else.

@pedroscoponi4905

13 күн бұрын

Yeah, you just can't judge how the job balance is based on story dungeons and normal mode stuff, gotta wait for EX and Savage. All jobs are "optional" in story content.

@DarkDyllon

13 күн бұрын

That, and also, do a dungeon with a tank doing wall pulls with 0 mits, then suddenly healers are more than crucial, but if you got an experienced tank ... yet, you might fade into the background.

@smaller_cathedrals

13 күн бұрын

It's mind-boggling how this actually needs explaining. I blame it on all those obnoxious "elitist" content creators who do nothing but shit on "how easy and mindnumbing" the game has become, while having absolutely zero clue about what content balancing means or how it works.

"I have this really bad habit of misjudging how long it will take to do things" . . . That'd be the ADHD honey. 😂

Congrats on 60k! You deserve a lot more, your content is incredibly entertaining. Still can't wait for your Mahjong Journey, happy to help! :P

14:52 i remained true to my cat boy self. Never fantasiad once. Too attached to my look.

@capncaviar

13 күн бұрын

Can't say I've been as strong as you and have entertained the idea of switching but have stayed strong and remained catboy and will always be so now

@Cooldrew100

13 күн бұрын

Yeah, I almost fantasia'd to Hrothgar, even made a saved character for him...but I've come to like my little catboy too much :3

The people who complain that healers have nothing to do clearly don't play enough with random people in casual content. The difficulty for healers comes from the skill of the party members. And the simple truth is, 90% of the playerbase could not do a dungeon without a healer.

That black mage in Mt gulg was casting a concerning amount of fire 1s and blizzard 1s lol. Congrats on the first EX!

Rathalos was very fun to me as a Monster Hunter Vet. Because all the attack tells are the same as in MonHun. So dodging was just second nature to me. Even the little things such as how when he does a lunging bite, his tail will also swing a bit which can also hit you

@SuperMagicUnderwear

13 күн бұрын

It's because of this fight in FFXIV that I knew what to do when it showed up in Smash, lol

@lovroxyz3119

13 күн бұрын

I personaly hate it as unlike monster hunter in monsterhunter you do not have a dodge ability and the game has a delay so i couldnt get the timing down, also its harder to notice its tells when your screen is filled with flashy bullshit from both your own and others abilities

@eiriksundby

13 күн бұрын

@@lovroxyz3119 you can turn down FX. And i'd argue they make up for it because you have higher movement speed and don't need a dodge.

@ThorindirNaari

13 күн бұрын

the fight is pretty fun, unless you have a party that cant dodge at all. Since the failstate is so brutal (3 deaths and you restart) you can easily be stuck for over a hour trying to get people to look at the boss instead of their hotbar...

@pedroscoponi4905

13 күн бұрын

Same, I really wanna go for the EX one of these days

"Busty women that judge you" Why's cider talking about my wife

I've been really enjoying this series. Good luck on your quest.

Genuinely, could listen to you all day, such a soothing voice :D Love your witty, sarcastic commentary watching you dungeon, thanks for the second monitor entertainment :D

Dude. I love this series. As a tank main seeing and hearing how a healer likes to run dungeons and content is insanely helpful.

Mt. Gulg is one of the only dungeon where there's a lack of a gate between pulls. Normally there are 2 groups of enemies > gate > 2 groups of enemies > boss > repeat. This has been the standard since post-ARR. But in Mt. Gulg you can pull from start to boss.

28:38 EXACTLY THIS. While i do understand the frustration of healer mains, this particular problem isn't exclusive to them. I'd gladly welcome any nerf on the self-sustainability of tanks and any improvement on the healer role in general. It seems like the healer job is "only" fun when stuff's going south, be it in dungeon or in raids. Note that i'm only talking about casual content.

