thank you for Mentor system

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Originally Posted by Belhi

Well strictly speaking the system isn't designed for people focused on premade but instead people working with random other players.

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This is fair enough and I understand why that's the case, though I was more into the aspect of mentoring where you got a special chat for people with questions and all that.

Also it turns out I have 439 comms so... whoops. ( ' - ' )b

Edit: Oh, you need 1 of each of the 3 roles at 60 as well. Don't have that, don't plan on getting it. RIP~

Wait, I have to get a healer to 60?

Oh boy. I apologize in advance for all the players I'm going to kill with my terrible healing...

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Originally Posted by BroodingFicus

I really, /really/ hope the requirements are account wide and not on a per character basis for mentor status.

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Although I'm not SE, I feel very confident in saying they won't be account wide. SE have always treated different characters as completely separate and no other achievements/items cross over with the exception of the veteran rewards and that's only because you're paying for the service account, not for a specific character.

Sorry but the game is very much designed to do everything on one character (cross class skills!) and you really should be doing it all on the same character and then creating additional characters if you just want to start over. Although I do appreciate the new specialist skills have made it so you can no longer do everything on a single character, they're essentially the only exception.

The requirement of 3 roles at level 60 bothers me as well. While I will qualify (at least from the information given), there's a bit of a gap here: Say you have Paladin, Bard, and White Mage leveled to 60, with required side classes to get soulstones, of course. How exactly could you be a good source of advice for say, a SMN? Tanks and healing roles tend to use similar skill kits, but DPS skills are pretty varied.

All that glitters is not gold.

I've notice the role requirement and has concern me as I've split my roles amongst two characters. I've now started levelling drk on my healer/caster character but whether I need to be an ilevel or anything other than level 60 I'm unsure. Rather not be locked out of content when it seems brilliant as a design.

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Originally Posted by worldofneil

Although I'm not SE, I feel very confident in saying they won't be account wide. SE have always treated different characters as completely separate and no other achievements/items cross over with the exception of the veteran rewards and that's only because you're paying for the service account, not for a specific character.

Sorry but the game is very much designed to do everything on one character (cross class skills!) and you really should be doing it all on the same character and then creating additional characters if you just want to start over. Although I do appreciate the new specialist skills have made it so you can no longer do everything on a single character, they're essentially the only exception.

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While I also fear this will be the case. Do note that subscription plans are based on the amount of characters you are allowed to make. So i'll remain hopeful for a while longer.

I actually sort of like the multi class at 60 requirement as it will ensure that Mentors have at least some concept of how the other roles play and I personally feel that sort of knowledge is needed if you're going to consider yourself a Mentor.

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Originally Posted by StriderShinryu

I actually sort of like the multi class at 60 requirement as it will ensure that Mentors have at least some concept of how the other roles play and I personally feel that sort of knowledge is needed if you're going to consider yourself a Mentor.

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The only issue with it is that Summoners get Scholar by default, which requires no healing experience.

I do think the Mentor requirements could have been more simple....perhaps a solo 'gatekeeper' trial for each role.

DPS trial - avoid AoE mechanics and meet a DPS check

Tank trial - keep a DPS NPC alive by holding aggro. Stun specific moves, use cooldown to mitigate tank busters, etc.

Healer trial - keep a tank NPC alive

They would need to be very challenging, similar to a Maat from FFXI, to insure that people passing the test actually know what they are doing and we don't have mentors that think it's ok to play a job the lazy way without really making use of the full range of abilities.

Really, it could have been integrated into Stone, Sky, Sea.

I really needed this when I started out tanking. Now I'm going back to where I belong, which is White Mage. >_>