I think mentor roulette rewards should be awarded based on time rather than run count

[Seig345]

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On top of making the requirement for mentor title the same as being able to queue for the roulette, I'd change the mentor status for all the different roles to be completely separate (ie you can't get the PVE crown through crafting, or pvp through pve, etc.)[...]

For what it's worth; I unlocked Mentor Status through PvE, but do not have access to the crafting mentor flags. I'm assuming the same is true in reverse, and unlocking Mentor status through Crafting does not grant you the pve/pvp flags. (Though it may be possible to unlock both sets, and pve would arguably be the easier to unlock)

[Paladinleeds]

For what it's worth; I unlocked Mentor Status through PvE, but do not have access to the crafting mentor flags. I'm assuming the same is true in reverse, and unlocking Mentor status through Crafting does not grant you the pve/pvp flags. (Though it may be possible to unlock both sets, and pve would arguably be the easier to unlock)

The crafting mentor flag is the "Trade Mentor" flag. I can assure you as I do not have ANY crafters or gatherers at 60, I do not meet the requirements (but I met the PvE requirements). However in spite of this, I still have PvE/Trade/PvP mentor flags all available to me. I however out of respect for what I feel qualified most to talk about (PvE) and what the Mentor system is all about, will only ever use the PvE Mentor flag.

[Louvain]

For what it's worth; I unlocked Mentor Status through PvE, but do not have access to the crafting mentor flags. I'm assuming the same is true in reverse, and unlocking Mentor status through Crafting does not grant you the pve/pvp flags. (Though it may be possible to unlock both sets, and pve would arguably be the easier to unlock)

I've seen it on several occasions, and I myself have the pvp crown but have never, ever touched it.

To expand, I think the generalized crown (or a special version of it) would also be locked behind correctly meeting the requirements of all three, instead of being available right away.

[Jeykama]

Regardless of what people say, mentor roulette needs fixing for the wide variety of time sink involved.
EX trials really should not be in there, as 60 minutes is a tough task to teach a group of sprouts even if the group manages to stick together to the bitter end. The mentor gets nothing out of it afterwards but a feeling of totally wasted time.
I'm willing to teach synced EX primals no problem. I give EX trials 30 minutes in mentor roulette like with any other dungeon or trial, but I've never seen it happen. It's just not enough time and/or the people queued in aren't willing to put in the focus and effort.

If, I think, mentor roulette gave a consolation reward upon duty fail (not being kicked, voluntarily leaving duty, or initiated a votekick yourself of course) it would be nice - a proportionate amount based on time elapsed compared to the completion reward. It's not even that much, just the principle of it for the time spent.

[DududeDude]

I do think it'd be nice if the achievement progressed if you were in for the duty ending, rather than the duty completing. Maybe something like if you end up leaving once there's 5 minutes or less left on the Duty Timer (Which I believe is also when it stops allowing you get people in progress) it counts as one completed duty for the achievement? As an addendum to that it might also be nice to open up player commendations at that same time if things happened that way.

It might encourage people to stick it out when they get something difficult in the mentor roulette, whereas now the system just encourages you to leave the moment a wipe or two happens.

[Brian_]

You want to tell me that a person who is supposed to help new players is the same as 8 people who spend their time together in a raid? But you can call me hypocrite all that you want because raid and mentor is a completly different thing.

Except they aren't. It's about rewarding people for their time. If raiding had no rewards and you expected people to do it purely on their own free will, the raiding population would plummet. Yea, you'll purge some bad players but you'll also lose a large number of great raiders and hurt the overall health of the raiding scene.

The point is making the role of mentor something that is prioritized. Not something that is an afterthought. Make it something that you really want. Not something that you forget about.

The FFXIV mentor system is like making real life teachers hold another job to pay the bills and teach on the side. What you're saying is that they should endure that lifestyle because teaching should be something they do out of passion. What I'm saying is that you should just pay them a living wage so that they can just focus on doing what they love to do.