Mentor Changes - Why 1500 Comms?

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Originally Posted by Vnolan

Play exceptionally well. Comming a DPS for AoE use would be like comming a tank for maintaining threat. Why would I comm a DPS for doing their job if the tank and healer do theirs while dealing respectable damage, pulling big and playing as roles in demand?

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I got quite a few comms as BLM when I was leveling it, possibly for handling my fire/ice states well. Or maybe they're just particularly noticeable when AoEing.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

I got quite a few comms as BLM when I was leveling it, possibly for handling my fire/ice states well. Or maybe they're just particularly noticeable when AoEing.

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While I can't confirm/deny the anecdotal evidence, something that may possibly support that idea is how it can be rather easy to see, via casting bars, when BLM is doing well with AoE. Melee and ranged, not always as easy to notice, depending on sound/visual effect settings.

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Originally Posted by Vnolan

Play exceptionally well. Comming a DPS for AoE use would be like comming a tank for maintaining threat. Why would I comm a DPS for doing their job if the tank and healer do theirs while dealing respectable damage, pulling big and playing as roles in demand?

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Given how many DPS don't AoE. I comm the ones who do mostly out of shock. It's like comming healers who DPS. When you see so many who don't, you want to give props to the ones who actually do.

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Originally Posted by Vnolan

Play exceptionally well. Comming a DPS for AoE use would be like comming a tank for maintaining threat. Why would I comm a DPS for doing their job if the tank and healer do theirs while dealing respectable damage, pulling big and playing as roles in demand?

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Oh I don't disagree. In a perfect world commendations would actually represent excellence and having loads would account for being an amazing player.

However this is FFXIV here. And the bar for getting commendations is much much lower than that.

In XIV you can walk out with a handful of commendations just because a few folks like your glamorous or you simply said hi peeps at the start of a duty. Hell you can get commendations just for being the last person to leave an instance at the end. So throwing out some dps as a healer or aoes as an actual dps is generally going to net you a significant amount of comms.

I guess what I'm saying then is that when the bar for getting commendations is as low as it is. Getting 1500 should be easy enough for anyone including people who play dps.

If players aren't getting any then they must be doing something very very wrong if they can't even meet standards that low..

The new mentor system is fair, only very experienced players deserve to be mentors.

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Originally Posted by Dzian

If players aren't getting any then they must be doing something very very wrong if they can't even meet standards that low..

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Or: they run fully performed parties? I mean, DF is treated like it has some form of a deadly virus. I know people who have savage and ultimates cleared and aren't even close to 1k comms. Asking more usually leads to they run stuff with their friends/raid members cuz DF is something or another.

Forgive me if im wrong about this, as ive never been interested in becoming a mentor. Why not just qualify as a trade mentor? Those requirements arent changing. You still get access to NN chat to help new players. You can maybe even still run the roulette(i honestly have no idea)? And id wager a ton that Hyomin is right that they picked this comm threshold based on achievements.

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Originally Posted by fumofu

and if you'd use phantasia and changed into lalafell, that would make things even more efficient.

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I do not approve of your race, evil soulless monstrosities, so no this is not always a good way to farm extra comms.

I think they need to disable commendations in guildhests so we can actually get something that is not "Under the Armour" for the twenty thousandth time.

I've decided I'm not giving out commendations there.

Commendation are like likes on a youtube video. Even if you like it, you don't have to Like it. Especially when you've got a Favorites playlist right there.

I had 1500 comms back in ARR and 1500 dungeons. I think should be changed to 3000 comms. Just main a tank or healer and get that many in no time. Both those jobs get about 95% of all the comms.