Toxic Mentor Problem

[Saintly]

Mentor system is a currently a joke and in need of complete overhaul.
PvE Mentor don't for example don't even require someone to have completed a single Savage.

What is such a mentor gonna teach to others? The mechanics of Sastasha?

[Goji1639]

They just shouldn't offer rewards for it. Leave it only as a convenient way for people who want help to meet/communicate with people who want to help, and even if 90% of the mentors leave it'll still be a better system.

[Freyt]

I think we've got a toxic mentee problem.

[RyuSaarva]

I see more anti mentor toxicity, if you want help, ask it from the mentors who are in mentor chat and not from random people who are using their mentor icon.

[RyuSaarva]

Mentor system is a currently a joke and in need of complete overhaul.
PvE Mentor don't for example don't even require someone to have completed a single Savage.

What is such a mentor gonna teach to others? The mechanics of Sastasha?

99% of all question people ask from mentors are things like; which level is the first dungeon, when do I get my mount, how do I enchance my gear (materia) etc, people do not ask tips how to beat savage bosses.

[Katie_Kitty]

Made a forum only for this glaring problem. More than half the mentors I get are really mean or don't help at all. Square Enix please make a ranking system so when they get 5/10 or below they get booted from having mentor status please these people are not there to help they only have it to show off.

This would be ridiculously abused. Given all the hate that people have for mentors in this community, any mentor who isn't a perfect human being in every way and completely flawless in their play in every single duty would get flooded with bad ratings by bitter people who want to maliciously attack them. Simply wearing the crown would make you the target of this kind of abusive behavior.

[Krotoan]

This would be ridiculously abused. Given all the hate that people have for mentors in this community, any mentor who isn't a perfect human being in every way and completely flawless in their play in every single duty would get flooded with bad ratings by bitter people who want to maliciously attack them. Simply wearing the crown would make you the target of this kind of abusive behavior.

... but all that happens if you "fail" is you get stripped of the crown.

I agree if there was any sort of "ding" system for being a mentor it'd have to have regulations on it and balances so a guild couldn't just hammer someone with reports (only 1 report per run with a mentor on a roulette when they have their crown out or some such) and a high threshhold or maybe several strikes needed with slowly progressing punishments (no mentor roulette for a week)...

But the system is already all kinds of messed up with people only fulfilling it for the reward. Newbies need people they know they can ask questions without getting harshed upon themselves.

I see more anti mentor toxicity, if you want help, ask it from the mentors who are in mentor chat and not from random people who are using their mentor icon.

.. if you don't want to help why do you have the icon on?

[DenzelVilliers]

There's a lot Toxic Mentors in this game, i left Novice Network because of that, many elitist Mentors that never interacts with chat not even to say "Hi" and loves to ban people without any relevant reason.

At the beggining for ShB i was talking with another mentor in NN about GNB skills, a Randon mentor said that wasn't the place to talk about game mechanics and we should send PM to each other because NN was made for questions and nothing more, well, there's no place in game or Lodestone that says that NN is made for ONLY and EXCLUSIVELY answer novice questions, and who socialize or talk about game mechanics is bannable. The funny thing is that 5 min later the same mentor started to talk about a "Pizza Bob" that he bought last night, so i can't talk about game stuff in NN but he can talk about Pizza?.

To be honest, most of Mentors, like over 90% of them do not know nothing, do not help anyone, do not answer any question or anything that the purpose should be, they are mentors only to talk in NN, to get Mentor Rolettes Achievments or just because Mentor Icon is "cute" to use. Are useless abd arrogant people in their most.

But some people that aren't mentors are quiet abusive too, last week i did a Rolette as AST against Lakshmi, everyone forgets to use stance at least once in your life especially in Sync content that reset your buffs when you start it, so the other healer started to scold me with offensive words saying that he was healing alone ( as if AST can't heal at all without stance ) and that mentors these days sucks and etc, i just reported him right after that fight for harassment.

[Kurando]

Mentors are human at the end of the day and they can be jerks just like anyone else. Don't put too much faith in someone with a crown, you'll find those without crowns can be helpful perhaps even more so.

[RyuSaarva]

.. if you don't want to help why do you have the icon on?

personally I like looking to meld materia icon most but I don't bother to even turn it on because you have to do it manually everytime you log in, only mentor chat and mentor roulette automatically gives you the mentor icon.