I just recently hit 4k hours in the game last week and while ive been playing for arguably very long ive barely reached 700 comms, as a mostly DPS only player who also spends most of my time doing High End Duties i barely get any comms, despite only having gatherer/crafter mentor i really enjoy helping people on novice network but i am currently locked out of doing mentor roulettes + the new player/mentor exp boost due to the insane requirements while people who've played the game a lot less manage to achieve it simply by playing healer or tank.
The current system is extremely unfarovable for DPS players and raiders who do stuff on PF.