Healers have the worst queues for variety in mentor

Only reason I could possibly think they left freecure to this day is that someone on the dev team is a huge Deep Dungeon fan and that strat is indeed a thing for movement and MP economy in VERY niche situations with Palace of the Dead, especially Conjurer runs. It's either that or they just don't care at this point lol

@Gloomdrake

13 күн бұрын

When I was first leveling all the jobs, at the time I just assumed that they gave White Mage Freecure to parallel Black Mage’s Thundercloud and Firestarter, but then I realized that, unlike Thundercloud and Firestarter, Freecure sucks

@encapturer

12 күн бұрын

They don't want to think about ARR mp economy. I stopped doing mentor runs on WHM for a reason.

Fun Fact: The Great Hunt EX doesn’t need a healer because of the pot system and because mentor roulette always ensures a healer, the other 3 players have to work really hard to kill him before everyone runs out of potions. The meta is 4 tanks which is done thru PF which Free Trial can’t use. So it’s always a bad time.

@durpypig1731

13 күн бұрын

you can also just unsync and go with 4 dps and he dies before the burn is an issue

@Gloomdrake

13 күн бұрын

Free trial can join a party through the finder. They just can’t create one

0:43 : The idea of a talking Rathalos made me chuckle 🗣🐉 😂

@Dw7freak

12 күн бұрын

There's an entire twitter account that does videos doing that.

4:16 That laugh is so genuine, enought to even break character, I love it.

For the future, in Tam-Tara (Hard), Paiyo's actual health doesn't *really* matter. Every time he takes damage, the boss gets bigger. When Paiyo has taken an amount of damage equal to or greater than his max HP, regardless of any healing, the boss enrages. Since each big orb hits for about half Paiyo's HP, then two big orbs is enough to instantly trigger enrage, even if you technically keep Paiyo alive with healing.

"I have this problem of misjudging how long it takes to do things... it always happens..." My ADHD senses are tingling!

@orangemc9358

13 күн бұрын

You're not the mystical comment section doctor, calm down 😂. People have been shit at predicting the future for as long as we've been kicking around, not everything is a mental illness.

@SkydreamPony

13 күн бұрын

ohai Gneechy!

@thegneech

13 күн бұрын

@@orangemc9358 1) ADHD is not a mental illness. 2) I was referencing my own inability to predict how long things take, which is definitely a symptom of my own ADHD. 3) It was a silly youtube comment, lighten up Francis.

@thegneech

13 күн бұрын

@@SkydreamPony 'sup

@Lyoishi

13 күн бұрын

Oddly, some people can be good at estimating task time and have adhd. Adhd symptom spectrum is weird like that.

The way I see it is the casual content being too easy thing becomes a healer problem rather than everyone's problem when healers have so little to do outside of healing. Tanks, which can be just as obsolete with how op the healers are, at least have real dps rotations that make their job fun still even when the extent of tanking is just make sure the autos are on you.

On the healer strike, I've been in plenty of duties where the healer dies, and I'll pop my little mini heal and even pop a potion and still die, cause I'm a squishy bard. Those guys on the Media Tour are not casual gamers like I am and most of the people playing so, yeah I agree healer strike... As a squishy bard, I need you healer. Don't strike!

@dootdootington386

13 күн бұрын

You'll be fine, healers like myself will still be there because we know healers aren't the issue with balance anyway. That and why would I purposefully make it harder on myself to que up for stuff? 1 second que is too good to give up, especially when so many people are going to be playing the new dps anyway, on top of new expansion hype, so those que times are gonna be nasty.

@6demonai

4 күн бұрын

@@dootdootington386 Thanks doot, good to know you and other healers have got our back. Look forward to playing with you all!!

editing also takes about twice as long for me, I haven't figured out how to solve that either, but I always make sure to leave extra time for myself. Still ends up with me crunching all day and night every now and then, but that's just how it goes sometimes lol

The rule of thumb for The Great Hunt - "If Rathalos is looking at you or even in your general direction, you get out the way."

