I Actually Had to Teach Them this Fight - The Mad Mentor #08 

oops 5am again lmao

Ifrit sliding across to pull mobs had me laughing

Regula is actually surprisingly popular as far as Legatii go, because he's one of the few Garlean higher-ups that grew to respect the WoL, he died protecting our friends, and we STILL DON'T HAVE HIS SICK WEAPON.

That mad scientist probably has voice lines because he was part of a mostly cut plotline involving Krile.

the last video with a pixelated angry baby the end of an era

Florida here, you are 100% right about Floridians not despairing and therefore wouldn't notice the Final Days. We regularly get hurricanes, people not native will panic and ask locals what happens. Locals will respond : stock up on liquor and party.

I finished my 2000th about 20 minute ago. I was at 800 when I saw you going for the climb and decided to set my own achievements. And after doing 20 per day, I managed to finally reach 2000 today about 24hrs before the big Dawntrail maintenance. So thanks for giving me the courage and the push to power through that hellish grind!

Cider: "What's he throwin'?... Game: "LA HEE!" lol 😆

At this point when I see Aetherochemical, I already know I’ll have to explain the final fight

I wish more people knew the Chrysalis' mechanics. When you get sucked into the tear any buffs you get get extended x10. The idea is the tanks pop invlun/cooldowns and for example paladin will end up with a 80-100 second Hallowed Ground depending on when they press it. This applies to any buffs so you can have a super long damage buff for example. Super unique fight that not many people fully understand.

Chrysalis is one of the trials that always gets an "Oh god" when I roll it in roulette, it's by far the most frequent duty that I wipe on when I run it with newer players. Always happy to help teach it but never want to really see it

I love the commitment to not even saying the word "Dragoon"

That Ifrit-Egi pull was pretty impressive

Got put into Aetherochemical as a dancer, they were 30+ in minutes stuck at the last boss because the scholar wasn't healing. Did my best to tell him how to keep us topped up but it still took us 3 tries to kill him. That boss truly is a sprout killer haha.

That Ala Mhigo pull was always a fun one when it was current content, glad to see it's still like that.

I watched your comments on Kitesis and laughed. I did it ages ago, years actually, and then about a month ago, i get thrown into it every time I'm doing Roulettes. I play WHM and SCH so much because I love them. Your remarks are bang on about healers skipping content. Healing is not easy and you can't just wing it. Your description of what they said is that WHM knows nothing about the lilies. My husband plays WHM that way and I had to sit down and explain all he has to work with. I admire him for trying to max level every single class, but, I'll be honest, he's a Warrior through and through. I just keep his regen or adlo going and keep him alive, so we're all alive. I love the absolute huge kits the healers get.

5:50 Sounds a lot like the classic "Someone complained a bit snarky so I'm gonna be annoying" so the healer decided to do just that by using Cure 1 and avoiding Raises, rather than a WHM who doesn't know their job

Not looking forward to this series being forced on hiatus for the next four-ish months due to mentor roulette being unavailable until 7.1... Love your content, Cider!

For keeping up with the extra voice clips dubbed over the videos, I super appreciate also having them cut off with the scene changes too. It makes me giggle.

Oh no, the ninja in Ktisis was using Doton on bosses.

Like a knife through -peanut- butter!

11:30 the La Hee bat bounce 😂

21:41 Khloe shows up in the expansion after DT working on a sequel book, but if you dont get a line your book explodes and you need to repair your gear :D (flamethrower revenge)

Mentor Roulette threw me into Sephirot EX this week. I haven't done that sync'd in YEARS. It was fun re-learning it on the fly.

it looks like Dungeon Lord/Dungeon Lady is the title for raiding the final chamber in the Dungeons of Lyhe Ghiah 20 times, so you'll get it eventually!

22:40 --- I mean, there is the thing with Diadem: it used to be a zone similar to Bozja and Eureka with world bosses and whatnot. Then they changed it into crafter- and gatherer content. I dont think they will do the same with Eureka though... it still has too many fans. A little revival with extra rewards wont hurt, though...

