New Mentor requirements

[Kaiserdrache]

The whole mentor system here is just ridiculous as same as much meaningless crap with absolutely no weight behind it.

All it does say about a player is, that he/she has eventually played the game more than you, but absolutely nothing at all about the competence of a player in general.
One player can have like 5k commendations and be at the same time a total tank noob, because that player plays tank eventually only for story, but otherwise never plays them and grinded like 95% of that sum with a Healer MC >_>

Changin the crown to a Water Can will change NOTHING, so stop this BS, all it will change is that people will change to the next crown that comes close to it, the Sword Crown, it won't change the mentality of people, players don't become different only because SE changed an Icon, that's laughable. Instead of changing the crown to the likings of a minority should SE rather simply add a new Icon, which clearly shows others, that the person using it is helpful and actually wants to answer questions, something simple and not prestigious looking, like for example a classic information l-Icon that show people, ah this player is willing to answer my questions, he/she's like a walking information point.

This way both sides are happy, those that want to have just some kind of prestige icon as sign of being a FF14 veteran that literally fulfills all mentor requirements.
And those, who want to help new players and want them to recognize you too as Mentors helping them out


Howewer the way how this game handles commendations is absolutely terrible and counterproductive.
Commendations should give absolutely NO REWARDS, because the moment any rewards a part of the system, do people freak out, become corrupt and try just to manipulate and abuse the system whereever whenever possible just to get quicker the rewards.
When rewards are linked to the system, people care lesser about helping others and more about attention whoring, just so they might get eventually more commendations later, not to mention anyways that people begin also just to give commendations careless, just to get reward by a bigger exp boost every week, not caring or looking for it if the commended players were actually skillful, but most of the times given to people, just because we like the name or look of a character.
Something so distracted like this shouldn't decide over it, if players can become Mentors


A true Mentor System would require of a person to do something, that normal players would never think about doing at free will, if they wouldn't intend on helping others later, requirements like:

- Have done every Dungeon up to the current point at Minimum ILvl Requirement more than 50 times
- Have done every Raid up to current point at Minimum I Lvl Requirement more than 50 times
- Have done every Big Raid up to current point at Minimum ILvl Requirement more than 50 times
- Participated in more than 50 PvP Battles
- Leveled All Classes to 80, including crafters n collectors, not just 1 per Role, ALL, how should you be competent as Mentor, if you can't answer a question, because you played something in the game never?
- Have beaten all Epic Trials n Raid Versions at Minimum I Lvl Requirement at least 10 times up to the current point of the game.
- Crafted at least 1 legendary Weapon of each generation up to the current point of existance
- Reached Eureka Level 40 Plus and fully explore Hydatos
- Reached Palace of the Dead Level 100 and Heaves on High Level 100 SOLO
- Breed a Rank 9 Chocobo in Gold Saucer and participate in at least 50 Vermillion Matches against other Players


Becoming a Mentor should be a commitment, something that requires of a player truly effort, skill and knowledge in all parts n segments of the game, without being dependend on the mood and liking of random other players