commendations are really depressing

[Grizzlebeard]

I've received 5 commendations so far from around as many runs and I'm guessing that's mostly due to explaining strategies to first timers. The truth of the system, much like the additional rewards in the roulette system, is it's skewed in favour of tanks and healers. No one really ever says, "Well done" to a DD job but they feel a tank or healer who have simply done their job and not sucked are at the top of the pecking order when it comes to handing them out.

[Calyanare]

No one really ever says, "Well done" to a DD job but they feel a tank or healer who have simply done their job and not sucked are at the top of the pecking order when it comes to handing them out.

That's because it's much easier for a bad tank or healer to make a run a completely miserable experience. If a DPS is bad, it usually doesn't go too much further than just taking longer to kill things--and besides that, there are two of them, and you have decent odds that at least one of them will be competent.

[Grizzlebeard]

That's because it's much easier for a bad tank or healer to make a run a completely miserable experience. If a DPS is bad, it usually doesn't go too much further than just taking longer to kill things--and besides that, there are two of them, and you have decent odds that at least one of them will be competent.

I don't disagree with that but it just highlights how flawed the system is. Failing either of them being atrocious then the commendations will generally go to either the tank or healer.

[Calyanare]

I don't disagree with that but it just highlights how flawed the system is. Failing either of them being atrocious then the commendations will generally go to either the tank or healer.

I am usually the healer, and it's fairly obvious to me (and the tank too, usually) if one of the DPS is carrying the other. That person (the one carrying, not the one being carried) usually gets a commendation from me, unless there's a good reason to give it to someone else.