Patch Notes: Player Commendation Rewards

[EmiliM]

The concept behind the system is solid and the implementation was fine. The problem right now lies with how it's being handled by players. The main issues/exploits I've observed so far:

1. People making fake attempts at being helpful or sociable. Example: I was just in a wp run where a tank who is clearly trying to speed-run told a first-timer blm to "feel free ask if you have any questions", then proceeding to mass pull to the first boss and locking out the blm, who got lost and died a horrible death to beetles and stalker. The poor guy thought that's how the run is normally done while the tank continued to spew out things like "don't worry i'll try to make it easy for you" while doing the complete opposite in practice.

2. Regardless of your contribution or impression on others, tanks and healers still tend to get commendations by default. This is to be expected somewhat, all things being equal. But many times a DPS can do everything just right, be sociable and helpful and everything, and still get nothing. I ran a low-lvl dungeon as a silent tank, while a roulette-matched DRG actively called out mechanics to a first-timer, and I still got 3 commendations in the end.

3. People running off at the end without voting. This prevents them from receiving votes as well. Conversely, you also get situations where people just stand around in awkward silence after clear, running off as soon as they receive (or don't) their votes.

4. People making deals, "vote for me and I'll vote for you". Only slightly worse are those who make deals and then screw the other person over by running off without voting as soon as they receive their vote from that person. Most impressive player indeed.

[Scales]

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I... don't wanna live on this planet anymore.

I haven't seen anything like that using low level DR. I've run 6-7 times since the patch and have 4 commendations as a Dragoon, so there are people out there who vote for DPS.

If I have an outstanding tank (one that doesn't lose aggro to dps or let things pummel the healer) generally I'll give him my vote, sometimes I get a crappy tank and a really good healer, so the healer would normally get my vote there. Other times the other DPS does their job good so I give em my vote. Sometimes 2 people run out immediately and leave me and the other person no option.

As far as rewards, meh, I'll get em whenever I get em.