Mentor Players Kicking newer players from Duty Ques for low DPS

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Well did this mentor do what they suppose to do and try to teach or coach the person how to be better? Looks like from OP post is the mentor thought their dps was too low and instead of doing what they suppose to do and guide someone how to be better they just kicked them without even saying anything.

Nope sorry but that person is not a novice at this point. A mentor is there to teach novices how to play the game pre HW. After this point it is up to the player to actually start learning for themselves. Prior to this mentors should point them in the direction of guides for dungeons and their class. They should also help them out with dungeons including explaining the mechanics and answer any questions best they can or at the very least point them in the right direction.

Now as for returning players mentors should help them find their feet again. Now come expansion things will change a little as I expect novice status to be expanded to include HW. As i think they will do this with the addition of the jump potions.

[Reinha]

...wiped on first boss...

...I then continued to explain the mechanics for that boss and all others during the run.

Key points here. You were patient enough to give everyone a chance to show how they do on boss fights (which did lead to wipes this time), and you gave game play advice. Those combined with good manners are all that's required of a mentor. If you had kicked someone before the first boss for low dps without giving game play advice, then I would consider you the mentor described by the OP.

[Brian_]

The difference is that was the Vault. It's understandable someone will be undergeared or still learning their job. They're still leveling. The TC was in Sohr Khai wearing i150 fending accessories with purportedly noticeably bad DPS.

Seriously. You need to check yourself. Nobody, mentor or not, should be expected to tell someone in Sohr Khai that they should not be wearing fending accessories as a DPS job. This is like expecting your algebra teacher to teach someone how to count to 10.

If this topic was about the mentor refusing to teach a new player Sohr Khai's boss mechanics or other small details, then yes, it'd be a different conversation. Like any reasonable person has pointed out in this topic, what exactly are you supposed to think when you see someone in TC's gear and the DPS is allegedly horrible?

If this was Sastasha, Copperbell, Brayflox, or another low-level dungeon, then yea, maybe a new player doesn't yet understand what main-stat is. Maybe they don't know how to DPS well yet. I'd expect a mentor to teach the newbie a few things in that context. When we're talking about stuff that shows up in your 60 roulette, a mentor shouldn't need to teach you things that you'd normally learn when you are level 15.

[Alex_LoneWolf]

I went back again and read the OP's first post, then thought about it a bit with what everyone's said.

From what I'm reading in the OP's original post, no effort was made by anyone in two parties to teach mechanics and from what I've read, no one look at the OP's gear until people went looking at the Lodestone profile after the kick and first post. Although mentors shouldn't have to explain "Hey, you have a fending accessory on", it happens. We're all human and make mistakes.

One thing I'd also like to point out with gear is that the Recommended Gear button sometimes can be a pain. I've had it recommend accessories that are for my crafting & gathering classes, rather than battle or magic. Personally, I don't care why the fending accessory is there. It looks like it was just a mistake that was made, unless it's just to raise iLv. to get in, which I find to be lazy with how easy it is to get tomes. But we can't assume.

OP has also gone on record as saying that she watches videos also so that she can try to understand the mechanics, so she is not going in blind. When I first cleared Sohr Khai, I went in blind, but was with an FC member and a couple of friends who knew the fights. I messed up on a lot of stuff, my DPS was terrible, and I failed miserably at mechanics. It's been some time since I've cleared and I still sometimes wipe with people who are clearing it.

Gear aside, whether it's Sastasha or Sohr Khai, I still think that a mentor shouldn't be worrying about DPS and how fast things are dying for someone who's new to the instance unless there's an enrage that a party has to worry about, which I can't recall the last time I saw one of those in a dungeon like Sohr Khai.

[Nixxe]

One thing I'd also like to point out with gear is that the Recommended Gear button sometimes can be a pain. I've had it recommend accessories that are for my crafting & gathering classes, rather than battle or magic. Personally, I don't care why the fending accessory is there. It looks like it was just a mistake that was made, unless it's just to raise iLv. to get in, which I find to be lazy with how easy it is to get tomes. But we can't assume.

Yeah, Recommended Gear currently wants me to equip my level 41 dark knight with a Silver Ring of Crafting because I melded it with a vitality materia I at some point for whatever reason, over the level 25 Serpent Private's Ring it's currently wearing, which may be a DPS ring, but in low level dungeons I can't imagine it matters.

[ElHeggunte]

Gear aside, whether it's Sastasha or Sohr Khai, I still think that a mentor shouldn't be worrying about DPS and how fast things are dying for someone who's new to the instance unless there's an enrage that a party has to worry about, which I can't recall the last time I saw one of those in a dungeon like Sohr Khai.

