I have over 6000 commendations and nothing to show for it. Thoughts on mentorship.

[CaedemSanguis]

Comms are quite possibly one of the most worthless measurements of player ability in the game. Sure a small handful of them are applied for legitimate reason, but the majority go to healbots who spam overhealing, tanks who simply pulled more than one mob, cat girls in bikinis, that one guy who plays a class you like, someone who pressed Peleton and so on. Most people don't even bother comm'ing. You also only get them for Duty Finder content, which is extremely easy.

There are people who have been playing years who are absolutely amazing players with indepth knowledge of multiple classes and roles, yet have less than 1k comms because they spend more time in EX, Savage and Ultimate content and do their Experts with friends. They're denied combat mentorship while the healbot who's Cure I and Medica II spammed their way through roulettes has a crown on their head.

The mentor system needs revising. There should be a Hall of the Expert that tests knowledge of all 3 roles at the very least and comms should be split into Performance, which is evaluated by the game, and Behavior, which is player evaluated and used for rewards and such as it is now.

As I said before, mentor dont mean that you are a good player, it only means that you know some basic information in order to help new players (Like DRK is a tank, DRG a dps, etc)

SE want mentors to have basic knowledge in order to help sprouts with basic questions

[Jin-]

As I said before, mentor dont mean that you are a good player, it only means that you know some basic information in order to help new players (Like DRK is a tank, DRG a dps, etc)

SE want mentors to have basic knowledge in order to help sprouts with basic questions

This honestly. Many people think that mentor somehow means and is required to be a top performing player when all it really means that they have enough experience to help new people with their questions about the game mechanics.

[Genbe197]

This honestly. Many people think that mentor somehow means and is required to be a top performing player when all it really means that they have enough experience to help new people with their questions about the game mechanics.

Exactly most of the questions I am asked as a mentor have to do with getting the chocobo, doing something with the UI, mapping the controller, basic tanking questtions like using cooldowns, getting jobs, NOTHING is ever super in-depth about like rotations and what not, because sprouts are low lvl lol