Commendations?

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Upon the conclusion of a duty, the Player Commendation button will appear in the bottom right of the screen. Selecting it will bring up an interface wherein you can commend a party member. Please note that commendations can only be made by those who joined a duty on their own, and not those in a party.

Commendations are only when queueing for df solo, cant be used by people that join with friends.

woops, too late

The only thing I'm really wondering about the whole thing is that it seems to be a little easier to tell when you have a stellar tank or healer in a 4 man, but as far as DPS honestly, I can only tell how fast the mobs die. I don't necessarily always know if both DPS are doing a good job, or if 1 is carrying the other. I mean you can obviously see when someone is continually doing something wrong like hitting the wrong targets or pulling mobs, but I don't know if 1 guy has a fail rotation and the other is making up for it because he is awesome. I know it's all going to be each individuals POV on giving the commendations, but just wondering what other people are thinking as far as it goes. Will you give commendations for whole group as long as you finish instance? Or are you only going to give it to those who really stand out?

*Edit* The same can obviously be said about 8 mans, and adds even more to the mix because you can still tell when you have a good tank as long as they are holding aggro and not doing stupid stuff, but I doubt either the tank or dps really notice, or care if one healer is basically keeping them alive while the other is watching tv, as long as everyone is being healed.

I think it'd be harder for a healer to get a commendation than a tank or DPS, honestly. All a healer can really do is keep people topped off, not be in cleric stance when healing, and be in cleric stance when they're helping with DPS during lulls in damage taken. A good DPS and a good Tank are much easier to notice.

As a tank, I'd give my commendation to a healer every time, though. Just because we made it through.

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Originally Posted by Soliwre

I think it'd be harder for a healer to get a commendation than a tank or DPS, honestly. All a healer can really do is keep people topped off, not be in cleric stance when healing, and be in cleric stance when they're helping with DPS during lulls in damage taken. A good DPS and a good Tank are much easier to notice.

As a tank, I'd give my commendation to a healer every time, though. Just because we made it through.

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Maybe it's just my perspective, but I feel a healer who stays on their game but puts out as much damage as they can is the person most noticeably helping the run out, and will most often be getting my vote.

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Originally Posted by Soliwre

As a tank, I'd give my commendation to a healer every time, though. Just because we made it through.

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and as a healer ill be giving commendation to any tank that holds aggro and does sensible pulls, im thinking dps will be hard to get commendations on sinse theres 2 of em and people get annoyed if you take 2 minutes extra to clear a dungeon

Ok, just ran my first one since patch and found out you can only give out 1 per run anyways.

I've received a few and given a few. Honestly, my overriding criteria is simply: were you friendly?

I'm a sucker for a person saying "hello!" at the beginning, "gg thanks!" at the end, and not being a douche. I don't know - I think that's the intent of the system. To encourage people to be friendlier.

what do the commendations even do.