Mentor minimum requirement is too low / needs adjustment

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You are drawing a false equivalent. Mentors are not college professors, they are intended to be people willing to offer advice for no tangible benefit beyond the help itself. A better comparison to Alpha's stance is people who volunteer their time at senior citizen homes or feeding the homeless. Neither are paid yet people do it purely out of the satisfaction they helped someone else. The raider comparable makes no sense as its an entirely different mentality. We raid specifically for rewards, be it our personal parses, gear or a pretty little title. Mentoring is meant only to teach new players in the same sense people who make various guides for jobs get next to nothing for their time and effort. A prime example on Balmung is one of the top tier raiders who joins learning parties purely to teach people how to clear Savage. They get literally nothing out of it except knowing they helped a new raid group get their first clear. That is what I imagine Alpha is referring to.

Dangling a carrot only encourages people with no interest whatsoever in helping new players to put on the silly little crown and grind for a mount. If you want to say removing the aforementioned "carrot" would see mentorship die instantly. By all means, but it is an opinion.