Need better incentive to Commendate

[Appleboops]

I've been about 100 Comms away from the 1500 for like a month XD and naw it's not because I'm terrible or anything like that. I normally use Tank for the Expert/Level Cap and then go into the rest of the roulettes with whatever I'm feeling like leveling for that day. I do the weekly Heavyweights. I do other stuff sometimes, depends on the day, but point is I play the content without any issues, in fact about as well as it can be, I mean c'mon it's base content after all.

I get on average 1 Comm a day O.o

More often than not, I expect no one in the duty is bothering to Comm at all. And why would they, the only reason they have to Comm is 5 times a week for the challenge and then there's no incentive whatsoever. At this rate it should take 5 years to get 1500? Obviously that's not the case since I got to 1400 in a more reasonable amount of time but lately nothing, seems like everyone has just given up.

Ah well, anyway the point is we need something better. Like a low-tier currency where you get 1 for handing out a Comm and you get 1 for receiving a Comm. Comm shop with some stuff in it, nothing needs to be super fancy but something at least.

[Deejudanne]

or scrap the system and the mentor system because it's more often than not only cared about for the achievements and not so much about actually being helpful

[VeyaAkemi]

I farmed my 3000 comms, for the Parade Chocobo mount, by playing Healer, it felt very easy and only took me a couple weeks of dedicated Healer play a few months ago.

Something I very strongly recommend is to always be the last to leave instance, having a decent fit and a nice portrait legitimately influences things, and while I have no idea if it was helpful, I always positioned myself in front of the boss chest and did /vpose, which for Scholar, includes a bow.

It's all I can add really, it's not that people aren't comming, it's that they aren't comming the Tank most of the time, even when I stopped going for them after I hit 3k, I am already at 3550, with no use for those 550 past the final mark.

[CCheshire]

It's not too bad if you play as a healer, as you will get like 3x more comms in my exp but I played tank/DPS and I already have 2k after a decade too. Also, I doubt I'll get another 1k for the mount, but I find if you do alot of leveling rous with sprouts and are helpful too, they will usually give you a comm for effort.

[Appleboops]

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

[VeyaAkemi]

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

Neither is the Tank's, measuring role difficulty will get you nowhere in normal content.

But to answer, because Healer is commonly seen as the least desirable Job to play, it's very visible how you get most instapops as a Healer than a Tank, so on, because of that, people default to comming the Healer unless they absolutely suck ass, because being there at all is already worth the comm to many.

[Appleboops]

Then why is my roulette telling me 4/5 times that Tank is the job lacking O.o

[CCheshire]

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

Because it's more stressful than tank and the DPS like if the DPS die, then you might take down the 2nd DPS, but if the healer dies, like everyone will die soon too in a domino effect unless it's 4 man where you can use a feather to save them. Also, if you have a struggling healer, it can also drag down the entire party to multiple wipes too.

[TKMXIV]

Then why is my roulette telling me 4/5 times that Tank is the job lacking O.o

The hero in need always checks for tanks before the other roles. So, in most cases it just defaults to tank.

[Aidorouge]

I always comm the other DPS myself, as I assume they get the least amount across all content. Unless they all left first at which point its 50/50 on the tanks and healers getting it.

I also try to hand out comms more than 5 times, as I'm prone to doing the "complete 5 dungeons in duty roulette" AND "complete 10 guildhests" every week and try to comm SOMEBODY before everyone leaves. I also comm after Frontlines, assuming we win, which is another possible 7-8 (though lately it's been 1-2 or even zero depending on how bad the week was, lol).