Mentors...please!

[Hatfright]

You know more than you think you do. Some of the most important things you learn leveling up all the jobs is how they interact with each other.

You've felt the pain as a healer of a tank who doesn't use a single defensive CD.

You've seen pulls take way too long because DPS refuse to use any aoe whatsoever.

You've seen healers who think their only job is to heal and not mitigate damage by helping kill mobs.

All of this knowledge you can pass on to other players.

While this is true, not so many people actually use that knowledge themselves, what to say about passing it to new players. Not once or twice I saw someone leveling one last tank or healer, who didn't knew basics of the roles. I mean, how can you level 3 tanks and not know they generate more agro when in "stance". And yet, there is people like that. Not telling it's mentors, but still.

The only thing that I feel might really be beneficial is rating mentor combat proficiency (ie can this mentor clear Savage)

I disagree. You can be hepful without working your axe off in savages. Some people just don't want to do that part of content for whatever reason, and thats totally fine imo.

Until they get rid of that terrible mentor roulette they will never fix the problem.
The idea of rewarding mentors for their efforts seems great at first but in the end what happens, what always happen, is you are forcing people to be mentors when they aren't suited for that to get their shiny mount.

This. People becoming mentors just for the sake of it and for mount is the worst.

I got that many times, mentors or not. You gotta know that mentors are still people and sadly, some of them are a-holes. Just report them, there's not much more to be done.

The thing is, most of the times reports don't do anything. You get the advise to BL them, but that ain't preventing you from meeting them in roulettes again, AFAIK. You just can't see what they're typing in chat, if at all. That's it. Attitude is still there.

[DarkMasamune]

The thing is, most of the times reports don't do anything. You get the advise to BL them, but that ain't preventing you from meeting them in roulettes again, AFAIK. You just can't see what they're typing in chat, if at all. That's it. Attitude is still there.

Yeah, I'm aware of that. The BL thing really isn't working as it should and reports aren't doing much. That's why I said there isn't much else to be done. People can be toxic, mentors or not, and building a system where no mentors would be toxic would be great, but I can't really see how this could be done (even thought it would be great, yeah).