Mentorship

Vostorn · February 2018

Greetings everyone.

I think many new players are lost with no idea what they should do and what they shouldn't. Mentoring could be a great way to help new players.

Here's how I see it :

An experienced player can propose to a new player to become his "mentor".
Mentorship can be stopped at anytime, by any of the two players. Leaving players can not have a new "student"/mentor for a week.
The new player can only have one mentor at a time.
The mentor can only have one student at first. If he's a good mentor, he will be allowed to have more.
Every time a student reaches a goal, the mentor win mentorship points, allowing him to get more students, but also a win some crowns. The hardest the goal, the more points/crowns.

Here is a list of some goals. Each goal can only be completed once. For example, once you have finished a dungeon, finish any dungeon being the same or another won't work anymore.

TIER 1 : these are the basics. It should be very simple and take very little time. Reward will be very low.

Finish a daily quest
Resurrect someone
Craft an item
Research a trait
Deconstruct an item
Harvest some material
Refine material
Use potion
Use poison
Recharge weapon
Eat some food
Catch a simple fish
Enter Cyrodiil
Enter any arena
Train his mount

TIER 2 : these are simple. Any player should be able to do it with some easy tips or with a random group. Reward will be low.

Kill a world boss
Destroy an anchor
Finish a normal dungeon
Catch a rare fish
Capture ressource in Cyrodiil
Capture a keep
Kill a player in Cyrodiil or in arena
Finish a trial
Finish normal maelstrom arena

TIER 3 : these become harder. Player should have to learn in order to finish it or have a good group to finish it. Reward will be average.

Finish a trial
Finish normal maelstrom arena
Win an arena
Finish a veteran dungeon

TIER 4 : this should be challenging for most of the player base and should require knowledge and practice. Reward will be high.

Finish a veteran trial
Finish a veteran dungeon in hard mode
Finish veteran maelstrom arena

In order to be rewarded, the mentor should have done this goal himself before or be doing this with the student.

Also, it would be nice if the mentor could go in any solo instance the student is. Obviously, the mentor wouldn't be able to interact with anything but he will be able to see what his student does and give him tips to finish what he is doing.

Beardimus · February 2018

Great you have given this some thought.

It's the kind of thing that guilds are for tho. To be honest I've often helped people out in exactly this way. But can see your points

idk · February 2018

Guilds are the mentor system in MMORPGs. Especially with the long list of items including trials and vet trials.

Essentially, few worth their salt would be mentors since many are already mentors in multiple guilds. Essentially many decent social guilds would be able to help early on. There are many raiding guilds that help those newer to raiding to continue the progression then there are the more solid raiding guilds with stronger requirements that are helpful for the HM trials.

All along that path advice and help are available.

klowdy1 · February 2018

FF14 has a great system in place for this. There are qualification checks, mostly doing things like dungeons, quests and fates a lot. Once you qualify, you get a different icon in a special chat channel just for helping players.

On a side note, they also have a great system for commodations in du gowns, telling what people are helpful, useful or good at their job.

Sparr0w · February 2018

Whaddiyatalkinabeet?

You proposing ZOS intruduce a form of mentoring? Would be nice to be able to look for assistance from time to time, but that's what the chat and/or guilds are for already, just don't get the 'rewards' you mentioned.

SilverIce58 · February 2018

I've never liked the concept of mentorship, as that's basically what guilds are for. Also, your tier 2 is ***. Destroying an anchor is definitely not on the same level as finishing a trial, normal dgn, or normal Maelstrom. I can solo anchors (while one hand is occupied [I was eating], it's literally too easy), but on the flip side, it took me like 7-10 deaths to make it through nMA.

NyassaV · February 2018

Not bad idea but instating a official system has potential for abuse

Sergykid · February 2018

i have 1300 hours ingame with @ 2m AP but i'd still want a mentor for PVP. I can 1vX the people that spam the light attack, but against any decent player i am very much losing. And i want advanced training, i'm not beginner

CapnPhoton · February 2018

Hollery wrote: »

Not bad idea but instating a official system has potential for abuse

There was another game I played which had it, and it was occasionally abused where people mentoring required in game payment, or a 'cut' of the loot, etc. But it was generally positive as a one on one intro to the game. The only perks were house items, xp boost, and a special title while mentoring. Which honestly was good enough.

Marginis · February 2018

I'm all for some kind of mentorship mechanic in the game. Even just a simple ring of mara type deal, where two players get small bonuses for playing together, could work. Better yet, something like - and I hate to say this - Destiny, where you could get some cool emotes and shaders (dyes) for doing a checklist of activities in the game with them.

LittlePinkDot · February 2018

Pvp mentorship would be nice

LeagueTroll · February 2018

What about no? Just sounds like you can pay to win by gains from ‘mentor’ 50 otherr accounts.

Inarre · February 2018

Eh. I think it's a good idea but most people would never do it. I wouldn't for fear of being assigned the 55 year old new mmo-er who can't figure out how to move the mouse to get the mob visible in their computer screen.