Ok be honest...

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Originally Posted by Doozer

I always find it funny when people do things deliberately to try to get commendations that have nothing to do with performing well, like doing some cutesy macro and emoting at every boss and just trying to see Fun And Likable when they're really just in it for the commendations. Doing stuff like that on purpose makes me want to give them commendations less. Be a normal person and play well and you'll get one.

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I am guilty of emoting Cerberus in WoD, I always pet him. He is a dog. I pet dogs, I can't resist.

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Originally Posted by Naryoril

No, i don't stick around for commendations. I sometimes stick around for other reasons, such as talking a bit to people. But i handle commendations differently than most. In my view commendations are not for people who played well, but for those who were fun to play with, which usually requires them to do some chatting. But since hardly anyone ever writes in the chat apart from "hello" at the beginning and "gg" at the end (and when there was a conversation, in most cases it was i who started it), i only rarely give out commendations.

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Conversations are nice, but far from natural when playing with a controller. I'm one of those people that just says hello & gg unless there's reason to say more. It's just too difficult to do my part & type at the same time. I'll gladly give out advice if someone needs it, but if the run is smooth & clean, I just don't have time to talk.

Not a healer but if anything, commendations make me a little embarrassed. I wait around just long enough to thank people for the run, give them a couple of seconds to reply if they want and then leave. I feel somehow rude about saying goodbye and leaving a party at light speed without giving people at least a brief chance to acknowledge it for some reason.


As for me, I ignore performance and commend whomever was able to work up a friendly "Hello" and "Goodbye". My standards used to be higher like Naryoril's, but I've had to lower my expectations and be grateful for at least that much as time went on. Albeit, I usually don't count "gg's".

In fact, I'm more likely to commend "bad" players than good because I'd rather they not feel bad and discouraged following a chaotic run - that is, if they appeared to be affected by it in the first place.

I enjoy getting commendations; but, that's not why I am still hanging around at the end. Chances are I'm attempting to get a good screenshot. :)

Say cheese!

I try to leave before the commends go out, honestly. I've gotten nearly 5 thousand of them over the years I've been playing. There's nothing past the 3k reward, so there's no reason for me to take them from someone who might actually need them.

I don't necessarily wait for comms, I just head over to the exit portal, at a very ... even pace...

I stick around to commend other and probably get one from at least one person (here's hoping people do remember to commend for their weekly challenge log for free gil and xp.)

As far as commendations go, I normally do the following:

- As tank, commend the healer
- As healer, commend the tank
- As DPS, commend the other DPS

However, I will make exceptions if there is a single person that stands above the rest and/or others aren't making use of their toolkit roles much (Zero DPS healers, DPS that don't aoe multiple enemies, Tanks that don't use Defensive Cooldowns, and rude people, I am looking at you).

I don't wait around much anymore after loot rolls are done, regardless of what job role I am. Though I do still toss out commends myself unless I absolutely feel that literally no one in the party deserves one.

The reason for this is because I'm sitting at well over 7000+ commends right now, and I really don't need any more then that. So I generally consider leaving ASAP so that the commends can go to those who still need them for the achievements. That said... the loot rolls don't always go through quickly. So I'm still standing there giving players plenty of opportunity to commend me if they want. And while I don't get as much as I used to due to me leaving as soon as loot rolls are done, I still get them from time to time.

I'm pretty sure at least 1/4th of my commends received come from my avatar simply being a female Miqo'te who I aimed to have an "elegant and beautiful" type of glamour appearance for my healer roles. Course, I've walked away with a bunch of commends on my Tank roles too. And sometimes even my DPS roles. (My MNK got two commends this week for my weekly Lighthouse 24 man run actually)

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Originally Posted by DuskTS

It makes your Tank feel safe and the DPS think "wow such a great healer, I could stand in the fire like a moron as usual and they kept me alive, not like those grumpy dps healers who refuse to heal!"

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With the things I've seen with randoms in Duty Finder, this wouldn't surprise me in the least. Meanwhile, when I see DPS standing in the fire, I'm screaming internally at them to get out of the fire already so that I can get back to DPSing. :P