Mentors...please!

[shibeouya]

I am convinced that most if not all the mentor issues come from the mount rewards for 2k mentor roulettes. 2 issues with that:

1. The number of clears required is insanely high - encouraging mentors to go after quantity over quality.
2. Every duty is treated as the same "progress" towards the mount. So a 2 minutes guildhest is worth the same as a 1-2 hours ex primal.

There's ways to solve it but SE has refused to look at the problem. This leads to a lot of mentors abandoning ex primals because they are not worth the effort - even if you end up clearing after an hour (which is optimistic) it is less progress than leaving instantly, eating the 30 mins penalty and possibly ending up in a guildhest.

Some possible solutions:

1. Stop considering number of clears as the unit towards the mount. Instead, count the time spent inside a cleared duty. So if you spend 2 minutes in a guildhest it is worth much less progress than spending 2 hours in an ex primal that you end up clearing.
2. Split the ex primals into a separate mentor roulette, and give it greater rewards. This would ensure only mentors who want to help for this specific content are there, and that they are rewarded in consequence.

[MistakeNot]

I am convinced that most if not all the mentor issues come from the mount rewards for 2k mentor roulettes. 2 issues with that:

Some of the problems no doubt comes from that, but I'd say the majority of the problem is that the requirements for becoming a mentor have little or nothing to do with who would be a good mentor.
The mentor requirements all basically boil down to playing a lot. Doing that does not suffice to make one a good mentor.

I'd say the whole mentor system is flawed from start to end, and no amount of tweaking can fix it. It would have to be scrapped and redone from scratch - and even then I wonder if it is even possible to create a good mentor system.