Sick of ARR Ex fights in mentor roulette

[KageTokage]

Do you know why Ramuh EX is the least clearable one synced in Mentor Roulette? It's because the tank swap AND the "pick the 3 orbs" mechanics for Shock Strike is heavily tank dependent. If the tank does not have the 3 orbs to have the "Surge Protection" buff, the tank will get one-shotted by Shock Strike. To make things much worse, Shock Strike ignores and goes through tank immunity effects. Should the tank get one-shotted from Shock Strike, most runs usually snowball into a wipe from there.

Let's not even get to the part where people tend to get uncoordinated for fear cleansing. It's bad enough people are bad at this mechanic in the Hard story version. Not cleansing here in Extreme mode will be fatal for the ones who don't have the Surge Protection buff.

Finally, the tether mechanics requires only one person of the tethered pair to get 3 orbs. Letting the tethers remain is more punishing in Extreme mode when synced. Don't forget that tanks still need their surge protection buff from getting 3 orbs.

Coordinating these mechanics synced in a random pug group via roulette is extremely difficult for the average person.

I've gotten Ramuh EX three times as a tank, which made the swapping mostly a non-issue, but never managed to clear on any of the attempts because people were doing too little DPS to prevent wipes to the add phase and/or not dispelling the charm properly even after I designated a waymarker for the charm-targeted players to move to in order to make locating them easier.

I have also cleared all extremes in mentor roulette multiple times, you just have to mentor and not whine and complain.

That and pray you get people who are actually competent, because explaining a fight is one thing, but having people who can both play their jobs properly and follow instructions is something else entirely.

The only EXs I've cleared consistently are Ultima Weapon, Garuda, Ravana, and Bismark as they get melted by the bloated ilvls and most of their mechanics get skipped; though even Garuda has failed before due to getting stuck with a gungho sprout tank who refuses to follow directions and doesn't separate the adds...on multiple occasions.

I've gotten a few clears of Leviathan and Shiva EX though it was heavily dependent on having other mentors in the tank/healer roles.

Everything else was a total wash.