@Gloomdrake

13 күн бұрын

Needs a dodge roll

@honeydarlinggaming9156

13 күн бұрын

I always look for the A in thr party list. Way easier to see. Since it changes instantly.

@Asako_Gaming

12 күн бұрын

If melee just stick to his left flank.

"There we go, there's some fire action." Yeah. Literally fire. As in ONLY fire. As in I saw maybe 3 Fire IVs the entire segment. 😭

I'm no black mage main, but seeing the black mage only cast Fire (1) and Blizzard (1) is painful. I feel like they'd have so much more fun with Fire IV

I'm absolutely fine with casual content not really needing all of the roles. My gripe with Healers, which I've been harping on about since Heavensward, is that they just keep giving us more and more healing abilities and strip away our other stuff. Either make me heal more (and make healing fun to do, with like a healing rotation or something), or keep it as it is where I spend all my time dealing damage *but make dealing damage fun.* As it is, neither part of the kit is *fun* in the way DPS' rotations are just intrinsically fun to execute, and also the part they want me to use all the time isn't necessary 90% of the time. I think the Healer Strike is misguided because people keep saying "We're not needed" and "You don't make us heal enough" but that's missing the point. The point is that Healers constantly get the short end of the stick. If you have to heal a lot, you're spamming one-note healing skills and throwing out oGCDs. If you never have to heal, you're pressing one-note damage skills and throwing out oGCDs. Neither of these is fun. So: Give Healers a rotation. It doesn't matter whether it's for restoring or removing health.

The healer strike is a little more than just about healers not being needed in dungeons. Even in challenging content they're resident sleepers. Also, 3 DPS 1 tank is optimal in dungeons, not 4 healers, and neither the standard comp, which is another issue. It was a lot harder to pull no healer dungeons runs before, and people just went through dungeons just fine.

8:00 I've seen at least one person on Reddit who did a complete spreadsheet of their mentor roulette and it was quite an interesting spread to say the least.

my very first mentor roulette was ramuh extreme. id never done it sync’d so i was definitely learning alongside the sprouts lol. i did have to teach my co-tank about tank swaps, though, since the fight needs constant swaps. fortunately everyone was patient and sweet so it wasn’t a negative experience.

So, Ninja was the best off class for all tank classes in FF11, AND, when paired with SAM (which was a tank class,) was hilariously broken when they originally released those two classes. So that ninja was living his best 11 life in 14!

Haha Rathalos Ex... the worst experience I had was when this WHM pulled 3 mentors out of their roulettes (myself among them) by queueing this in duty finder, and despite our attempts to help this one person, they could not comprehend our advice, and after 3 wipes, left without a word. No "sorry, I can't do this", no vote abandon. Rudely suddenly left to waste 3 mentors' time and took that 30min penalty.

Legit, don’t run yourself ragged for your channel. It’s okay to miss a video. It’s dangerous to stay up til 3 constantly, I love your videos but don’t want you to suffer making them

Free Cure is actually 100% removal of the MP cost for Cure II, but you are correct about not fishing for it. It's more of an added bonus you get when you are healing light with Cure I cause the tank won't wall to wall and someone ninja pulls an extra 2 mob packs

Lol I hadn't heard about this Healer Strike. As a healer main, I can't really imagine crying that 'healers aren't needed enough' when I get instant ques into all content, barely have to do anything, and yet still have the most power over everyone's lives.

