I was a Mentor. Now I am just a Crafting Mentor because I don't have 1500 coms.

[Machka]

Uh, 3 days doing roulettes as PLD (minus Expert) and already got more comms than in 3 weeks playing mostly RDM and a bit of BRD. And I've been explaining mechanics and rotation issues to struggling players as DPS, while I haven't had the opportunity to do the same as PLD due to struggling to do well and some minor tankxiety.

So no, most people don't really comm the most helpful. They default to the tank, or the healer, or their favorite race or a nice glam. I can't count the times I've saved a 4-man run with Verraise and still got no comms, while I haven't done anything worthy of note as tank, if not even some slightly sloppy tanking and I'm getting 2 comms per run at least, if not more.

I addressed that in my post already, did I not? Like yeah sure, it is usually a bit harder to earn comms as a DPS. However, being a mentor is about being experienced and skilled in all three roles so the discrepancy should not matter.

If earning comms as a tank is as simple/quick as you described, then anyone who has spent a reasonable amount of time in DF as a tank and healer should have plenty of commendations. Which brings me to the point of my previous comment.

[AngelCheese77]

Well sure. I definitely agree that the mentor system in its current state is stupid should be either redesigned or scrapped entirely, but that's not relevant to the conversation at hand.

Fact is, it's not entitlement to be annoyed at having the crown and NN/roulette access revoked because of something insanely arbitrary.

NN is not being revoked, and only DoW/DoM will have the roulette, not DoL/DoH mentors.

[Chalbee]

Good thread. I think I basically agree with the folks who have said that comms aren't a great measuring stick, but they're the best we've got, much better than only having "complete X duties." The # of duties you've completed includes those where you were on the floor for 3/4 of it, or afk, or any number of things where the completion might be credited to your party members rather than yourself. Comms measure YOU, however imperfectly. The combination of those two imperfect measures and having leveled a job of each role is a pretty reasonable way to estimate who would make a decent mentor.

I've been playing almost exactly 4 years and don't have the comms to become a mentor. This is probably because for half of that I only played 1 DPS job, and also I don't really do that much DF content outside of maybe just 1 or 2 roulettes on the days I play. Turns out you have to actually do content to get comms! Or maybe I'm actually just a garbage player? But the point is that the fact I haven't accumulated 1500 comms means I'm probably not qualified to be giving other players advice, an assessment I can't really argue with.

Also, as others have mentioned, you really shouldn't be thinking of the crown as a reward or some kind of clout. It's not for you, it's for the sprouts.

[Naoki34]

SE would grandfather in almost anything else but you don't grandfather us mentors. I am going to keep this short. You don't respect how much time and effort I have put into the game so far. You don't respect that I have been a mentor for over 2 years. Then you don't need my $30.00 a month. Maybe you will respect that.

You are playing from 2016 and you don't have 1500 ? lol
I'm from 2016 too and 3400+

[RyuSaarva]

Yup, very difficult to stand out as DPS in a game in which reliable metrics for DPS' performance are forbidden because OMG, bad dog! (parsers, cough).
As a healer, DPS + keep everyone alive and people will shower you with commendations.

As a tank, I get less comms but that's probably due to it being my second class, so my performance is not exactly up to savage standards.

I would not give a comm for dps who has the highest dps because he refused to do any of the mechanicks and just did his training dummy rotation, you can see helpfull players in other ways.

[Videra]

I have some bad news for you, snowflake. Your mentor status means nothing.

[hynaku]

I'm just crafting mentor now because not doing healers and tanks role quests when never play ether of them. I have dps role quests done. Doesn't matter to me since don't care about mentor roulette at all. Being just crafting mentor just fine with me. I have think around 4000 comms that got from being a dps since start of 2.0. Who cares if spend 30 dollars month on sub that's not even close to half I pay them each month. Think new mentor changes is just fine how they are.

[RaideDuku]

[Jolteown]

This is literally the funniest post I have ever read.

[LalafellDown]

Hope they bump the coms to 3000 one day.