Mentor Requirements

[GeminiReed]

Trade mentor requirements can be met in an afternoon or two. All mentor requirements are a joke, but in terms of easiest and quickest to get trade bar none.

Depends if you count the time it takes to level a DoL and a DoH to 80. Thanks to Ishgard Restoration it's not quite the hurdle it is to get a Tank, Healer and a DPS to 80 although if you run a SMN to 80 you've killed two birds with one stone. I've heard that guildhests are great for commendation farming. That leaves clearing the 1000 dungeons, raids, or trials as the final gate and all that takes is perseverance.

Fun fact, one of my alts was an 80 SMN/SCH well before she stepped foot in Stormblood. Probably take me all of a week or two to get GNB to 80. Ok, sure, getting to battle mentor from scratch will take a month or two vs. the 2-3 weekends it would take for trade mentor but still nothing that demonstrates teaching ability. Experience helps but the other half of that coin is empathy and that's not something that grinding content is going to impart. Judging by the "Tales from Duty Finder" thread it seems like quite the opposite.

In my opinion, most battle mentors become this through normal gameplay instead of grinding for it, because what they say and do demonstrates they are a really experienced player.

See above.

The way the Mentor program is designed has attracted achievement hunters, collectors, and those that wish to lord their status over others. Access to NN corrects a major shortcoming with XIV (global chat). They've incentivized everything except mentoring.