Need better incentive to Commendate

[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.”

[0blivion]

Skill issue. I got like 2-3 comms on the regular while farming leveling roulette for the relic as a support. Also, healer requires one more braincell than tanks in dungeons, and another three more braincells in trials/NR. Yes, healing generates the most comms if you're good at it— with good meaning contributing a lot to the damage— but having a personality that isn't godawful helps. Being this puritanical about outfits is certainly not helping the personality part, either, lol. My main is always pretty clothed on supports, and guess what? It's your personality and skill that counts.

e/: DPS comms are fairly easy too, especially in expert roulette. Normal content is braindead so what stands out is your personality and your DMG output.

[Aruji-sama]

I'm just going to say that premade parties through manual party or party finder does not allow commendations even if you try to.

The exception is if you queued into duty finder and the others are a premade party, then you might get rained on commendations because they have no one else to give it to.

I don't know, it's not something to be rushed anyway. If you didn't get one, then just think of it as another day and try again next time.
It's not like they have added rewards to it after the parade fat chocobo anw, it's been years since the last update.

[CaptainLagbeard]

I always give a commendation to Healer when I can.

Because I know how badly Healers are treated by the devs.

[Gullis]

just play healer, and dps as much as you can. I get at least 1-2 comms almost every run. never use skimpy glams either, but I also play hroth, so thank god for that

[Kohashi]

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.

Let me tell you something. I have a friend who started this game in ARR 1.0 while I started Mid EW. I have almost double the commendations that he does. The only variable is the class/role I am queing as. He is a DPS main while I am Support (tank/healer).

I had 4537 on Feb 3rd, and now I am sitting at 4554. Seems ok to me, considering I didn't play all that much past 2 days.

If you want coms play support and play well.. that's it.

[Gwenkatsu]

I think giving incentives to commend will not change the problem that this a player-driven system.
Some commend for glam, some for role, some for performance. If you don't meet the individual criteria of the people the system groups you with, no incentive will change the fact that you won't get commended.
I for example don't commend for glam (turned portraits off), I don't commend for DPS (I don't know your DPS), but I can judge your performance. You're a tank, pull big, and use your defensives well? Commended. You're a healer and keep everybody alive though the tank never heard of defensives and stands in every single AE? Commended. You're a DD and go out of your way to gather the mobs the sloppy tank missed to hit, before they eat the healer? Commended. And so on.

[theunhappypotato]

i started post EW and skipped the story for 20 euros so i got spit out at the start of EW and just because i play tank/healer in casual content i still got nearly 2k comms, just be nice,be good at the game and comms wil come in on its own but yea like others said just play healer most people will com them