Mentoring: perhaps we're better off without it

[Nalien]

Why do people keep thinking Mentors are meant to somehow fix Lv60 problems? That is entirely what Stone, Sky, Sea is for. That is the content that is meant to improve Lv60 players, the problem there being that it is entirely optional, so every terrible player is just going to continue being terrible by ignoring it (hopefully SE does the right thing and adapts it to design solo Trials for something like the Relic questline, which can force "Git Gud" on scrubs).

Mentors, though, are meant to be helping (not lecturing) new players;

- What is a mentor?
Mentors are veteran players who chose to offer their time and experience to help guide new adventurers. To facilitate their assistance, mentors will gain access to a special chat channel as well as a means to easily register for duties and trials with new players.

Question; What does knowing my Dragoons perfect Lv60 rotation have to do with helping out new players? The players Mentors will be helping likely wont even have Jobs unlocked, they're not going to know what half the skills I'd talk about are, that kind of information is entirely irrelevant to them and if anything dumping it on them would be detrimental more than anything. Mentors are literally just there to help with content and queues and provide a singular channel for new players to gravitate towards to meet players, rather than having several scattered groups who offer help. It is much more efficient to have a singular channel like that. I don't get the worry that terrible Mentors will influence new players, either... If I, as a Mentor, see shitty advice in the Mentor chat, am I somehow unable to correct that?

I really don't get this obsession people have with thinking Mentors should be the pinnacle of XIVs players... Who the f*ck cares if you can best Stone, Sky, Sea for Sephirot (Extreme)? Certainly not the new players who need you to be a Lv30 Healer so they can get through a dungeon to progress (and that is why we have a trinity Job requirement, so every Mentor can fill any role required by new players, so that if you pop into the Mentor Roulette as a tank or healer, you can provide some basic advice for the other roles in the party, that people are hung up on the Job requirements when leveling is the easiest thing ever astound me...). It's an absolutely absurd notion that we should turn away helpful people if they can't beat some arbitrary trial which has nothing to do with Mentors. You do not need to be clearing Thordan (Extreme) to the best of your ability in order to help some new player get through Aurum Vale...