Mentor

Hello, friend. Stay awhile and listen! This memorable line from Deckard Cain in Diablo will evoke great gaming memories in any Diablo fan. Deckard Cain represents all a mentor should be: a wise, knowledgeable character always keen to help and to guide the hero.

Mentors are pretty popular characters. They always come in handy to teach the player something, either about the game or the game world. They are fantastic for introducing and explaining the lore of the game world, and even game mechanics. You can quite often see mentors teaching the game during tutorials, for example. The usage of a mentor has become extremely popular in F2P games, where the need to introduce the player quickly to both the game's core mechanics and world lore ...

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