It's time to revaluate paper crown battlementors

[Bookie]

Teaching sprouts is foolish already.
trying to "train" mentors is even more foolish.

[VictorSpoils]

I turned off the mentor crown.

I still shout mechanics in alliance raid. People are frankly more likely to listen to me without it.

I keep mentor status active so I can direct traffic in Novice Network, and torture myself in mentor roulette on occasion. (One of my friends is trying to do 5 mentor roulettes a day right now. He's insane. He also has some extremely choice words about Ratholos Ex....)

There are certain periods of the day where queueing as a DPS gives you a bunch of guildhests. You can even get Bockman multiple times in a row. Those are 30-second victories.

[Dikatis]

Teaching sprouts is foolish already.
trying to "train" mentors is even more foolish.

What? It's wrong to help others out of the kindness of your heart? To teach someone how to handle a mechanic or where to find a certain NPC?

I don't get this.

[Veranolth]

Honestly getting guildhests in mentor roulettes is kind of dumb. There's barely any mentoring to do and usually it would only be to remind the tank to put stance on. I know mentor roulettes is there to help fill for duties but I'd probably remove guildhests from it and I'm not saying this because I did my grind either.

[Deceptus]

There are certain periods of the day where queueing as a DPS gives you a bunch of guildhests. You can even get Bockman multiple times in a row. Those are 30-second victories.

My experience:

Tank - Mostly EX content with the occasional dungeon
Healer: Mostly dungeon content with the occasional EX
DPS: Mix of EX / Dungeons / small smattering of Guildhest

[ICountFrom0]

I am going to reverse my thoughts on one thing.

Yes, take the mentor roulette, remove the mentor crown requirement.
Instead make it the requirements it now is, every, single, non savage non ultimate dungeon, and slap on the current combat mentor requirements.

Make ALL of that the requirements, and make it's unlock a quest in the mentor hall.

But don't require actual mentorship for it.

More folks might actually que in it for a while. Maybe folks would lay off mentors trying to help, once they see what it's like.

[DixieBellOCE]

Are you aware that the one you call "regular mentor" is someone who has both battle/pvp mentor and crafting mentor?
Rr do you think they get their title by just unlocking quests or something?
Also, if people ask stuff in NN, all mentors will reply. Imagine a battle mentor going "oh no I'm too high and mighty for simple questons". A sprout will also never ask a mentor about savage stuff, that's way beyond sprouting and usually involves something more like the balance.
Now if you're talking about the balance "mentors"...that's A BIT different.

Quite aware, However advertising as a BATTLE MENTOR should only get BATTLE related questions.

Would you ask a trade mentor how to do an optimal DPS rotation in savage?

[hagare]

Quite aware, However advertising as a BATTLE MENTOR should only get BATTLE related questions.

Would you ask a trade mentor how to do an optimal DPS rotation in savage?

you've never been in NN have you

[Greyhawk]

I'd like to see them just drop the program altogether, so people will finally stop bitching about a system that they don't use, nor ever intend to use in the game.

[angienessyo]

Personally I think only those who have completed all end game pace content including ultimate should be battle mentors and they must have a deep understanding of 3.3

I feel like people need to remember that a lot of raiders that do savage/ultimate are raid loggers. I'm one of the few people I know that does savage/ultimate and still logs on just about every day. (and even I stop logging in if another game I like comes out) Most raiders I know log on just for reclears and play other games while waiting for the next raid tier/ultimate. If doing ultimate was a requirement there'd just be no mentors in NN and there'd be significantly longer queues for certain content because there wouldn't be bodies in mentor roulette. This would be an even bigger problem in NA where a very small portion of the playerbase does ultimate. 99% of sprout questions don't require end game knowledge.