The devs big mistake was tying any rewards to the mentor system. It attracts the wrong kind of people to it.

Maybe a short term reward to get people to try the system, maybe they’ll realise they are a mentor after all. But something so long term as a 2000 runs goal is just going to end badly. Pretty much anyone with an astrope Mount right now has probably farmed those 2000 dungeons without saying a word to anyone. Isn’t it sad that people with the penultimate mentor reward right now are the people who are likely least deserving of it?. Hell, even making the symbol a crown is a little too gaudy for a mentor.

Most people I know who are actually mentors, the ones who genuinely help people and give advice and go to the PF looking for learning parties to join just to help out, don’t even use the system because they don’t want to be associated with those people who are just in it for rewards. The person who deserves the mentor of mentors title is the person who has helped teach someone who has then gone on to help teach others, not the person who ran 500 mentor roulettes and didn’t help anyone but themselves.

Mentor roulette in general is really nothing to do with mentoring. You’re there to fill out queues for old content really, not help anyone. It shouldn’t have been tied to mentoring at all and just be something for people who have completed every piece of content.