Player Commendations

People leave so fast I'm shocked people get them. I know I have a hell of a time giving them because people are competing on who can leave the fastest.

I treat commendations as they were intended.

Did I see you do an exceptional, good job? Sure, here have a commendation. Did you wall-2-wall pull and use your 2 minute CD's on the boss? No. No commendations. I don't give out participation trophies. I have no intent to consider starting. Be impressive. We all love a shooting star.

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Originally Posted by TimtheWizard

Unless there's an incentive to giving player commendations, I think the system needs to be scrapped. With all the high level players (doing duty roulette) bolting as soon as the trial or dungeon is finished, commendations are few and far between.

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Counterpoint: If you hang around for at least 10 seconds at the end of any 8 man content and you didn't do a terrible job, you'll probably get at least one comm by sheer fact of being the last one standing.

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Honestly they should have continued adding achievements with more gold mounts to commendations instead of the 50m gil sinks.

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Originally Posted by Catwho

Counterpoint: If you hang around for at least 10 seconds at the end of any 8 man content and you didn't do a terrible job, you'll probably get at least one comm by sheer fact of being the last one standing.

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This definitely works in Frontline matches

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Originally Posted by Doki

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Honestly they should have continued adding achievements with more gold mounts to commendations instead of the 50m gil sinks.

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Right? I'm just under 9000 myself, and I keep expecting them to add a 10K achievement eventually. We already got the pope chocobo, the pop hat, and the pope robe. I think 10K commendations should be a golden version of the 2000 mentor roulette mount.

How to get commendations:

1. Play a healer
2. Perform decently as a tank
3. Perform exceptionally well and competent as a DPS
4. Have a good/funny portrait


If I were to categorize them by priority, I'd go with

1. Have a good/funny portrait
2. Play a healer
3. Perform decently as a tank
4. Perform exceptionally well and competent as a DPS

For my part, remove the entire system. It's childish. Always get a weird vibe like nahnahnahnahnahnah...

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Originally Posted by Antharaes

For my part, remove the entire system. It's childish. Always get a weird vibe like nahnahnahnahnahnah...

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Then don't interact with it when you don't like it. Just leave the duty and walk away. No harm done, and the ones who interact with it are on their own.

Commendations count towards the Challenge Log, you can get EXP every week by giving a few commendations after duties!

... that said, you might need to turn on "skip cutscenes" in settings. Many players leave the instance before the cutscenes even loads, let alone wait around long enough to receive commendations. I'm sorry, fellow scenario lovers.