Issue with mentors is that 95% of them are pure AFK people who gather at limsa in their new mods to show everyone on mare. They don't do anything. Novice chat is dead on most servers because God forbids that you say anything related to in-game content or ask for help. Everytime some sprout came and asked for trial help because queue time was 30 min to 1 hour+, they would get angry on sprout and tell:

''do it like its meant to be done! ; don't spam your pf here!!! ; novice chat isn't a place to get some easy help! If everyone asks for help, then people will never learn to do themselves!!!"

Then what happens is that their arguing process takes longer than what would trial take. But it's always easier to sit afk and tell a sprout that he is always wrong and mentors are always right. Then if you ask a genuine question, you get a lot of joke or sex joke responses and never a straight true answer. So they proceed to warn you that asking for pf help will be penalized and you will get kicked for help asking.

"Novice chat isn't a global chat, stop misusing it!!!". Then those same mentors proceed to talk about ERP and 18+ shenanigans they were doing... all openly in novice chat. What an irony.

This is why I can't respect mentors anymore (exception are those who actually want to help and fight against lazy mentors) because of how bad this system has become. Most have become mentors by spamming guildheists so then they become incredibly dumb at doing any harder content. Many mentors will actually suck at basic dps lmao.