You bring up a good point about the Healer Strike, a misconception that is missed is the IL of character at the start of an expansion. Lv 70 gear, Omega, IL 400, 405 for weapon. So by level 76 you are finally getting crafted gear that outclasses it at 409 which means for those first 75 levels you are over the IL cap to take on those dungeons, so of course they tend to be easier. Rather than a healer strike, I feel what could be done is perhaps offering an incentive to have a queue option of people playing at IL, where maybe certain drops like minion/scrolls/cards will have a higher drop rate by doing the content at level rather than overpowered. Take Holminster Switch for example, at Level Sync a Warrior has 26522 HP, with IL sync it's 22853 HP, that 3,669(nice) difference does make a huge difference in terms of surviving certain pulls and the need for a healer So I think the proper route that players could take is suggesting to offer in-game perks for doing content at a higher difficulty aka less IL so that a healer is more needed for that content. Granted that's an issue with leveling dungeons as a whole, the whole concept behind them is do fast, get tomes, so speed is always key, unless SE added a reason to challenge the content at less IL people will always use the path of least resistance and if that means steamrolling content with 1 tank and 3 DPS, that's what they will do.

For Dawntrail you will have a 30 day grace period to re-earn your mentor status. Which unless they bump up the commendation requirement like they did in ShB, will be as simple as leveling SCH and a tank.

The thing about healer-less dungeon runs isn't that it's possible to do. It's that it is the optimal way to run them because they aren't dangerous at all. 1 tank, 3 DPS are able to clear an expert roulette dungeon in less than 12 minutes (pushing 10 depending on DPS) with no issues. Having the extra DPS means you burn through trash/bosses so quickly that your buffs might not even come back in time

Pro-tip for getting through a lot of mentor roulettes quickly: have major surgery, have an extreme allergic reaction to the pain medication, and then be in bleary-eyed state of delirium all day long for 8 solid weeks. Though you won't really remember any of it, on the other side, you'll find you have completed more than a thousand of them.

When you asked about what your followers want to do when they grow up, about the job and whatnot... Well, I'm 30 and I've always wanted to be some sor of storyteller, I started writing when I was 15 and I have achieved several mild successes over the years, like illustrating a book, writing for indie literature compilations and even being an art teacher at a local cultural center, but nothing that will definitely save me from starvation and homelessness. It is funny that, when I meet people, they always have some kind of magical answer to solve my situation of working at a factory: "why didn't you move to the capital?" "¿Why don't you charge for making portraits?" "¿Why are you not a tatoo artist?". They just see the success, but ignore how hard is to rent a decen place at the capital while getting a gig or that only 1% of the population want to actually pay for a portrair or that getting adecent place for a tatoo studio is expensive

I think something that would help with the 'healer strike' content difficulty issues would be if they were more willing to balance mechanics in the direction of "difficult and complicated, but relatively unpunishing." Like the puppet's bunker vuln stack hallway. Give us more mechanics with the approach of "people are going to mess this up and that's somewhat expected."

Odin trial use to be difficult when ARR was current and healer mp economy was terrible. Bard party mp regen song "mage's ballad" was needed back then, such massive healer check.

god I remember the free cure trap arguments with my statics. I had to secretly not fish for them while looking like I was (note this is stormblood days)

When I do play healer I am usually not terribly needed unless someone just decides to not move. Which is fine. keeps me busy. But when I have people on we usually go 3DPS and 1Healer and just do tank pulls. Very engaging for the healer with the constantly shifting aggro and the DPS having to actually engage a brain'cell to mitigate and/or know when to single target if they get overwhelmed. We call it the Squishy Tank Game because that's what the DPS are. Squishy tanks. I am slowly spreading STG to the masses... I think Sage and Scholar do it best because they can buff people with extra HP in the form of shields, but it is super fun to just test your limits with Astro and WHM too. Keeps you looking at who pulls hardest and makes you pay attention to who gets into the most trouble.

Stone Vigil was the bane of my existence when I was leveling Scholar - especially because I always ended up with overeager tanks. And one time, I had an Archer (yes ARCHER)

@Gloomdrake

13 күн бұрын

Dear god

@reyennarhel2505

13 күн бұрын

@@Gloomdrake it was just as bad as you think. Also, I had to solo heal pepsi man in Alexander recently because the other healer just...never showed up. I kept everyone alive and no one commed me. Healers are def still necessary, but man I've had some bad healing experiences lol.

