What was/is YOUR mentor like ?

[Ido]

You usualy only get one chance at having a mentor ... And sometimes its hard to come accross one that will actually do what a mentor should do.

I am doing a study and im curious to find out what have been your expiriences with your mentors by this simple poll ...

Best Regards
Ido Sunrider

[safara]

Where is the "I never had a mentor" option?

[chaz68]

well my offical mentor was not all that (only saw him literually twice) but i was lucky enough to find a exclent unoffical mentor who has remaind a true and valuable friend (you know who you are m8!!)

[Henners]

I can take a guess that the poll will be heavily weighted in option 4

My mentor was great for the first few weeks teaching me the basics of trading etc. but he disappeared about 2 weeks later never to be seen again. I treid to get MA to transfer the mentorship over to another avatar which I though would be an awesome solution to this problem but they can only cancel it entirely.

[Easy]

My Mentor was Blitz Toxic Grey and he did a superb job.

I encountered him while trying to do a TP run ( somewhere N of Billys I think ) after playing for approx. a week in which time I'd learned to sweat.

A simple "Hi" turned into a lengthy conversation after which he offered to mentor me. He showed me how to use the tt and repair terminals, suggested I depo about $50 and thereafter coached me in hunting.

He helped me get about half the TP's ( I did the others when he was offline - my choice as I had a lot more time to play then ). He showed me all sorts of mobs I would never have been able to tackle by myself, fapped me when necessary if they aggro'd on me and he used to keep the loot as Equal shares with Items Queued - which was more than fair.

He also sold me my goblin at tt, later he sold me a FAP-50 and an A103 at tt ( back in the days when you could amp your Opalo ). He taught me masses about the game.

Sadly, he no longer plays, but we remain in sporadic email contact. He received a Foxtrot ME as his gift when I graduated, which IMO was a just reward for the help he gave me and the effort he put in.

Salute, Toxic !

[Ido]

Originally Posted by safara

Where is the "I never had a mentor" option?

As this poll is actually about the quality of mentors i did not include an option for all the people who missed to find one ...

[Moonfish]

I diddnt have a mentor,

I diddnt like the idea of trusting a stranger.....

regards
Moonfish

[The Lizard King]

I never got to have a Mentor

When i started all i heard was that mentors are realy bad people, you do not need a mentor. They just farm nOObs to get gifts and will just use you. I think its sad that the ones feeling frustrated on a bad mentor have to tell it to all noobs they meet and get them to be afraid of mentors.

I did however meet a guy that i wanted as mentor but it was too late to be his disciple. But he helped me out anyway. Its just sad he didnt get a mentor edition item as a gift, but he didnt care.

Looking back i chouldnt have listened to the bitter remarks on how avful mentors are, now i know that its just some that are bad and the most of the mentors out there are realy nice and cind persons giving a lot of their time to a noob that they dont even know. And the gift they get is just a small thing for beeing such a cind person.

But as in RL the negative critics are often heard the most. If you feel used or abused you need to tell the world. And the positive critic are not as loudly spoken of. If you are satisfied you do not need to tell the world. I think it takes 5 or maby 10 satisfied persons to be heard over 1 unsatisfied.

Its just sad that the good mentors are working along in cilens helping out noobs and making EU a fun place for them, and just get suspisious remakes from others because of the disciple farmers. All players who are happy whit their mentors need to do what the unhappy does stand in PA or Swamp Camp telling everybody how they feel. Becaus as it is today you can not see the word Mentor in the lokal chat whitout someone right away cuts in telling everybody that mentors just want the gift and will abandon you.

[Fodders]

My mentor Dom Dominator Duffy gave me full set of pixie and opalo, mining equipment
Later he upgraded the pixie to Palladin
Took me on all tp runs with his friend
Later gave me full set of Vigi
Showed me how to use TT auction etc
Gave me some cool clothes
God bless him

[Edit] Did I mention he is my son?[/Edit]

[Ido]

Originally Posted by Fodders

My mentor Dom Dominator Duffy gave me full set of pixie and opalo, mining equipment
Later he upgraded the pixie to Palladin
Took me on all tp runs with his friend
Later gave me full set of Vigi
Showed me how to use TT auction etc
Gave me some cool clothes
God bless him

[Edit] Did I mention he is my son?[/Edit]

That is so cute