I really love the fact that you call "succor" "giving lollipops", because I usually say something similar but in italian: I call it giving "fruit juice" because it's "succo di frutta" in italian lol. So I give fruit juice to people when I adlo them.

Getting Wanderer’s Palace Hard is pretty appropriate for Dawntrail week

Honestly my favorite Mentor Roulette series on yt. I still don't know if it's "TREMBLE" or CRUMBLE"... Ok after watching some, I don't mean the smaller "Tremble!"s throughout the Wanderer's Palace Hard run, I mean the "TREMBLE" or "CRUMBLE" when the raidwide hits or something lol

For some reason I read "Pwn Noobs" as Athene from the OLD OLD days in the before times when dinosaurs like myself roamed the Earth and RU-vid was still young. Good times. Thanks for the content Cider and the weird nostalgia trip from two words.

I recommend the 10-20 treasure map roulettes on Mondays :)

I had a white mage in a stormblood dungeon that was using only cure 1 and 2 while I was tanking. We wiped twice on the initial trash, the first time with 2 packs and the second with one pack... I realized that they weren't using their HOTs... if you have HOTs as a healer, keep them up! It saves how often you have to cast bigger heals. Edited to add: as for peanut butter, homemade is best. Many store bought ones have extra crap added in, such as stabilizers. Nothing wrong with that, but when one makes dog treats for fun, you have to be careful. I have made my own peanut butter and hazelnut butter, and I prefer those over store bought. Oh, I've also made my own "Nutella" as well. Fantastic in smoothies.

You’re the only person I can watch this type of content and be entertained.

Thanks for making fun content, Cider Spider! Have fun in Dawntrail!!

"THE WORLD SHALL TREMBLE!" XD Thank you for another week of entertainment.

I think I heard somewhere that the death of the comic industry can be traced back to a shift in distribution. Before they where sold anywhere magazines where so anyone with a passing interest could read them. Then at some point they where only carried in specialty "comic book" stores which were frequented by only by people dedicated enough to go to such a place.

I love these videos so much, Keep it up my dude

The single pulling tank and the ifrit mob pull was incredibly funny

@5:28 Ayy that tank was me . I'm glad to see this on your channel so fast

This video is never late. I absolutely love getting the notification that the mentor shenanigans are up and these videos have been a much needed enjoyment the last few weeks while I've been essentially doing the job of 2-3 people at work (gotta love retail right?) Happy dawntrail!

Love watching your vids. Great job on the editing. Gives me a bit of a game fix; too busy to play IRL lately. Keep up the good work!

I like how time goes on you use more and more versions of "TREMBLE"

I can certainly say regarding talking about high level healing play is that if they are just rouletting their way up in levels they likely rarely play anything above level 50...I learned my lesson when playing Astro and started doing the 50/60/70/80 roulette so I could start doing higher stuff to learn the kit more rather than just ending up with 50 and below stuff from roulettes.

"Eh, was about to go to bed, but f*ck it" - 40 min later, worth it. I absolutely love these videos. I do all my rouls almost daily, and it's nice to see other people suffer in similar fashion to me 😂 I My friends do not believe me when I say rouls are fun - especially mentor. There are tons of goofy players, silly moments, and hilarious interactions. I'm so glad you haven't had to suffer praetorium repeatedly in these yet 😂 I did 5 mentor roulettes in one day a few weeks back - 3 were prae. Lo and behold, so was my msq roulette. Turned out people were "grinding it out for fun, for the moogle tomes"

Came for the trembles, stayed for the akh morn la-hees on batsquatch

Good thing my sleep schedule is wrecked im always on time for a cider vid 😂

10:39 the timing on the la hee had me laughing so much i woke up my doggo😂

Now the main question: when will a new episode of _Mad Because Small_ come out? :D We need to know how the baby's story continues!