Poqhiraj has a soft enrage depending on how good your healer is. Hraesvelgr has a hard enrage since you'll eventually run out of platforms to stand on, and there's no surviving that. Final Steps of Faith is right after, which has a much stricter hard enrage.

If the OP's DPS was low enough for others to notice and get them removed from two different, unrelated groups it's unlikely they would have killed Hraesvelgr and they most certainly wouldn't have made it past Nidhogg. At least not without their group having to carry them like Atlas.

[Mithrahn]

First things first, sorry, only read til Page 11.

Now my reply:

Done more to prepare for it? Do you mean you want them running instances below their current ilvl that give barely any Lore for days on end so that they can overgear a duty so that YOU can get through it 5 minutes faster?

The process in XIV is bloody simple.

You get the minimum ilvl for a duty.
You run that duty over and over until you have the gear from it and enough currency to get better gear.
Once you have the minimum ilvl for the next duty, you move to that and repeat the process.

The OP Met the minimum ilvl. Attempted to run the duty and was kicked.
How in the hell do you expect this player to get better gear if they are literally being blocked from doing the content that will allow them to get better gear?

My Avg.iLvl is 223 on my NIN and 230 on my SCH. My latest Duty Finder dungeon is The Aetherochemical Research Facility and latest trial is The Singularity Reactor. I have not done anything past that, no Sohr Khai or whatever. How did I gear up?
Please, people who don't want to try will always have excuses. People who wants to rise to the challenge/rise up/whatever will always try harder.
It's the mindset. There is no 'impossible' if you have the will.

On that note, I'll answer my own question of "How did I gear up?"
I took the Foundation daily hunts for Centurio seals and used those said seals for gears. I crafted my own i220. I also geared up with PvP garo gears later on (though i'm unlikely to use this for 3.x PvE content)

Oh yeah, to repeat myself, my latest content done is still only the 3.0 main story end dungeon, nothing past 3.0++ patches, I did do Diadem a little but I did not use anything i obtained from there. I did do Palace of the Dead but only till floor 30, not enough to get the i235 and/or i255 weapons. I also did my anima but it's only up to the third phase right now.

So, if I can gear up to avg ilvl 230 without getting any further than Aetherochemical Research Facility NM, why is it so hard for other people to do so?

(Edit: Oh, and I also did Alexander - The Fist of the Father, but really, that was only once, which was also after I geared up with those Centurio Seals, and I didn't claim any loot from it)

[TThibi]

Probably already stated but if you are new you absolutely should not be running the newest dungeons in gear the ilvl you have access to immediately. Your first task once you clear the MSQ is to take a second job to 60, this helps you build wealth and currency, also gets you dungeon experience you missed out on running msq. Se has given you a wonderful and horrible tool for this in the form of Deep Dungeon aka Palace of the dead. Use it but don't rely on it, take the time to play around. It will also help you get an appropriate weapon for both jobs, Padjali then upgrade to Kinna, use Palace and pvp to build your currency, Both Lore and Scripture will help and Garo event makes pvp attractive right now so use abuse and slay your way to glory. At 235+ ilvl try those high dungeons again and always always ignore the mentors they are terrible people anyway.

[Alex_LoneWolf]

Probably already stated but if you are new you absolutely should not be running the newest dungeons in gear the ilvl you have access to immediately. Your first task once you clear the MSQ is to take a second job to 60...

The only issue with this is that Sohr Khai is part of the Main Story Quest line, so technically it's part of it.

However, I can agree with using alternative methods as you mentioned in order to get tomes.

[Alex_LoneWolf]

Poqhiraj has a soft enrage depending on how good your healer is. Hraesvelgr has a hard enrage since you'll eventually run out of platforms to stand on, and there's no surviving that. Final Steps of Faith is right after, which has a much stricter hard enrage.

If the OP's DPS was low enough for others to notice and get them removed from two different, unrelated groups it's unlikely they would have killed Hraesvelgr and they most certainly wouldn't have made it past Nidhogg. At least not without their group having to carry them like Atlas.

The issue here is that the OP got to none of the bosses. If the OP had said they'd gotten to the mog chieftan, then I could possibly understand, but mob trash really isn't the best when it comes to learning how much damage someone can output. OP also mentioned that the group was unhappy that they couldn't do big pulls, so I'm not really thinking that OP was given a chance. One thing we have to all remember is how these dungeons were for some people when they were just released; they weren't a cake walk for everyone.