Want to become a mentor, but I'm not sure if I should

[E4EO]

Hi everyone,

I recently got the ability to become a mentor through the DoL, DoH route, now I know that isn\\'t enough to become a good mentor so I plan to get a dps to 80 along with my WHM, PLD, CUL, and BTN, along with beating Titania and Innocence Ex so I can have experience with all types of jobs at all levels of play, this comes with my 1000 hours of playtime, and I typically play the game daily if only for a few hours.

But I still feel I won\\'t be a good enough mentor, I look at so many mentors and see them having thousands of hours played, with almost all jobs to 80 and every piece of content beat. Then I look at myself with the bare minimum requirements to be a mentor and think, "is that really enough?", I don\\'t want to play the game 24/7 over the course of thousands of hour\\'s, I don\\'t want to level up all jobs to 80, I don\\'t want to do Ex primals every other day. But the other thing is, I hear all this talk about those same mentors who are just in it for the crown, who berate noobs for being noobs, and that\\'s when I think that maybe I do have enough credentials to be a good mentor because I wouldn\\'t be in it just to berate sprouts and wave around my crown.

So I\\'d like to ask you guy\\'s, are my credentials enough if I\\'m willing to help sprouts? Is there anything I should add?

I know I could help sprouts without the crown, but it just seems so much harder than with the crown. The game gives you so many resources to find and help other people that I see no reason not to use them.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Most people ignore the crown or mock it. Having the crown won't help you help others.

[Billythepancake]

Being a mentor is a meme, the novice network is almost entirely useless. If you want to help someone, just help them, you don't need a crown to do it.

[Gelesto]

By all means become a mentor but crown or not is it going to change the way you interact with other players in game? The main objective of mentors it to help new players fit into their place in whatever content it is, whether its crafting, gathering, pvp or otherwise. If you feel like you can be of help to these people taking their first steps into Eorzia then thats great, my advice would be to turn the crown off and when giving advice or help do it from a stand point where you are equals as being told what to do from someone in an apparrant form of superiority can be infuriating to some, whereas a word of advice from a fellow adventurer can be more receptive.

[Alucard135]

At least you can get a mount from it. (doing 2000 mentor roulette)

[Gaethan_Tessula]

Being a mentor is a meme, the novice network is almost entirely useless. If you want to help someone, just help them, you don't need a crown to do it.

The novice network is variable depending on what server, what time of day, and what sprouts are looking to get out of it.

If a player is looking for truly basic advice, like "what's the core essentials of X's rotation" or "I'm new to [role], where do I begin?" or the even simpler "how do I use X system?"? Novice network will probably answer it correctly or at least satisfactorily. That sort of basic advice is really all SE seems to want anyways; the mentor program is meant to ensure that new players don't quit the game, not to groom competency in content above normal difficulty.

If a player looking for optimization advice or anything to that degree? Yeah, at best they'll get the same dissent and lack of consensus seen on the forums, or reddit, or where-ever.

If someone wants it to stay on topic and never get used as a global chat, then they'll be eternally disappointed unless they move to a Japanese data center.

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Still, OP, Billy has the right of it. The standards to be a mentor are low, you don't need to be one to help others, and some people will be less likely to listen to you if you are one (it varies by person). So become one, or don't. You're plenty qualified if you do, and not missing out on much if you don't.

EDIT: I've never had anyone approach me for advice because I had the crown displayed, which says a lot. If you get the crown, you're doing it for novice network regardless of motive.

[Edax]

I know I could help sprouts without the crown, but it just seems so much harder than with the crown. The game gives you so many resources to find and help other people that I see no reason not to use them.

The mentor system is so broken that the crown is little more then an achievement reward. If you've meet the prerequisites, you might as well just take the crown as a reward.

[Saintly]

Feel free to go for it.
Everyone and his mother is a mentor now-day's and the mentor system is a complete joke anyway so you don't have to worry about being an expert.

You seem eager to help so even answering the simplest of questions will make you a far greater addition to the NN that the majority of "mentors" who got mentor status just for the crown/roulette.

Hell, i'd rather have a dozen of mentors like you who go the extra mile to learn classes/mechs over most "mentors" i met so far.

[Vidu]

At least you can get a mount from it. (doing 1000 mentor roulette)

Make that 2.000 - 1.000 will give you a monocle...

[DrWho2010]

just don't turn on the mentor crown and stay away from the novice network. then just spam mentor roulette ad nauseum and hope you just get a bunch of guildhests lol.