Quote Originally Posted by OliverQ View Post
I read a thread here from a couple years ago that people kind of hate mentors and if they have the mentor crown, it's an automatic bad sign to most people.

Does that stigma still exist? Do most mentors hide their mentor status most of time? Would be nice to be able to help new players, but not sure the mentor system really makes that possible.
The stigma exists mostly on social media in my experience. It's mostly made of fairy tales and unicorns, which a lot of tropes are made of tbh. I haven't seen much of it in the actual game after 7 years on several NNs, but I've heard some NNs are really crummy so... The mentor roulette is more toxic sometimes I believe, but I don't use it. It's a different type of mentorship than NN.

What matter is that you want to help new players, or others in general. You don't need much more than this. All mentors have their own specific fields where they're competent and knowledgeable, and that's where you can help. And even at a baseline level, the bulk of the help new players usually require is when they get their first mount and how they do get it, or just finding nice players to help them through dungeons, crafts and whatnot. If you're ready to just help them run through things, you're already doing the brunt of the work in any NN. The other big part is to actually invite new players (and I mean, in masses, not speaking about the cute sprout you met somewhere, you need to invite a lot and make people feel welcome, which in my opinion is the secret sauce of keeping NNs relatively healthy and wholesome through the addition of constant new blood).

But really, there is no ingame metric of what makes a good mentor or a bad mentor. The only metric is you being a decent human being and willing to help them sprouts.