Quote Originally Posted by Crystal_Raven View Post
The problem with mentors....most should not be mentors. The majority of mentors have that crown because they think it looks cool or have played long enough. The ones you truly want to learn from are the ones that seem odd as players. Jumping in a raid with you, easily avoiding mechanics, never dying, doing their job very well, and usually very quiet unless you address them by name.

More often than not, those are mentor material, however the desire to get the mentor crown is not there. Why should it be since the majority of mentor slots are filled with what is essentially vegetables.

This is some good points. But I still think that the mentor system could end up being useful. The question then become "How to choose a mentor without a direct intervention from a CM?". Plus, there may be some players that actually thinks that helping other is it's own reward, and that there is no need for a crown or a mount to lure them in the system.

This is actually a really difficult question to answer. If you put the condition, for instance, "Every mentor should have beat Bahamut Ultimate" then the mentor title in itself become the reward. Sure, the players who have it will be extremely skilled, but you don't know if they are actually willing to help others, without even taking into account the fact that mentors will then become extremely rare.

I wonder how it can be done...