Commendations?

[Alindra]

As the healer, I always give commendations to the tank. Unless there was dps who explained the fights to someone new. Then they get them.

Or, if we're running Aurum Vale and repeatedly wiping on the last boss and one of the dps use the limit break to win 2 minutes before the timer runs out. Then he gets it.

[Marveth]

Be friendly, helpful and efficient. Follow those criterias and I promise you will get a lot of commendations.

[Shadowofzara]

I just hit 100 today, but then since 2.1 came out I've been dungeon ratting it up, leveling 7 classes to 30 so far. However even as tank (no heals yet, whm was already 50) I rarely got more than 1 or 2 commendations unless shit hit the fan and I fixed it. I actually got the most commendations as dps because I 1) explained fights to new people, 2) Tried to help other people, especially tanks, to get better by giving suggestions and 3) most recently on my archer/bard I kited the second boss of Halatali to death because both the healer and tank stood in the water to death(...), and then twice in Haukke normal mode I had terribad tanks who wouldn't listen to thing anyone said and only tanked one target (tanked that one well though) so I was constantly kiting 1-3 mobs keeping em off the healer.

[Shadowofzara]

Who do I give it to? Almost never melee dps. Why? Monks attacking from the side and dragoons from the back. You get nothing from me if you are so afraid to pull aggro that you cut your dps in half. Even when healing I'd rather the dps be attacking (the right target) at full strength and pulling aggro from the tank rather than half assing their job. On that note if the melee dps are actually doing their jobs I'll give to them, if not then the healer unless the tank did a spectacular job at something.

(double post due to a weird 1000 character limit error)

[Taris9047]

A normal and smooth run:

1. Give one for tank as a healer, or healer as a tank.
2. If dps shows smartness by running to tank when they take over enmity and managing their dps cycle, kiting unexpected adds to tank, and never fail, I vote for the dps.

In short, I have a bit high standard for dps.

I never vote on:

1. DPS/Heal who pulls before tank. I regard them trolls, not even human being.
2. Anyone who does not communicate properly.
3. "I know everything and I am better than you." types.
4. Any role: failing their prime duty. i.e. healer fails to keep me up when I saw tons of stones flying into my target. DPS hitting wrong marker and running away from over enmity monsters, yet keep hitting it to end up healer distracted.
5. Not running away from that red circle(mostly DPS) and just waiting to be healed. Collateral situations (lag, oops 2 late, newcomer, that many reds!) excepted.

[Abraxai]

Off the top of my head I think I have about 35 commendations so far, but I do feel they're ultimately pointless as other people can't even see them... What are they designed for if not to give other players a gauge of how 'worthy' you are to play?

[ShadowDan]

Who do I give it to? Almost never melee dps. Why? Monks attacking from the side and dragoons from the back. You get nothing from me if you are so afraid to pull aggro that you cut your dps in half. Even when healing I'd rather the dps be attacking (the right target) at full strength and pulling aggro from the tank rather than half assing their job. On that note if the melee dps are actually doing their jobs I'll give to them, if not then the healer unless the tank did a spectacular job at something.

You do realize those jobs have skills that do MORE damage when used from the flank and back of enemies, right? Those monks and dragoons are actually playing their jobs right.

[ShadowDan]

Off the top of my head I think I have about 35 commendations so far, but I do feel they're ultimately pointless as other people can't even see them... What are they designed for if not to give other players a gauge of how 'worthy' you are to play?

You get rewards from achievements at certain milestones - 50, 100, 300 and 500. You'll get the Princely Hatchling minion and the Golden Magitek mount, among others things, to show off with.

[blindio]

If two people are grouped together and queue for a dungeon, they can't commend anyone.

This was really poorly implemented. While I understand and agree with the idea that you can't just let two people party up, join duties and give commendations to one another, it hamstrings rewarding the random joiners. My wife and I play together as a tank and a healer and on several occasions I have wanted to give commendations to players to DPS who were very helpful explaining things, etc. Instead of just not showing the window to partied players, it should just omit any party members going in from giving commendations to one another.

I can't be the only person who has come up against this limitation of the current implementation of the commendation system. Anyone should be able to give commendations to someone who entered the Duty randomly, and anyone should be able to give a commendation to someone who they did not enter the Duty partied with.