1: Yes, i have about 2500 Mentor roulettes cleared, i cant prove anything over the 2k though theres no other way to check. I still continue to run them.
2: No, but every other day mostly (i spam them very hard at the end of expansions ... when we get no content)
3: You get the odd "hi we are all new in a dungeon and could use someone who knows a bit of stuff" ... but thats maybe 10% of the runs,
30% are trials (mostly ex) ... mostly ARR in which 5-7 sprouts queued in and have no idea what happens and greatly misunderstand the spike in difficulty. I have won every single ARR Duty (yes even Ramuh though that happened only ONE time) HW seamed ok up to Thordan which was a very low rate, sephi ... hogg ... etc absolutely no go.
25% Are Dungeons, which can be pretty much everything, however it did favor 50 60 70 dungeons because the roulettes their included in have low rewards and they also give low exp.
25% Were Raids, 8 man ones. Nothing special really
10% Guildhest, ahhh the Golden Ticket ... their free and fast (i have lost the turtle one 3 times and wanted to cry in the fetal postion everytime)
24 raids were VERY, VERY rare. Maybe like 10 in total.
If the Mentor Roulette requirements are fair ... no. You prolly dont need 1500 commendations BUT you should have to do all the possible duties sync and w/o echo.
I usually do not queue and drop when i get something like AV ... BUT, if 7 sprouts queue into Ramuh you have 2 choices ... Text wall them for 10 min and hope it sticks, or you surrender do a couple wipes and vote abandon.
The Game needs to have a "this is actually gonna fk you over" warning, when we got Bozja we had a warning on how this works, put that on the first trial you get as "Extreme", back then we did not run blind into Garuda Ex and went "???" when we died 10 sec in, we also did not do that on Thordan ... we also did not do that on Titania.
If you want to do these fights blind you usually would join PF specific teams, as a DF team has only 1 Time slot and has to have the goal to clear, so unless everyone can carry their weight ... the run is doomed before it starts. So either add a button or remove EX from Mentor roulette, or simply don't be surprised to see your Mentor eye the exit the moment you zone into Ramuh Ex and say "anything i need to know?"
Mentor roulette is also "Filler Roulette", the party that waited the longest gets the mentor, i had plenty of Mentor Roulette runs in which i filled up a 3/4 expert roulette party ... why, did they need a mentor? Have 25% of members be a sprout to qualify for mentor roulette, and give the sprout a bonus exp % for having a mentor with them, this will give them a good mood about mentors.



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