Should commendations be revised?

[Barraind]

Commendations as they are are dumb. Its a system that doesnt actually do what it should, because it prevents you from giving them to people who would have earned them.

If I group with 2 of my friends and we run a 4man, the only person we can give them to is the more-likely-than-not deaf mute dps we're carrying through whatever we're in. Did they leave a good impression? Who cares, they're the only person who can be comm'd! Grats on your useless number +3'd because you got lucky in getting a pre-made who can ONLY comm you. Did I queue with 3 other people cause one of them needed help? Guess nobody can get a comm, even though by the definition of the comm system, it should have gone to 3 of us!

I end up not giving them at times I want to, because if I'm on a level 80, its actually a detriment to me to give the 5th in a week on a level capped class, and that 5th falls during raids and tomestone farming days (the days I actually bother to do instances anymore, because the only thing i want from any dungeon is a couple orchestrion rolls and tomestones that I can cap in a day).


Requiring 1500 for mentors is nonsense, and I'm going to start just comming anyone who mentions they need a few more to unlock the new mentor amount rather than anyone i think might possibly deserve it. And ill roll a dice if its more than 1 saying it.


There are significantly MORE things I would expect of a 'Mentor' that are accomplished outside of a duty than things I would expect from them inside it, and those will NEVER be reflected in the system.