Idea for more relevant Mentor Icons for Mentors

[Lumivyory]

And exactly how do you know? Have you been keeping track of all mentors you've been encountering in content? For how long? It's very likely that you just don't notice mentors that aren't bad.

I've posted this before but I'll do so again. I've been tracking this for a while now on the Aether DC.

If you guys want to claim that mentors are bad. Show me your numbers. Survivor bias is a thing, and nobody is immune to it.

Well good for you, YOUR datacenter has a good amount of decent mentors. Doesn't mean every datacenter is like that.
And silent mentors are also not great when there are OBVIOUSLY things to be said. When the whole party knows what they're doing then sure, they can be silent.

Nobody here is saying that all mentors are bad, obviously there are good mentors out there. But a good amount of the ones I saw weren't helpful.


Such mentors include:

- Healer mentors that DPS instead of healing and leave it to their co-healer to do most of the job ("green DPS")

- Mentors who stand in AoE just to get better placement in the DPS list

- Mentors who whine when there is not enough "DPS" on a trash pull, and then complain that you are "not doing your job" even as they themselves, for example, can't even silence a raid-wide attack several times in a row, or let a DPS tank on purpose, or can't even Esuna/Heal

- Mentors who see a party member die several times to the same mechanic, yet don't bother explaining the mechanic to that person even after the fight is over because "watch guides"

This icon discussion is a thinly veiled attempt to criticize the whole mentor system, but in any case, the system is here to stay. We will keep offering help, advertising our willingness to do so, correcting people's mistakes, speeding up hundreds of dungeon queues beyond the daily reward and inviting sprouts to the novice network community no matter how much others hate it. It's nothing new that teaching is a thankless job.

It was already said in this thread that mentor system is fine. People that just want a crown/rewards and don't want to help are not.