Novice network needs to be removed.

[Amarande]

Most of the time, Zodiark's Novice Network does honestly try to help. But, of course, it isn't perfect.

Sometimes I feel like the answers some people give aren't really gauging what sort of need the person has. Their explanations tend to be either super vague or overly detailed (with a focus on endgame rotations for jobs), which might trip up someone who's brand new to the game.

Worst it gets is people just arguing about dumb stuff. Especially when they pass wrong information as fact. Such as "GNB is the worst tank" (it isn't, and they were arguing that it was all because Heart of Corundum wasn't as good as TBN or Bloodwhetting), or "Ninja is underperforming" (it wasn't, it was even considered meta). Like, even when you call them out on it, the first thing they say is "Well I main it".

I've seen this sort of exchange on other Worlds too. It especially often happens when a more casual Mentor is trying to give a sprout an understanding of their job to a level that's reasonable (the kind that is perfectly adequate for leveling and for casual endgame content) but which may not necessarily be fully polished from a Savage or Ultimate standpoint.

Quite frequently, a more hardcore Mentor will then pipe in and accuse the milder teacher of "misinformation" which tends to degenerate into an argument, which does not in any way benefit the sprout.

(I want to blame this on the near-total domination of mainstream FFXIV culture by the hardcore raiders. But, still more depressingly. Is this really anything unique? As I've probably mentioned before, it feels like "hobbies for fun" in general are starting to become an endangered species, with the exception of entirely solitary ones, and gaming may just be a more glaring example than most.)