are mentors supposed to be helpful for new players?

[MaxCarnage]

While they are supposed to help, a lot of people become mentors because there is a mount hidden behind the mentor roulette. They're not there for your beck and call. They don't have to pay attention to every sprout 24/7. That's exhausting. They can do their own thing, too.

Besides, going to the Quicksand on Balmung, you're not going to get any responses there. The Quicksand on Balmung is solely an RP hub. Doesn't matter if people had the mentor symbol beside their name or not, they're at the Quicksand to RP, not to help sprouts. No one is going to "break rp" to answer you. Heck, most of them are probably on a chat channel that filters out say, tell, yell, and shout anyway.

Did you try Google? Asking your question in Shout? Posting your question on the forums? Basically, did you exhaust all means of getting an answer to your question before making a thread to complain about mentors?

[ICountFrom0]

Posting your question on the forums? Basically, did you exhaust all means of getting an answer to your question before making a thread to complain about mentors?

Now that you mention it, I did notice they didn't even mention what the question was here... and I realize I would have answered it if it had been in that post.