Quote Originally Posted by LianaThorne View Post
1. You'll get commendations just by being a healer or a tank. It's not hard. I could barely put out any effort in a dungeon and still walk away with all 3 comms as a healer. So, I disagree with the "only getting comms cause you do well" thing. It's pretty obvious by now that there's a heavy bias towards those two roles with it.
Do the math even for being healer/tank and good at it... you wont get a commendation every dungeon.. each dungeon has to be done in real time as unsynch... premade groups wont work... you do 20 ( 4-5 hours of work ) dungeons a day and get anything between 10 and 25 commendations as tank/heal that is if only getting 10 per day 150 days and +600 hours spend getting those commendations, don't tell me you gonna do that in 1 month or less and this is taking it to the extremes... after that if you want the mount and finally gotten PvE mentor and unlocked mentor roulette, you got to do on top 2000 mentor roulettes that will only unlock, once you have unlocked PvE Mentor... if that is 20 mentor roulettes per day you do... then you are up for another +600 hours just doing that... PvE Mentor is harsh enough, however they should add 3K commendations gained for the Mentor roulette 2 seater pegasus, so their is required an actual mentor effort to be able to get commendations, instead of just sitting back pressing one button or botting it.

Trade Mentor need a similar overhaul as PvE Mentor got to justify their place in the role as mentor, it should be same tedious trivival... mind killing route as a PvE mentor goes through, whether it is forced handcrafting or not... it would be a good thing and requirement of maybe being able to handcraft 50 master items per grand level.. as lvl50/60/70/80 at HQ would not be a bad addon either.

To many think Mentor as a status thing, and making them elevated above others, give them a reason to be that as actually putting in hard work as well, instead of getting Trade Mentor given away by having blindfolded just gotten max level and halfways botted the items needed to achieve it.... also you really well know how to do X thing and would be able to provide a better help if someone ask you something specific about something, easier with crafters/gatherers as they share the same skills, except fisher, that has some oddities bound to it as well.