Need better incentive to Commendate

[Astronis]

Why is everyone Comm'ing the healer O.o their job isn't difficult XD

In raids, I comm healers because it's really obvious if they *aren't* doing their job. Otherwise I comm healers because I can't comm the tank because I usually am the tank.

In my experience, I get comms about the same on healers and tanks. I also get some comms on dancer, but I think that's because of my glam.

[Appleboops]

Aight well I'm giving up, I guess the only solution Square Enix could ever design a system around supporting is "Play Healer and put her in a skimpy outfit", get all the Comm's Fine so be it, let it stay broken for all I care at this point O.o time to move on. In any case I'm glad at least some of you aren't having the same difficulties I am, maybe it's server related or something. I have Glams and Portraits set up on every job and they're good, at least I think they are, unique and engaging (though not just all of them sitting in a bikini like I'm sure some would prefer) :/ oh well. Just another broken thing in this game I guess.

[Saraide]

Why is everyone Comm'ing the healer O.o their job isn't difficult XD

Calm down buddy, you are literally playing the game on easy mode as tank.

[CCheshire]

Aight well I'm giving up, I guess the only solution Square Enix could ever design a system around supporting is "Play Healer and put her in a skimpy outfit", get all the Comm's Fine so be it, let it stay broken for all I care at this point O.o time to move on. In any case I'm glad at least some of you aren't having the same difficulties I am, maybe it's server related or something. I have Glams and Portraits set up on every job and they're good, at least I think they are, unique and engaging (though not just all of them sitting in a bikini like I'm sure some would prefer) :/ oh well. Just another broken thing in this game I guess.

I mean, I mentioned my main 2 jobs are tank and DPS along with the fact I turned off all portraits and never set mine either lol. There's just higher chance of getting more comms on healer for whatever reasons, but you can still get the 1.5k as I only started healing in StB and it's my least played role in 2026 but I have 2k comms anyway so exceptions exist. Also, to be a mentor, you need to max one of each role, so you'd have to play healer at some point unless you do FL-spam to level them all along with the job quests, eventually.

[Appleboops]

I mean, I mentioned my main 2 jobs are tank and DPS along with the fact I turned off all portraits and never set mine either lol. There's just higher chance of getting more comms on healer for whatever reasons, but you can still get the 1.5k as I only started healing in StB and it's my least played role in 2026 but I have 2k comms anyway so exceptions exist. Also, to be a mentor, you need to max one of each role, so you'd have to play healer at some point unless you do FL-spam to level them all along with the job quests, eventually.

So lemme get this straight, you're saying it should take 6+ years to get this achieve? (since StB came out in 2019) or perhaps 5 years if you started mid-way. That's not really any better, that's actually the issue I was having, it shouldn't be that long to begin with. Also I direct you to look to the left and see WHM lv100 O.o it was my first job actually. I did my time as healer, I have no desire to do more at least not right now.

[VeyaAkemi]

Aight well I'm giving up, I guess the only solution Square Enix could ever design a system around supporting is "Play Healer and put her in a skimpy outfit", get all the Comm's Fine so be it, let it stay broken for all I care at this point O.o time to move on.

The issue here is that, even if you consider those things as the system being broken, which it's not, you run into the issue of, how to fix it? what are you asking for? for the game to prevent people from giving commendations to Healers or if they are wearing specific glam pieces that are arbitrarily deemed "unworthy"? for YoshiP to put out an official statement begging for people to be measured with their commendations? the former would be unhinged and draconian, the latter would be promptly ignored.

The fact is that there is an, and this is very important, entirely player-defined meta around commendations, we are telling you what it is, and to repeat:

- Play Healer.
- Be the last to leave instance.
- Have a nice outfit and portrait. I want to make clear, nice doesn't mean skimpy, you can check my Lodestone to see how I am dressed and I always dress showing similar amounts of skin.

If you are still unwilling to play into it, then it's honestly on you.

[GraceHorizon]

Seriously, this does not need to take years to achieve. I passed 1500 commendations within my first year; I have been playing 3.5 years and I have over 7000 comms. Just be the kind of person people like having around, and the they’ll come rolling in.

[Asari5]

when i play dps i always give my comm to a dps. as a healer to the other healer or tank and as a tank to the other tank or the healer.
except if somebody is exceptionally bad / good.

i admire good glams but thats not a point i look at for giving a comm.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Because roulette won’t pop without somebody biting the bullet that is playing the most boring role (healer) lol.

Half jest, actually. I don’t quite understand why but it’s just how it is: tank & healers are more prioritized in general. Slightly more for tanks imho because their name will be on the top of the list to comm when the window shows up, and some people just blindly press their confirm button which defaults to the tanks. This is especially more noticeable in first 2-3 days of weekly reset when people can finish one of their challenge logs by comm’ing 5 times. It could also be a leftover old school MMO stigma that is "Omg Tanks and Healers are so hard ((("

Occasionally I still get decent amount of comms when I play as DPS. If it’s only one, I usually assume it comes from my fellow DPS. If there’s more than one, I think that’s because at least 2 players are noticeably terribad at their job lol.

Looking nice in glamour, title, & portrait combo also counts, for some folks. But it’s hard to gauge this front. And of course, just don’t be an arse. I see commendations as a form of “Just how many people think you’re pleasant to be around with.”

[Appleboops]

<--cut (too long for post)--> how to fix it? what are you asking for? for the game to prevent people from giving commendations to Healers or if they are wearing specific glam pieces that are arbitrarily deemed "unworthy"? for YoshiP to put out an official statement begging for people to be measured with their commendations? the former would be unhinged and draconian, the latter would be promptly ignored.

The fact is that there is an, and this is very important, entirely player-defined meta around commendations, <--cut-->

You're starting to become hyperbolic, stretching arguments into absurdity for effect but that's a fallacy and sort of diminishes your arguments further. Regardless, I'll repeat (quote in-fact), I already offered what I felt were a few reasonable solutions, one of them becoming more and more of an ideal approach in my opinion (bolded below)

Solutions (maybe)?
- Give incentive for Comm'ing like adding a currency (as I mentioned earlier), or maybe an outgoing Comm achievement chain
- Maybe change it so that instead of only being able to Comm one person you can Comm everyone (or up to 3 if that's too much)
- Probably other solutions I haven't thought of

I find myself wondering more and more why we're limited to one Comm at all, tons and tons of other games let people Comm everyone for this exact reason, it negates the issue of one player type or archetype becoming the meta while the rest suffer. I can play dungeons perfectly well, have nice pretty glams set up and all that mess, doesn't count for anything. I'm sorry people but anyone saying "go in there and be someone others like to be around" ... yea that's all fine and good if you're actually talking to people, interacting, but more often than ever dungeon runs are silent, just a get-in >> kill stuff >> get out. This is especially true of the roulettes, maybe it's because some of y'all are more used to the heavier content, savages, party-finder stuff. I'm here to say that's just not how it is doing standard duties, the most you'll ever see is a macro'd up "Hi" at the start and "GGTY" at the end, big deal that's not interaction that's just habit.

Anyway it's fine, that's the meta as you call it, it's wrong, it's broken, it's not how things should be but hey, players decided it would be that way and so players have to live with their poor choices now. It doesn't mean SE can't do anything to fix it and no I'm not suggesting the big guy go and beg people to stop Comm'ing the healers, please let's keep things rational at least