Performance-based roll system

[SturmChurro]

How do you grade performance, though? What if a DPS is doing really well, but then the other DPS runs at them with an AOE circle and kills them? Do they negatively get affected by someone else's mistake?

I didn't mean to kill you! Or not raise you!

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

I didn't mean to kill you! Or not raise you!

Yeah, it opens the possibility for trolling or griefing.

I think the closest thing to a good solution would be to make commendations more valuable. An algorithm will never be able to accurately determine how valuable someone was to a group, but at least with commendations each player can choose who they personally think was most valuable. As it stands though, commendations aren't worth much. The rewards are all in all just ugly versions of things we already have access to.

Commendations typically go to Tanks or Healers, so the only thing that does is make it harder for DPS to get things.

[WellFooled]

Commendations typically go to Tanks or Healers, so the only thing that does is make it harder for DPS to get things.

This is true, but that falls to each individual player to decide. Its not a perfect solution, but I'd rather have that than an algorithm subject to all the faults discussed in this thread. I do think people would try harder in gameplay/attitude if the commendation carrot was more rewarding.