No commendations

Maybe it's your attitude? What are you like in duties?

Comms are fickle, really. Sometimes when I'm preoccupied and I do the absolute bare minimum, i.e. not talk, just throw up regens and stand around, I'll walk out with three comms. Others, I'll heal and DPS my butt off and walk out with one or zero. There are times I'll get into arguments with the whole group and weirdly get a bunch, and then another time I'll get on really well with some players and get none at all. There's no point in getting annoyed or questioning it, people comm/ don't comm for a variety of reasons. I've even heard some people comm based on what glamours they like.

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Originally Posted by Lunaxia

Maybe it's your attitude? What are you like in duties?

Comms are fickle, really. Sometimes when I'm preoccupied and I do the absolute bare minimum, i.e. not talk, just throw up regens and stand around, I'll walk out with three comms. Others, I'll heal and DPS my butt off and walk out with one or zero. There are times I'll get into arguments with the whole group and weirdly get a bunch, and then another time I'll get on really well with some players and get none at all. There's no point in getting annoyed or questioning it, people comm/ don't comm for a variety of reasons. I've even heard some people comm based on what glamours they like.

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I typically stay really positive with my groups. I don't really have time to talk because like I mentioned earlier I always get groups that are near death within five seconds. but I do leave a positive "well done guys" at the end.

I get a metric butt-ton saving bad parties on my AST in Dun Scaith and healing in Frontlines. For the most part I don't think expert roulette really tests anyone's ability to any sort of extreme, so I wouldn't be surprised that people aren't comming there.

I have over 4100 commendations and I usually either heal or tank, and I've long settled to the "don't care" anymore attitude.


You do a lot of DPS, maybe enough to surpass two DPS that aren't pulling their weight, however you won't get one because you probably "scared" the tank or the party HP by healing the bare minimum at-times, maybe even forcing them to actually their jobs better like using cooldowns. Like taking advantage of being able to use WHM Benediction while doing serious damage. The good players and raiders you run into will always thumbs-up this attitude though, they know what's going on. The bad players have no clue.

Clutch saves usually have your name attached to it, hard to miss.

Although standing around and being a heal "bot" you always likely to end up on the negative end.

In PvP, its also about being effective at using all your skills. Are you sleeping players? Using your PvP cool downs to annoy the opposition along with keeping your alliance alive?

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Originally Posted by Transient_Shadow

Am I the only one who's getting a little annoyed with getting little to no comms for dungeons and duties? I mean at least one comm or a thanks for the healing would be nice.

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Nope. I've had situations where, considering all the trouble I went through to keep everyone healed up when things turn to s***, I don't get a single one. :mad: But on the other hand, I've done runs where it's all just routine, nothing out of the ordinary, and I get comms from everyone. :eek: So it all balances out in the end.

Often times with my raising mid-fight/high DPS and explaining the mechanics (then people die over and over) I carry lots of groups...sorry if it sounds arrogant, its not meant to..but yeah I never get any comms. I just do it because I want to finish the duty and help others.

That being said, I always make sure to comm one DPS. We never get any love.

This day i see less people giving com especially if you are doing DF such as levelling or level 50 DF, those people are probably doing their daily quota and their anima quest which can get very boring and tedious so they just "hit and run" through it (dungeon finished, mash leave button in 0.1 second not even a "thankyou")

Level 60 DF, raid, or anything that close to end game dungeon is probably what you should aiming at if you want to get com, also a little friendly like saying hello or small talk can help too

And it could be your end too, try to wait or be the last person to leave, maybe they want to give you com but you already bail =P

If you're having problems getting commendations as a healer you might need to look at your rotation a bit... cleric stance, how often non-tank chars' HP goes below 90%, how often tank chars' HP goes below 30% for more than one GCD, etc. Normally healer is the second easiest role to get comms from behind tanks.

In most of the content finder groups I've been in, healers are relatively bad, ranging from non-use of Regen-type skills, leaving damaging conditions on forever, casting heals in Cleric Stance and casting sleep on mobs inside a persistent fire/doton field. White mages sometimes completely run out of MP for no reason. Special shoutout goes to healers who request tanks use Shield Oath when they had no issues with damage or aggro in Sword Oath.

• Tanks usually get my commendation if they complete a run without getting lost halfway, pull groups of a sufficient size to reduce their HP to 60% or below, don't delay before pulls for no reason and use defensive cooldowns.
• Healers usually get my commendation if they AoE when AoE is required, DPS when DPS is required, maintain Regen, clear damaging conditions and maintain tank HP well. In particular, if nobody else deserves a commendation, the healer gets it.
• DPS are mechanic specific. Ninjas who use Doton, Fuuton and DoT properly get it. Bards who maintain twin DoT get it. Monks who actually move between flank and rear get it. Lancers who interrupt attacks correctly (and don't force bosses into stun resistance for no stupid reason) get it, particularly if single targets die fast in clearly large HP decrements. Black mages who know how to AoE properly and maintain some thunder stack on bosses get it. Summoners who leave uptime of 3 DoTs on more than half the mobs half the time get it.
  And if everyone disappears quickly after the dungeon, whoever is left gets it unless they stood inside an obvious AoE and died.

Even so, I usually end up giving commendations to the healer half the time.

I'll take a closer look at the dps's performance nowadays. Healers and Tanks got my commendations in 2.x, because to that time they actually had a harder time performing, especially when tortured with a new tank in STR gear that wouldn't pop any cool down what so ever.

With HW healers can pretty much go afk, and while their dps might be welcoming in some parties for me personally that doesn't deserve a commendation anymore, because we've done that in ARR already, as well as solo healed content some people now think is "skilled" or "outstanding", when it has been done in ilvl 90 gear and under already.

On the other side compared to ARR content dps has suffered a lot and it's more noticeable,it's like a win in the lottery if you find a dps in expert roulette or anywhere that can actually perform decently. But that's about it, maybe 1 person out of 10000 dungeons will have a outstanding performance but let's not fool ourselves because that's super rare. If I see a dps that at least accomplishes "decent" or close to that, he/she will get my commendation, if not I'll leave the run without giving any commendation to anybody.

I find getting comms easy, rarely ever not getting one.

Basically say hi, bye and don't let people die. Never failed me