Quote Originally Posted by ReiMakoto View Post
Whilst I certainly understand that the mentor system needs rework, mentors atm are thrown into a situation when they get extremes where:

A) People don't listen
B) People don't understand extreme content requires certain knowledge that is not communicated
C) People rejecting advice
and Most importantly D) Being put into a group full of people who do not speak the same language as you. Being on a european data center, if I go into a mentor roullete and am met with a bunch of F and D players who clearly cannot understand english despite having it ticked, I'm gonna eat the penalty at that point if there's new people in the party, no one can reasonably be expected to mentor in that scenario, and honestly, its the most common situation myself and other people on EU I speak to seem to find themself in.

All the above leaves a sour taste in anyones mouth, and despite people saying "well its your job to mentor them", you cannot reasonably expect people to want to stay in those conditions. In the ideal world you would get parties full of sprouts eager to learn, in reality you get a confused mess.
Basically, yep.

I remember once ended up on Thordan EX. Got blamed for being a shitty mentor because even thought I did try to explain the mechanics times and times again, we kept wiping and of course, since I was the mentor in the room, I was blamed for 'not explaining properly'.

Don't get me wrong, they are plenty of dumb and useless mentors out there getting the title just for the heck of it or as a trophy or something, but some of us do try to help out sprouts and newcomers in dungeons, and it dosen't always turn right.

I can't count the numbers of times I ended up with "Don't spoil the mechanics, I want to see for myself", "It's my sub, I can play however I want", "You don't need good gears for a MSQ dungeon/trial, it's unfair" (Yes I got that one a few times, especially on Shinryu), "I know how to play my job" (When playing a BLM casting only Ice on a pseudo-fire based monster, sure buddy) and etc.
Sometimes it's just tiring and I just let it go because hey, if you don't want to listen to someone who's more used to the game than you and truly wants to help, then what's the point.