Mentoring: perhaps we're better off without it

[Dgsoil]

You're right that the system is supposed to be helping understand the basics, I've preached that all day and night. The basics cover everything from customizing the system, how to handle combat with 3 other players, map layout and how to navigate through towns, open up teleports and a myriad of other things. These are things that can be forgotten or not addressed because a player didn't take the time to fully look through certain menus or read their basic tool kit. But that's where the huge glaring hole in the wall is at. Any player can get to level 60 on all 3 classes and not know the basics because they themselves didn't exactly learn them. That's why myself and others are saying this won't work because this system is built on tyne fallacy that level 60 with 1000 instances ran and 300 commendations doesn't mean they are honestly knowledgeable of everything in the game.

But you are missing the point though. I'm not saying bad people won't give bad advice, on the contrary I see that daily. What I am saying is that there is no reason to blow this out of proportion as many posters on this topic have been. You worry about bad players teaching bad habits, why don't you start a linkshell and run content/teach basics and enforce the good habits instead? Why is it so important that you don't meet requirements for this system exactly? Because lets face it, THAT is what most of the complaints about mentor system are on these forums right now. That certain players don't meet the requirements. (which are in fact too easy to reach, especially with the way people farmed commendations just to get glamour rewards)

There is no good way to handle it, one way would dictate people need to take a test, but it would be less than two hours after the content was released before all variants of the questions had answers posted on a list somewhere on the internet, then inexperienced/bad players would still be part of the system. This way people have to show they actually have played the game enough to achieve three requirements, but again it doesn't gate bad players from it. They could gate it behind top tier raids, but then the population ratio for mentors/students would be so skewed, and the top tier raiders aren't exactly known to be 'kind' to those they criticize. What do YOU think these requirements to be in this system should be?

TL;DR If you are a kind, helpful person you will help others with/without a mentor title. And there is no feasible way to make this system work that won't have a flaw. But it isn't about the system or rewards, it's about HELPING people.