Quote Originally Posted by INovemI View Post
What do you mean that's not what Duty Finder is designed for? If it wasn't "designed" to be able to use Duty Finder to clear the content, then it wouldn't be there and it wouldn't be in roulette. Usually 6/8 players in DF Extreme are Sprouts, never seen it be less than 5/8. Are these usually led by mentors who vaguely remember the mechanics? Yes, and that's not a problem. I have had successful clears in 90% of all of the Extreme DFs I've ever done, and I have cleared all of ARR's Extremes in DF at least twice. Party Finder is significantly slower at getting clears and there are very few sprouts - especially in the window between the last content drop of an expansion and the next one - who are in the Party Finder looking to complete these duties, let alone are actively looking to blind prog Extremes with other sprouts. I don't know about Heavensward and onward Extremes but I can confirm from my own experience, including actively trying to use Party Finder only to be all but forced into doing it unsync'd by the people who joined, ARR Extremes are universally best completed via the Duty Finder. This content is far too old to fill parties in a timely manner without Mentor Roulette, and the integration of Mentors is often critical to clear duties with more abstract mechanics (particularly Ramuh and Leviathan, which are the only two Extremes other than Titan I have ever failed to clear... and that's just cause Titan's the hardest one to execute correctly by far).
This isn’t the thread for this discussion, we’ve derailed the topic enough

I will just say what you are doing won’t work going forward because that’s not how extremes are designed, the mentor roulette including extremes has always been controversial but in general it just teaches the wrong habits, you can get by in ARR extremes because of gear and skill bloat but it won’t work anywhere past that. If you really want to do the extremes you need to learn to use PF and to tap into the MINE discords if you want to do said content, forcing the mentor roulette to pop it really isn’t a long term strategy