Mentor Roulette needs a serious overhaul

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Originally Posted by Zsolen

Bark? You dumb twit. We aren't talking about people when they aren't newbies.

No even synced.

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Yes, bark. You're boasting with no merit to do so. Maybe do your research, t-cup


Rarely, but hey you can back up your lie at any point...

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Originally Posted by FireMage

Yes, bark. You're boasting with no merit to do so. Maybe do your research, t-cup


Rarely

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Boasting what? You posted fflogs over someone saying newbies can clear synced extremes. Sounds like to me you are compensating for something.

It's very common.

I have a love hate relationship with this forum

Hot Take: Mentor roulette should give no rewards whatsoever. It should not be another check mark for collectors, but a place where people who genuinely want to help, get to help and that's it.

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Originally Posted by DiaDeem

Hot Take: Mentor roulette should give no rewards whatsoever. It should not be another check mark for collectors, but a place where people who genuinely want to help, get to help and that's it.

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That honestly might be the best route. Maybe tie the reward into something else or just let it go.

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Originally Posted by flowerfairy

I have a love hate relationship with this forum

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Sometimes it's worth the cost of popcorn. Speaking of which, got any?

I think mentor roulette matches me into either a guildhest or an expert roulette around 90% of the time, which probably wouldn't be the case if it made the match making prioritize instances with players who haven't gotten a clear yet.

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Originally Posted by DiaDeem

Hot Take: Mentor roulette should give no rewards whatsoever. It should not be another check mark for collectors, but a place where people who genuinely want to help, get to help and that's it.

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It would also be nice to have a general roulette to help fill any slots in normal content that had at least one new player to the duty. I don't want to do mentor roulette because I don't want to deal with people blindly queuing for EX trials with no knowledge or desire to actually learn. I made the mistake of using DF to try to do the Rathalos EX trial back when it was new, and got someone who used all the faints because they didn't understand any of the mechanics even though it's almost 1:1 of the normal version. No thank you.

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Originally Posted by Zsolen

I don't really play pve anymore but if I did, it would be a lot better.

You yourself said newbies can't do extremes, which means you as a newbie couldn't do extremes, which is actually easy content. Newbies clear ARR Extremes all of the time.

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Emphasis mine.

Newbies rarely clear EX's other than the extremely easy ones (Garuda, Maybe leviathan)

Unreal clear rates show that even vets have trouble at synced min ilvl runs of old EX's (which is what unreal is supposed to simulate).

There are still people who get knocked off Titan's platform 8 years after the fact and after the netcode changes to be better. Ramuh routinely wipes groups because they don't know how to clear orbs or even swap to adds despite Ramuh going immune.

Newbies in Thordan EX min ilvl? LOL. Newbies in Sephirot EX? No thanks. Seat of Sacrifice?

Point is, there is usually 1 or 2 "easy" EX's per tier and after that they can get mechanically heavy and if newbies are just queueing up wanting to be carried with no knowledge before hand? Not many people have time for that.

Why would they do Thordan min ilvl?

Also, the one mentor roulette I did was Sephirot. We cleared.