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Shepherd to the Stars

Rasler-heios Nabradia

Tonberry [Elemental]

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Mentor Status

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Note: I find myself wanting to express my opinions on several topics and I think this is the place to be. My opinions are personal thoughts (and are not a critique), which I am not claiming to be right nor wrong. I am not expecting comments, otherwise I would have went to the official forum. In the event that there would be, I honor and respect everybody else’s opinion, though I’d prefer a healthy conversation over that of a heated debate.

Some Current Opinion(s):
Some FFXIV players believe that the mentor system is flawed and should be removed or revamped.

Rasler’s Opinion:
I became a mentor four months after I started from the game. That’s because I enjoyed crafting and gathering much that I met the requirement without realising it. This was at a time when the mentor status was still one across PvE, PvP and trade jobs. What really excited me back then was regaining access to Novice Network. I’m able to learn more just by reading the questions and answers posted there. (I’m in Tonberry where the NN is doing fine and not problematic).

I don’t use the crown icons when I’m in duties though, only when doing quests. At that time I really thought I still have more to learn. In any case if I see a sprout asking in the NN and taking a long time to get an answer, I would reply to the best of my abilities.

There are several improvements that can be done to to the mentor system. Changing the crown icon though to a watering can wouldn’t solve all of them but would remove any players who were just chasing being a mentor due to the icon.

The requirements becoming a battle mentor is already difficult. But anyone who is good at doing duties (so much so they have 3000 commendations) doesn’t mean they can communicate well when mentoring other players. Of course their insight would be valuable as they wouldn’t get tons of commendations if they weren’t good in the first place. As to how these can be determined I haven’t come up with a suggestion yet.

I think a separate requirement should be added for PvP so that it is not 100% shared with PvE. There are existing in-game achievements that can be used.

Commendations in the trade jobs doesn’t exist. It really is just skills being applied, though the skill rotation is very “routine-ary”. At least this path is not subject to the subjectivity of other players.

The thing is, there isn’t any optimal way to implement a mentor system in an MMORPG game like FFXIV. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t refine it though. It is with this belief that I think the mentor system should be retained, even if it not perfect and yet ideal, as it is beneficial to some players in some ways.
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