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

[Skivvy]

The rewards are the commendations themselves. Now, we could talk about further commendation rewards, as commendations should promote good behavior - even if there are players out there who try and farm it. The mentor system should be entirely removed from the game though, but if it needs to remain, it shouldn't have any rewards, as helping other players is the reward. The crown should be removed entirely, for that matter.

These are my thoughts as well. If they need to have an icon of some sort, make it something basic like it was in XI -

Going with a crown was a horrible idea as too many people wear it just because they think it looks cool and have no desire to actually help people. Rewards were an even worse idea IMO as you add in people who are only after the shiny items and now they have to 'suffer' the mentor roulette. Doesn't make for a good combination.

There will always be people who like to actually help people because that's what they do - and they'll do it without a pompous icon or having rewards dangled in their face.

[Novae]

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.

Why should you get a battle mentor tag if you don't use the DF and only play with friends? Also, a crown doesn't mean anything in PF. Like, who cares?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Why should you get a battle mentor tag if you don't use the DF and only play with friends? Also, a crown doesn't mean anything in PF. Like, who cares?

Mentor is about knowing the game, not getting arbitrary commendations.

[Awha]

New PF meta, do not join unless you have a min of 6k comms. :smirk:

[Evergrey]

Let's just cap the Comms at 3000 and after that people can't give you more comms.
Your name will be grayed out and people can't select it.
That way others than the Tanks and Healers can have a chance to get some comms.

[Genbe197]

You want MORE? Commendations are just there to say good job! you don't deserve anything more for it.

[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.

[znushu]

FFXIV needs more rewards for commendation acquisition that can be visually seen by their name. What better way to let everyone around you know that you play the game, and I mean REALLY play the game! Take my multicolored crown example.

Or they could just do something like this instead.

[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

[Novae]

Mentor is about knowing the game, not getting arbitrary commendations.

Ok so, imho, using the DF for your daily roulettes helps the community a lot more than having an orange parse. Commendations are Df exclusive rewards. Having a lot of them doesn't mean you're a good player, of course, but it means you use the DF quite often, helping the community as a whole with queue times etc...
And this is what you're supposed to be as a mentor. Someone who's there to help the community. The mentor roulette is the perfect example of this.
So yea, getting "arbitrary commendations" helps the community more than being a fflog god who never touch the DF.