Quote Originally Posted by Nariel View Post
Mentor that want to help novice can use the chanel and you don't need the mentor status to give advice in instances anyway. But I'd say the ridiculous/not-a-crown icon is a middle ground, but its hopping people vanity won't take any icon as long as it make them look "superior".

I don't know if actual novice get the memo about "that guy with a crown is a mentor, ask him for help if you need". I've yet to see someone asking me for advice outside of the chanel.

The best course of action would be giving an incensitive to mentoring so they have to actualy be nice to get a cool crown, like an icon that get flashier/cooler as you get mentor commendation but its a bit redundent with the actual commendation system that reward you for playing heal or tank.
And if you're not in the novice network (like a lot of people; I really do not need a server-wide channel in my chat log), which doesn't help when you're in a duty, anyway, where advice is most helpful?

Just because you're under this misguided notion that people only ever want the crown for vanity (I'd argue no one does, at least not a significant amount), doesn't mean it isn't useful.

Commendations really don't matter; they're handed out on a personal, subjective basis, where as the Mentor system is based on an objective system.

Quote Originally Posted by EaMett View Post
The vast majority of mentors I've played with these past 4 years are just silent. That's like 90% of them (and we're talking hundreds if not thousands of encounters).
Probably because we tend to either get ignored or even yelled at for offering friendly advice, and I know that at least in my case, I don't want to insult anyone by assuming they don't already know what to do. It's why communication is important; nobody can read minds.