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    Marco Ryse
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    Paladin Lv 70

    Mentor System - How is it on your server?

    So I joined this new mentor thing on my server and I was not impressed at all. It was filled with nothing but the mentors talking among themselves arguing over the tank changes. There were 91 mentors and only 12 sprouts on which is a bit lopsided from a number standpoint.

    I don't see how this is any benefit to new people when it just contains mentors arguing. It was such a piece of crap that I revoked my mentor status. By the way, if you do this, you cannot sign back up for 30 days (if I recall) it seems according to NPC.

    Anyway, this was just my server. How has your experience been with it.
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    But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
    I have spread my dreams under your feet;
    Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

    - William Butler Yeats

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    Heixin Xiaoshuita
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    Warrior Lv 100
    On Balmung, I can never connect to it.
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    Cherry Phox
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    Hyperion
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    Conjurer Lv 60
    Well, if you're a mentor. Do the only thing you can do. Find sprouts in need of sempais and ask if they wanna join.
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    Geula Goldenberg
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    Scholar Lv 50
    I can't say anything about the sprout chat but on Chaos datacenter in dungeons/trials there is hardly ever advice given by mentors even when the party fails miserably. If I remember correctly one time I saw a mentor be first to leave or right after the first person left after a single early wipe. Really disheartening, it almost feels like the mentor roulette will become just a bonus for the mentors.
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    Khalith Mateo
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    Mateus
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    Paladin Lv 100
    I may as well share this story here. Did the new content with two friends of mine and in the Antitower our fourth member had the Mentor crown thing. They died in every boss fight, stood in things, didn't kill adds, and overall had a horrific performance and was one of the worst mnk's I'd ever seen.

    My theory was that she was just trying to teach us how NOT to play in a dungeon.
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    Raela Sarinelle
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    I had to constantly res the blm with the mentor crown in my sephirot run. :v never learned mechanics, repeatedly died to the same reasons, etc.. Only was thrown off once though.
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    Player MeiUshu's Avatar
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    Sophia Sormanu
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    Balmung
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    Conjurer Lv 80
    how is all this coming to you all as a surprise is beyond my understanding.

    BUT to be fair, you cant be a mentor to what you dont know yet, so mostly your expériences came from new content actually yesterday's content.

    So yeah maybe not mixing all and everything might be a good way to go about.
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    Talya Stormbreaker
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    Lamia
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    Warrior Lv 70
    This morning there were actual sprouts in the chat (in addition to six THM bots) and the mentors were arguing over whether SCH was a terrible healer or not. When I asked them not to poison the well they claimed they were having a meta discussion and can't mentors learn from other mentors too!!!!!

    Imo saying things like "SCH is fsking terrible" is not a meta discussion, it's not helpful for new players at all.

    Also, so far I've seen two new people ask for help tanking something, and no mentors stepped up. (Me included.)
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    Shoki One
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    Shiva
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    Dark Knight Lv 80
    Opened the mentor chat, read trashtalk spam from other mentors only, closed the mentor chat.
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    Teayen Seishero
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    Midgardsormr
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    Gladiator Lv 70
    I knew from day one this was gunna be bad. Sadly it's mostly just on us westerners side of the game. The reason they even added this is cause a large portion of the Japanese player base asked for it as a way to he lo streamline what they were already doing. Frankly I think they should have just left it on the Asian servers and never gave it to NA. A vast majority of the people I have seen with the crown mostly just have it as some a way to show off and actually have no intention of helping others. Personally I have been doing what the mentor system was intended for for a long time and I don't need some tainted program to help me. I hope maybe one day we can get outr shit together and fix this issue but who knows.0
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