Quote Originally Posted by Chasely View Post
You don't need a fancy title to help people.
This. Exactly.

What I do now, is what I'll be doing as a mentor. A fresh 50 PLD one day stopped me to note how pretty me character is (side note: why does that happen so much?), and somehow that became an hour of teaching him PLD 101 when he noted that he didn't truly know proper tanking. He was also mostly wearing DEX accessories. Calmly, I made corrections and did some practice drills and in the end sent him a friend request with an offer to ask me for help anytime.

I COULD'VE berated him for not knowing what he should know at 50 and possibly discouraged him from tanking, but by taking time to teach and share what I know (having started as a PLD myself), I may very well have cultivated a future tank expert on my server. Maybe even a future mentor.

It's not about the status, or people who might do it wrong or abuse it. It's about providing on-sight identity to people who already do such things.