Mentor Tuesdays are my favorite day of the week!

note about odin fate, the title of odin will be the player that got the killing blow.

I say this as someone who's been involved in the Healer Strike forum thread for a while, the main issue isn't entirely that healers aren't necessary, but Healers just don't do anything for most of all casual content. You said it yourself numerous times in your videos. you just let Selene do all the work, or let the tank heal himself. Healers might throw out the occasional oGCD heal, but just about all you're doing is just mashing Broil throughout all casual content. Even savage and ultimate has about +80% of your GCDs just be your main damage skill. Players are good at finding a problem, but not finding a solution. Tanks don't care about the lack of mitigation checks or aggro mechanics in casual content because they've got a full damage rotation to keep them occupied. If they gave that to healers, then no one would be complaining. The point of calling it a strike was to gather as many eyes on the concept as possible. Healer mains are leaving the role, and we want our complaints to actually be addressed for once. I was a Scholar main until a couple months ago when I tried out Black Mage in savage, and realized how much fun an actual DPS rotation was.

My biggest issue as a healer is that the """rotation""" is 1 dot, then one mash. If im with a warrior I can go a whole dungeon only pressing 2 buttons. I macrod white mage as a joke to eat my burrito and then was horrified when it actually...worked. If warrior self healing got nerfed and I had an actual combo to do Id be a happy camper

If you're curious on exceptions where you'd use cure 1 that would be sync coils, the single target healing is hard enough that you will run out of mana relying on cure 2. Some fights (like Nael) you need to keep the tank topped off as unlucky crits can kill a tank in 2-3 gcds, and you have almost no instant tools.

Appreciate you Cider

The *sole* exception where you would use Cure 1 is if you are level-scaled down past the Cure 2 threshold. That said, they really should have Cure 1 be upgraded to Cure 2 and delete Freecure from the game.

free trial players can join party finders if they're posted *but* they're still locked at 70 so they'd be carried either way. personally i kinda hated farming rath ex unsynced in shb and only tried it synced once in my stupid mentor horse journey then vowed to never do it again. it's more interesting in the sense that you have an actual kit at 70 and it's mostly a reactive fight compared to some of the spicier ARR extremes. The biggest thing is how it'll force a wipe if you hit a certain number of player deaths so you can't even safely haul a corpse through it if they keep standing up and dying. Hell, I've had 8 man rathalos runs that're about that bad, people screaming about not being healed and ignoring any attempt to explain that they need to use the duty action button and suddenly having a *very* different combat design to work with is often just overwhelming. Truly, StB had some of the most fun fight design for normal content (and not just Rathalos!) but that's also what makes it such a fucking *nightmare* in DF.

@Gloomdrake

13 күн бұрын

Another fun example is the Ridorana Lighthouse. The math bot is a really fun fight once understand how to actually do it, but it personally took me way to long to realize that it was checking my HP, and there’s always that one person who doesn’t remember what a prime is

My real gripe isn’t really with casual balance when it comes to the healer strike XD I won’t be striking, but I DO think healers could do with a bit more damaging spice. Give them something to DO in dungeons aside from hitting one button over and over XD

i have just binged your library whilst finishing the MSQ...now i am up to date it seems wrong that im doing MSQ with no cider spider

About the healer strike thing, me personally, i want to strike not because of difficulty, but because some gamers beat TOP without healers, like yes that was (probably) a hyper coordinated pro team, but the fact it is even possible to beat the hardest content in the game with 0 healers really, really upsets me as a healer main. Gamers tend to evolve with difficulty, as is proven by games with actual difficulty settings, prime example i know being phasmophobia, when a new, harder difficulty drops, it feels impossible, a year later, its ez! My point here being if all healers became DPS and stuff was FORCED to be run without healers, gamers would adapt, comps would run dancer warrior monk ninja or something for dungeons, and everything would eventually be just fine. I want to strike, but i cant, ive tried to dps, cant do, ive tried to tank, too boring, i belong on heals, but if i could, i would...

