Quote Originally Posted by Sylve View Post
Ironically, i got most of my currently 236 Commendations while leveling my BRD, and i got those by snapping my Tp/MP songs on and off, timing the Song uptime to one of my many (I feel for this reason) Damage increasing skills.

It drives me insane to see BRDs sing one song for their entire MP bar and then be like, well i cant sing anymore. Pewpewpew
Drives me crazy too, but that is part of the problem. The ballads don't offer an easily noticeable bonuses so the average bard will pop one and leave it. The fact that the class is called "Bard" should mean that the ballads play more into the role of the job than a side boost that the best bards will make great use of while average/poor bards will kind of make use of them.

With the system now, you earned those commendations by being top tier at your job but anyone below that probably wont ever realize how to do that. (and if they do they probably wont really be able to optimize their use of it)