*g* mentoring is for sure something you dont dojust for the Item at the end, at least for me this takes too much time :P if its just for the items i would just hunt ne mob which can drop something nice - the chance to loot it is about the same as getting a ML35ME - and i guess most ppl know that too.
But i dont need a crappy gun, as i wrote b4...
but i would love to get a clowns nose or a pary-hat

such funny stuff would rock! (for me ;o) )
This has not to be rare or unique (totaly unique might even be hard to realise for
MA...)! i was kinda thinkin of something like e.g.:
1st graduated: a Sunflower
2nd: party hat
3rd: a beer glass
and so on...
Mentors could hang out at a bar, have a party and drink beer :P would be at least muchmo fun as getting something you just put in your storage... i mean these guns are even not interessing to give it to your diciple at the end - so he/she has something nice at the end... such a gun you could need right at the start for the diciple to start skilling - THAT would be nice... and what would
ma loose? nothing, because the guns have a tt of 0 ped and are extremly common...