Rework of unsynced system an mentor system

[EaMett]

For every good story you could list about good mentors theres hundreds about bad ones.

This and your original post make a huge incorrect assumption. That mentors are bad (or a significant portion of them are). It's an age-old urban legend born from survivor bias and actually has no real-life correlation. At least none that anyone has been able to demonstrate.

I've been tracking mentor behavior and spreadsheeting it for a while now. The reality is that "bad" mentors represent only 1-1.5% of the mentor population (on Aether where I am at least). And when I say bad, I count every mentor who leaves ex fights, mentors who are mean/sassy/sarcastic, and even mentors who actively help others but have a bout of lack of patience for whatever reason and could be friendlier.
Compared to that about 20% of all mentors actively help and contribute positively to groups. The rest are just silent and do their thing.

Skill is harder to evaluate as it's a little subjective but overall about only 7% have bellow par skills and honestly, willing to bet a good chunk of those are people learning new classes and not indicative of their actual skill level. Not only that but the majority (just barely, 54%) of mentors have what I would call above average skill.

This idea that the mentor system is somehow failing really doesn't have any tangible data justifying it. At best you get anecdotal evidence.

If anyone's curious, on aether:
- Worst track record per server is gilgamesh with the most "bad" mentors. About 2.5x second place.
- Best server is Siren. Highest % of helpful mentors, haven't had a bad apple yet.
- Least played classes by mentors are MNK, WAR. Least played healer is SCH
- Most played classes by mentors are DNC, RDM, SMN. (62% of mentors are dps)

Also while we're at it, Mentor roulette ex encounters clear roughly 50-60% of the time. I guess your mileage will vary based on how helpful you are. Some people's numbers are closer to 70% clear rates.

Edit: None of this really speaks to the quality of the NN. I assume NN quality can vary wildly based on server and especially region (heard EU is rough, probably because of the mix of languages). On Faerie the NN is fine.