Quote Originally Posted by Kimstar View Post
New Mentor Requirements for DoW/M: [Suggested]
- All Jobs Lv80 (BLU capped)
- All dungeons cleared (Mentor is lost with the release of new dungeons)
- All Trials, Extreme Trials, 24-man RAIDS, 8-man RAIDS, including Savages, all Ultimate fights cleared (Mentor is lost with release of new content listed here)
Those requirements have very little thing to do with an actual mentor. Sure, having experience on content is a good thing, but it's the exact same problem with technical experts being potentially very poor teachers. A mentor should be helpful, and have decent social skills. That's why, in my opinion, Commendations is still the best metric.

However, the commendation system could be tweaked so that less of them would be given willy-nilly. They could cost something for the person who gives it, and/or everyone could only have a limited commendations allowance to give each week. More importantly, the Mentor status should be removed if you don't receive any commendation for a set amount of time.

After that, you could give some QoL benefits to Mentors, like cheaper teleport, a larger chocobo saddle, etc...that would be revoked if you lose the mentor status, so that people would actually care to stay a Mentor.