I do not understand the reason for Trade Mentor

[hynaku]

They should have also made it where had to have all gathering and crafting jobs to level 80 and also done all the jobs quests for them plus done total 1500 of any type of collectables totaled up. They made it way to easy to be a trade mentor needs to have more of a challenge to it.

[MistakeNot]

They should have also made it where had to have all gathering and crafting jobs to level 80 and also done all the jobs quests for them plus done total 1500 of any type of collectables totaled up. They made it way to easy to be a trade mentor needs to have more of a challenge to it.

Why does it need to be difficult to become a Mentor?
Having done lots of stuff in the game does not mean someone will be any good as a mentor, and conversely someone not spending as much time in the game but paying lots of attention can be much more knowledgable and better at helping.

As it is the requirements of becoming a Mentor has very little to do with what a Mentor is supposed to be doing, other than making it more likely than not that they have some experience with the game.

[hynaku]

Why does it need to be difficult to become a Mentor?
Having done lots of stuff in the game does not mean someone will be any good as a mentor, and conversely someone not spending as much time in the game but paying lots of attention can be much more knowledgable and better at helping.

As it is the requirements of becoming a Mentor has very little to do with what a Mentor is supposed to be doing, other than making it more likely than not that they have some experience with the game.

Look at requirements to pve mentors. You have to do all tank, healer, and dps shadowbringers job quests plus do bunch of dungeon runs and have tons of comms. Mentor is suppose to be hard to become and have lots and lots of experience in that field. Other wise why even give requirements to be one if don't think need a challenge to be one. How it is right now I could create alt and in one to two days it could be a trade mentor that's how easy it is right now.

[Tlamila]

Look at requirements to pve mentors. You have to do all tank, healer, and dps shadowbringers job quests plus do bunch of dungeon runs and have tons of comms. Mentor is suppose to be hard to become and have lots and lots of experience in that field. Other wise why even give requirements to be one if don't think need a challenge to be one. How it is right now I could create alt and in one to two days it could be a trade mentor that's how easy it is right now.

Although, you have to keep in mind that pve mentors get the roulette, while trade mentors get...nothing I guess? Apart from novice network access.

[MistakeNot]

Look at requirements to pve mentors. You have to do all tank, healer, and dps shadowbringers job quests plus do bunch of dungeon runs and have tons of comms. Mentor is suppose to be hard to become and have lots and lots of experience in that field. Other wise why even give requirements to be one if don't think need a challenge to be one. How it is right now I could create alt and in one to two days it could be a trade mentor that's how easy it is right now.

Why should it be hard to get? How does jumping through 1500 hoops make you a better mentor than jumping through 500 hoops?

[QT_Melon]

Look at requirements to pve mentors. You have to do all tank, healer, and dps shadowbringers job quests plus do bunch of dungeon runs and have tons of comms. Mentor is suppose to be hard to become and have lots and lots of experience in that field. Other wise why even give requirements to be one if don't think need a challenge to be one. How it is right now I could create alt and in one to two days it could be a trade mentor that's how easy it is right now.

This comes off as a misnomer.

Job wise you only need to do 2 Jobs, which is a Tank and ACN (class) because Scholar and SMN both level.
There's only 3 role quests, which as you said is Tank, Healer, and DPS.


Commendationss and Dungeons are really a matter of time, most people already hit those requirements easily so not sure why this is hard.

I mean there still is a lot more content for Battle classes than Trade Mentors, so it makes sense to have a bit more knowledge than trade which is a lot more simple.

[Ultimatecalibur]

Commendationss and Dungeons are really a matter of time, most people already hit those requirements easily so not sure why this is hard.

The increasing the Commendation requirement from 300 to 1500 ended up stopping a lot of players who preferred to do their daily roulettes with friends or predominately get their tomestones from content that does not give of commendations from renewing their battle mentor status. Some players I knew who started at the beginning of Stormblood barely had 300 coms.