Not being funny but this is not fair on players who have played for years but dosen't do end game things. I have being playing since the end of BC and i have only done a few end game raids and a couple of mythics. Not everyone who players the game plays it for end game. So I think this is unfair. Just my opinion.
I guess it boils down to what your expectations of a guide are. If you simply expect a guide to be able to answer basic leveling questions and help them figure out max level systems when they hit level cap. Then I think a LFR win vs N'Zoth is more than adequate as that player has essentially "beat" the game for a casual player. If you believe that a guide should literally guide someone from day 1 in wow to a raid capable player, then obvious a LFR win over N'Zoth isn't good enough. For me, I think the guide should be targeting the majority of the potential player base, which will be casual/LFR caliber players. Once a player has hit max and has figured out the various systems, the player no longer needs the guide and can figure out on their own how to get into serious raiding.
Yikes. Trio and LFR boss kills. Blizz really doesn't want players crying that they can't be a mentor do they? "How dare you stop me from doing X thing in game when I pay my sub! Elitists!" Flop of a system.
Oh wow I like this, I want to be a mentor. Hope that the The Waking Dream can be obtained in LFR too, so I can apply and be a teacher :DEDIT: LFR will do. Happy me.
I have been helping new players since TBC and the guild was always open to brand new players. The fact that I didn't raid or do M+ in Season 4 and that prevents me from being able to help seems ridiculous. Why don't the previous seasons matter? People who actually WANT to help new players are not elitists. They do it because they enjoy answering the same types of questions often and have time to make sure the new player understands. It's not like a new player will be running any of the S4 content in SL anyway. I have many level 120 chars on both factions. I've done dozens of thousands of quests and leveled in every expansion, I've done M+ on several classes, I've raided, I have flying in every expansion, etc.I find it funny that all the hardcore raiders I talk with regularly are missing flying in WOD and often in Legion. They didn't care about rep grinds or "doing the content." Yeah, they have AOTC and M+15s and higher, but guess who plays taxi driver for them when they're leveling alts?Yes, some new players are wanting to play hardcore and could be served better by talking with hardcore content completers. However, those folks aren't going to need "help" the way a newbie player would. They've already looked up their rotations, looked at tier ranking YT videos, etc. The Newcomer program will be utilized by players who actually need help.The *vast* majority of new players who need help are folks who:*want help selecting a class*want to change hotkeys or rearrange their screen*may ask about quality of life support (e.g. how to open quest log, can they change font sizes, etc.)*have questions about which xpac to choose for leveling*may have concerns about their class being viable (do you know about *all* the classes in SL? Are you actually going to tell someone the class they want to play is trash?)*probably have questions about finding a guild*usually have questions about addons (how to install, which are good/necessary, etc.)*may have questions about their rotation*have questions about NPC locations*have questions about the AH*sometimes have questions about their roles (usually tanks/healers)*may have a question or two about lore (God help us all there)*usually have a question about a quest or want to know where to go to find walkthroughs/guides*often ask about how a game mechanic works (how to gain rep, what level should they start running dungeons, how to queue for a dungeon, how do they start PVP, where can they get new mounts/pets, how can they do a pet battle, etc.Watch the video of Taliesin's brother playing WOW for the very first time for proof. Even folks who've been gamers and played other games don't automagically understand WOW.FFXIV does this a MUCH better way and skips all of the elitism.
1. At least half of all classes as max levels2. Arena Rival or Duelist3. Keystone master (All M15s in time)4. Cutting Edge5. Both visions in 5 masks finishedYou need 2 of these and you can complete 1, 3 and 5 EASILY as mid-high end player (and these only should be even considered to become mentors). Otherwise this rank will fall as "rank for low-medium casuals". Who are their going to guide? Themselves and eachother? Laughable and pathetic.
To be honest, I believe for a launch, they're gathering a well rounded group of people, doing the best they can for a pilot project, and the achievements see to this.As the goal is to help people, and the Guides should have a sizeable pool of knowledge, we all aren't experts at everything and will have facets that we're better at then others, and vice versa. So it will be up to us to recognize peoples specialties, so we may differ questions to those Guides. What I am afraid of, is having "Elitists" helming this project/guide program. Yes, we want to share knowledge, but we need to ensure that the people in question are informed and having Fun, without being made to feel like they're not doing things correctly, etc.. Just my 2 Gold,TheStormLord