Genuine question for those upset with the new Mentor requirements

[Vnolan]

Why do you need a crown symbol to help people?

Can they access the NN and provide answers to sprout questions without it?

The truth is, the crown is nothing more than a status symbol, and one that has been incredibly easy to obtain in the past.

How can it be a status symbol while being easy to obtain? Any topic about mentors always includes comments like this and how mentors are worse than the average player. Both can't be right. I've yet to see someone show off their crown and anyone can look at the mentor requirements to see they're comprised of average players.

So let's be honest with ourselves here. This was never about helping people. It was about feeling superior.

To whom? It's not like you had to clear savage to get access to the crown. I think any feeling of superiority comes from those looking to up the requirements and reduce the number of mentors. They want a status symbol but there have been too many bad players tarnishing it.

I genuinely hope these requirements weed out those Mentors who don't deserve the title,

Oh, one of those. "I have my own definition of what a mentor should be and if they don't meet those requirements there must be something wrong with the system and not the values I pulled out of thin air". If they meet the requirements set by SE, they deserve the title. Who's to say you deserved your comms? Maybe you were paired with a premade and they figured comming someone was better than not comming at all. Cape Westwind and guildhest farm "parties" will have them rejoin the ranks in due time.

Dont think most people want the crown to help others... mostly maybe mentor roullete for the two seater pegasus
(i forgot the name)... i think this gonna be extremely frustating for people who are close on getting it but dont have the required comms for the next mentor requirement... just a wild guess though

The same method for farming quick mentor roulette clears can be applied to farming comms. It would just extend the grind is all, though with the heads-up about the changes they can do both at the same time between now and when the changes go into effect.