Mentor Status AKA the new Sprouts AKA Burger King Hats

[VelKallor]

Discord gives an "unfair" advantage to those who use it. It is a third-party tool.

LMAO. No.



Discord as a 'third party tool" is akin to you telling me Im not allowed to use a telephone. Or my mobile.

Seriously. No.

Discord sends and receives files, plays music, allows voice conversation and text conversations.....what it DOESNT DO is read out and warn of mechanics ahead of time (automated) , it also doesnt interfere or interact with the internal game files in any way shape or form so no, wrong.

Addons and plugins do indeed read game files...especially the ones that allow you to see and be warned of mechanics, zooms out so far they may as well have their own SATNAV system, has a map system that literally tells you where to stand, reads other players dps numbers and displays them...including a heap of other.........not so savoury............things.

THAT is cheating.

Psst. This isn't the accomplishment you think it is. Most of the fights are very simple, and a great deal of them share some or several mechanics. Once you know a mechanic, you know it. Even the fights that aren't simple still boil down to memorization, which most people won't completely lose due the unfathomable amounts of repetition involved. You can toss just about any competent player into a fight they've not touched in years and reasonably expect it to come back to them very quickly.

So you know all the fights for say, Aglaia, all the bosses, by heart?

No. You dont.

[Yeol]

Just get rid of the crown. keep the mentor system & rewards the way the are. I doubt we will have as many mentors as we do now, since a lot of players applied to be mentors for the crown alone.

[Kolaina]

Yet it has plugins that DO cheat and DO call out mechanics, and others who dont use that third party addon dont see those...so it is still an unfair advantage.

Saraide: sorry I wont budge on this.

How is it that most threads you enter devolve into arguing about mods? Just stop

[Saraide]

So you know all the fights for say, Aglaia, all the bosses, by heart?

No. You dont.

Lets take a crack at this because I have nothing better to do:

First boss does cleaving tankbusters, the knockback with boss relative cardinal mini cleaves (dont get knocked into the wall), the block arena with hammers pushing the blocks (dont fall off) and the line hammer, at the end of block arena he does a big three line wide attack (dodge to the a block line that gets pushed outwards, back in normal arena he does a another knockback i think, clones will shoot slow or fast exaflares depending on if they visually charge up or not. Overall nothing is going to be surprising if you've done the fight like once.

First miniboss does half arena cleaves in front of him and makes lightning clouds that cover quadrants opposite of each other (these are later combined), baited aoes and another cleaving tankbuster.

Second boss does half arena punches to whichever big portal he tethers too, first falling meteor is real, second and third are fake, fourth is real again, knockback needs you to align with the one (maybe two) fingers that are safe, after the knockback there are aoes on some players, he also has pizza slice cleaves that rotate once followed by a small aoe tank buster on all 3 tanks. Most important thing is to look which portal he punches.

second miniboss is the two lions which telegraph everything they do if you can count from 1 to 2. Kill the left one first.

Third boss does a two large cleaves opposite of eachother which summons big fireballs at the edge (later they get pushed around by clones), there is the fire cross which gets blown over by the clones so stand in the quadrant that will not get blasted, fan dance summons two fans at the edge of the arena that will rotate until she makes them explode with giant aoes, she has a 270° frontal cleave that she will aim at a random player so look out when she turns, when she summons a giant fireball dodge into the first set of eruptions that go off afterwards move behind her after she moves, second set of fire cross has 3 clones instead of 2, fire triangle makes 3 knockback lines which is trivial if you can count from 1 to 3 and even more trivial if you use KB immunity to easily block two of them. Her tankbusters are like the second boss. All of this is telegraphed, you just need to use your eyes.

Last boss always frequently shows two aoe patterns, only the one that matches the background colour and the torches floating around him will go off, he can swap those mid cast (just open your eyes), later these arent just in or out but also line stack or follow aoes on 3 players, last boss also has a half arena cleave indicated by the giant purple eye laser charge up, he can swap those, he has a mechanic where he charges up 2 to 3 attacks (either giant aoe or knockback) and does them in the same sequence he charged them up (counting from 1 to 3 is helpful), thall's balls is just meteors dropping all around the edge dodge them as they spawn in, add phase tethers most of the party to their add and has cleaves and stacks, afterwards you need to match every add's weight for the scale with 8 players on the other half of the arena, once below ever above makes a bunch of twin exaflares (again red go off when everything glows red, blue vice versa). His tankbuster is a tankstack.

I think that's all. There you go, just from memory. None of this matters however as all the mechanics in this araid are self explanatory. If you get hit more than once by the same mechanics you just havent been paying attention.

[KageTokage]

No thanks the system works fine as it is.

My main issue with it is the fact that there's only 100 spots for mentors in Novice Network coupled with the fact that as mentioned previousl, most people only sign up for the crown not to actually be helpful so they just take up space.

They could fix that by simply requiring you to opt into NN every single time you log on as opposed to it just automatically shoving you in there the instant you accept mentor status.

[VelKallor]

Lets take a crack at this because I have nothing better to do:

Right

she has a 270° frontal cleave that she will aim at a random player so look out when she turns

Yeah you wrote this from memory, and measured it yourself.

I believe you.

No I dont.

You used a guide. Didnt you?

[NekoMataMata]

Just get rid of the crown. keep the mentor system & rewards the way the are. I doubt we will have as many mentors as we do now, since a lot of players applied to be mentors for the crown alone.

The chat should be dissolved as well too. I realize that the novice network helps a lot of people, but many, many people are not mature enough to moderate it. A lot of novice networks turn into another chat similiar to a linkshell or FC anyways.

Instead we should create a system where sprouts can open up a box to asks questions and mentors that are not in duties can receive a notification and respond back anonymously. Maybe even add a drop down that lets them pick what type of mentor their question suits between Crafts and Battle.

It'll hurt the community aspect a lot, but if we're being honest it'll be worth it to have a more streamlined system that isn't going to end up in the hands of egomaniacs.

[DiaDeem]

Hey Yeol, who drew that cute bust of your Character?

[MaxCarnage]

Right



Yeah you wrote this from memory, and measured it yourself.

I believe you.

No I dont.

You used a guide. Didnt you?

Or there's only a 90 degree angle safe spot behind her. 360 - 90 = 270.

You don't need a guide to know what a right angle is... stop reaching.

[Saraide]

Right



Yeah you wrote this from memory, and measured it yourself.

I believe you.

No I dont.

You used a guide. Didnt you?

I really hope you arent a mentor because this is actually kinda sad.



Maybe this image will help jumpstart your braincells a bit.