Mentor Appreciation thread

I want to positive really I do I swear but I've only seen 5 or so helpful mentors, 100s of bad ones & 10s of silent ones. But those helpful ones were um...helpful & always got my comm for helping the noobs.

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Originally Posted by Lambdafish

I've done that, I love crafting the 1-50 levelling gear for random sprouts, they treat it like the holy grail when it really didn't take much for me to make, it's a nice happy feeling to help someone

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You are amazing. And I appreciate what you do. I remember when I had just got my retainer, and I was sitting at the bell deciding on what class to choose. A random mentor walked up and traded me some healer weapons. It really made my day.

Oh, a nice memory: one day I asked in the NN how to get the fat cat minion and a mentor asked me via /tell where I was (I was in the middle of drybone camp and he wanted to go there! But I told him that we could meet at limsa) and when I got there he gave me the fat cat minion which is my favorite minion. :)

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Originally Posted by RLofOBFL

I want to positive really I do I swear but I've only seen 5 or so helpful mentors, 100s of bad ones & 10s of silent ones. But those helpful ones were um...helpful & always got my comm for helping the noobs.

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Theres nothing wrong with being silent.

I'm not explaining things if people don't want to listen.

They can see the symbol beside my name. They know what it means and that means they can ask me pretty much anything and I have an answer for it.

Mentor status does NOT mean you have to explain every single mechanic and aspect of the dungeon in full detail.

No where did it EVER say that was your job when you signed up to be a mentor.

That crown beside my name means if you need a partial FFXIV wiki, you can ask me. Its not my job to just spout off information. Maybe its your job to ask questions

Well if you see me in instance just give me a /wave XD I can control 4-8 man duties of I'm on tank if I'm a dps my power of mentor and the pyramid of power between healer, tank, dps there's little I can do. ;p 24 men depends on the alliances if easy people, I could do my job. (~°-°)~
Hence I'm the type who lurk in my novice network and always work if there are people need helps in instances' mechanics. (^°-°)^

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Originally Posted by RLofOBFL

I want to positive really I do I swear but I've only seen 5 or so helpful mentors, 100s of bad ones & 10s of silent ones. But those helpful ones were um...helpful & always got my comm for helping the noobs.

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This is an unfortunate reality, and it's the reason that I made this thread, to highlight the good work that has been done. The only advice I can really give against this for anyone is to become the kind of mentor that you want to see in the world, because if it makes an impression on just one person it's worth it.

Is it ok to thank someone who isn't part of the mentor program (they say it isn't a very good thing) but has helped me out so much with everything despite not being a mentor with the program?

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Originally Posted by TamiSanri

Is it ok to thank someone who isn't part of the mentor program (they say it isn't a very good thing) but has helped me out so much with everything despite not being a mentor with the program?

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With the amount of 'false' mentors in the game that are only in it for the badge, I'd say that the badge doesn't make a mentor, so I'd love for you to thank them here :)

On my server there is Nixi who has helped me both on the forums and when they saw I was on the server in game. They helped me with dungeons and story stuffs, they also helped me do these things called hunting targets to get stuff that can be used for gear later (tomes and hunt marks). They have been extremely helpful in answer any and all questions I have regarding how things work and even why things work as they do and I really do appreciate the time and patience given to me by this individual.