Quote Originally Posted by sarehptar View Post
There's honestly no way for mentors to win. If they stay silent throughout a run where people are having problems, they get treated like crap for "not being helpful" and just "farming for achievements." If they speak up, they get treated like crap for "offering unneeded advice." What can you even do?
My feelings are basically this. I once got flak for having a bad attitude after I'd explained the whole of Garuda EX, from start to finish, from memory, which was more than the other mentor in the party could do. I'm very near just dropping being a mentor entirely because you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. There aren't enough smileys in the world to make unsolicited advice come across as helpful, and 9 times out of 10 you're going to get ignored anyway, with that last 1 in 10 being told to stick your head in a blender. I barely ever feel appreciated as a mentor, and I doubt that's ever going to change.