Mentoring: perhaps we're better off without it

[Nalien]

People repeated this often "You need to have all 3 roles so you can be any role when you get in the duty with newbies"

So what we're changing roles in duty now?

It would be more accurate to say you need all three roles so you can help anyone. Not just in duties, but anywhere (the 3.2 site shows a Mentor helping out with a FATE, for example). If someone runs up to me because I have the Mentor status, and they want my help because I'm a Mentor, only for me to turn around and go "Sorry, I've not leveled a healer", then that is pretty bad. We'd end up with the same situation we've had in Duty Finder for years; 90% DPS.

As far as instances and the Mentor Roulette go, you're there to help and offer basic advice. If I'm a Mentor who is solely a DPS, then I can help out one DPS in the party, but there is no check that I can give advice for tanks or healers. Likewise, if I'm solely a healer, I can't help anyone. I'm just a healer and I'm the only healer in the instance. We can assume that everyone who'd be a Mentor would have some understanding of the other roles, but do we really want to? It's much safer to just outright have a check that ensures every Mentor has played the three roles. I'd rather look at a Mentor and know, 100%, that they've got first hand experience with all the roles. That they can help out in any situation, rather than being specific to a single role.