2000 Mentor roullete complete: a review + ideas for improvement

" The gearing system from level 1 to level 49 is atrociously horrendous. Many, many of the new player sprouts I've seen had level 1, or level 5 accessories from the vendor at level 40+, and so many more not understanding how gearing works in general past level 50 with the Poetics tomestones. Even with Rowena's Representatives in every major city, new players have no idea what that NPC is even for, meaning there needs to be a clearer indicator from the game to instruct new players."

Just wanted to highlight this bit, as it's even worse then you may realize. Rowenas reps don't even show up until you've beaten ARR and you can only buy gear from expansions you BEATEN, so personally I would argue they are in fact useless for new players to get caught up on gear. The only players that actually benefit are those that are done with current story but don't have all jobs leveled. Imo it was another "QOL" that was a swing and miss from sqe, it should be tied to your combat level and not where you're at in the msq to be truely useful.

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Originally Posted by Rehayem

Yes, it's there... but but should be a bigger box to let players know those quests are important also. I remember being a sprout and I didn't do the job quests until I was like 28 on ACN (starting job). It happens too often, I believe, and should be improved upon.

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Important side quests (chocobo quests, class quests, job quests) are sublinked below the red and beige meteor MSQ banner whenever they become available.

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Originally Posted by Rongway

Important side quests (chocobo quests, class quests, job quests) are sublinked below the red and beige meteor MSQ banner whenever they become available.

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The problem is that it's very easy to miss. Something that important should be highlighted the same way the MSQ is.

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Originally Posted by Rehayem

I've set myself to complete the achievement long ago, doing the roulette now and then, however, I decided to put much more focus since about November of last year. In case anybody is wondering, sometimes I would do about 5 mentor roulettes a day, sometimes 40, and ultimately depended on my mood or how tired I've felt after a working day. The maximum number I managed to do at one point was about 60 mentors in one day, but that kinda did fry my brain for a few days as a result.

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Congratulations! Anyone who finishes the achievement definitely deserves the mount for their hard work. It's safe to assume not a single person would help to fill 40-60 DF groups per day without reward.

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Originally Posted by Reinha

Congratulations! Anyone who finishes the achievement definitely deserves the mount for their hard work. It's safe to assume not a single person would help to fill 40-60 DF groups per day without reward.

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Yea I've said this before the mentor achievement is only there to keep ppl playing the same content over and over. I'm glad op is free from this wheel

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Originally Posted by sindriiisgaming

Yea I've said this before the mentor achievement is only there to keep ppl playing the same content over and over. I'm glad op is free from this wheel

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The only times I will do mentor roulette is only as DPS and only for the extra tomes, at best. Usually going as DPS is more fun.

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Originally Posted by Windfire

Just wanted to highlight this bit, as it's even worse then you may realize. Rowenas reps don't even show up until you've beaten ARR and you can only buy gear from expansions you BEATEN, so personally I would argue they are in fact useless for new players to get caught up on gear. The only players that actually benefit are those that are done with current story but don't have all jobs leveled. Imo it was another "QOL" that was a swing and miss from sqe, it should be tied to your combat level and not where you're at in the msq to be truely useful.

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I still remember leveling my first job.

There's no need for the gear from Rowena's rep for an expansion until you've beaten the expansion. At that point, you buy their gear with poetics and are set for all of the post-expansion content and (at least) half of the next expansion's MSQ.

The level-sync system makes gear beyond your MSQ level unnecessary overkill.

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Originally Posted by Rehayem

The problem is that it's very easy to miss. Something that important should be highlighted the same way the MSQ is.

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It...is? It's literally a part of the MSQ hud element.

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Originally Posted by Windfire

" The gearing system from level 1 to level 49 is atrociously horrendous. Many, many of the new player sprouts I've seen had level 1, or level 5 accessories from the vendor at level 40+, and so many more not understanding how gearing works in general past level 50 with the Poetics tomestones. Even with Rowena's Representatives in every major city, new players have no idea what that NPC is even for, meaning there needs to be a clearer indicator from the game to instruct new players."

Just wanted to highlight this bit, as it's even worse then you may realize. Rowenas reps don't even show up until you've beaten ARR and you can only buy gear from expansions you BEATEN, so personally I would argue they are in fact useless for new players to get caught up on gear. The only players that actually benefit are those that are done with current story but don't have all jobs leveled. Imo it was another "QOL" that was a swing and miss from sqe, it should be tied to your combat level and not where you're at in the msq to be truely useful.

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To be fair it's not that big of a deal. Accessories from 1-50 don't give many stats as it doesn't ramp up until you actually hit 50. At which point they [new players] have 3 main scenarios to run granting a lot of poetic bonuses. Now completing your story level 50 mission grants [last time I done it it was ilvl90 up from ilvl50 gear]. The only thing they need is a weapon and a few accs. This gets them into LotA where a majority of players are already rocking ilvl130 syncd gear and thus granting a lot more tomes, so getting a full set is handy enough.

As the OP said the biggest issue is being directed to the vendor which I do agree could use some work but there are certainly plenty of drops from the following quests and 24man / Trials to obtain new gear. I'm pretty sure the 2.X quests drop 110+ ilvl gear now but don't quote me on that.

Remove the mount from it and add 5000 commendations as well to achieve getting the mount.... there is too many freeloaders in that game, to that would call it an achievement.