New commendation Achievement

I'm at 6600-ish. Been playing since 2.0 launch. I know I'm definitely in the minority though.

I think an achievement at 10K would be nice, but make it a title, not a physical object. "The Revered" might work.

This is just going to encourage people to spend even more time farming commendations in guildhest roulette, and dragging everyone else back to level 10 with them.

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Originally Posted by Sighearth

As most players have already reached 3k comms by now, I think the dev team could implement the next step of the achievement. Maybe with a cool glamour to boot. Something like 10k comms? or maybe 15k. At least would make it useful past the 3k

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What for? It's just bragging rights at this point.

They could put an orchestrion roll achievement instead. Since some of the rolls cannot be purchased directly on the market board, some have to be purchased with bicolor gemstones. It would have to be a really high count for the achievement though, like pretty much all the rolls up to 7.0 that can be obtained in-game. Would have to not count those from the mogstation or promotions.

I definitely think they should add a lot more. One for 5k, 10k, 20k 50k and 100k. And then wait for people to post on the forums that mentors need at least 100k comms, because I know it'll happen.
They could add titles on 10k, 50k and 100k and add a floating commendation I medal minion for 100k. Or a mount. But none of this is important just a nice goal.

Commendations are only occasionally tied to good (or above average) gameplay. DPS are shortchanged most of the time. Healers and tanks just get tons of them. But I see it both ways. It is hard to stand out as a DPS in the first place. Secondly, how often are you waiting on content because of DPS? Aside from maybe the post-ARR 24-man raids, it is universally waiting on healers and sometimes tanks. Regardless of how well they play, we rain down commendations on them simply because we couldn't even get into that content without them.

By the OP's same token, "most" players have High Roller. Let's go ahead and make one for 2M Jumbo Cactpot and 10000 Triad Roulettes.

People still give commendations? Even as a sprout, I rarely get any nowadays, even if I play well and/or I'm tanking.
I guess I should start leveling my healers more.

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Originally Posted by Sighearth

Yea I mean, obviously there are always new players coming so its not literally everyone. But if you play this game for some years then its pretty easy to get

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There have been times when I busted my ass, carried a run, or just generally did extremely well and never got any commendations. Then other times I can die a bunch and get a couple. It has nothing to do with skill or playtime, it's just luck. I say this as someone who's played since the very beginning of ARR and I'm still about a stone's throw away from getting it. Then again, I don't beg with macros and stand at the exit while emoting, hoping people will give me one, so maybe my acquisition of them is a bit more organic.

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I ask people not to commend me because I already have too many. I can be a mentor, but I'd rather just help people by myself.

Not sure where I am and can't check cause maint, but I never overly worried about those. They're not something I can control. And also don't mean much to me. I can do as healer what I consider is not really any extreme amount better than the others and get buried in comms or be the key to rescuing the entire run and get no comms. Even if they added a title or something, it's not something I would chase. People comm for their own reasons and rewards for something like this only work if they either make them required before you can leave or incentivize players to give them.

I wouldnt mind a 4k one now since its been awhile since we a achievement tied to them

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Originally Posted by Bsrking5

I definitely think they should add a lot more. One for 5k, 10k, 20k 50k and 100k. And then wait for people to post on the forums that mentors need at least 100k comms, because I know it'll happen.
They could add titles on 10k, 50k and 100k and add a floating commendation I medal minion for 100k. Or a mount. But none of this is important just a nice goal.

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this is a little alarming. ive been playing since before they added the commendation and i only have like 3.2k or something. i couldn't imagine 10k+ and beyond... especially for new players who start at 0. didn't they stop veteran rewards because of that very same reason?

ive played since 1.0 and only have 1380 something but i usually only dps lol

They need to tie any rewards to achievements for GIVING, not receiving commendations. Receiving coms is such a random thing and is biased enough around certain roles getting more than others that such achievements really don't mean a whole lot at this point.

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Originally Posted by Sighearth

As most players have already reached 3k comms by now

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I've been playing this game since launch and I have 32 commendations. I've probably given out even fewer. They're one of the dumbest things in the game. If that's a thing you wanna grind out with your friends, you do you.

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Originally Posted by Korbei

I've been playing this game since launch and I have 32 commendations. I've probably given out even fewer. They're one of the dumbest things in the game. If that's a thing you wanna grind out with your friends, you do you.

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Honestly my dood, that's just impressive. Seriously.

Have you been like, insta leaving for 11 years straight, or do you just not do roulettes?
Like, people dish em out like nobodies business. I feel like you'd have to try to not get them

I went over 10K comms recently but I've played for like 25K hours. Apart from card collecting, we no lifers haven't had our feats rewarded in a lot of years. Nothing for big comms and collecting a huge amount of song rolls, mounts and minions. Also achievement certificates can't buy anything; they are already going years at a time without adding something to buy, and when they do it costs almost nothing.

Been playing since 2.0 and I only have 1200 commendations. I don’t talk, I don’t help, and I don’t stick around afterward. It’s the only thing keeping me from becoming a Mentor, and I’m totally fine without the accursed crown.

Been playing since Nov. 2015 and I'm 10,680. Would love some new commendation achievements.

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Originally Posted by Zomkei

this is a little alarming. ive been playing since before they added the commendation and i only have like 3.2k or something. i couldn't imagine 10k+ and beyond... especially for new players who start at 0. didn't they stop veteran rewards because of that very same reason?

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They stopped because they didn't want to keep adding in rewards for just having a sub. And since then they've added very little to achievements rewards which replaced it.

I have like 5k of them and they really don't do anything. Even if they added incentive it just wouldn't matter since even if you are the worse ever....just doing guildhests over and over as a healer will get you it.

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Originally Posted by Iyrnthota

Have you been like, insta leaving for 11 years straight, or do you just not do roulettes?
Like, people dish em out like nobodies business. I feel like you'd have to try to not get them

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Yes that is basically the crux of it. I never stick around and never do roulettes.

I petitioned long ago to have coms available at any time for any reason. Anyone in your contacts list can be given a commendation for any reason you like. Kicked ass in a FATE, started a mount farm party, Blue Mage runs, unsynched MSQ dungeon, melded a materia.. whatever. Cap them at 5 per day or something. As it is, I've never seen any reason for them to exist and I don't participate.

Been playing since 2016. I have 1496 commendations. I dont think I give people enough time to commend me I just insta leave most instances.

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Originally Posted by Sighearth

As most players have already reached 3k comms by now, I think the dev team could implement the next step of the achievement. Maybe with a cool glamour to boot. Something like 10k comms? or maybe 15k. At least would make it useful past the 3k

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Just increase mentor to 10k commends.

Then watch the mentors that bot their commends in regular duties go crazy.