Some mentors...

[RyuSaarva]

The issue with mentor roulette is its something you can achieve through sheer time spent, rather than a sense of accomplishment. Itd make more sense if you could achieve the mentor title by completing so many savage fights synced, or experts synced, rather than "Did you do this enough time thorugh sheer boredom."

Beyond that, more resources need to be applied to the game to accurately tell newer players whats up. And to be frank, the OF here (as well as Reddit) are generally not great for this. There is plenty of bad advice floating around here and on Reddit. Not every thing, mind you. There is some real solid tips that do pop up, but a lot of it is either unimportant, or just wrong. So much so that part of the issue with players getting stuck with bad mentors, or with entitled players who do the "You dont pay my sub" thing when you offer up more optimal play, or people complaining standard content is "Just to hard! Nerf it! This isnt savage!" is due to them getting the wrong kind of training when they started the game. The develop bad habits and stick to them rather than being taught solid basics from the get go.

mentor is not someone who is only a raider, mentors help people with all kinds of things and doing extreme primals with randoms who do not know the strategy or speak english, is harder than doing savage with your raid team.

[Wolwosh]

Most mentors I met were so bad ...
They can hardly keep hate, the other non mentor dps out dps them x2, they always seem to be the 1st
To die in alliance raids
God forbid you criticize them they'll leave immediatly.
For me its a nice indicator of who not to listen to ^^

[CazzT]

Haven't those people already made a decision?

Your argument is a bit of a paradox. Policy makers made a policy. You're arguing it be changed, and managed by the same ones who made the current policy. And this is why I said everyone in this thread is too incompetent to make any sort of standard. You all cannot even agree on what the policy should be. And when questioned, you default it to the very ones who made the status quo.

This is a nontraversy at best. You have a blacklist tool you can use. Use it on mentors you don't agree with.

How is it a paradox? Policies and rules can be updated and changed. That's not paradox, that's perfectly normal and happens all the time. Companies don't make policies solely based on what customers want, so why are you stuck on this line of thinking?

People are asking for the policy to be updated. I can understand why, even though I can't see it happening for a number of reasons. But it's not a paradox to ask for a policy to change. I also don't see more than a few people asking for the customers to decide on what change is made.

Frankly, you're approaching this entire issue from a very strange angle.

[Canadane]

People seem to expect Mentors to be good at the job.
When in fact, they're just glorified queue fillers and chatbots to keep novices entertained.

Nothing about being a mentor requires any sort of skill check or even knowledge check.

[Dfess]

People seem to expect Mentors to be good at the job.
When in fact, they're just glorified queue fillers and chatbots to keep novices entertained.

Nothing about being a mentor requires any sort of skill check or even knowledge check.

i'd be down for a test of knowledge. like a multiple choice you would have to take on the website. even writing an essay on why you want to become a mentor or why you think you would be qualified to be a mentor.

[Kaethra]

i'd be down for a test of knowledge. like a multiple choice you would have to take on the website. even writing an essay on why you want to become a mentor or why you think you would be qualified to be a mentor.

We should have an in person interview and criminal background check while we're at it.