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

[Ramziez]

I have a serious, unbiased question since I rarely deal with mentors, the novice network, etc etc.

One day I said into my FC chat that if anybody wanted help with clears related to Stormblood main-story dungeons, I would like to help because of boredom.

They said I should become a mentor because the mentor roulette gives "random content".

I responded by saying something along these lines (I don't have the chat log so I'm going off memory):

"I would need to be an exceptional player for that. The first step is knowing one's own limitations, correct? I don't consider myself a bad player, but I'm not exactly savage raid material either."

The first response was "I already like you better than any mentor"

That was a red flag for me. Are there *really* mentors running around who aren't....um...helpful?

It depends on the person as a lot of people stated a lot of people just become mentors for the mount rewards and not for helping others. Honestly I'm my case I don't even have mentor roulette unlocked since I cannot do ultimate or most savage content, and I just help out people whenever I come across them in my other roulettes and in the world when someone asks for help.

It is sad though because people like me who honestly want to help get the same bad rap as the bad mentors. Last night I actually had someone ridiculing me because I was a mentor during my leveling roulette run. I even partied with one of the randos that was in that run to do trials roulette, we got Seperot with like 2 or 3 newbies who never done it. I explained everything needed and got 3 comms from that run and it felt good. The guy from my leveling roulette run actually said I was a really good mentor.

Kind of a runabout way to say it but mentors don't usually get a good reputation with its current implementation.