AATN:FFXIV DEVELOPMENT! the commendation system is a joke!

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Originally Posted by Awha

Legit, people care about commendations?

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If getting mentorship, yes. Also achievements.

if you want ez commendations, play tank or make good calls or be witty and funny. thats how i got most of mine

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Originally Posted by grinkdaboy

if you want ez commendations, play tank or make good calls or be witty and funny. thats how i got most of mine

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Take out the wit, honestly people want to get uppity about the most inane of things. Auto translate a Hello! and wear a sick glam. Works a good percent of the time as well.

Good lord, I've been playing for a little less than ten months and I already have ... let's just say more than enough to earn the gilded magitek armor. Full disclosure - I earned them mostly as PLD; RDM being a more recent addition.

After reading the OP's first post, I can't see why people aren't showering him with commendations...

I only have a few common sense tips:

1. Don't be a jerk. People don't like jerks.
2. Linger after the instance is over. You're more likely to get commendations if you're one of the only ones still in the party! :D
3. I always just give a simple "Evening/Afternoon, all" greeting when one starts.

Weird. I get 2 to 3 comms a run, sometimes 7 on 8 man stuff. I play a tank...I must ve doing something right :confused:

Is this a git gut thread?

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Originally Posted by Drayce1

Weird. I get 2 to 3 comms a run, sometimes 7 on 8 man stuff. I play a tank...I must ve doing something right :confused:

Is this a git gut thread?

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As a tank you basically have commendations drop left and right.

Even if you're completely useless for anything other than aggro and semi-AFK the entire dungeon, you will still get commendations just for existing as a tank.

I've been playing off and on since launch, I main dps jobs (though I play everything), I have almost 2000 commendations.

@OP: You're doing something wrong. You aren't owed commendations just because you think you are.

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Originally Posted by Maero

I was just thinking of this yesterday and it just so happens on multiple occasions i get no comms.
I feel as Red Mage i am often the rez mage plus bringing dps and never do i get comms. Yesterday i raised several people in our group, including the healers a few times in the 24 mans.
The machinist was going on about how he appreciated the healers and while i did not say it i thought to myself what about us rez mages raising your sorry asses all the time. lol
Plus the fact that i always transfer mana to the heals and sometimes other Red Mages or Bards..

At the end of the day you cannot let it bother you, and just enjoy the game. There is more things to worry about in life

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That. People keep saying that you get more coms when using support skills like tactician or refresh, but that's far of being true. I dont count anymore the number of times where i did save a run by repeatedly verraising several people, mana shifting one of the two ressurrected healers so that he can begin to heal again right away, even sometimes at the cost of becoming out of mana with lucid dreaming and mana potions still on cooldown, and end with no coms at the end. And the run after that i get some of them doing nothing special, just spamming my dps skill like a retard so automatically that i could have watch netflix on a second screen if i wanted to.

It can be so random that a good advice not already said to the op could be that he need to pray RNGesus more XD

As a Tank who doesn’t get that many commendations. (Which I understand why. Healing can be stressful.) I don’t really mind.
But then again, I already have every commendation achievement in the game (currently)

Only 107 comms in 4 years?? Sorry, I have to call BS on that. I got past 120 comms within the first 3-4 months I started playing this game AS A BARD! You might want to study some guides and be nice to your fellow comrades in dungeons and then you'll start to see an upward trend. But it's commonly known that comms primarily go to tanks and healers. DPS? Just sit your booty in the back seat and enjoy the ride! :D