Mentor Requirements

[SturmChurro]

do you do +20 dungeons everyday single weekday?

20+ dungeons every day? Do people actually do this?

[Lanadra]

20+ dungeons every day? Do people actually do this?

No. Well, maybe now with the Moogle event, lots of Castrum Meridianum.

[Balmung_Griffin]

Crown was really a mistake, I never understood why they didn't made a watering can.
I've been a mentor for quite sometime and to be honest I never turn the crown on. The writing was on the wall for NN, I've turned that off first week, never looked back.
I just try to be helpful and encouraging but I don't think you need crowns or exclusive roulette to do that.

[Vahlnir]

The writing was on the wall for NN, I've turned that off first week, never looked back.

The NN on my server is pretty helpful, though it does have its moments of drama. I'm guessing every server is different in some way.

[SturmChurro]

No. Well, maybe now with the Moogle event, lots of Castrum Meridianum.

When I was playing everyday, I would do like MAX 3-4 through roulette. Usually just 2 (expert, leveling). Sometimes I wonder how some people have such a high tolerance for grinding in this game. Well, in general really.

[Dogempire]

...they should add 3K commendations gained for the Mentor roulette 2 seater pegasus, so their is required an actual mentor effort to be able to get commendations, instead of just sitting back pressing one button or botting it.

Commendations don't take any effort outside of being willing to play a tank/healer job, and don't actually prove anything other than someone clicked your name on a whim before leaving the dungeon.

Maybe if they overhauled the player commendation system to actually mean something and commendations were awarded based on performance instead of role, then commendations would be fine, but people would sooner commend the Viera with a skimpy 2B pants glam than they would a red mage who chain rezzed the entire fight

[Curisu]

What about adding a relic to the requirements for mentor.
Like, need to have finished at least one relic of one previous expansion to obtain mentor status.
That would be a better proof of a player knowing about the game and his mechanics then just farming more commendations.

[Niobee]

you do 20 ( 4-5 hours of work ) dungeons a day and get anything between 10 and 25 commendations

In 4-5 hours you can get 80-100 commendations if you run guildhests instead of dungeons.

A former FC member wanted the crown really bad (they were fairly new to the game at that time) so they ran guildhests and Ifrit story mode unsync for days to meet the requierements Didn't take them long to become Mentor, but i doubt they could provide much help if a sprout had a question.

[RocciaSolida]

How about removing the mentor system altogether? The fact that you know the """"mechanics"""" of (almost) every dungeon and trial doesn't really mean you're fit for teaching new players how to play the game properly. Also there is so much more to FFXIV than roulette duties of which it's impossible to verify the knowledge...



...and Google exists

[Lanadra]

What about adding a relic to the requirements for mentor.
Like, need to have finished at least one relic of one previous expansion to obtain mentor status.
That would be a better proof of a player knowing about the game and his mechanics then just farming more commendations.

That would tell me they were willing to grind through the absolute boredom of for example an ARR relic quest chain. Not sure how you'd gather it shows some kind of knowledge. The problem isn't that you need to raise the bar higher, the problems surrounding toxic mentors is a personality slash community problem. One that will be there as long as Mentor has things that people want.