Quote Originally Posted by Mirili View Post
Or it's a reading comprehension thing. He's not saying "All mentors crawled out of Satan's backside." That would be a blanket statement about mentors.

He's just saying SOME people misuse the system, and it's easy for them to do it. Which is true, and not a blanket statement.
He kind of is, though. His title flat-out says that the requirements "cater to" bad mentors (i.e. people that have no business being mentors) and then goes on to explain why he feels this way. I find the "connections" he makes there to be tenuous at best. Having one class of each role at 60 doesn't mean you've powerleveled or speedrun, cause Twelve knows it's easy as hell to get to max level compared to when I started in 2.1. Having cleared 1000 dungeons doesn't mean you've forced newbies to skip cutscenes or forced speedruns. It could just mean you've been playing a really long time. It could mean you do every roulette every day. It could mean you spam Satasha normal 5 times a day every day to help sprouts. There's plenty of ways to clear 1000 dungeons without making other people's game experience miserable in the process, none of which OP bothers to mention.

Similarly, having 300 commendations doesn't automatically mean you got them by speedily speedrunning with other speedrunners. In my experience, speedrunners actually seem less likely than most players to even give commendations - about half the time, they just bounce as soon as the boss dies and don't even bother to look back, much less click the clicky thing that makes numbers go up. I'm sitting at 3k+ commendations and I've gotten just as many from new people that I've explained things to or that I've stood up for as I have from people appreciating the aggressive way I tank or heal. Hell, more than a few of them were earned when I myself was new and learning, simply for either making good use of skills even though I was new to the content or for taking well-intentioned advice in stride instead of flipping the proverbial table at the first sign of constructive criticism.

Are there good mentors and bad mentors? Absolutely. Do the requirements cater to either type specifically? No, and that's where OP went wrong trying to explain his point. He put a negative slant on it from the beginning, so he's getting a negative response.

@OP - Your suggestion of having each mentor individually vetted by GM's is way too work-intensive to be viable.