Petition: Remove EX Trials from Mentor Roulette

[Eien713]

Mentor Roulette without containg EXtrials is basically all previously existing roulettes stacked under a trenchcoat and serves no purpose other than to basically be Duty Roulette: All previous Roulettes. EX trials literally set it apart from the other roulettes.

Calling EX trials the rotten fruit in a batch sounds like you are feeling entitled to getting easy duties all the time rather than putting up with it, but that's technically none of my business, so you do you.

The problem is not the Ex trials themselves--it's the way those fights go in DF due to so many different reasons. And for your info, I did put up with all the Ex trials I got in Mentor Roulette and I'm actually done with the grind. Doesn't mean that didn't suck or that we shouldn't do something about them to make things better for both mentors and other players. If people were able to get their head in the game and follow instructions, you wouldn't have to spend 1 hour wiping over and over in an Ex trial (the easy ones). But what I saw in Ex fights in Mentor Roulette was people who keep dying to the same things and making the same mistakes over and over despite having things explained beforehand and/or dying/wiping to the same things over and over. The people you get in Ex trials are (most of the time) ones who don't even have a good grasp on the basics of the game, so how are they expected to tackle challenging content and within 1 hour?

I have yet to see somebody do all the work in the EX fights you get from Mentor roulette. Simply because, and you forget, you are sync'd down and the fights have enrages, it is not possible for a single sync'd person to carry an EX run. Every run I get into everybody is trying to pull their own weight, because nobody queues up in DF for an EX expecting to get carried, you do unsync'd for that.

And that's why you fail Ex trials in DF more often than not. Because people expect the fights to be easy and a faceroll, but then when it turns out they're not and you can't be carried through them, they either leave or the party fails the duty. I'll mention one of my Mentor Roulette experiences. I believe we got Sephirot this one time. That fight is awful to explain via text because there's so much going on, so I asked people to look up a guide while we waited for members (some people had left). I was willing to explain things or answer questions if people had any after looking up a guide. There was this one person who was watching a guide after I asked, and they commented that "Holy crap! There are so many things going on in the fight." I answered that yeah, which is why a guide (preferably a video) was way better than walls of text. I asked the others again to please watch a guide and said that the fight wasn't easy, and you know what 2 or 3 of them did? They bailed. If this doesn't prove they weren't expecting to make an effort, I don't know what does. I should also mention they hadn't said a single word the whole time, so it's not like they wanted to do the fight blind and I was against it.