Combat Mentors - From the view of newish player

[ArmaDragkun]

We really needed another Mentor thread huh?

Sorry but I don't tend to scroll through page and page of forum posts. I just wanted to put forward my personal view about them. If you hate it so much why even reply to the thread? You could clearly see what the subject was about so you could of just as easily moved on and ignored it.

[BaconBits]

Sorry but I don't tend to scroll through page and page of forum posts. I just wanted to put forward my personal view about them. If you hate it so much why even reply to the thread? You could clearly see what the subject was about so you could of just as easily moved on and ignored it.

[Canadane]

Sorry but I don't tend to scroll through page and page of forum posts. I just wanted to put forward my personal view about them. If you hate it so much why even reply to the thread? You could clearly see what the subject was about so you could of just as easily moved on and ignored it.

The "Open Forum" style of discussion will garner talks of the subject at hand and the subject itself.

Anyway, the mentor system is great but people have too high expectations of what mentors are there for. Basically queue fillers and "ask me so you don't have to ask google."
Try not to put them on a pedestal and you won't be disappointed with the results.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

I turn on mentor icon for one from two reason:

1. I genuinely want to help randos for short period of time regardless of results. It's one of those time I want to be selfless and can feel good about it. I will actually offer instead of just waiting to be asked.
2. Lowering other players' expectation. Because yes, it's such a meme nowadays. It's easier to get around when people have low expectation from you: they barely recognize or even see you at all.

That does not mean I won't help outside situation [1]. I'm just not obliged to be that saint and help people. That's not how it works.

[Eien713]

Sorry but I don't tend to scroll through page and page of forum posts.

The search feature in the forums is there for a reason.

Now on topic, I joined the Novice Network on my server as a mentor not too long ago just to see if people's claims about NN in general were true and to see for myself how things are there, and to be honest, I was pleasantly surprised. The mentors there know so much about the game and are so helpful. As for mentors in roulettes, it's pretty much what someone else said about throwing mentors in Ex trials with sprouts who aren't the least bit prepared for it. This last point has been discussed to death, so feel free to drop by one of the many threads discussing this.

As for mentors not explaining what went wrong when someone asks them and the mentor knows the answer, I'm yet to see this.