Toxic Mentor Problem

[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.

[Hash_Browns]

Maybe ask them before the run starts if they need help or if it's their first time in a dungeon or something and if so nicely explain to them. Bombarding them with advise when they don't ask makes them feel they have no control of their character and have to do absolutely perfect.

New players should really be the ones to ask for advice, or that's how I've always done it.
Whenever advice is offered, the first reaction is usually the "I pLaY fOr FuN" or "you don't pay my sub" line.

[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.

[SturmChurro]

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?.

That's off-topic for the NN, probably liable to be kicked. Pizza and anime is what NN is for!

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

That sucks, my goal is to reach Mentor status since I really like helping others but getting stuck with really rude ones is making me question that goal.

Think about this for a second. If the way you act when people try to direct you to what you are doing is wrong, why do you think people would react any different when you do the same once you get a shiny crown?