My mentor's friendship level will not increase

[White Shadow]

Hey guys. I recently switched over to my second Mentor. I previously mastered Piccolo, and now I'm training with Ginyu. The first half of his training has gone fine; I learned his first skill, and more recently his second skill. I am now at 50% friendship. But, for some reason it will not go any higher. I've tried taking him with me on PQ's, I've spammed the hell out of his 'pose' he taught me, and I know he hasn't given me his 'fetch' quest yet (getting him an item)... so what gives?

The guides on here say to 'kill enemies with Mentor's skill,' but I can't kill an enemy with a pose... lol. Help?

[Callyste]

You don't need to use the skill provided to increase friendship, it might just make it increases slightly faster.

What PQ are you farming? From what I've experienced, low level PQs barely increase the friendship bar, while higher level PQs (such as PQ53, you can complete it in about 30s), will increase it much, much faster.

[White Shadow]

Originally posted by Callyste:

You don't need to use the skill provided to increase friendship, it might just make it increases slightly faster.

What PQ are you farming? From what I've experienced, low level PQs barely increase the friendship bar, while higher level PQs (such as PQ53, you can complete it in about 30s), will increase it much, much faster.

I have tried a few of each tier. #10 for low level (was also farming a z soul), but I've also done the #51 Broly PQ 8 times now...

[Patricia Hapon]

For what I saw the best thing is to :
-Speak with him everytime you re-appear into Tokitoki
-Bring him as an ally in PQ and fight (PQ work better)
-Use his skills
-Kill the more possible foes (going in a quest with lot of foes is good)
-Having a high rank in the said PQ

If you do all that it should increase quite a lot, as you already know you master comment at the end of your PQ, he also do when PQuing with you and when you kill someone. So actually your objective is to make him speak as much as possible. (spamming him in Tokitoki does not work)

[White Shadow]

Originally posted by Idealist:

For what I saw the best thing is to :
-Speak with him everytime you re-appear into Tokitoki
-Bring him as an ally in PQ and fight (PQ work better)
-Use his skills
-Kill the more possible foes (going in a quest with lot of foes is good)
-Having a high rank in the said PQ

If you do all that it should increase quite a lot, as you already know you master comment at the end of your PQ, he also do when PQuing with you and when you kill someone. So actually your objective is to make him speak as much as possible. (spamming him in Tokitoki does not work)

The problem is, I have done all of the above. I've even taken two copies of him as allies...

He keeps giving me his 'good job' monologue during the PQ, and I've generally been S ranking or Z ranking the PQ... plus, since its a pose and requires no ki to use, I actually did PQ #53 where you have no enemies to start with, and I did the pose 25 times in a row... and yet I havent seen even a slight increase...

What my thought process is is that I am supposed to be doing his fetch quest, but he hasn't given it to me... maybe its bugged?I guess i could try switching mentors and switch back to him again... but idk if it will help

[Beelzeboul]

I feel like your trying to find someway to accelerate whats meant to be a grind....if you want to increase his friendship just get to grinding there no quick or easy method for this ideally find something in a higher level pq you need an go farm for it checking in with mentor after evey pq

"your not going to enjoy this.....He is not your king" :P

[Patricia Hapon]

Originally posted by Beelzeboul:

I feel like your trying to find someway to accelerate whats meant to be a grind....if you want to increase his friendship just get to grinding there no quick or easy method for this ideally find something in a higher level pq you need an go farm for it checking in with mentor after evey pq

"your not going to enjoy this.....He is not your king" :P

Pretty much that, you'll still need some farming. What I said make it faster, but faster is not really perfect ... Sometime I still make PQ "for free" without much of a gain. Also spamming (25 poses o_o) is useless, you just waste your time.

[Callyste]

Still, completing PQ53 eight times should be a visible increase in the friendship bar!

[White Shadow]

Well, I see you guys are scratching your head at this too. I have been farming for -DAYS- now... it's not a lack of a grind. I've already mastered a mentor... I am aware of how long this should be taking. It is clearly bugged. I am going to try to switch to a different Mentor and see if it 'unfreezes'' my Ginyu standing. I'll let you all know my results if I'm successful. I'm telling you people, this is a bug...

[White Shadow]

Originally posted by Callyste:

Still, completing PQ53 eight times should be a visible increase in the friendship bar!

Exactly!

[nani]

I'm having exactly this problem with the exception that it won't increase beyond 0% where op was at 50%. As with OP, turns out I also mastered Piccalo and then went to mentor under Cpt. Ginyu. Maybe this has something to do with it?

Those of you saying "It's a grind, it's supposed to take a while" that is not the issue. It is not increasing AT ALL. It is NOT that it is slow, it is that it isn't moving even a little bit. Yes, did multiple PQs both high level and low level, story quests, spamming his move, bringing him along, Even farmed up a whole set of dragon balls thinking he was just a slow grind, nothing moves it AT ALL.

Very interested to hear if anything fixed this for you OP.

[White Shadow]

Originally posted by Devin:

I'm having exactly this problem with the exception that it won't increase beyond 0% where op was at 50%. As with OP, turns out I also mastered Piccalo and then went to mentor under Cpt. Ginyu. Maybe this has something to do with it?

Those of you saying "It's a grind, it's supposed to take a while" that is not the issue. It is not increasing AT ALL. It is NOT that it is slow, it is that it isn't moving even a little bit. Yes, did multiple PQs both high level and low level, story quests, spamming his move, bringing him along, Even farmed up a whole set of dragon balls thinking he was just a slow grind, nothing moves it AT ALL.

Very interested to hear if anything fixed this for you OP.

Switching out mentors fixed my issue. I can't remember what I did exactly... it's been so long. I think I switched back to Piccolo or mastered a different mentor. Then came back to Ginyu and he was unbugged.

[nani]

Hah, just realized this thread was a year ago. Yeah, switching them out worked for me too

[White Shadow]

Originally posted by Devin:

Hah, just realized this thread was a year ago. Yeah, switching them out worked for me too

Still, I find it interesting that even after all this time, someone else experienced the same bug. See guys? I am NOT crazy.

[Avantesma]

Originally posted by Devin:

Hah, just realized this thread was a year ago. Yeah, switching them out worked for me too

Well, this three-years-old topic just answered the doubt I had. =D
This goes to show it's always good to update topics you create with solutions, once you find them. ; )

My thanks to Devin and Pericles. =)