The mentor system sucks, and here's how I would fix it.

[cicatriz313]

I wouldn’t generalize here. There are lots of folks that are mentors that are not just in it for the mount. The mount is a nice added bonus don’t get me wrong but I didn’t agree to be a mentor just so i could grind out one mount. I actually like helping people.

It's pretty easy to generalize based on experience, but I'm glad to know you exist. Also, if you like helping people you don't need a system to do it, right? So you could do away with the system still np.

Ok it seems the point was missed. I'll condense.

IF the current rewards are already struggling to draw people in for the queue (given the massive wait time on some peoples queue's for say old EX trials) what other rewards would you suggest be added?

I've never talked about the queue being long or anything? If the system currently isn't working, why would we leave it alone as you said to do? I'm saying the system isn't working, so what is the point of the system. We can keep the roulette for anyone who wants to continue progressing towards astrope without a silly crown or global chat. I personally don't have any desires in making old ex trials relevant in df again.

Eh, not everyone cares about the mount, though I’m sure quite a few do—I’m not saying you’re wrong there, but some of us don’t care about it.

I started doing Mentor Roulette because I was bored and it was fun going through some of the older content it gives sometimes (not the Guildhests, but I actually find it fun to get EX primals in there sometimes). I couldn’t care less about Astrope or any of the other titles/rewards. I already have my desired title anyways lol.

Mentor Roulette basically serves to fill waiting queues—it’s not just something that matches you with new players. I can get stuff in there with no new player bonuses at all. Most I wait for a queue to pop is 5~10 mins if I go DPS. But on healer my queues are almost always instant, and I imagine that tanks are the same.

I get that I over-generalized there, but it was in responding to someone else about who would run the roulette if the "mentor" part were removed. The answer was just saying that if the roulette existed without having mentorship attached to it, people would still run it even if the mentor system went away.