Originally Posted by Caligula
I think altering the ilvl of gear would be the easiest way for blizzard to implement a mentoring system. Say you are wearing ilvl 150 items and you want to join your level 20 friend in the Deadmines.
20/70 ~ 28%
ilvl 150 * 28% = ilvl ~43
Remove the set bonuses and make the stat bonuses equal to an ilvl 43 item. This person is going to outgear the instance (in this case by about 15 ilvls but that's sort of irrelevant in a mythical test case) but their level will still be appropriate for the instance and probably their HP/Mana and to hit rolls.
I don't think this would be that hard to develop.
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It would be monstrously hard. And what do you do when you have stull like passive haste or armor pen that just don't *exist* on lower level gear? What do you do about enchants and gems?
I've yet to see anyone say why there's anything wrong with my idea of being able to zone in as a copy of your previous self. It would simply ensure that every high level character had a whole set of lower level "alts" they could log in at any time, without having to go through the pain of grinding all the alts up separately.
Only problem I can see is bootstrapping - anyone with a current 70 won't have the necessary copies in place, so it would only apply to characters implemented after the mentoring system was put in place.