Quote Originally Posted by Ilyrian View Post
You watch people with the crowns displayed and I often think '...and you're a mentor of what exactly?!' Certainly not playing well, in the majority of cases.
All that is required is 1000 dungeons done. As experience has taught anyone, doing something a number of times doesn't make them good at it. The Mentor Roulette has a bit more to it, but anyone can be carried through that content to get the achievement needed.

However the reason for the roulette, contrary to what people believe is to get a body into content people need peeps for and someone who has at least seen the fight once. Roulette will throw mentors into just about anything that needs people. It might be Sashtasha or Nidhogg.

-Next part is to the thread as a whole, not directed at the above quoted.

Everyone has this idea that the mentor should be regulated. That's a pretty ridiculous assumption. First who decides what is right and what is wrong? Would you all be comfortable with -Me- deciding that? Oh of course not, you all have your own ideas. But what God given right makes your ideas better than mine? You don't have that right, your ideal mentor isn't better than mine. Next is the logistical standpoint. You now have people getting whiny because someone did a bad thing, maybe not even an actual thing, maybe they did everything they were supposed to and someone decided to be a dweeb and report them anyway. You all do make a ton of frivolous reports.

So now we've got reports going out like crazy, because FFXIV players tend to rush to that when their feelings get hurt. And what hurts your feelings? Well I am right now for one with just this post. But CoC violations aside, you all get hurt when someone asks if you're a bot (lazy movements on a controller do look like bot movements, and you WILL get lazy on your fifth run through something in a row). You'll get hurt when told to put on a tank stance. You all get hurt when asked for protect. You all get offended when someone offers advice. Or when someone explains a fight (even when you expect a mentor to do this). Or hell, when someone does more damage than you. Yes some of you bastards report people for hacking because you got out damaged (usually by parser, you know the things you all are scared of).

To put it shortly, we can't really trust a GM or burden their time with this sort of thing. Nor do I even trust this community to make reporting of such an issue. You all cannot agree to what a mentor should be. So why should I trust you with the ability to report people for not mentoring properly? I don't trust any of you in this thread. I'm calling it here, you all are too incompetent to use such a feature. Unless you all want to cede judgement of mentors to me. You all agree that I know what is best for everyone. You won't do that. Nor would I even accept such a thing. Because unlike most of you, I understand that I am not God's gift to FFXIV.

So the best thing to do is leave it go. The system works. Its irritating to see mentors stand in fire. Its irritating to see them do other derpy stuff. But there are some who actually use the role properly. And those that do should be applauded. Hell reward the ones that do. Many of you are in Free Companies that do raffles and other silly things. Put some of those resources into rewarding mentors. You know, emergent gameplay, the reason many of us play these MMOs.

Newbies aren't fragile little flowers. They know when a mentor sucks. They understand they got their crown because of fulfilling an achievement. They can see the bad from the good. They understand the good ones are to be followed. But at the end of the day, they make the choice to follow or not follow someone. We don't make that choice for them. That is another thing some of you cannot seem to understand.