Mentoring: perhaps we're better off without it

[Nalien]

Because you need lv60 to help lv5 players learn and 1,000 dungeons to fully ensure you know the mechanics of Sastasha and Tam-Tara Deepcroft

So what? Should we be able to be a Mentor without Lv60 in each role? So when a new player wants help with Tam-Tara Deepcroft, you can't help because you're solely a DPS and and they need tanks and healers. Easy enough to have all the Jobs in that level range? Well, where do we cut this off then? Someone needs help with Lv50 content? What if someone needs help with The Vault? Lv60 is the most logical cut off for the requirement here, it means you've played the Job enough and can help with pretty much anything.

Doing 1,000 dungeons/trials to help some new player through Aurum Vale is equally as absurd.

I see the 1,000 instances as less of a "You know how to play" check, and more of a "You're dedicated to this game" check. I mean it's both really, but yeah... Do we want Mentors who drop off for months and have thus not really done that much content, or do we want Mentors who No Life the game and will likely always be available? There is a reason the newer versions of that Achievement are called Lifer... That said, if any of the requirements are over the top, I think it's that one.

That's all the requirements do, ensure Mentors are people who play. Is that perfect? Not really, but it's the best we're going to get. The notion that something like Stone, Sky, Sea should be incorporated would, IMO, have a negative impact on the system. It sends the message not that Mentors should be helpers, but instead that they should be drill sergeants who hammer in the finer points of an endgame rotation that new players may never really care for. Getting to Lv60 is a new players focus, not beating Sephirot.