New Mentor requirements

[Galenini]

Except it's not a complex system. Not at all. You're basically saying that most good mentors have less commendations than toxic ones. Which makes zero sense.

I am not equating good mentors with ONLY time spent in game. Therefore, there may be many good mentors who have not had the time to accrue the necessary commendations.

At this point in time, the amount of commendations are often just a reflection of how long someone has been playing a tank and/or healer in PuGs. Awards for showing up. Often has nothing to do with knowledge, willingness or ability to help.

Again, commendations do not necessarily measure the thing that SE, in their culture, believes it currently does. Tweaking that in an intuitive change may not produce the desired results.


We have seen the "toxic" mentors in NN chat. We have heard from new players who felt intimidated. And we have seen older mentors knee-jerk respond to questions from sprouts assuming that the sprout is talking about endgame stats/melding etcetera, without taking into consideration that the sprout is not even at that level, nevermind understanding the context of the question.

Ability to answer the question being asked often requires placing oneself in the mindset of the person asking the question. Remembering what is was like is not necessary. Being aware, however, helps.