Mentor Changes - Why 1500 Comms?

[Rhais]

You can farm your commendations in guildhests. They're quick and easy. Just make sure you're either tank or healer, and if you'd use phantasia and changed into lalafell, that would make things even more efficient.

I avoid giving commendations to lalafell.

[Frizze]

Forgive me if im wrong about this, as ive never been interested in becoming a mentor. Why not just qualify as a trade mentor? Those requirements arent changing. You still get access to NN chat to help new players. You can maybe even still run the roulette(i honestly have no idea)? And id wager a ton that Hyomin is right that they picked this comm threshold based on achievements.

and if you'd use phantasia and changed into lalafell, that would make things even more efficient.

I do not approve of your race, evil soulless monstrosities, so no this is not always a good way to farm extra comms.

[RoseSymphony]

Forgive me if im wrong about this, as ive never been interested in becoming a mentor. Why not just qualify as a trade mentor? Those requirements arent changing. You still get access to NN chat to help new players. You can maybe even still run the roulette(i honestly have no idea)? And id wager a ton that Hyomin is right that they picked this comm threshold based on achievements.

After 5.1, Trade Mentors won't be able to access the Mentor Roulette (unless they obviously also qualify and certified as a PvE Mentor.)

[Dzian]

Play well. Get tons of commendations even on dps. Can quite frequently come out of expert with 1 or 2 on my samurai just because I know how to aoe and use bloodbath to cover any splash damage I take...

It really doesn't take much to rack up commendations. People often say the tank and healer get more. As dps is less noticable. But when your at the final boss several minutes faster than usual its noticable...

[Justadude]

I am not gonna give a wall of text but i agree a 500% increase is ludicrous and should have been considered more carefully as a similar increase in say a sub price would end ff14 forever.

[HyoMinPark]

I am not gonna give a wall of text but i agree a 500% increase is ludicrous and should have been considered more carefully as a similar increase in say a sub price would end ff14 forever.

Increasing the commendation requirements for an optional program that doesn’t affect gameplay at all is a little bit different than changing subscription prices... These two aren’t remotely comparable.

[Violet_Galaxy]

I'm very frustrated with the new update to needing 1500 commendations to be a mentor. I've had this character as my main for a year and a half, I run tank or healer in dungeons so I get more comms than a DPS character would. After that long, 892 comms. I have a friend with a character since around beta, who runs mainly DPS in dungeons and has a bit over 1300 comms.

I get comms when I run dungeons, but I often run with friends and we can't comm each other. It makes for a lot of runs I have no way to get comms. And while I absolutely agree that it needs to be higher than 300, 1500 is too high. I love having the mentor tag and being grouped up with sprouts for dungeons when I do run roulettes without friends. It's a lot of fun that's now being taken away for a ridiculous requirement from my point of view at least.

I'd love to hear other's views on this. It was a very unpleasant surprise this morning.

I honestly think 1,500 is a sweet spot for this as 300 was far too low and thus we ended up with a bunch of mentors who just ran Ifrit over and over to get to 1,000 instances. I think this sort of mitigates that a little. It's definitely not a clean solution as DPS mains will take a bit of a hit but I feel it's necessary.

[f00dl3]

What is the history of commendations - do they raise the requirements with every major expansion in general and every patch? It changed if I recall for 5.0 to require the level 80 class quests/jobs and 1,000 dungeons - now with 5.1 it's raising to 1500 commendations. When the next expansion comes out, do they plan on raising it to 2000 dungeons / 3000 commendations?

[Esp]

What is the history of commendations - do they raise the requirements with every major expansion in general and every patch? It changed if I recall for 5.0 to require the level 80 class quests/jobs and 1,000 dungeons - now with 5.1 it's raising to 1500 commendations. When the next expansion comes out, do they plan on raising it to 2000 dungeons / 3000 commendations?

Commendations are nothing more than that, a commendation. Just a way to show your appreciation to someone that left a good impression on you. And it's complete up to you to give them out or not.

No need to worry about them upping the requirements every few years for them, I believe they did this just because it was just too easy to farm 300 commendations for mentor status, which puts the bar low when going for it. The amount of dungeons and job requirements comes pretty easily as you play as well.

Not to mention, there are rewards for getting them, up to 1500. And when rewards are tacked on to something, then most will try and grind them out, regardless of if they want to become a mentor or not. And 300 was easily gotten by spamming guildhest most of the time.

[LalaRu]

What is the history of commendations - do they raise the requirements with every major expansion in general and every patch?

Only updates done, were in order to keep current the level cap and mentor roulette unlock. This is the first time the commendation requirement was raised.

More likely, devs pushed the change because the 300 comms limit became so low that too much people were joining a feature intended for less people to get in.

Look at the numbers in NN, right today we have more mentors than sprouts and mentor join is likely to be capped when you log in.