Mentor minimum requirement is too low / needs adjustment

[Moomba33]

You don't need to be a highly skilled player to be a Mentor.
You need to have a basic understanding of every role in order to be able to answer newbie questions. As was said by someone earlier Mentors need to be able to answer questions like how do I unlock mounts not how to do a perfect level 60 rotation.

I agree there needs to be a way to weed out players that have no idea what they're doing but needing ex/savage clears is ridiculously high considering what a Mentor actually needs to do.

[Shougun]

Like I said earlier that everyone overlooked , all crowns do not mean the same thing, for instance if someone is a crafting mentor but uses mentor roulette should they be expected to just kick butt in every form of content I wouldnt think so. To me the only mentor that should be amazing at pve is the pve mentor, if you put the sword by ur name then you better know how to play all aspects of the game very well. This is the only type of mentor that deserves heavy gating, but to have a basic crown you can simply be average at the game but knowledgeable of all the things new players need to know. But the problem is to many players that are average are choosing to wear the pve mentor crown.

I don't think "everyone overlooked" as I specifically mentioned in that post you quoted that you shouldn't be a mentor of something you barely know something about, and in a previous post in this thread I mentioned it as well :P

I agree, you should not get all the mentor crowns by default. There should be a generic I can help you, and then specific ones like "I'm good at tanking, and can help you" "I'm a great crafter, and can help" "I'm great everything" lol. The "and can help you bit" is any sort of NM content, you don't have to be amazeballs just have played the game a bit. Anything that suggests you're knowledgeable in a specific role like "I'm a tank mentor who can queue in the mentor roulette and get an EX primal" should mean you're actually good at being a tank though.

Mentor Roulette only includes ARR ex primals, not Heavensward ones.
It also requires you to complete all content in the roulette before you can run it.
You can be a Mentor without having the roulette unlocked.

So you do sort of need to know how to play then, just not the bleeding edge new content. Titan EX isn't going to be cleared by afking on the 1 macro unless you're being carried lol.

You don't need to be a highly skilled player to be a Mentor.
You need to have a basic understanding of every role in order to be able to answer newbie questions. As was said by someone earlier Mentors need to be able to answer questions like how do I unlock mounts not how to do a perfect level 60 rotation.

I agree there needs to be a way to weed out players that have no idea what they're doing but needing ex/savage clears is ridiculously high considering what a Mentor actually needs to do.

They do need to do EX content though. I think people are mixing up a mentor who spends time in the novice channel with someone who uses the queue to teach battle. I really think we should have a mentor who just wants to help people out, do some basic progress, give them good directions. But if there is content that requires you to know your job then you should know your job, or not be mentor. And being queued for EX in the roulette means.. knowing your job. Perhaps not to perfection but a lot better than "uh.. I just cast fire I, seem to do okay~!" lol.