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    Mentor system?

    I've thought about this a little and... I was wondering SE would consider making a mentor system or something in the future. I personally would like a system that allowed us to play with friends who may of just started the game even if we're like lvl 50... maybe we could sync down or something and level up as they level?

    I know my idea may not be thought out all the way but it just sucks a little that we can have a lvl 20 friend and we can't do anything with them aside but suck their exp dry putting aside healing and res'ing them if we're higher than them with no other class near their level. >.>;;

    (Yes, I know we can fate with them but I'd like to be able to run around with a friend and maybe fight something they'd feel is really strong and challenging for their level instead of killing it in a hit.)
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    Level Sync already exists for certain bits of content, so I see absolutely no reason why this idea couldn't work!

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    What a cool idea! As someone who has plenty of low level friends just starting out, I'd love to take part in something like this in order to help them out!

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    While I like such idea in priciple with any feature like that there will be space for missuse - players pairing on purpose with lowlevel characters to be able to spiritbond or train their chocobos or fullfill various challenge log entries easier / faster etc. If you really want to help / play with newbie friends why not use another class or even make an alt? I know you'd loose some benefits in case of alts (like mounts and gear and so on) but might be still better option than tagging around "bored" in your shiny 100+ iLVL gear instakiling any mob you might trip over ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by HEC- View Post
    While I like such idea in priciple with any feature like that there will be space for missuse - players pairing on purpose with lowlevel characters to be able to spiritbond or train their chocobos or fullfill various challenge log entries easier / faster etc. If you really want to help / play with newbie friends why not use another class or even make an alt? I know you'd loose some benefits in case of alts (like mounts and gear and so on) but might be still better option than tagging around "bored" in your shiny 100+ iLVL gear instakiling any mob you might trip over ...
    Eh. People FATE grind all the time for all of those reasons. I don't see any of those reasons valid enough for dismissing this idea.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HEC- View Post
    While I like such idea in priciple with any feature like that there will be space for missuse - players pairing on purpose with lowlevel characters to be able to spiritbond or train their chocobos or fullfill various challenge log entries easier / faster etc. .
    Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean here, but I don't see why that would be a bad thing. You may be helping your friends and other newbies, but you're still getting something out of it. To me it seems like that would be an even better incentive to play with new players. Maybe even give a BOOST to the things you mentioned if you're helping someone who has the little green sprout icon next to their name.

    Seems to me it'd be a situation where everyone would win.
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    Any level 45~50 can take out a lvl 20 mob even if they were under ilvl 100+ I'd think. :x

    Also Spirit binding is done in the field anyways. Fates, South Shroud at Urth's Gift and unfortunately.... also inside Dungeons. Which a lot of players actually made threads of complains about already. While I personally don't have an opinion on the last SB method myself as long as it's not something crazy like lvl 1 gear in a lvl 50 dgn, I think this would just give another option for Spirit Binds which I personally don't see as a bad thing (It doesn't need to be faster, it could just be another method for it.)

    Chocobos at just rank 6 need 490k Exp, It would not that easily gained from mobs at lvl 10~20 if there was a system like this and as long as they gained it as normally as they do in fates I really don't see an issue.

    Challenge log isn't too hard to finish if a player actually tries to finish it. It's one of those things that is based around if the player actually wants to do it though.


    But I will say.... none of these things were thought of when I came around to this idea either though.

    I can't make an alt because I am an entry player and my friends are lvl 10 atm btw. I could wait till they are lvl 15 and use my lvl 20 pug. But I think it'd be nice to have a system like this because it'd be a lot of fun to maybe level with a person you just happened to meet one day who is a few lvls lower than you or a friend who just started off with all classes unopened but 1 class.

    I'm not bored, I can still help in other ways but I'd like to join in their adventure and play with them / experience stuff with them without being as overpowered.
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    They had the level sync in FFXI and it worked really well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wobble View Post
    They had the level sync in FFXI and it worked really well.
    Yeah! I remember it being in XI, I really liked that tbh. Being able to level and party with others even though they were a lot lower, I'm sure it can't work the same way as it did in XI considering the differences in some systems between XI and XIV. But I would still love to see a system where even players who are all 50s or maybe just higher leveled in some classes could level alongside their friends or someone important to them in XIV.
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