Problem: The Mentor requirements cater to players who have no business being Mentors.

[Vivi_Bushido]

I actually find that DPS tend to get more commendations lately because everyone is of the mindset that "Healers and tanks get commendations all the time for being tanks or healers. Obvious roles that're expected to do their job". Where as the mentality is, "If I'm a DPS, I commendate the other DPS, cause I'm pretty sure the tank and healer will commendate each other." when they actually also commendated a DPS for the previous statement! Very little anymore is it, "That was an excellent use of a limit break! Take my commendation!" or "The healer kept me alive during big pulls. Take my commendation!" I've even seen people give commendations out to players who sucked at their class, simply because they have an appealing glamour. I've also seen other players give commendations out to the new players simply because, "Thank you new player bonus! I needed ESOs and POE for my relic weapon!". And truthfully, most of the times, people just don't give commendations out to anyone anymore. Either for being too lazy, or the right to earn one from them is set too high.

Point is, commendations is a horrible requirement in general; and very little is the commendations given out for outstanding performances. You more likely got a commendation for simply being a Black mage, because that makes speed runs more doable. If you ran with the same group of people, but went Monk instead, they may have given the commendation to another player instead, simply because of class utility.

Also, unrelated. I love how people with the crown are expected to be mentoring 24/7. Or rather, if you don't feel like mentoring today, people expect you to disable the crown. I know at least on my server, there is no legit new players as sprouts because the server is always locked. Nearly all of the sprouts on Balmung are alts, (most often for RP) or bots. So all of the mentors just use it as a general chat network instead.