Idea for more relevant Mentor Icons for Mentors

[Zwipp]

This is an urban legend with no evidence whatsoever. Problematic mentors in content look like such a tiny minority in this game, but people get so hyped up over the few bad encounters they have.

No evidence? I've both seen and heard enough in-game, from friends and on forums to actually see that there is a problem. And we're not talking about some 1%.
And if it really were an urban legend, why did SE feel the need to add the requirement update?

But all that aside, I want to change the icon to take away those people who becomes mentors just for the crown, no matter how small the percentage may be.
And even if this won't change who become mentors and who doesn't, it might still get mentors flamed a little less. A lot of people seemed to get annoyed by the crown itself.

[EaMett]

No evidence? I've both seen and heard enough in-game, from friends and on forums to actually see that there is a problem. And we're not talking about some 1%.
And if it really were an urban legend, why did SE feel the need to add the requirement update?

But all that aside, I want to change the icon to take away those people who becomes mentors just for the crown, no matter how small the percentage may be.
And even if this won't change who become mentors and who doesn't, it might still get mentors flamed a little less. A lot of people seemed to get annoyed by the crown itself.

I don't mind the icon change. I never cared much for the crown as a symbol. Like you say, if anything it'll highlight that the icon isn't the issue and maybe slow the amount of mentor bashing going on.

And yes it is most likely around the 1% range (and that's including helpful mentors that can lose patience with sprouts at times and those that drop ex trials but are otherwise fine). On Aether it's closer to 1.2-1.3%. The reason people talk about it a lot is most likely survivor bias. People will ignore the almost 80% of mentors who are silent because it's really easy to miss them, they skim over the full 20% of mentors who do help in content. Because they either don't take note of the fact they're mentors or just because it's normal for a mentor to help. But if one in a hundred mentors says something bad, that really sticks in people's minds.

FYI: The numbers come from keeping an updated spreadsheet of mentor encounters for Aether. I wouldn't expect that much difference with other data centers, though it would be nice if someone on the EU DCs could share the same kind of info to see if the language barrier makes a difference or not.