Right now mentor roulette is designed as a back-fill queue for any content in the game where people are needed. Typically if you queue as a healer, you will get a dungeon, as dungeons queues are almost always missing a healer. Queue as a DPS, and you will probably get anything from a leve to a EX trial, etc.
However, as most of reddit knows, mentors range from awful AND wrong, to helpful and wrong, to not-helpful but skilled, then rarely you get a skilled and helpful mentor.
I have done several hundred mentor roulettes and have cleared every savage tier on every role since alexander creator, so I can play any class in the game as a pretty standard level. However, it's rare you ever really get a chance to pair up with people seeking actual mentorship, and it is all regulated to online discussion, reddit, balance discord, text guides, etc.
Typically in game a situation like this happens : You see a sprout black mage in a 60+ leveling dungeon and notice they are doing very low damage, because they are single targetting on pulls of like 7 enemies. You ask if they want advice about how to increase their damage and, get no reply. You actually just type out a pretty simple AoE rotation for them, and get no reply. Sometimes you get a reply, and they tell you to fuck off/you don't pay their sub/etc. (This is understandable, many people see any advice in life as personal attacks on them being "wrong" in some regard). Rarely though you find someone that is legit thankful for help or feedback or giving them resources.
What are your opinions on a roulette where new players seeking advice in an active dungeon/trial/raid scenario press a "seek combat mentor" button, and would get someone who actively wants to teach someone how to play better? Right now there is no way to link new players seeking advice with a mentor besides Novice Network, so the distinction between burger king and combat and crafting mentor is entirely moot. And as we know, the actual NN is unregulated, and they might get bombarded with 10 different advice lines.
Ex : Player wants advice on how to AoE well on samurai, he queues for The Vault with "request combat mentor" checked, and the game forces a combat mentor into the queue before the dungeon pops. They could proceed to ask questions and get feedback while actively running a content and pressing the buttons.
Obviously there are some flaws like : Mentors who are ignorant of how to use samurai AOE, language issues, long-as-hell queues to find a combat mentor in mentor roulette, etc.
But right now mentors have a generally bad reputation (burgerking crown helps with that) and it is hard to actually try to be a helpful mentor when you don't know who actually wants advice on how to obliterate dungeons/trials or simply wants to relax and play and chill.
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However, as most of reddit knows, mentors range from awful AND wrong, to helpful and wrong, to not-helpful but skilled, then rarely you get a skilled and helpful mentor.
I have done several hundred mentor roulettes and have cleared every savage tier on every role since alexander creator, so I can play any class in the game as a pretty standard level. However, it's rare you ever really get a chance to pair up with people seeking actual mentorship, and it is all regulated to online discussion, reddit, balance discord, text guides, etc.
Typically in game a situation like this happens : You see a sprout black mage in a 60+ leveling dungeon and notice they are doing very low damage, because they are single targetting on pulls of like 7 enemies. You ask if they want advice about how to increase their damage and, get no reply. You actually just type out a pretty simple AoE rotation for them, and get no reply. Sometimes you get a reply, and they tell you to fuck off/you don't pay their sub/etc. (This is understandable, many people see any advice in life as personal attacks on them being "wrong" in some regard). Rarely though you find someone that is legit thankful for help or feedback or giving them resources.
What are your opinions on a roulette where new players seeking advice in an active dungeon/trial/raid scenario press a "seek combat mentor" button, and would get someone who actively wants to teach someone how to play better? Right now there is no way to link new players seeking advice with a mentor besides Novice Network, so the distinction between burger king and combat and crafting mentor is entirely moot. And as we know, the actual NN is unregulated, and they might get bombarded with 10 different advice lines.
Ex : Player wants advice on how to AoE well on samurai, he queues for The Vault with "request combat mentor" checked, and the game forces a combat mentor into the queue before the dungeon pops. They could proceed to ask questions and get feedback while actively running a content and pressing the buttons.
Obviously there are some flaws like : Mentors who are ignorant of how to use samurai AOE, language issues, long-as-hell queues to find a combat mentor in mentor roulette, etc.
But right now mentors have a generally bad reputation (burgerking crown helps with that) and it is hard to actually try to be a helpful mentor when you don't know who actually wants advice on how to obliterate dungeons/trials or simply wants to relax and play and chill.
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