New Mentor requirements

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I don't think there is anything wrong with a level 80 sprout. If you're new to level 80, you're new to level 80.

New =/= max level

Once you hit in the level 50 area you should have a basic understanding of the game, and its controls. if you don't that means one of two things are happening: Either SE didn't put enough time into teaching players the basics, or said player didn't put enough time into learning them. I understand people rush headfirst into the story, but mentors shouldn't be there to pick up the slack, that's not what a mentor should be. A mentor isn't there to help people who have divebombed into harder content, or to help people too lazy to learn.

Clearing level 50 doesn't mean that you understand normal raids (start at 60),

Binding Coils start at level 50, do they not?

it means you may not have ever heard of savage, it means your only Alliance raids are the level 50 ones that you can clear while AFK, you would only be familiar with poetics (and even then not necessarily, many level 50's in NN don't know how to best gear up) and not the current tomes and their caps, stats matter much less, etc. If someone is new to level 80 they should have that sprout icon because chances are they will show it.

Mentors shouldn't be mentoring savage content though, and telling sprouts about weekly caps in ShB, and Phantasmagoria shouldn't really be a thing either - because by the time they get to those, guess what - they aren't sprouts.

Once you step foot into ShB you are no longer a spout, but as long as you don't you can be with multiple level 80s.

People seem to widely think that a mentor should be the best of the best, teaching spouts the very end game - that's not what the system is for..

Waht should be happening if that Mentors should be helping sprouts learn the very basics of the game - like the controls, hotbars, limitbreaking, etc.