@maximilianschug6271

12 күн бұрын

No need to stop playing Healer completely. The core idea is 'Don't play healer in DF', some people in it are planning to still level and play healer for statics, friends, etc. Just not the random dps trying to queue for duties. Will it have an effect? we don't know Will it affect SE's metrics? we don't know But it's the last idea we have before going for the nuclear 'go play something else' option

@Anirakira

12 күн бұрын

As a healer main as well it's interesting because I honestly have the opposite perspective to you on this. I'd love to see SE put more work into designing content so it's interesting to heal & well balanced difficulty-wise so that new players can learn the role but it's also fun for more experienced ones. I do like playing tank and DPS as well as healer and those jobs can entertain themselves in dungeons by optimising but as healer there's just not that many decisions to make once you're spending all your GCDs in damage. On scholar your reward for not needing to spend any aetherflow on healing is a few extra single-target energy drains on a single mobs in a pack? This does not spark joy. IMO the healing range changes in 6.4 took away an element of gameplay I found really interesting, and it's a shame that lots of EXs could comfortably be solo healed in terms of damage but get run with 2 healers because it makes mechanic assignment more predictable. On the other hand... I'm not bothered at all by the no healer TOP run. Nor do I think tank mains should be bothered by tankless UCOB. Both those runs clearly took a shitload of planning and incredible execution. Can you clear TOP without healers? Yes, technically you can... but if you look at how they solved Cosmo Memory (which is designed to need healer LB3), they needed insanely precise timing to cheese it with the rezzes animation, and we are talking about something that happens 18 minutes deep into a crazy hard fight. The TOP run comes across more to me as "lets take expert healer players and have them do a ridiculous challenge run where they've gotta ply RDM, SMN, PLD, and WAR" if you look at the amount of clemency casts and people surviving on a few hundred HP.

@Spell2260

12 күн бұрын

@@Anirakira i agree with your first point and i really wanna see healers get more mandatory use, Abyssal Nox or SoS LB4 are imo great mechanics for this, the only real issue i have is when you have a static, which for most makes the game a lot more fun because of consistency, you (almost) might aswell opt to just not heal and coordinate stuff to run no healers, the fact that casual content is runnable without healers i think is even a good thing, as it lets people play healer and mess up plenty while learning, i dont believe extreme, savage, and most definetly not ultimate, should be possible without a specific role, solo heal? Fine by me, solo tank? Enjoy! 3t3h2d cuz no tight dps checks? Makes for great memes with the feeling of immortality, but being able to clear hard content with 0 of a specific role just really makes that role feel obsolete and gives no incentive to play, let alone learn the role.

@Anirakira

12 күн бұрын

@@Spell2260 with EX it feels like they pitch it so a competent party will be able to mit and heal it without ever sitting down to plan cooldowns at min ilvl. Pretty much by definition that's going to mean that a party who sit down to optimise stuff will be able to do a zero healer version with our current toolkits - I joined an all WAR EX7 group once and we could resolve Abyssal Nox just fine, and joined an all healer P10S which could survive the tankbusters fine. To me that's not discouraging/demotivating, but I'm glad there's stuff like criterion savage that does demand each role being at their best. (Also mandatory esuna is an unfun mechanic, stop doing it thanks devs)

If yer underestimatin' yer time to complete things, apply the Scotty Adjustment: Multiply yer estimate by 4. That way you'll get a better idea of what yer actual time to complete a task is, AND you'll feel great by completing a task in ~a fourth of the time estimated.

"ninja tank is the best tank" Channeling the ol' FFXI meta ahead of Dawntrail, I see. (Ninja was never intended to be a tank, but in XI roles were not fixed, and we quickly figured out that NIN made an AMAZING evasion tank because they simply never got hit to begin with.)

