Today, after a painful two years of grinding I finally achieved one of the most notorious grinds in this game; The mentor mount. and now, looking back i want to recount my experiences, my advise and my cirtisicm with the system in the hopes one day this can be an enjoying endevour for all
As a new mentor when I went for this mount some 2+ years ago i wasnt much put off by this grind because i didnt really know what was the come, but after the first 500 I started to see some major issues in this games community and in the games unvoiced mentality
Let's talk ex's and how many i got and how many you might get. for every 100 mentors, id say 1/15th were an ex trail, ususally ARR which are very easy to do, the worst ex for me is easily ramuh because it can either be a super fast kill or a complete slog and it 100% depends on whos the new player and whos the mentor. I also experienced a great deal of wonderfully nice sprouts eager to learn and follow instruction
My majorty of pops was actaully dungeons which for the most part were OK, but they felt slow and boaring to do, i didnt really feel like i had any use or impact inside them... even the harder ones like dead ends.. if you get a dungeon, my advise is not to take a penalty because its largley afk and <15 minutes when the penalty is 30 minutes and ur highly likley to get another dng
Moving onto player attitude and mentor attitude combined
The attitude of the sprouts was for the most part well behaved, but yes you got the odd sprout that was VERY toxic, would pull the boss, not listen to your advise, hide chat, remove your help marker and attack mentors for being.. well mentors.. This is a horrible but entirley likley experience youll one day have, if this does happen please dont let it get to you, there are good ones out there.
The mentors themselves were more problematic than any sprout, most of them were unwilling to teach, didnt know the mecanics themselves or didnt care about staying past 1 wipe. some of the would attack sprouts for even daring to pop fights like sephirot or nidhog ex in party finder "why the $%^& would you pop this, what a huge waste of everybodys time"
My experiences inside NN
oh boy.. this is where it really unravels, this place was truely hell to sit in.. Rules are seldom obeyed in here and mentors will kick anybody who doesnt agree with there rhetoric. I noticed a lot of mentors with "high and mighty" or "hollier than thou" attitudes, the latter i CANNOT stand. do anything to bring them back to earth or humble them and they were go completly insane. remind them how little power the have, again... nuts. This is not every mentor but my experiences in here cover a majority
For now while i have nothing else i can think of, this is my look back, and my issues and praises with this content. happy grinding!
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