Yoshi.. where are my commendations reward at?

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Originally Posted by Grekumah

Greetings,

While there is a possibility we will look into adding additional achievements and rewards for commendations in the future, at the moment there are no plans for this.

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If there are no plans maybe make it so people can't give commendations to those that are already at 500?

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Originally Posted by Grekumah

Greetings,

While there is a possibility we will look into adding additional achievements and rewards for commendations in the future, at the moment there are no plans for this.

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Can we at least get more stuff available to buy from yourself (Odin) and Behemoth? I got so many horns and mantles and nothing left to buy :/ perhaps a Sleipnir mount?

Can we at least trade in some of those points?
Just accumulating them is not satisfying and please dont let it be a secund veteran bonus...
Same with Odin and Behemoth ... let us trade them to other currencys, please!

I think i have already around 670 commendations. Started to play the game 2-3 months ago as whitemage. Never got seven commendations at once, but six a couple of times. I played the ramuh story fight for a whole day because i really enjoyed the fight & music and i wanted the levin orb/myth tomes. Because of that, i did always ask if someone is new and if so i posted a macro-guide for that fight to quickly help out. I have got a bit less then 100 commendations on that day.

But i agree with some more rewards for 1000+ commendations. Would be nice to have some shiny armor pieces or accessories. :)

I dunno, considering how easily commendations can be farmed I'm not surprised they aren't adding more rewards. People had the gold mount within a few days of it being released, the same thing would happen with further rewards.

Sucks for the legitimate people I know, and it's entirely possible that commendations in Guildhests were a bad idea to begin with.

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Originally Posted by GurrenLagann

http://i.imgur.com/vsuPVHN.png

I'm dying for some more new pretty shiny stuff here man. /uninstall.

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Here ya go:

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/.../04/cookie.gif

Good job :)

Jesus.. I'm still 15 away from getting the Gilded Magitek and there are people with 1k+? The hell?

Must be Tank/Healer primary, despite your forum thingy saying Lancer.

I feel pretty good about actually being able to get the gold magitek soon, a lot of people I know don't even have as many coms as I do. O.o And I've been playing since beta, granted the com system came out later.

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Originally Posted by charlemagne

LOL. I'm kinda surprised people still think this is about being nice to people in dungeons. In four man stuff it seems to me most of the time people follow the convention of dd give it to dd and the tank gives it to the healer and vice versa. In stuff like FL the healers give them to each other.
Personally I just click at random half the time, apart from frontlines where its lala healer> other healer> someone at random if the healers left before I could click.

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It's not so much about being nice as it is about not being a total douche. If you were a healer, for instance, and the tank was an asshat the whole run, would you still go with the Healer <-> tank convention, or would you give your commendation to one of the DDs for a change? I know I would.

By the time you reaches 500 commendations, if you haven't had your douchebag tendencies ironed out of you there's probably no hope for you at all.

Most of the players dont give to anyone...

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Originally Posted by Yukiko

Most of the players dont give to anyone...

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I've noticed this increasingly lately.

First ten tanks/healers get them so I get my 1k gil. After that im done. Unless there is someone that really stands out

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Originally Posted by charlemagne

LOL. I'm kinda surprised people still think this is about being nice to people in dungeons. In four man stuff it seems to me most of the time people follow the convention of dd give it to dd and the tank gives it to the healer and vice versa. In stuff like FL the healers give them to each other.
Personally I just click at random half the time, apart from frontlines where its lala healer> other healer> someone at random if the healers left before I could click.

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It is still a bit about being nice, or at least professional. Most importantly, it's about not being an absolute jerk and knowing what to do and playing well with zero drama. I do follow the convention most of the time, unless I find one of the DDs was particularly good, helpful, or less of a jerk than the tank. :)

Best tips for getting commendations:
1) PATIENCE. Be quick, be forgiving of mistakes, but most important, DO NOT FREAK OUT if people are slow or bad. DO NOT FREAK OUT if the guy is standing in the fire (again). DO NOT FREAK OUT for any reason.
2) KNOWLEDGE. Know the fights, be ready to explain them. Be good at explaining them.
3) SKILL. Know your role, know your job. Be good at it, or at least:
4) FLEXIBILITY. Know when you need to step out of your role. If you're a healer, step into cleric stance if you need to help out the DDs. If you're a DD, be ready to peel off a mob from the healer and kite it (preferably to the tank). In emergencies, be ready to have to do something fast, like insta-rezzing someone who dies because they stood in the fire.
5) FRIENDLINESS. At the very least, take 2 seconds to say "hi", "sup", "yo", or "hey" at the start of the dungeon, and "thanks", "gj", etc at the end. Even if you wiped three times on the first boss.

You don't need to play healer or tank to get a lot of commendations.

1) Be helpful. Don't hate the new guy. Ask if people wanna run new content blind.
2) If you're a BRD and there's a magic DPS in the party (or your healers DPS a lot) PLAY FOES. I will insta-commend BRDs for this unless they are total jerks otherwise because it's a huge damage boost and it's FREE. Plus in dungeons you regen MP really quickly between pulls so it can be up almost all the time.
3) Do good DPS. If things die REALLY fast, people will almost always notice. Don't even need a parser.
4) Be polite and relaxed. If you're a tank you don't need to do a speed run to get max commendations.

There's more but following these I get showered with comms =D

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Originally Posted by Grizzlebeard

I've noticed this increasingly lately.

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You have to take into account now that people que up with 2-3 others, they can't give coms to anyone but that 1 or 2 other players, and if those players were ..not so great, then they don't deserve a commendation.

The comm system has been successful. I have to question if everyone remembers dungeons before comms... They were complete rage fests on almost every occasion.

Now: It's common for everyone to at least say hello at the start and GG at the end.

Most of the time it's a quick smash thru for the finish line but errors are generally laughed off or simply adjusted.
If a joke is cracked someone will generally participate or comment.

Rarely do we still encounter the problems we had previously.

My comm goes to the person who provided the most entertainment. Not the best or highest performance. I look for that person who gave me a smile, laugh or a little extra fun. I very often will comm the biggest full retard derp I see simply because I got a massive chuckle out of it.

Enjoy the game!

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Originally Posted by ToffeeCoffee

Probably for the same reason PVP gear can't be used in Frontlines - because people found a way to dodge the intended system and speed trade them faster than anyone who earned them properly.

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I think it the exact same method as well. If commendatiosn were given out in Wolves den then wintraders or those hireling them would likely get a ton of comms

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Originally Posted by Morningstar1337

I think it the exact same method as well. If commendatiosn were given out in Wolves den then wintraders or those hireling them would likely get a ton of comms

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I am getting more commendations in Wolves Den than in normal dungeons because when you are top in the list (Damage Dealer as example) you will be recognized.
In Fact when the golden mount was released many player who gotten it within some days traded them.

It does not only work with Wolves Den but still works with Dungeons or any other Content.
The Group of 4 need to join simultaniously (solo) the same dungeon.
It is a low frequently dungeon choosen, so you can be sure not many "outsiders" will join.

In early days it worked very well, because no one have done Wolves Den and you mostly gotten your friends into the dungeon, thats also how those win trades were working.