Mentor Roulette - Are you doing it?

[Yasuhiro]

I would if it didn't have some rather high requirements. I hadn't yet got through all the 50 ex trials which I find slightly odd requirement since leafs are not very likely to end up in those anyway.

If people see your mentor crown they're obviously going to hold you to a high standard so I think it should be a requirement to have a player do extreme trials. Think of these trials as a reminder that mentors should know exactly what they're doing and reminding them of why they took on the crown, plus the oppurtunity to demonstrate your knowledge to the new people that get in any of those requirements. I think those should have been the requirements to be a mentor instead of 300 comms + 3 jobs leveled up anyone can get it with grinding but I digress.

[Cnidarian]

If people see your mentor crown they're obviously going to hold you to a high standard so I think it should be a requirement to have a player do extreme trials. Think of these trials as a reminder that mentors should know exactly what they're doing and reminding them of why they took on the crown, plus the oppurtunity to demonstrate your knowledge to the new people that get in any of those requirements. I think those should have been the requirements to be a mentor instead of 300 comms + 3 jobs leveled up anyone can get it with grinding but I digress.

I look at it a different way. The Mentor crown itself and the Novice Network is for experienced players to help out new players (sprouts). The crown allows for easy identification of someone who should be open to answering questions or helping someone new. For sprouts, this is easy as they see someone running by with the crown, they should know that they can hit that player up for assistance.

DR: Mentor, is what you described above. This is something to allow even more experienced players assist all players who are conducting something for the first time. As I mentioned earlier, I find that I wind up in a lot of 2.x EX primals when I queue for an in progress DR: Mentor. I don't mind this too much as the majority of the groups that are stuck there when I join, are open to criticism and suggestions. If they flat out do not know the fight, they are open to explanations of the strategies and for the most part are able to carry them out. I would say that I have roughly a 75% completion rate for getting these groups through the old EX primals. The only one that is somewhat of a problem is Titan EX. This is mainly due to people not being able to avoid landslides. If the group sticks around long enough for a 20% echo, I find that as long as we have 2 dps, 1 tank, 1 healer who know the fight and can stay alive, we can usually 4 man Titan EX from heart phase onward.