Mentor Changes - Why 1500 Comms?

[Dzian]

Play exceptionally well. Comming a DPS for AoE use would be like comming a tank for maintaining threat. Why would I comm a DPS for doing their job if the tank and healer do theirs while dealing respectable damage, pulling big and playing as roles in demand?

Oh I don't disagree. In a perfect world commendations would actually represent excellence and having loads would account for being an amazing player.

However this is FFXIV here. And the bar for getting commendations is much much lower than that.

In XIV you can walk out with a handful of commendations just because a few folks like your glamorous or you simply said hi peeps at the start of a duty. Hell you can get commendations just for being the last person to leave an instance at the end. So throwing out some dps as a healer or aoes as an actual dps is generally going to net you a significant amount of comms.

I guess what I'm saying then is that when the bar for getting commendations is as low as it is. Getting 1500 should be easy enough for anyone including people who play dps.

If players aren't getting any then they must be doing something very very wrong if they can't even meet standards that low..

[Mahrze]

If players aren't getting any then they must be doing something very very wrong if they can't even meet standards that low..

Or: they run fully performed parties? I mean, DF is treated like it has some form of a deadly virus. I know people who have savage and ultimates cleared and aren't even close to 1k comms. Asking more usually leads to they run stuff with their friends/raid members cuz DF is something or another.

[SummonerSenah]

Oh I don't disagree. In a perfect world commendations would actually represent excellence and having loads would account for being an amazing player.

However this is FFXIV here. And the bar for getting commendations is much much lower than that.

In XIV you can walk out with a handful of commendations just because a few folks like your glamorous or you simply said hi peeps at the start of a duty. Hell you can get commendations just for being the last person to leave an instance at the end. So throwing out some dps as a healer or aoes as an actual dps is generally going to net you a significant amount of comms.

I guess what I'm saying then is that when the bar for getting commendations is as low as it is. Getting 1500 should be easy enough for anyone including people who play dps.

To piggyback off of this.

When dps aren't getting comms, they say that "only tanks and healers get them." But when healers and tanks aren't getting comms, they say that "people give out commendations randomly, it could be for glamour or just a cool name or something."

If giving out commendations is as random as people think, then everyone always has an equal chance to get them regardless of role. If you haven't hit 1500 yet it might just mean that possibly you aren't running roulettes a lot, or just run with premades, and need to branch out a bit.