Trade mentor is rather fake, the requirements are so low that you can sleepwalk your way to collectables. The majority are not even giving any trade advice, anywhere, and because the content where it even mattered has past us for months. Usually you don't take much stock in anyone with a hammer crown.


Now commendations are important to the system, that's why it was raised heavily. You don't want people who just don't get along with others, or stink at the game in-general. You know why people comm others even if they don't say anything. Like they do good DPS, or know their job and content to a high-level. That's important, you want people whom others approve of.

I don't speak in-content over 90% of the time, yet I've broken over 5000 in commendations over the years. From all types of content.