Commendations, do you get more as your main or off class?

[AdventZero]

I only play as tank really and almost never get comms for reasons that I have a pretty good guess why. I've asked parties to rate me/tell me what I need to improve at, and so far every group I've asked has told me I "did good" and "they didn't see any areas I could do better at", and on two cases have even had the healer tell me I was one of the best tanks they've ever had to heal for, so I do think I'm not half bad at tanking. So why do I rarely get any comms? Simple: "The tank gets tons of comms, being a tank and all, and the other members are going to comm them for this run too, so I'm going to give mine to the healer/DPS" thinks all party members at once believing their the only one doing it. And in the end, the tank leaves with none. Or at least I hope that's how it is and people aren't just lying to me.

I honestly haven't ran much of anything since 4.0 started cause my will to tank things is mostly burned out after 5 years of doing nothing but it. I need a vacation. /sigh

[Jade3173]

I honestly haven't ran much of anything since 4.0 started cause my will to tank things is mostly burned out after 5 years of doing nothing but it. I need a vacation. /sigh

burn out is real, first thing I did when I figured out that I was experiencing that was shifted roles to Bard rather than doing healing for a whole other expansion. It worked for awhile till I just got fully burnt out and had to take a few months break. After coming back I noticed that while I still love my Bard, I do tend to queue as healers more often. Noticed that your listed class for the forum is PLD, if that's what you're running mostly, have you used the others recently to get a semi-different taste of tanking? Personally didn't like the more spellcasting they added to PLD so I've swapped to DRK for my tank class

[AdventZero]

burn out is real, first thing I did when I figured out that I was experiencing that was shifted roles to Bard rather than doing healing for a whole other expansion. It worked for awhile till I just got fully burnt out and had to take a few months break. After coming back I noticed that while I still love my Bard, I do tend to queue as healers more often. Noticed that your listed class for the forum is PLD, if that's what you're running mostly, have you used the others recently to get a semi-different taste of tanking? Personally didn't like the more spellcasting they added to PLD so I've swapped to DRK for my tank class

Yeah, switching to another class has helped a lot in keeping me interested in the game. Although the one I picked was RDM since I enjoy it's mostly random based on what does/doesn't proc and one's white/black magic levels play style. I'm not good at remembering or not messing up some complex jobs 20+ button rotations, so RDM fits me best. It's been nice to just follow someone for a change instead of being the trail blazer all the time. I plan to keep PLD as my main, since I enjoy it and tanking to much, but RDM will be a nice "taking a break" job to have on the side for those times I feel to tired and want to trade fast queues for laid back gameplay. And I just came back from a 2 month break to play MH:W, so that parts covered already. ^^;