The last part is spot on man, it started getting a bit stale for me so I picked up a level 28 from here under the "adopt a guardian" topic and started helping him out. Dragged him through NF's and heroics, persuaded him to make 3 chars and gave him plenty of tips about whats good n whats not. He now has 2 31s and a 30, has completed VoG a few times aswell.
Ive told him to start doing crotas end on normal this week and i'll get him in my raid team to run him through hard this weekend.
Its actually good fun helping out lower level players and christmas noobs, gives you something to do and they're always grateful for it and appreciate the help.
Happy hunting guardians!