Remove the Mentor crown

[Jeeqbit]

What would replace the mentor crown?

The crown helps you to understand who is a veteran player, just like the sprout icon helps you to understand who is a new player. People without the crown are somewhere in the middle of that.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

What would replace the mentor crown?

The crown helps you to understand who is a veteran player, just like the sprout icon helps you to understand who is a new player. People without the crown are somewhere in the middle of that.

Patently false considering how easy it is to gain mentor status if you actively make an effort to obtain it. A sprout could look up what they need for it, work on it their whole way through the game, and immediately become one not long after hitting level cap.

Meanwhile some people who have been playing since 1.0 don't have it, simply because they don't want it. A crown doesn't indicate a veteran (it's easy to obtain for anyone), just as a sprout doesn't always indicate a new player (alts exist).

Mentor icon needs to go, as well as rewards. If you want to actually help and teach others, you can do that without a stupid crown by your name. The watering can suggestion is nice, but the sad truth is most on NA/EU will become a mentor specifically for any kind of 'nameplate glamour', no matter what it is. And then we just have the exact same problem all over again.

Icon needs to go, rewards need to go. It baffles me that they think they need to tie a reward to simply helping people. That's its own reward, seeing people take your advice or obtain new knowledge you've shared and pass it on to others. If that isn't enough for someone, then they shouldn't really be calling themselves a mentor.

[Jeeqbit]

Patently false considering how easy it is to gain mentor status if you actively make an effort to obtain it. A sprout could look up what they need for it, work on it their whole way through the game, and immediately become one not long after hitting level cap.

Does this happen in practice though? I would say it happens sometimes where they become a trade mentor this way and that is a problem. They usually do not become a pve mentor this way and almost everyone that has pve mentor that I've ever met seems to have genuinely played the game a lot.

Meanwhile some people who have been playing since 1.0 don't have it, simply because they don't want it. A crown doesn't indicate a veteran (it's easy to obtain for anyone), just as a sprout doesn't always indicate a new player (alts exist).

Exceptions exist, but generally I can rely on pve mentors to know the things I want them to know (for example, not falling for the mechanic tricks I wouldn't fall for). Generally I can rely on the sprout or returner icon to predict that someone will fail a mechanic.

When I play other games, it is nice when there is an indication of who is a veteran player because then I know they will be full of answers.

[Veranolth]

What would replace the mentor crown?

The crown helps you to understand who is a veteran player, just like the sprout icon helps you to understand who is a new player. People without the crown are somewhere in the middle of that.

Except the crown doesn't mean you're a veteran. I got my crown after about a year and a half of playing in August of last year, and I even now I would not consider myself a veteran when I know people who have played this game since ARR or HW.

I don't agree with removing the crown or the rewards, but I do think the requirements to becoming a mentor could use some change.