Mentor Changes - Why 1500 Comms?

[Duskane]

It just means someone could have worn a cute glam on a cute character or mains healer/tank and runs content daily or plays nonstop.

this must be why i almost have 3000.....

[Jezikhana]

1.5k coms does not equate to a good mentor. It just means someone could have worn a cute glam on a cute character or mains healer/tank and runs content daily or plays nonstop. It in no way indicates they are able to help others or not be toxic in open chat.

Yeap. Tbf, trying to gauge if someone can be a competent Mentor or not is going to be close to impossible with any type of automated system. The only answers I can come up with would require more active monitoring by Squenix which isn't likely to happen. The channel needs eyes on it more than it has now cause the shitposting in it is absolutely a problem.

[Gula]

Yeap. Tbf, trying to gauge if someone can be a competent Mentor or not is going to be close to impossible with any type of automated system. The only answers I can come up with would require more active monitoring by Squenix which isn't likely to happen. The channel needs eyes on it more than it has now cause the shitposting in it is absolutely a problem.

I proposed a request for a regional chat here. But there's a lot of opposition for something I really think will help the NN above all.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Regional-Chat

[Naoki34]

I'm very frustrated with the new update to needing 1500 commendations to be a mentor. I've had this character as my main for a year and a half, I run tank or healer in dungeons so I get more comms than a DPS character would. After that long, 892 comms. I have a friend with a character since around beta, who runs mainly DPS in dungeons and has a bit over 1300 comms.

I get comms when I run dungeons, but I often run with friends and we can't comm each other. It makes for a lot of runs I have no way to get comms. And while I absolutely agree that it needs to be higher than 300, 1500 is too high. I love having the mentor tag and being grouped up with sprouts for dungeons when I do run roulettes without friends. It's a lot of fun that's now being taken away for a ridiculous requirement from my point of view at least.

I'd love to hear other's views on this. It was a very unpleasant surprise this morning.

Because the Mentors are a fat noob often !

One year of FFXIV is good for learning to play and pretending to be able to advise newbies.
And again, for some, it's still big noobs after years of play.

[Samsta]

1.5k coms does not equate to a good mentor. It just means someone could have worn a cute glam on a cute character or mains healer/tank and runs content daily or plays nonstop. It in no way indicates they are able to help others or not be toxic in open chat.

It does indicate that 1500 people have pressed the commendation on him though, that tells us at least that he wasn't a complete asshole or totally incapable of doing what he was supposed to be doing during those 1500 cases, it is not a guararantee of anything but better than nothing and honestly probably the best we can get.

[Eloah]

I personally don't care, as I've turned off my NN for quite some time. But, I really can't say much seeing as I have almost 6000 commies... and a good amount are from DPSing as much as healing and tanking.

[fumofu]

You can farm your commendations in guildhests. They're quick and easy. Just make sure you're either tank or healer, and if you'd use phantasia and changed into lalafell, that would make things even more efficient.

[HyoMinPark]

There may be bad mentors, but how many people with mentor status don't know the full story of the Scholasticate missions? Why is everyone dressed as Harry Potter? Because it's a pop culture reference? Or is there some other lore reason behind that?

While I’m a big stickler for lore in this game, the mentor program deals more with combat, tradecraft, and fieldcraft. Lore knowledge isn’t a requirement, really.

1,500 may seem high, but the idea is for mentors to be seasoned players others can turn to for advice. I think the new requirements are fine—but I don’t oppose 1,000 comms being a standard either. Both work. 300 was just way too low.

Edit: I wonder if the requirement being 1,500 is because the game checks achievements for mentor status. The level 80 job quests, dungeon requirements, and commendation thresholds all have achievements tied to them, and the achievement system for comms goes: 10 > 100 > 300 > 500 > 1,500 > 3,000. So I’d wager that’s why they went with 1,500: system limitations.

[Rhais]

You can farm your commendations in guildhests. They're quick and easy. Just make sure you're either tank or healer, and if you'd use phantasia and changed into lalafell, that would make things even more efficient.

I avoid giving commendations to lalafell.

[Dzian]

Play well. Get tons of commendations even on dps. Can quite frequently come out of expert with 1 or 2 on my samurai just because I know how to aoe and use bloodbath to cover any splash damage I take...

It really doesn't take much to rack up commendations. People often say the tank and healer get more. As dps is less noticable. But when your at the final boss several minutes faster than usual its noticable...