Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
There isn't really a point to that.
Well, a sprout could just as well have a question about ultimates/savage. I had a sprout ask the other day where they can redeem the Weapon's Refrain (Ultimate) totem. Just as likely someone could ask about rotational stuff about Weapon's Refrain (Ultimate), since it is not high level content.

Sometimes they ask about their rotation, but typically these players are level 15, level 50 or level 70. I've seen many obnoxious raid-centric mentors answer with a full description of the max level opener and a link to The Balance discord and Savage raiding advice... like, for sprouts that just need to know the basics.
This would've been so useful for when I was a sprout. The balance has all the information I need, instead of 3-5 mentors all giving contradictory (and often inaccurate) information about rotations. Half the mentors I see in experts do less damage than me, on white mage.

It's also not necessary to have raided the latest tier to understand how raiding works in FFXIV
How do you know? It's like saying I don't need to go into PF and raid to be able to say people are overblowing the PF issues.

"have any Extreme or Savage achievement from the current expansion"
It feels like a lot of people want to make mentor requirements tighter, but only to a point that THEY THEMSELVES have achieved, "Make it harder ... nooo, not like that!"


That is plenty of knowledge to be able to explain to someone how High-End content works (in a general sense).
I would rather have someone who is a much more trustful source of information be a battle mentor, than someone who was dragged through the latest extreme with 12 deaths, because it has no DPS check. It's not like I'd go to the dentist to a guy that has done a few months at med school.

All jobs should be maxed, all role quests
This provides absolutely zero value, though. Role quests are just story, not any kind of battle knowledge. You can level all your jobs through MSQ roulette to 100 and never leave lvl 50 content--it's what most people do for jobs they don't want to play, but want the 100s achievement.