Challenge: What's the earliest you could become a Mentor?

First of all, i did this because I had time before EW dropped and been working on this for a while every now and then also I commonly got the reply "no trade mentor is not free and easy" and honestly I'm sorry, Trade Mentor should not be achievable like this.

But it is.

The goal was, how fast could I hit Trade mentor from scratch, the short answer is 2Days 6hours and 51Minutes.

Lets get into the requirements.
80 Gatherer (Quest do not matter)
80 Crafter (Quest do not matter)
100 collectable crafted
300 collectable gathered

I personally only found one clean path to do this.

1. Be a Tank for survivability and fast queues (we were a little undergeared at time)
2. Rush to Firmament, that's at the end of HW
3. Push a crafter from to 20 to start firmament and then calculate macros in order to hit the minimum for each collectable (this also solved my collectable requirement)
4. Level Fisher from 1 to 80 with Ocean Fishing
5. Level Botanist to 50 to get collectables finished

It was mind boggling and annoying to do these things because their not "efficient" waiting 2hours for an exp. trip is rough. The only reason you can achieve this so early is because the Trade Mentor requirement is not linked to the quests, so i never had to do any job quests.

Keep in mind I had no access to Kugane or Crystarium leves, this means my only real chance was fisher since Ocean fishing basically syncs you to lv 1. Botanist and Miner would need a lot more Gear/Time to get to 80. Fishing collectables however are really annoying, so I rushed botanist up in like 2hours to counter this.

I could've hit a better time but honestly I just wanted it to end.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1221055791

Here is the last 8 minutes.

It was just a self inflicted painful challenge, there's plenty of good trade mentors but its still a free title so yea. I believe the potential of the run goes down to about 2Days and 1-2Hours, but we were messing around on stream and I wasn't too fussed.

Does anyone know a way that would be potentially faster?

Also one more thing, quit blind inviting new players i was invited to 5 sprout farms. Which is a place in which all new players are blind invited for absolutely no good reason. I joined them to have a look, 50 ppl online, no one says a word and the only thing in chat is "... Joins" "... Leaves"

Now I may rest ...

Uh-huh. So you reached Trade Mentor status pretty quickly.
Now, to manage that you had to know the crafting and gathering systems pretty well, right? You needed to know how and where to earn xp most efficiently. You needed to know what and how to craft and gather the necessary items.
Or in other words, to manage that feat you needed all the knowledge required to be a Trade Mentor.

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Originally Posted by Voidedge_Ragna

The goal was, how fast could I hit Trade mentor from scratch, the short answer is 2Days 6hours and 51Minutes. [...] I believe the potential of the run goes down to about 2Days and 1-2Hours, but we were messing around on stream and I wasn't too fussed.

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Wow, nice speedrun.
I'm absolutely floored by how well you were able to optimize this. Nice job~

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Originally Posted by MistakeNot

Uh-huh. So you reached Trade Mentor status pretty quickly.
Now, to manage that you had to know the crafting and gathering systems pretty well, right? You needed to know how and where to earn xp most efficiently. You needed to know what and how to craft and gather the necessary items.
Or in other words, to manage that feat you needed all the knowledge required to be a Trade Mentor.

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I suppose its one way to look at it, however most who will attempt Trade mentor will be at lv 80 and have a much easier time to do this.
But I do get what you mean, maybe i could have phrased myself better.

If anything i believe the lv 80 gatherer and crafter should be bound to having the lv 80 quest done rather then the level itself.
And perhaps a minimum time played?