Commendations?

[WellGramarye]

Theres acheivements for them. 10 50 100 300 500, each achievement gives a pet/item.

10 -> Title
50 -> Chocobo Baby minion
100 -> Vanity Crown
300 -> Chocobo Barding
500-> Gold Magitek Mount.

Redeem the achievements at the achievement guy in Gridania.

Otherwise they serve 0 use. I have like 11 from running some low level dungeons in duty find. Its nice to get. I ususaly try to give someone who was overall pleasant or helpful mine.

[Hocchi]

I usually toss them at a healer, personally I've made 50 this evenings just tanking roulette guildhests trying to finish the 200 guildhests achievement.

[Alice_89th]

For now, my priority list looks something like this;

1. Someone who was fun to run with (fun in chat, playful, etc)
2. Someone who was helpful to newcomers
3. DPS if they didn't pull any weird stunts and were friendly.
OR someone who saved us from a near wipe by being awesome.
4. The healer of tank, depending on who I liked best.

Things that will make me give the commendation to others
1. Demanding/asking for recommendations
2. Being an impatient twat / being rude
3. DPS/Healer pulling before tank

Chances are that if you are the only person who bothered to say hi in the beginning and did nothing stupid, you will be the one who gets my recommendation.

[Alistaire]

It's a sloppy system really. Obvious bias to people who do more dungeons, and a less obvious bias towards tanks and/or healers; nobody notices dps unless they're bad.

Edit: Oh and the other flaw: you can't commend someone if they've already left the dungeon. So anyone caring about getting these should not rush to exit after boss.

[Velox]

nobody notices dps unless they're bad.

Now that's not true. I main a healer, and yesterday I was farming Brayflox and the monk in the party did a phenomenal job despite not having a ton of experience (first time running Bray, new to game). She got my vote.

So don't say "nobody notices dps." As a healer, I make it my job to assess the actions of the whole party and gauge who is pulling their own weight or is trying to learn.

[allluckys]

as a tank I kinda always get one or more I give it to the healer mostly if I was dpsing I'd give it to the other dps. If some one explains a fight they get my vote automatically.

[Lucke]

Typically I'll be more likely to give my commendation to a DPS instead of the healer. Don't wanna perpetuate the thought of "Only tanks and healers give each other a commendation". If the DPS actually does stuff and holds a conversation with me, I'll give you the commendation.

+ Points for killing in the kill order
+ Points for checking your aggro (slightly better now with Shield Oath)
+ Clicking items and stuff while we're finishing up a group (grabbing lantern oils and using them while we're still fighting so when the mob dies, we can keep moving)
+ Points for actually talking to me during the dungeon, simply saying "HI!" goes a long way.

Now, if the healer is being a badass by battle-raising people and keeping me alive through hard hitting attacks (Everyone's Grudge) then that will help determine who I give it to. Sometimes I have really kickass parties and I have no idea who to give my commendation to, so I just close my eyes and click someone's name at random lol.

[Nash20]

Attention DPS!

You kinda figure you wont get many commendations...unless someone recognizes how awesome you did...RARE!

I am here to implore DPS to commend each other...well that is if your fellow DPS did a good job. Throw each other commendations!

[RaineMagus]

*Of course you're free to commend whoever you want, this is just my take on it*

Personally, I commend whoever I thought gave the most <*effort*> during the dungeon run. This commendation not being based off gear, class, role, play-style (1v1 vs AoE, healing vs using Holy, etc), socialization, or whether or not I 'liked them'. It's not intended to be an elitist attitude ... quite contrary infact..

(EFFORT != SKILL, DPS, MONEY / GEAR, etc etc etc)

-There's many ways to judge effort that aren't 'skill', such as the willingness of a player to improve, adapt, and work with their team.


On the socialization front, I'd urge everyone to consider the following (since many list it as a key criteria):

Consider that there's players from around the world on all servers for FFXIV. Your party may not be your native tongue, nor be socially adept (some have anxiety in speaking to others)..

[ being talkative or friendly does not inherently make you a better team-player ]

[Naryoril]

i think the intention of the system is not saying "who played well" (because this also depends a lot on the gear), but "who is friendly and helpful"

so if everyone is silent the whole run i won't give a commendation, even if they were all awesome players.