Quote Originally Posted by Lambdafish View Post
This isn't a rule though, you are too small a sample to say for sure. I usually get a lot of commendations when I help people (albeit as tank or healer), so that completely skews your theory. The problem is that commendations aren't an indicator of how helpful you were in an instance, its an indicator that someone in a dungeon thought you deserved a commendation, and to me, that's working as intended.

On a separate note, I agree with the OP that it should be 500 comms, but I think the reason that it isn't is because people who joined in HW wouldn't have gotten that many yet, meaning the content would be exclusive to ARR players for a while. I don't think that is a good excuse, but it's what they have chosen. What I will be more interested to see is how harsh they are towards players who aren't good or helpful mentors.
Something usually happening from my experience isn't a rule. That is correct, I never said it was. If you go back to my original post, I say "your market may vary" as in, everyone has different experiences. I simply noted that helping people doesn't necessarily get you more commendations. It may or may not happen. You then provided reasoning of why my experiences happened. I am not really sure why you are agreeing with me but making it sound like an argument.

On your separate note, personally I don't think commendations should be part of it. There are plenty of bad players who have lots of commendations, and plenty of newer players who are skillful that don't. I think the requirements for this system are silly. That said, I think the entire mentor system is pretty silly and won't be helpful, so I am not super concerned about it.