Review - Feature - Mentoring

Adapted from http://eq2.wikia.com/wiki/Mentoring

What is mentoring?

Mentoring in EverQuest II allows your character to temporarily lower his/her adventure level to match that of another player in your group. All of your stats, equipped items, spells and combat arts are also "scaled down" to that level, and all base adventuring experience gained is reduced by 50%.

Why mentor?

To assist lower level players. No one can gain experience or quest updates if any groupmate's level is too high in comparison. In this case, mentoring is the only solution if you want to help them out.

To benefit from grayed-out content. Named mobs don't drop their intended treasure chests or award AA experience once they con gray. However, mentoring another player will change that if it brings you within the level range to make the mob con green or more.

To feel badass? When you mentor, you gain considerably less experience, have your stats lowered and your equipment/spells/combat arts scaled down. However, everything isn't scaled down enough to match how you performed when you really were that level. In fact, you'll still be somewhat overpowered for the level you're mentoring at. Just don't let it go to your head -- you're still playing the class you chose, after all.

Mentored players benefit, too! Anyone being mentored gains a slight boost to adventure experienced gained with every kill. The more mentors, the more the boost becomes!

Review: I thought this feature should be available in ALL MMOS, especially in games where there are large level gaps. It also enables players to recruit friends and ensure them have a much smoother transition into the game with the aid of a higher level. It also aid the problem of 'insufficient lower levels' if a person has a lot of friends in EQ2. He can simply gather higher level friends to mentor him/her and adventure together.

Feature rating: 5/5 (must have in all games, wonder why no other games implement this feature).

Video of a high level Paladin mentoring a lower level (20+ as stormhold is suitable for 15+ to 20+)