Hate? I LOVED Endwalker giving FT sprouts access to Rathalos. It's a very simple and fun EX to teach people. Most of the time the worst I'll see is a single wipe and even then you can get away with a lot thanks to powercreep and it dies relatively fast even with new players. Phase 2 actually completely voids ALL healing. The only way to "heal" other players is with shields. As a small tip, you can keybind both Duty Action slots. They're at the bottom of the hotbars tab.

Ahh the Rath Ex the only one that I done synced and have done solo desynced with dancer. Such a fun fight.

From Left Field insomnia thoughts for the insomnia mentoring, If merch is ever a thing, instead of shirts or whatever -- hardhats. Hardhats with the label, "This Hat is Hard A.F."

Hi, I'm the healer who's kept cure/benefic on my hotbar and will defend it. I keep 'cure 1' on 5 and 'cure 2' on 6 on my main hotbar. In calm situations i can pretty reliably hit cure 2 every single time, but in panic healing situations or under pressure it gets a bit more difficult as I am sure all of us healers know well. By keeping 'cure 1' on 5, in panic situations where I need to get the healing out NOW 'cure 1' serves as mistake a buffer for when I got for 'cure 2' and miss. It may not be optimal healing, but its still healing and more often than not it is just enough that I can follow it with a 'cure 2' and everything turns out alright. On the flip side of the coin, I find shield healers to be a bit more difficult to play as they don't have this safety buffer for high stress situations and I wind up mispressing or fat fingering buttons way more. If you are a beginner white mage, don't listen to the people telling you to take it off your bar. Place it next to 'cure 2' instead.

keep it up cider!

Fun fact, the minimum theoretical amount of time that the Mentor Roulette achievement could be done is 20 days. Assuming very fast runs, be it guildhests, or fast trials, and hitting the daily duty cap of 100 duties per day!

Gamer hours in full effect here. I'm usually up at 3am too, but only coz thats when my alarm goes off for work. Dear lord, sir.

Cider: "The ninja is the tank now" Me: "Is this FF 11!?"

Great video, Cider!

We always ran it as 4 dps. When rath falls hit the body till a certain %, I forget exactly, then kill tail and rath just dies.

ARR dungeons are just built different. Dusk Vigil and Amdapoor Keep have some of the hardest wall to wall pulls because the walls are boss room to boss room.

I remember the day I stopped doing mentor dailies, was the day that I got ratholos extreme 3 to 4 times in a row because a poor sprout didn't know what pf was and unsych was no matter how many times we told them. Hours of my life burned away and stopped doing that daily for months in fear if doing that again another 3 to 4 times in a row.

Also a trap, for Astro, benefic had a chance to make your next benefic 2 crit heal. You ever queue in and get Satasha with 3 other people who are also not in the mood? The sheer beauty of all 4 separating out in the big room, tank grabbing mid mobs, healer grabs the far door mobs, DPSs grab the closer door mobs, burn em all down. Dps open door, tank grabs and runs to the far door, the other three burn the last down and grab key by the time the tank hits the door, opens it and we through. Good times.

10:10 - There's genuinely only a few times where Cure 1 can still be used and not feel wasted. If you need to remove doom by topping up a player, Cure 1 is a faster heal than Cure II. Though, to be fair you usually have Afflatus Solace by that point which is instant and free. So yeah, very limited use-case, mostly for something like Pharos Sirius to remove the song curse, but still valid.

I had to pause the video and look up Urth's Fount. I know I've only been playing since Shadowbringers launch but it still blows my mind that there are still entire duties I've never even heard about.

I've started running my Mentors again even though I got the mount, keep looking at healer spots for angry lalas.

I got Rathalos ex in mentor roulette this week too. It's interesting, seems like the main strategy is to try and stay at his flanks to avoid a lot of his attacks.

Actually, the meta for Great Hunt is just straight up 4 tanks.