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

[Alucard135]

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

Oh right! Forgot about that.

[Violet_Galaxy]

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.

Don't think too hard about it. Wear the crown or not but don't think too hard about it. Unless you're into internet memes, can fit into a "clique" or are interested in constant off topic banter, NN pretty much sucks on Brynhildr so good luck with that. Just be yourself and don't take that crown seriously.

[TheForce]

Dude you got to stop taking this so seriously, the mentor system is pretty much meaningless. Crown or not, good players will be good, bad players will be bad, and helpers will be helpers. Please do not become one and try to unnecessarily police everybody, that's a quick way to piss off, or even be blacklisted by many players.

[Shougun]

Wonder what the Japanese mentor system is like, anyone have an idea? I've never had a problem with a mentor but I've never popped my head in the novice area either lol.

I thought the crown would be a good idea to let people know where to get help but it seems like most people believe it just makes them unnecessarily full of it . I've always liked the watering can idea lol. /shrug, I like the system idea but if it can be made smoother than I suppose that's good too. Not fully connected but curious how this new social system they've been working on will be (when Yoshida was talking about a new loosely connected circle/sort of social mechanic to connect people together), if it might suffer some similar issues or at least be painted that way.

Mostly curious to know if anyone has an idea of what the Japanese use of the system, that and tell Op to go for it if they want it. Some people might give the system a bad name but it would be bad of others to paint all of a group the same due to an icon too- if you give the icon the intended meaning (which is to be a helpful person) then I think you've done right and at least for one person the system has done what it had wanted to do.

[Vahlnir]

If your goal is helping others...the crown probably won't help you help others. I learned that the hard way. But who knows, anything is possible. Good on you for wanting to try regardless.

[Melichoir]

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.

Pretty much this. That being said, just be sure of the information youre handing out. It doesn't hurt to consult places like the balance either, or guide people to places like that discord. You dont have to be some 90th percentile raider to know how things work. If you have a solid understanding of mechanics and some patience, youll be fine.

[Novae]

By their own admittance, most mentors cheesed their way through the crown. DOH/L or unsynced Ifrit. Most don’t even have their 1000 dungeons, and openly admit that they are mentors for the crown and the private chat room, err NN. Last evening, I’ve even seen one being proud of not doing group content because they suck at it. So don’t worry about it, don’t take it seriously. You want the crown, wear it. People will more likely stop and talk to you because you have a nice glamour than because you’re a mentor.

[Hyperia]

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.

Getting to mentor is hard now because you have to do every EX mode primal. I can't do the mentor roulettes anymore because I didn't do some of the SB EX primals.

[EaMett]

I keep reading about how mentors are a joke but on my server (faerie) the novice channel does a great job of answering questions and helping sprouts. Really hard for me to relate my experience to what is being said.

I sometimes feel like it’s just trendy thing to say, just because every now and then some random person comes to the forums to complain about some random jackass mentor.

Also to the op. Don’t worry about it, you don’t need to know everything, you just need to help people on the things you do know. I have countless hours played and I’m still using the novice network to get answers on some aspects of the game I’m less familiar with.

[DarkMasamune]

I would say do as you please. The crown might be a joke to some but it shouldn't be preventing you to do what you want. And if you don't enjoy it, you can just remove the crown (unless you do Mentor Roulette, it'll come back once in duty and you'll have to remove it again when out).