As I am deathly allergic to peanuts, all peanut butters are equal, and one more dzemael darkhold and I may embrace the Kraft extra chunky.

huh neat, Cider you and i have had pretty different learning experiences with The Chrysalis, it seems! I don't think i've ever seen it mentioned anywhere that the tear should be DPS lb3'd (been playing about 6 years now), and i for sure don't recall ever seeing one used there before! Never experienced any issues getting through the DPS check phase or anything over the years either (tho i still see people drop like flies due to not alternating the orbs they collect, including two mentors in the same run once lmaooo) but in hindsight it certainly seems sensible to drop one there 🫨 it's actually really cool hearing strats that are totally new to me even after so many years of regular playing, especially for suuuch old content. Likewise, it's rad watching experienced players find out new stuff that you thought was common knowledge too! That's just one of the of the reasons i love these videos/streams, and others that are similar. So wild how different one player's experience can be from another, often in tiny but significant ways (i'll miss u mentor roulette mon[sometimes-tues]days, but i look forward to seeing your filler episode arc 👑🫡)

I can't wait to see Dzmael Darkhold for every single video going forward.

Your sound effect editing is so good

"I dont have to deal with eureka again....probably" The dragoon lances require vengeance!

That Ala Mhigo pull needs the entire kit in my experience. Alternating Adlo and Physick just keep the MP up or even an ET Adlo when the raw HP is low. Letting the Atherflow gauge build up for extra lustrates helps. Even at all that, there is still a good chance at a wipe depending on the Tank mitigations.

In awe that the stalactite didn't kill you on Batsquatch, must be the raid food

"at least it's the final dungeon" **suspiciously 10 min left in video** oh no...

as a sprout the timing on dual stars was the hard part, I didn't know what snapshotting was so I would wait for the ice to clear out before moving to dodge the fire, but you need to move the moment the attack happens. every fight before hand had a large window between successive AOEs so it didn't really matter if I waited for the effects to go away, but this attack in particular basically forced me to learn what snapshotting was and how attacks actually work.

"I don't experience despair, I just don't care" later: "I gave up too soon"

The amount of Hypreborea runs I've gotten as hearler or tank is astounding. It's 500% the skip buyers that don't bother to read tooltips before queuing and bots getting ready to ruin the DT launch.

Video is a mood every sprout that queues into this has difficulty learning the 2nd phase Especially when its a healer player have to mark myself each time to follow to help them

As a sprout the problem with Chemical facility for me was not realizing that you can walk through the explosion effects after the warning went away. I usually sat there waiting for the actual visual effects to disappear before moving but the next explosion immediately goes off after that happens.

I’ve honestly never had a bad experience in Aetherochem but now I see what you’ve been talking about. Let’s hope those sprouts pass the knowledge on to the next group they’re in. 😂

Good news Cider, Mentor roulette will be closed during the beginning of DT, as I understand it. So you'd have to put this series on hold anyway!

"The End of Days could be happening right now in Florida and you wouldn't be able to tell." Is not a take I expected to hear tonight

5pm exhaustion was strong in this one.

Batsqauch mosh pit w LAHEE repeating on each step got me 😂😂😂

THE WORLD SHALL TREMBLE.... UNLEASH... TREMBLE!

LAHEE

I mean they could always do something for new zones like HW relics did - if you have say full magicite then it gives you a head start on whatever mechanic is in the new area

Going to miss this seriously while it goes on hiatus due to Dawntrail. We also need a compilation of everyone that says "TREMBLE"

The real pain is running Dzemael Darkhold with the Command Mission squadron. Almost impossible to get the tank to not fight in the explodey crystals, also a huge pain to get the tank and the Ahriman into the purple area. By the time I manage to drag the tank into the purple, it's about to disappear anyway.

37:19 The world shall tremble UNLEASH TREMBLE!

"Dezurvaned" I SPIT OUT MY DRINK

Good video Cider!

Florida man turns into monster- I could believe it! Love the video, love the series- only bad thing about a new expansion will be less of it, but looking forward to other new stuff!

Finished my mentor 2k run, good luck Cider.

I love Tuesday Mentor videos lol. They're my favorite part of Tuesday! Other than the stream of course.

