The Mentoring Requirements... *Rant Style*

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Commendations.

It's not like commendations are mandatory, commendations are completely dependent on the other person, their mood, and what they think of you and the rest of the party. Some people never commend, some people commend based on skill, some commend based on appearance, and some commend a random person to complete their challenge log because it's the day before reset. There are way too many factors involved for any testing to be 100% accurate.

I can understand why SE included commendations as a part of the requirement, because they want commendable players to be teaching new people. To commend means to praise, usually for their effort or performance on a task. Wouldn't you want someone who has been noted to be worthy of praise for their efforts?

And I've stated this in another thread, but attitude goes a long way. Gender, race, class, doesn't mean much if people don't like the person behind the keyboard. My boyfriend mains tank (he basically runs it exclusively for the faster queues), he plays a female character, he has run twice as many dungeons/trials as me (as he has been playing longer), and, imo, he's much better at this game than me, yet I have twice as many commendations than him. Why? Because he tends to not say anything in runs. While I tend to talk (sometimes a lot), even if it's just a hello and good-bye.

Multiple jobs

The Mentor Roulette is going to throw you into a dungeon with someone who has never completed the run before and you are their source of information if they need it, about their class, the dungeon, anything and everything. This means that you are going to require knowledge for more than one role. If you only play/know how to play healer and you get a dungeon where the tank asks you how to hold aggro, your healing knowledge does him no use. Saying "Idk, I only play healer" isn't going to help anyone because there is no other healer for you to relay healer-only information to. You're going to need to know something about the other classes, and the best way to get that knowledge is through first hand experience.

Dungeons and trials

As you said, this comes down to experience. There are about 100 dungeons and trials in this game currently, so that's about 10 clears of everything to hit that 1,000 minimum. If someone is going to lead a group where the other 3 to 7 (or even 23 if you dare to queue for LotA) have 0 experience in that dungeon/trial, I know I'd personally like them to have more clears under their belt than just the one they needed for the quest. Granted, I do think this number could be a little lower, 500 (so about 5 of each run) would have been just as good, in my opinion.