*La-Hee Intensifies*

Ahhh! The Aetherochemical Research Facility in roulette! So many wipes! Healers rage quitting even when they were the one dying! So many times when the group committed to complete the run but in the end we run out of time, and fail. Good times! I think the weirdest thing it happened to me there was that time when we have FINALLY progressed enough to face the sphere, and the tank stood right next to me, a squishy black mage, which already had got some hits, I'm guessing it was the tankbuster he shared with me what killed me instantly

Last mentor video before Dawntrail. I will keep giving you my energy as I prep my challenge log for the update. :(

So this week i had a tank in AV that insisted that more than 1 stack in AV was unhealable. Also Forker gets his AoE's at 40 (Doom Spike), 62 (Sonic Thrust) and 72 (Coearthan Torment or something close to that), so that goober had his AoE's already. Mind you Doom spike is pretty bad as far as AoE's go, but it's better than nothing.

Ah, that DRG was a Balmunger. As a certified Balmunger, I can confirm he was a doofus. You get Doom Spike at lvl 40 via job quest, and there has never been a moment in FF14's history (at least since 2.0) that DRG has never had AoE at endgame. Even at level 50 it had Ring of Thorns.

oh man this reminds me that I was so close to unlocking mentor roulette, but I had extremes I had to clear first & no one to clear them with.

Jif Natural, great for smoothies. Barely different from regular Jif but I'll take any cut in sodium I can get.

The final days turned people who fell into despair, which is the loss or absence of hope. most of the npc who turned were overwhelmed by their friends and families dying and lost hope turning in return. I'd say you were being optimistic about how irl would handle it. Personally, I feel like our world is slowly gaining the mindsets off the inhabitants of Ultima Thule/The Dead Ends, and we would be destroyed.

Imagine all the new achievements for DT that will be added to your list. Good luck.

Friend dont burn yourself out, if a video takes a bit longer thats ok! Editing takes a LOT of effort and time. Especially how much stuff you have to condense. Love the content and keep it up!

you get into a ring with a typical peanut butter you got a 50/50 shot of winnin'--

That last boss pwns me too because you only get that dungeon once in a blue moon and my brain can only keep so many boss fights stored.... :D

Omg I had that exact same pull toward the second boss healing as scholar in Ala Mhigo the other day. I was stressin' the whole time! Been getting that one a lot lately in mentor roulettes. It's the damn monkeys that like to slap so hard.

Definitely recommend queueing as a DPS if you want more exciting roulettes like Ex Trials. I've gotten Ifrit Ex, Garuda Ex, Ramuh Ex, and Rathlos Ex so far out of the 30ish DPS roulettes I've done. Would be fun to see a set of 10 done as a Tank/DPS just to see the different things you'd get.

This boss took us 4 attempts. Our tank was very patient and seemed to like letting us learn by experience rather than just telling us, which I appreciated. I rouletted into this boss again a few days ago and I became the teacher. Funnily enough, by this point I was also the tank

Best Peanut Butter brand is Reeses. Imagine the peanut butter you find in a Reeses cup but instead in your PB&J

The hostess cupcake ads from old comic books were the best.

Square Enix should hire you to voice Krile

Regarding dead content: Look at the Deep Dungeons. If you try to queue with randos, it certainly feels dead. Even with the ultimog challenge this last month, you'll basically never actually find a queue. But that doesn't mean Deep Dungeons are dead content. They have their own dedicated communities that are more than happy to keep playing them for several years to come. I imagine Eureka will eventually go that way, too. You won't be able to just hop in on a whim, but the Eureka community will stick around and coordinate to set up groups for various things for several more expansions.

I agree on what you said about the final days

A way they could bring over the Eureka stuff is to do what the Heavensward relic did, if you have your SB relic you can skip the first step and automatically get your magicite otherwise you do 5 one time quests to get them.

I got Sephirot EX in Mentor roulette the other week, and good god that sucked. So many instant kills in the second half, and especially during the green/orange debuff bit one death easily cascades into a complete wipe. I managed to coach the sprouts into getting past the triple knockback, but that's a fight where if most of the team doesn't know it reasonably well, you're probably not going to clear it in one lockout without voicechat call-outs.

I've always worried about going ahead and becoming a mentor because I don't know All Content but seeing these and immediately remembering most the mechs is really bolstering my confidence in being able to help if it's needed lol. I can't count how many times I've explained chrysalis.